The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-11
GENERAL NOTES.
Gen. Sherman Is in Montreal

The cotton crop in the South is week
or two behind what it was last year.
Nova Scotia had severe frost last
Saturday, by which much damage was
done.
A nearly complete set of bones OF
mastodon has been uncalfhod near Lit
tie Britain, n. y.
W. II. Vanderbilt has purchased a
controlling interest in the Troy Il
Greenfield railroad.
A Southern lady has left quite a large
legacy TO Jefferson Davis. This will
place him in comfortable circumstances.
The Arctic exploring yacht Jeanette
set sail from san Francisco, Cal, on
Tuesday, on its way TO the North Pole.
The twcnty-GfIh anniversary of the
first state convention of the Republican
party was held nj jackson; Mich, July
9th.
A large number of sun strokes arc re-
ported from the West. ON Wcdncs-
day there were three fatal cases at st.
Louis.
The New York board of aldermen
have defeated Nandcrbill's scheme for
an elevated railroad through Fourth
Avenue
The latest Charlie Ross hoax was al
East larnham, Canada. II was n sell on
n local paper, pcrpctraicd by n grace
less student.
a negro named Lee, who had NAL
/ f...a .t..1 all
Va. was taken from the officers by Il
mob of nearly 200 men, Tuesday, and
hung.
From the way in which the body of
Louis NJ. kibby was found nj Temple.
Me-, there can bc but little doubt but
that il was murder.
The two hundrcth anniversary of the
first settlement OF the old town of
Rochester, Mass, will be celebrated the
32nd inst Ii is called bi-ccntcnnial
A desperate Indian fight is reported
near Fort Custer. Six Sioux stole
some horses from the Grows, who pur-
sued and killed all of them. One Crow
was killed and four wounded
Frederick n. Watkins, aged 50 years,
Monday night, accidentally walked OIL
a train between Middlctown and Port
,Jervis and was killed. The body was
found. lie had ticket TO Bath.
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Last Saturday n sino1{lar phcnomcnon
was observed lv several citizens OF
Wolfooro, n. III. The water of thc
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Five years AGO Mrs. Forrest and Miss
Nockcr were murdered in bed nj Now
Braunfcls. Texas. The husband of Mrs
Forrest was arrested for thc murder and
aftcrward taken from iail by n mob and
shot. NJ. i. DE Ia Nors. who has inst
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nose of roLhcrv and eoid Eorros, , ,"ae
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Gen. hi Ccsmola. the director of ihc
Mctropoltan museum nj New York
has received letter from DIR. Scblic-
man. the wcl.known explorer i'm thc
ruins of Troy. The writer eovs, 81
have inst Terminated NV excavations
in Troy. having brought 10 liobt thc
whole ancient city. and taken nj least
10. 900 cnbic metres of debris in lis sinh.
urbs. am now busy WRITING my now,
book on Troy"
A FooLHARDi UNDERTAKINGS The
eyer started for t,.in around lbc vorlI
left Boston last Monday o(lcrnoan for
Cane Town. A LARGE numhcr If nco.
nlc witnessed her dennnfurc 60 l.
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