The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-07-29
GENERAL NE IT'S.
Dom Pedro has gone to Brussels.

be small.
Port Jervis, n. Y, had a slight frost.
Sunday night.
w. l.. 3. Jewelt, for many years a
sketch-artist for the illustrated papers,
committed suicide at Jersey City, Sun
day.
Wires will be stretched across the
East River. tuia week ,as the beginning
of the superstructure of the Brooklyn
bridge.
Joe Talmage and Felipe Salzar, muir
derers, were taken out of Jail at Canon
city, Cal, Friday night, and hung by
citizens.
The governor has ordered the execu.
ton of Page, the negro murderer OF
Richmond, Va. physicians having pro-
nounced him sane.
The Newfoundland cod fishery prom
ises an average catch, and very favora-
hle reports are received from Labrador
and the straits Of Belle Isle.
The khedivc of Egypt has referred
his dispute with his courts to the pow
ers who are represented in them, and
agrees III ui)iUt Wy ti'tll NNNi'iN'''
Kemp Is. Battle of Raleigh has been
elected president of the university of
North Carolina, located at Chapel Hin
and has entered upon his duties.
rhey are having food in the region
of Shreveport, la, and number OF
plantations have been submerged, but
ut last accounts the worst seemed to be
over.
Jacob Harness has just been found
guilty of tho murder Mt Clinton, Tenn,
thirteen years ago, of Isaac White,
whose body he chopped into fragments
20 prevent recognition.
Another palson falls from grace
Rev. Mr.. Wetterstroem of the Scioto
(O) German Lutheran church. who Is
dismissed for wandering about the
streets maudliu drunk.
Robert Settle, young democratic
orator of North Carolina, has taken the
stump in opposition to the election OF
his brother, Judge Settle, the republi-
can candidate for governor.
The Lackawanna railroad company
has ordered the resumption Of work In
all of its coal mines in the Scranton
Pa region, and probably other COM
iauies will follow its example.
Canadaigua, n. v, narrowly escaped
destruction, last week. Two men were
arrested while firing a building, and 1t
was found that they had oil-soaked
enough buildings TO burn the town.
Archbishop Lynch has been present
ed 10y the clergy of the Toronto cont
diocese with $4,000 cash, and guaran-
tee for all the money necessary to fur
nish his new Mch-episcoral residence,
Long Branch brags, over the associa.
ted press wires, of the arrival on Sat
nrday of 1000 people from New York
and Philadelphia, and says that there
were over Is 900 people Saturday night
iiopkinton. Ia. has its boat accident
too. Ola pleasure party of six persons
who went out on the Maquota river
late Friday night only two were saved
the lost being Mira West Miss Billings
Miss Hyden and young child.
Eastern Arizona is having n series OF
Unprecedented storms the mountain
roads are impossible are there, and
for n distance of sixteen miles between
San Pedro and Point mountains. the
telegraph po,c tops are submerged.
Mcclellan. Roarity Carroll and Boyle
Molly Magures, who have been ON trlal
at Pottsvillc, Pa, the past ten days fol
the murder Of Policeman Yost, at Tam
aqua, in 1S75,wcre convicted Of murder
in the first degree. Saturday evening.
4 tornado, the like of which had no
been seen for thirty years, broke ovel
Rockaway beach, near New York sun
day, while hundreds of people were
there, and two or three steamers were
somewhat damaged, hut no person wa:
injured.
a most atrociOus and somewhat uni.
que murder is reported from Truckee
Cal. A train on the Central Pacific
railroad, Saturday. ran over and killed
Il man, who was afterward found tt
have been dashed to the track. The
perpetrators Of the crime are unknown
The body Of John Sidcbotham wa.
found in the cellar of his house at Mil
waukee, Wis, Friday morning, ant
his head, battered out of shape, in ,
wash-tub, and his son-in. law Tn waite
with whom he had had trouble, is sus
pected of tie crime, and has disappear
ed.
Editor Gordon Of the Brooklyn Sun
who IL now ablo to walk, has brough
u suit for SO, 900 against Tom Nevins
the ring politician who recently us
saulted him. 1t is said Nevins's polit
zeal friends boosted that they woul,
keep the afiiir out of the papers, ant
That Boss Mclaughlin could take car
of the courts
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, tn,
Maine girl who wrote that charming
little book lone summer whose sal
according to the publishers, Osgood
Co was one of the largest In recen
literature for n single season. was til
poet of the day at the Stuttgart Fourtl
Of July celebration, and her ode is YER
highly spoken Of
The coroner's jury in the case of tn
Mohawk disaster have rendered vel
diet eXoneratinS Capt Rowland froI
the charge Of criminal negligence, an
he has been discharged from custody
The testimony, however, shows at leas
bad Judgment on his part, and the jur
Gensure him for having all sail set /
face Of Il coming squall. lie was real
rested on Wednesday.
Four OF Brigham Young's Danit
Land Of destroying angels" under o.
drrs from brigham, attempted, til
other day to assnssinate John G. Youn
nephew of the prophets, who Is a r,
porter for the Salt Lake City Trlbun,
paper very outspOken against the Mo
mons but lie scared them Off by pr,
senting cooked revolver at the hea
of one of them.
The change in the weather has mac
life little more endurable In the M
tropolis, and the number of deaths, la
week, was only 997. or 200 less than Il
week previous. There were, howeve
six deaths from sunstroke. Thursday
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