The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-04-27
NE US ITEMS.
Back-biters-1eas.

by lIandis. Is able 10 walk out. The
bullet is all in Uri.
A nephew of Sir Walter Scott saws
wood In Montreal for II living. He had
better write novels.
The United States supplies sixty per
cent. OF all the foreign wheat consumed
In Great Britain and Ireland.
David Woodrow shot and kill his
father in u drunken row, at st. Paul,
Ind, a few days ago. He was arrested.
The humps is raging among the
Dartmouth sophomores, and they omit
the vinegar from their hash and beans.
]. E. Redfield, of Connecticut, has
been appointed receiver Tor the Pine
Bluff (la.) and Chicot, and Mississippi,
Ouachita and Red River railroads.
The cane which Senator Sumner
walked with, during the summer after
he was assaulted by Preston Brooks, is
in the possession of the Charles Sumner
lodge of Odd Fellows of Cleveland, o.
Last Wednesday the people of Ne
braska held their annual commemora-
ton of "Arbor Day" They turned out
en- masse, and spent the hours of sun
shine IN planting forest trees upon the
prairie.
The miners in Clearfield county, Pa,
are all working with reduced force un-
der protection of special police, at the
old rate, namely fifty cents per ton. A
great many of the miners are leaving
for other parts TO seek employment.
The coming insane asylum keeper to
visitor do you mean that man with
his head bowed, his eyes cast down and
his lips moving? Oh, yes he was
spelled down, too but he keeps right
on practicing just the same; l believe
his word is 'syzygy. "
A. #. Wood and A. Irving, returned
to the Dominion Parliament in the
government interest Mt the last election,
have been unseated for bribery by
agents The charges of personal bribe-
nv were not pressed and they are, there
fore, not disqualified from running
again.
There was lively revolt at the Sing
Sing N. Y. prison, Monday. num-
Der of convicts jumped aboard sloop,
drove the crew off,and were just cutting
loose, when guard, single-handed,
leaped on board and drawing his revolt
every man ashore.
An amiable youth at View Hudson,
n. Y, named Laferty, strangled his
grandmother in bed, fired pistol shots
at young lady who had rejected his
addresses, and her mother, and then,
surprising he had fatally wounded
them, put bullet through his own
crazy head and expired.
Mr.. Eaton superintendent of the new
capitol at Albany, informs the Senate
investigating committee that with 81, =
SEQ, 600 he will be able to put roof on
the building in two v lars, and the Leg
islature could 90 into its chambers in
three years. He don't say how mucl
money it would require to finish the
building.
The flood blockade on the Union Pa
cific railroad in Utah is at an end, The
waters have subsidized and all the wash.
outs have been repaired except the
large breaks east of Green river, which
it will take week or more to mend
Meanwhile, the accumulated passenger:
and freight are transported across the
break by teams.
A negro attempted to ravish Mrs
NeWhlIh, uehf liPton, Nlc.i 4hohNa.y
afternoon, but her daughter, only ter
49,; old. struck him on the head witt
nbn lcR,a AK, ana gave the alarm. The
old, followed him seyeeYienit.ee tee: years
four charges of bird shot into him, ant
finished him finally with a pisto
bullet.
Col. George w. Gayle, who offered
reward of 81 zoo, 900 in newspaper fol
the assassination of President Lincoln
in 1864, has just died at Selma, Ala
He was miserable fellow, who hat
degraded himself by dissipation, ant
had little property when he made his
offer. He was imprisoned for the Of
Tense in Fortress Monroe after the war
but, after a year, was released by Presi
dent Johnson.
Several small boys at Rochester, \
Y, bombarded family out of theil
wits and nearly out of their home by
the shots they fired from a sort of elias
tic sling, while playing the Scouts Of
the Prairie" in which some figured as
wild Indians, one as Buffalo Bill and
another as Texas Jack. They sent the
bullets crashing through the windows
of the house, and the inmates had sew.
eral narrow escapes.
He has been counting girl for three
years past and hadn't the courage to
speak his mind. AS they were seated
on the sofa, the other night, she refer.
red to the spelling-school excitement
and added: "Matrimony Is an awful
long word to spell, isn't it ?" He lean.
ed over, grasped her hand, and the
next morning he had arrangements
made to be married on the Fourth OF
july Detroit Free Press
The Cheyenne Indians. who whip
ped the troops, the other day, and then
took to their heels, have halted on Cim-
maron river, one hundred and fifty
miles south Of Fort Dodge, have been
joined by other war parties, who have
been out all winter, and are represented
TO be spelling for fight. The troops
are getting ready TO get after the red.
skins as fast as possible, with orders to
gather them in if it takes all summer.
At Murfreesboro', Tenn, a young
lady student in the college recently got
up during the night, donned loose
wrapper, and started out. Entering
the house of "A gallant colonel, she went
to his room and lay down upon a
lounge. The college authorities were
notified, the girl was carried back, still
sleeping, and placed on her own bed,
and as the facts might mortify her, she
has been kept in Ignorance of the whole
transaction. That is the way the story
is told.
Five or six years ago a man named
Burdick killed negro in Olean, n. Y,
and was sentenced to be hanged, but by
the efforts of his counsel, ]. r. Jewell,
received a Communication to imprisOn-
ment for life. Recently he sent
to Mr.. Jewell pen-drawing in
coiors and $40 in cash. The latter he
had earned in prison by his skilful pen
drawings. He sold his pictures at few
pennies apiece, and boarded the money
for the man who had saved him from
the gallows.
A well-organized gang Of robbers,
who have been systematically robbing
the railroads centering at Logansport,
Ind, for several months past, were de-
tected and broken up, Tuesday. Among
the party arrested were prominent