The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-04-13
GENERAL NOTES.

Oakley Hall refuses to be further in
tcrviewcd. T77
The Pope is better and has taken a
walk in the garden of Vatican.
Sixteen children have been burned 10
death in Norwegian school house.
Another S1O,000,OO0 worth of 8. 20
bonds have been called for redemption.
II is announced that Vice-Presidenf
Wheeler will marry an Albany lady
soon.
The principal grain dealer in Califor-
MIA has suspended, with $500, 900 liabili-
ties.
Nine vessels of the Long Island fish
ing heet reported missing are supposed
% have been lost during the winter gales.
The non-Mormons of Utah Territory
VIII hold mass meeting on the 14th
INST, to urge legislation at the special
term of Congress.
The recent Tweed story is losing
credit in New York. IL was written by
II man connected with Boston news
paper some twenty-five years ago.
young woman named Bowel threw
herself in front of Il train on the Inter-
national Railroad at townsville, T.. O.,
on the 9th inst, and was instantly killed.
The president will not hereafter give
personal hearing to office-seekcrs, but
will occasionally give audience to their
friends wishing to present recommcnda-
tons.
The secretary of the navy announces
that there are not sufficient funds now
available i'll that department to nav the
officers in full fnr tho months OF Anil
May and June.
Ii is proposed to connect the New
York and Long Island shores. ria
Blackwell's Island, by an iron bridoe
two miles in length and las feet above
mean high tide. The structure will cost
81 100000.
a Cincinnati special says Gen. Sam
Cary has been found guilty in court of
appropriating 5000 entrusted TO him
to buy Colorado mine, and has been
ordered to account therefor to the
stockholders.
The complete returns from the Rhode
Island election shows a plurality of GIL
for the republican candidate for cover
nor, and 1888 for lieutenant governor.
II is claimed that the senate is for pro-
hibition and the house adverse.
Rev. DR.. L. G.. Wines of New York
has been appointed commissioner on be-
half of the United States to the interna-
tional Prison Congress proposed to be
held in Stockholm, Sweden.
A Lancaster, Pa, tailor states that he
recently measured boy not quite
eiQhtcvIi yeas viu, whose chest uieas-
ured fitty-eight inches, waist sixty in
ches, and hips seventy-two inches in
circumference.
The temperance committee of the En-
gllsh house of lords has at length decid-
ed the much vexed question as to when
man is drunk, the decision being that a
person i'll state of inebriety cannot be
called drunk until he is too far zone 10
walk.
In the session of the New England
conference at Boston, Monday, resolu-
ton was adopted expressive Of gratitude
to the President and Mrs. Hayes for
banishing liquor from their public and
private receptions at the White House
a report comes from San Francisco
that for the past two weeks the Sutro
tunnel has passed through stringers of
quartz giving low essays. On Friday
last the whole face of the drift was of
solid quartz, 1850 feet east of the Savage
mine shaft. The quartz resembles that
of the Comstock in its crystalline char
acter, and it is said its assays average
thirty-four dollars per ton.
A number of fish from Mammoth
Cave, Kentucky, have recently been adj
ded to the New York aquarium. They
are white in color, nearly Transparent.
eyelcss, and though the head is naked
the body is covered with scales. They
were taken in river about two and a
half miles from the mouth of the cave.
and which was from twenty ia thirty
feet wide and six feet deep,
The London Times of the 18th nit.
has the following noteworthy Birming-
ham atlvices Complaints of the infer
ior quality, short quantities and bad
wrappings and packing of English goods
including chains, traces, gun nipples.
tin plate ware, sewing machines, edge
tools, NC, are Oh the increase, and the
dissatisfaction caused by these defects
and Irregularities is powerful agent In
diyerting the current of hardware or
ders to the United States.
a very dirty mess is being stirred up
at Ottawa in the shape of an investiga-
ton of the Northern Railway, whose
managers have been using the funds of
the company wholesale to pay election
expenses, for subscriptions to testimoni-
ais to political leaders, and for similar
purposes. Mr.. Cumberland, the mana
ger, has been on the rack before par
liamentary committee, to which he has
afforded no information in the most con-
fidential manner. Thus, the committee
asked him what two mysterious checks
for $500 and 800 were for. "What
those checks were for?' echoed Mr..
Cumberland; 81 will tell you. Intense
attentiOn.) One was for $500 and the
other was for $500" Untense disgust. }