The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-03
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
James Woodbury. was drowned In
Lake Memphremagog, last week, while
fishing. He was subject TO fits, and fell
from his boat.
1t is rumored that fresh outrage hal
been perpetrated at Petersburg, ant
the new cars life has been attempted
by the Nihilists.
Montreal temperancers have estab
lished vigilance committee and detec
tives as terror to the Sabbath-break
ing saloon keepers.
The Figaro asserts that of twenty
marriages in the higher and middle
classes in Paris, five are the work o.
professional matrimonial agents.
The first religious body to formally
adopt the revised New Testament wal
the Congregational association of Mari.
boro, Mass, but the vote was afterward
reconsidered.
Edward Dezendorf, q compositor oil
Brooklyn, shot and fatally wounded hii
wife Sunday afternoon. He then shot
himself through the heart, dying in.
stantly. They lived unhappily.
A bill has been passed by the Michi.
gan house providing fine of $1,000
and imprisonment for year for those
who publish accounts of indecent
offenses, murders, or executions.
Electric lightning is in successful op.
Grafton on more than 60 steamers on
the Mississippi; river and its tributaries
1t is believed to add much to the safety
of that kind of traffic and travelling.
The affray in which James Baker al
Osborn Ford, Va, shot four men, grew
out of dispute about $1.50 Baker ow-
ed them for pasture. All four men died.
Baker surrendered, but was not put
under arrest.
A new road to San francisco through
Arizona runs for 60 miles along basin
that is 250 feet below the level of the
ocean. This region has two to four
feet of salt and alkali covering its sur
face. The ground is perfectly white.
The paymaster of the Cincinnati
Southern railroad company systemati-
cally held back the employees wages,
and then lent them money on his own
account at usurious interest. But the
business did not pay, for it caused him
to lose his place.
A Boston lawyer did lively business
for while by promising TO get petty
offenders of for $50 each, $40 of which,
he said, went to the district attorney,
$40 to the justice and $40 to himself.
He aimed to secure only clients who
would be.acquitted. anyhow, and his ex-
posure came when some of them were
convicted.
The significant information comes
through correspondent at Dublin that
recent disturbances in Ireland have
been in the richest agricultural dis
tricts, where the farmers are we'll off.
They have not the plea of rackrent and
cruel landlordism, but resist the land
lord on principle. This is strong proof
of the spread of disaffection in that
country.
Mr. Mackey has given his wife the
dress which the French Indian COM
pany were manufacturing for the ex-
empress when Bismarck's little game
shut up the Tuileries. It is pronounc-
ed by the learned in lace the ne plus
ultra in point dAlencon. Seven diff
ferent stitches are employed, some of
which were only discovered by unrav-
cling lace founce which once be-
longed to Nine. dc Pompadour.
The wife of an operator at Foxboro,
Mass, deserted him, taking away
everything in the house of any value
except two pocket handkerchief. 1t
that she has been preparing
for the event for more than year, by
saving not only her own wages, which
were fifty-five dollars per month, bnt q
good share of her husbands and get
ting trusted at the stores for all she
purchased. No cause is assigned for
her conduct.
A cruel blunder was made in an
the verdict in a st. Louis
case. The foreman of the jury
handed the clerk several slips of paper,
and the clerk read: ave find the pris-
oner not guilty, on the ground of in
sanity" The culprit's face lighted up
WIN oOiiSnt, uhu hC CAuildutiy SHOOK
hands with his counsel. 'There's q
said the foreman to the clerk
you've read the wrong slip. The one
hats signed is our verdict-guilty Of
murder In the first degree"
The result of some lowly but patient
Investigations on the part of the De-
rot Free Press is that in New York,
when lady is trying hard to remem.
Der something she clasps the lobe of
he left ear between her forefinger and
thumb and pulls 1t down. In Boston il is
The right ear. In Toronto she folds
her arms. In Syracuse she stands on
,ne foot. In Baltimore she bites her
inger. In Buffalo she puts her tongue
N the left side of her cheek. In De-
rot she simply closes the left eye into
. sort ola wink, Fuckers her mouth to
he right, and In ten seconds can re-
clear back to Daniel In the
ions den. II is not only movement
IF studied grace, but there is cuteness
IN 1t. After little practice the eyelid
ian be made TO fiutter just enough and
not too much, and II the woman has
good teeth the pucker of her mouth is
conquest in itself.
Itching Piles-.SymptOms and Cure.