The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-02-04
GENERAL NOTES.

TO washington hoout tho GU" VI
February.
Mrs. Garleld's brothers are to have
charge of the Mentor farm during tho
next four years.
MOODY and Sankey have entred up
on the twelfth week OF their meetings
in San Francisco.
Mr.. w. j. Florence, and Mackay,
the California bonanza king, are trav-
cling together in Italy.
Strawberries ale selling in New
York at two dollars a quart and
cu%cumbers at fifty cents apiece.
The Senate has rejected the nomlna-
ton of Robert NJ. Wallace as United
States marshal for South Carolina.3
Lady Florence Dixie goes to the
T%ransvaal as the war correspondent OF
the %aristocratic London Morning Post.
On Sunday, a German domestic at
Westminster, Ont, saturated her
clothes with kerosene, applied a match
and burned to death.
A resolution opposing the confirma-
ton of the Chinese treaties was offered
in the Nevada Senate, Friday, and ta-
bled by the republicans.
Diphtheria has at length entirely
disappeared from Keeseville. There
have been about seventy-five cases In
the village, and twenty deaths have
occurred.
Fernando Wood has been unable to
attend 10 his congressional duties re-
Gently, on account Of illness, and he Is
Going TO the Arkansas Hot Springs in
The hope of regaining his health. .
A Georgia planter, who has been
troubled to keep his colored laborers,
has purchased a hand organ for their
use, and thinks nov that it will be hard
to persuade his people to leave him.
At the Wheeling, w. Virginia, city
election last week, the republicans cleo
ted four of the six officers chosen on q
general ticket. and secured a majority
of one in the city council on Joint ballot
, DIR. Talmage of New York on Sun
4 dav suggested the organization of a re
form amusement association in every
. town to present plays expurgated
, pruncd and passed upon by a board o
trustees.
James Vail, aged fifteen years, ofCar
. bendale, Pa, was struck by a snowfall
on the nose recently. He has since beef
bleeding from the nose, the gums. th'
b. throat and the skin of the intestines
The case puzzles the physicians.
The will of Justus Ramsey, of st
: Paul, Minnesota, brother of the secre
Il lary of war, who committed suicide
leaves 800, 900 to his nephews, niece
5 and TO the Protestant and Catholic OF
4 phan asylum, share and share alike.
A party of about thirty Indianianf
headed by S~enator-elect Harrison an
Congressman Pierce, Demott, Steele
peelle and W. j. Williams, have gon
TO Mentor to urge upon Gen. CARTEL
o the appointment of a member of th
cabinet from Indiana.
There is a clause in the P%ennsylvani
j. constitution prohibiting the consolidi
ton of telegraph companies in thu
. state, but it has never been suppl,
l. mcnted with appropriate legislation fl
T. ING proper penalties for the violation
T. its provisions and is consequently
i dead letter.
is When persistent advertising make
fortunes for so many men who hay
only nostrums and worthless articles [
announce, dealers in valuable goot
ought to take courage and invest libe
Of ally IA printers ink. Nothing is mol
Of CERTAIN TO pay future dividends tina
judicious advertising.
RS A mortgage of $4,000, held by
Il Boston man on the farm of Rev. "
H. II. II. Murray, at Guilford, Connect
N emf. has lust been forcclosed, Mr.. MI
rs raw having taken no steps to stay Il
be execution. The stock once On Il
/, place is scattered all over the countr,
H. and the famous "Murray farm" exis
b. only in memory.
c. The residence of Wiley Emery,
le wealthy stock farmer, at Coneyvill
XIV, was found in ashes. The dea
a bodies of Emery, his three boys an
r. four girls, were found in the ruin
ed Emery recently received payment for
I'd large sale of stock. 1t is supposed Il
I'd family was murdered and robbed an
re the house fired.
IA NDtculttlOH Ill stOChS Is at Hl2n Ut
in New York and Boston, both citi,
,o having last week recorded the large
~ weekly amount of exchanges on recor'
But prices are as yet, on the Who'll
-, lower than in January n year ago, an
there is not the wild, undiscriminatir
speculation outside the cities that the
oT was then. Legitimate business is lars
and confident.
in Cornelius j. Vanderbilt is defenda
in u suit for $4,000 which has bet
brought against him by a dealer in no
ses to recover the value of an amin
which Mr.. Vanderbilt had borrowe
isf and which died while in his possessio
an Mr.. Vanderbilt claims that a liberal c
,r. innate placed the value of the horse
n less than 5000, and that the deal
ne makes an exorbitant claim in settil
as his value at $500.
A despatch from Santa Cruz, Ca
n SAYS that Camp Capitolia on Soqu
no creek was washed out to sea. On
nd four horses are left of the town; ]
'o lives lost. The OrnoviIle railroad
n. submerged for a long distance. .
We Windsor, Sonoma county, - inches
rain fell in 20 hours. In Placervill
FL Dorado county, in "a hours, Z SOL
inches of rain fell. From the northe
part of the state ONE almost incred
en-. Bile accounts of the rain.
De Lessep's report at Paris, Monda
ut the first constitutive meeting of {
w Panama canal company, states that I
I subscriptions resulted in applicatio
for l,209,G COS shares. France subscrib
10 994.50S. Seventy engineers, superi
pioi tendents and doctors have been sent
20 the isthmus. Steam engines are or
cred which will permit the employing
of a number OF laborers, not to exec
~ 5000. The entire capital requir
"a amounts to 600, 900 900 francs. On
500, 900 900 francs have been called u
Gu the remainder is TO be covered by Il
Ia issue of obligations.
". On Saturday evening, DR.. Washit
IT, ton +. Harbaugh of Piqua, Ohio, del
he isf and member of the city cOuncii. sh