The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-07-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

IHo COHNlCt, DThkc, VINO WIS SHOT
during the revolt at Sing Sing Prison, on
Wednesday, died yesterday.
A woman has been arrested in Cam.
bridge, Mass, for whipping her stepson,
boy Of years. to death.
The work of constructing the telegraph
line from Boston to Duxbury, Mass to
connect with the new French cable, was
begun yesterday.
William Rice, negro, recently shot
and killed companion while at work in
a field near Morganlield, Union County,
KY, with whom he had quarreled and
then shot and killed himself.
The steamers City Of No'po,t and Bay
Queen ran into each other, on Monday
aIternoon,in the Narragansett Bay, during
a dense fog, and both were disabled, No
lives were lost.
Between the last and the present Com
mencemnet of Harvard College fifty.two of
the graduates have died. The Boston
1dJegiser, contrary to its usual custom,
publishes only the names in its neurology.
Rich silver mines have been discovered
between White Pines and the head of
navigation on the Colorado River, not far
from the line of survey Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad
The Vermont Mas)ns celebrated st
Johns day at Waterbury, Thurs lay.
Six hundred visiting brethren were press
ent, and Rev William A Alger of Boston
was the orator OF the day.
Severe shocks of earthquake have again
been felt in parts Of Washington Territory
and much alarm among the people has
been created thereby, THIS time the
heaviest shocks were ia Seattle and Olym-
pia.
Weaver, who was recently sentenced
to be hanged for murder by the military
commission in Texas, and upon whose case
Acknowledgement Hoar gave an opinion
not long ago, has escaped. One Of his
guards ran away with him.
a small ferry boat on the Ohio contain
ing ten or twelve passengers, was struck
bv a tugboat, near Cincinnati on Thurs.
day evening, and completely demolished
-Four or five Of her passengers were drown
ed.
Mr. George Peabody has added a mill
ion dollars in railroad and other bonds,
mostly Southern, to the ''Peabody Educa-
ton Fund.- so called, and S3Sl 600 in
Florida per cent, bonds, and over due
coupons,
Julia Gibbs and Ellen Wooden, both
coeled, fought duel with clubs, seconds
being present, Mt Richmond, Va, on Sun
: day. The woman Ellen was 81 badly in.
iured that she died on the field. jealousy
was tho cause.
A convention in the interest of 'lhe
Portland, Rutland and Woodstock rail-
road, was Ii lid at Rutland, VT, Thursday
Gov. Page presided and T.. r. Washburu
Of Woodstock John \. Poor Of Portland
/ and w, A. Thomson Of Canada.
A dispatch from Green River City, wy
oming Territory, reports, on the authority
of the survivor, the loss of all but one o
. the celebrated Powell exploring party il
/ the famous canyon of the Colorado. A,
!, the name Of the survivor is not given
:, the story is not fully credited
A well-dres sed man entered the iewelry
store OF Josiah Cooling, in Washington.
street, Boston, yesterday, and while ex
aiming some jewelry, suddenly threw rec
pepper in the eyes of the clerk, Mr.. Good
: inge son, who was alone in the store, anC
u ran off with about two thousand dollars
worth Of diamond rings.
i A chain bridge, crowded with peopl,
on their way to barbacue, from Rich
. mond TO Nauxhall's Island, adjoining
So the city, yesterday, fell with crash, ant
sixty people were carried down with it
Colonel Branch, a prominent Richmond
4. broker, and Conservative candidate fol
q. the Senate, was instantly killed other.
p were killed or fatally injured
}, A collision occurred on the Susquehan.
ui hhlIIudhi vi ''ulludSS between Il tTalI
e of Platform cars loaded with ties and a
e cattle train from Cincinnati, at point
between Golfers and Maryland, OisegC
Courtyard the locomotive of each train
and three cattle cars were badly smashed
The engineers aud frcmen saved them.
selves by jumping from the engines,
/ Three men named Wiley, Alley anC
. Echison have been on trial at Greens
bury, Decatur County, Md. the past week
for the murder ot one Woodward, in DC
tober last, during a fight at a politca
.jCllifcatlon meeting in Milford, Md
Wiley has been sentenced TO mpris jnmen
for life, and Alley to'the penitentiary fol
two years. And in the case of Edison
ooie prose9a has been entered.
Judge Drummond, of Chicago. has de.
=. cided that express companies have the
right to forward letters accompanying con,
si3nmenls in unstamped envelopes, The
case in which the decision was given wa.
that of the Post Office Department against
a the United States Express, to recover the
u penalty prescribed by law for the alleged
: forwarding of maiable matter not inclosed
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