The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-29
GENERAL NE WS.

closure. to Henry &. Brooks for $40,
900.
The Minnesota democrats will hold
their state convention 10 choose dele.
gates to the national convention at st.
Paul. June /,
A Lawrence schoolgirl fell spon the
Ice while skating, the other day, with
such force as to drive lead-pencll IN
her pocket into her leg TO the depth of
three Inches.
Gen. Hawley, president of the cen.
tennial commission, has appointed
Capt. F.. Lewis Moore, former adjutant'
general of his staff, his private
at Philadelphia.
Gov. Conner of Maine has signc the
bill abollshing capital punishme
which finally dsposes of the much
mooted question. The governor has
also signed the general railroad act.
The boss centennial relic is sample
of the tea pitched into Boston harbor
in l7YS, which two old maids of Saugus
show and say was given 10 their grand
father by one of the tea party.
Stephen Carver, whose death at tie
advanced age of elghty-six years re-
first steward on the first steamboat, the
Vermont, that ever ran on Lake Cham
plain.
The suspicious about the burning of
Forger Winslow's house at Auburn.
dale, q few weeks ago, have eliminated
in the offer by the under writers OF q
reward of $1,000 for the detection of the
parties who fired 1t.
The track of the Denver and Rio
Grande railway has reached Cucharas,
fifty miles south of Pueblo, the point
from which the San Juan and Del
Norte trade will leave the railway, and
will now be pushed rapidly from Gu
charss to Trinidad, forty miles further.
There has been hitch in the Emma
mine proceedings, but another meeting
of the stockholders ON the fifth recti-
fed the difficulty, and MacDougall is
now expected to "lay on" He thought
that If Gen. Schenck plead privilege,
the American government would take
1t off his back"
A referees court was held ut Angus
ia, Me-, the other day, one OF the con-
ditions of the judgment being that, In
case of disagreement, the decision of
the majority should be final. AS there
were but two members on the board,
the question of majority had to be test
ed by the scales.
A Lawrence woman g.ts all her
butchers supplies from Albany, n. y.
She pays the cost of new market-bas-
ket in Albany for every lot forwarded,
and rs cents expressage, and then buy
ing entirely at retail prices in Albany,
makes saving on every basket she re-
ceives OF 80 cents to 81.
The Austrian government has ordeys
that all Turkish Insurgents crossing the
frontier into Dalmatia be arrested. 1t
10 estimated that there are now $4,000
OF them there, and they declare, one
and all, that they will starve rather
than return to their homes. Tho Brit
ish men-Of- war are cruising off the Dali
nation coast.
According to the London Standards
Berlin correspondent, Bismarck has
found u man after his own heart In
Count Won StolbergW ernigerode,
whose appointment to the Vienna am
hassadorship has made such an I'M
preston that Prince Bis narck would
like to regard him as the successor to
the chancellarship.
the arrest of Irwin, the Pacific Mailer.
Is absolutely painful. Mr.. Irwin was
shocked, Rufe Hatch suddenly wants
to know where that money has gone,
and Gould doesn't see how Hatch could
do such a thing. The New York press
apparently regard the move us of ST.
prems moment to the universe.
The first section of the Lake Cham.
Lot, rai l..
way has been opened between st. Pie
and st. Hyacinthe, Canada. The road
Is intended to run from Yamaska oil
Lake st. Peter to Phillipsburg, on Mis-
sisquoi Bay, Lake Champ'ain, Il dis
lance of one hundred miles, through q
thickly populated and wealthy region
The New England Gallaudet associa
ton OF deaf mutes, founded twenty-five
years ago by Rev. Thomas II. Gallau
Diet, had biennial meeting at Salem
last week, two days of lively sigr
speech making. The association i!
fiourishing, has received $500 by viii
from Miss Eliza Morrison of Peterboro
N. H.. and proposes to start some sor
of an industrial home.
The people of Washington county
New York, are demonstrating agains
the sale or lease of the islands in LAX
George by the Commissioners Of tn
Land Office. The islands constitut
the chief attraction of that beautiful
lake, and there Is a very strong ant
reasonable objection to their passin
into the hands of private parties, VIII
might or might not preserve thei
beauties.
Earl ROseberry's marriage to Mis-
80 ntti
Ter Duncan of New York, will TAX
place in London during the spring
Mr.. Duncan's family will soon sail fc
England. where they will permanent
reside. The earl recently came in poi
session of fortune of 100000. 1t
stated that daughter of the late Para
Stevens will be married TO an Englis
nobeman In London about the san
time.
Affairs in Hayti are getting alarm
ing The revolutionists have purcha
ell the filibuster steamer Octavia, ha'
taken in ammunition and sailed fro
jamaica for Port au Prince. Preside
Dominique has ordered the Cuban I
fugses 10 quit the country within thir
hours on penalty of being delivered
the Spanish gunboats. Added to the W
prospects monetary panic is INN
nent, the bills of exchange of lar
houses on New York having been
turned protested.
There has been little change in
situation of affairs In the north ofSpa
the past few days. Carlist force
concentrating at GoIHueta in stro
position, commanding the road to \
ware, and another force has CONGO
trated at Lecumberri TO the north-w
OF Pamplona. Don Carlos has tax
refuge In the Olzama valley, To the o
of Lecumberri. On the other side, I
Alfonsists have decided to continue
attack Oh the Carlists from all sid
and Gen. Primo do Rivera is n
marching against Zumaraga. The I