The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-02
GENERAL We US.


a 500 diamond breastpin the other
day.
Gen. Hawley says the centennial
exhibition will not be open on Sun
days.
There are two thousand bats In the
natural history section of the British
Museum.
Newfoundland is seriously consider
ing whether she had not better enter
the Dominion confederation.
Charles II. Brandy, a well-known
merchant of Baltimore, committed sui
eide, Tuesday because of business diff
culties.
Gen. f. d. Sewall, supervisor of in
ternal revenue, has been transferred to
the consolidated district of New York
and New England.
An Indian canoe, that will hold one
hundred men easily, is to be sent to the
centennial from British Columbia. 1t
is sixty feet long, eight wide and four
high.
Mrs. Mckenzie. aged fifty, was in
stantly killed, Tuesday, by being run
over by passenger train on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, near Ellicott
City, Md.
Indian Commissioner Smith quib-
bles about his resignation. He says he
told the Secretary of the Interior that
he would resign If he was desired to do
so, but that he has not resigned.
The Gillian international exhibition
was opened at Santiago with great
pomp on the 10th of September. 1 t is
fine affair. The Talca railroad was
opened the same day, with great en-
thusiasm.
John Dolan, who was indicted for
the murder of James H. Noe, the
Brooklyn brush manufacturer, was
convicted, Wednesday evening, and
sentenced to be hanged, December 10.
The jury were only out fifteen minutes,
The cars on the big plane at Ralston,
Pa, ran away. Wednesday, owing to
the breaking of the rope, and John
Burke had his head cut off. George
Sickle was fatally, and John Sides, a
boot and shoe agent, seriously injured.
Peru is hard up, financially. The
contract for the sale of guano in Paris
has not been confirmed; work OH the
railroads has been suspended dis
charged workmen give trouble to the
police, and beggars swarm in the
streets.
A fireman, brakeman, baggage mas
ter and one passenger, Frank DINNER
burg, were injured by the collision Of n
freight and coal train on the Reading
railroad at Tuscarora, Pa Fred Brown,
boy, died of injuries received at the
same time.
The coffin of a brother of Sir Walter
Scott, who died in 1923 at Quebec,
where he was stationed with a British
regiment of which he was paymaster,
has been exhumed in the course of the
excavations for the enlargement of st.
Matthew'S chapel, and the bones are
to be placed in new grave.
The new constitution of Alabama
provides that all banks organized in
that state must have specie basis,
and all their notes must be redeemed in
silver or gold. Suspension of specie
payments is forbidden, and bank char
ters are granted only for twenty years
The loaning of the State or municipal
credit to individuals or corporations is
prohibited.
A sad fatality occurred in Tobanan-
m township, Pa, Monday. A little
orphan fellow of nine years, who lived
with, u German family non,nd Shaihal
while out gathering beech. nuts, was
mistaken as he rustled the brush for a
buck by hunter named James Phil
lips, who fired into the brush, Kidding
the little fellow with buck-shot, and
killing him instantly.
An aristocratic sharper named Dunn
or Duval, who with the aid of his wife.
two daughters and two colored SER
wants, has been swindling any number
of New York firms, by hiring elegant
ly furnished residences and then sud
denly moving out with the goods he
had ordered from the stores, was
brought to grief, Tuesday, by two de-
tectives, who had been looking for him
for some time, and is now behind the
bars.
James Robinson, third engineer OF
of the steamship Royal Standard at
Mt New Orleans, was found dead in his
state-room, Wednesday morning, and
William Donaldson, the second engi-
neer, insensible, in the same room,
and is not expected to recover. 1t is
supposed they were overcome by gas
from the coal bunkers escaping
through the floor of the state-room
which is immediately ovor tho Lunk-
ers.
Au Sable, Mich, is all excitement
over the murder, Monday night, Of
William Stewart, wholesale liquor
dealer and prominent citizen of the
place. He left his store in the evening
with 81 900 on his person, and later
was found dead on the street, with foul
deep wounds on his head and his skull
smashed, and the money gone. The
coroner's investigation resulted in the
arrest of one Harry harrington as the
principal, and Mrs Rivers as his ac
complete.
The through freight train on the Chi
cago and Pacific railroad going east
Tuesday morning, struck a freight car
which during the night had beef
blown from the side track on to thu
Aux PLANES bridge, near Elgin, Ill.
and five cars were blown into the riv
er, breaking three rents in the bridge
The engineer, II. Adams of Elgin, wa
terribly bruised, and his son, who wa
with him, terribly scalded. II is hard
ly possible that either will live. Tn
fireman saved himself by jumping.
Marshall Grain, another of the out
laws of Williamson county, ILL.,, ha
been sentenced to death for the murde
of William Spence. Spence was
steady-going merchant of GAINESVILLE
not connected either with the Bulliner
or HenIersons ofthat region but he wa
heard to say at Capt. Sisney's funera
that it would be unpleasant for some q
those fellows if he should tell what h
knew abont Sisney's murder. Tina
night, he was called TO the door of hi
store, and shot while unlocking il
Marshall Grain was proved TO hav
been the principal in the deed.
The religious war against the actio
of the New York Legislature, las
May, in comforting exceptional priv
leges upon the Catholic order of tn
Gray nuns, making diploma fror
them certificate of qualification {
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