The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-05
GENERAL NOTES.

WENEhhL NVlEDs
Bishop E. o. Haven died at Portland,
Oregon, on Wednesday.
The Indians who attacked the packers
near Alama Canon, N. NJ, have been
routed by Lieut.. Guilfoyle's command
and several of them killed and wound
ed.
The Paris correspondent of the Pes
Their Lloyd, in a recent issue.of that
journal refers to the increasing con-
sumption of American flour in Paris,
where it makes Roadway against the
finer Hungarian brands.
At Rea mountain, Virginia, James
Leghorn (white), returning after seve-
raj months absence found Jim Tabor
(colored) living with Mrs. Leghorn.
Leghorn demanded that Tabor surren-
der the woman. A fight ensued and
Tabor shot Leghorn dead.
The will of the late Il. G. Rally of
Buffalo beGueaths to the Young Mems
Association $40, 900, the Church of Char
ity, for the foundation of the Buffalo
Society of Natural Science, the Buffalo
Historical Society, the Buffalo Fine Arts
Academy and the Buffalo orphan asy-
lum, So, 900 and $40, 900 apiece.
There is sensation at Fort Wayne,
Ind, over the attempt of the widow of
Rabbi Rubin to shoot DIR. Bruebach, a
prominent physician. Bruebach en-
gagged to marry Mrs. Rubin's daughter,
whose husband recently committed sui
eide, Mrs. Rubin opposed the match
because the doctor is gentle.
DR.. bliss says concerning the White
House: 81 had no idea the Presidents
house was in such a deplorable con-
dition.- / don't see how in the world
General Grant and Mr.. Hayes stood it
as long as they did, The house is dis
grace 10 the nation. will 60 before
congressional committee and make a
statement to that effect"
1t is said that the English and
French cable companies intend to fight
Gould's new cable scheme by building
their own land line to New York and
render themselves Independent of the
Western Union. They will also finish
projected lines TO the principal towns
and cities in the United States and Can
ada. The combination is said to have
secured all the capital necessary.
Grove, of Peoria ILL.,, confesses his
knowledge of the plot to blow up British
vessels, and boasts that after Sept.
no English vessel will be safe. Grove
takes the matter of his arrest easy and
says he intended to 60 through the
country raising an army. 1t is under
stood that he is arrested on q charge of
violation of the navigation laws.
A Vienna chemist has invented pow
erful soporific, which he calls "baudi.
GER" by which person may be instan-
taneously and helplessly Supplied. The
Norristown Herald thinks its introduce
ton into this country would decrease
the attendance at some of the churches,
and entirely obviate the necessity OF
the publication of the New York Ma
ton, for many years one of the most
powerful soporiiics in the country.
The London Eonmonger of July 1G
says that it is in position to announce
that large American orders for steel
rails are coming to England, "a fact
which would appear to give proof OF
the activity which pervades the rail-
making establishments of the United
States" 1t adds: "During the past
few days the Central Pacific railway
has bought for antumnal delivery al
San Francisco $4,000 tons of rails"
There are complaints from nearly all
of the fashionable summer resorts of
the scarcity of society young men. An
especially bitter wall comes from Sara.
toga, where young men are abundant,
but indisposed to submit to the exac.
tons of full dress. The young man OF
that popular watering place refuses to
adorn himself with The steel pen or
claw-hammer coat and leaves the gent
Ter sex, arrayed in manner to put
the lilies of the valley to the blush, to
fill the ballroom with beauty without
chivalry.
The public debt statement issued
Monday shows decrease in the debt
during the month of Jnly of $l0,07S,-
023; cash in the treasury $236, 87S, 100 ;
gold certificates S5, 749, 500; silver GER
tificates S51 1888, $50; certificates of de-
post outstanding sio,74O,OOO refund
ing certificates 1858, $50; outstanding
legal tenders $347 ,6S1 ,Ol6; fractional
currency 81, 098, 645; cash balance avail
able August /, Sl54, 1927 PA; debt less
cash in treasury August / 1880 $780,
1888. The payments made from the
treasury by warrants during the month
OF July, 1881, were as follows: On &C.
count of civil and miscellaneous, &c.
245,606; war, 81, 1897 1896; navy, Ill.,
1870; interior Indians, $685., 205; pen
sions, $685. $50; total, $40, 800, 220.
The above does not include payments
made on account of interest or princi-
pal of the public debt of the United
States.