The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-11-21
GENERAL NOTES.

hbuci iAauci, tnc iulnOub Algerian
chief, died died recently at ID amascus,
at the age of 70.
Several thousand men are now en-
ployed in the construction of the Cana
da Pacific railroad.
There was another adv@I ice of twen-
ty-five cents in the price of coal at
Philadelphia last Monday.
Chester w. Chaplin, of Springfield,
Mass, has endowed the presidency of
Amherst College with $4,000.
A terrible epidemic of diphtheria is
ravaging large regions in Russia, and
the mortality is Unprecedented.
1t is claimed that yellow fever still
fingers in Memphis, though information
OF its presence is suppressed by the
authorities and newspapers.
The consul at st. John, N. b., reports
a gloomy outlook there. There is
large emigration to the United States
of superior class.
A freight train on the Chicago g.
Alton railroad went through IL new
bridge last Sunday. A brakeman was
killed, and engineer and fireman in
jured.
A gale lifted roofs and blew down
houses, chimneys, telegraph wires and
did much other damage in large Sec
ton OF Ohio, Indiana and Illinois last
week.
The New York and Oswogo Midland
railroad was sold last Friday under
mortgage foreclosure for S4,G00,0OO
The road had cost over S2G, 100000.
Peter Cooper will add a Polytechnic
department, at cost of $50, 1000, TO the
Cooper Union, to furnish free instruc-
ton in mechanism and the use of tools.
1t is said that all the hostile Ute chiefs
with the exception of Jack, are willing
to surrender. 1t has apparently been
ascertained that Jack led the hostiles
in the Thornburgh fight.
J. NJ. Jordan, leading lawyer of
Cincinnati, was knocked down Satur-
day and badly used up in the court
house by E. NJ. Tutmiller, witness
whom he had irritatcd in cross-exam-
nation.
Fifty-eight barrels of the finest
American flour were sold at 50 per
barrel last Saturday, on the floor of the
New York produce exchange, to fill all
order sent direct from Queen Victoria's
household.
The new cable from Brest, France, to
st. Pierre, Miquelon, and from thence
to North Eastman, Mass, was completed
Monday, and the United States is thus
Joined to Europe by an additional tele-
graphic cable.
Colonel Williamson, a noted Texas
lawyer, who had suddenly become in
/. sane, stood up in church and asked a
young lady to come forward and marry
him. The lady was so surprised and
shocked that she tainted.
A dispatch says that on the 4th in
slant battle took place between 5000
Cuban insurgents, and 2300 troops uu-
der Spanish General Valera, in which
the latter were defeated with loss of
200 killed and wounded.
Buell., the brutal murderer of Gather
inc Richards, was hung at Cooperstown,
n. Y, last Friday. The same day,
Charles Drews and Franklin Stickler
were hung at Lebanon, Pa, for the
murder of Joseph Raber.
1t has been ascertained that lottery
dealer arrested by Anthony Comstock
recently, who gave the name of Wilson,
!, was really Alderman Webb, we'll
known Methodist and temperance adj
vocate of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Matte Potts, who walked re-
Gently from Philadelphia to New Or
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week by placing her head upon the rail
road track. She stated that poverty
and failure to find employment led to
the act.
; A London correspondent says the
, government has received information
from New York through the British
: consul, that American Fenians are of.
tering money and arms TO Irish tenant
farmers to enable them 10 resist evic.
tons.
Henry w. Worthinglon of Baltimore
! bookkeeper, aged 40 years, while de.
lirious from typhoid fever, leaped
from window of his room, in the
fourth story of the Mansion House, to
the pavement below, Saturday, and was
instantly killed.
Max Berger, lottery dealer, doing
business under the name of Wachsman
IL Co., sues Postmaster james, of New
York, for alleged detention of his let
tiers, for which he claims $4,000 dam
ages. Letters are now detained under
orders of the postmaster general.
The iron steamer Joseph Pease, from
New York to Marseilles,is reported over
due 45 days. The agents believe her
lost. The steamer Telford, from New
York to Antwerp, is also long overdue.
All hopes of her safety are abandoned.
She carried cargo of grain and a crew
of %.
Eliza Pinkston of returning board
fame, was arrested at Canton, Miss. Sat
urday, charged with numbering her hus-
band, who died suddenly. The couple
had been married two Years, and it is
said had had frequent quarrels. The cor
oner has the case under investigation.
Owing TO low water at Carilan, lum-
Der barges have had TO leave Ottawa
with little more than half cargoes for
American ports. An American firm
who bought 100000 feet of lumber
about eight weeks ago have not been
able 10 commence shipment for want of
barges.
1t is reported that the American In
ion telegraph company are about to
begin legal proceedings against the
Western Union telegraph and its aux
Hilary telegraph companies for alleged
interference with the interests of the
American Union by cutting down poles
of the latter company and otherwise.
The Mayor OF STAFFORD, England, Mr..
f. Marson has been presented with
silver cradle weighing 200 ounces, in ac-
cordance with an ancient custom pre-
scribing such a gift for the Mayor when
ever child is born to him during his
incumbency. This may be the great
original "Mayor's nest"