The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-12-23
GENERAL NOTES.

Dean Stanley is to have o mem orial
bust at Rugby.
The electric light Is fast replacing
gas In Montreal.
The island of Scio still suffers from
earthquake shocks.
Ex-President and Mrs. Hayes will
sail for Europe next week.
1t is proposed to use the electric
light in the Government lighthouses.
1t is said that coffee culture bids fair
to become a leading industry Of Liberia.
The paying teller of the Ponghkeepsie
National Bank is accused Of embez-
cling $4,000.
The liberal leaven seems to be work.
ing In Taxas, and Bourbonism in that
state is threatened.
A Union Bank of Spain and England
has been established in London, with
a capital of 81, 800, 200,
Montreal customs officers Sunday
night seized watches and jewelry valu-
ed at $4,000, smuggled by a Boston man.
Peter Zerbee, aged So years, bitten
by a spitz dog seven weeks ago, died
OF hydrophobia at Chicago, Monday.
William Sindram, convicted at New
York for the murder of Mrs Crave, on
Monday was sentenced to be hanged
February 10.
Mr.. Powell, Member of Parliament,
assembled In a balloon near Bridport,
England, descended with il into the
sea, and 1t is feared was drowned.
A grave $50 feet long and IA feet
wide in the Vienna cemetery contains
the hundreds of unacceptable victims
of the Ring Theatre fire.
Bean & Robe, wholesale druggists of
Philadelphia, have been robbed of $780,
900 worth of goods by their clerks.
Tow of the latter have been arrested.
"Not insanity, but devilish deprav-
ity," was Colonel Corkhill's character
ization of Guiteau's actions, and one
that will meet with wide approval.
A colony 5000 strong, invading the
Indian Territory from Texas border,
has laid out q town site, Oklahoma
City, and does not anticipate expulsion.
Mr.. Jacob Lorillard promises to
establish an American steamship pas
senger line to England which shall
make the trip in six days.
Nearly all the belated steamships
have arrived, after voyages of from
sixteen to thirty days, and they report
the toughest three weeks remembered
on the North Atlantic.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times sees a cloud of war gather
ing-Germany and France the opposing
masses, and next spring the time Of
probable bursting.
Reports from Washington say that
the scramble for House offices is almost
unprecedented, and the poor Doorkeep-
or, who has most ofthem at his disposal,
is worried half out of his senses.
The charges efiecting the election of
Senators Miller and Lapham have been
declared unfounded by the Senate
Committee, and SO a matter is settled
that should have never been brought up
Warden Croker has received anony-
nous notices to remove prisoners from
the part of the Jail where Guiteau's
cell Is, 80 that q dynamite explosion
would not injure others than the one
intended.
The three Russian officers Who were
charged with not having taken proper
precautions for the murdered Cars
safety, have been let of with three
years exile and the loss of all titles and
civil rights.
Iowa's new capitol cost o., 300, 900,
and Is nearly finished. NETWORKS
has already cost over $13, 000, 900, and
nobody knows whether 1t will over be
done.
At Fond du Lac, Wis, Louis Men,
gel and Kane MacIntee, each aged IS
years, were drowned Sunday while
skating. A party of school children
broke through the ice at Sheboygan
Falls Sunday, and 1t is reported that
seven were drowned.
In a house behind Gen. Ignatie f's
residence, st. Petersburg, the police
arrested eight persons who offered Wig
orous resistance. The police seized a
large quantity Of small bombs, some OF
which were skillhilly concealed in
oranges. eAmong the papers seized was
q letter from London blaming the Min
ilists for their inactivity and calling
upon them to act without delay. The
letter is attri buted to Prince Krapotkin.
The official instructions given TO
Ministers Hurlbut and Kilpafrick res.
pectively with regard TO CHILEAN and
Peruvian affairs have been made public,
and show that both Minister'S were
neither born diplomatists nor safe men
10 have tinkering with our foreign
relations. 1t IL likely that Commits.
sioner Prescott will be able to straigh-
ten matters up, but the lesson teaches
the folly Of trusting important and
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