The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-01-25
GENERAL NOTES.
COURT.
Court adjourned.

GENERAL NOTES.
Strawberries are blooming in Florida.
Paris cats thousand horses every
month.
Wisconsin has al educational fund of
81, 046,074.
Emigration TO this country continues
to. decrease.
A game cock was recently sold in
England for 1902.
Senator Gordon of Georgia was hit by
bullets six times during the civil war.
Kerosene is bad drink for children.
II Killed Il New York child the other
day.
a project is before the Massachusetts
legislature for ship canal across Cape
Cod.
A Carver (NIinn.) boy fell l2G feet
down II well, and escaped with brok-
en- leg.
Album, \. y, had shower of mil
lions of live worms. the other day, dur
ing a storm.
brigham Young's widows are tn bring
out II book. II will he called THAT
Husband of Ours
VIM. NJ. Tweed has applied to the
supreme court for Il discharge under
the poor debtors oath.
In India last year 2S,273 persons and
54,S30 cattle were destroyed bv wild
animals and poisonous snakes.
Kansas farmers estimate corn at fiji
teen cents bushel. price at which ii
is cheaper fuel than coal or wood.
The Public Printing Office is being
now run at saving of about 500, 900 a
year over the average of the last four
teen years.
Martha Angel Dorset last week was
admitted TO the Minnesota bar, she be-
ing the first woman who ever made APP
plication in that state.
The Marquis of Lorne recently gave
all order in Paris for diamond diadem
costing 800, 900, rs n gift to his wife, the
Princess Louise.
A number OF New York capitalists
have purchased park in the Adiron-
dack region, and are now engaged in
stocking it with deer.
n Colon (Nlich.) farmer who thought
he would do smart thing by blowing
in his bare feet during the holidays, died
tho week after of diphthcria.
Girls who skate this winter are com
PEELED, by the pressure of fashion, TO
skate on one foot and hold the other up
like a hen in wet weather. Rome
Sentinel.
On Il farm in Lyons, Rice county.
Kansas, the ants in their excavations
bring to the surface quantities of small
beads, supposed to have been formerly
in the possession of Indians.
In Italy, woman has recently given
birth to quintuplets, all of whom are
living. A year ago she bore four chill
drcn at birth. The husband is under
stood to be negotiating for emigration
tickets.
Since General Mcclellan declared
in favor of honest money, II
great many Western Democrats have
found out that he was .'dilatory and IN
in the field, and that he
never was II safe leader anyway.
A Vicksburg negro fell from the deck
of a steamboat the other day, was suck
ed under coal barge. came up in time
TO catch his breath before he Slid under
a raft mile long. and finally scrambled
ashore down at Warrenton, about seven
miles below, with the remark, "NO use
irwin, We KANT drown dcpp water
Baptis""
John Mcmahon, the famous wrestler,
formerly Of Rutland. is said to have
been fatally shot at DE Soto, Mo-, last
week, by woman who is supposed to
have become enamorcd ofhim in Cal
itornia and followed him East. His
recent marriage to Matte Martin, of
Carthage, Mo-, probably aroused the
woman's jealousy and caused the deed.
Rev. Mr.. Talmage believes in u hell.
lie preached on the subject recently,
and in his sermon said that "God, fifly-
six times, in the plainest, most unmis-
taxable, stupendOus and overwhelming
way declares that there Is hell"
Nothing but the hand of an outraged,
defed, insulted, long suffering, indig-
nant and omnipotent God keeps this
whole audience this moment from slid
ing like an avalanche into it,
Another 'meejum" was exposed at
Salem, Massachusetts, on Sunday night,
in the shape of James NJ Choate, who
advertises remarkable feat of prodilc-
ing natural flowers. a committee of
three were chosen TO examine the me-
dunn and see that nothing was secreted
on his person. While attending to this
duty they asked TO see the handkerchief
that Choate held in his hand. Choate
10 do this, but The committee in
sisted, and secrcted in its folds was
found number of flowers. Without
making any explanation the medium
departed by The back en-
trance. We should like TO know how
many more of these scoundrels will
need TO be exposed before fools will
cease TO find their paradise in prnnciHg
tables.
A locomotive crushed out Il good deal
Of human experience when il ran over
md killed ID. II. Kotiwilz, at Kansas
City, Missouri, the other day. lie
served with distinction in the Crimea as
captain of the Imperial Guard, and af-
terward with the Grand Duke Michael
in the Caucasus, where he was concern
ed in a plot to aid the escape of his col
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