The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-23
GENERAL NEVIS.


house.
VT. Hsakell's house at Monroe,
Maine, wa burned, recently loss
$4,000 partly insured.
A Wa. erville, New Hampshire, gum
chewer recently picked forty pounds OF
spruce gum in four days.
Lynn, Massachusetts,, Is taking IT.
turn at burglsrles now, Ave houses he
ing robbed during Monday night.
The large wooden mills at Pittsfeld,
Maine, which have been idle for a long
time, will start up again, next week.
Five masked men entered the STORE
OF w. D. Humphreys, at Farmingdale,
ILL.,, Monday, and robbed the safe OF
$1,000,
Benjamin Hill was killed by a pre-
mature explosion. while blasting rocks
at West Auburn Maine, Saturday af-
iernoon
The house and barber shop Of David
King, Of Springfield Mass, were
burned last Thursday Loss $1,000
insured.
Alfred Miller of Bridgeport, Connec-
Ing from boat while fishing with o
friend, Saturday, of last week.
James Boyd, n ship carpenter, fell
from staging In Russell's shlp-yard
at Deering Maine. Monday afternoon,
and broke his neck.
The Auburn Maine, boot and shoe
factories are all running at their utmost
capacity, and turning out between TO-
900 and IL, 900 pairs day.
A new departure has been made In
Yale journalism, the two weekly pap
ers. Record and Courant, being now
published on alternate Saturdays.
Miss Mary McMurphy, the Oldest
resident Of Hanover, n. H., died last
Monday. aged ninety-three years. She
bad resided in the town forty years.
Mrs. Ellen sullivan of Wakefield,
Rhode Island, aged sixty-five, was
found dead in the woods, Monday |
where she had strayed while drunk.
A boy eleven years old, at Hawley |
Mass. hung himself last week Friday |
night, because he had been corrected |
by his parents for some slight offence.
The Connecticut state Baptist mis-
sIonary society needs $500 to meet the |
years expenditure. Only forty-five of
the churches have yet helped the asso-
citation.
Lyman A. Powers and wife of
Charlestown, Mass, were thrown from
their carriage 10y frightened horse,
Saturday night, and, it is feared, both
fatally injured.
An easy-gong Connecticut constable,
who was taking John Duggan to the |
Hartford Jail, Monday afternoon, fell |
asleep in the cars. and woke up in the !
city to find his prisoner gone.
Aschooner has Just arrived at Salem,
Massachusetts, from Trinidad, with |
six political prisoners from Africa. AS
they are penniless, aud cannot speak |
English, the state will probably have
:" support them.
there was received at Merden. Con.
necticut, by the Britannia company.
few days ago, for replating, the first
silver-p!ated set ever seen in America. |
1t WAS presented to John Hancock, in
1874, by the colonial legislature OF
Massachusetts. and is now owned by
Lawrence Mass. man.
The mountain express up and the |
New York express down, made their
last trips last week, on the Concord and |
the Boston, Concord & Montreal rail. |
roads. These trains have been running |
about ten weeks for the accomm odation |
OF the summer travel. They have
done an average seasons business.
Deadwood City in the Black Hills AN
infant town offs single summer, has
twenty saloons, three hotels, six res
taurants, three drug stores, two hard |
ware stores, five blacksmith shops, FIVE
dry goods stores. twenty grocery stores |
six doctors, one dentist, one bath house
three Chinese laundries and one editor
Mrs. Levi Hedge of Lowell, Massa-
chusetts, who has been partially de- |
ranged for some time, and made a
nearly successful attempt to kill her |
self, year ago, succeeded, Tuesday, by |
cutting her throat with a sharpened |
case knife, at the Lovejoy house, dur
Ing the temporary absence of her
maid.
A special from MOrristown, Nj,
says that the will of the late Rufus II.
Graves of New York, who died there
August II, has been admitted to ro-
bate. He leaves large requests to his
Guiding the magnificent sum of $780,
900, to be applied to the education of
colored people in the South.
Edwin A. White wanted TO charge |
the Moody aud Sankey committee at |
Boston $4,000 for the use of his land |
during their greetings, and clal ned the |
buildings also. AZ the school commit
lee wouldn't let the high school lot the
Collnmurc lot, corner Of Columbia ave-
nue aud Ber..elcy street. has been en-
tagged, and an IRON pavilion to seat 5000
is 10 he huilt nn H.
A mnn--ater shark, eight feet and |
niue inches long, has just been caught |
at Newport, Rhode Island. 1t is said |
to be the largest shark ever seen there. |
and 1t was taken in seine 1t divides
attention with mackerel eight and a |
half feet long, that weighs eight hum
dred pounds. The latter is TO be pre-
seEted to Mr. Wiuans, who is going to
have mold made and then cast II in
bronze.
They have year-old lying society
Ia Colchester. Connecticut, one Of
whose laws is that. If the word Of any
member shall, under any circumstan-
res, he construed by any other member
MS bearing any resemblance to truth,
the offender shall be expelled. They
are In trouble now for, at the recent
election of officers, nobody dared to be.
lieve the presidents declaration OF the
vote, and they don't know what to do
about it,
Some goods which were sunk over
two years ago off the japanese coast
" iilr o' the way back from the Wen
Xhihilion. have just been recov-
nj il il found that the lacquer
rs-ir in the last century, after
tv yosr-' imueI-ion in the salt wafer
IS uniujured, while the lacquer articles