The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-10-21
GENERAL NOTES.

Civil war is threatened in Nicaragua
Governor Wilt, of Louisiana, is
dead at the age of S.
Boston has given over $4,000 to the
Michigan Relief fund.
A severe storm did much damage in
England last week.
Minister IIurlbut has r, fused to rccog-
nize Ito PierOla government in Peru
Mobs and rioting were the order OF
the day on Sunday last in many parts
of Ireland.
President Arthur has requested the
resignation of Acknowledgement
General Tyncr.
1t is reported that the fragrant Gig
arctic is gradually displacing the taste
less chewing gum at Vassar College. :
The English Government, it is said,
has decided to abolish the India Council
as useless institution, and save
G40, 900 year.
The electric lighting of cars on the
London and Brighton, Railway by
the incandescent lamp, supplied by Fau-
res accumulators, is successful.
Mrs. Andrew Vanibber is reported
to be dying in Cincinnati hospital in
consequence of having been shot by hei
husband in mistake for burglar.
Johnnie Miller, a 10-months old boy
OF Everett, Blair county, Penn, swal'
lowed a pin. A few days ago it worked
itself out of his neck, just year after il
was swallowed.
The Ontario Bank at Ottawa, Canada
has met with losses amounting to
81 ,450, 200, and the Directors propose
to reduce the capital to S1,500,000,
instead of $4,000, 900, as at present.
Three steamers landed 1881 immi.
grants at Castle Garden on Saturday
Tho total number last week was 1917,
and thus far this month, 1910. The
total number of Immigrants landed at
New York since the LIST of January Is
3G6, $3.50.
II. Ii. Riddlcberger and G.. ID Wiss
of Virginia fought a duel Saturday.
Neither was hurt. Wise was afterward
arrested. Riddlcberger had also sent
challenge to Beirne, one of the editors
of the State, Richmond, but before they
could meet the latter was arrested.
Two women have been arrested,
with their husbands, in q wood at Vim
cennes, on charge of fighting a duel.
The husbands acted as seconds, and
both women were wounded. They
all belong to the lower classes, and
were in the habit of attending fairs.
No less then eight members of the
last house of representatives are now
United States senators-Frye and Hale
of Maine, Aldrich of Ilho ode Island,
llawley of Connecticut, Lapham and
Miller ofNew York, Mitchell of Penn
sylvania and Conger o Pennsylvania.
When the late khedive was expelled
from Egypt, he established his harem
in Naples, to the great disgust of the
Italians. Not long afterward num-
Der of the inmates escaped. One of
them, named Sahibe, discovered that
she had charming voice, and sought
employment in Vienna, where she has
been engaged by the manager of the
Joscf-stadt theatre. An Egyptian pyi-
ma dOnua will certainly prove now
city.
A claim has been filed at the state
department in Washington against
Peru for nearly 81 0(0 000, 900, by parties
who have purchased the right of q
couple of discoveries of fertilizers in
that country. A law by the Peruvian
congress awarded to the discoveries a
certain percentage upon the value of all
fertilizers sold. A company organized
in New York bought the claims and
intends to prosecute them. Ex-Secre-
tary Boutwell, and Scott Lord are
counsel for the company. Gen. Grant
and many other prominent men express
a belief that the claim is valid and
should be pressed.
For the year ending June 80, 1880,
there were 567 1886, 1882 cigarettes used
in the United States, upon which rev.
enue duty was levied of O little less
then one million of dollars. America is
to-day the great cigarette smoking nat
ion of the world. OF course there are
millions of cigarettes used which pay
no duty. This is the most Objectionable
OF all forms of tobacco smoking. The
paper Is itself bad for the mouth, and
the nicotine acts directly and with poi.
sonous effect upon the teeth and tongue
Cigarettes are made from the refuse Of
the tobacco plant, from old stumps and
waste; and the most popular brand,
are doctored with opium. We're 1t moi
for the apparently harmless cigarette
hundreds of thousands of our boys
would never learn 10 smoke.