The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-09
GENERAL NEVIS.

has Just arrived IN this country on a
brief visit.
The sentence of Jesse Pomeroy to
death has been commuted TO impris-
onmeut for life.
The deposition of Murad rs Sultan vi
Turkey, occasions no excitement or
disturbance.
The public debt slalenient shows q
reduction duriug August If upward OF
SS,o00,0oo.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indi.
aus will not allow negro children to at.
te'ld their schools.
\ Kentuckian whipped his wife be
cause she attended her sisters funera
without his permission.
There ara urgent demands for III,
cpening cf the government building
ia SUNDAY tor the benefit of centen
NAL visitors.
The Uolos says that the Russian lane
aimy can be brought up to 2.500,0U
men. without counting the Opel, chcni
or national militia
The Irish salmon fishery has heei
All unprecedented success In all river
- 4
were caught with one shot of net.
A aerce encounter with river pirate.
ccc'i1ed m the New York bay, las
week friday morning. 1t IL suppose,
that ore ~ the pirates WAS killed.
An Italian marquis las been sen
fenced 10 eight wears penal servituA
for tHtging the uares of the king ~.
other digniierie- 10 i'iils oi exchange
A man uAmrd Richard Crews
Newport Ky, attempted suicide, lat
~ 10y opening veins il holh arms a..
'nf'''iy his throat several times with
knife.
4 Wagon containing six persons W
struck 'iy . - lr,ed uaiu ieprS L.
ia Frilur Of il.i week, and WI
Braina"d wa ii led. The Others we.
severely injured,
President Grant rents his st. LOU,
farm now for $4,000 year but the tax
es ar. $500. 1t used to cost him aboui
10000 year when he tried managing
it through All agent.
Basket political meetings are very
popular in Indiana. The farmers bring
their dinners and make day of it,
Fully five thousand people were pres.
ent at one in Madison on Monday
The annivesary of the battle of Sedan
was celebrated, last Saturday. through
out Germany. All tho newspapers had
leading articles, nearly all rcmarkabl,
for their tone Of Cancellation TOWARD
France.
About two hundred members of the |
~. Jean Baptiste society have accepted |
al invitation OF the French \ mericans |
10 be present at New York when the |
ststues of Lincoln and Lafayette nre |
unveiled.
II has been reported ia Wall street |
that another railroad war between the
Trunk lines has broken out, wild |
smother reduction in western freigh
rates averaging six TO eight cents pc
hundred pounds.
The Baltimore printers have volun-
!nrily reduced their prices for comp,
sltlon to forty cents per thousand fol
day, and forty-tive cents for nigh
work. The public printer pays sixty
cents for the same work.
Hon. George =. Hillard has resigned
the deanship Of the Boston law school
and tho Hon. Edmund II. Bennett
LII. D., has been elected in his stead
MIR. Bennett is son Of the late Judge
Milo L. Bennett. Of this state.
While cheap coal may take SO. 900,
pOO from the receipts of the companies
and bankrupt some OF them, 1t vii |
place the trade on commercials |
sound basis. revive the iron indus;r. |
md every interest that uses stesl
power. AND afford iinnlense relief to IT, |
community.
The new regime Of the special treas
uTy agency business began in Ne"
York, last Saturday. with C.ptaii
Brackett IN charge. 1t il believed til
vii inure largely 10 the benefit &
smuggler- from the lack Of men =.
thoroughly follow up their operations
Jacob S;aufitr, hls wife and fI,
children, living near lIarri-huryl, Pa
a'e dangerously III from the effects
erbenic tha. somebody nut in tisil,
which they all partoOk. Another a.
tempt to poison them in . simil,
nn"nner was made. about three wei
ago.
Danltl Drew, the veteran Will sfl-r
s.pecIlas"r. Is mo" -prnding h~ L..
day. In tue village &C Brewster.
pleasant resurt on the Harlem rOa,
about tifty miles flOm New York. .
The residence of his son "Bll." Umcl,
Daniel Keeps about IN ;olerahle com
fort, though seldom venturing off III,
farm.
a rou'en' p'ihle coward named Hor
Sc4 f'N ""i 'iY while II negro hea'
whi't n g. 'ealh rear Rochelle
y i, t.t ,.rrr dnv. refusing ia intei
i"r' 'r,i.' =. tie murderer and his 81,
tim were nInl and vile. Tie uniOriu
maze woman called Oh Cos repeutedl,
Tor help, but lie declined to assist he
because he did not wish to becom,
"mixed'up" in her quarrels.
Daniel Danser, a retired New York
gambler died recently at his home H.
New York. He was seventy -four years
OF age, and estimated to be worth
$500 900. Beginning life as a black.
smith, he was thrown into intimate
associations with gamblers, and was
finally induced to embark his saving.
In the fascinating pursuit. His partic-
ulsr accomplishment was faro.
The Methodists of Richmond and
Manchester, Va, held large mass
meeting, Sunday, to consider the re
port of the Joint commission of the
Meth odist church and Methodist
church South, which met at Cape MAY.
last month, and resolutions heartily
approving their action and rledglnp
earnest sup. port to 1t were unanimously
adopted. Stirring addresses were de
ilvered by prominent laymen and min
listers.
On the evening OF Boss Shepherd
great party at Washington last winter
Mr. Kerr fell into conversation with
friend In regard to the festival, where
the president. members of the cabinet
foreign ministers, and all the celebri-
ties OF Washington were gathered,
proud to do homage to ill-gotten
wealth. "Do you know" said The
speaker fiercelY. "the fellow Ind the