The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-25
GENERAL NOTES.

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Americans are taking the honors in
contests in England.
Secretary Sherman has been making
speeches in Boston and other New
England cities. Me- s.
The Protestant clergymen of Utica
have agreed not to preach funeral SER
mons.
Brooklyn, N. y, has had fatal case
of yellow fever, the patient being from
Havana.
Tom Bufod, the murderer ofJudge
Elliott, has been sentenced to state pri-
son for life.
Among the debts that Norwich man
ran away from was 800 for pew rent
and $50 for liquors.
Hayti is the scene of a bitter party
conflict. In riots at Port al Prince over
three hundred lives were lost.
Chastine Cox, the murderer of Mrs.
Hull in New York, has been sentenced
to be hanged August 20 next.
The storm in Eastern Massachusetts,
last week was attended with immense
damage TO property, and considerable
loss of life.
Superintendent. +. A. Walker of the
census believes tho coming census will
show an increase of ten million people
in the last decade.
Gen Miles had an engagement with
the Indians on the 18th inst. Tho In
dams fled to Sitting Bulls camp. An
other fight was imminent.
William II. Vanderbilt has recently
bought eighty fifty thousand dollar four
per cent. bonds, four million dollars in
all, just for "a family investment"
Lord Chelmsford has at last beaten
the Zulus In a pitched battle, In which
his army was attacked. and surrounded
by the entire Zulu force, numbering
$4,000.
An enthusiastic temperance woman
at Fort Collins, COLORADO, has given a
supper to all the young men in the town
who had not imbibed alcoholic LIQUOR
for sixty days previous.
Thirteen men were injured Saturday,
six of them quite seriously and two ia
tally, by tho fall of part of the roof of
round house that tho Erie railroad
company is building at Buffalo.
In the Crimean war there was one
British officer, and we believe no more
than ono, who showed the white feather
openly. lie returned home only to find
his fathers door shut in his face.
Reports from Fort Ellis say there
| arc 400 Indians there starving, and the
number is daily increasing. Three
hundred are within days march, I'M
able to proceed further from weakness.
Small silver coins arc now legal ten
dcrs for ten dollars instead of five dol
lars. The coins may be forwarded to
the treasury in sums of twenty dollars
and multiples thereof, and greenbacks
received ia exchange.
Reading, Pa, Is threatened with a
serious water famine. The receiving
dams from which the city's watcr-sup-
ply comes have become mere mud pud-
dies. Some Of the manufacturing cs-
Establishments have had to shut down.
The executive committee of the trunk
lines at Long Branch on "Wednesday in
New York resolved that OH August 4th
rates shall be advanced to a basis of 25
cents for grain, 80 cents for fourth class
freight, and 40 cents for live hogs from
Chicago to New York.
Samuel G.. Grastey, commercial trav-
cler, last Monday night shot Mr., Read
and son at Opelika, Ga. They at
tackled him in his hotel room for alleg-
ed improper intimacy with Miss Read.
Grastcy was badly cut. The elder
Read and Grastey will die.
Gen. Hazen has requested an official
inquiry into his conduct at several bat
ties and says the reflections in the recent
order of Gen. Sherman relative to the
court martial were unjust. Gen. Sher-
man has refused his request, and order
ed him to join his regiment in Dakota.
The West is Hslicking up" extensive
ly. The Eastern clothing manufactures
are making more goods than ever for
the Western trade. One Boston con-
Germ has just received an order for
one hundred thousand dollars worth of
special styles, such as arc not worn at
the East.
The exodus of colored people from
North Carolina to the West has begun.
Five colored men passed through Wash
ington last week, and they say they are
but tho pioneers In the movement that
has just started. They represent that
they have been enduring an oppression
worse than slavery.
A party of Is, some of them from
Quebec, set out from POnt Aux Trem-
blcs for q sail OH tho st. Lawrence last
Friday afternoon, in pleasure yacht.
The yacht was struck by heavy squat,
turned completely over, precipitating
the living freight into the water. Eight
persons were drowned.
A band of determined men on We'd
nesday entered tho Jail at Quincy, ILL.,,
where Frank Hobbs, colored, was con-
fined on charge of outraging and
nearly killing Mrs. Ferguson, at Red
ding, Pike county, and shot him dead
and dragged the body, riddled with
bullets, through the streets. His VIC
tim had identified him.
1t is said no will has been discovered
late Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, he was
always talking of the folly and improv-
idencc of men who die without making
their wills, and like his legal lordship he
left Els, 000, 900 to be "arranged." The
legacy duty is f1SS,000. Lord Chan
cellor Sugdcn, who wrote the celebrated
treatise on wills, died without a will
being found.
William Slater, ont near Omaha, of |
fercd his heart and hand to Miss Bow
den. She thought best not to reject the |
articles on the spot because he casually |
that he would kill her unless
she straightway HE'D with him to a
but when thoy reached the |
city sho called for help and man took |
her away. The enamored Slater chased !
and shot her, but didn't kill her, though |
the bullet went through her body.
The decision of the Pennsylvania SUI
preme court makes Allegheny county |