The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-09-02
GENERAL N0TES.

II is estimated that the reduction of
OF the public debt during the month of
August will not be less than $17,000,-
600.
There has been q largo decline in
quinine, in consequence of the discov-
cry of a new source of supply at San
lander, in Colombia.
Jefferson Davis's book is not selling
very well in the South. The fact is, |
the sensible people of that section no
longer mourn "The Lost Cause"
The best wine and cider mills manu-
featured in Ohio are said to bear the
name of Abraham Ludlow. lie is theI
prohibition candidate for Governor. Z
Lieutenant Commander Edes and
Lieutenant Spalding were killed i'm
Newport Harbor, II. l., on Mo 1day, by
the premature explosion of q torpedo
which they were placing in position.
Mayor Bcnyard of New Orleans has
become satisfied by observations made
at the mouth of the Red River, that the
Mississippi is cutting channel TO the
gulf through the Atchafalaya River,
which will in the near future become
its outlet and leave New Orleans on q
shallow stream.
The eastern section of New Jersey 10
suffering for want of rain. There has
been no appreciablc fall since the
Fourth of July. The crops arc burning
up, and it is doubtful if rain conld now
save them. Fires in the meadows are
numerous. Water is sold in many
places land in some localities il is SO ex-
pensive that The more destitute have
not washed :heir faces for q week.
The United States have u times our
numbers and more than 40 times our
wealth. Once convince them that we
are seeking, even in a moderate way, to
become a military power, which we
could do for no other purpose than to
use against them, and they could, with
comparatively little cost to themselves,
, abate us as nuisance London
(Ont.) Advertiser.
Some of the Massachusetts Green
hackers favor law under which cor.
: porations shall divide all profits above
six per cent, among persons in their
> employ. Why not go a step further
and declare that if six per cent. is moi
earned it shall be made up TO them by
. their employees? Without it, the plat
form would seem to be based on the
principle, "Heads, l win; tails, yor
: lose w-[Boston Traveller.
The Georgians are moro democratic
than the Virginians, and yet they arc
: not without strong feelings of state
pride. During the war there lay al
g uncouth fellow from Putnam county
2 OovIS'a uyluS la o IGohp, md hvsr,itei
4 As soon as he was told there was M
g chance of recovery, he requested tina
q his remains be sent to "Georey.'
i don't want to lay in Virginny dirt"
: A singular coincidence has been not
! ed at Buffalo. On the fourth of las
!. March, the Inauguration day of Presi
!, dent Garfield, a boy was born in tina
h city and named James Garfield. in hon
vt or of the new Chief Magistrate. On
e July 2, the day the President was shot
It the child was taken i'll, and fingered
!. until Saturday last, when he died, q
C the very time the bulletin boards wer,
6 announcing that the President was liza
|. BILE to die at any time.
:, The Augusta, Ga, cotton mill ha
l. averaged 20 per cent. net profits OH il
e capital of 100000 since the war.
}, has cleared 100000 in the last 81,
o months. The Enterprise mill at An
- gusta paid 10 per cent. dividend las
If year, and for the last six months Ina
!; been earning from Is to 20 per cent
If The Langley has Just paid an pc
- cent semi-annual dividend ,aY9us 100,
: surplus fund is about S275 600 on
e capital of 100000.
If Every now and then Mr.. Seth Green
7. the veteran authority on fish cultur
l. and an ardent lover of the science O
Z angling, is buttonholcd and made TO dj
:. vulge some of the facts and incidents @
d his experience, and he always has some
thing'to say worth hearing. In one @
n his recent talks Inc seems to have settle,
: a question which has vexed the tempe
OF many sportsman. In reply to In
Is inquiry whether or not genuine brool
l. trout ever develop weight beyond 81,
/. pounds, Mr.. Green said: eyes sir. the,
= do. l have seen ten-pound genuine
O brook trout myself" The peculia
value of this decision lies in the extra
q ordinary intimation that the ten pound
@ er was not captured by the Judge.
# Mr.. Green had said: 81 have mysel
captured" etc., it might be held tina
, the question was still an open one.-
New York Tribune.