The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-29
GENERAL NEUrS.


In 1t, is popular this weather.
Apple and pear trees promise beau
tiful harvest in western Massachusetts,
The peach growers of Delaware and
Maryland predict a big crop this sea-
son.
The inundation of the river Gar
rome, France, has caused much dam
age to property.
Official reports from the Black Hills
place the quantity of gold there as
small.
The Massachusetts, Press Association
started OH the annual excursion We'd
nesday.
The King of Burmah has eaten hum
BILE pie and war with England is avert
ed.
A Salt Lake City paper wants the
president to appoint Mrs. Mary A. l,iv-
ermore governor of Utah.
An incendiary fire at Norwich, c.,
Thursday, destroyed property TO the
value of about 100000
The new custom house at Chicago is
condemned and work on the building
has ceased.
A terrific gale at Valparaiso on the
25th of May did great damage to the
shipping and destroyed fifty lives.
Canadian fire insurance companies
have lost heavily during the past fiji
taar days, nnd ore going take good
risks hereafter
Alice Brown, known as the fasting
pirl of Evansville, Ind, is dead She
ate not a mouthful for fifty days previ-
Gus to her death.
New York is shipping refined sugar
TO Snyrna. Turkey, which market has
hitherto been supplied 10y France and
Germany.
The Agawam Canal Company at
Mittineague, Mass, will soon suspend
work at their mills, owing to the dull
times.
On July /, 800 new money order Of
fees will commence business, making
1894 then in operation. OF the new
ones eight are in Massachusetts,.
The Fall River (Mass.) News says
the population of that city on the first
of MAY last was about $500, an in
crease of Just about 1000 since last year.
L.
md n candidate for the superintendent
cy of schools in Plymouth county, Ia,
has been arrested for rape on little
girl.
Statues of Abraham Pierson, the first
president of Yale college, and of Chas.
Morgan, of New York, were formally
unveiled at Clinton, Conn, last We'd
nesday.
An Albany chap preferred the peni-
Tertiary to living with his wife, and
was sent up for q year. 1t isn't every
abused husband that. has such a safe
refuge.
All efforts of the Russian government
to prevent the Mennonites from emf,
grating to this country have failed, and
an entire colony of $1,000 are coming
over.
Six murderers were swung into eter-
nifty on Friday ostley at Dedham
Mass, Wagner and Gordon at Thomas
ton. Me-, and three colored men at the
south.
The $4,000 fishway at South Hadley
Falls, Mass, is pronounced a complete
failure. Not shad has gone over Ii
this season, and efforts to improve 1t
have been futile.
Grace Greenwood says she is not the
wife of the Lippincotts, Philadelphia
pnblliishsrs. and she adds with naive
not to trust me on their account
The general convention of the Sons
of Temperance for the United States
will meet at Oakland beach, R. l., July
18, and prominent temperance men are
expected from every state in the Union.
Somebody has set afloat the improba-
BILE story that the recent treasury rob-
berry was a put-up job TO conceal a de-
felt of about the amount taken, which
conld he accounted for in no other way.
The internal revenue receipts for the
present fiscal year to date foot up $l07, :
1866. The estimate of the commits
sioner was for Sl07, 100000. 1t is be-
ieved the receipts will reach nearly
100000 900 by June &c.
The secretary of the navy has made
a requisition on the treasury for $780,
600 to pay the remainder of the Farra-
gut prize awards. The original amount
was 100000. The sum now drawn
will he distributed among $500 persons.
Thomas Thornton Read, of the class
of 1871, who died in New York last
winter, left Williams College $500 to
establish the "rhOmas Thornton Read
scholarship" This makes the eighth
scholarship at the disposal of the fac
ulty.
A bridge Is to be built over the Firth
of Forth in Scotland, the height of
which will be $50 feet and the number
of spans nearly 100. The largest span
in the centre is to be 1900 feet, or nearly
one-third of a mile in width, and the
smaller spans $50 feet. 1T will cost
about $4,000, 900.
Barnum's balloon, which left Toron-
to Wednesday afternoon was picked up
by vessel, Thursday, five miles off
Point Peter, Lake Ontario. All the
men on board were safe, but had suffer-
ed great hardship, being in the water
four hours clinging to the basket which
was dragged through the water at a
fearful speed.
Miss Rose Clements, of Whites Cor
ner, in Winterport, Me-, young lady
aged about Is years, attempted to COM
NIT suicide Sunday evening She went
q short distance from the house, point
ed pistol at the pit of her stomach and
fired. The ball struck a rib and fol-
lowed 1t around to her back, and was
extracted by physician.
Gen. Capron, who resigned his posi-
lion as commissioners of agriculture in
this country to become commissioner of
the development department In Jap
an, some years ago, Is coming back
having been bnt partially successful
owing to the Indifference of the Japan
ese. His work has been to make geo.
logical and meteorological surveys, in
troduce new fruits and agricultural ma
ehinery. build roads, etc.
The body OF . man about so years old,
dressed very finely. with black broad
cloth coat, silk hat and black kid
gloves, was found, Thursday, hanging