The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-07-08
GENERAL NE H'S.

1t Is Tot pleasant to hear "A person
continually remark that he owes no
man cent II creates suspicion that |
no man will trust him.
Forty seven million pins made daily |
in the United States, and yet II man
wants one he has to turn the house up |
side down to get 1t.
This Is the season of the year when
man delights to lie beneath the wide
spreading shade trees, communing Win
nature and getting bugs In his ears.
Dom Pedro asked Longfellow why il |
was that in America people built their
fences alongside of currant bushes.
Iongfelow said he couldn't tell.
There are only two gallons of whisky
Der year manufactured for each inhao- !
liant of the United States, and It's
clear case that somebody's got to go
without.
A female correspondent informs the
Syracuse journal that some ladies In
that town have formed a Come Home
Husband Club 1t is about four feet
long aud has brush ut one end of il.
Allen, the horse thief and murderer
Va. and Turner, the livery stable keep
er, was taken from Wingfield Jail and
hanged by mob Saturday.
The East Reformed church, Brook
iyn, are called TO face the foreclosure Of
n 800 900 mortgage on their new $780,,
600 church. and the resignation of
their pastor, Rev. DIR. j. II. Carroll
The three Americans, Bell. Hughes
and Vogle, who have been on trial at
Winnipeg, Manitoba, charged with the
murder Of an Assinuboin Indian, have
been acquitted.
A horrible case ofwife murder occur
red in New York, Monday morning,
John Mccarthy quarreled with his wife
Kate, and throwing her down, placed
his knee on her chest and cut hen
throat from ear to ear.
Judge Dohohue has finally made ND
his mind, after several weeks delibera-
ton, that the seances of the medium,
Annie Eva Fay, come within the pale
ofthe law regarding theatrical perform
ances, and she must take out a license
Between midnight, Saturday, and
daylight, Monday, one of the large
bonded ware house in the first ward
east of Broadway, New York, was en-
tered by burglars, and large quantity
Of valuable goods stolen.
A conscientious farmer in Berlin,
Wis, wiped the mud from his cart
wheels before permitting his load of
hay TO go on the scales to be weighed
But such men never 60 10 the state
legislature.
Gen. Sheridan told the West Point
graduates that military genius does not
consist in getting drunk and smoking
In suffers rooms. There is widely
prevalent impression to the contrary
In the army.
There is man residing near Berlin,
Wis, who. weighs 440 pounds He is
unable to work, and in warm weather
is in the habit of spending several
hours each day In the river, where he
floats like life preserver.
A Constantinople dispatch says the
Servians and Montengrins have already
entered Turkish territory; that the
declaration of war has been duly lodged
at Vienna, and that changes in the
Turkish ministry unfavorabe 10 the
reformers are imminent,
The American wOmen's suffrage as
ISOLATION held meeting at PHILADELPHIA
Monday, to celebrate the Tooth ami
versary of the establishment of woman
suffrage by the province of New Jersey.
Addresses were delivered by Mrs Lucy
Stone, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, and
others.
Mr.. F. Hassaurek has retired from
the editorial management of the Gin.
cinnati Nolksblatt for one year, and
leaves, next week, for Europe He
will speak at the democratic ratiflca-
ton meeting in Cincinnati on Saturday
next. 1t Is stated that the Nolksblatt
will support the republican ticket.
William Walter Phelps has begun n
suit for $40, 900 damages against George
Foster, collector of Palisade township.
n. J. for publishing his name in the
list of delinquent taxpayers Mr.
Phelps claims to have no interest In the
land advertised, and that such adyor-
tisement has had a tendency to depre.
ciate his financial standing
The Shah of Persia sent the following
telegram to the Sultan Murad ".
Full of delight at your ascen: ion to
the throne of your ancestors, and at our
relations of fraternity and co-religion /
hasten to send TO you direct this mes.
sage of congratulation, / pray to God
that he may grant glory aud grandeur
10 the lslamite people confided to our
care hy the Most High"
The office OF chief OF revenue agents
mnde vacant by the removal of Yaryan
will not be filed, the duties Of that DO.
sitlon being hereafter performed by the
chief clerk ana deputy commissioner,
Hot.
in charge Of that corps. Proctor Knott
has summoned Col. Bristow and Blu
ford Wilson, ex-solcitor of the treasury
to testify before the whisky committee
in connection with Yaryan
David Spaulding of Cornish, y. H..
lifelong democrat, SAYS sight of the
atrocities shown the negroes Mt the
South, has done the business for him.
and says he shall vote for Hayes and
Wheeler, as the best men to quiet the
disturbed South. The next man to re-
port Is Mr. Friend, German citizen
and respectable merchant at Pough-
keepsie, NY, always democrat, who
declares Tllden's boasted reform all n
sham, and says he, too shall vote for
Hayes and Wheeler
Gen. Dix accepts the chairmanship
of the executive committee of the Union
veterans, pronounces Ia favor of HAYES
and Wheeler. tells the veterans they
can decide the presidential question
with their half million votes, and is
sure There is one point on which all
veteran soldiers and sailors cannot fail
to agree, that they will not vote ia
place at the head Of the government
any one who in the late desperate strug-
gle for its existence was not openly and
actively engaged in maintaining II
against the assaults of its adversaries.
A three days celebration opened au.
spiciously at San Francisco, Monday,
with military review, sham battle al
the preside, and bombardment from