The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-11
NERAL NOTES.

The spring IL backward at the South. I
No trouble Is anticipated this yeai ,
with Sitting Bull.
Reports of the plague In Russia are
much exaggerated.
Nashua, N. H., has the first potato
bug of the season.
The peanut crop this YEARS. estimated
at $50, 900 bushels.
April 20 is the sixticth anniversary of
Odd Fellowship in America.
Canada is striking mp n commercial
understanding with Brazil.
The Southern Republicans are report
ell solid for Grants nomination.
j. G.. Whittier is in failing health and
unable to do. any literary work.
A man and his daughter were killed
by lightning last week in Illinois.
There was a five hundred thousand
dollar fire al st. Lonis last Friday.
Spiritualism has Just entered upon
its thirty-second year in this country.
Several thousand inhabitants ofupper
Egypt have recently died of starvation
The Republican majority at Il recent
election in Wisconsin was 5000.
a recent hard frost in South Carolina
seriously damaged the early vegetables.
A man in Kentucky died recently
from ov%er-cXertion at II walking match.
Dakota claims ninety thousand peo-
pie. and is getting ready to become n
state.
Watcrmclons are plenty in Florida
and fresh tomatoes are II drug in the
market.
Mexico is about to cXpcnd $500 900
on an international Exhibition build
ing.
A counterfeit $50 bill on the National
Bank of Commerce, New York. has
just come to light.
A young man in Rondout, n. y,
was recently driven crazy by the effects
of a practical joke.
The extreme cold weather of last
week damaged the cotton crops in Ala
bama and Georgia.
There is a great negro exodus from
the northern part of Louisiana to the
west. Reduction in wages is the main
cause.
The application Of Shailer, the phila-
delphia wife murderer. for a pardon
has been refused. and he will hang Oh
the 18th.
The annual spring migration of Ca.
nadians to work in the New England
brickyards and manufactures. is il
progress.
The Pope has sent an autograph let.
ter to Queen Victoria, welcoming hci
to Italy, and expressing good wishes fOi
her welfare.
a. V. s. Smith, president of the Fol
lett sewing machine company of New
York, has disappeared, leaving claim,
for 100000 unsatisiicd.
Some months ago a Norfolk. Conn.
man secured n divorce after a LONG
fight, but he could not live alone, Sc
he married the same woman again.
William ii. Vanderbilt Saturday pait
TO the daughters of Horace Creole,
S57 900, principal and interest of none,
} lent by their father to Cornelius j. Van.
derbilt.
There was a fire in Philadelphia lasl
Sunday morning, which DESTROYED
about $4,000 worth ofproperty. Sew.
eral fircmen were killed and others Sc.
verely injured,
Madam Elizabeth %Bonapartc, widow
of jerome B%onaparte, the
brother of the great Napoleon, died last
Friday at Baltimore. She leaves an es
tate valued at 81 100000.
lung Wing, a member of the class
OF 1884 at Yale, and Chinese secretary o
legation at Washington, has given th,
Yale College library nearly four hun.
dred Chinese books.
The cight-oared boat race betwcel
the Cambridge and Oxford universe
ties, which took place on the Thamc,
river, England, last Saturday, resulted
in an easy victory for the Cambridge
crew.
The lIerald's Charleston special say,
an association of colored people ha,
been formed to secure from Congress.
the proposed new territory of Okla.
hama, to be set II apart as n state fol
negroes.
AT Rondoui, n. Y, Thursday night,
in n passion, a woman threw her infant
at her mother. The child struck the
stove, upset a pot Of boiling soup and
died three hours afterward. She i,
under arrest.
Many of the Democratic magnates IN
New York despair of their ability IL
carry that state next November, unless
eX-Gov. Seymour will consent to be the
party candidate for Governor. lie re-
peats his purpose not TO accept, but
) then he once changed his mind.
A Methodist church in BROOKLYN wa,
re-opened last Sunday. The service,
were conducted dy the Rev. Anna
Oliver. The church was sold last week
to satisfy n mortgage, and Miss Oliver
bought it,. The price was $4,000. The
society has called Miss Oliverto occup,
the pulpit.
The supreme court of Maine has de.
cided that the members of the Legisla,
turc can receive mileage but one way
at the rate of twenty cents a mile, TO be
reckoned by the usual route of travel,
A large number of gentlemen will be
called upon 10 return half the mileage
they have drawn from the State treas.
ury.
A Shocking Murder.