The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-16
EFNERAL NE US.

Gen. Daniel +. slokles of New York
Ia on his way home from Paris
A crooked distillerS was csp'ured At
Railway, N. j.. recently. and Its pro-
prietors looked up.
A very heavy storm has recently PIE
Vailed at Dubuque, 10, doing great
damage.
Gen. Sherman ami Secretary Gamer
on left Harrisburg Monday, on their
Western and Pacific coast trip.
A los foot span of the railroad bridge
over tho Tennessee river at London.
Tenn, was blown down last Sunday,
A haul OF 1900 barrels Of mackere
was made one day last week, near thu
mouth Of the hatbor at Halifax, n. s.
An unknown man leaped from the
Jersey city ferry boat New Jersey Sat
srday night and Was drowned
From Hartford preachers sermon (:
Most Christians hate 4 contribution
box more than they do the devil"
An insane woman tried twice t.
drown herself IN Worthngton, Md.
snd dog In esch Instance drew her
out of tie water
Rlingen Smith, the Mormon witness
Of the Mountain Meadow massacre. has
been captured on NOLAN desert and
taken to Los Angeles.
Several com paDles Of troops have
been ordered from Kentucky and Ten
nessee to various points In Alabama b.
Gen. sherman
Five OF the foreign commissioners In
Philadelphia have become engaged t,
girls in the city. 1t proves to he city
Of more than ''hrotherly love-
Frederick ButterGeld. of No. lao
Seeond avenue, attempted to oommi
suicide on Saturday night by taking
dose OF lau1anum,
The body oi james Bell. who has
been missing since the 9th inst was
found In tho East River by Capt. VII
liza q Bond, Of the tug.hoat Active
Hester Riley aged seventeen months.
daughter of Sergt. Riley, while playing
with an ivory handled fan, Bit q piece
from the handle and swallowed it caus-
ing her death
Thomas Mokellegas. aged twenty
one years, while Intoxicated on Satur. |
day night, fell from the roofof his resi-. |
deuce, No 81 Hamilton street. New
YORK. aud WINS instantly killed
4 be discharge of 200, 600 soldiers, con.
sequent upon the close of the civil war |
man overstocked the labor market IN |
Spain, and workingmen cannot earn |
enough to support their families
Z. *. Gresham was arrested at Phil. |
adelphia, last Sunday, charged with |
embezzlsment Mt San Francisco aud H. |
his rooms WAS found $3.50 In $50 gold |
pieces and considerable valuable lew.
elry.
Henry 2. Healy stabbed Cornelius
p. Crowley, last Saturday evening, on
train of the Boston and Providence
railroad. near Jamaica Plain station
and there IS small hope Of Crowley's
recovery.
\ Presbyterian church al PittsburQ
Fa., Ii SAID TO have refused admission
70 Two candidates, on the ground OF
their being members of secret societies
One Was Ill Oraugeman aud Odd Eel
Low, the other aud Orangeman and
Good Ten,plar
Bantsnta. the aged Klowa CHIEF. now
confined in the Texas pententiary. wa.
% overjoyed on hearing Of the saugh
Ter OF Custer and his command that h.
begged to be allow ed to go to the assist.
ance Of Sitting Bull. and could hardl,
conceal his rage when his request was
denied.
Lille White, who had been reported
~ attempting 10 commit suicide, has
card Ia the Virginia City (Chronicle.
saying: while fully realizing the
vanlties Of this world, l am In no hur
~ for another. as 1t might be the case
OF getting out of the frying pan into the
Ore"
4 frightful tragedy has taken place
as Finisterre,in France, A man seige,
with sudden fit Of madness, set fire to-
his house, after having barred the door
upon his wife and four children. The
whole family persisted and when the
remains were discovered they were re.
duced 70 cinders
A crazy man was tied fast In WI.
gon for transportation to Blountville
ny; de yelled SO loudly that the
frightened horses ran away, throvInv
out the two keepers and breaking a.,
arm OF each. Then the luuatIo seized
the reins, controlled the horses, drove
alone to the asylum, aud delivered him
self up.
Arthur William Dickens of Hartford
England accuses Paul Bayart of irving
to hire him t. murder Bayart pro.
posed that his father aud mother. whose
death would enrich him, should be sho,
with an air gun by Dickens, who was
10 get IooO for the crime. The photo
graphs by which the assassin was TO
recognize his victims. who lived In
rIauce' anu note TOT the money were
given by Dickens to the authorities.
st. Loui. Methodist clergyman Is
''grleyed to see at the sscramentaI ser.
vice so many young ministers whose
faces were 80 completely covered with
hair that their mouths were invisible
while drinking the sHcramental wine.n
he congrRtulates himself ''ou the priv
iiege OF being at the q rat table before 60
many thrust the hair on their upper
up into the 'conseerated cup" He Is
getting signatures to petition asking
'Is conference TO forbid moustaohes.
gang OF roughs broke up Il Hayes
anu W beeleI meeting at baltimore |
Friday night Of last week firing pistols s
Into the crowd, and VIM. Henry was
shot In the hip. though not dangerous
~ wounded. G. !. Dltty, one Of th,
speskers, WAS badly beaten about th.
face. The audience made very lively
time out of the hall when the pistols
began hring, going through the win
dovs to an adjoining shed. The riotere
have been arrested, and the grand Jury
will take them In hand.
John Murphy, who lives with his
mother. Mary Murphy, at the corner
Of Keap street and Wythe avenue,
Brooklyn, han for some time shown