The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-28
GENERAL NOTES.

lt ltniiSliNuilld IllllcTS SIrlke mas
ended, the men receiving increased
wages.
Urban Jean Joseph Leverrier, the
famous astronomer, and discoverer of
the planet Neptune, is dead.
w. II. Trumbull, of Warner,N. H.,
aged twenty-eight years, the other day
accidentally shot himself.
Secretary Sherman contradicts the
report that he will be candidate for
the United States senate.
About one hundred thousand people
now live "where rolls the Oregon" and
that celebrated party is no longer lone
some.
The brig Rhone, from Matansas, is
at quarantine in New York, two men
having died on the passage with yell
low fever.
On Saturday the committee notified
Gen. Mcclellan of his nomination for
governor of New Jersey. He asked
time to consider, but will probably ac-
cept.
The report that the schooner Ocean
Wave, from New Orleans for Calves
ton, was toundcred Off Galveston, on
the 10th. is confirmed. All on board
the captain and seven saiors-wcrc
lost.
Thomas Mead, q murderer sentenced
to be hanged, who escaped from prison
a year ago last May, blew his brains
out at Limaville, Ohio, Sunday, to
avoid arrest by officers who fired upon
and wounded him.
a sleeping infant. five months old, the
child of Arthur Bcals, was left in a
"cabinet bed' at Peru, Mass, the 9TH
cr day, when another member of the
family closed the bed without noticing
it. When found ii was suflocated.
A suit has been commenced in the
United States court in New York to re-
cover from Gen. John G.. Fremont 49,
600 salary drawn in 1861. for tree
months subsequent TO his appointment
as Encouragement and prior to taking
actual command.
While digging on the hill near Jcs-
sup ~ Laflin's paper mill, in Westfield,
Mass, the other day, the workmen
struck what local antiquarians think to
be an Indian burying- ground. In one
hole they found the skeletons of four
adult persons, and with them two or
three household utensils.
On Friday eve, Sep. 81, fire broke
out in the butcher store of A. Morris.
on Broad street, Newport, caused by the
explosion ola lamp. A strong gale
soon spread the flames and about thirty
stores and houses were burned The
largest portion of the business part of
the town is destroyed. Loss $500, 900.
The entire crop of cotton, corn and
fodder in the valley OF the Black War
rior, Alabama, has been swept away
by the rivers sudden rise ofsixtv-three
feet, which is within two feet of the ter
rible treshet in June, 1872. The plant
ers had just commenced picking cotton
and had not hauled corn and fodder
from the fields.
Samuel HUMPHREY, alias John Leary
locomotive fireman, has been arrested
at New Haven, Conn. and taken to
Reading, Pennsylvania, charged with fir
ing the bridge at that point on the Leban-
on Valley railroad during the riots. lie
is one of the three leading incendiarics
for whose apprehension a reward of
$1,000 was offered.
1t isreported that the steamer Diego.
Capt. DeGaetengo, Liverpool. was
burned on the Sth inst, latitude 46
longitude 81. There was no loss of life.
The agent of the line sent deipatch an
nouncing the destruction of the vessel.
She had an assorted cargo of grain.
tobacco, cheese, leather aud thousand
Raeff & r Ge tao Ms He fond n 81 w fs
was the total value Oft.
Some time since a young girl threw
Il bottle containing her name and adj
dress into the Ohio river. 1t was
found by a youth, and marriage is
the result. This seems at first sight
not very Objectionable, but the Paducah
(ky.) News has been thrown by il into
Il state of lively trcpidation from the
fear that upon the fact becoming gen
orally known the navigation of the
river will be permanently impcdcd.
n mass meeting ofuncmployed work
ingmen was held at Union Hall, San
Francisco, Cal. The speeches were of
the most incendiary character. The
speakers bitterly invci9hed against the
men organize and put themselves
despite the safety commissioners, police
and militia. An open air meeting is
called for next Sunday, and a street
parade is proposed at an early date.
A most destructive fire broke out in
the patent Office department on Monday,
September "a. The damage done to the
building alone is estimated to be about
half million dollars. In the building,
and Of course injured or destroyed BY
the fire, are all the models and patent
records of all kinds. The loss among
these will be incalcuabe since it can
never be fully restored. 1t is feared
that countless litigation suits will grow
from this disaster, and if possible in
volve the country in more loss and trou-
BILE than the fire itself.
A few days ago, lady guest at New
York Hotel handed TO the clerk peck
etbook containing 800 in notes, and
addressed TO her husband in Vermont,
requesting the clerk to place the pack
age in the hotel safe. The clerk, mis-
understanding the lady, clapped a two
cent stamp on the package and dropped
it into II street letter-boX. The pocket
book, in default of sufficient postage,
was sent TO the general postofiice. The
clerk did not become aware of the blnn-
der until the lady requested return
of the pocket-book, when, in much
trcpidation, he fastened to the post
office, where, after describing the
money and signing receipt therefor,
it was handed to him and returned to
the lady.
The State Convention of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
The third annual convention of fine