The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-11-04
GENERAL NOTES.
Thanksgiving day, November "a.

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Telegraph-laying progresses rapidly tc
n China. fc
In the late German elections, some "
Of Prince Bismarck's bilterest enemies II
we're successful. 7,
Two-thirds of the village of Edge N
field, S. g., was burned last Sunday. f,
Loss 100000. c
NJ. Gambctta has accepted President
Grevy's invitation TO form a new cabi-
net for France.
The treasurer OF Beaver County,
Pennsylvania, was knocked down re- {
Gently and robbed of $4,000.
The French have occupied the Arab
city of Kairwan, in Africa, in which no
Christian has been allowed to live.
Fifteen hundred cases were entered
in the Irish Land Court in one day last
week, and notice has been given of So
900 more.
The Queen City Club, of Cincinnati,
has half-a-dozen members whose united
wealth is put at the high figure of
$500, 100000.
hlll2 VI Win biS
queen, has visited Emperor Joseph, |
of Austria, and been received with
pomp. Political aims and results UNI
known.
a steamer was sunk in the Missis-
sippi, last Friday night, near Rock Is
land, Illinois, and more than dozen
lives were lost. The machinery be-
came disabled, and the boat was swept
down against a.picr of tho bridge
An Iowa lawyer of some years prac-
tice is now serving as locomotive fire.
man, on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad, and a physician of
twelve years. practice is acting as
freight conductor on the same road.
Christmas cards grow more and
more expensive. In few years a
young man that has only a couple of
hundred dollars TO spend during the
holidays will be undecided whether 10
buy his girl Christmas card or gold
watch and chain.-T Norristown Her
aid.
A firm at Augusta, Georgia, recently
received dispatch from London, for
bottle of medicine. The message cost
81 80, the medicine 81, and the express
charge to London is $3.50, so that it
will cost Sl2 by the time it reaches the
great city.
The salutatorian, says an exchange,
at Yale, this year, was a German, the
valedictorian Hebrew, and the prize
declaimer, a Chinaman. But when il
comes to real classical culture our ma
tive land is there. The pitcher of the
Yale Base Ball Club is an American.
So many seized pistols have accumu-
c lated in the Memphis (Tennesec)
f court, that Judge Horrigan has issued
: an order directing the clerk TO throw
, all, except army and navy pistols, that
have been in his hands more than six
: months, into the Mississippi river, and
into such deep water that they cannot
be tished out.
The Canadians are talking up new
: route for communication with Europe.
y This is q water route from the heart of
9 the country, from Fort Churchill, via
d. Hudson Bay and Strait to Liverpool.
u 1t is said that Chui chill harbor, which
n will accommodate the largest ocean
c steamers, is one hundred and fourteen
II miles nearer to Liverpool than New
York, and sixty-four miles nearer than
y Montreal.
1t has been estimated that ten thons-
" and old trees, scattered over the original
D states, are still regarded with sacred
J. ioy because General Washington par
N took of food beneath their branches
When il is considered that, in the
course of nature, many even of such
g, halloWed growths as these must have
vi In 10 MI anti
" it is apparent that the father of his
country had an extraordinary londnesS
= for dining al treSco.
Our French visitors ought TO have Q
good idea both of the enforcement oil
law in this country and of its regard
for international hospitality. An un,
lucky Philadelphia thief who violated
both by breaking into the hotel room
Is of one OF the French dignitaries visit.
A. ing that city, and was captured by his
5. intended victim, was handed over to
" the police, indicted, tried, found guilty
e and sentenced to three years imprison
" ment before the day was over.
n An original portrait of Columbus
Is painted during his lifetime, has beer
70 found in the Spanish Colonial office
,s 1t is well preserved, and bears the fol.
is lowing inscription: "COlum6uS, Ii
~ gur, nori oT0iS repertor." Columbus
n. looks in it to be man of forty years
ot with nnwrinkled forehead, thin, black
hair, brilliant eyes and an aquiline
l. nose. One copy has already been made
Ie of it and presented to the Duke of Vera
~ qua, direct descendant of the discov.
n erer. The picture in size is nineteen
II inches by sixteen
l. Some terrific gales have been en-.
10 countered by steamers crossing the At.
l. lantic this season. The Titania, which
g arrived at New York from Dundee, Oh
n Friday, had very boisterous passage
During a gale, which lasted two days
u tremendous waves boarded the ship
D. causing much damage. Three life
10 boats were destroyed, the wheel char
s. houses wrecked, fore-boom carried
l. away, bulwarks started fore and aft
&c starboard bow stove in, the upper am
D. lower bridge rails, compasses, tele
n graph, bridge ladders, &C., carried
is away. The boatswain was severed,
n injured by a sea which struck him, anc
&c all hands were more or less injured
D. AT times the ship was completely sub
re merged.
E. VERMONT BANDiTTI.- followin:
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