The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-11-04
GENERAL NE US.

A mob ni Luling, Texas, hung Dick
Allen, last week. convicted Of Killing
deputy sheriff.
The powers have sent note 10
Greece, strongly urging her not to COM
plicate the situation by assuming q
warllke attitude,
Twenty eight men applied for the
privilege Of lashlng negro who was
sentenced to be whipped In Santa
Clara county, Cal, for beating his wife
The Republican headquartersin New
York were In better spirits, Saturday
than any previous time since the Ind.
ana election, and the democrats more
subdued.
AN explosion of fire. damp occurred
Monday night, In the Vaudeville, Pa.
colllery, near st. Clair. and three men
named Dormandy, Riley and Welsh
were shockingly burned, hut Il Is
thought not fatally.
lie Nord Newspaper OF Brussels de.
clares that the triple alliance cannot
be shaken, and adds that, In the event
Of u conference, Russia will enerpeti.
cally uphold therein the programme oil
qualification originated by England,
Carlyle hates the newspapers as cor.
daily as does the Widow Bhtler He
even refused to permit denial Of the
recent report of his suicide, which orig
mated from confusion of names, and
was delighted to catch the newspapers
tripping.
The W0nien's National Temperance
convention at Newark. M. last week
passed, after pretty warm discussion,
a resolution pledging the members to
abstain from the use Of wine at com.
munion. Next years meeting will be
held OF Chicago.
a curious will was admitted to pro-
bate In Albany. the other day: "I,
Bridget Reilly, In my solid senses, Wills
lot all belonging to, and furniture.n 1t
was written on the back of receipted
bill for groceries.
The grand stand, judges stand, poul-
try house, sheds and fencing Of the fair
grounds association at New Orleans.
leased By the Louisiana jockey club,
were burned, Saturday, and the main
building was considerably
damaged loss $50, 900.
Edward s. Stokes, who killed James
Fisk, Jr., was released Saturday morn.
ing, from the state prison at Auburn.
N. Y, and, having donned citizens
dress, Joined his friends, and started
for New York city, whence he will
soon take a trip to California.
Next Tuesday, election day, has been
appointed as woman's day at the Gen.
tennial. A reception will be held at
the Woman's Pavilion by the ladies'
centennial executive committee from
noon until p. NJ, during which time
a bnnd of music will be In attendance.
Prof. Loomls concludes, after com.
pairing 500 cases, that storms move at
the rate of twenty.six miles an hour on
land in this country, and little over
miles over the ocean. An ex-
press train or first class steamship
could easily keep ahead of common
storm.
The printers union of Albany have
reduced wages ON the morning papers
from $50 to $40 week, ON evening pa
pers from SIT to $16, on job work S18
to SIT, on book work SIT to $16, and on
weekly papers five hours Increase
per week has been made at the same
pay, SIT
On the 9th Of October two sisters llv-
ing at Wahring, near Vienna, celebrat.
ed their golden weddings. The elder,
aged "a, was surrounded by six chill.
dren and thlrty.slx grandchildren.
The younger, aged ~, as the Fremden.
blatt naively observes, has $50 far
been" childless.
United States District attorney Bliss
called upon Mr., Jarvis, clerk of the
common pleas court, Tuesday, and say.
ing that he had undoubted proof OF
numerous frauds In taking out natur-
alizatlon papers, asked permission to
have the records for the whole year
examined, but was refused.
There Is some Improvement in the
of the district of Bombay
India. so distressed by drouth and
shortness of the crops. Great suffering
however. exists in Sholapore, where
cattle are selling at few pence each, on
account of the lack of water. Reports
from Madras are also gloomy.
John Strathers and Samuel Wilson,
both colored, got into quarrel at O
negro ball Mt st. Louis, early Tuesday
morning, during which Wilson plung-
ed large pocket knife into Strather' q
left breast, killing him almost instant.
ly. He was arrested. Wilson Is said
TO have killed man at Chicago about
year ago.
Theodore Tilton said, the other
night, at Chickering hall: with ev.
cry man the Garden OF Eden Is home
his volce)--even when,
with many of us, 1t is Paradise Lost u
The audience applauded and pitied the
man who wandered about In sleeping
cars, with no Garden Of Eden near
IN. Y. Express.
The Bow street London) police court
gives DIR. Slade, the American spirit.
ual medium, three months at hard Ia.
Dor In the house Of correction, the OK.
IRENE penalty under the vagrant act
but he appeals. and goes out under
bonds. The sentence of the court wai
received with mingled applause and
Misses by the spectators.
Johanna Turbin (coloredj who wal
convicted at Washington on Saturday
of murder In the first degree with
recommendation to executive clemen
cy, was sentenced, Tuesday, by Judg,
Macarthur to be hung, December 20
but the Judge announced that he woulc
sign paper which would give he
life, the remainder Of which, however
would be passed In prison.
DR.. Arthur S. Copeland, promin men
veterinary surgeon of New York, ant
veterinary editor Of Wilkes Spirit O
the Times, committed suicide, Tuesday
night, at his residence, SO west 37ti
street, He was well known to turf
men. He came to New York from
England. % years ago. and had amass
ed q considerable fortune by his pro
fession. 1t Is thought that his suIcld