The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-04-11
GENERAL NE US.

His brother did 1t two years ago, and !
now Hosea Stoddard himself has hung
himself at Chesterfield. n. H.
Murderer Dolan will make yet one
more attempt to beat the law in an
application to Gov. Tilden for eommu-
tation of sentence.
The French government has ordered
the projects to permit the sale of all
newspapers, without exception, 10y or
binary news-dealers and in h streets.
Joshua Hanscom of Compton, n. H.,
in the circuit court at Haverhill, Tues
day, ~retracted his plea of not guilty of
arson, pleaded guilty, and was sem
fenced TO ten years in state prison.
a ferry-boat, crowded with passen-
gers, while being drawn across the
river Dee at Aberdeen, Scotland,
Wednesday, was captured in mid
stream by the violence of the current,
aud ii is feared thirty persons were
drowned.
Gen. Bob Toombs made his first
speech in the capital, Wednesday,
since he seeded from the Senate in
1851. He argued a Georgia cotton
claim case, having as his opposing
counsel his old confederate associate,
Ben Hill.
A six.year-old girl of Jersey City
swallowed a thimble on Tuesday eve
ming. 1t lodged in her throat. and the
surgeons wished to cut open her wind
pipe to extract it, but her parents OBJ
Jected, and she died on Wednesday of
suffocation.
That Shower of flea which fell a
couple of days since at Riviere du Loup
proves to have been a swarm of the
sugar flies" so frequently met with in
New York state and Vermont in Feb
ruary, though Canadian naturalists do
not appear to be familiar with them.
George M. Wheeler and Jesse NJ.
Stone, president and vice-president of
the First National bank of La Crosse,
Wis, are charged with embezzling
$3.50, 900 of the funds of the bank. Stone
has been arrested, but Wheeler has not
yet been found. Stone strongly pro-
tests innocence.
A young man named Brunstead, liv-
ing at London, Ont, returned home
drunk, Tuesday night, and made a
fiendish attempt TO murder the whole
family, stabbing his father and moth
81 llntCtl1S dangerous NOuIluS, anu
then attacking other members of the
family, who escaped. He was subse-
quently arrested.
Buffers friends are iubilant over his
defeat of Dana, and the moral Of the
whole transaction seems to he ihat, if
any Massachusetts republican ventures
to interfere with the Essex politician,
he does it with the certainty that he
will be punished for it, some day.
Butler, it is rumored. is laying his
plans for an election TO the next Con-
ress.-[Republican.
OF municipal elections in western
cities, Monday and Tuesday, the re-
publicans were successful in Cleveland,
Topeka aud Dayton, O., Evansville,
Ind, and Topeka and Atchison, Kan,
while the democrats carried st. Louis
and st. Joseph, Mo. Little Rock, Ark.
Omaha, Neb., and Denver, Col. AT
Chicago, the republicans carried the
south and west districts, but the north
district is doubtful.
The demurrer of Beecher's lawyers
in Frank Moulton's suit against him
for damages in getting him indicted
for libel,-on the ground that the sub
sequent quashing of the indictment
WAS a bar to any further proceedings in
The matter is sustained by the judge
before whom the case was argued, {
few weeks ago, with leave to the plain
tiff to amend his complaint within
twenty days on payment of costs.
There is a notable mortality of demo
cratic committee clerks raging quietly
these days. -Four of them have o
been removed for cause. The latest t.
be exposed is one Broughton, clerk o
the military committee. who is proved
to have been a partner in an Illicit dis
tIllery. 1t is reported too, that evidence
will soon be produced to show that
prominent officer of the House severa
years ago served a term in the stat
prison for the crime of arson.
The president, Secretary-of-War Tai
and Gen. Sherman had another lonl
consultation, Wednesday afternoon
and shortly after the expected orde
was issued, making Washington agail
the army headquarters. The orde
directs also that all orders and instruc
tions relative TO military operations, o
affecting the military control and dis
cipline of the army. issued by the pres
ident through the secretary of wal
shall be promulgated through the gen
eral Of the army.
The advisory council is not sustaine
by the majority of the Congregations
clergymen in New England, so far a
it is possible to arrive at their opinion
The last Monday morning meeting
the ministers in and around Bosto
was occupied in hearing opinions O
the subject, each one being limited to
not wei two minutes speech, and
member who "kept tally" found, o
footing up that twenty-eight had eS
pressed their concurrence in the resu
OF the council, and ffty-eight ha
spoken against it.
James K%errigan, now under sentenC
at Bethlehem, Pa, for completely i
the Molly Mcguire murders. has mao
a confession, which is published. II
acknowledges having been { memb'
of the Molly Mcguire society, an
says the object of the organization wi
to kill people, and burn buildings. +
details the plans made for the KILN
of Policeman Yost at Tamasua. al
John p. Jones near Summit hill, shoy
ing that these murders were the resu
of an order issued by the Molly NJ
guires.
The House refused, Wednesday, II
to 81, to let Moran's paintings of IL
Yellowstone and Colorado canons
the Capitol go to the centennial exh
bition, and so, while the governmer
will send big guns. models of ship
collections of minerals. Indian blan
cts and implements, curiosities, and Il
like. at a cost of 81, O00, 900, it will n
have a picture In the gallery of arr
There is strong opposition in the Hou
TO the bill approprlating 1920, SOC, Il
amount asked by the commissioners
their revised estimates. and rscomme
ded by the president In a special ms
sage, last week. and its passage is co
sidered doubtful.
The bankrupt Patrick Donahue, pr
prietor of the Boston Pilot, (the Cath
lie organ author of the standard Rol
ish catechism of New England, a