The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-02-11
GENERAL NOTES.

The Texas state senate has passed
RESOLUTION expressing its sympathy for
ireland In her present troubles.
A new counterfeit s5 United States
note, series of 1876, has appeared in
Kentucky. The imitation Is sufflcient-
" skillfnl TO deceive persons not ex-
Tperts.
The unsccountable mortality among
cattle on the vast grazing plains OF
New Mexico causes much excitement.
II II continues. many capitalists will be
ruined. .~-.
Ida Lewis, the heroine OF Lime Rock
light house, on Friday night saved
from drowning two men who broke
through while attempting to cross the
harbor on the ice. %
At New Castle, Penn, while Robert
and Allen Cameron, cousins, were
fighting on the track on Friday night a
train ran into them, fatally injuring
Robert and Gripping Allen.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken at the barracks at Bradford, Eng
land, owing to Fenian rumora. There
is large number of Irish among the
population and also a branch Of the
Land League.
The owners of the franchise of the
Frankfort, KY, school fund lottery an
nounce that the drawings are perman-
emily suspended. Lottery vendors are
still selling tickets, which are utterly
worthless. f A
Holland Goedper, a manufacturer Of
Cincinnati, claims to have discovered a
process for fusing iridium, and that 1t
can be cast into superior burners for
electric lights, which will not require the
use of glass globes.
James O'Connor fell down three flights
of stairs on Fifty-ninth street, New
York, Sunday evening, and was fatally
injured. The ambulance which had
been sent for by O'Connor's friends
was upset by q runaway and the driver
badly hurt.
Princess Louise will return to her
husband in May, and the two will join
large party Of English visitors in a
fishing excursion on the lower st.
Lawrence. The princess will then,
with her English guests, visit Manitoba
and the northwest provinces Of the Do
minion.
A letter from South Carolina brings
word that E. w. M. Mackay, who, as
Republican candidate in the Charleston
district, contesting the seat of the
Democratic epresentstive-elect, Is col
Letting testimony through the counties,
has been shot at three times while en-
gagged in his work. sa, ts.r.-
At Decatur, Alabama, Friday, Two
men named Davidson and Pickering
were stopped by man named Letson,
who charged that Davidson had SLAM
dered his daughter. Letson drew a
revolver, when Pickering interfered
and was shot dead. He was defeated
in the race for the governorship not
long ago. r..
Great dcstitution 10 reported beyond
Sleep Eye station on Ithe Winona and
st. Peter Branch of the Northwestern
railroad, forty miles from st. Paul. A
whole family has been found In hovel
at Burns, all frozen 10 death on the
floor. The scarcity of fuel has CON-
PShOe oCteiOtS w Outh VNti
Guiding furniture.
During 1880 there were driven from
Texas into the northern states and terri
tories 1894, 784 head Of cattle. With two
exceptions this was the largest number
ever driven north in one year since
1866. In 1871, 100000 head were
driven, and in 1873 about 400, 900 head.
About A, DOC, 900 head have been driven
from Texas in fifteen years.
Martin Johns of Harrison county,
Indiana, has bequeathed his property
to the paupers in the Harrison county
poorhouse. He orders his farm and
personal property to be sold and the
proceeds put out at interest as per-
petual fund, the interest to be ex-
pended in the purchase Of such things
as the paupers may require and the
county does not furnish. ...