The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-02-02
VIEWS ITEMS.
Paris is flooded by the Seine.

Danbury, n. IL, Is o. IL inches long.
II is said that fewer Americans arc in
Paris this winter than for many years past.
Upward Of 800 houses were DESTROYED
by FIRE at Jacmel, Hayti, on the 27th ult, caus-
ing lose Of $500 600.
L. Ii. Butler, pickle dealer Of Lin.
oslr, NIB, has decamped, leaving bis creditors in
the lurch to the amount Of $4,000
A despatch from Havana says that the
Spanish authorities have permitted Garcia who
sold the stolen Murllo picture, to go free.
Rufus Hatch has been called upon to
pay $4,000 for libel, he having "sassod" the Of.
iicer who came to serve summons as Juror upon
him.
The Senate Committee on Naval Az
fairs recommended thn. the navy yards at Wash.
ington, Philadelphia md New London be dispens-
ed with.
The vile of o clergyman in Bombay
became not long ago tho mother Of ayo children
at one time, Three Of them being still nlive and
thriving
1t isn't safe to put nails in ones mouth.
A box-maker. in Sheffield. England, was in the
habit Of doing so, and at last swallowed one which
killed him.
Mrs, Ann White Vose, widow of the
late Josiah Vose Of Boston, has bequeathed the
sum of $4,000 to various charitable il titutons
of that city.
Five physicians Of Lowell, Mass nave
cult the Grand Army Of the Republic because
the surgeon Of the post where they were meubc1s
il a hou@opatb.
John d. Hilliard, of Peoria, Ill.,, has
been appointed receiver Of the Peoria and Rock
Island railioad Hilissd IL ct present superin-
tendent o! the road
At indianapolis recently the family OF
u dying quarrelled so Gercely about n will
he was about to sign that the police had to inter-
fere to restore order.
Nevada ice dealers are already prepar.
ing to double their prices next summer, upon the
grounds that the crop will DO almost entirely
eaten up by the grasshoprers.
a large meeting Of business men was
held in New York. Wednesday, for tho purpose Of
devising means to build rapid transit route iu-
dependent Of State Legislature.
A widow living in Halifax, n. S., n
young widow, too, has fallen heir to Pennsyl-
yania coal property worth a million Of dollars.
Now she must expect persecution
A citizen Of Syracuse, n. Y, has thir.
teen children, ali girls, and has spent enough for
hair-pins to equip respectable Telegram limo
with wires, or at least he says he has.
Serrano. while on his way out of Spain.
received telegram from the new Government
thanking him in the name Of the nation for hny-
ing avoided bloodshed by his generous self--acri.
! fee
Recently at Hamilton, Canada.
rooster soundly thrasbed at American eagle. 1t
must have been q stray Democratic fowl. Those
birds have D strange aversion to the national
bird.
AT Palermo, Sicily, recently, just after
tho execution Of man for murder, quarrel
broke cut between father and son who put up
the scaffold. and the son stabbed his father TO
death.
Great farms are splitting up in the
West, and 80 they yield TO the necessities Of the
times Increased taxation and high rates Of in
terest have made II Improbable 10 keep up vast
estates
The Paris Court Of Appeals has affirm.
ed the Judgment gf tho Seine Criminal Court, by
which the directors of race-course pools-Paris
mutual-were condemned for having kept gam
bling establishments.
A few evenings ago, while the bells 10
Catholic church at New Orleans were ringing
for vcspera, a little boy, who was watchink the
sexton, was killed by some castings giving way
and falling upon bis head.
"A sHicNu 1uuiaudtp!iS NluOW DduC
htr lover deposit $4,000 in the hands &C q trustee
on the morning Of the wedding day the money
to be at her order for divorce purposes should she
ever desire to take such action.
james Brooks, a constable, at Law.
renee Kan, accidentally shot two Of his children,
seven and Eve years old the other day by drop
ping his revolver upon the Goor, killing the
younger instputy, and seriously inluring the
other.
a, Oshkosh, Wis, en- Sunday a little
boy eight years old saved his mother from drown
ing She had broken through the ice, and tho
boy laid board along tho edge Ct the hole, which
supported her until be could ruu of and bring as
sistance.
A Solano (Csl,l farmer advcrtiscs for
Il wife in this wise; Money no object. Sho must
be w5ll recommended by responsible parties, aud
as a Sigh; guarantee that tho lady s what they
represent her to be, shall require the parties to
deposit in my hands $500.
The tide is not running all one way 10
England. At one Of the London churches recent
ly, Francis Joseph GEandiean, a French Catholic
priest and missionary, was received Into the An
gean communion, be having felt obliged to cave
the old church becouse Of its new doctrines.
1t is said that the Norwegian land.
scape painter, Conrad Hook. has after years Of
patient study founded a new art, "pnakoplastk "
which is practical combination Of painting and
sculpture. The figures are formed TO great ex-
tent from cork, which makes the pictures more
durable than paintings.
John W. Young. third son of Brigham.
Is in New YolA to induce eastern capitalists 10
interest themselves in the construction of rail-
oads in Utah, and meeting with considerable sue
cess, it is said Mr.. Joseph Richardson a leading
director Of the Union Pacific railroad, has invested
nearly million dollars in the Mormon roads.
A terrible story of crime comes from
Grand Rapids, Mich !, the IL year old daughter
af n man named Linden, who ha. Just been Gen.
fenced TO imprisonment for lifo for numbering his
wife, having revealed the fact of his numbering
his infant child with blow Of his fist, and killing
his brother while walking with him in the woods.
Mrs. Kate f. Clark, recently seams.
tress in the family IT senator Stewart, at Wash
ington has been arrested, Mt Baltimore, charged
with robbng Mrs. Stewart Of bonds, diamonds,
aces, etc, valued at $500. The stolen property
was recovered, and, with it, two trunks contain
ing between $40, 900 and $i2, 900 worth Of plate,
lAces. velvet and other valuables.
Mrs. Jane Shields, of Williamsburg,
has sued t'.o executors Of tho lato Henry Shields
who was wealthy New York -four merchant and
once president Of the produce exchange. for part
Of his property, claiming that she was married to
him in the Quaker manner. in 1884, but he after
ward repudated the marriage and welded the
woman who has always passed for his wife
There came very near being case Of
accidental shooting in the court Of general ses-
sions, Monday. A man was on trial for shooting
at policeman. and the district attorney, In IL
Illustrating the way it was done, picked up the
pis',l and pointed it toward tho jury, suppossng
1t was unloaded. hnt, lust as be was going TO pull
the trigger, be discovered that Eve chambers were
loaded.
4 pee, lar libel case is to be tried be.
fore the Chester county (Pa) courts a Mr. Viii
liam Banner posted n notice his property for
bidding a neighbor. named Lewis II. Hammond,
or his family from trespassing on his grounds.
Hammond retalated by similar prohibition of
Banner from hi' grounds, adding the words ''ss
have only four turkeys left" and therein lies the
! ALLEGED libel.
An examination OF the cellar ot the
] IufIlinvs at Waalfuus.g an