The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-11-14
GENERAL NOTES.

UENEhhL NVIEDs
A serious war against vaccination Is
threatened in England.
II is said that Leadville has already
yielded $40, 100000 in silver.
One-third of the thriving village of
Ohio, was burned Sunday.
A decisive battle has been fought in
South America, in which the Chilians
were victorious.
Near Fairburn, Ga, a drunken man
named Adams drove his horse into q
ditch, killing himself and little son.
A large box shipped on a railroad at
Cleveland was found to contain q
live man, flask of whiskey, some sand
wiches, and kit of burglars tools. 1t
is supposed that he intended to rob
the express car.
AS the steam tug Dauntless was
towing two vessels up the st. Lawrence
at Montreal Saturday the boiler explod-
ed, scalding to death a fireman named
Norbert Bergeron. The unfortunate
man was O native of Canada and UNI
married.
The National Christian Temperance
Union OF the United States and Canada
closed its session at Fort Wayne, Ind,
Saturday. Gov. st. John, of Kansas,
was elected president for the ensuing
year, and Francis Murphy first vice
president.
All association of ladies in Pennsylva-
MIA have succeeded in purchasing the
house which General Washington oc-
cupied as his headquarters at Valley
Forge, and have begun a movement to
buy the two thousand acres adjoining
in which the old breastworks are still
in good preservation, and erect SOL
diers' home there.
Statistics for the years 1S73-the last
which is complete-are said to show
| that the number of letters written in
the twelve months throughout the
world was $500, 600, 900, or nine million
and quarter per day. The total num-
Der of Geographic dispatches for all the
world in 1877 was 130,000,000 in round
numbers, or 1858, 900 day.
Terrible suffering and destitutiol
among the people of Ireland seem ine-
vitable. The potato crop is everywhere
deficient and inferior, and there is a
scarcity of peat fuel, owing to rain.
These are the leading causes of distress
fexpected to eliminate during the win
ter and spring, and pauperism is greatly
increasing. An appeal for aid is made
to the people of America.
The whaling steamer Petrol of New
Bedford, foundered at sea in squall,
a. E..Ar
the 26th of October until the third OF
November, six survivors chung to the
wreck, exposed to the cold and storm,
and kept continually wet by the seas
that swept over them. They had some
food, but little water, and were barely
alive when picked up by a vessel that
brought them to New York, Saturday
Thomas Check was arrested at Jack
town, Penn, for setting fire to Beth
any College last month, on Friday
,, night by Deputy Sheriff Curtis and
taken to Wellsburg Saturday morning
On the way the people, who had suffer
ed from the frequent iDcendiarisms
recently, turned out and threatened tC
lynch Check, so the sheriff was compel
led to remove the prisoner TO Wheel
!, ing. w. Va, for safety. DIR. Parkin
,, son, prominent dentist, of Wellsburg
w. Va, was also arrested rs accessory
: In Todd county Minnesota, few
, DAYS ago, the house in which John ant
} Michael Moede lived was burned, ant
f John charged that a neighbor named
' Coldall did it because he had induced
Coldall's wife to leave her husband ant
I live with him. Suddenly Coldall and
= man living with him were missing, ant
= in the house signs of foul play wer
4 found. John Moede was arrested oil
= suspicion and lodged in Long Prairi
, Jail. On Saturday, becoming frighten
} ed at the threats of the crowd from tn
r surrounding country, he confessed tina
l he had helped his brother to murdc
: the two men and bury the bodies. Dur
] ing the night Moede was taken from
, the Jail by a mob and hanged. Michae
Moede was arrested Sunday at LAX
Henry and taken to Long Prairie, wher
the mob waits to serve him the sam
, as his brother.
The revision of the Bible, now nearl,
completed, has been a very expensive
work. There are fifty-two members o
the committee, and these meet for tiv,
days in every three weeks. No salar!
is paid to any one of them, but they ar
allowed their travelling and inn eX
penses. These, with other items, will
bring the cost of the first edition of thu
, Revised Bible, as estimated by the Uni
.. versity Press Company, which is re
sponsible for it, to about 100000, ant
: consequently it has been determined tt
sell the first few copies at high price
The new Bible will receive no "author
ization" either from Parliament or con
vocation. 1t has been discovered Incl
dentally during the sittings of the com
mittee that the so-called authorized
version never was in fact authorized
either enthusiastically or politically. /
. made its way by its own merits, and the
revised Bible is expected to do thu
same.