The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-08-26
GENERAL NE WTS.

Mr.. Barring, secretary of the british
legation. has returned to Constantine
pie.
Judge Stanley Matthews accepts the
republican nomination for Congress In
the second Ohio district.
The last survivor of the veterans who
had charge of Napoleon at st. Helena,
Joseph Pltman, died recently. at KEN
etton, England at the age of92.
The lumber buildings, satisfactory
and saw-mlll of Peter Helm Il Co. at
Cumberland, Md, were burned, Mon
fay loss S25, 900 to $4,000.
Arthur Kings wife crushed In his
skull with an ak at Hunters Point, N
V, Sunday, while both were drunk,
and Arthur will die.
The Greek government demands that
turkey grant the requests of the Gre
tang, because their discontent Ia reach
Ing the people of Greece.
Murphy, convicted of the murder of
Col. Dawson, will be hung at Dayton,
o., Friday. Gov. Hayes having declin-
ed to interfere.
Michael Gullfoylp was fatally Injured
and John Marshall badly beaten in
desperate aff'ray Mt Brooklyn, Sunday
night, and several others were hurt.
a number of arrests have been made
The directors of the Cincinnati, Ham.
ilton and Dayton, and the Dayton short
line railroads held a meeting at Dayton
o., Monday, with view of uniting
the two roads.
Property within territory thirty
miles square on the Chicago and Rock
Island railroad, in the vicinity of Ed
gsrtoD. Mo, has been damaged $780,
600 worth by recent storm.
Capt Fitzgerald of the 9th infantry
has been accidentally shot by Lieut..
Baldwin at Camp Robinson, and 1t Is
feared that his leg will have to he am
rutated.
Among the post-of1ices established in
Pennsylvania last week, were '.Au-
tumn Leaves" and "IIaidee" in Wayne
county and bouquet in Westmore-
land county.
Bootblacks, too, complain OF hard
lime. They aay boots "a II rule are so
much worn that they require twice the
isngth of time to polish them that a
gopu Sluufc DOot uut"
Gov. Tilden's brother Moses, who
lies sick at the old homestead in New
Lebanon, n. Y. liz suffering from drop
~ on the heart, aud his physicians say
his death ia only question of days.
james Bailey, who contests the will
~ A. Il. Stewart, filed bond in the
surrogate court, Tuesday on an appeal
from the probate TO the supreme court
for trial of proof, etc.
GOV. Hayes has resigned his mem.
hership In the Ohio state board of cen.
iennlal commissioners, on account of
other duties, and Gen. auckland ia
named for the place
James Bowman, register clerk of the
san Francisco post-offlce formerly a
member of the Legislature, has been
arrested on charge Of robbing the mails,
and the PROOFS are apparently conclu-
hvs.
The reports OF the Servian victories
are said to have swayed the czar's mind
in favor of continued prosecution OF
The war by the rebels, and Russian con.
sular agents are charged with stirring
up instruction In Bulgaria.
The Irish rife team for America ha.
been completed by the addition of Mr.
ward, gentleman reported to be
fine shot. Gen. Shaler's offer Of hos
pitality has teen made public and
thoroughly appreciated.
The expense of the Massachusetts
state building, exceeding $50 900, wa,
raised entirely by individual suhscrip
tons, but the state will be asked TO as
sune small balance not yet provided
for.
The emperor Of Morocco has declared
his inability TO send his customar,
subsidy to the sultan of Turkey, OWN
N the heavy drain on his resource.
necessltated by the repres, ion of dis. |
turbances In his own dominion.
A committee from the central organ.
lzation OF German tax payers called on
controller Green, In New York, and
rendered him nomination for mayor
Of the city. but he declined to enter the
field for that office or any other,
The Tammany and anti-Tammany
conference committees met in New
York Monday, but failed to agree on
united action. Both parties Will send
delegations to the democratic state con.
vention, the 3Oth.
The steamer c. II. Northam OF the
New Haven line struck the schooner
Is. II. Arnock of Forked river, N. }, In
The East river Tuesday, smashing IN
Ter side and capsizing her. The crew
were picked out OF the water by means
If row Goats
When you see a procession of sad.
eyed hut determined.l looking men and
boys, each carrying tin pan or pail
and light stick you may rest assured
that thousands of Colorado beetles are
soon tn be sacrificed.
A boy In Tennessee committed sui.
Tide, the other day, because his mother
sent him to the woods for a hickory
stick, with which he was to be punish
ed for taking sugar ont of the sugar.
bowl"
Peter Ceoper's usual expression is
one OF the great dependency, owing to
habit be has of dropping his lower
Jaw This explanation Ia put forth In
order 10 spare him any misconstruction
after election.
The round, smooth.faced, fat. pig.
allied, fat-eating Chinaman, that sits
in the Chinese department of the CEN
Iennisl exhibition, has succeeded in
capturing the affections of a young and
handsome American girl of u romantic
iurn OF mind, and the wedding Is TO |
come off next winter
A large number Of knights of
Pythias arrived at Philadelphia, last
week to participate In the grand
demonstration Tuesday, among them
being many dignitRries of the order.
Five hundred arrived in body from
Baltimore. and one hundred from
Massachusetts,
Two young men named Henry Smith
and SQuier Hammond. who were In