The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-15
GENERAL NE WrS.

pense of 81 week, and says they are
all growing fat.
Jesse James, the famous Missouri
bandit, who Is the husband of beautis
ful accomplished and rich wife, Is now
the father of twins.
A sucker Cherokee Indian was re-
Gently hanged at Muskogee, /. t., for
shooting an Indian maiden, whom he
first insulted, two weeks ago.
Andrews Fuchs, who so horribly
murdered and butchered William ST.
mons in Williamsburg, a week ago, was,
Wednesday. indicted for murder by the
Brooklyn grandjury.
The two Grains, charged with being
accessories in the murder of William
spence, were found guilty at Cincin-
natl, Wednesday. and sentenced to
twenty yef rs in the penitentiary.
It turns out that Mrs. Mckenzie of
Montreal, who made such farce of
eloping with young Bridges, really
did sail from Portland, later, as report
ed, for Liverpool, but in charge.of her
brother-in-law, intending to remain in
Europe till she gets divorce.
Quite a scare was occasioned at San
Rafael, the other morning. by man
who rode fiercely through the streets
aud cried to the populace to flee to the
mountains, as the 10000, 900 gallon res
ervoir had burst, but he proved to be
lunatic and the report unfounded.
1t is calculated that eleven million
cubic feet of white and two millions of
red pine, square timber, will he taken
out on the Ottawa river, this season.
The drawing of Timber is much behind,
owing to the scarcity of snow, and it
will be impossible to get 1t all out, this
season.
The contract for legislative printing
at Albany has been awarded to j. Ii.
Parmenter for SAT 800 year-the low
est figure for thirty years, the total of
600, and the bid of Hugh Hastings of
the New York Commercial Advertiser
being $4,000.
Now that the Northern Pacific rail-
road Is getting on to its legs again, 1t is
beginning to find substantial friends.
The legislative council of Montana
have passed resolution granting So
500. 900 to aid in the construction of the
road west from Bismarck to Shields
river, the westernmost tributary of the
Yellowstone.
J. NJ. Hutchins OF Yosemite has dis
covered in the Il cad waters of Kern riv-
err TO- 500 feet above.the sea, new and
beautiful fish, which he named the
golden trout Its color was like that
OF gold fish. but richer, and dotted
with black spots quarter of an inch
In diameter, and with a black band
along its sides.
The ruling passion strong in death
was never better illustrated than in
the case of a French woman about to
be executed with her husband. She
was released to embrace her husband
before execution and Immediately gave
him severe boxing on his ears. Before
the poor husband recovered from the
attack her head was off.
Mrs Agnes Booth, while playing
Constance in liking John" at Indian
apolis, Ind, Saturday night. was at
tackled by hysteria and finally tainted
upon the stage. There was great ex-
element in the audience, some persons
imagining that Mrs. Booth, while
feignlng insanity, had become really
insane, but she entirely recovered with
In an hour.
Considering tho hard times, Buffalo
is doing an amount of ship-building
lust now that fairly takes the starch
men who are talking about ''languish-
ing American commerce." No less
than three large lake propellers, one
passenger propeller, ten steam tugs, and
eleven yachts are now on the stocks
there.
The aggregate losses by fire at Chica-
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January 81, were only S457 900, OF
which more than half was in glue
factory in February last. OF this total
loss, but S2l7 900 was covered by insur-
ance; the property on which these
losses occurred was insured for : sol, !.
900, but the PORTIONS destroyed which
were insured at all only embraced
S2l7 900.
Civil service reform has been brought
down to fine point in Canada. About
month ago, the premier abolished the
iunch-hour, and compelled the clerks
to attend at their offices from ten till
four, whereupon they began taking
their luncheons with them and max.
ing coffee in the office with gas-stoyes
This has provoked another circular tC
the effect that gas is not furnished by
the government for cooking purposes.
Rev. Glendenning of Mary ponacro,
seduction notoriety has turned his bach
on his Illinois church. and come bach
to Jersey City to marry Mary Brown
daughter of q prominent member o
his former congregation, who was no
only a great admirer of the deposet
pastor Ia the very midst of his troub
les. but testified in his behalf at the ia
nous trial, and has concluded to Civ
up the ministry altogether for the law
In the Tweed case. last week Carve.
testified to building house at cost Q
$4,000 for Connolly on 9Th avenue
out Of money stolen from the city al
40, that in 1870 he gave $4,000 an
Keyser and others gave another $50
COO to Tweed to "stralghten things o
Albany :" also. that he destroyed a
papers in September, 1871, bearing o
city matters, at the request Of Inge,
soil, who said twas Tweed's wish, 6
trouble was coming.
John c. Van Pelt, the notorious 81
lOon-keeper who was converted In I'll
Ohio wsmen's whisky crusade, wv
years ago, and afterwards became
prominent worker with them, :. has jul
been sentenced to five years in IL
missouri penlteptlary lof BIshu 'aio
ny, and is wanted in Ohio to apsw
the charge of arson and several 9th
crimes for which he Is under Indie
ment. He had colored girl with hi
dressed as boy.
The steamer Rotterdam is reports
to have succeeded In making the Dutt
port Of that name, Wednesday, wi
the Boston forger, Winslow. on boar
The Boston chief of police. on learniI
that Forger Winslow had arrived
Gravesend, England, telegraphed u
chief constable there to arrest hi
shoul he put his foot on shore, but
last accounts he hadn't made any SUI
disposition of his foot. Ezra is
spring chicken.