The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1878-02-22
GEN EItAL NOTES.

Wilson is day laborcr in Washington.
Ills nainc is Goliath.
The Somersworh, n. H., savings
bank has suspended on account of the
failure of Boston parties.
The number Of Quakcrs in England
and Wales is rapidly falling of. A few
years ago They we've estimated al l0O,-
GEO.
The Ncz Pcrccs Indians seem TO be
ON the war path. Massacrcs of miners
and others are reported from Dead
wood.
G. G.. Frost, The temperance worker.
has induced 300 persons of Granville,
N. v, 10 sign the total abstinence
pledge.
Bertha Won IIillern's health is said
TO be giving way under her exhaustive
fcats of pedestrianism, but She is grow
ing rich.
James Gordon Bennett is now report
ed TO be engaged TO brilliant French
countess, of old family and large pos
sessions.
The number Of Cinnamon who ar
rived at San Francisco in January was
only 22s, while sS2 returned TO their
native land.
A ten-ycar-old boy at Mansfield,
Mass, and one of seven Years at Bris-
toll, Conn, have been killed by snow
balls within short time.
Last week II. Bean, n Young married
man of Manchester. n. H., eloped with
Mrs. Plumpton. wife of the ovcrsccr OF
the Amoskeag Corporation.
The Troy Times is startled Just be-
cause the poor expenses of Rensselaer,
county for the past year foot up S210,-
500 80 Troy's share being Sl55, 1920.
Foreigners are rapidly learning
American financial methods. Herr
leaving debts of l50. Geo marks and as
sets of lG marks.
Senator Jones of Nevada is thor
ough business man. In addition TO
managing his mining interests, he is
now making fifty tons of ice day with
"A new machine in New Orleans.
Last Sunday, Warren Lang of Den
mark, Me-, fourteen years old, commit
ted suicide by hanging in his fathers
barn. No cause assigned, some being
of opinion that il was accidental.
The New York postoflice officials re-
port that more valentines passed
through that Office Thursday than have
been sent in years. II required large
force of employees TO distribute them.
Joseph Faulkner, who has justIdied
at Windsor, N. s., at the age Of 103
years, was one of the crew of the Brit
ish frigatc Shannon when she fought
her celebrated battle with the Chesa-
peake.
Birds killed Oh the western praries
and packed with paper in barrels, with
out freezing or any other artificial pro-
cess of preservation, are sent TO Eng
land by every steamer, and arrive in
excellent condition.
The body of Mrs. Ben Pitman was
crcmatcd at DIR. Lcmoync's furnace al
Washington, Penn. The job was done
up in short order, with no very funeral
ceremonies accompanying. All that
was left of her form was about fOul
pounds of ashes.
The paymasters' car on the N. Y
Central railroad passed through Alba
ny, last Sunday, loaded with silver
with which TO pay the employees of the
road. The saving TO the company is
large. II is not said how the employees
of the road liked it.
A young man in Cohocs, N. y, de.
string to salute slcigh-ride party with
pyrotcchnical display, last Sunday
morning, lighted some fireworks and
FASTENED TO his window. Before he
could open ii, however, an explosion
occurred which blew out the window
sash completely.
John Guniburger, a bar-keepcr, in
company with Maggie LYDIA, the daugh.
ter of his employer, registered at ST.
Louis hotel Monday night. Their bod
les were found in room the next after
noon. The man had shot the woman
and then himself. Maggic's father had
forbidden marriage between the part
les.
A big fire in New York city, last Sat.
urday evening, on 23d street, near 1tl
avenue, DESTROYED Il siX-story iron
block containing the armory of the Stl
Regiment and six stores, and the Pres.
byterian church adjoining il on the east
side, and the Scotch Covcnante-s Pres.
byterian church on the west. Loss es
timated anywhere from 100000 to
81 200, 000