The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-15
GENERAL NE us.

New Jersey Is booked for an inn
mense rawberry crop this season.
IL Is reported from Melbourne that
$4,000 Fiji islanders have died of the
measles.
An Englishman, hard up, has just
sold the contents of his wine cellar fol
e150,147.
More rain fell In Nebraska on Tues
day, and crop prospects are brighten
ing daily.
Evanstown, Ind, claims a popula.
ton of GO, 900, but is willing to put it at
ten per cent. less.
Strawberries are selling for three
cents n quart at Norfolk, which is only
what it costs to pick them.
The gold expectation of Victoria fol
this year was 1925 ounces, against
31G,557 ounces last year.
The now direct cable between Ire.
land and Rye Beach, N. H., is com
plete and in good working order.
In the Joint Convention of the New
Hampshire Legislature, Wednesday
l1OilsN alSOll - SbNiNg NoS
Governor.
Three men were drowned near Cores
wharf, Cambridge, Wednesday, by the
sinking of q scow on which they were
Mt work.
The Sorosis sisters of New York are
determined not to p%atronize the stores
wi,oro chop girls arc kopt stondins oil
day.
1t is estimated that the hotels of Bos-
ton can accommodate ten thousand Wis
itors. This is exclusive of family hotels
and boarding houses.
Over twenty tons of violets are annu-
ally used by the PERU .ners of Cannes
and Nice, and 100 tons of orange bios
SONS in Nice alone.
Parties are organizing in Philadel-
phia to go to the Black Hills. The
story goes that 10, 900 adventures will
soon be c~ongregated in that region.
The democrats in the Connecticut
Legislature have nominated Moses
Culver, of Middletown, for the vacant
judgeship of the Superior Court.
A writ of error has been granted in
the case of George Rufer, sentenced to
be hung, July Is, for the murder OF
Herman Schilling, at Cincinnati.
T%wenty-one letters of Robespierre,
which are said to contain some start
ling facts, have been found in Paris,
and are soon to be published.
Mr.. Thomas j. Sanborn, a well
known citizen of Concord, N. H.,
dropped dead between one and two
o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
Charles II. Powers, republican, was
elected Railway Commissioner, We'd
ncsday, by the New Hampshire Legis-
%laturc, the people failing to elect at the
last election.
The superintendent of the United
states Mint thinks if the crops are good
and the country is generally p%rospered,
that silver will be substituted next au-
tumn for fractional currency.
The Episcopal convention for the
Fon du Lac diocese, consisting of the
northeastern portion of Wisconsin cleo
ted Rev. Jacob S. Shipman, of Licking
ton, KY, bishop, Wednesday.
The Black Hills geological party ar
rived, last Thursday, on the east fork of
Beaver creek, and fixed its first perma-
nent camp. They have yet found no
mineral developments, nor have the
Indians caus cd the party any trouble.
A young miscrcant broke into q
church at Yonkers, n. v, the other
night, and stole five dollars from the
box containing gifts for the poor of the
parish. Fortunately he was caught
and sent to the penitentiary.
A terrific gale visited Paris and other
portions of France, Wednesday,. In
Paris thousands of chimneys were
blown down and other damage done,
involving n loss of about IL 600, 900
francs. Several lives are reported lost.
Leslie, the receiving teller of Dun
can, Sherman d Co., who a~bsconded
with $4,000 of the firms money, was
arrested at London, Canada, on Mon
He went away with n dissOlute woman,
leaving a wife and child in New York.
The national association of manufac-
turers of knit underwear have resolved
To stop their mills two months, or long
er, if circumstances demand, from the
present date. This will reduce the pro-
duction 5000 pieces per day, or GO, 1000
garments.
An Indiana man recently opened one
of the hollow wooden pillars supporting
his porch, and, to his utter astonish.
ment, found within the remains o.
more than four hundred dead birds,
They had made an entrance through
n small hole at the top of the pillar and
were unable to escape.
\ Tennessee preacher stood up the
other day and said MY hearers, ]
now urge all on yc to dive down into
your breeches pockets and haul out
suthin' for the poor" and the women
of his congregation looked right
straight ahead without saying n wore
or making a dive.
Deputy Marshal Hayes was fatally
shot and a bystandcr wounded in tn,
foot by n negro named Tate, at a picni'
of cOlored men at Franklin, Ind, Tues
day, while an attempt was being mad,
TO arrest Tate and another negro namet
McCloud for gambling. Both the ne
groes were arrested.
Delegates from thirty Polish s%ocietie
- '''' ''i' NlthNo VIII tiitiOh q
Milwaukee, Wis, Tuesday, their OBJ
iect being to improve the condition an,
moral standing of Polish immigrant
by inducing them to leave the larg,
cities and enter upon agricultural pur
suits, and to establish a national uni
versity.
The governor of Ceylon has issued
prohibition against the destruction G
elephants, which are becoming scare
ON account of the slaughter by sports
men. These sagaciOus and powerful
animals are very useful IN industrial
labors. They are especially valuable II il
the construction of bridges, and vii
lay gigantic stones with the accurac.
of mason
At Lifu, Loyalty Islands, on tn
night of March 2S, there was a shar
shock of earthquake, followed by other
the next day, and on the evening {
the 30th n fearful shock occurred, dom
much damage to buildings. 1t wa
succeeded 10y n tidal wave which sweI
away three villages, causing immens