The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-06-10
GENERAL NOTES.

Assaf Pasha has sent five hundred |
men to the plain of Troy, to aid in the
destruction of the locusts.
Jared Price OF Reading, Pa, aged so,
Attempted suicide by cutting his throat.
The cause was religious excitement.
Ex.Congressman John IL. Starin of
New York declares emphatically that
be is not candidate for United States
The empress of Austria recently sent
to reporter dressing case, embossed
in silver, as mark of her pleasure at
his account of some of her EXP otis In
the field.
A bill was introduced in the German
Reichstag recently, having for its pur-
pose treaty between Italy, Germany
and Austria for the protection of sing
ing birds.
There is an association of women in
Berlin, calling themselves the "cloth-
ing league for the abolition of petit
coats" They want to adopt "bifurca-
ted garmenture."
Hop culture in England has been
steadily decreasing since 1878, the de-
crease in acreage amounting to 5000
cultivation and lack of fertilizins
elements.
At Joplin, No., during difficulty al
tho Theatre Comique, Monday, Thomas
ehAt
manager, dead, and wounded colored
man, Jake Pecora, who then MORALLY
wounded Carney. Pecora is arrested.
There have been numerous thefts OF
letters from the Camden IN. j. post
Office during the past six months, over
500 being taken, and the police have
just succeeded in detecting the thief
Howard M. Kemble, who does moi
deny the charge.
The pearl fisheries on the Ceylor
coast, after many years of failure, have
this season yielded very large returns
The share of government alone is esti
mated at $4,000, being the higbes
amount received since 1914. No speci
ally fine pearls have been found; thu
largest was valued at 60.
The Bavarian elections, to take place
early in June, are exciting much in
terest. Although seven-tenths of tn,
people are Roman Catholics, q Catho
lie majority in the chambers is not
certainty by any means, in consequence,
of an antagonism of the moderate ant
the extreme Catholics.
The lifeboat institution of Grea
Britain now owns two hundred ant
seventy lifeboats. During the pas
year five hundred and seventy-sevel
persons were rescued from wrecked
vessels. The number Of lives saved BY
the society since its establishment L
twenty-cight thousand.
In the trial at Newark, N. j., o
Kingsland, the paper manufacturer, fo
an alleged pollution of the Passaic riv
err, whence the city obtains its water
witnesses testified that 1875 factorie
emptied their refuse into the river
The water taken from the river at Pat
erson was black as ink.
Great Indignation has been caused a
Canton, Ohio, by the discovery that
vault in the cemetery, which had beer
closed for twenty-five years, has beer
broken open, six of the bodies removed
sa9 ths 49RSs tsGSantsged yssg9nnd Th
to obtain jewelry from the bodies.
The story comes from Beaverton
Mich, that two sisters becoming
enamored of the same man, concluded
to share him equally, and in order t.
carry out the idea have started for Utah
where they will practice polygamy
but the harmonious sisters have exactet
solemn vow from the man never t.
have more than two wives.
The London World says a marriage
is announced as having been arranged
between Gordon Bennett, the million
aire, and proprietor of the New Yorl
Herald, and we'll known for his hospi
tality and sporting tastes, at Melton
and Mile. Bonaparte, daughter O
Pierre Bonaparte, who has resided
nearly all his life in retirement in thu
south OF France.
A lady in Washington has had hel
hair changed from light blonde color
to pure black, from several months
use OF jaborandi, Brazilian plant
administered to her as a remedy fol
blood poisoning. Whether the new
color will be permanent, or the new
growth be of the original color, remains
to be seen, and the result is looked for
with much interest.
Two Young men, unmarried, and
having some money to squander,
promised to give a ladies' sewing cir
Gle in Frankfort, KY, $40 if its mem.
bers would keep absolute silence at its
meeting for the space of one hour. The
ladies took ten minutes to express, all
together, their opinion of these Young
men, and then resolutely set to work
and actually won the money.
A New York dispatch saws: Mr..
Conkling is reported as saying that he
would not go to Albany sooner than is
absolutely necessary. He might start
any minute, as everything depended on
the hope OF securing an early adjourn
ment OF the Legislature. A friend of
Conkling said the ex-Senators had votes
enough secured for final adjournment
this week, and the governor would not
call the Legislature together again until
after the next election.
Florida, having established large
and growing market for her oranges, is
now beginning to ship peaches to the
New York market. A consignment
arrived on Saturday which were ship
ped on the last day of May, packed In
compartment boxes like the patent egg
boxes, and each peach wrapped in cot
ton. They were apparently as fresh as
when picked from the tree, and sold
readily at two dollars a dozen.
The interest taken by tourists in that
lovely Alpine flower, the edclweiss,
threatens to cause its determination,