The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-21
GENERAL NEWS.

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to the centennial.
The clergy are keenly canvasslng for
signatures to n petition to the Cortes In
favor OF Catholic unity.
- The wife of Don Carlos has arrived
at Bayonne from Pau, and visited the
wounded Carlists In the hospitals.
I Japan and Corea have not gone to
war rs reported, but have settled their
differences peaceably instead.
Roumanis has finally paid the trib-
ute due the Sublime Porte, renewing
her request for communication, which
! the Porte opposes.
Judge Pratt of the Brooklyn supreme
court has denied the application for a
writ of error and stay of proceedings In
the case of the Jew murderer Ruben
stein.
Cincinnati voted, Tuesday, by over
1000 majority, to increase its debt
SO, O0O, 900 to aid by that amount the
construction of the Cincinnati South
ern railroad.
Brazil has started 1000 packages for
peror and empress leave Rio on the
25th inst. reaching New York about
the end of April.
The republicans of Oakland, Cal.
made a clean sweep in the city cleo
600 majority, and the rest of the tick ct
: by majorities of 100 to 500.
A Spanish gun-boat Is reported to
have captured the filibustering steamer
Octavia, recently sold to the Haytien
Ia NJ e 1rN.
Is now on her way to Havana.
The residence of Gideon /. Pillow at
Memphis, Tenn, was sold at bankrupt
sale, Tuesday, but was allowed to be
bid in with valuable library, for SS7,
and was presented to Mrs. Pillow
Il The Schuylkill coal exchange has
agreed with the New York combina-
ton to continue the suspension of min :
Ing in the Luzerne fields till April 8.
The Lehigh board will do the same.
The Virginia state conservative COM
mittee have fixed May "a and Rich.
mond for holding the state convention
to nominate delegates to the national
democratic convention and reorganize
the party.
The mother Of the celebrated Ward
4,
in Cornwall, n. Y, on Wednesday, at
the age OFF,. and her death is the first
In the large family, Der husband, nine
sons and five daughters surviving her.
An Intellectual attempt was made to
assassnate the American revolution
list, Gen. Diaz, at Brownsville, Tex,
ARRESTED, but, at the instance of Diaz,
was released, the latter refusing to ap-
pear against him.
The returns of the western pork
packing are now sufficiently complete
to show a decrease Of about zoe, 900 hogs
from last year, but an increase of about
$50 per cent in weight, making de-
crease of about 100, 000, 900 net weight.
or about 9 per cent.
The House committee on Pacific rail-
roads have agreed to report and recon-
mend the passage of bill to compel q
reduction by the Union Pacific COM
pany of the present charges of 80 cents
per passenger and $40 per carload for
transportation over the Omaha bridge.
The eastern railroad managers have
decided to reduce the rates OH fourth
class freight as follows: From Chicago
To New York As cents, to Philadelphia
40. Baltimore 3S!, Boston so; these
rates go into effect next Monday. The
rates to southern and other eastern
points are reduced accordingly.
The Wisconsin Legislature ad-
journed, Wednesday, having passed
AIS bills and only two vetoed. The
two most important acts are the Vance
railroad bill, which repeats the Potter
law and leaves the railroads free to reg
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proyement bill and the apportionment
bill.
A number Of dangerous negro GRIM
inRls escaped from tho county jail at
Charlestown, Md, Tuesday, and eight
prisoners in the penitentiary at Salt
Lake City did likewise. the latter
knocking down the warden. None OF
the former have been re-captured, but
four of the latter were caught and
brought back by another convict.
A sad case that. but fair sample OF
too many, this winter,-of William
Ross, an old resident of Otter Greek
township. Vigo county, Ind, who ten
days ago, stole two bushels of wheat
from neighbor to keep his family
from starvation, and subsequently,
hearing that the case had beon placed
before the grand jury, took poison and
died, leaving helpless widow and
eight or ten children.
A severe storm OF wind. lightning,
hail and rain prevailed over many por.
tiOns of Ohio and Indiana, Thursday
At Cincinnati several thousand dol
lars damage was done in the way o.
unrOofing buildings and reports from
country points mention similar disas
ters. At Xenia, Springfield, Delaware
Wooster, GAINESVILLE, Marietta, Irontor
and Athens, and at Richmond, Ind.
it was especially severe.
The Haytien revolutlonist Caral hal
captured Jacmel. Caral was the mar
who was kept In safety by American
Minister Bassett, some months since
ut Kingston, Jamaica, where he, will
other wealthy Haytiens, bought tn,
steamer Octavia, and landed from he
with arms, etc, for the revolutionists
He is the same fellow, too. who cap
tured Port au Prince in 1859, and upse
the government of Salnave.
1t isn't often, nowadays, that remors
unto death follows illegal voting, bu
Just that led Ezra Stevens, u well
known resident of Rockland, n. Y.
aged sixty, to hang himself, Monda,
of last week. He was a strong repub
iican, and allowed himself to be per
suaded by his feelings and his friend
into casting his ballot where he wa
not resident. He was challenged
and he went home filled with sucl
fears of dire consequences that. afte
sitting on the ragged edge" for nesrl,
y week. he sought relief by suicide.
1t never rains but it pours, and nov
Winchester, Ind, discounts the Ken
lucky frog spawn fiesh' story will
one much more magnificent. From
perfectly clear sky, Oh Monday, fou
acres of live fish came down, none O
your little fry, but such big ones tina
one killed a calf, and another broke
horses back. Another, weighing onl,