The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-28
GENERAL NE WrS.

girl.
The great revival" as IL is now fire.
quently termed, has spread into Can
ada.
Jabez p. Colby, son of the late Hon.
Stoddard Il. Colby, has been appointed |
conductor on the Central Pacific Rail- |
road.
Old lace is the object of the latest
fashionable mania, and the factories
are running double time TO supply the
demand.
Thirteen Indians and one white man
killed was the result of the last fight
between the miners and Indians in the
Black Hills.
Victor Hugo has been offered the
presidency of u new society in Parls,-l
"The General Association for the Study
and Practice of Cremation"
Bayard Taylor takes Mr.. Longfel-
lows place as Centennial poet; Mr..
Evarts accepts the oratorship, and the
Virginia Lee reads the Declaration.
The city of Springfield. Mass, has
collected nearly 5000 i'm SIS fines from
citizens, since the last snow storm, for
emitting 10 cienr off the sidewalks In
front Of their premises.
Ex-senator Cattell was examined by
the naval committee last week, and
denied having been interested with Jay
Cooke, McCulloch & Co. or having
shared any of their profits from naval
funds.
The American straw-goOds assoeia-
ton has resolved to relieve the over
stocked market by reducing production
at least one-half, till April s, when q
meeting will be held for further consid-
Grafton of the subject.
1t Is said Gen. Fitzpatrick has already
made good his promise to testify before
the congressional military committee
that Mai. Gen. Daniel Butterfield Of
fored to pay him $50, 900 for the posi-
ton of sub-treasurer at New York.
Orville Grant is charged with swind-
ling Seth w. Booz, of Bucks county,
Pa, out of some real estate by giving
as security for Its transfer worthless
stock of the Bristol Franklinite compa-
ny. which was represented to be valu.
able
A terrible fight lately occurred be-
tween Gen. Cooks expedition and Sit
ting Bulls band, resulting in the kill
ing of two soldiers and sixteen Indians.
The number of wounded is unknown.
Great excitement prevails at Cheyenne
in consequence of the news.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times says MIR. Barlow
is one of the keenest men ever put on
the witness stand, and from him alone
the committee are likely to learn moth
ing more. He does not deny being
straw-bid manager but claims to be a
victim of the system.
II. &. Dyenforth, an examiner in the
patent office, has been proved to have
received 5000 from man at the same
time that he had passed an application
of the man for a patent. His excuse Is
that the money was for professional
services out of office hours, but it won't
probably save his official head.
A school house at Tonta, Ia, was
struck by lightning during one of the
recent storms, and all the scholars were
knocked senseless, while one boy had
his foot 50 badly shattered that anpu-
tation was necessary, and he will pro-
baby die. A school house OH the same
spot was destroyed by lightning about
year ago.
John q. Mckee, one of the jurors
who convicted Mckee of the st. Louis
Democrat of participation in the whis-
ky ring conspiracy, now comes before
the public with an affidavit wherein
lie expresses his firm conviction of his
numesake's innocence, and adds that
he would not have agreed to the ver-
diet that was rendered, if he had not
supposed it would have been set aside
and new trial granted!
The story is soberly told from New
Sharon. Ia, that a two-year-old baby
fell into well twenty two feet deep,
with fifteen feet of water at the bottom,
one day recently, but held on to the
pump till the father had been brought
from a quarter of mile away by the
mothers screams, descended the we'll,
and rescued the youngster, after he
had once sunk into the water, but had
come up again and grasped the pump.
Another daring jewelry store robbery
occurred at New York, last Wednesday
afternoon. Six men entered the store
of William Koontz, 208S Third avenue
and overpowering the clerk in charge
stripped the place of all the watches
and jewelry they could lay hands upon
and escaped with the booty. Detectives
were placed on the case, and late in
the evening three men were arrested
who are believed to have been implica'
ted in the robbery.
The mystery hanging over the recent
movements of the Spaniard, HOlgado
was further cleared up last Wednes
day, by the arrest of Augusta Moren
brother of the man who accompanied
Holgado, when the latter was alleged
4. fnd hn al, orfx<
OF swindliDg woman named GerOns
Fernandez of Havana out of S3l 900
given him by her to buy lottery ticket,
with. 1t is charged that Moren, Hol
Rado, and Moren's brother, who SAILED
for Havana, were all in the conspiracy
to defraud Mrs. Fernandez.
The scientific experts appointed b,
the Direct Cable Company to investi
gate the circumstances under which
tho cable was twice cut have made al
elaborate report, which argues that tn
cutting must have been done by design
They find that ii was done by some I'M
plement; that 1t could not have occur
red by accident and that "a sailing
vessel of eighty tons could, If handles
for the purpose of doing so, break tn
cable without lifting it to the surface
and that with Il steam vessel so hand
led the operation would he still NOR
easy" These things having been set
tied it now remains for the Direct Com
papy 20 get Oh the track of the perpe
traitors of the twice repeated crime
which il ought not to be impossible I
do.
The latest story about Pendleton's re
ward to Mrs Belknap then Mrs. Bow
srs) for her assistance In getting ths
10 la.
Mrs. PendIeton may be desirable wit
ness. The story represents that whe
Psndleton was in Europe, not Ion
after, he bought set of diamonds ali
presented them to Mrs Bowers Mr.
Marsh somehow got hold of the bill {
sale, and sent it 10 Mrs. Pendleton, VIII
supposed the diamonds were intende