The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-07-01
GENERAL NOTES.

Inc crop reports are discouraging as.
to the wheat and cotton yield.
Fifteen states produce 90 per cent. of
the tobacco in the United States.
The Star Route cases will not be pre-
sented to the grsnd jury until Septem-
Der.
The steamer Rodgers has sailed from
San Francisco in search of the jean
nette.
Buffalo is receiving large numbers of
Polish emigrants, and doesn't favor
them.
The Chicago Lie Insurance Com.
pany has been enjoined from doing
business.
The bill 10 abolish capital punish.
ment in England has been defeated by
175 to 80.
Thomas Garfield, uncle of the presi-
dent, was run over by railroad train
and instantly killed last week.
At Hull, England, there was a fire in
the docks on Sunday, which caused
$4,000 damage in very short time.
Secretary Kirkwood has appointed
an Indian 10 II clerkship in the Indian
Bureau. III not civil service reform,
this is progress. 4.
The population Of the United King.
dom, according To the new British cen.
sus, will be 35,000,000, en- increase OF
4 1000, 900 since 1871.
DR.. Crosby has resigned the Chan.
cellorship of the New York University
DR.. John Hall will doubtless be offered
the position.
Griscom, the Chicago faster, says he
does it to prove that fasting is agreateI
cure for disease than all the medicine
in the world.
The first postage-stamp used i'm this
country, SO far as known, was designed
by Hon. E. A. Mitchell, postmaster Of
New Haven, in 1S47.
Abraham Lincoln's old law partner
William III. Herndon, is q pauper al
Springfield, Ill. lie was once worth
considerable property, but whisky
ruined him.
The Washington monument has reach.
ed The hight Of 200 feet. When finish.
ed it will be $50 feet high. The king
of Siam has sent stone TO be placed in
the monument.
A special commission has been ap-
pointed in Russia, TO draw up new re.
pressive law. The Gar shows nc
signs of RELIEVING his policy, however
badly he may be scared.
Anti-Ilaly riots still occur in France
and anti-Frcnch riots in Italy. But
the two governments are doing their
best TO repress ill-feeling, and no
breach between them is feared.
Among other requests of Eli Bates,
of Chicago, were $4,000 for q monu-
ment TO Lincoln, at the entrance TO
Lincoln Park, Chicago, and $4,000 to
the Chicago industrial school.
The New York Herald has UNDER
taken TO persuade England 10 estab-
lish local parliaments and a national
one in which representatives from
Canada, Australia and the other colo
MES should be allowed to sit.
Mr.. Vennor has begun "predicting"
for .In!y. and writoo' III resrnt tn have
to warn you of hot and stormy July,
with frequent disastrous storms of
wind, hail and rain through those sec
tions in which the Juue storms have
been so severely felt. The month will
that of 1880 rather than 1879"
His June predictions were,pretty accu-
rate, if he meant the contrary of what
he said.
According TO the new census, the
population of London is 3,S15,571, an
increase of 56O,311, or 17.2 per cent.
upon 1871. The aggregate population
Of the nineteen largest provincial
owns is ,764,214, an increase of 53S,
9S7, or 1865 per cent. upon the number
n 1871; while London has increased
ines 1871 at a greater rate than in tie
en- years 1S61-71, the rate of increase
las declined in the aggregate of the
towns.