The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-12-28
GENERAL NOTES.

NilctN -tiSno ocdiailnB NcSsciS were
lost during October.
The latest sensation in Dalton, Ga.
Is a female blacksmith.
Universalism Is stronger in Massa-
chusctts than in amy other state.
Washington contains more poor peo-
pie than any other American city of
its size.
The Indiana Democratic state con-
vention will meet at indianapolis, Feb
ruary 20.
Out in California, when they wish to
express fully mans total uniitness for
some position, they liken him to a Chi
namaii.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
sent out Gil culnr to the governors of
the states, asking them to aid the de-
parlment III making the agricultural
exhibit at the Paris exposition com
plete.
Now it seems that Cornelius j. Van
derbilt has been three times in a luna
tic asl lum, twice voluntarily; has been
arrested for debt several times, and owes
the estate of Horace Greeley $4,000 in
borrowed money.
Samuel Writ, in digging a post-hole
near Somerville, n. j., the other day,
found an earthern jar containing 300
gold and silver dollars, mostly Next
can. The newest one was dated 1857.
Let everybody now 90 TO digging post
holes.
An explosion of boiler occurred in
a candy factory in New York city,
Thursday afternoon. About 275 per-
SONS were employed in the building.
The walls fell III few minutes after
the explosion. Some 1875 were either
killed or wounded.
Van Dyke, who was hung at Canton,
n. Y, Friday last, for shooting his wife,
in August last, at IIeuvelton, was only
nineteen years old. His wife was the
same age, and they had been married
only one week. Van Dyke spent the
night before his execution singing com
ic songs, clog dancing and smoking.
A man at Cohocs, n. Y, in order to
cheat his creditors, transferred his prop
eriy to his wife. The vito died and
the property went to their daughter
The man married again, but the daugh.
ter, not liking her stcpmother, turned
them both out of doors, and the maj
who cheated his creditors now supports
himself by day labor.
Perhaps the most remarkable coinci-
dence ever known has taken place il
Allentown, Pa, where live MIR. and
Mrs. Barney Ward, who have been
man and wife since 1867. On the 4tl
of July, 1870, their first child was born
a second was born July 4, 1871, and q
third was born July 4, 1872. Ever,
succeeding 4th of July has been cele.
brated by Mrs. Wards presenting t.
her husband fine, healthy child, and
now the Ward family contains eight
children, born within as many years
and all OH the 4th of July.
The question of abandoning Clinton
prison at Dannemora, except as a re-
iUrmatory, and of erecting new pris-
on in some more accessible locality
will be brought before the New York
legislature this winter. The reasons
for this movement are the overcrowded
condition Of the prisons in the state
and the isolation of the Dannemors
prison, which is so remote as to cause Q
great deal of expense In the Transports
ton Of criminals to that place. Sulli
van county, which is almost as neal
New York city as Sing Sing, has alrea
dy presented her claims to be consider
ed in the selection of site for new
prison.
A PoRr HENRY MAN MISSING Mr.
William +. Gookin, a well-known and
respected resident of Port Henry, wenl
to New York on November 20, Oh a
trip partly of business and partly OF
pleasure. He was to return to Port
Henry about December Z. On tina,
day, ut about half-past six PM, he paid
Nc hill at his hotel and left, CARRYING
ms vnlisc ih'"esif, He has not sinct
been seen or heard from and no clue
remains us to his movements after loav
ing the hotel. Mr.. Gookin is engaged
in the freighting and coal and iron bus
mess. His affairs are said to be in a,
perfectly sound condition. He /.
about fifty years of age, and was in the
best of health and spirits on the day o.
his disappearance. He is not supposed
to have had any considerable sum o.
money about him, and 10 motive cal
be imagined for suicide, absconding OF
murder. So far 10 clue has been dis
covered that can solve the mystery o.
his disappearance.
Alden NJ. Trip, of New Bedford
one day last week, drank five quarts
of new cider, and arming himself
with iack-knife, Sc: out to run muck
At the first house he knocked in the
glass door: at the second he stabbed
the proprietor, who knocked him down
twice and drove him away with club
at the third he attacked man, who dis
armed him and put him to flight; fur
Their on he assaulted storckeeper, and
being expelled, smashed his windows
then he chased small boy and made al
a child In carriage, but was knocked
down twice by still another man,
whcreon he abandoned undermining
as pursuit, and flying to the river,
grovelled in the gravel till the officers
arrested him and tied him to a hay
scale. Next day he got six months i'm
prisonment, and will have also to an
swer to the charge of felonious cutting.
| New cider does not seem TO he n suc-