The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-05-23
GENERAL NOTES.
Francis Murphy is in San Francis,

Francis Murphy is in San Francisco I.
A Georgia grand jury indicted a
youth for carrying concealed cork
screw.
1t is stated that fully one-half the
beef sold as English, Scotch and Irish
in England is in reality American.
The Bedford county, Pennsylvania,
grand jury presented as nuisance
every dam in the streams Of that county
which prevents the passage OF fish.
At Terre Haute, Ind, VIM. Felson
(coloreD was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for year and fined $4,000 for
marrying a white woman.
AT Norwich, Conn, Welsey w.
Bishop, implicated with Mrs. Cobb in
poisoning his wife and her husband,
was sentenced to state prison for life.
The Yale crew is claimed to be the
tallest that has ever rowed i'm this
country, the men averaging six feet one
inch in height. There are five new
men in the boat, but they are said to be
doing pretty good work.
The General Omnibus Company of
Paris have adopted the use of the gal
vanic battery in breaking refractory
horses, and scientific experts say that it
is more eflcctual and mcrciful to the
horses than the ordinary method.
A Delaware woman, hard worker
all her life, being about to die few
days ago, called her husband and chill
dren about her and told them where
she had buried Sc, 900 ofher earnings in
the cellar, and they dug it up before the
funeral.
A gang of masked foot-pads assaulted
party of passengers who had just left
a street car on Haledon avenue, Patter-
son, New Jersey, the other night, but
were driven of by the passengers, not,
however, before one of them had choked
the wife of silk manufacturer named
Jennitti until she tainted, and robbed
her of a gold necklace.
John j. Andrews, Philadelphia
merchant, lost the sight of his left eye
twenty years ago, but there was no
pain in the member until 1877. Since
Mr.. Andrews has writhed on the floor
while the spasms held him, until, after
many experiments, doctor has discov-
cred an embryo tape worm in the pupil
of the eye. This has been removed and
goes on record as the first case of the
kind in America.
The production of the salmon Gamer
les of the Pacific Coast last year was
584 200 cans, orr e, 032 900 pounds of
this delicious and nutritious fish. Spec
linens weighing 60 to 40 pounds were
caught by the Oregon fishermen. A Pc
culiarity of the Oregon salmon is their
contempt for all the anglers lures.
They are sometimes caught by trolling
at the mouth of the rivers, but they
never take the anglers fly.
Four years ago Miss Lavinia Goodell
applied for admission to practice in
the supreme court of Wisconsin. The
law opened it to all persons under pre-
scribed conditions, but the chief Justice
decided that "persons" did not mean
women. The matter was carried to the
legislature, which decided that a wo-
man is "person" and is eligible to the
right to practice. But the chief JUS
tice has cruelty adjourned the court
without acting upon Miss Goodelrs
second application.
A wealthy old gentleman living in
Berlin fell i'll love with the young
daughter of poor widow. He wooed
and won the girl, and before the we'd
ding day arrived he made will leaving
her all his property, amounting TO sew
eral hundred thousand marks. The
marriage was celebrated in brilliant
style, and the welded pair with their
guests sat down to breakfast. Scarcely
had the feasting begun when the vener-
able bridegroom dropped his knife and
sank back in his chair, dead from heart
disease.
The Calcutta correspondent of the
London Times says: 1.-THE great
khoomb or duodecennial festival, at
Hurdwar, threatens to be as disastrous
i'm its consequences rs was that of 1867
From $50, 200 to ,00O,O 900 pilgrims as
sembled, and, despite the precautions
taken by the authorities, cholera i'm a
severe form broke ont few DAYS be-
fore the close OF the fair. The streams
of returning pilgrims are now carrying
the disease in various directions to-
wards their homes, and outbreaks are
already reported from a number of
places of Northern India.
The Civil and Military Gazette of
India tells romantic story of beauti-
full queen now reigning over district
near Herat. She is descended from the
far-famed hero Russian. A general of
kafirstan once went TO seize some of
the camels of her country, but the
queen rode out on a superb horse to
meet him and offered him single combat.
The general retired without any camels.
She is unmarried, and many princes
have sued for her hand in vain. AL
though proficient in warlike arts, she
cultivates the arts of peace, and her
subjects ale wealthy and happy.
The grave has no terrors for an &C.
centric person who lives in town in
Illinois. He SCOTS at spring mattresses
and their Accomplishments OF sheets and
pillows, but lays himself down in a
shallow trench in his back yard every
night and faithful man servant shov-
els earth over him until his head alone
is left uncovered. lie has no fear of
10 vi Jul iois anu IL at any lllIc lie
should die in the night all that would
be necessary to be done would be to
cover his head also with earth and let
him sleep till the resurrection. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that this indi-
vidual is unmarried.
Last Friday as the storehouse of the
New Bedford and New York
Steamship Company at the former
place was being cleared out, the per-
sons so employed came across a half
barrel, which had been uncalled for for
q period of three years. The cask was
opened, when there were found in II a
skull with the top sawed off smoothly
about an inch above the eyes, shoulder
blades, breast bone, spinal column, ribs
and thigh bones. Ligaments were still
clinging TO parts of the skull, and earth
adhered TO some of the bones, appear
ing to show that they had been buried
at some time, although apparently not
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