The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-16
GENERAL NE US.

SatiNo W ihtSh vi tht 1hth hAtpts
Stone masons are leaving Ottawa for
Scotland In large numbers, owing to
the scarcity of work.
Peter Royal of Lee will be 100 on the
2lst, and has good memory, good ap-
petite and all the rest.
The Providence Journal wants the
Smith sisters exhibited ut the Centen-
NAL. Oh, you naughty man
A.Swedish school-house, for exhibl
ton at the centennial, has been
shipped from that country to Philadel-
phia.
The people of Albion, Mich, tarred
and feathered an old man named Van
Wyck for all attempted rape, and now
they have discovered that 1t was the
wrong man.
Hazlng at Bowdoln college Is on the
increase, and, last week, Walter Davis,
son of William G., Davis of Bangor,
was dangerously hurt while being
tossed in a blanket.
John Deckley of Port Jervis, n. Y,
while hunting deer, Friday, near Row
lands, Pike county, Pa, was acciden-
tally shot by one of his companions
and fatally Injured
The khedive has applied officially to
England for two financiers to under
take the direction of the Egyptian H.
nances, promising the fullest informa-
ton to the great powers.
A Dubuque hotel clerk has just been
tried for Kicking woman. AS she
was not his wife, the jury thought he
ought to be punished for 1t, and YER
dict was rendered accordingly.
Desertion from the German armies
Is daily increasing. Last year, nine
per cent of the young men liable to
serve omitted to present themselves,
that Is, so, AIS men were missing.
The arrest of some horse thieves at
lows Falls, Ia, recently, developed an
extensive gang, operating through
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Dakota,
under systematic organization.
The Winchester arms-works at New
Haven have largely cut down the
number of their employees, and reduced
the working time from ten to nine
hours. The cartridge factory Is shut
down.
The spacious mansion at Borden
town, N. j., formerly occupied by 10.
seph Bonaparte, ex king of Spain, and
now owned by Col. Thomas A. Scott
is to be converted into "a young ladies
seminary.
The Penobscot tribe Of Indians had
their annual election, last week, and
chose Susup Socklexes governor Sock
ebssin Swassean, lieutenant-governor
and Joseph Frances, delegate to the
Legislature.
Sylvester Stevenson (colored) was
lodged in Perry county (Pa.) Jail the
other day, for clipping with Priscilla
Miller (white) of Millertown. Steven
son is said to have wife and four
daughters in Lancaster.
Applications for board and lodging
at the Utica IN. " police office have
dropped from thirty day to two or
three since the tramps have been forced
TO break stones for the highway for q
balf-hour before meals.
Michael Reynolds, Brooklyn day
laborer, who was drowned, few
months since, proves to have beeh
worth several thousand dollars, which
will be divided among three brother.
and two sisters In Ireland.
The late Deacon Higgins of Eliza
beth. n, J., willed S25, 900 to his
daughter Phebe because she had dis
esrded her lover and married another
man to please her father. Now she
has run away with her own love, S15,
900 and her Oldest boy.
A rogue at Sacramento has been EN-
inently successful in passing for +
member Of the Legislature. He KEPT
up the character by borrowing money
not paying his hotel bill, treating ev
erybody, and getting free pass East t,
attend the centennial.
The Icelandic oolonists have founG
their "best holt" on the shores of Lake
Winnipeg in Canada, where they have
taken up tract of 1000 miles, fifty
miles along the shore and TWEEN y
miles inland. Three or four hundred
are domiciled, and more are expected.
There are still living and drawing
pensions, 1858 widows of Revolutions
ry soldiers. There are also II 200 sur
vivors. or alleged survivors, of the wal
Of 1912 now drawing pensions, and
1912 women who claim to be widows
of men who then fought for their couR.
try.
The Lewiston police were resisted
by roughs, while making an arrest.
Sunday night, and furious encounter
epsued, In which stones were freely
thrown. The officers answered with
their pistols, and one man. John Con.
nors, received two severe wounds.
Since Ann Fiiza nnada enoh a .nn.
cess Of worrying her piece-of-a-hus
band, two other tenants In coparceDa'
~ of Brigham's home and heart have
notified him that something must he
done, and he has pansioned them off
with q house each and separate main.
tenance.
Henry Streeter. a well-known guide
Of the Adirondack region, was
drowned I'm Little Round Pond, a few
days ago. He was pursuing, In hi,
BOAT. large buck which he haC
wounded; In the struggle The anIma
upset the boat and 20 disabled the un
fortunate hunter that he was uuabl,
to reach the shore.
A horrible murder occurred a
Springfield, Mo-. on Sunday of las
week. A woman named Mary Col
Inns went into the room where he
husband, James Collins, was sleeping
and seizlng an ak split his skull open
killing him instantly. She then at
tempted to murder her little daughter
but the child made its escape to tn
neighbors.
There Is slight unpleasantness be
tween the United States consul at sgd
ney and the Australian authorities a
Sydney. The latter Illegally seize,
three seamen from the American bari
Ida Taylor, and sent them to prisoi
over one hundred miles into the int
rior, but the American consul demand
ed and secured their release, and |
now claiming damages In their behalf
President Gilman of the John Hop
kins university at Baltimore Is bacl
frsm Europe. where he has been 70
several months gathering information
about European universities, and say
that while no definite plan has BEEF
adopted. IL has been designed to max
the baltimore uniyeraity I'm a measnr