The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-02-08
GENEIt AL NOTES.

Baltimore.
Taxes were paid in Great Britain,
last year, upon 1893, $50 dogs.
Normandy has the greatest variety of
apples of any country in the world.
4 ho county Ut Hickman, Tenn, rails
Is 100000 bushels of peanuts per year.
Russia is exporting wheat while she
j. carry ing on Il gigantic war operation.
California II oyerrun with Eastern
Immigrants who can find no employ
mcnt.
Boston had, in january, l,225 cases
Of scarlet fever aud over 100 cases of
diphtheria.
Small pox has been raging In New
Mexico since 1876, and the death list
now foots up over 6,000.
a few years ago Maine was the great
est numbering state in the Union, but
now she is the sixth on the list.
The wife of French Canadian labor
er at st. Benoit has given birth TO chill
dren united like the Samesc twins.
A Young lady in Wisconsin refused
an offer Of marriage on the ground that
her father was not able to support a
larger family.
a Springfield, Mass, beer seller ac-
knOwledges that his sales have falleip
off over one-half since the Murphy
movement began.
Cowansville, Ont, boasts of bride
who was recently led to the altar for
the fourth time, and who is not over
eighteen years of age.
The cotton yield of the southern
states for 1877 will reach 4,75O,000
bales. This is nearly S00,000 bales
more than that Of 1876.
After the selectinen of New Haven,
Conn, had paid poor woman SJ48 in
town orders they discovered that she
had 81 coo in the bank.
A young lady of New Haven, Conn. ),
snufls candles and cores apples with
revolver. The young men are exceed
imgly respectful III their attentions to
her.
Joseph Woods, the murderer, whose
real name was Daniel j. Sullivan, was
hung at Malone, n. Y, ON Friday, for
the murder of Stephen Barber, in Au-
gust
In the year 1900 there were but forty
nine libraries in the United States, con-
tanning an aggregate of 10000 volumes.
The libraries now contain 10000 900
books.
The gold aud silver mines of North
Carolina have yielded, up to the pres
ent time, not less than 500, 000, 900, and
ali effort is being made to renew labor
in them.
Down Boston way they call last
weeks storm "the great snow storm of
'7S,"-"one of the biggest and severest
that has visited New England for sew
eral years"
Horace Greeley has been heard from
a spiritualist medium having received a
communication from the departed spirit
of this good and great man. 1t was
signed "IIoris Grealy."
A single orange tree in the Azores in
one year produced 10000 oranges in q
fit state for expectation. The Azores
send every year to London more than
100000 boxes of oranges.
The small poX is raging at Hunting
don, Pa, and such is the excitement in
the town that all public assemblages,
whether religious or otherwise, have
been prohibited by the authorities.
General Sherman fears that the Sioux
who were permitted to remain sixty
miles back from the Missouri river are
preparing for spring campaign while
the government is feeding their fami-
lies.
The failure of Brigham Young's heirs
TO agree in the distribution of his prop
erty will probably cause contest over
his will. The contestants will be twen-
ty-five wives and their forty-flyc chill
drcn.
A recent wedding at Williamsport,
Pa, had gloom cast over 1t by the
discovery that, through some unac-
countable mistake, the bridesmaid had
been married instead of the intended
bride.
1t is estimated by official authorities
that 1877 ,410,279 pounds Of tobacco
have been smoked or otherwise con-
sumed in Great Britain between 1900
and 1870, the value of which was about
1880, 100000.
Fort Edward has voted to give sl4,-
900 towards rebuilding the institute de-
stroyed by fire, provided the legislature
permits, and in return one hundred
pupils are to be taught annually, gratis,
from the village, for ten years.
Judge Westbrook, in charging a
grand jury in Port Henry, N. T., last
week, remarked: "No matter whether
lotteries are at church fair or festival,
whether at a charitable fair or festi-
val, they are forbidden by the law, and
are misdemeanors."