The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-09-16
SAD News FROM AFR1cA.-Famine

ice, which is cuJ down ere the time Of
the ripe fruit comes. Brethren, help!
and help quickly You may send any
special donations III clothing, or -four,
or beans, or rice, or kiln dried meal,
direct to the care Of Rev. Thomas Carl.
ton, 200 Mulburry street, n. Y. and we
will ship it Immediately to Africa. The
rice of the country has failed for two
or three years past, and this, together
with the late war has led to great dis.
tress.
If you perfer to send money for the
purchase of such articles, do So
Messenger.
The Southern steamship scheme
requires a capital of eight millions.
Eight thousand was subscribed at the
recent convention, and since then Pres.
iaent Buchanan, by bis individual sub
scription, has increased it to eight thou.
sand one hundred. Only seven mill
lions nine hundred and ninety one thou
sand and two hundred dollars more are
necessary to consummate the scheme !
On Friday night about nine O.,
clock, as the last train up on the Ches-
hire Railroad had gone about a mile
and half above the station in Fitzwil-
liam the locomotive exploded causing
the instant death of the engineer and
seriously injuring the fireman, though
it is believed not fatally. The part of
the engine which gave way was the top
Of the fire box"
Among the various accidents by
steam that of a locomotive explosion is
very rare.
Just as the steamer Arabia was
about to sail from New York on We'd
nesday, Mr.. P. 7. Barnum, who had
taken passage for Liverpool, was arres-
ted on jerome clock note held, he
says, by broker, who shaved it at
about half its face. Mr.. B. told the
officer that if the broker wanted his
his body he was welcome to it, for he
had not known what to do with it these
two years. Barnum says that most of
his prosecutors arc men who obtained
the clock notes at unlawful interest.
and he looks to the courts to liberate
him from their grasp.
INDIAN DIFFICULTIES IN MINNEso.
TA.-A letter to the Milwaukee Senti-
mel, dated at Grow Wing, NJ. T., says
that the people of that region have
hanged three Indians for the murder
Of Dutchman. Two squaws inform
ed the whites of the murder. Pursuit
was made, and the Indians were cap>
tured and taken to Little Falls. A
point on the roadside was selected, a
pole was extended from two trees, a
farm wagon was driven under it. and
on the end stood the three doomed.
men, who fully acknowledged their
/ guilt The nooses we're made fast to
the pole and passed around their
necks the word was given to the dri-
yer, and of he drove, all three falling
distance of eighteen inches. A call
has been made upon the citizens to
form into militia companies, for self.
protection against such red men as
these which have been executed.
"A PEW MoRE."-On Monday night
last, seventy.four car loads of Western
cattle and on Tuesday, forty six ear
loads Of live stock, left our depot, for
Boston The former c,me over the
Rutland & Washington Railroad the
latter were from stations Oh the Rutland
s. BurlirPto Railroad north of this
point. - Rutiand Herald.
BENNINGTON VI Sept 9.-The pack
ing house attached to Russell's Powder
Mills was blown up last evening killing
ono boy, the son of II K Bradford and
fatally injuring another.
A Monster CRANE Mr.. George Law
renee, If Berlin Street, shot, on Thurs
day, Aug. 9th, while flying near the
red arch bridge. crane which measured
FROM tip to tip Of the wings six feet, and
from the feet to the point Of the bill
FIVE feet, the legs being two feet 10 length.
The skin has been stuffed, and can be
seen BY any one calling at Mr.. Law
rence's resiGeEce.-- Watchman.
1t is reported that the brokers have
thrown out the bills Of the Dauby Bank
Danby, VT,
"A correspondent a, johnson in.
forms US that Oh the 4th inst, efforts
were still continu to clear the well
which is supposed by some to contain
the body of the missing girl. We are
assured that no evidence sufficient to jus
tify the opinion that the body is found.
has yet been produced The excitement
in reference to the matter continues
without abatement-N Adams MeSSen.
ger.
"A week or two since Mr.. Lamphere
of Groton, this state, found uuder the
floor Of AN old shed, attached to the store
of the late Ephram Low, box contain
ing about six hundred dollars in couu.
terfeit bills on various banks and some
sixty dollars in spurious fifty.cent pieces
Part of tho bills we're of the deuomina.
tion of IS on the Bank of Caledonia. 1t
is presumed these are relics of the coun.