The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-19
GENERAL NOTES.

AT LANDAU, N. H., is the grave of a
Mrs. Bronson, who lived in three CEN
turtles. She was born in 1890 and died
in 1901.
The st. Louis journal thinks il sin
gular coincidence that the author of
''Ten Years in Ilell'' celebrated his tin
wedding about the time his book ap-
peared.
A Nebraska Judge decided TO give a
horse thief one more chance to reform.
AS the fellow left the neighborhood TO
begin newer and better life, he took
along the judges horse TO help him.
The Lyndon Union reports that wo-
man in that village has given birth TO a
child without any arms and with clo-
ven foot. On the shoulders are two lit
tie Jumps resembling hands. The child
and mother are both doing well.
In Texas recently, n Judge broke
down with emotion while sentencing
one. Lonely, notorious desperate, TO
be hanged for murder. Longly was
surprised at this, and remarked, on 90
ing back to Jail, 81 feel sorry for the
judge"
overcome with grief at the seduction
OF his daughter, aged seventeen, Michael
kyan of indianapolis committed suicide
by drowning himself in White river
last week. When his wife heard the
news she tried to throw herself under n
Ircight train, and came very near sue
ceeding in her suicidal design.
There is little newspaper published
i'll Monroe, La, in the handwriting of
the editor, by an electric pen, the whole
edition being duplicated from the first
manuscript. News, kilograms, editori-
ais and advertisements are all in writ
ing. 1t is called the Daily Electric
Letter, and il is the first of the kind.
"A letter from Rouses Point gives an
account of of the breaking up of a gang
of smugglers, who for some months
past have been doing large business,
smuggling wooden rags into the United
States. The principal offender, Patrick
julien, of Montreal, is now in iail i'm
Boston, in default of $40, 600 bail.
The great work of tunnelling the
English channel from Dover to Calais is
making some progress, and promises TO
be completed at not very distant day.
Two wealthy railroad corporations, the
Great Northern of France and the Chat
ham and Southeastern of England, have
combined TO construct this new wonder
of the world.
Three tramps, Sunday morning, Oct.
III, stealing ride on train near Grave
port. Ohio, cut the train in three parts
for the purpose of escaping. The train
was on down grade. When near the
bottom of the grade the rear section ran
into the middle section, throwing il
from the track. One tramp was buried
under ten tons of coal, and instantly
killed. Another had his leg broken
the third escaped. The dead man had
a kit of burglars tools, and was well
dressed.
A cavern in the Dresden mountain,
near Huletts Landing, is new Lake
George attraction. 1t was partially ex-
plored last week by party. 1t was
not i'll the usual limestone formation in
which caverns are generally found, but
in the hard gneiss rock which forms
that spur of the Adirondack chain.
Three large rooms, connected BY hall
like apertures, were discovered, ending
about seventy feet from the entrance
NO stalactltc or stalagmite formations
were noticed, and the floor was covered
with loose sand. Further explorations
will be made.
"A terrible tragedy occurred at q
boarding house in North Wells street,
Chicago, on Friday, Oct. u, where a
man named Joseph w. GLADDEN., of Os.
kaloosa, Iowa, and woman who had
come to the house claiming to be his
wife, had been closeted together. The
chambermaid in passing the door OF
their room, heard loud cries, and mo-
mcnt later was Mortified at beholdine
the woman emerge from the room with
her throat cut. She was followed by
GLADDEN., whose throat was also cut, and
who fell upon the woman, when both
expired. AS they were being carried
from the building on the way to the
morgue the covering of the woman's
face was accidentally lifted, and by.
stander, with horror depicted upon his
countcnance, exclaimed, "My God,
that's my wifer' 1t proved to be so
She had left her husband short time
ago and followed her lover to Chicago
Her husband. whose name is Robert S,
Bell, andi who is a brakeman on the
4 Iowa Central railroad, had lust arrived
in the city searching for her, and was
accidentally passing the house when he
made the terrible discovery.