The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-31
GENERAL NE us.

The affairs of the Winthrop Me
Savings Bank have wound up.
There Is general business depression
In England and on the continent.
Loader, the libeler of Henry Ward
Beecher, has been admitted TO bail.
The circulation of the bible in Tur-
key has been authorized by the Porte.
More notices of trial have been filed
in connection with the Brooklyn scan
dial.
The greenback Convention at De-
troit, Mich, proves to be something of
fizzle.
The usual stories of warlike dlstur-
bance come from South America by
the latest steamer.
Hon. Daniel Blaisdell, a prominent
lawyer of New HAMPSHIRE, died on
Tuesday evening.
There has not been any one hanged in
Iowa for a great many years, and there
Is complaint about it.
Capt Webb has succeeded in swim
ming across the English Channel
without any apparatus.
Judge Shipman of the U. S. Circuit
Court has confirmed the sale of the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
Philadelphia is busy laying new lines
of horse car tracks to accommodate the
expected centennial crowd.
Ah-Sang, Il Chinaman, was married
in Charleston, S. c., on Monday last, to
Miss Clara Davis, native of this coun-
try.
The establishment of whipping post
and stocks will be one of the PROPOSE
tions before the Texas Constitutional
Convention.
Potatoes are rotting very badly this
season, owing doubtless to the heavy
rains. We hear of fields In various To-
calities which are not worth digging.
Forged notes to the value of $50, 900
on New York firm have been taken
from an individual arrested in connec-
ton with the railroad bond forgeries.
The cultivation of cotton in Turkey,
which at one time reached high state
of development, is now to decline, ow-
ing to oppressive laws and lack of
transportation.
Mr.. Houghton of Crawford county,
Ind. who took part in lynching year
ago and lately turned states evidence,
was severely punished on Sunday
by masked men.
A man who interrupted Joseph Arch
during a recent farm laborers' meeting
at bennington Eng, and demanded
the right to reply, was seized by Mr..
Arch's friends and badly beaten.
The factory women of England have
inaugurated movement in favor of
the appointment of female overseers in
factories, and against legislative re-
strictions upon the labor of women.
In Georgia the average price paid
male laborers on the farm is $40 per
month and board ; women So 80 and
board. Twenty-eight per cent. of able
bodied negro women labor on the farm.
Ex-Gov. Vance of North Carolina
says that of the 600 900 soldiers in the
Confederate army during the rebellion,
that State furnished one-siXth. She
sent to the war one man to every six
souls.
A lady missionary in India has con-
verted whole neighborhood by sim
ply inducing the people to wash them
selves. Cleanliness once established,
u marked improvement in morals at
once followed
A negro suddenly finding himself
under fire during skirmish In the
late war, prayed. This Is what he
prayed : "Oh Lordy! if you're eber
gwine to do anythin' for dis old Niger,
now's your time"
The Scotch herring fishery is the
best ever known. The catch is double
the average of all the four previous
seasons. At Wick alone $1,000, 900 fish
were caught in one week. and they re-
tail at three or four for penny.
A French lady sent her maid to buy
SOME tlesh-colored stockings The
servant returned with stockings jet
black. The anger of the lady soon
gave way TO laughter when she recol-
lected that her maid was lady OF
color.
During the war of the rebellion
Egyptian and Indian cotton found q
market in Russia, but since the wal
American cotton has nearly driven the
other varieties from that market and
the quantity imported is rapidly in
creasing.
On the body of Stanislau Morell
who was struck by lightning at CLAY
Mo-, the other day. was found the deli.
cately traced outlines of tree neal
which he was struck, every limb and
the skin. "
A flock of 2500 stock sheep at Mission
San Jose, CAL, got frightened recently
and ran into a patch of poison oak
Here they got tangled and piled one
on another in layers six or eight deep
and some 700 were smothered or crush
ed to death.
New York savings banks are re-
markably prosperous they gained
over $4,000, 900, IN deposits during
six months ending with July l, max
ing the total amount, exclusive of sur
plus, 1916 1886, 6l7. while the assets arr
1886, 1903, 236.
The death of Mrs. Magoon, which
occurred at Raymond, n. H., some
little time ago, and concerning which
there has been some suspicion, proves
to have been a case of poisoning. Mr.
Magoon and a woman named Gard
ner are under arrest.
Tom Thumb has q rival in Admira
Tom Trump, Dutchman of 90, VIII
is six inches shorter than tn
American dwarf and weighs but 2
pounds. He is very intelligent, ant
speaks five languages fiuently, Eng
fish, French, Dutch, German ant
Italian.
1t is said that the New EnglanC
peach train Is extensively utilized 10y
the tramp fraternity, to which 1t offer
opportunity both for free rides and FIRE,
lunches. Last Thursday there wer
discovered upon 1t, at Meriden, Conn
five tramps who had ridden from New
Haven, and on their way had eater
their fill of the fruit.
The Republicans of Maine intend t,
make vigorous campaign, and hav
inaugurated ii in good style. A larg
attendance was present at the Plscata
1uis County Convention at Dover
Thursday, and stirrlng address wa
made by Speaker Blaine. A large an