The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-29
News of the Week.


week with accounts Of casualtos by light
ming We advise the insurance and
lightning rod agents to bes'ir themselves.
We learn from the Rutland Herald
that on the 10th inst, the house Of Lar.
arus Riford, in that town, wos struck by
lightning and considerably damaged
None of tho inmates (seven in number)
were injured. Mr.. Samuel Riford. how
ever, it seems, had providential, md
very narrow escape. This gentleman is
son of Mr.. L. Riford, and was at his
fathers house on o visit. At the com.
mencemeut Of the shower, be was lying
on the chamber floor Immediately under
the chimney but the thought occurring
to him that his position was not safe
one, he arose and went and lay down on
a bed in the same room. A moment
afterwards, the lightning passed down
through the floor where he had been ly.
ing. He was considerably stunned, and
on recovering, inquired what was the
matter.
Also, from the same paper, that one
Lyman Nelson was drowned in Wells
Pond Nelson with two other men had
crossed the lake and gone into Granville,
N. Y, obtained quantity of alcohol,
and on their return being in a state of
intoxication, the boat capsized. Two
Of them swan ashore, and Nelson swan
far enough to havo reached the shore,
but in the wrong direction, and was
drowned.
In Bellows Falls the firm of W. &
J. G, Flint manufacture about S, 1000
barrels Of sbce pegs in a year, or 100
barrels a week.
"A young man named Shell, in Cav.
endish, in attempting to draw a charge
from bis fowliug piece pulled the worm.
er off, He then tried to jar the charge
out by striking the muzzIo on a rock
Not having removed the cap, the charge
exploded, severely wounding him in the
legs, and lower parts of the body by the
rebound of the Aattened shot from the
rock.
The dwelling house OF Mr.. Bella
Hastiug, two miles east of St. Johns.
bury was burned with nearly all its con.
tents on Monday night of last week, also
anew barn and some swine.
The city Of Cincinnati lately adds
fall its proportion to. tho records Of
crime. On the 2lst inst. Joseph Loe-
fuer, a German, murdered his wife BY
strangulation. He then proceeded to
the house Of N. T. Horton, his employ
err set fire to it and killed Mr.. H, I'm
mediately after leaving the house tbs
desperate man made an attempt upon
his own life, by cutting his throat and
wrists. 1t was uncertain whether hi.
wounds would provo mortal Losfuer
confesses the whole, and alleges as the
reason his certain knowledge Of criminal
intimacy between his victims Mr.. H
was highly respected and prominent
citizen, and not much credit is given to
the charges of the murderer.
Appended to this is still more shook
ing account, that some persons had scat
tered arsnic lozsnges in the street, by
which some twenty children were pois
oned.
Various letters from Mippssots
show conclusively that there WAS ,
scheme premeditated by the Democrat,
to secure the organization of the con
vontion. and thereby the control of il, il
opposition to tho kno,on Republican
majority. Being foiled in this attemp,
By the alertness and number of theil
opponents, they withdrew and organized
= separate convention, with the hope, Jun
doubtedly, that it will be recognized a
the convention by Congress, next winter
which being democratic will NATURAL,
sympathize with them-cr at worst, pre-
vent the recognition Of either. 1t i
useless to speculate upon the probable
results. The whole performance is 81
instance Of Napoleapic tactics, Of which
we have seen so much for year or tw'
past, as to destroy the novelty of tb,
thing. Such policy may have success il
countries where majorities habitually
submit to minorities, but it is very I'm
democratic Except 10 the present de
nominatioual use Of the term), and is
course which only fools, or men in yer!
desperate circumstances would pursue
10 the present instance We think it i,
both
The most interesting item by th'
late mails from Great Britain is that o
the trial iu Glasgow Of Maddaline Smith