The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-26
GENERAL NOTES.

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Gold has been discovered IN Nash.
woak river, York county, N. Il.
One hundred snd five pounds is The
weight of champion Florida water.
melon.
William LEST was arrested at Detroit
Sunday for making and selling counter
felt coin.
Ilulfa dozen gentlemen" arc said lt
be expelled from the London club every
week for cheating AT cards. ~
James Gordon Bennett of the New
Yory Herald is credited with an income
of $1,000 n day from that paper.
Texas lawyers do not bully witnc scs
on the stand. A Texas witness would
as readily begin shooting from Il wit.
ness-box as from any other point.
The old engine house Mt Harper's
Ferry, where John Brown took refuge,
is now used as common billboard,
and is plastered all over with advcr-
tisemcnts.
The rush to see the walking matches
reminds New York exchange of Car
lyle's remark that the population of the
world is eight hundred million and
most of them are fools.
AT Rome, Tenn, two brothers, Ma
than and Thomas Carter, engaged in a
difficulty which ended in Nathan draw
ing a knife and fatally stabng his
brother in the abdomen and lungs.
Very innocently All Irish newspaper
concludes its account of an imposing
ceremony: "The procession was very
fine, being nearly two miles long, as
was also the prayer Of Rev. Mr.. McFad-
DEM
A London lawsuit reveals that when
"Pinafore was first brought out it did
not bring 5000 a night, while the expen-
ses were $3.50. Before the first one
hundred nights ran OUT the profits were
$500 week,
The first strictly Dominion exhibit
ton ever held in Canada informally
opened at Ottawa on Monday. On
Wednesday the formal opening by the
Governor General and Princess Louise
will take place.
Several of the best known of MIR.
Sankey's and Mr.. Dliss's HYMNS are
being translated al Lucknow. India, in-
to the vcrnacular of that country. for
use in Christian church of which Il
native is a pastor.
Building is remarkably active. in
Paris at the present time. Two hum
dred and eighty thousand masons arc
in constant work; houses are rising OH
all sides, and when scarcely finished
bills announce that they are no longer
TO let.
"A line of steamers TO carry coal 10 the
Mediterranean from Philadelphia il
soon TO be established. The export
trade in coal is now very considerable.
more than three hundred thousand ions
being at present ordered and awaiting
shipment.
The Canadian authorities have issued
an order prohibiting the importation
into the Provices of Ontaiia, Quebec,
| New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prime
Edward Island of cattle from The
United States until October 6.
AT tanners Station, Pa, q few days
Slltt, III All uOOul SOIllt
money, Mr.. Lewis II. Appleton, OF
Philadelphia, it is supposed was hit on
the head with stone by his son Ed
ward, farmer, and died on Saturday
The murderer Wheatley, in Jail al
Pocahontas, Ark, convicted of murder
i'm the Randolph Circuit Court and sen
fenced to be hanged, has committed
| -, 10 Ia. 10, 81, !
food from the day of his sentence until
he died.
A man named John Bangay. living ut
Osbourne, near Lockport, n. S., on
Sunday in a fit of jealousy struck his
wife several times with an axe and then
attempted TO drown himself, but was
rescued and is now under arrest. The
woman is not expected TO recover.
A Yankee and Mexican disputed at
Big Springs, Neb., as to their skill as
marksmen. "What can you do with
that rifle of yoursY" the Yankee snecr-
ingly asked. 81 can shoot that stone
ont of that pin oh your breast" the
Mexican rctorted, and did it, incidental
ly inflicting mortal wound.
Forty-two liquor dealers, nearly the
entire number in the city of Peters
burg, Va, were before Judge Mann on
Monday to show cause why their licen-
ses should not be revoked for falling to
make proper Moflett register returns.
The cases were continued to the Janua-
ry term of the Hastings Court.
John Seiglc was driving home from
Salem, MINI. A highwayman jumped
into the wagon from the rear, pointed a
pistol and said: Cup with your arms.7'
Seigle held mp his arms obediently, but
simultaneously kicked ont with all his
might, hitting the robber in the stom-
ach, and tumbled him heels over head
to the ground where he lay inscnsiblc
sible until the farmer escaped.
A writer of the Galveston News OK
presses the opinion that a river of pc
iroleum is flowing through the subter-
ranean cavities of Texas. 1t takes its
rise in the carbonilcrous strata north
of the Colorado river, and may be
traced at various points on its course to
the Gulf of Mexico, by oil appearing on
the surface of spring streams and lakes,
while at what is known as Oil Bay, on
the Gulf, the water is so covered with
oil that the waves have 10 effect.
Internal Revenue Collector Brayton,
of Charleston. :. c., received des-
patch from Sparianburg on Monday, i
which stated that Special Deputy Col
lcctor and u. ). Marshal Il. j. Davis
was shot at $3.50 T. NJ. by j. b. Panthar