The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-14
GENERAL NOTES.

from whooping cough.
Farmers will not forget to burn their
potato vines. In that way millions of
bugs will be destroyed.
1t is said that Brigham Young's
widows will bring out book entitled
"That Husband ofOurs."
Madbury, n. IT,, has the champion
mean man. A boy in his employ re-
Gently received twenty-five dollars for
restoring lost pocket-book. The en-
ployer claimed half the reward because
the pocket-book was found OH his land,
and discharged the boy because he re-
fused the modest demand.
The passenger steamer Francis was
completely destroyed by fire on Thurs
day night, near Sorcl, z. @. On the
following day, Friday, the steamer
Queen, of the Ottawa River Navigation
Company, was almost completely de-
stroyed by the destroying element"
The losses are reported to be very
heavy.
Wednesday night of last week, as an
excursion party were leaving boat at
Salem, Mass, an unlighted, INSULT
GENTLY train of cars, in back
ing on to n narrow wharf in the dark,
at the rate of six miles an hour, plung-
ed into the midst of the crowd. Three
persons were killed, and two seriously
injured, while several others were
more or less hurt.
Paul A. Thupe, late book-keeper at
the Russell Paper Mills, Lawrence,
Mass, has been arrested OH charge of
embezzlement. Mr.. Thupe was distin-
guished for his piety. lie used to i'm
press his fellow-boarders by spreading
silk handkerchief upon the floor.
kneeling thereon, and offering prayer
before dining. His notions ofliterature,
il is stated, were "proper and of n high
ORDER
An unusually high tide prevailed
along Revere and Nahant beaches on
Sunday last. A wooden platform nine
hundred feet long with its; iron tubu-
lar supports were washed away. Sew
eral yachts were thrown upon the shore
and slightly damaged. Several bath
houses along the beach were also de-
stroyed. The loss on the wharf
amounts to about $4,000, owned bv
James o. Young.
Monday last, an excavation which
was being dug below the foundation of
a building at Cincinnati, Ohio, under
mined the walls of building adjoining
it, which fell with tremendous crash,
burying number of people in the
ruins. Four women were buried in the
wreck, and one, Mrs. Keam, was killed.
Three were released uninjured. Five
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two of them, it is thought, fatally. 1t
the ruins, and large force of workmen
are endeavoring to release them.
A glass vessel Theoretically sealed
and containing some kind of fluid was
lately found near Aliscamp, West Ar
les, and was placed in the French
Academy of Science. The celebrated
French chemist, Berthelot, obtained
permission to open it. when the liquid
was found to be wine of not less than
1000 years of age. As there was only
about one wine glassful of wine proba-
bly, no one will make fortune on old
wine. 1t was probably used in some
burial rite of the ancient Romans, as it
was found i'm an old Roman cemetery.
In speech in Mississippi last week,
Congressman Singleton spoke of "the
shame and injustice" of depriving the
southerners of their slaves without
compensation. lie also declared that
there is unquestionably growing SEN
timent in the North in favor of restrict
ing, if not entirely abolishing, the cleo
tive franchise of the black man, to be eff
fected through an amendment to the
constitution. Ii would seem that the
Democratic majority in Mississippi had
been made large enough already, with
out such baretaced misstatements as this.
The Ease of Mrs. Angelina Smith, of
Marlboro, Mass, who was so nearly
murdered by her nephew, with an AK,
in 1874, is exciting great interest
among medical men. Her skull was
cut open to the brain in three places,
but she has gradually improved, until
now she is in vigorous health, though
the wounds have never healed. The
brain is exposed so that the pulsations
can be watched. Pieces of bone shat
tered by the AK are still working out,
and suppuration, which has always
been supposed to be an inevitable cause
of death, goes on constantly. Alto
gether, the case is one of the most re-
markable on record.
Thanks to the Democratic house and
to President Hayes for not calling a
summer session of congress, the third
infantry is having its full share of dis
comforts. Ii was stationed at several
points in Loui siana, and many of the
officers had their families about the
posts. AT the outbreak of the railroad
riots it was hurried North, and the
families were all left at the South. In
stead of returning, it left on twelve
hours notice for Montana, to chase the
Nez Perces, and the officers are enjoy
ing the pleasure of providing subsist,
ence for themselves on this extended
excursion and for their families at the
South, and all without pay.
The Stanton, (Va) Spectator reports
a fearful crime committed by Il man
named William Fox. After beating
his wife cruelty for reproaching him
with his criminal intimacy with q
young woman named Maggie Hender-
son, he went to the house of James
Carter, an old man OF eighty, where the
girl lived, and killed Carriers sister, an
3 old lady named Harris, with club
g beat Mr.. Carter about the head, and
left him for dead; dubbed his para
= mour, Maggie Henderson, till she took
=, refuge in well, being subsequently
rescued to give birth TO a pair of twin
$ sons, and set fire to the house, in which
a were two small children. They were
however, saved by the neighbors.
. An ElOpement and its Consequences.
+ Tuesday, two men presented them
selves at the town clerks office and at