The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-08
GENERAL NE WIS.

May day and Christmas day all occur
this year on Monday.
Senator Hamilton of Texas declines
to serve on the republican congression- |
al campaign committee.
A Chinaman confined in Jail at
Stockton, Cal, few days ago, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself by
his pigtail.
Henry Sweet, superintendent of the
Erie oil docks ut Weehawken, N. ]. is
charged with embezzling between $751;
600 and $25, 600.
Three masked burglars secured three
gold watches, some silver plate, and n
small sum of money from William Lit
ties residence in Goshen, N. Y.
Fayette Harvey killed desperate
named Davis at Appleton, Kansas,
Wednesday, with hammer, just as
Davis had fired and wounded his BROTH
er.
A Jury in Galveston, Tex, recently
decided that man was guilty by draw
ing jack straws to settle the question,
and he is unreasonable enough to want
n new trial.
The Jew, Rubenstein, who is on tri
al at New York for the murder of his
cousin, Sarah Alexander, has evident
ly given up hope, and is trying hard to
starve himself.
The king and queen Of Greece, VII"
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some length to their relatives in Den
mark, England and Russia.
The Boston Post now declares that
the forger Winslow's connection with
that paper was rs remote as it was
brief, and purely and formally official,
controlling neither its financial nor ed
itorial manage -nent.
The negro ssassin Augusta, who
killed Col. Offut in St, Landry parish,
La, a week ago, was forcibly taken
from Jail, few nights since, and hung
in the presence of large crowd of
whites and blacks.
Among the bills before the commit
tee on claims is one for the indemnifi-
cation of Mrs. Polk the widow of Pres
ident Polk, for property valued at
S2400 destroyed by United States troops
in Yalabusha county, Miss, during the
war.
p. p. Wintermute, who murdered
well. NlCNOOh Oub Ill DuhOtds tWO VI
three years ago. but escaped punish
ment through the disagreement of jul
ries, is hopelessly III, and has gone to
Florida with the hope of prolongiDg
his life.
The Moscow German Gazette says
the reason the merchant Bradsky was
exiled was, that he was the author of
alarmist kilograms, letters and dispatch
to I ha oh
ject OF depreciating Russian stock and
raising the price of wheat.
1t is officially out that the Princess
Beatrice, the youngest daughter of
Queen Victoria, is engaged to Prince
Louis of Battenburg, now in India
with the prince of Wales, and Parlia.
ment at the coming session will be
asked to grant her dowry.
Gen. Hawley has had plans prepared
for building on the centennial
grounds for an exhibition of the entire
newspaper press of the United States,
and wants to have complete file of all
the six thousand or more papers in the
country for three months on exhibit
ton.
Mark Taylor, a young negro at Soda
liza, Mo-, has gone mad and believes
himself to be the Savior. In his par
oxysms he rscites whole chapters and
even books of the Bible without miss
ting a word, feat all the more remark
able because he cannot read and was
always vicious boy.
New York doctors claim that they
feel the hard times as well as every
body else, and we fancy the same thing
holds true in other parts of the coun-
try. Not but that people get sick now
adays but they are not so apt to send
for the doctor at any stray ache or pain
as they used to be.
Laura Chrystee, an inmate of a Vir-
ginia City (Ney. dance-house, recently
died, and the economical mistress ex-
hibited the corpse at quarter a head
the proceeds. together with the profits
derived from the extra sale of liquors
and cigars, being applied towar Is the
funeral expenses.
A family tragedy, much after the
style of the East Lyndon (Vt.) affair
occurred. last Thursday, at ST. John
N. b., where John O'Neil killed hi:
mOther-in-law and stabbed his father.
in-law probably fatally out of revenge
because they had opposed his marriage
and persuaded their daughter to leave
him,
The ex.empress Eugene is thin anC
pale, but still very handsome. She ant
her son live in plain and unpretend
ing way at Chiselhurst; the late EN-
peror's place at table is daily deeke(
with little bunch of fresh violets
The prince is well made, good locking
and begins to display n dark brown
mustache.
A singular kind OF repentance is tina
OF the brute, Fuchs. who murdered ant
then so horribly mutilated the body o
w. w. Simons at Greenpoint, l.. I.
last week. Here it is in his owl
words me feel so bad for it. NJ
don't feel sorry cause me kill him
kill him agf in but ought not to Gu
him up-no, no"
A couple of daring burglars entere,
the apartments of Mrs. Margaret
Lyons on Union square, New York
early Thursday morning, bound her
"hand and foot" In bed, and then
room who had heard the rumpus wer
raising an alarm, coolly pocketed $50
worth of cash and jewelry, and thel
walked off.
The breaking down Of the machine
ny of the Vandalia on her recent tri
out OF Boston harbOr is the third o
fourth occasion on which the new ma
chinery put in by John Roach la
failed. The Alert, one of the ney
sloops-of- war for which he supple
the engines, has been lying there 70
three months unable to go into seryic
because Roach's machinery will nc
work.
According to the London Times
Cairo correspondent, the mission of M
Outray to Egypt for the purpose of foi
tering French influences in the Sue
canal dickering is failure. Outray il
teffered between the khedive and TIL
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