The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-06-17
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The resip milton of Bishop BourgeI oil
Montreal has been accepted by The
pope.
Elk. Mayer Easiman,p Poughkeepsie
presented 500 hats to the street boys OF
that city Tuesday.
Ex.speaker Mcclure will deliver the
Grafton on the Centennial Fourth In
Danvllle, n. y.
Donald N~Tcl.ane was drowned at Bur
banks Mill, Carroll, n. H., while
drawing out logs.
A Paris despatch reports that George
Sand died in great pain, which caused
her TO writhe and shrek.
Dom Pedro passed Monday nj Har-
ward college, and dined with Prof.
Iongfellow in the evening.
The old son OF Bradford
Slocum fell ont of a boat and was
drowned, at Fall River, Mass.
While Dom Pedro was in Montreal, he
declined listing the church of The Jes-
uIts, but ' .sited other Catholic churches
in that city.
Bogus five dollar bills on the bank OF
British North America are in clrcula-
lion. The imitation Is good, but the
paper coarse.
Judge Macarthur, has granted n new
trial to benjamin b. Hallock, hereto
fore convicted of larreny ofSl7, 900 from
the treasury.
The strike siill continues at the Old
sidney Mines, Cape Breton, causing
much depression In shipping and other
business there.
The foot and mouth disease bas bro
ken out with great virulence among
the hogs at Outremont, Canada. Hun
dreds are dead and dying.
The publication Of the Dartmouth
magazine, which recently suspended
on account of trouble with the faculty,
will be resumed, next year.
The G~uatemalian gun-boat Gen. Bar
rios fcundered, recently of San Jose
De Guatemala, during a gale, and six
teen soldiers were drowned. The crew
were saved.
Among those on whom minor orders
we're conferred at st. Joseph's (Catho.
lic) Seminary at Troy, on Friday last,
was Michael J. Carmody, of Rurllng-
ton.
DR., George Cook. president of the
Brigham Hall insane asylum ut Cam
andaIgua. n. v, was stabbed, Monday
morning, by an insane patient named
Brown. and died in the afternoon.
President Grant returned to Wash
ington, Monday afternoon, from Anna
polls, where lie passed the day before,
and soon after his arrival sent q mes
senger TO Mr.. Blaine's residence TO as
certain his condition.
While workmen were digging away
part Of the side of a cut on Perkiomen
Valley branch of the Reading railroad
Monday, the bank caved in, instantly
injuring three others.
The trial of Gen. Babcock for conspir-
acy In connection with the safe-bur-
glary case has been set for September
10, in the criminal court by Judge Mac
Arthur. The defense professed to de-
sire a day early In July.
Abram G. Snyder, the inventor Of
the Snyder bullet-machlne, died al
West Troy, Tuesday morning, aged
ffty-seven years. Mr.. Snyderha been
a master machinist at the Watervllet
Arsenal for twenty-five years.
The bloody pants belonged 10 n little
boy, and the blood on them was red
paint. The pants had been cut down
for him, and were probably stolen from
the yard and carried into the woods.
Thus ends the North Scltnate murder
mystery.
1t Is thought that the death of Presi.
dent Stearns. of Amherst College, will
cause the retirement of Prof. Seelye
from politics. The trustees of the col
lege are known TO be In favor of Seelye's
appointment as President Stcarn's sue
cessor.
Augusta Stowell, the Newburyport
man who has been arrested for WIFE
beating, is not the sort of material of
which they usually make mayors in
that city. lie was run in Jest by the
nremon, about ten years ago, but came
very near election.
The judiciary committee has decided
that the Issuing of certificates Of in.
d%ebtedness by the late board of public
works of the district Of Columbia as a
lien on property for special improve
ments Is wholly without law and the
certificates therefore void.
The body recently found at swamp
scott, the identity of which the Salem
authorities have been trying to deter
mn u oOliG tlIlC, tuiIN Oul " NC
that Of David j. Collier, lr., of Boston,
who WAS addicted to the use Of opium,
from an overdose Of which he probably
died
During The excitement attendant or
the parade ii a circus company at Fal
River, ON Friday four men entered the
CITY Treasurcr's Office and asked for &
license. II was subsequently discover.
ed that u tin q containing 1872 was
missing and no clue to 1t has been dis
covered.
The bogus circular prepared by The
whisky ring, pretending to come from
the democratic committee. advocating
Mr.. BrlstoW, Of which the Chicago Tri
hnne got the first news. was put In cir
culation Monday. 1t ~ n gross forgery
and the officers of the democratic com
mittee denonnca ii as such
The reported success of the Canadian
herring fishery, this season, is confirm
Ell. The fish were more abundant thai
for many years. Ninety vessels loaded
in a short time, Of which thirty-tw,
cargoes were shipped to the Unltet
States and 1fiy-seven to Denmark. TIL,
Goldfish and mackerel are also plentiful
II isn't often that Justice comes (,
time 50 promptly as at H~ontzdale, Pa.
Monday when the gallery and floor o
the Catholic church giving way unde
the weight Of 4 large audience assem-
bled, the only person killed was D. c
Nelson, the contractor Of the building
although thirty other were more O
less Injured.
A Cheshire. Conn, town-pauper
extreme age applied for a marriage d
cense, the other day, and was astonish
ed to discover, when he wanted TO us
1t, that 1t was a burial permit, His In
tentions were further defeated by
gang Of rowdies, who went to his hous
In the night and "hounced" his Intend
ed out of loors.
The suspension of the Hamllto
print works at Lowell. threatened 1