The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-10-12
GENERAL NE WIS.

a NUMBER vi li6 1uuuulull
boats and other craft have already
gone into winter quarters.
King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Is.
lands is not so very sick, after all he
has had bad cold. but has nearly re-
covered from it now.
John Davis, son of j. c. Bancroft
Davis, our minister at Berlin, is to be
married on the 14th to Senator Frel-
inghuysen's daughter Sallie.
The Chinese government has issued
n decree conceding intercourse between
the chiefs of the government depart.
mcnts and the foreign ministers.
The IllMois supreme court has decid-
ed that the last election, by which the
charter of 1872 was decided to be the
fixed charter of Chicago, was legal.
A disease, the character of which has
not yet been ascertained, is prevailing
among the hogs of Hamilton county,
O., and already about 1000 have died.
An enthusiastic meeting to protest
against Natcanism was held at Glas
gov, Wednesday, and q letter from
Gladstone was read expressing sympa'
thy with the object of the meeting.
Some thirty persons are known tC
have been wounded in the religious
riot at Toronto, last week, and it is be-
lieved that others were injured but are
keeping the matter quiet.
Because Robert Mcintyre of Balti-
more, Md, refused to drink with one
Corcoran, Tuesday, the later put bull
let into his back, inflicting a painful
though moi dangerous wound. Cor
coran was arrested.
The Carlist bombardment of Sai
Shells did COZ conserabe dSmneee to TBS rh
city and occasioned severe less to the
Alfonsists The garrison will be i'm
mediately strengthened.
A slight shock of earthquake was
felt at Yorkville, Ont, Tuesday morn.
ing, lasting a few seconds, and since
the news came some people in Spring.
field remark that they noticed q rather
peculiar sensation at that time.
a room full of young ladies, patients
of the surgical institute at Indianapo-
lis, were amusing each other by tell
ing ghost stories, the other evening
when one of them become hopelessly
insane from the unnatural excitement
The experiment of bringing peaches
to London by the steamer Canada from
New York, in box on deck arranged
on the Allegretti refrigerating plan
was a success. The fruit was deliver
ed in good condition and was eagerly
purchased.
The negotiations pending between
Holland and Venezuela have reached
no satisfactory result, and a note whicl
it is believed is very important to the
maintenance of amicable relations was
handed to the Dutch minister of for.
eign affairs, the other day.
Mckee Rankin is followed up sharp.
~ by that injunction The latest place
it has stopped him from presenting the
1.-TWO Orphans" is Pittsburgh, where
the audience had already filled the
house, on the evening of the 4th. and
had to be discharged and the money
given back.
Central New York, the great hor
garden of the country, reports an un-
usually good yield, this year, of its
favorite crop and likewise of potatoes
bnt the apple crop, also n speciality o.
that section, is failure other crops
such as wheat, oats and grass, have
been abundant.
The admiralty court at st Johns, N
s., has awarded the steamer Caspian
SIS, 900 salvage for towing into port the
steamer Severn. The late gale was
severely felt on the Newfoundland
coast; several fishing boats were LOST
and the steamer Ariel wrecked neal
Red Bay but the crew of the latter wer,
saved
A general rush and considerable
screaming among the women was oc
casioned in the Third street Baptist
church at West Troy, n. Y, on the
evening of the 4th by the sudden faint
ing of their pastor, Rev. DR.. G.. c
Baldwin. He soon recovered conscious.
ness and wanted to finish his lecture
but the doctors objected.
The North Carolina constitutional
convention has rejected by the clost
and non-partisan vote of forty-nlne &c
forty-seven q proposition for either
partial or entire reputation of the
ordnance establishing q department o
agriculture, immigration and statistics
which was demanded by the grangers
jeff Davis has returned to Memphis
Tenn, and the Appeal says that his
visit to the northwest was one contin.
ued ovation Of fraternal greeting, which
it feels assured, will unite the two sec
finnG q ar i'm tha ri affnrt n
up the great valley and its boundles'
resources to the markets of the world
He will deliver his next agriculture
address at the Christian county Ky.
ralr on friday.
The suits of Henry c. Bowen agains
the Brooklyn Eagle, Bowen agains
McDermott, an Eagle reporter, anC
rilton against the Eagle were on tn,
court calendar last week, but were 10
called, as the counsel on both side
have made arrangements for the future
disposition of the suits. George c
Holt, attorney for Mr.. Bowen, statet
in explanation that the suits had no
been discontinued, but had simply
gone over for the term.
Little Josey Sullivan, whose mystic
iiobS tliiCC MCtb
ago, from his home in Greenwich street
Brooklyn caused a stir among tn
citizens and police almost rivaling tina
of Charlie Ross, and who was reporte,
TO have been seen by numerous per
sons being carried Off in n farmer
wagon on n Long Island road, wa
found dead, not block from his house
on Wednesday. He had gone into
hay store and was playing among tn
bales, when they tOppled over on hin
and caused his death
Brooklyn's city debt is ofilciall
figured out as S42 S2S, $50. agains
which there are nominal but chief
fictitious assets of S23, ZIG, $40, ProspeC
Park being set down on the latter lis
for 90, 1854, 900, though it furnishes n
income and is u source of annual ex
pense. Taxes are up 10 S7,500,0 900
year, nearly ~ per cent of the assess
ed valuation, which has been run u
unusually high.
The testimony taken. last week, be
fore the Tombs investigating commit
faa tapIp1 IN chou that fha nrioon