The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-10-14
GENERAL NOTES.

3 S34O,VOO.
A fire in Moscow last week causet
loss estimated at two and nan NH
, lions of roubles.
An old man lost his balance by kick
ing at his wife, in Louisville, and was
killed by the fall.
A drunkard took his eleven-year-olo
boy with him on spree, at Maquoketa
: Iowa, and gave Kim as much liquor as
: he drank himself. The boy died.
Mr.. Arthur is the sixth president who
poes wifeless to the White House. JET.
ferson, jackson, VanBuren and Tyler
were widowers and Buchanan bach.
elor.
Washington correspondents estimate
the expenses of President Garfield's i'll.
: ness at 100000, of which the doctors
bills arc expected to be $4,000. DIR.
Bliss is accredited with modest claim
of $4,000.
One hundred and forty thousand
pounds worth of gold, principally from
France, was purchased yesterday in the
omen market of London for shipment
to New York.
There are 40 900 brewerics in Europe.
The reader can figure for himself how
much public disturbance and private
unhappiness and misery they are calcu-
lated to make.
The father of Mrs. Garfield is made
to say by the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal that sooner or later the assassina-
ton of the president will be found 10
have been the result of a conspiracy.
Two of the Iron Mountain train rob
bers have confessed that their names
are Samuel and Thomas Williams, and
that they were formerly printers In st.
Augustine, Fla. They were out OF
money and plundered the train for the
funds to get married with.
A London special predicts a financial
crash in London and Paris before
long. Bankers and other financlers feel
alarmed at the situation. The main
cause of apprehension seems to be the
continued flow of gold to America.
The larger operators are holding aloof
from the market.
New York has supply of water suf-
| ficient to last about month, and unless
copious rains occur the situation at the
end of that time will be one of serious
apprehension. The Evening Post urges
| the utilization of the salt water which
surrounds the city for cleaning streets,
flushing sewers, flowing water closets,
and other similar purposes.
On some of the southern railroads
negroes are still excluded IRON parlor
cars. A acknowledgement mulatto
woman and her child insisted on occn-
plying seats for which she had bought
tickets at Nashville, upon which the
superintendent hitched on an extra car
and transferred to it those persons who
disliked to ride in the other.
1t is now stated that the statement
recently published that hundred Pull
man conductors upon our Eastern roads
have been discharged was incorrect.
Mr.. Brown, the general superinten-
dent of the company, states that about
twelve men in all have been discharg-
cd. This was done for dishonesty, and
they were entrapped by specials on
the trains.
The Republican and Democratic sem
Yatorial caucuses met at the capitol,
Washington, Saturday. Tho Republi-
cans appointed committee to confer
with the Democrats on the general sub
ject of organization. Lapham, Miller
and Aldrich were present. In the
Democratic caucus Senator Bayard was
unanimously decided upon as their
candidate for president pro TEN.
A Chicago correspondent, looking
over mercantile directory for 1872,
finds on the black list the entry:"Z
Guiteau, Chas. j., q lawyer" Turn
ing to the definition of the letter ~"
he finds: "Z-Income uncertain and
often precarious. Defer indefinitely
the payment of debts. Lawsuits 10
collect claims would be useless. No
credit or favors should be given"
At Lancaster, Penn, Edward San
ders and Philip Rogers, notorious
characters, Wednesday night forced
their way into the room of Mrs. Mary
Seymour, and in the presence of her
three children Sanders criminally as
saulted her. The woman struggled
desperately and escaped, but Sanders
followed her into the street, knocking
her down several times. The woman
reached neighbours house and soon
died. Both of the villains have been
arrested.
1t is said that the late Henry f. Dn-
rant, of Boston, left fortune of nearly
million dollars, though he suffered
heavy losses through the Tappan defal-
cation three years ago. 1t will be re-
membered that Mr.. Durant, who h al
been the most successful jury lawyer in
Boston since Rufus Choate, rclinquish-
ed his profession on experiencing rclig-
ion, founded Wellesley College, and
engaged in religious work. The con-
version to the orthodox faith of the late
Vice-President Wilson was ascribed to
his influence.
Bruno Houle, an old man of Mon
treal, Canada, is of the opinion that
women should have their rights, one OF
these rights being the maintenance of
her husband. lie has, therefore,
brought an action against his wife for
support. lie alleges he is unable from
illness to provide the necessarics of life,
and claims support from his better
half, who is in afiluent circumstances.
: The wife repudiates her husbands de-
mands. Bruno thinks that is poor
rule that won't work both ways.
An immense furniture storage
building aud the Fourth avenue car
stable on Thirty-second street, New
York, were burned Monday evening.
Two hundred horses persisted in the
stables, and large amount of val liable
furniture, paintings, etc., were de-
stroyed in the storage building. The
total loss is estimated at about $1,000,
900. There was also 100000, fire
Tuesday ON East Seventeenth street,
New York, and a $4,000 blazaA at
Sosfh Paris, Me. "