The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-06-23
GENERAL NOTES,
A storm ut Kansas City, Mo-, de
stroyod property valued at $500 900.

:. UENEhAL NVIESv
A storm at Kansas City, Mo-, de- |
stroyod property valued at $500 900.
Michael Dsvitt, the Irish sgitator, |
arrived at New YORK Sunday afternoon
and was Enthusiastically welcomed.
1t is stated that 1000 Chinameu are
to be shipped from San Francisco East
to take the place of striking cigar
makers.
Mrs. Jennie Is. Smith of Jersey City,
who was tried for the murder OF her
husband, a policeman, some time ago,
has married Jersey newspaper man.
= Dangerous countorfeits of tho $40
greenbncks Of the issue of 1875 are In
circulation, and thousands are said to
have been put out in New England.
During May 14l GOO Immigrants ar
rived In the United States. During the
II months ending May, 685, 900, against
663, 900 for the same period last year.
A majority of tho persons arraigned
for crime, according TO one of the best
known New York judges. are boys from
l2 to 20 years of age, who have got into
trouble while intoxicated.
Guiteau has selected the Rev. DIR.
w. w. Hicks, q Presbyterian minister
In Washington, as his spiritual guide
during this month. Mr.. Hicks will
call daily at the jail to labor with the
assassin.
Robert Bonner, who began life as
journeyman printer, and got rich by his
Ledger enterprise, is the owner of 40
horses, costing ell the way from $4,000
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Sa80, 00o.
Eight miles south of Geneseo, ILL.,, on
Saturday, while her husband was eating
dinner, Mrs. Iindgust took their son,
aged five years, to corn crib and cut
his throat aud then killed herself. She
10 believed to be insane.
Guiteau's former wife, Mrs. Dun
mire, wants his sentence commuted to
imprisonment for life. A. she is no
longer legally bound to the assassin, she
SCENE to desire that his days may be
long In the land of the living.
An unsophieticated German was on q
jury at Knoxville, Tenn, trying o case
Il Wucto y meu ubu ucCu auou lOT uOC-
tors bill. Getting an idea into his head
that the jury had the bill to pay, he
bolted, aud has not since been seen
near the city.
A cyclone or tornado of remark able
power last Saturday swept through
portions of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and
%--.ee. DESTROYING an immense amount
VI properly ana about ono hundred
Iivea. hesidea woundina rnomv othS--.
West Virginia produces nearly one
fourth of all the nails used In the United
States. That being the oase, when yo,
strike your finger instead of q nail, yor
Will know one-fourth of the time In
what direction to send the profan
incident to such little episodes.
AT New Britain, Conn, Saturda,
night, James Kinnevsn was shot By
John Kerugan aud killed. The shoot
ing was the result Of quarrel between
kerrigan and one Burns, about rs cents
kerrigan was drunk aud got his wife
to hand him . revolver, with which hs
committed the deed.
! Eugene Webster, q resident of Cal
houn county, ILL.,, suspecting an init
macy between his hired man, Stephen
Tai bell, and Mrs. Webster, forced him
ct the muzzle Of Q pistol, to confess hui
guilt. He then tied TarbeIl, aud In.
hicted injuries from which he cannot
recover. Webster was arrested.
| George McMullen, coal operator o,
GiHUA OeiN.JsRfgy"nik il: -aur,y y et,
terdsy morning the noighbors were
awakened by shot In ais house. Hi
wife was found dead and he wounded
10 the breast. He said woman fired
at them and escaped. It is believed to
be . case of murder and attempted sui.
eide.
Morgan Hamilton (colored) accused
of the murder OF Selma Benton, two
weeks ago, was shot down at Boone.
Vile, Miss, on Saturday by q party OF
eight men, who went to arrest
hi.. Tney approached him In . field
Wnere ne was working and told him to
run, and as he started of shot him
aesd, Tue sheriff is after the MUIR
derers.
Hall (colored) who eloped and mar
RED the daughter of Agent Grover of
holyoke. Mass, while he had colored
wife living, has been released at Hart
ford, Conn. 1t 10 stated tho release
was due to the fact that Hall had let
ters from Miss Grover showing that
che T.s infatuated With him and actin:
scandal. ~ \
A correspondent of the Boston Jour.
nal says that In Manchester, N. H.,
there 10 Q direct descendant of one Of
the royal French Huguenots, who, on
An income from % to $40 Q week,
earned by herself, has educated horself
and younger brother. In her library
may be found copios of LongfelIoW.
Tennyson, Whittier, Burns, Words.
worth, Byron aud historical aud clasoi-
cal works.
The Rev. Father Houck, private sec.
rotary to Bishop Gilmour, was elected
from the Cleveland, Ohio, Leader Office
Saturday. The Leader 10 strong anti.
Catholic sheet and contained an edito-
rial to which Bishop Gilmour replied
by letter for publication. As Il did
not appear, Father Houck went into
the Office for an explanation and the
manuscript. The letter Il said to con-
tain matter very Offensive to Cowles,
chief editor, and when Houck called,
Cowles, without waiting to hear the
object Of his visit, ordered him out and
assisted him 90 theoretically that the
latter swore out warrant of arrest for
assault and battery. The affair created
Q sensation.
The commanding officer of the indie.
pendent order Of hotel beats has hon.
ored Georgia with his presence. A
well-dressed man went to an Atlanta
hotel for dinner, owned that he had no
money when pressed on the point, left |
his trousers 10 pawn, concealed the loss
by . long ulster, and went his way. |
He want 10 n rival hofal not a room, |