The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-20
GENERAL NOTES.

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A Lake Village, N. H., woman has
read her Bible through twenty-five
times.
A negro was hanged at Smithfeld,
N. c., Friday, for criminal assault on
a white woman.
A woman in Raleigh, N. c., threw
her newborn twins into the fire place
and burned them to death, one day last
week.
There Is rumor that President Bart
lett, Of Dartmouth College, will resign
his position at the coming commence
ment.
II is said that Mississippi farmers are
thinking of going into the corn and
cattle trade and leaving cotton severely
alone.
The consul at Lyons announces that
the silk crops of France and Italy are
failures. Raw silks have advanced 20
to 80 per cent.
The Detroit Free Press has the news |
that Missouri farmers are driving posts
into the ground to hang to when cy-
clones come.
Mrs. Kerr, of New York, has recov-
cred 5000 damages to baggage on the
steamship Montana during the passage
from Liverpool.
Out of eighty ladies who sailed in an
Inman steamer last month only five ap-
peared at breakfast the second day out
from Sandy Hook.
The first issue of shares of the Pana-
ma Inter-oceanic Canal Company of
2 ,000, 900 francs, was wholly subscribed
for at Paris, Friday.
The report of the drowning of eleven
persons at Buffalo Gap, ID. T., IS con-
firmed. A large amount of freight was
also destroyed by the food.
A western Connecticut man, the 18th
child of his parents, married the 18th
child of neighbor, and people wonder
if they will have 81 children.
Monday afternoon at Spencer, Mass,
a Frenclman named Brucette, in a
drunken row, stabbed a comrade, prob
ably fatally. Brucette disappeared.
A sea turtle eight feet long and six
feet broad, ono of the largest ever
brought to that port, is the wonder and
admiration of the Brooklyn aldermen.
Evan Rice, ex-cashicr of the National
Bank at Wilmington, Del, pleaded
guilty TO embezzlement, Tuesday, and
was sentenced TO five years. imprison-
ment.
At New York, Saturday, petroleum
fell to the lowest price ever known
since the discovery of oil. The market
declined to CO Is cents per barrel for
crude.
Mrs. John Mills, of Concord, N. H.,
died at Mortified, in that state, of hv-
drophobia, aged 80 years. She was bit
ten severely in the hand by dog about
year ago.
The New York World announces that
Cleopatra's Needle, the obelisk now
standing at Alexandria, Egypt, has
been secured by an American, and will
be sent to New York city.
The shortest organized railroad in the
world is the Castle Rock and Tucker
Gulch narrow-guage railroad in Colora-
do, which boasts of president and gem
eral manager, and is just ZOO feet long
Many complaints are being made by
Andovcr, Me-, farmers on account of
the ravages of bears upon their sheep.
They are becoming remarkably plenty
and very bold and dangerous TO UNI
armed travellers.
A hail storm in Columbia country, N.
Y, on Sunday, accompanied by high
wind, unroofed houses, destroyed fruit,
etc. The storm was in the vicinity of
Germantown and Clarcmont. Damage
estimated at $4,000.
James Bowlan, a hickman, deliber-
ately murdered his wife at San Fran
cisco, Cal, on Tuesday, calling at the
house where she had obtained employ
ment as housekeeper and shooting her
down on her refusal to resume marital
relations.
At Salt Lake, Saturday, George r.
Reynolds, bigamist, was sentenced to
two years imprisonment and $500 fine.
He is the first Mormon convicted of
polygamy since the passage of the act
OF 1862. Every effort was made to pre-
vent conviction.
Professor Childs of Harvard has lust
held the Harvard-examination for wo-
men at New York. Only nine pre-
scented themselves, against sixteen last
year, falling off which is attributed to
the policy of treating women as differ.
ent grade of beings from men.
, The police of Chicago had occasion to
, make q raid upon the Office of a "ticket
scalper" in that city, recently, and
among the stock discovered were passes
. and thousand mile tickets TO the value
of nearly $500, which had been granted
to various individuals, and by them dis
posed of for money consideration.
A few days ago lady of Lowville,
N. Y, chloroformed kitten rs the cas-
lest way to kill it, and the animal,
placed in pasteboard box, was buried
in the garden under q light covering of
earth. Two days later the family heard
, ii mewing, and upon nnearthing the
box the kitten crept ont, and il is now
alive and sprightly.
At Napa, CAL, the other day, a
Frenchman named Petit appeared in
the street, fiourishing pistol in an ex-
cited manner. A man driving by called
: out to him, 'Don't shoot; you'll scare
my horsesl" The Frenchman bowed,
sulu EAcuse int, SIT, Whiicu unill INC
horses had reached a safe distance, aud
then deliberately blew out his brains.
The courtship of Miss Allen by Adam
Wilkinson at Marshall, Texas, was dis
tasteful to the family, and the task OF
driving her sutton away was assigned
to her brother. Mr.. Allen walked into
the room whore the loving couple were
sitting, pointed a pistol at Wilkinson
and told him to get out. Wilkinson
drew pistol and said he preferred To
stay. The firing was simultaneous,
and Allen was killed.
Manley Stevens, Jr., night watchman
at Hunters Creek. Mich, went home
early Saturday morning and found
John HOusa thera SusnectinU him ,,f