The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-10
GEN.ER.dL .NEUJS.

n ihl luel NJ DpenCer, NIL, set OUT al
acre of mullen by mistake, thinking /
to be tobacco.
Hans Christian Andersen, the Dan
ish poet, died Wednesday in Copenha
gen, aged seventy years.
One hundred thousand dollars il
specie has been recovered from the
wrecked steamer Schiller.
An American in Liverpool, England
was fined $50 for carrying loaded re-
volver In his pocket.
A boy only eleven years old was re-
Gently fiogged in q London prison foi
throwing stones at railway train.
For the first half of the present veal
France collected S12,O00,0 900 more in
taxes than for the corresponding period
last year.
Last Wednesday was the day set by
some OF the Adventlsts for the end oil
the world. They will evidently have
to figure up again.
Mr.. Sam Bowles, who Is at Saratoga
writes to the Republican that there is
"curlous lack of outward vice" at that
gay resort.
Stonewall JacIson's widow has lust
received half of $4,000 wllled her by
Wade ii. Bolton, a rich man of Mem.
phis, Tenn
A most disastrous tornado, accompa.
MED by heavy rain, visited Macomb,
Ill.,, Wednesday afternoon, Involving
a loss of $l5 900 to 800, 900.
Oregon is likely to become great
fax producing state. 1t has Al ,00C
acres under cultivation for seed alone.
The flax raised Is of excellent quality
The second annual meeting of the
National Sunday school Assembly open.
ed at Fair Point, Chautaqua, N. Y,
Tuesday evening, with small attend
ance.
The Protestant pastors and laymen
have had another meeting, and unani-
mously invited Moody and Sankey to
come TO Washington and hold revival
meetings.
Col. Tobias " Mumford, of Brook
lyn, who has Just died at the age of
eighty, was the Oldest officer in the
custom house, having held his place
since 1925.
Charles Ramsdell, of Wells, Me-,
Wednesday evening fatally stabbed
George w. Hawley, at East Glouces-
ter, Mass. The murderer was suisse
quently captured.
Mr.. Geo. H. Darwin, son of the great
naturalist has collected statistics which
he claims disproves the theory that
marriage between first cousins produce
physical degeneracy.
Charles Carroll, sixteen wears old
collector for n Philadelphia printer,
was knocked senseless and robbed of
$50 in an entry on a crowded street,
Monday, by two men, who escaped.
The Saratoga monument association
held its annual meeting on Monday.
elected Horatio Seymour president, and
resolved to celebrate the centennial of
Burgoyne's surrender In 1877.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons
has recommended respite of Barney
McCne, sentenced to be hanged at Will
Transport, to allow an application for
Communication to Imprisonment for life,
which will be heard at the September
session.
Alexander Hamilton, who died at
New York on Monday, at the age of
ninety, served in the war of 1912, when
he reached the rank of general. Three
sons of the great Hamilton still sur
vive, the Oldest lightweight and the
youngest seventy-three.
About $4,000 worth of silk lining was
stolen from German importing house
in New York, Wednesday night, and
over $4,000 worth of diamonds was stol-
en- from q private house on Fifth ave-
nue.. Thursday, by thieves who pre-
tended to be telegraph repairers.
United States officers captured S1O,-
900 worth OF counterfeitng tools In
BROOKLYN, as a sequel to the arrest of
Philip Lewinski and John and Thorn
as Loughrey, a few days ago. They
have been held for examination, and
the rest of the gang will probably soon
be taken.
A report says that some brass jour
mails were stolen from railroad car in
Chicago the other day. When few
Chicago papers cannot be started on
their way to their subscribers without
being stolen, 1t is high time for the
railroads to call for troops. Louisville
Courler-Journal.
Among the curiosities of the Win
throp bank robbery was the condition
In which a package of promissory notes
that had been discounted by the bank
was left, one end being cut of by one
OF the explosions as neatly as If done
with cutting machine but both ends
were found, and the notes remain as
good as new.
A single scull race of two miles, for
5000 a side and the championship of
New England, between John II. Lam
ders, of Salem, and Fred A. Plaisted OF
Boston, the present champion, was
pulled on the Charles river at Boston,
Wednesday afternoon, and was won
easily by Landers in fourteen minutes
and fifty seconds.
Another centennial celebration took
place at Gloucester, Thursday, when
the bombardment of the town by the
British slOop-of-war Falcon, one of the
fleet engaged in the Battle of Bunker
Hill, and Its subsequent repulse by the
citizens, was commemorated. The Gel.
sbratlon opened on Sunday with al
historical sermon by Rev. Mr.. Gage
and on Monday the Grand Army post
celebrated the event with procession
to Lake Pond grove, where salutes
were fired, n grand banquet spread
and speeches made by John j. Babson
the orator of the day Gov. CASTOR, Gen
Butler and other distinguished persons
the whole winding up with q display
of fireworks and grand street illumi
nation in the evening.
The new So note, the first govern
ment issue upon which Treasurer
News signature appears, is now being
paid out the face Is nearly the same al
the old one, but the green tint which
covers all the upper part of the ole
notes, and the round seal on the right
hand end of the note are omitted, th,
latter part being replaced by beauti
ful combination of "black-line lath
work." printed In red ink, addin,
beauty and greater security against
counterfeiting. The new issue of $40
500 and.$l00 legal-tender notes, whicl
are intended to replace notes of tn,
same denomination now in circulation
will soon be ready. The signature O