The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-03-15
GENERAL NOTES.


Naples has just adopted the horse
railway.
Sitting Bull has made proposition
to surrender.
Over two thousand Platisburghcls
nave signed the temperance pledge.
The American Consul at San Domn-
go has been imprisoned, and the l.. s.
). Plymouth has been ordered there.
Philadelphia is making preparations
to give Gen. Grant grand reception
when he returns from Europe next fall.
II is said that at the present rate of
slaughter all the deer in the Adron-
dacks will be cXterminated in ten years.
A Jersey City rag, bone and paper
picker, who died recently, willed his
property, amounting TO $4,000, TO
Queen Victoria.
Pinkham, the murderer. who has
been on trial at Dover, n. H., was last
Monday sentenced TO be hung on the
18th of March, 1879.
The fourth anniversary of the death
of Charles Sumner was COMMUNICATED
by the Young Mems Christian Union
in Boston, last Tuesday.
The number of failures in Montreal
during February was thrty-six, with
aggregate liabilities of 81 ,935, 200 and
nominal assets S9S9,9j0.
a bill for abolishing actions for breach
of promise of marriage is before the
British Parliament, and there is not
much opposition expected.
Mrs. Nawtcr, of Rochester, Ind, has
II baby which weighs pound and half,
and is so slender that a fingcr-ring can
be slipped over its arm TO the shoulder.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is reported to
be living in seclusion in France, fearing
to return to the United States lest she
should again be placed in a lunatic asy-
lum.
Last Sunday general fight took
place between the Orangemen and
Catholics, at Montreal, in which knives
and pistols were freely used, and sever
al of the rioters We're severely wounded.
A powder-mill exploded at Acton,
who were working in the mill al the
time were blown to atoms, and several
adjoining buildings were demolished
by the conclusion.
Two llolyoke women gave birth to
three babies each OH the same day. One
of the fathers is described as being Gas
much set up as country store" but the
other declared that the tripets were
"too darned much of good thing"
The religious observance of Sunday
practically ends at noon in San Francis
co. In the afternoon the law permits
all public amusements, and race courses,
theatres, and other resorts are open.
Sunday evening sermons are called lee
lures there.
Last Monday Two Philadelphia boys,
Robert McAdan and Charles Parton,
aged about twelve years, got to quarrel
ing the latter demanding some candy
which McAdam was eating, and threat
enng to shoot hiuI. McAdam did not
heed the threat, and Parton pulled a
pistol from his pocket, pointed it ut the
head of his companion and fired, killing
him almost instantly. Parton was ar
rested.
The hcalhcnish practice of college
hazing is again illustrated by proceed
ings at Dartmouth. On the evening of
March IL, the Sophomorcs intruded
upon the Freshmen. At about two
O'Clock in the morning the Freshmen
broke into room occupied by SOph-
omore and his brother, Senior, and
severely beat and disfgurcd them. Sew
cral have been arrested and search is
being made for the rest.
The state of bulgaria, which is to take
the place of largo part of European
Turkey, will extend from the Danube
on the north TO the .Kgean Sea on the
south, running about a hundred miles
along the coast of the latter; and from
Servia on the west to the Black Sea on
the cast, extending along that coast fully
two hundred miles. Turkey is allowed
II military road for reaching her western
provinces, from which she would other
wise be cut off, but her troops, il is
agreed, "must not make any considera-
bic halt while passing through the
of 81, 900 square miles, or about the size
/ VI NV liiSluilu WIFI tOlllcCtlCut ltlt
out, and population of over 100000
A half-wittcd Partisan has been max
ing an experiment in dentistry. lie
had long been suffering from tooth
ache, but obstinately refused to go to n
dentist, and at length, finding the pain
uncomfortable, took the following I'M
common method of extraction. To the
tooth he attached long string, and to
the string heavy stone thus armed
he proceeded to the topmost story of the
house he occupied, opened the window,
and hurled the stone into the air. The
weight of the stone and the length of
the string produced so violent shock
that not only was the tooth pulled ont
but with il portion of the jaw, his
neck being so painfully twisted that he
tainted. Hours ensued ere conscious
ness returned-and when he recovered
his senses, it was only TO find himself
| derived of the faculty of snepch