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

Ha - 80
.,, 3n aS.pp. produced $1,000 tons of butter
Toledo Ohio, estimates 40 ,ooo;.,,s
O wheat This season at 20 900 900 busb.
els. VII II Isl III ri ~ o"'nn--
Kaufman, Texas, has .rnonstrositv
IN lhe shape of child which resembles
Every schoolboy in this country will
see terrible warning in the fact that Il
san francisco schoolmaster dropped
dead while furnishing q pupil.
The town of Volcano, West Virginia
containing about 1000 inhabitants. was
entirely. destroyed by fire last Monday
morning, supposed to be incendiary.I
David Anderson, one of the members
OF a picnic party at Englewood, N. j.. on
Friday, fell from the Palisades, $50 feet
high, and was probably fatally injured.
The hot-air balloon with Pullman x
Co.'S show took fire at Stanstead. p.
O., on Saturday. Mons. Allen had A
very narrow escape. The balloon was
wreck.
Tho English assizes show extraordi.
nary light criminal calendars, at some
places only ono prisoner, ut others
zone, result of The fact that hard times
SHIT OIL the mother of crime drink.
The largest furniture mandatory in
ST. Louis is n cooperative concern, each
of the 40 skilled workmcn being a
holder of at least one share, and not
more than twenty, Mt S25 each They
are chiefly German Socialists.
The Bellefonte, Pa, Waterman says
the grasshoppers are destroying almost
everything in the shape of vegetation.
In some paks of Centre County they
have eaten all the grass and corn, and
are now working industriously Oh the
fruit trees.
Al the New Hampshire home for re-
fractory youths at Manchester, is con-
fined Il Mrs. Rhodes, of Dover, who, al
though not yet seventeen years of age,
has been three times married. She was
| sentenced for ono year for disorderly
conduct, on complaint of her third hus.
band.
While ex-senator Dorsey was sitting
in front of the Grand Central Hotel at
| DChNCij OOlsy Vii wi. ,
of Memphis, approached him and struck
him twice with his fist before persons
present interfcred The trouble, il is
said, grew ont of disagreement con-
corning some Federal appointments in
Arkansas.
A special from Arlington, Texas, says
Deputy Marshal George White and
party, with their prisoner, Tom Afford,
while ell route to Fort Worth, were at
tackled by three brothers OF the prisoner,
and in the skirmish which ensued Mar
shel White was shot in the groin, per.
haps fatally. Two of the Affords were
wounded, but rescued the prisoner and
escaped.
Little Gussic Newcomb, six years OF
age, was sent on an GRAND by her moth
or, and was accosted in the streets OF
New York by woman who twisted q
valuable ring of her finger. The little
thing of course was frightened, but she
kept up such rapid pursuit of the thief
that when policeman came in sight
she was able to point the woman out,
secure her arrest and get back the prop
crty.
A college graduate, who had over
two thousand dollars worth of educa-
ton, went to Leadville to seek his for
tune, and did not earn enough in six
weeks to pay three days board, while
a ncighbor of his who accompanied
him, and signed his name with an
"X' made five hundred dollars the
day after his arrival. The ignorant
man understood the game of "poker,"
and the college graduate did not, hay
ing neglected this branch for the less
useful one of rowing boat.
A dispatch to the Times. from Port
Dunford, ofJuly 18th, says that King
Cetewayo when leaving the battlefield
of Ulundi, told his chiefs to look to
their own safety and TO seek terms OF
peace as they could. His army is bro
ken up. Zululand will probably be divi-
ded into three or four separate principal
tiles, each under the rule of an indepen-
dent noble. Cetewayo's brother Oham
will received his own territory under
this arrangement.