The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-08-05
GENERAL NE US.


Virginia there Is hotel which will
accommodate 1000 guests. II has been
well allied thus far.
An incendlary burned the house Of
Mrs. Maria Ruftles at Keene. y H.,
Saturday morning, aud all its contents.
The family were absent.
A dog was buried In Greenwood GEM
etery the other day, with the usual GER
emonies Colored people, we believe,
are not inferred there as yet.
The Brooklyn Eagle has purchased
the brooklyn Sunday Sun, and two
new Sunday papers have just been
started In that same city of churches
Atlanta will soon have in operation
one of The biggest cotton mills In the
r,untrS. The south sees where she
has been foolish, and is making new
start
A mercantile college" In Keokuk,
Ia. has engaged Rev Henry Ward |
Rpecher to deliver three lectures for
$500 night, before its students next
November.
The committee IN charge OF the ar
engagements for Mr.. Mo0dy's revival
meetings la Chicago this autumn have
capable of seating 5000 people.
state Senator I.oughbnrough of Ar
kansas was found dead In his house at
Little Rock, Ark., Monday, having
killed himself either purposely or acct
dentsllv, with n shotgun.
New Hampshire, even In her rural
districts. begins to show indications of
political excitement, and there ls hard
ly n village but has its two pieces of
bunting. with the names of the presi- |
dental rivals appended.
+. P. Williams, the well-known
merchant of Elizabeth, n. j., To whom
Fairbanks dffaulllng assistant cashier
OF the state national bank, advanced
large sums of money, has been arrested
fer completely in fraud.
The pastor of the Roman Catholic
church of the Fourteen Holy Martyrs
at Baltimore refuses to allow the body
of member who had neglected com
munion to be buried in the cemetery, |
and there will be lawsuit about ii.
The battle of Saratoga, which was
followed by the surrender of Burgoyne
and the entire British army under his
command, was fought October II, 1777,
and the Saratoga monument associa'
ton is beginning thus early to make
arrangements to celebrate the centen-
NAL anniversary of the event
The 40 stone house. at Tsppan,
which was village tavern at the time
of the capture of Major Andre, and in
which he was imprisoned until he was
hanged, Is fast crumbllng. The wooden
piazza is SO decayed az to be unsafe to
step upon. The room where Andre
at... "a
when occupied by him.
There is little doubt that Rastoul and
the 10 communists who escaped with
him. last year, from New Caledonia on
rude raft were drowned. The frag-
ments OF the raft have been found. and
Nine Rastoul, who for many months
has been waiting for her husband at
Sydney, has at last abandoned hope OF
his safety.
Joseph Perry, an old bachelor living
IN Swanzey, \. II was fatally shot
Saturday night last. and died Monday
evening from his wounds. He lived
alone, and was supposed to have had
cellar unconscious, and remained in
this situation until he died. No clue to
the murderer. Was shot four times.
Notwithstanding the conviction of
the Molly Maguires. there is good
deal of uneasiness In the Pennsylvania
coal regions over rumors that the mill
tia companies which are being organic
ed for protection, and which are being
furnished with arms by the state. are
largely composed of members of the
same deadly organization. It Is said
that they are sworn to prevent The ex-
ecution of any Of their number convict
ed of murder.
The estimated cost OF the Hudson
river tunnel Is Sl5,000,O 600, of which
5000, 900 have been subscribed. Ac-
tive preparations are now In progress
on the Jersey shore. The entrance to
the tunnel Ia located on Jersey avenue,
near Fifteenth street, and the excava-
ton will be carried In n northeasterly
direction, terminating in Washington
square, New York. The tunnel will
be two miles In length, and 1t Is calcu
lated the cars will pass through 1t in
three minutes, The road he'd will he
p feet In width.
Professor Wise, during recent vlo-
lent storm of thunder and lightning In
Philadelphia, took the trouble to ex-
pose himself to the bolts In order to
watch the effect of lightning upon the
lightning rods and metal roofs. He
laa arrived at the conclusion that
lightning rods are not worth CONT
mental, as far as protection is concern.
ed; "of no more value. " he says. than
bodkin wond be to ward off the ball
fred from u columbiai." He asserts
that the only protection for the people
in thunder storm ia to have good
meta! roof upon their houses. The
natal IaaQINea tht. palictnnG fIIH an1
disperses 1t through Its expanse, while
lightning rods Inject II destrnrtvely
into the building.
DIR. McCOsl. president of Princeton
college, rejoices In the decline of inter.
est In the college boat races. He Ia a
sturdy advocate of athletic sports
among students, and believes ia college
boating, but he fears evil consequences
when regattas are made tho occasion OF
great public Interest and excitement,
bringing together roughs and blacklegs
and fostering gambling, as Is the case
In England and the tendency here. He
thinks ii much better that the crews
should practice under the eye Of the
college authorities and within proper
bounds. aud then challenge each other
10 a race Mt expedient times, not Inter.
fsring with the course of study, to take
place between two colleges at time
and near one of them.
The house of Watson Mallett, on a
back road four miles from Hammond
N. Y, and near the Canada border, was
attacked by gang OF ten men from the
Hammond stone-quarry, last week
Thursday evening, and Mrs. Mallett's
screaming brought her husband and
. two workmen from the field. where
upon bloody conflict ensued, during
which John Sly and Anthony Has
kins, workmen, received numerous
deep knife and pltchfork wounds, from
which they will die. Mallett, after 8
severe handling. escaped TO the woods