The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-02
GENEnU NOTES.

. a ah DOytOn is 10 unuortako 10 swim
fz,ooo D'iles down the Amazon.
Over so buildings in New York have
been declared unsafe by examiners.
The thermometer in some parts of
Minnesota was 8 degrees below zero
Friday morning.
Marshal Henry says the Guiteau trial
will cost the government not far short
of 100000.
Roscoe Conkling's shinglc has been
put out at the corner of Nassau and
Cedar streets, New York.
The Fall River Daily Sun has been
sued for libel by one George Gunton.
Damages are laid at $4,000
Forty-threc lives were lost the past
season in the Gloucester fisheries.
The season has been unusually good.
Thurlow Weed attended q meeting
of railroad directors and received his
friends till midnight on his S4th birth
day.
A run on the Howard Savings Insti-
tuition of New York occurred the 10th.
The bank has $4,000 after all deposi-
tors are paid.
A Pekin, ILL.,, mans wife has given
birth to boy every Fourth of July for
four years. Methods of celebrating are
a matter of taste.
A little boy remarked: ~ like
grandpa because he is such q gentle
manly man; he always tells me to help
myself to sugar."
Tobacco has another sin to answer for
a ccording TO Belgian physician, who
has discovered that the use of it is the
main cause of color blindness.
Some Pennsylvania capitalists have
pooled in Sl5,O00,OO0 for the purpose of
obtaining control of the entire anthra-
cite coal production of that state.
Postmaster Straham of Lynchburg.
Va, who stabbed j. G. Hicks of Rich
mond, in political quarrel, has been
released, as Hicks refused to prosecute.
Thos. Bonus, 1.-the man who shot Mrs.
Learing at Auburn, N. Y, was found
in the woods the 18th, with q bullet
through his head, having committed
suicide.
Over $S,000,000 of the old North
Carolina bonds have been refunded
into the new four per cents, under the
compromise act. -Four millions arc
still unpresented.
A Kentucky girl was struck by light
ming, and killed, while dressing for her
wedding, and the hard-hearted Cincin-
matt Enquirer says: "There is such q
| n ri
Aaron A. Chase, editor of the Scran-
ton Times, was convicted of libel
against w. W. Scranton, late manager
of the Lackawanna Coal & Iron Com
pany. The jury awarded Scranton
$4,000 damages.
A well-known newspaper correspon-
dent at the state capital of Missouri ha {
applied for divorce from his wife, al.
leging as a reason that "he finds mar.
ried life and the newspaper business in.
compatible and intolerable."
A French matrimonial advertise
ment: "Marriages.-A young man
without fortune, but possessing q
name honorably known and generous
heart, wishes to pardon q great fault.
ca rich young girl preferably"
The annual report of the New Lon
don Northern railroad shows a tota
income of $611 ,073 net earnings, 1924,
9s3; surplus after paying dividend;
and taxes, S41, 35l; surplus last year
SAL $50.
An extraordinary plot TO kill the
Car of Russia is said to have been dis
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sive material was 10 have been sent VI
and then allowed 10 descend into the
palace yard at Gatchsina, where the
Gear and his family ale residing.
Is this picture Of Maud Brans
combe? No, it is picture of Mr.. Til
den. Is ii not Beautiful? The left Eye
is closed. 1t must be Tired. He is sit.
ting on q barrel, 1t mnst be 6
barrel of Jam. Would you
| like to get your little Hands into the
Barrel? We would Denver Tri.
bune Primer.
They have an original way IN Ven
ice of protesting against bad tenor,
A gentleman in the parterre of the
Teatro Malibran recently opened his
umbrella and held it toward the stage,
evidently TO keep off the shower OF
false notes. The auditorium at once
became a forest of open umbrellas
The tenor fled, the curtain fell, and arr
was avenged.
Mrs. Victoria G. Woodruff has re.
turned to New York, after an absence
of five years, accompanied by her sis.
ter, Tennie G.. Cla1in, and her daugh
ter, Zulu Maudc Woodruff. Zulu
Maude is the young lady who, it was
at one time reported, was to marry O
brother of the marquis of Lorne, Prin'
ucated for the stage.
Another monster devil-fish has re.
Gently been secured on the Newfound
: land coast. The creature was driver
ashore by the high tide at Portugal
cove and secured by fishermen. 1t /:
thirty-three feet long from the tail &c
> tie termination of the long tentacles
This is the first fresh, complete, unmu
tilated specimen secured and landed Of
this monstrous fish.
+ The will of Henry T. Durant O.
Wellesley, Mass, made Mrs. Duraut
sole executriX and bequeathed $4,000
to William f. Smith, brother of Mr.
, Durant. Mr.. Smith has been unable tC
! obtain possession of this money, ant
will 20 to law. General Butler and f
f ID. Ely are retained as Smiths counsel
, and hearing will be had at Dedham
{ December 2. The amount indirectly
involved is between 100000 ant
100000.
The enterprise of boring artesial
wells in Tulare county, California, hal
proved successful. A wall commenced
ON October 10, struck water twenty
seven days afterward, at a depth o
three-hundred and thirty feet, and La
4 sinco heen vieldinO at the rate of mort