The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-10-01
GENERAL NOTES.

iohhsylVanla VIII reach the enOrmOu
value OF SS,OOO,0OO the present year.
' Small steamboats, will soon be plying
IN the waters of Venice, and then fare
G well to the gondolas of romance ant
legends.
{ In Winthrop, Me-, Monday, a horse
ran away and jumped upon Horace
Fairbanks carriage, overturning it and
severely injuring Mr.. Fairbanks inter
nally.
Illinois has 1878 miles of railway,
pennsylvania 6068 and New York COOS,
} The area of Illinois is 55,405 square
. miles, of Pennsylvania 10000 and OF
New York Al, 1856.
The receipts at the New York Post
Office last week from the sale of postage
stamps, postal cards, stamped envelopes
and wrappers aggregated the large sum
of $4,000.
A London dispatch says the govern
ment have practically decided to aban-
don Cyprus. They have.stopped public
works and Withdrawn war vessels.
The colored men of Montgomery Ala.
held large meeting last week, which
adopted resolutions in favor of leaving
the state If they were again counted out
in the election of November.
The further the campaign progresses,
the more difficult does Gen. Hancock's
task become, and the more obvious is
his incapacity to deal with it.-TNew
York Times.
A yoke of oxen are anchored at the
bottom of Lade Michigan. Being
hitched 10 an anchor on a ferryboaf,
they backed overheard and dragged it
along.
The Garcelon style of counting
wouldn't work at all this year, as Plaist-
eds name is spelled fifteen ways, and
with various Christian names, on about
one thousand BALLOTS Boston Tran
script.
The grand jury has foundindictments
against the publishers of the News,
World, Sun, Star, Truth, Stats lei
lung, Commercial Advertiser, Police
Gazette, Frank Leslie's illustrated pa
per and the Dispatch for publishing
lottery advertisements.
A New Hampshire captain, who sup
ports a wooden leg and who served i'm |
Hancock's corps, was askedlif he meant |
to vote for Hancock. 'No sir, You
don't catch me voting against my wood |
EN- foot" was the prompt reply.
Robert l.. st uart has Just given
100000 to Princeton college, for gcner-
al purposes, and 100000 to Princeton
theological seminary, for the endow-
ment of new professorship, which
Rev. Francis l.. Patton of Chicago has
recently been invited to fill.
A man sixty-iive years old has been
found in Harrington, Maine, who has
been out of the State only once; has
been on a steamboat only once, and
never was in city until last week.
when he visited Portland, which he
"reckoned warn't much of place for
farms"
Morton Pritchett and Sarah Fanster.
neighbours children, got married, spent
two weeks and all their money in |
honeymoon trip, and returned home. |
The bride was twelve and the BRIDE
groom thirteen years old. The name
of the man that married the two child |
rem ought to be handed around.
California has perpetual skating pond.
There is lake on the Saw Tooth Noun
tains, at the attitude of nearly $4,000
feet, which is constantly frozen. 1t
was discovered In August of last year
by party of prospectors, and named
Ice Lake. The sun seemed to have no
effect upon it except in places adjoining
the shore.
Springfield, Mass, is suffering from
"fever and ague." 1t mostly affects
people in the lower part ofthe city near
the Connecticut river, and it is estimated
that in the past month there have been
nearly one thousand persons affected by
it. The malaria is extending up the |
Connecticut valley, and has reached
Vermont.
Benjamin Tcrherner of Powhattan,
Ohio, on Tuesday deliberately shot his
father dead. The victim was eighty
years old, owned considerable property
and was about to marry. The son gave
himself up and said he could not stand
the thought of his father marrying and
keeping him out of third of the pro-
perty.
Some boys recently dragged out of
the bed of the river near Saltwater Vii
lage, N. Y, one of Burgoyne's four
pound iron cannons, which has lain
there for nearly 1903 years. 1t is in a
good state of preservation. 1t has
been proposed that it be discharged on
the anniversary of the surrender, in
which case it may blow up more men
than II ever killed when under the I'M
lucky English General.
President Hayes was asked TO fill a
vacancy in the army by the appoint
ment of young man whose great-great
grandfather wassa naval officer during
the Revolutionary war, whose great
grandfather was gallant soldier ofthe
army and whose father was a distin-
guished ex-army officer. The Presi-
dent, says the Washington Star, respond
ed with merry chuckle, "Don't you
think it about time that Que of that
family earned living for HIMSELF"
The sharp decline in the value of
| United States bonds since the ascer-
tainment of the fact that Greenbackers,
aided by the Confederate Democracy,
have plurality of votes in Maine,
means simply that the credit of the
nation is shaken because we are face TO
face with the possibility of the election
of the solid Southern candidates.
cincinnati Commercial.
The trade in live cattle between this
country and Europe has so increased as
to snpersede in extent that in dressed
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