The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-05-07
GENERAL NOTES.

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telescope, at a cost of 1925, 900.
The Republican Convention of Ohio
declared for Secretary Sherman for
president.
Forty national banks, with capital of
1892, 070, have organized since Nov. /,
1879.
Mayor Kalloch goes attended by o
TO secure him against assas-
The Zulu war has cost Frgland over
s22, 900 1000.
All Jews of foreign birth have been
ordered to quit st. Petersburg on pain
OF death.
The Canadian railways received over
S10, ZOO, 900 last year for transporting
American products.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt has put away for
a rainy day some forty millions in gov
eminent bonds.
Z. c. Waite, the late proprietor of the
Brevoort house, New York, had $780,
600 insurance on rs life.
Kalloch the younger has been charg-
ed with murder by the coroner's jury
10 the De Young case.
1t is estimated that seventy years and
81 ,000, 900 will be required to complete
the excavations at Pompeii.
The president has appointed Post
master-G General Key to q life position
az District-Judgc of Tennessee.
A Washington paper gives that city
credit for 5000 confirmed colored Grim
inals, and $1,000 cOlored paupers.
Within the past fifty years 200, 900
miles of railroad have been built in the |
world, at a cost of s15, 0O0, OOO, 900.
Public appeals have been issued in |
behalf of the sufferers by the terrible |
cyclones in Missouri, Mississippi aud
Illinois.
Mr.. Gladstone will probably be pleas
ed to know that his advent to power ls'
hailed in Berlin with 'but little apprc-'
tension"
Gold IS found in fifty.six counties in
Georgia, silver in three, copper in thir-
teen, iron in fOrty-threo and diamonds
in twenty-six.
A Middletown, Conn, young woman
has a fish know II as the roach that has
become so tame that it will spring its
full length, five inches, ont Of the water
to take flies from her h9nd.
The main shaft Of q passenger trains
locomotive, on tho New York Central
road, broke MOI lay, near Frankfort
and threw the engine bottom up of an
cmbankment. No one was seriously
hurt.
1t ia reported that the CHILEAN navy
has bombarded Callao, causing heavy
damage on shore and nearly destroying
: the Peruvian corvette Union. Lima is
I threatened by the Chilians aud great
: distress prevails there.
Hon. Levi Robbins, o fLewis County.
a member of the New York Legislature
in 1849, reached his one hundredth
birthday Saturday last, with sound
! mind and fair health. Resolutions in
: his honor we're passed in the Assembly
by q rising vote.
: 1t is reported that the experts en-
ployed in the West Point investigation
have discovered a resemblance between
Whittaker's hand writing and the pen
= manship of the threatening letter HI
clsimed to have received before the out
rage on him.
Danielsonville, CAL, is admiring thu
baggage man who sat coolly down tn
other day in q baggage Car of the Nor
:, wich and Worcester Railroad train, go
ing about thirty miles an hour, and ha,
\ six teeth pulled, and was ready to sc
! the brakes at the next station as usual
Arrangements are progressing for
general meeting of the home rulers il
' Dublin, before the r~eassembling of Pal
lament or the Goth, to decide upon tn
# merits of fixity of enure and persona
~ proprietary, in view of the scheme @
land reform to be submitted to the gov
4 eminent.
A piece of land in Nantucket wa
: sold recently for 500, but before tn
y purchaser could ''read his title clear
tho deed had to receive the signature
Of seventeen heirs, to secure which,
d had to journey to Europe, Californi
and other sections of the world, con
" Ieuiiihb tONtt0i O'Nh
1t ia claimed that when complete,
n the Johns Hopkins hospital In Bait
q more will be the finest and best endow
ed institution OF the kind in the world
THE grounds cover an area of IA l.
acres, and there will be 90 buildings i
the enclosure. For it and a colored OF
@ phan asylum Mr.. Hopkins left $4,000,
900.
II A marked case of emotional ~insanit
v in q cat is shown by one of these aui
c mails in the family of William Jones O
c Oldtown, Mass, which adopted a chick
on q year ago and abandoned her owI
kittens. This year the cat has repeate,
, the same, having kittens which sh
. abandoned and adopted another chicken
: which had been brought into the hous
: for warmth.
Owing to war; weather and over
crowded cars there has of late bee
, great mortality among the hogs arriv
ing At Chicago. Twenty car loads o
e dead hogs came in Monday morning
lone car containing 1O1 had 81 dead, 81
g crippled and only IA in good condition
q Cases Of 20 or 80 dead in a car were nu
: merOus.
The coroner's investigation OF thl
Madison Square Garden accident dis
! closes that tho new wall was not con
! strncted according TO the building law
Z and that the carelessness of the builder
was equalled by that of the building
o department, which should have looked
/. after them. 1t was cheap and hast,
: work, with death at the end.
A canary bird had quite an EXTENDED
n trip among the mail bags on the Main,
Central Railroad recently. 1t was
, small wicker cage, and in some wa,
got mixed up with the mail, so that /
: was placed in n of the bags with
' lot Of papers. This bag was thrown of
at Brunswick, end the bird went Il
Wiscasset, and returned to Brunswick
again whare IN UNA taEau mt unipinpa1