The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-11-25
GENERAL NE MS.

Weths
The oceans going vessels have nearly
al taken their departure from Montre |
o. To avoid being locked up by the Ice
A Are at Schenectady, N. Y, Frids,
evening, destroyed the barn aud broom
corn sheds Of Mrs. John Myers Loss
$4,000; Insurance, $4,000.
Edwin B. Spooner, prominent cit
izeh Of Brooklyn, aud formerly proprl
etor of the Star Of that olty, died, Mon
day, aged sixty-eigbt.
Alexander H.. Stephens left Craw
fofdvilIe, Ga, Monday, In q specia
car for Washington to resume his du.
ties In Congress, when 1t assemblies.
The North Carolina Legislature,
which Is more than two thirds demo
cratic, organized Monday. 1t elects
United States senator to succeed Ran.
som, democrat
The German Methodist church on
55th street near I'd avenue, n. Y. the
gift to the society of its pastor, Rev. G.
Blinn, and worth $40, 900 to $50 900,
was dedicated, Sunday.
The business al Atlanta, Ga, Ia at y
standstill, on account Of the unsettled
state Of politics, Many large orders
are held back, and merchants are afraid
toincrease their stocks
The flremen of New York have
gained much deserved credit In several
cases lately by the rescue of lives ell
dangered by fire, the latest being those
OF two women who were caught In
burning building on Sth avenue.
Last Friday evening DR.. Henry A.
Hawley, of Sandy Hill, n. Y, acct
burned district of that village, serious
ly injurlng his head and side and
spralning his wrist. He will recover.
Sarah Smith Stafford daughter OF
James Il. Stafford, writes from Tren-
ton, y. j., offering to be present OH
evacuation day and unfurl the first
atar-spangled banner THAT flung to the
breeze by Commodore Paul jones'
which was acknowledged by foreign
power
Patrick Dougherty, William Foy,
Peter Smith and James Smith struck
Matthew Carrot such blow on his
head at his boarding house at Sharbot
Lake, Canada, because he.remonstrated
with them for n disturbance, that lie
has since died. They have been ar
rested.
A ShOuston (Pa.) ferryman, named
Sharp Bailey, saved two men from
drowning on Saturday night, one OF
ihrm q man who bad fallen overheard
from II passing steamer, and another
lf No IN ,at QH
from boat by the same steamer. The
fate of the two companions of the lat
ter Is unknown.
The sawn-lumber trade at Ottawa,
Canada, Is more active on account OF
the European war news. During the
past week, several American aud Eng
lish buyers have made offers for spring
shipments at slightly advanced prices,
but they were mostly declined, In an.
ticipatiOn of better figure, next
spring; $3.50 Is offered for shipping
culls.
Some excitement was created at OF.
tswa, Canada, Monday, by the cIrcula.
lion of a rumor that volunteers had
been ordered 10 the Vermont frontier
to kill Fenians. 1t was ascertained,
however. that no such order has beeb
issued. but the militia department has
Instructed the volunteer officers to hold
themselves In readiness tor any emery
ency.
William Lee, inspector on the Hud-
son river railroad at West Albany. n
Y..passed between two cars of freight
train that was standing still OH the
track at West Albany. Friday, when a
NJ Ia nj al hx,
track, ran against him, knocking him
down, and passed over both legs, cut.
ting them of below the knees. He died
soon afterwards.
A New York hack driver named
Higgins has served three years of
twenty-years' sentence In Sing Sing
for u crime Of which he was convicted
by the testimony of the Stewart WON
an, who recently made false charge
against-a policeman and who Is now
IN the Tombs for perjury, and If the
present charge against her Is estab-
Iished, he will be pardoned.
Joseph Jorgensen, congressman elect
from the fourth Virginia district, has
entered a suit In the circuit court al
Richmond against the proprietors OF
the Richmond Dispatch for libel, lay
ing damages at $4,000 The suit IL
based on an editorial referring to an ar
ticie In the Petersburg Index-Appeal
,ohurging him with embezzling public
money as postmaster of Peter sburg.
Two private watchmen, named Cas-
par Grote and John Linsfon, have been
arrested ut Brooklyn for shooting
man In the harbor, aud they state that
early Monday morning, two river.
thieves came up In small boat, and
tried to board the lighter on which
they were employed, and Grote dis
charged one shot, wounding one Of the
men, The thieves, however, pulled
of.
DR.. A. J. Glover. a leading republi.
can Of Hyde county, n. c., and super
visor of the election on the republican
side, was called to see patient on the
night of the 9th, and, on his return,
was met at shop by several demo.
Grats, taken out Of his carriage, carried
10 some water near by and drowned.
The Washington Republican makes
this statement, and says his wife Ia the
authority.
The Methodist missionary committee
have completed their work of making
appropriations for various missions,
snd many districts are left without
suything, so they will have to be self
supporting or die. Among the appro-
lrlations are South Carolina, $1,000 !:
Louisiana and Mississippi. $65OO each !:
the Rocky Mountains. Virginia and
North Carolina, $4,000 each Kentucky.
Minnesota. Tennessee and Colorado,
5000 each.
In IN ARRAY In front of detective.
once at Charleston, 8. c., Monday
evening. between George Shrewsbury
(coiored) chief Of detectives, and Frank
Johnston, q young white man, the for.
mer was shot through the head and al.
mort Instantly killed, Johnston firing
three shots and Shrewsbury one. The