The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-07-15
GENERAL NE WTS.

Investigated by the Senate at his re
quest.
Five tanks of oil al the works of Hold.
ship Irwin on the Allegheny river were
burned. Saturday night loss $40 900.
Match game. Fifth inning for the
Republicans. Grant TO bat. Hayes on
deck. Uncle Sam umpile Blaine
scorer.
One of the bridges spanning the
Schuylkill river at Reading, Pa. known
as the Lancaster bridge, was complete.
ly destroyed by fire. last Sunday after.
noon loss $4,000.
The Cincinnati exhibition building,
in which the liberal convention of 1872
and the republican convention of 1876
were held, has been ordered to he torn
down. as IL IL no longer safe.
There were 10, 55S immigrants landed
at New York last month, making 3d.
451 for the quarter ending June 80,
against AZ, 566 for the same period last
year.
The president has nominated Will
liam II Bliss United States attorney
for the eastern district of Mis- souri, In
place of Gen. Dyer; William p. Wright
of Indiana, United States consul at
Santos, Brazil also Frederick ID. Grant
Of the 4th cavalry, to be LIST lieutenant.
A message was received Saturday,
from the Gar Alexander of Russia TO
President Grant, congratulating this
country upon its Tooth year. and ex-
pressing the wish for its continued
prosperity, and that the friendship of
the two countries may remain undis-
turbed.
Eliza Armour, aged forty-nine, was
burned to death at Newburgh, N. Y,
Friday night, She had wrapped her
self in garments saturated with kero-
eene as n cure for rheumatism, and her
clothing caught fire from lamp, roast
ing her alive. A daughter of Mrs. Ar
inour, in trying TO save her mothers
lie was also fatally burned.
1t is estimated that the loss In the
state of Iowa by the recent floods will
amount to 81 900, 600. The loss i'm War
rem county alone is 100000. Two
more victims of the Rock dale Ia.)
flood disaster, named Mary Kapp and
Chosen, were found, Sunday. making
forty bodies recovered, and leaving but
one missing a. known.
The pest that troubles Davenport, Ia,
and vicinity, just now, is not grasshop.
pers, but tramps and harvesters. A bove
1000 have reached there within the past
few days. They took possession of
train on the Western Union railroad.
Thursday, and also one of the Rock
ford road All the police force and fire
departments have been armed, and one
hundred tIoons rot rno"s' = i"rii any
vance.
A villain giving the name of George
Williams and Mailing from Lexington,
n.y., enticed away two girls from New
Richmond, o., one on Thursday, and
the other Friday, last week on the plea |
OF hiring them to work for him ,ravish- |
ed both, murdered the first, and at |
tempted to the second, but she escaped |
gave the alarm, and he was arrested |
Friday night. Saturday, q mob took |
him from jail and hung him to the /
nearest tree.
A bill was introduced in the Senate,
Saturday, to provide for the completion |
of the Washington monument, propos-
ing to appropriate $1,000 for the pur-
pose, on condition that the Washing
ton national monument association be-
fore any portion of this amount is ex-
pended, shall convey to the United
States all its property and easement
rights and privileges, whether in pos.
session or in expectancy, the associa.
ton being authorized, by amendment
OF its charter, to do so, and the United
states undertaking to complete the
monument ; also, that the construction
shall be under the control of the ! resi-
dent of the United States.
There was bloody family fracas.
July night, among band of one hun.
dred outlaws, men and women, who
some years have infested the Skenah-
wah hills east Of Cleves valley Pa,
and three, Jamsey Carker, his brother
Beans and sister Sal, were killed, the
two latter by Jamsey, and he by some
other one Of the gang, as yet unknown.
The fight began between Jamsey and
Joe Mace, and Sal who has been living
with Mace, and Beans, who has lived
with Mace's sister, sided in with Joe.
Inc desperate fray in its triply fatal
consequences Is likely to lead at once
to the enforced removal Of the outlaw
steps from the nsighborhood Legal I
band will at once be taken with that
object.
The famous old circular building on
The Battery at New York, known as
castle Garden, was burned Sun
day evening, nothing but mass of
charred ruins remaining of the old
structure within whose walls many oil
The greatess singers of the world and
ler-ons prominent and famous in the
listronlc art have delighted fashionable
audiences, in years gone by. OF late
years It has been the first resting place
for thousands of hopeful emigrants.
The fire was first discovered working
between the balcony flooring and the
celling OF the tier underneath but all
attempts to subdue ii were without
avail, owing 10 the dry nature of the
structure. Some two hundred German
emigrants were in the building, and
among these the greatest excitement
prevailed in saving their effects and es-
Gaping The fire IL supposed to have
originated by sparks from the pipe of
smoker. The loss Is estimated at $50
900. but il covered by insurance. The
property Is owned by the city.
A shocking accident occurred at
Long Island city, Friday. A man
named Heincke and his two children,
Inc Oldest nine, were sitting at lunch
beneath an embankment which the
father had been digging, when it gave
way, bnrylng the eldest child, covering
the lower part of the fathers body, and
scattering stone and dirt over the :
youngest, whom the father, with great J
presence of mind, threw from him into
the road. The poor man refused to be ,
moved, but lay ON the ground opposite
whore his child was buried, under the +
earth, and frantically tore at the dirt :
and stone with his fingers. His wife i
arriving soon after, followed his exam.
pie, but tainted In a few minutes from ,
the terrible excitement of the scene.
1t took workmen over an hour to re-
lease the child, when she was found i