The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-07-27
GENERAL NE us.

tlOrlua nus secuTeu, tlis year, io,VOV
alligator hides.
Central New York apple crop will he
small this season.
The next state election is that of
Kentucky, Aug. 2.
A war against Professionalism has
been inaugurated in Spain.
An effort is being made to impeach
Mayor Johnson, of Cincinnati.
The bellies at Saratoga are mourning
the scarcity Of beaux this season.
The site of Long Branch was bought
i'm 1870 for barrel of spoiled cider.
The Democrats of Maryland have
nominated John Lee Carroll for COVER
nor.
There were 1893 deaths in Vera Cruz
during June, of which 125 were from
vomito.
1t Is alleged that our government is
about to recognize the Cuban patriots
as belligerents.
Brown Brothers paper mill at Col
chester, Conn, was burned Monday
night loss 100000
1t is rumored that important papers
are missing in connection with the
New York canal investigation.
Roder, tax collector of Grant parish
La, was murdered, Wednesday, in
Colfax, by ex-Sheriff John b. Mccoy.
There was 100000 fire at Cincin-
natl, Tuesday, followed by gas ex-
plosion which fatally injured several
firemen.
Mrs. Harriet Bayard Van Rensselaer,,
widow of Gen. Stephen Van Rensse-
laer, died at Albany, N. Y, Monday,
aged 70 years.
A Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton hall is to be erected in London,
1925 900 having already been subscrib-
ed for that purpose.
Poor Carlotta is worse again, and it is
believed that her death is near at hand.
Her insanity Is said to have taken the
most british form.
One of the weaknesses of Indianapo-
lis, according to local paper, is 1.-TWO
dollars worth of collar and twenty-five
cents worth of dog"
A Newfoundland dog saved twelve
persons during the recent French
floods, but was drowned in attempting
to save thirteenth.
Game in South Florida is very album
dant. Three Indians i'm fifteen days
killed thirty-seven deer, and fish are
proportionately plenty.
The Postmaster General proposes to
reduce the amount of the bonds roquir-
ed from postmasters i'm large cities to
anout one half the present-sum.
Van Vert, Ohio, is exercised over "A
man nged 80 years. 1t is the intention
of the town to keep him alive for the
Centennial at all hazards Chicago
Tribune.
A school for American boys and girls
has recently been established at Stutt-
CART. Germany, under the immediate
protectorate of Prince Herman of Sake
Weimar- Eisenach.
A New Brunswick court of equity
has declared that deed given by an
intoxicated man, who received very
inadequate consideration, should be
treated as mortgage only.
The strike of Illinois coal miners
against the reduction of wages from
in the triumph OF the miners, the en-
ployers going back to the old price.
The fact came out i'm court the other
day that $150,000 had been offered for
ten shares of the New York Times. AT
this rate the whole paper, independent
of real estate, has a valuation of 81 $780,
600.
An Atlanta, Ga, negro has succeed
ed in demonstrating partridge, and
now has about sixty young birds, hatch
ed out in the spring, all doing well.
They are tame, healthy and seem con-
tented.
A physician of Cass county, Iowa,
named Hatton, was shot dead, Satur-
day, by Fred Newheiter, and the eX-
cuse of the latter is that several months
ago, he sued Hatton for malpractice
and was defeated.
A nationality fight between lot of
Irishmen and Norwegians atEauClaire,
Wis, on Monday resulted in the death
of one Norwegian and one Irishman,
and serious wounding and bruising OF
some thirty on both sides.
Lewis Thompson, colored, who bru-
tally outraged young lady at luka,
Miss, last May, and was sentenced last
Monday to imprisonment for life, was
taken from the Jail, Tuesday night, by
disguised men and hanged.
Intensely hot weather and an entire
absence of rain since the first of July
has changed the aspect of the crops in
Georgia very much, and if the present
weather continues corn and cotton
crops will be seriously injured.
The Irish rfiemen won the Elch6
challenge shield at Wimbledon, Thurs
day but then, you know, they haC
only the English and Scotch marks
men to contend against, the American!
not participating in the contest.
Robert Dale Owens son says hi
fathers insanity wasnot caused by thu
Katie King exposure, but was the con
sequence of beginning work on the
ology before recovering from sever
illness, and while unable TO sit up.
Miss Julia Smith, one of the Smitl
sisters of Glastonbury. Conn, who's
resistance to taxation has made then
famous it is said has completed, un
aided, translation of the Bible iron
the original tongues, which Is soon I
be published.
A Fort Wayne (lnd.) family made
lucky move, Saturday. Moving into
small house that had been unoccupie
for some time, they discovered under
small pile of straw n roll of bill
amounting to $1,000. There is no cleN
to It's ownership.
Col. Forney says that a number {
American gentlemen have offered
present full-length statue of Geners
Grant or Abraham Lincoln to the Ell
glish government in the hope that
statue of Prince Albert or Queen Victt
ria may be sent to the centennial.
A colored man calling himself 30
Biackhawk, who attempted at Detro
the novel and difficult feat of standin
upon the head of a common barrel an
constantly rotating, or turning roun'
for twenty-four hours, completed h
task at six o'clock Saturday evening.