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

lie steuhlShIp 'elIsls, JUST uiiiNeu
at Baltimore, Md. brought 572 pack
ages of goods from Bremen for the CEN
tennial.
John Crowley's wife was found dead
In her room in Brooklyn, Friday morn
ing, under such suspicious circum
stances that John was arrested on
charge of numbering her.
The Emperor of Brazil is expected to
arrive at New York, April 20, and the
Herald is making great efforts to have
him given a reception which shall COM
port with his royal position.
The Nebraska supreme court has de-
eided in suit brought against the Bur-
liugton and Missouri River railroad in
Nebraska, that they are liable for dam
ages caused by prairie fires set by their
engines.
John Gallagher, Of Brooklyn, and
John Nolan, OF New York, INDUCED in
prize fight near Yonkers, Monday, in
which Nolan was the winner in twenty
six rounds. The fight lasted one hour
and twenty-five minutes.
A Washington dispatch says the COM
mittee oil the centennial celebration
have decided to report favorably OH ALI
additional appropriation of $500, 900 for
the representation of the departments
ut the Centennial exhibition.
A brute of Brooklyn IN. W coal
HEAVIER, named William Cummings,
chopped his wife's head nearly off,
Thursday night, and then threw her
thirty feet down into coal-bin, which,
of course, finished her. The murderer
has been arrested.
Don Carlos Is telling folks in England
that there will be another revolution in
Spain before long in which republican
ism will sweep the feeble A lfonso away,
and that then the men who have now
placed Alfonso ON the throne will offer
him don Carlos the scepter.
John A. Appleton. president of the
Haverhill National savings bank, was
robbed on the cars Friday evening, be-
tween Boston and Haverhill, of a
satchel containing $500 in national
bank notes, besides drafts, checks, etc.
the property of the bank, of the aggre-
gate value of $4,000.
The six Chinese companies at San
Francisco have signed recommends
ton to their countrymen to stay al
home, fearing any further emigration
at present will intensity the feeling
among the whites on the Pacific coast
to such degree as to endanger the lives
and property of Cinnamon.
A. w. Tenant, of Nebraska, which
was state senator, telegraphs on to Mr..
Clymer that Senator Hitchcock did of
fer him the Fort Steele sutlership fol
his vote, that there is plenty of proc
of the senator's corruption, and that the
senator has perjured himselfin denying
it. This is serious if Tenant is per
son worthy of belief Otherwise, not
A threadbare tatterdemalion applied
at low inn in Paris for nights lodg
ing. When asked to register his name
he wrote, The King of Spain" The
police were at once notified, and when
they came they asked him: "Do yor
pretend to be King of Spain?" mo
l." "Why, then, did you so register
your name? because | wish tC
travel incognl.o."
The New York postmaster received
on Saturday, as dead mail matter from
Rio de Janeiro, package weighing
seventeen pounds, containing 645 let
tiers, largely in women's handwriting
all addressed to Don Sanza Cabral a
Diamantina, Brazil, the mythical dia
mond merchant of whose weddinl
fabulous stories were told, about yea
ago. The letters will go to the deat
letter office.
In the Boston superior criminal cour
Thursday, Abraham Jackson, the for
ger, WAS placed at the bar for sentence
Jackson was sentenced to ten years
hard labor in the state prison, one day
of which is to be in solitary oonfine
ment. The indictment under which h,
was sentenced were four in number, fo
forging and uttering two mortgag,
notes of IS 900 each the other indict
ments were not pressed,
A New Orleans merchant was Undue
ed by woman who told a pitiful stor,
of poverty to give her S14 with whicl
to bury her dead husband. Before Civ
ing the money he went to the hous
and saw a discolored corpse that h.
thought ought to have been buried day
before. In his hurry to get away from
the place he forgot his umbrella, Whei
he returned for it he found the corps
sitting up and counting the $l4.
Brown came home late the othe
night, says HOhOkus, and Mrs. Brown
looking out Of the bedroom window
observed, $50 you've been tipping tn
glass again, have you?" "Glass," sal
Brown, "(hic), tits funny word TAX
off the g and it's you, my dear.
Yes" answered Mrs. B., "and the
take the ~ and it's you you wretch,
and she slammed the window dow
with bounce. 81 Commercial AdveI
tissr.
William II. Folansbee, while suffer
ing from an attf OK of delirium tremens
recently, jumped from the Rio Grand
train near Glade station, Col, and
when search was made for him, hi
body WAS found near the place wher
he left the train, almost entirely de
voured by wolves. His father is
wealthy banker in Chicago, and the un
fortunate man had gone into the wild
erness to escape his passion for stron
drink.
The house by vote of l22 to LOG, pas
ssd the bill appropriating 1888, 900 70
engraving and printing fractional cui
rsncy, and authorizing the secretary {
the treasury to issue 10, 20, 25 and 81
cent silver pieces in redemption of tn
fractional currency. The bill also make
the trade dollar legal tender at its nom
nal value for any amount not eXceedin
S50'in any one payment, and the sma
ler.coins legal tender at their nominI
value for any amount not exeeedin
$25.n any one payment
Mrs. George l.. Hull, Of Morristowi
n. j., died at the Carrollton hotel. i
Baltimore on Wednesday evening, III
der very sad circumstances. Mr.. an
Mrs. Hull were married in New Yor
on the ODD of February last, and wei
TO Baltimore Oh their bridal tour. NJ
Hull was taken i'll with rbeumatlsl
the second day after their arrival. II
WAS sick some time, and before his r.
oovery his young wife was seized wit
. heavy cold. which ran into pnel
monis and caused her death, just oil
month after her marriage
Mrs. George Holton and two lit
children living near Wamoga, Kan. G
the line OF the Kansas Pacific railroa
started to go to q neighbours house on