The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-30
GENERAL NEW,S.

sailors orphan home at Aenta, y.
Senator Conkling remains in Wash.
Ington during the holidays, and Ia rap.
Idly regalning his health,
The cabinet of King Kalakaua of the |
Sandwich islands has dissolved, owing |
to disagreement on the steamship sub. |
sldy question.
The town of Crockett, Texas, county |
seat of Houston county, has been burn
ed up, except three or four houses. 1t
had several stores and Masonic hall.
George Pease put three pistol bullets
into Chris Smith, and Chris Smith two
pistol bullets into George Pease ut
Tenn, Monday and both
are fatally hurt.
Kansas folks are rejoicing because
their young grasshoppers, which hatch
ed out during warm spell, early In
the senson. have been pretty much
killed Off by the later cold weather.
Two tragedies at Boston, Monday,
Ebenezer Brewster fatally stabbed
George II. Washington, coiored, in a
quarrel about a woman and Augustus
Anderson hung himself
j. Star Smith, foreman of the Star
composing-room, has nit outu with
money entrusted to him to pay the
compositors and also the funeral ex-
penses of his roommate.
Weston, the American pedestrian,
has been beaten in England by three
men, who were 10 walk each two DAYS
to his six. They made four hundred
and eighty miles and he four hundred
and sixty.
The Maharajah Leila and six others
implicated In the murder of Mr.. Birch,
British resident in the Malacca (Indial
settlements, some months ago, have
been sentenced to be hanged, but It is
probable that the sentence will be com.
inuted.
II Is certain thatat least one hundred
persons were drowned Oh the northeast
coast of Scotland, during Friday and
Saturday, and the loss within q fort
night is estimated at two hundred and
fifty men or more, and one hundred
and twenty vessels.
Deputy Collector Kelley has been
nearly beaten to death at Grenada.
Miss, because he is supposed to have
influenced the postmaster general in
his regent closing OF the post.office
there on account Of the insults offered
to the postmlstress.
Ex-Congressman William Walter
Phelps has received verdict for libel,
with six cents damages, against the COL
lector of the township Of Palisades, N.
j., for publishing notice of sale for
taxes Of piece of property which the
advertisement stated was owned BY
Mr.. Phelps. after Mr.. Phelps had noti-
fed the collector that he did not own
the property.
A passenger train on the Cleveland,
Columbus. Cincinnati and Indianapo-
lis railroad was thrown from the track
Monday, and Mr.. and Mrs. Savers of
indianapolis, Mrs. Fullmer and Mr..
Collins and son Of Degraf, c., George
Snyder of Pottsville, Pa, A, O'Hara of
Union City, Ind, and Miss Rogers of
Ashtabula, o., were seriously hurt.
The Lewis high school at Macon Ga.
one of the most commodious and com.
plete In the South. the Norwich chapel
and another chapel, used as home for
the teachers Of the school as we'll as the
pastor Of the church. were recently de.
stroyed by an incendlary fire, which, 1t
is alleged, the citizens, except the may
OF, refused to assist in extinguishing
because blacks were getting an educa.
ton in the buildings.
The boiler house OF the American
transfer company's station at Oil City,
Pa, took fire Monday, and the boiler
exploded and was thrown against an
Iron tank containing about $1,000 gal
Ions of oil, bursting the tank and set
ting the oil on fire. There was total
loss Of SO, 900 barrels of oil and five iron
tanks, two owned by McWhinney
Brothers, two by Cochrane and one by
the transfer company; also five Erie
railroad boiler cars, footing up 5000, 600,
partly insured.
President Angel, o. Michigan Uni.
versity, said Of women students, In his
recent annual report; "These are dis.
tributed rs follows medicine, thirty.
seven law, two; homeopathy, two I;
literature, sixty. The exper fence of
the last year confirms the opinion we
have been led to form by the experienoe
Of previous years, that women who
come here in good health are able to
complete our collegiate or professional
courses of study without detriment to
their hsplth,"
Nebraska has its college, located at
Crete, on the Big Blue river, and
named for Thomas DoRne Of Charles
town, Mass, the well.known civil en-
gineer, who contributed most largely to
Its endowment, The town gave the in.
stitution 600 acres overlooking 1t, and
fifty town lots, $1,000 in money, and
about the same amount in furniture
and books. Rev. d. B. Perry, former
ly of Worcester, is acting president,
with professor Of mathematics and
two women tutors, and over sixty-hve
students.
Thus far there are known 10 be four
Democratic Presidential electors who
were not legally qualified. They are
Frost, of Missouri, who Is laboring un-
der political disability imposed by the
fourteenth amendment; Moore. Of Ten
nessee. who was an officer In the Unit
ed States navy prior to the rebellion,
whose political disability has not been
iOhoFSd w AhtoAAoChI th 4tOW Jcfbcy ',
who Ia o United States commissioner I;
and Hallovsy. Of VirglRla, who was q
United States Centennial commission.
err.
indianapolis has scandals. Rev, and
Prof William F. Black, formerly pres
ident Of the Northwestern Christian
university, later preacher for the Cen
trail Christian church, where ex-United
States Treasurer New and other leading
families attend. is under a cloud. He
Ia charged with spending night and
registering under an assumed name at
ct. Louis hotel with Miss Corinne E,
Voss, a member of his flock. whose ia
ther 10 worth half q million. Tho
church 10 Investigating the charges.
John A. Child,a leading business man,
has eloped with his married niece.
The London Telegraph's correspond
emit at Pera says: Midhat Pacha, at an
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