The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-08-29
GENERAL NOTES.

Gen. Hood is down with the yellow
fever.
Tho yellow foyer is rapidly increasing
la the South.
Boyton and Webb arc TO have an
other swimming contest. II is to take
place in Boston Harbor.
Fanny Davenport has purchased for
$45, 900 piece Of property at Canton,
Pa, which will hereafter be her sum-
mer homo.
Aaron Burr was bold, bad man and
vet he was grandson OF Jonathan
Edwards, and the descendant of mauy
Puritan ministers.
Everything at Niagara Falls has been
fenced IL, with the exception of the
roar of the falls aud the hackmcn.-
New Orleans Picayune.
It is generally conceded that there
will be rowing match between Han
Ian, the champion OF the world, and
Courtney, to take place this fall.
The competition of male and female
students in the arts, science and medical
examinations of London University
takes place this year on footing of per-
feet equality.
Lieutenant Commander Gorringe sail
ed Tuesday for the purpose of bringing
the needle of Cleopatra to New York.
1t will be shipped from Alexandria as
regular freight.
A fire in Richmond, Va, Tuesday,
destroyed the building known as "Cas-
tie Thunder" which was used during
the war for prison house for both Fed
eral and Confederate prisoners.
A sale of IL 500 acres at Montauk
Point, l.. l., owned by the remaining
two families of the once powerful Mon
taukett Indians, has been ordered for
October %, to settle a dispute between
the owners.
1t is reported that thirteen farm hands
employed by j. A. Briggs, near For
est, Ohio, have been poisoned BY eating
biscuit in which strychnine was acct
eentally used for soda and that they are
all in a critical condition.
Centennarians are invariably objects o
special interest III England. The ont
Mrs. Fanny Bailey, of Worthing, aget
est &c and tho youngest 81.
Two men in Texas cracked and at,
pecan nuts in church during service
disturbing he congregation, and cav
ing the minister to remohstrate. Th'
indulgence cost then. S25 each.
Rowell, the English pedestrian, hal
arrived and states that Brown and Haze
are on the way. Weston, the champion
of the world, arrived Wednesday, ant
was given a reception. Flo is in first
class condition for the coming contest
The cholera is raging in Japan. there
having been forty thousand attacks, ant
about twenty five thousand deaths tn,
present month. The emperor has givei
seventy thousand dollars from his owl
fund to assist in aiding the sufferers.
An old Dominican monk was walk
ing in the street ct Santa Maria, Italy
when stranger cried ont, II is tint
| killed somebody" and stabbed hin
fatally. The murder was absolutel,
wanton, no possible motive being dis
covcrabie.
A recent marriage in high life in Eng
land is that of Lord Edmund Talbot
youngest son of the Duke of Norfolk
with the Hon. Mary Caroline Berthe
eldest daughter of Lord Norreys. The
wedding ceremony was performed by
Cardinal Manning.
Martin Dunsbach, the father of Cath
4 a,.s,, h,,. al,onh x.,I.. sDnr1araA hi
Latrimouiiie, handed over to District
Attorney Hotaling, last Saturday, the
$500 reward which no offered for the
capture and conviction of the murderer
of his daughter. The amount will be
distributed by the district attorney this
week. Nearly the entire reward will
be given to COnstablcs Smith and Haw.
ley of Port Henry.
An exchange says each week it has all
sorts of questions asked, as how to get
an education, how to open school OF
boarding house, or buy or build q
house. We think these hardly equal
one propounded last week to deacon
in the Congregational church: "Can
you tell me at what hour Pinafore be-
gins!" che said naively. 81 thought
you would know" And possibly the
deacon did know !-[Congregationalist
Martha Rogers, who died few days
ago, at Middletown, Conn, for fifty
years possessed a fortune; but she was
constantly dreading poverty, and regu-
larly spent a part of her time gathering
rags and other discarded things in the
streets. A room in her house was filled
with such rubbish. Yet she gave mon
ey literally for charitable and religious
purposes, while she lived, and by her
will left S25, 600 to various institutions,
An innocent-looking young man,
travelling ON train from ST. Paul to
Chicago, was observed suddenly IL
reach up and pull the bell-rope. The
train, of course, came to standstill
while conductor and porter rushed into
the car to ascertain the cause for the
detention. Gentlemen" explained
the young man, "you must excuse me.
l wanted the porter, who was in the
'forard' end of the car, to make up my
bed, and thought that if pulled the
rope that would fetch him.