The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-09
GENERAL We WS.

Bay, Cal, last week.
A 10 year old youth, Martin Tower,
was sentenced to % years in state pris-
on at Belfast, Maine, Wednesday, for
rape.
They suspect at Providence that the
cause of so many fires in the state is
over insurance rather than spontane-
Gus combustion.
The London Times estimates that
two hundred mariners and others were
drowned in the North Sea during the
gales of the past three weeks.
The watches which Newburyport
jeweler carted Off with him, the other
day, are turning up at the various
pawnbroker's shops at Boston.
Great harrington has a cannon cap
tured from the frigate Macedonian in
1879, which her people bring out when
they want to make big noise.
A Boston lady recently received a
letter from Mississippi containing
iewelry intended for a present for the
Christmas season, two years ago.
The British representative at Perak
on the Malay peninsula, has been muir
dered by Maays, and troops have gone
There 'n wnI.h sc guilty parties,
rVeiAinent has ,r'.
de-. sIa.I-. .'unbel of scientific
stations Of observation at favorable
points in the Arctic and Antarctic re-
gions.
The direct cable is again in working
order The fracture was found about
800 miles from the American end, and
looked as if caused by an anchor or
grapnel.
1t is estimated that over 1000 miners
in Cape Breton, N. s., will have to de-
pend on external aid for subsistence,
this winter, owing to depression in
the coal trade.
A little child at Odenia, o., placed,
unnoticed by others, some pulverized
glass in pan in which bread was at
the mother dying.
During the last forty years over two
hundred vessels have sailed from Glou-
cester and never been heard from, the
most fearful record of losses of any port
in the United States.
While engaged in a post-mortem OK
animation at Bay City, Mich, the 9TH
er day, DR.. Wyatt got some poison
from the body on sore finger, which
will probably cost him his life.
Henry Oyerstolz, of st. Louis, Mo-,
has just served notice on Mayoa James
II. Britton, contesting his election
Last spring. The matter will probably
be taken up by the city council next
week.
w. II. Campbell & Co.'S elevator at
Belleville, Ont, containing 10000
bushels of grain, burst Sunday morn
ing, of last week. The grain was
owned by local dealers. whose loss is
heavy.
me cnIef of tue Cleveland Fire Brig
AIDE has publicly protested against the
erection of any more wooden buildings
in that city, which he declares to be as
dangerous as was Chicago prior to the
fire of 1871.
John Ritter, who murdered his two
little children at Hack ettstown, n. j..
last week "because of rum and the
woman," and then attempted to kill
himself, is recovering to make his exit
at the end of rope.
A political wranglc at Baltimore,
Wednesday, resulted in William Bar
her, an employee in n restaurant,
shooting dead George Smith, proprie-
tor of Marks hotel. The murderer
then proceeded to police head quarters
and gave himself up.
An attempt to bore an artesian well
at Fort Wayne, Ind. has resulted in a
failure to discover water at the depth
OF 1000 feet, and the work, which has
hitherto been conducted at the public
f1ssHddh, Mil. n9wi.hf, .labapleuTp ,IUn.
Henry Jollie, Il 14-years-old boy in
West Hoboken, n. j., while chestnut.
ting in the woods near Fort Lee, the
other day, was shot at by drunken
rascal, who laughed at the deed and
left. The boy is not dangerously
wounded, though more than fifty bird
shot peppered the skin.
Gov. Kellogg has signed the death
warrants of six more convicted muir
derers, two white and four colored
two in Coushatta, to be hanged on the
10Th inst, and two each in New Or
leans and Munro 70 be hanged on the
2Gf. ini.ni. suiDund dozen TO he
ia AIS his month.
According to recent figures, the
black race is increasing faster than the
white race at the South. The census
Of Louisiana shows an increase of "a
per cent. in the colored and IL per cent.
in the white population. In South
Carolina the freedmen are multiplying
in much higher ratio than the
whites.
James Henley, Philadelphia fire
man, was shot dead by George Fletch-
err, an ex-member of the fire depart
ment, Wednesday, for no other reason
than that Henley was suspected by
Fletcher of circulating scandalous sto-
ries about him in connection with
charge of rape on which Fletcher had
been tried and acquitted.
Dominica Danevia, Bastemiano Lom-
bardo and Antonio Catorlono have
been sentenced to death at st. Louis
for killing Francesca Palermo. lem
on-peddler. AS new trial was re-
fused, an appeal was taken to the SUI
preme court, which will have time to
pass upon the case before the day Of
execution, December 10.
The design on the Labor Reform
ticket, as near AS we can make it out,
represents the eagle screaming over
half finished pyramid, dilapidated on
top, while weary Labor Reformer
sits at the base wondering what in the
world is the use of the party, any how.
No other sons OF toll are in sight, and
the mans loneliness is indicative of
the Loneliness the voters OF the ticket
feel at the polls
Mr.. Halves of Henderson, KY, while
driving through a cornfield near
Spottsville, the other day. was assault
ed by Lott, a man of whom he rented
the wagon, and knocked down, cut and
slashed horribly in the abdomen. He
was finally released hy son. twelve
years old, who felled Lofts wife in her
attempt to split his fathers skull with
an AK. Mr.. Halves walked over a mile
supporting his protruding bowels with
his hands. Lott and his wife are yet
at large.
There is n singular curiosity about