The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-12-21
GENERAL NEVIS.

day, till January 8, 1876.
A. Morrell, general jobber of Montre-
al has absconded, leaving S25 900 OF IL
bilities.
Henry w. Longfellow declines to
serve rs the centennial poet on account
of his advanced years.
sixteen prisoners escaped from the
Henderson county Ky. Jail, by saw
ing through several iron rods placed
before the windows.
Gov. Tilden refuses to pardon Dolan,
Noa,s mnrdorar Judge Donahue has
granted Istay till the case can.be ar
Sued at the general term and court OF
appeals.
William Root, Charles and James
Higgins have been arrested for the
robbery of $4,000 from the East Albany
IN. W banking and trust company In
August last.
The hotel and depot at the east end
of the Hoosic tunnel was totally con-
sumed by fire on Thursday morning
of last week. The house was full of
boarders and some narrowly escaped
The Toronto Legislature has rejected
by large majority the Currie man,
hood suffrage bill, which entitled all
male British subjects, twenty-one
years of age, TO vote Tor members Vi
The legislative assembly of Ontario.
Gov. Porter of Tennessee has COM
muted the death sentence OF john JET
ferson to imprisonment for lie, ana
has also respited William Williams
and Frank Scott. sentenced to he
hanged, Christmas day, until January
Z.
The Montreal druggists are very nat
urally good deal stirred up over
new bill now before the Legislature al
lowing nuns to manufacture drugs,
remedies for maladies etc. The nuns,
you see, pay no taxes, ana can lhere-
fore beat all competition.
A colored woman, named Laporte,
who sued the st. Louis and Iron
Mountain railroad company, some
time ago, for $2400 damages for refus-
inc her seat in ladies' car, has just
obtained judgment before the circuit
court of Pulaski county, Tenn, for
500.
The message which the president
will shortly send to Congress on south
ern affairs will relate principally to the
late troubles in Mississippi and the
mOuc vi ~ '@ts'
state, the information having been
gathered by persons designated for
that'purpose.
Matamoras, Mexico, succeeded in
getting through its municipal election,
Sunday. with only two murders ana
half dozen stabbing ARRAYS, and Will
count itself lucky If it gets through
next Sunday as we'll, when the electors
meet to count the votes. The proba-
biIity is that FuenteZ, the candidate OF
the brigand cattle-thief Cortina, Will be
counted in.
Sharks are said to have done consid-
cradle damage to the fisheries in the
lower st. Lawrence, this season. so
numerous havo they been that thirty
seven were taken in single system
of nets at the mouth of the Saguenay,
last week, into which they had fol-
lowed school of porpoises ana be-
come entangled.
The jury in the case of Thomas w.
Pjper for the murder of Mabel Young,
after being out from noon Wednesday.
came into court Thursday, and report
ed that they were unable to agree.
They were discharged, and the prison
err remanded for new trial. 1t is said
that the jury stood nine for conviction
and three for acquittal.
Minnesota Is to have state inebri-
ate asylum. and the liquor sellers will
have to foot the bill, the supreme court
having recently sustained the constitu-
tionality of the law imposing tax fol
this r"~rosn - fond of Slo, 1000 is al
probably have been contributed by the
liquor sellers by the 1st of July.
;,1c
sin lawyer, who carpet-bagged to Flor
cloud. While case involving the
validity of large issue of railroad
bonds was pending before him, he SOLD
to party interested in the suit piece
of property worth $4,000 for $500, and
the accommodating purchaser..w the
case.
During "a sermon in st. James's
church Montreal, Sunday of last week
on 1.-The shortness of life" French
Canadian fell down in an epileptic fit
the congregation thought there was ,
ire, and a fearful panic ensued, an(
many were knocked down and tram
pied upon but none killed. The prizes
who said mass disappeared behind thu
pulpit.
It's queer and unusual role for on,
of the gentler sex-that OF highway
man.-but sixteen-year-old Ann Nc
Nally filled it at New York, Sunday
by deIiheratsly wqviaying, ;ntT 49, u,
West 3Sth street, and taking from he
gold chain. The young practitione
ofthe new departure In woman's right
was jailed in default of $1,000 bail.
Forgeries of the names of firms an,
individuals transacting business at tn
United stock yards at Cincinnati hay
just come to light and some banks hav
been victimized, but to what extent
not yet known. Unknown parties oh
tanned genuine checks, and so closel.
initiated the signatures that the Onl,
manner in which the firms could tel
they were not genuine was by refer
ence 10 their own books.
The Philadelphia board of public ed
ucation allowed itself to getia good des
stirred up, by the reception of a com
munication from the secretary of a
organization styled the "I.iberH
League" with resolution adopted b.
the "league" petitioning the board
prohibit the use of the Bible in tn
public schools. and after some prett
loud talk by several members table
the matter by an almost unanimou
vote.
The convention of millers at Chica
go, adopted a resolution protesting
against the late advance on -four rate
by rail TO New York, and it is report
ed received a proposition from th
managers of the eastern pool to Gu
down the rates on -four ten cents pc
barrel, but in the form of rebate, an
not regular reduction. Seventy-si
mills were represented in the CONVEX
ton, with daily minimum capacit
of 10000 barrels and maximum ca
pacity of $4,000.