The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-09-03

The yellow fever epidemic Mt Calves.
ton, Texas, is unusually fatal. The treat.
mcnt Of the patients in the military hos
pitfalls, though rough, is generally ciTcctual
in saving life. If the pat cnt persists in
kicking the blankets off of hun he is So.
curcly bound. Some of the incidents of
the pcsilcnce are horrible. In n den of
infamy, man wasl found dead by the
police, who had been educated like n zen.
tlcmar and held an Office Of public trn.t
He had been drunk for several dav.. and
was attacked and died in hroihel. A
horrible outrage was also recently COM
miticd by a demon in human fern unon
the body of lady who had died of the
disease.
A policeman and IIobokcn alderman
named Wi liam Ellis, who keeps grng-
erg, had teri life fight on Monday he
cause the latter WAS demonstrated with
Tor getting drunk, beating his family and
smashing things generally. The officer
had his eyes gougcd and was kicked in
the stomach, AMI Ellis's arm was broken
an his head badly pummeled. Ellis was
arrested on Tuesday for an assault with
attempt To kill, and he rctaliaicd by bring.
ing similar suit against the officer. AMI
also suing by civil process for 5000 dam
ngcs
The trestlc work used in the erection
OF the bridge across the Susuuehannna
river at llarri.burgh, Pa, gave way
Tuesday morning, precipiialing seven
workmcn into the river, killing one man
and slightly :njuring the others.
The engine and Two forward cars of the
Tuesday noon express train down the
HUDSON River railroad were thrown from
the track, near Pon9hkeepsie, and the
fireman, Dennis Cochran, severely, though
probably not fatally, Injured.
The comptroller of the currency has
given notice that the circulating notes of
the National Unadila bank of New York.
which lately collapsed, will he paid in
lawful money of the United States. upon
presentation of the same at the treasury
Of the United States
E1wa'd Conking fatally stabbed
William Bryan at Roslyn, l.. l., SUNDAY
night, and then severely injured Michael
Reardon, who attempted to arrest him
lie was captured and ,iled, Monday
Conkling had no difficulty with BRYAN
but mis'ook him for another m IN with
whom he had quarrelcd.
Theodore Jones, assistant jaior at IIud-
son City, n. j., was shot and instantly
killed ON Sunday by the keeper of the
Union Hotel billiard saloon mt Saratoga.
with whom he had attempted some play
ful liberties while intoxicated Tue cor
oner's jury returned n yer let of wil(ul
murder and the saloon keeper has been
put in Ill TO await the action Of the grand
jury.
A belgian dwarf. named Amodel Els
co, 81 feet high, - years old and gold.
smith by trade, was arrested at New
York, on Monday, on suspicion of having
robbed the safe Of Robert Link of $1,000
and 5000 worth Of jewclry on the lllh.
The arrest was caused by the dis overy
OF one of the stolen rings on the dwarls
fingers but no more Of the property was
found
The japanese imbroglo at New York
has taken new turn. All Right, who
has persi>lently remained in the ToombS
with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the Original
of the japanese acrobats, AMI
whom he regards us his parents, was
turned ont ON Monday by order of the
sheriff and at once sciz,d and carried
away by an agent of Manager Mcguire,
who claims the boys services.
Pat Welsh, notorious thief, lately
escaped from the brooklyn IN. YDjAil
by crawling 2j0 feet through drain,
Jean Vatican fashion.
Noise is very dangerous TO yellow e.
yer patients, and al Galveston, Texas, all
the church bells nnl steam whistles are
silent, during the presence of the pcsti-
cnce.
Lieut.. Wallace. adjutant of the Tenth
regular infantry, died of yellow fever at
New Orleans, Tuesday.
Josiah O. Sterns, president of the New
Jersey Central railroad, died at his resi-
dcnce at Elizabethport, Thurs lay.
Obcrlin (O.) college held its thirty
fourth annual commencement Wednesday,
and graduated a class of %. Gov. Cox
presided at the alumni dinner.
1t would take train nearly seven days
TO run from New York TO San Francisco,
by way of Chicago, going at the rate of
20 mills per hour and making The usual
express stops.
A man in Hamilton, Ohio, has drank
an average of twenty five glasses of lager
per day for fifteen years past, and puts
the TeuIonic lovers of this popular bever
age decidedly ''in the shade"
Michael McCool left St. Louis, We'd
ncsday, for Cincinnati and bis prize fight
with Aaron Jones, Saturday. lie is in
fine condition, and spelling for II fight
A Havana paper taunts the United
States with the tact that of all the mon
uments and statutes proposed to the mem
DRY of Abraham Lincoln, n 1t one Of them
has been erected. How long will this
be
The Hudson River and New York
Central railroads have commenced re-
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