The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-02-01
GENERAL NE us.

The Dutch are holding a prelimina-
nv exhibition at Amsterdam Of nrtl-
cles designed for the American centen-
NAL.
Henry Watson of Logansport, Ind,
in pulling an aching tooth for himself.
last week, severed an artery and bled
10 death.
A strike is going on among the ste
vedores at Philadelphia, and some
slight disturbances are reported, but
nothing serious.
The Philadelphia coal exchange has
decided that the glut in the market de-
mands the suspension of all mining,
from February to March ii inclusive.
There was sale Of 4s0 shares of Bank
of California stock at San Francisco,
last week, for default of the $40 assess
ment. The prices ranged from $l4.5O
to SIG.
Henry Roseberry, while trying to
fly kite from two-story house in
Cincinnati, last week fell to the ground,
fracturing his skull, and died in half
an hour.
The lower branch of the Kansas Leg
islature passed resolutions thanking
the republicans in Congress for the de-
feat of the bill granting amnesty to
Jeff Davis.
Twenty-four wild geese got frozen in
while taking q rest in a cove in Seneca
river, Onondaga county, N. Y, during
a recent cold snap, and farmer secured
the entire lot.
Henry Ward Beecher's latest lawsuit
Ii Dat; nd io nc
the International Lard and Curing
Company for months rental of a
house owned by him.
No Chinese bank has failed for Aye
hundred years. When the last failure
took place the officers heads were cut
off and flung into corner with the
other assets. A good thing to bear in
mind.
The trial at Rochester, n. Y, of
McRea, ex-canal superintendent of sec
ton 13,on charge Of swearing to false
pay-rolls, resulted, last week, in disa-
greement of the jury, standing six to
six.
An attempt was made to assassinate
the prime minister of Roumania at
Bucharest, last week, by an exposed
vented, and the would-be assassin ar
rested.
Reports of outrages and such contin-
ne to come in from West Feliciana par
ish, La, by the score, regardless of the
fact that full regiment Of United
States troops is at Baton Rouge, only
forty miles away.
The Baptist social union of Philadel-
phia wants and will try to secure
convention of the different Baptist So
cial unions of the United States, to be
held in June next, in that city, for the
discussion of such subjectsas may here
after be agreed upon.
Frank Hathaway. who shot aud
killed Netlie Slayton at Plainview.
Mimi, Il week ago, because of unrequi-
ted love, and then attempted to kill
hi nself but failed, was taken from the
sheriff, Tuesday night, by fifty masked
men, and hung to tree.
The Berne international postal con-
gress has agreed TO admit British India
and the French colonies into the post
al union. The question of admitting
other colonies is reserved until the
next congress, the time for the meeting
of which will be appointed, tomorrow.
There is, already, much kicking
against the clause of the Dominion
Parliament's bill creating a supreme
court of the Dominion, which debars
an appeal to the privy council of Eng
land, and the earl of Carnarvon has ad-
vised the queen that it must be re-
pealed.
While Webb Frazier a fashionable
young Tecumseh mich. sport, was on
trial for seduction, the other day, and
the girl he had betrayed and deserted
was giving her evidence, she suddenly
fell in commissions, and it Is feared will
not live to gain deserved redress at an
earthly tribunal.
The Passaic IN. j. bugs" prove
to be the foreman and members of the
Mclean hose company,a recent organ
iZatiOn, which thus undertook to dis
tinguish itself by unusual prompt at
tendance at the fires, but so overdid the
thing as to attract suspicion and lead to
inv .stigation and detection.
A liberal-minded police justice, rec.
ognizing man and brother in one
of the victims before him, turned to
the intermeddling minion of the law
with the indignant remark 81 dOn't
see why 1T Is, sir, that respectable cit
izen can't lean up against lamp-pos
to scratch his back, if he wants to-"
The national poultry association has
just elected Charles b. Sweeney of Buff
falo president; Edward S. Ralph, sec
rotary and treasurer, and ten vice pres
idents, and an executive committee o
thirty members also a centennial com
mittee to superintend the show of fow
at the Philadelphia exposition, whicl
was fixed for the latter part of October
A revolution has been started in tn
northern and central portions of Mexi
CO near the Rio Grande. Gen. Herrer
has pronounced for the movement, AN,
has surprised the authorities at Parras
The revolutionists also ineffectuall,
assaulted Rasoves. The majority G
tbs people in the northern districts ar
reported in favor Of suppressing the re
bellion and preparing for the emerger
CIV.
There is trouble with the Indian
out at Fort Pease on the Yellowston
river. Sitting Bulls band of Sioux n
tackled party near the fort on the
inst, killing one and wounding fiy
Others. Another party OF nine me
were cut off from the fort by the Ind
ans, who numbered several hundred
and, at last accounts, it was feared II
entire garrison would be massacred III
less speedily assisted.
The Illinois supreme court can
agree on the cnse of the members of II
citizens association who recently al
piled for a writ of mandamus TO con
pei the city council of Chicago to ord
an election of mayor. being equally
vided In opinion. Mayor Colvin wi
therefore hold over till 1877. The cou
has rendered decision that, whatev
may be the rules of the Chicago boa
OF trade, the courts will not prote
members in what are known as optic
deals.
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