The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-05-13
GENERAL NE us.

sue VIII soon Institute proceedings TO
divorce from her worthless husband
There is a church la Illinois twenty
three years old which has enjoyed til,
services of nineteen pastors, and Is nov
looking for another.
Severe shocks of earthquake hav,
been experienced in South Australia
and New Zealand. No damage of con
sequence Is reported.
Jimmie Blanchard of Milford. tn,
counterfeit Charley Ross, who stole
team and made Off with it some day
ago, has been caught at Manchester.
The Unitarians of Boston are makinI
active preparations for their annua
festival, which is fixed for Thursday
June ! Hon + lockwood Hoar vii
preside.
Fifteen of the thirty-three churches
comprising Saginaw Presbytery are va
cant. Here Is an opportunity for tn,
large amount of talent now unem
ployed.
The only new item relative to the ex
plosion at HobOken is the belief that i
was caused by the strikers. The in
jury to property in Jersey city will
amount 10 NoDu,UVu
The widow of ex-President Polk has
been rendered the free use of the palace
ear from her home at Nashville, Tenn.
to Philadelphia if she wishes to visit
the Centennial exhibition.
The Hampden County Commissions
ers have decided to build bridge aci oss
the Connecticut just above Hampden
Park, connecting Springfield with
West Springfield, at cost of Sl50,OO0.
Judge Hilton, now that he is very
rich man by Mr.. Stewards will, de-
clines to help DR.. Hepworth's church
lift its big load of debt, and has resigned
the office of president of the board of
trustees.
The Indian agent at the Red Cloud
agency says there is no foundation for
Gen. Crooks report that the Indians
there are in starving condition. And
they never were more peaceably dis
posed
In Troy, n. Y, the other day, a bull
dog entered stable and attacke a val
liable horse. iniuring it so that it may
possibly never recover. The fight be-
tween the two animals is described as
very desperate.
The striking coal.miners in Ohio
continue TO hold out, with few eXcep-
tons, and are making all manner of
threats against those who work. II is
probable a guerrilla warfare will be re-
sorted to at the first opportunity.
Rev. w. w. Andrews, priest of the
sixteenth Street Catholic church, New
York, astonished his hearers, the other
evening, by saying in his sermon that
1.-THE Pope of Rome has received more
homage than should be given to any
ordinary man."
Professor Stowe and his wife, Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, who are now
staying with Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher
in Brooklyn, will soon go to Amherst
Mass, where they will stay until the
lst of June, when they will return to
their home in Hartford, Conn.
Ben Franklin's old printing press
has been sent to Machinery hall by
the patent office, and the original Dec
laration of Independence to Indepen-
dence hall, where also are many Of the
original chairs and the table on which
II was signed.
Report comes from Midland, Geor-
gian Bay. Ont, that two New York de-
tectives have just succeeded i'm tracing
and almost capturing Boss Tweed al
Parks Mills on the Mutkoka river, 80
miles from Midland and 100 miles from
Toronto, where with several compan-
ions he is said to have passed the win
ter.
The Hartford (Ct.) "Courant' saws
that post mortem examination of the
body of the late II. p. Haven showed
that there was nothing the matter
with him, no heart trouble - moth
ing to have caused death" He was
tired to death, and like a watch run
down, his body was of no use to him
when the vital force was gone.
In n suit for damages for the falling
OF wagon and team into an eXcava-
ton at the side of the road, where the
defence was that the horses were "skit-
tish," the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania has held
1t (the highway must be kept in
such repair that even skittish animals
may be employed without risk of dan
ger on it, by reason of the condition of
the road.
Anna +. Dickinson made her debut
as an actress in Boston, Monday eve
ming, before large and brilliant audi
ence, in her own new play of Anne
Boleyn. The play is pronounced q very
fair one, but Miss Annals acting is Sc
verely criticized as stiff and stilted and
lar from successful. Other critics say
that Miss Dickinsons acting was better
than her play, and that on the whole
she was fairly successful.
Over S6O,oOo worth of property
barns, horses. etc.-in the village of
South Oyster Bay, l.. L., was burned
last week, by negro incendiaries, il is
said, in revenge for the execution of
Jackson and Jarvis, the murderers of
Samuel Jones. Some 500, 900 worth of
the destroyed property belonged to
brother of the murdered man There
is considerable excitement in the neigh
borhood, and a night patrol has been
established
Some woman suffrage advocates who
before the House committee
on the District of Columbia were asked
If they were willing to submit the
question whether women should be
allowed to vote in the District or not
to the women of Washington, and
they replied in the negative, claiming
hat the women are so much under
the influence of the men In their fam
lies that they could not vote indie
pendently on the subject.
A terrific gale swept over some Dor
tons of the West an / Northwest on
Saturday. At Chicago, the spires of
the Wabash Avenue NJ. +. Church and
Of Grace Church were destroyed, and
the buildings otherwise damaged.
Many other buildings were damaged,
and the total loss will probably exceed
4 quarter of million dollars. At Leav-
snworth, Kansas, the gale was very
'evere, and ii was also felt in other
portions of the State, the loss amount
ng to over 100000.
The Keene Sentinel, in making a
canvass among Its republican readers.
inds that out of 7l9 votes, Mr.. Blaine
receives for the first position on The
ticket 429 votes, and Mr. Bristow 2s7
votes. Blaines majority over Bristew,
42-over all, 1879. The Sentinel thinks
he vote for Blaine would have been
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