The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-22
GENERAL NEW,S.

one OF the eultOrS OF the Tribune has |
been elected member of the Tam
many society, as was also Senator Eng
lish of Connecticut.
Mr.. jennings retirement from the
editorshlp of the New York Times and
his return TO Europe are now an
neunced for the LIST OF June.
The South Carolina House of Repre-
sentativee has resolved to impeach
Judge Montgomery Moses on the
charge Of applying trust funds to his
own use.
Adelaide Phillips finds hearty well
come In reappearing In opera ut New
York. She Introduces her sister, claim
ing for her greater power as singer
than she ever possessed.
Thirty-two colored converts were
baptized, Sunday afternoon, at q place
on the bank Of the Pontiac known as
the Syoamores, where John Quincy
Adams once rescued drowning man
Henry Hoyt of Reading, Conn, six
ty-1ve years old, was found fatally fro
zen In the woods. the other day, and
his dog standing close to him wouldn't
allow anybody TO come near him until
he was overpowered.
Sarah NJ. Logan, said to be the first
oolored female student who has gradu-
atad from any medical college in York
state, hs 8 Just received o diploma from
the college Of medicine of the Syracuse
hniversity, and has begun practice In
Washington.
Another Brooklyn minister is In
trouble, Rev. William Wolfe, Ger
man Presbyterian, who Is charged with
striking his mother-in-law with an
ambyells. when she intsrfered In
quarrel between him and his wife, who
had lsft him.
Nsssrs. ]. y. Winslew and IL. G..
Eastman Of Peughkeepeie, and other
vf1lesrs of the feughkeepsie bridge
enterprise TO prominent Hartford capt.
talists, and are understood to have
made = favorable impression.
A good Illustration OF the shrinkage
in the value Of real estate in New York
during the past three years is afforded
In the sale, Within few days, of seven
lots on the corner Of 145th street and
the Boulevard, New York, which
brought only 9a8. 500. In 1874 the same
lets sold for 1000.
Henry Vresland and his wife Of
BOArdvllls, n. J., recently acquitted Of
the murder OF Vreslsnds little son
Ralph by former wife, but who were
Shown by the evidence to have horri-
bly, maltreated him, have been sent to
prisOn for their cruelty, the man for
ak months and the woman for three
years.
Jay Gould began his threatened tele-
graph war, last week, with cutting
under Of - TO 80 per cent in the rates
Of the Atlantic and Pacific company,
The reduction affects places between
New York and Boston, Cincinnati, st.
Louis. Philadelphia, Cleveland, Mil
waukee, Pittsburg, Baltimore, WASH
'kagton and the oil segions.
A sensational rumor from Albany is
that the Republicans Of the Assembly
in order to bring tho dispute about the
aRditorShip to an end, propose to i'm
peach Treasurer Ross (democrat) for
laying out money on warrants drawn
as auditor by Schuyler, whom Gov.
Tilden nsminate1 for that position but
the Senate refused to confirm.
A company has been formed at Bos-
ton to bond the land lying between
that portion of Dorchester known as
Meeting house hill and Boston proper,
With view Of making enough on 1t by
hture advances in real estate to build
BIG hotel, and 1t Is proposed to con-
peot the house with the business part
OF Boston by branch railway.
The historic old elm Oh Boston COM
MOO, above two hundred years old, Is
no more, save in relic pieces. The
fierce gale Of Tuesday afternoon, and
the heavy coating Of sleet were too
much for IL, and 1t came to the ground
in one grand mass Of broken trunk
limbs and branches. A large crowd of
reiio- hunters at once engaged In secur-
ing the pieces.
An Irishman living in the mad dog
district in Old Hadiey, Mass, had a
daughter bitten by one of the reputed
rabid dogs, and, as a prevention, had
the deg killed, took out his liver,
cooked It and made his daughter eat It,
The girl has survived the bite and the
liver thus far, and manifests no fear of
either water or whisky. Parties inter
estAd will make note Of this new rem
sdv.
Torger and Rev. Winslow has. In
Deed, thus speedily got to the end of
Az rope he Wa nAbbed in the British
metropolis, OH Tuesday. It seoms he
4tdnt get Off at 0ravssend, after all |.
bat kept on 70 Rotterdam, and went
frem there 10 London, to get some let
tsfs which he had ordered forwarded
there, bat WAS followed so closely by
the detectives. who spotted him imme-
diatsly ON his arrival at Rotterdam,
that he had been In London but day
OF two before they pounced upon
him.
4 Hancock IN. " man named
Maoa. who had followed his runaway
wife to Walton, last Friday, falling to
induce her TO return, took their child
Axtsen months old, from her arms ito
kiss II gsOd-by." and started to run
away with 1t. but fell down an en-
bankment distance OF twenty feet.
He arose and threw the child into the
Delaware river, and on being arrested
- said the child WAS killed unintention.
ally by the fall, and he threw it into
the river not knowing what else to do
with IL,
Mrs. Moulton is TO join DR.. Storr'e
church. A committee from the An
dover theological seminary church.
consisting OF Profs. Smith, Churchill
and Mead, has visited Brooklyn and
delivered to Clerk Tilney Of Plymouth
church the invitation of their church
for mutual council to investigate Mr.
Beecher. but nothing will he done
about IL by Plymouth till after the aa
visory council Is over. 1t Is explained
BY the way, that Prof Phelps, who Ii
the o0ly AndOver professor that OBJ
poses the action OF the seminary church
believes that some church should take
this action, but thinks 1t inexpedient
that Andsver should be the one.
Fhe committee of the Loulslans
House appointed TO investigate the
books OF the state treasury reported
that $l9s 900 Of the interest fund had
hen diverted, but WAS subsequently,
restored, and fsvoring the impeach
nent of Treasurer Dubuolet and Gov