The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-10-15
GENERAL We us.

Plattsbureh has drum corps mum.
b,rIng six drums and four DIES.
There are several new cases of small.
p,x reported ut Clsrencevllle, p. q.
John w. Young was elected frsl
counselor to Brigham Young at Bes.
yer. Utah, Saturday.
John u. Les, of Mountain Mcadu .
massacre fame, has been s. nienced IL
be shot on the 2sth of January next.
New slnglo-ietter rats of postage 10.
tween the United States and New.
foundland Ia Hye cents, pre- payment
compulsory.
In the battle of september -, tue
Servian battalion named after the prln
cess Natalie went into battle 900 strong,
and only 40 answered The roll call, the
next day.
Gold sold in Nc1 York, Monday, al
l03 rs the lowest point reached since
December. 1873. In November of that
year the price fell IL loo ls. the low.
est since the war.
The altitude uf the summit of Mount
Lyon above the level Of the sea las re.
Gently been measured by DIR. Fergu.
son, physician ana surgeon of Clinton
prison, by means Of an Aneroid ba.
romeler, and found 10 he 0 500 feet.
Emil q. Miller. the fugitive Montre.
81 jeweler. who was taken to Detroit
rom st. Louis iD September TO answer
al old charge for smuggling, escaped,
81 tvlt I.tl t.xf. 4
from tho Michigan exchange to lail.
A man named Melbourne, "a cook In
che Of the restaurants Oh the centennl-
al grounds, was bound over, Saturday,
on the charge Of committing the recent
assault on Mr.. Shaw of the Boston
Herald, Mr.. Shaw is recovering.
Eight hundred bales of cotton, val.
nei at S37, 900, and belonging TO In
man. Swami IL Co., were burned at
Brooklyn, n. Y, Monday evening, the
IRE being caused by sparks from n tug
tnat falling on lighters containing It.
IL Is reported that Chihuahua, Mexi-
10, has been taken by government
troops, aud three hundred prisoners
captured, and IL Is stated that 1900
troops In Sonora have pronounced In
favor of Meta, but both stories are
doubtful.
The number of yellow fever inter
ments at Savannah, Sunday, was only
eleven. and OH Saturday, thirteen. or
The former, four were colored people,
and Of the latter. nine. DR.. Thomas
lay, and Capt. Ball of the brig Mary
y. Roosevelt died ut Tyhee island
The Bremen bark Europa caught fire
IN a dry dock on Fast river, Sunday,
and Thomas Ingraham, Lewis Sulli.
van. George Gil, William Furlong
and James Mcdonald were suffocated
in the hold, their escape being cut OF
ey burning hemp, while John Carey
was fatally burned. All leave families
unprovided for. The damage to the
vessel was tri6!ng.
4 are ut Houston, Texas, last Satur.
day Night, destroyed the entire block
on the east side Of Main street between
Preston and Congress, and among The
buildings burned were some Of the
handsomest business structures In the
city. The Western Union telegraph
Office was one OF them, and commune.
cation by telegraph was Interrupted,
but was restored. Sunday. The loss
was $3.50, 900, insured for S220, 900.
The tone of Lord Derby's dispatch
10 Minister Elliot regarding the Bal
garian atrocities Is very severe. He
points out the advisability of placing
the disturbed districts Immediately
under an energetic commissioner, who
should either be a Christian or assisted
by Christian councillors This arrange
nent should be provisional, and with.
out prejudice t: any future arrange
nents which may be made In concert
with the powers.
A fire started In the elevator OF J.
Otis & Look at Cleveland, O., Monday
morning, destroyed 1t and enough eth.
er property, Including the Second
Presbyterian church, to make the ag.
gregate $24i 900. The losses in detail
arc: Otis Il Look, on their building,
S75, 900, insured for $35. GOO, on grain
about $4,000; Second Presbyterian
church, $4,000, insured; Michlgan
Central steamboat line, building, etc.,
$40, 900, unipsured; cooperative stove
company, $4,000 /; other losses, $40 900.
A meeting of the past pupils OF the
Brimmer School was held at the Park.
sr House yesterday. when Mr.. Joshua
Bates, for 50 many years the famous
master Of the school, was presented
with elegantly engrossed copies Of the
resolutions passed by the school COM
mittee and his past pupils upon his re-
tIrement from school life. Mr.. God
speech, to which Mr.. Bates feelingly
responded Before the meeting ad.
iourned Mr.. Bates was requested to
sit sor his portrait. which Is to be paint.
ed by Mr.. j. Harvey Young, and hung
10 the school hall Boston paper.
The village nf Pine Bluff, Ark, had
two pretty serious incendlary fires,
Sunday night and the aggregate loss is
si26, 900. One of them destroyed three
husinsss blocks. and the other the
house Of Sheriff Vaughn, the loss of
the letter being $4,000. Among the
other losses arc: COIN, dry-goods
dealer. e20,O 900; Washer, dry-goods.
Chowang q Saunders, dry-gOods and
groceries, A Simon. general nerchan-
disc. and 81 Hauff, furniture, $40, 900
each; McGregory Il Thompson, hard
ware, 10000; Lensinky, clothier, $4,000
Reinaeh. millinery, $4,000. The insur-
ance Is small, and In many instance
there is none. There Is much excite.
ment, and Il meeting Of citizens has
been called.
The centennial anniversary OF the
founding OF the Mission Dolores of San
Francisco was celebrated. Sunday,
with much spirit, the exercises includ.
ing grand pontifical military mass as
the old mission grounds, and a process.
zion thence through tbs principal
streets to Mechanics' pavilion, where
musical and literary exercises were
held, followed by laying the corner
stone Of new church near the old
mission church. The procession In.
cluded military. religious, benevolent
and educational societies. United States
and state officers. and clergymen OF va
Fious denominations. the demonstration