The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-06-10
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grant no license, but they have already |
granted eight
The gossips have IL that Ulysses $.
Grant, Jr., Is engaged to Il Boston lady !
now travelling in Europe.
It H. said that Or. j. &. Aver Of Low
ell has heen sent to- an insarr asylum
in New Jersey.
A bill has passed the Texas House Of
Representatives by vote of seventy to
nine, providing for n general looalop-
tion law.
The managers ol The MATTHIAS Vine
yard campground are trying TO secure
Moody and Sankey for THAR meetings
this summer.
Mr.. Flanagan, seventy years old, aud
three cows fell through barn floor at
Milford, the other day. Loss Of life,--.
one COW.
Thomas Quigley, q Fitchburg fire.
man, was drowned while on n carouse,
Saturday night and his body was found
Tuesday.
A French woman of Raymond sent
her child to Manchester 10 be christen-
ed, the other day. before II was seven
hours old
Peter tlulner, German, while at
tempting To roll the money-til Of n sa-
loon at Columbus. o., Sunday, was IA f.
tally shot by the bar-keeper.
The president has pardoned Henry
Huling of North Carolina, who was
sent to the Albany penitentiary, last |
winter Cor robbng the mails.
The 81 900, 600 suit against Peter p. |
,I lo
liam NJ. Tweed have been put over in |
the supreme court circuit until the SEQ
ond Monday In October.
The Memphis Avalanche estimates |
the acreage devoted to cotton planting
In the southern states this year, at o. |
$4,000 against a.455 900 in 1875. and s. |
$4,000 In 1874
A Webster man found in a crows
nest fifty feet above the ground, the |
other day, a black snake. which had
undoubtedly made way with all the
young crows.
The Old Colony railroad is going to |
adopt the plan of warning people of ap.
preaching storms by carrying flags on |
lis locomotives and blowing three sharp
blasts Oh the whistle.
1t Is said that the centennial guard is
getting somewhat unruly. because of
insufficient accommodations in its bar
racks for sleeping, and some other in
convenience
Look out for ~ counterleii bills on
the First national bank of Northamp-
ton, Mass. A number Of the above
have been thrown out of leposi, by one
Of the Troy banks within few days
past.
OF seventeen priests ordained nj ST
Johns Catholic church st Louis, ten
were students who left Germany I've.
cause they would not submit 10 Bis.
narck's policy toward the Catholic
church
Rev. Mr. Tower OF the Allston Bap-
tist church dlscourages the temperance
reform clubs from meeting on Sunday.
and requests the members of his church
not 10 lend their aid to such move
ments In preference to the church
Wilheimina Weick, convicted of the
murder Of her step-son, Michael Weica,
at Buffalo, In November last, hos been
sentenced to he hung, Julyi21. She re
eeived the sentence with stolca indlf-
ference.
The mail messenger between the
railroad depot and post-offlce at Nav.
field, Ky, named Beaumont, who Is
also leading citizen and publisher of
newspaper has been arrested, and
confessed to having repeatedly robbed
the mails.
Work is being pushed on all A. Il.
Stewards schemes, the woman's home
on Fourth avenue, the new carpet fac
tory at Glenham, and the Grand Union
hotel at Saratoga The woman's home
Will contain five hundred rooms, the
same number az the Windsor hotel.
The Dartmouth boys find it dreadful
uphill work raising funds for the oars.
men, and the university crew threaten
TO disband. 1t is very doubtful if Dart
mouth is represented at the Saratoga
regatta. All the New England colleges
are likely TO see it in that light, anoih-
er year.
The chess tournament in New York
Is rapidly drawing to close. Capt
Mckenzie has won the first prize. for
although he has still one game to play
with Mr. Mason, ii cannot possibly
make any difference, rs, should he lose
that one, he will only have lost six
While every other player has already
lost at least seven.
Aaron Lumus, who has committed
frauds amounting to several thousand
dollars during the past year by pretend
Ing to represent firms in various cities
in the commission business, has been
arrested at South Boston His opera.
tons have extended from Maine to New
jersey, but while having his head
quarters at South Boston, he has con.
cealed bis Identity from his victims and
the officers
The investigation into the Yuman
outrage, by the Grosvenor commission,
has shown clearly that Mr.. Margary
was murdered by Chinese imperial
troops. 1t Is expected that Leseetahee,
the Chinese general, will he exonerated
from completely In the affair. The
Chinese authorities await Mr.. Grosven-
or's report before carrying ont the ex-
ecutlon of those implicated in the mnr.
der.
A bsilot-b box repeater In st Louis has
just been sentenced to two years In the
penitentiary. The punishment falls
upon a negro, who claims to be, and
probably WAS, the victim of unrghteous
persecution, but other repeaters, of eau
oasian hue, are under indictment for
The same ofiense, and If the court of APP
peals shall affirm this sentence, will
journey to Jefferson city with the nm.
fortunate son Of Africa
The mystery of the wholesale and
partially fatal coffee poisoning of the
Laras family at kaston, Pa, was cleared
up, Saturday, by the arrest and comics.
sion Of Allen G. Laras, one of the sons,
and school teacher. His sole object
was to get the old folks money, both OF
whom are among the victims. Moses
Schug, another member Of the family,
die1 Saturday. The poison used was
arsenic, and enough was found In the
coffee to have poisoned one hundred
people.