The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-03-29
GENERAL NOTES.

A lire in Philadelphia, last Monday
night. caused loss of about 81 ,O00, 600.
.Disracli bcstows a good deal of at
tention upon his costume, and one of
his dressing gowns cost $4,000.
Two soldiers were killed the night of
the goth. at Fort Clark, Texas, in a fight
between the white and black troops.
a Mr.. Wood, who died in New
York. on Thursday ofthis week. leaves
over "A million dollars to establish a
College of Music.
The Jcsuits are negotiating for pal
ace. with the view of removing
their headquarters to Rome, but the
Pore holds aloof from the movement
In London, Eng. March u, by the
Rev. William Rogers, Archibald Philip
Primrose. Earl of Roscberry, TO S20,-
1900 and Miss Hannah De Roth
schild.
Disease is CARRYING off the Russian
soldiers in Asia Minor at a rapid rate.
Among those who are reported TO have
died is Gen. Melikoff, second in COM
mand under the Grand Duke.
Capt Paul Boynton, the American
swlmmist, swan across the Strait of
Gibraltar, on Thursday of last week
being seventeen hours making the trip.
He was nearly swept out to sea.
a woman has Just died in England at
the age Of ninty-scven, who, in child
hood, sat upon the great DR.. Johnson's
knee. Her name was Mrs. Ann Bow
les Fowler, a descendant Of Oliver
Comwcll.
Parisians say that Germany ismaniiest
ing more interest in the international
exhibition, and it is thought all the
German Princes, except Frederick Will
liam and Frederick Charles will visit the
exhibition.
Last Saturday, at Cicero, n. y, II
woman named Lora l.. Edden, aged
torty-six years, murdered her mother,
Mrs. Lucy Day, aged seventy-nine
wears. The old lady was stabbed in
the back, and died in short time.
A brutal mother threw her infant
from the car window ofan express train
near North Garden, Va, the other
night. The child was picked up in u
dying condition, and the mother, a
beautiful, high born, but half Graz
young woman, is under arrest.
A man was scared TO death in Bcrr, =
vile, Mo. He was passing graveyard
at midnight, when two men sprang
from behind n monument and shouted
at him. lie went TO bed, but was SO
nervous that he could not sleep, and
before morning he died in commissions.
Father Walsh, pastor of the Catholic
church at Long Branch, n. j., has caus-
ed the arrest of two liquor dealers there
for selling to a woman who went to his
church drunk, and danced the whole
length of the aisle TO the tune of Pat
rick's Day, which was being played on
the organ.
There is a decided movement of the
colorcd people from the cotton belt OF
the South to the grain-growing regions
further west The recent movement TO
Liberia has apparently stirred up the
emigrating instinct in the colored peo-
pie, and they are developing more en-
terprise. The Memphis Avalanche pre-
diets that the movement TO the states
west of the Mississippi river will be as
formidable as that of the whites which
sweeps annually across the Mississippi
river at Memphis.
Occasionally we hear of negroes turn
| ing white, but now Baltimore paper
/ N xxrl.A nfsrlf a..e
ago was IA light mulatto, gradually
changed TO a sable hue, anda the time
of her death, last week, was of the
blacklist type of her race. The whole
system of the woman underwent com
plele transformation. From stout,
portly and unwieldy person she dwin-
died away into a thin, spare and angu-
lar form of the typical spinster. A
physician who attended her the last
four years could not discover any causG
for the singular change.
The hanging of johnson. the Rome
(Ga. } murderer, last week, was the
greatest town show held in the state fol
many years, $1,000 persons witnessing
the execution. lie left the Jail smoking
cigar, and when he mounted the gal
lows asked for drink. The officiating
priest handed him bottle holy water
which johnson tasted and threw 10 the
ground with curse, saying he though
II was gin. The sheriff finally gave
him a drink OF whisky, and then a quid
Of tobacco, and afaerward several NOR,
drinks, and at last another cigar
Johnson then tied the moose with hi
own hands, and finally consented Il
throw away the remains Of his cigai
and let them hang him.