The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-08-31

\ QUEER ELopEMENT.-About three
months ago, an old vagabond Of sixty
rs,named Charles Ridge, was commit
ted to the Portsmouth House Of Correc-
ton as a common drunkard. At about
the same time, Mary Easterbrook,a young
"lady Of pleasure" aged nineteen, was
consigned to the same institution. After
a confinement Of Il few weeks, the couple
suddenly disappeared, and not till Satur-
day, the Nth inst, were the police able
to find trace Of them. The City Mar
shall made inquiries at York, Maine,
whence Ridge originally came, and dis
covered that the fugtives were on
Agamenticus Mountain. On Sunday, the
officers secured the top of the mountain
amid drenchinS rain, and found the
happy couple enjoying calm repose in the
attic of a shanty, high up among the
clouds. 1t seems that the lovers went to
Hampton Fall, in the first place, and hir-
ed out at farmhouse as man and wife.
Afterwards, they went to Charlestown,
Mass, where they subsisted some time by
begging Then they shifted their quarters
to York, where they devoted themselves to
making baskets and picking huckleberries
till their bliss was cruelty interrupted by
the minions of the law.
HORRIBLE ArTEMPT TO PoIsoN A
WHOLE FAMILY.-A girl in Lowell, nam.
ed Louisa Miner, who had been employ.
ed as a servant in the family of Dr. j. W
Jonnoss, recently left her situation on ac.
count of some difficulty. On Sunday
the Sth inst, see called at the house and
asked permission to make some apple pie,
to send to the family, who were absent al
watering place. No objection being
offered, she made four pies, part of one
of them being cut by her and the inmates
of the house for supper. She proposed tC
send the pies on Monday, but the Doctor
came home that day and was told wha
had occurred. His suspicion being arous
ed, he put the three whole pies and thu
remains Of the other into the hands of thu
police, who had them examined by chem
lists. The piece of pie and one of tn,
whole ones contained nothing suspicious
but in others great quantity of arsoni,
was discovered, The Miner girl was i'm
mcdiately arrested, and on the llth wa
arranged before the Police Court oil
the charge of attempt TO poison. Sh
pleaded not guilty, and was bound over II
the sum of $1,000.
One day Pron visited Voltaire, VIII,
was not at Aome. To bully him he wrot
upon his door, "Old rogue" Two day
after he met the author of the lIenriade
81 went to see YOU" said he with Gun
ming look, "and did not find YOU" Z"
know it, replied yoltaire, "you left you
name upon the door"
A California Chinaman, having beel
shown by his mistress how to make
pudding containing three eggs, but having
seen her throw one bad egg away, con
tinued for months after, whenever h
made the pudding, to use four eggs, re
gularly breaking, examining, and throw
: ing one away as he had seen her do.
A physician, walking out with frien
} Of his, said to him; "Let US avoid tina
pretty little woman you see there on tn
= left, She knows me, and casts on IN
, looks Of indignation. attended he
husband" "Ah! l see you had tn
: misfortune to despatch him" "On til
, contrary replied the doctor, II save
/ him."
The New York coal dealers have redu,
ed prices one dollar per ton.