The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-11-24
GENERAL N0TES.

rates.
The pulp mill of Charles Butler, al
Keeseville, N. Y, was burned last Sun.
day.
A colored woman in Abbeville, s. C.,
has given birth 10 child with four legs
and four arms, which still lives.
A black snake which attempted TO
to rob a beehive In Berkeley county,
Va, few days ago, was stung to death
by tho bees.
1t is understood that Commissioner
Raum will recommendation all internal
revenue taxes be taken off, except those
on whisky and tobacco.
The election of William Walter
Phelps, republican from the 9Th district
of New Jersey, is to be contested, on
the ground of bribery.
Pennsylvania iron men do not take
any stock in the talk of western men
about hard times and the necessity for
a reduction production,
An electric storm prevailed pretty
generally throughout the country last
Friday night, the auroral flashes being
most brilliant and phenomenal.
An elephant on exhibition at Barnes.
vile, Ca, was so enraged because a
negro gave him piece Of tobacco that
he struck the offender fatal blow with
his trunk.
America il responsible for having
intruuuceu IN Eugiunu TIE Vice Of .hv v,
ing gum. One American port ships
fifty thousand pieces of chewing gum
each week.
Mayor-elect Edison of New York CITY
believes that the day Is coming when
barges that will carry thousand tons
will run through the Erie Canal from
Buffalo to New York.
Secretary Folger will probably re
commend in his annual report 10 Con
gress the redemption of the four and
four and half per cent. bonds, which
will not mature until 1891 and 1907 re-
spectively.
The eldest son of Mr.. Rosenthal
banker of Bucharest, blew out his
brains because he thought he had lost
$4,000 of his fathers. Four days later
his mother found the money in the
lining of her sons coat.
Surgeon General Hamilton of the
Maine Hospital Service told the Con-
gressmen who are investigating the
condition OF American shipping that
only one seaman in five Oh American
vessels was All Auericau.
King Alfonso's children are both
girls, and Spain is likely to have a
Queen as its next sovereign, a prospect
which is not relished by a people in
whose minds the recollection of the
awful Isabella 10 yet fresh,
A Troy and Boston freight ran into
the rear end of another freight at
Hoosick Junction, N. Y, last week,
and Brakeman Emery Elwell, of Ben.
nington, VT, was instantly killed. A
locomotive and thirteen cars were
wrecked.
The youthful wife of 4. j. Wilbur.
an elderly carriage maker at Rochester.
N. Y, became infatuated with q Young
man, and attempted to poison her hus.
band. Discovery was made and then
she fed.
Montreal, p. O., has voted $3.50. 200
toward the two million doIia- dom. =, 6
the Canadian Pacific railroad, besides
giving $500, 900 in property and widen.
ing the streets in the vicinity of the ter
minus. The depot is in the French
quarter.
An epidemic of measles has been pre-
vailing at West Troy, N. V, for two
months. There have been between 200
and 800 cases, and several have proved
fatal. Diphtheria has also made It's
appearance in severe form, and some
cases of typhoid fever. .....
The bloodhound of Anthony g.
Ellis's "Uncle Toms Cabin" broke
loose last week and killed the donkey,
The dog, the Davenport (Iowa) Dem
ocrat thinks, was rather mean to pick
out the best actor of the company
Probably the dog was jealous.
Christian Jansen, a Danish poet, 60
wears of age, was killed last week at
Randolph's Crossing, New Brunswick,
N. j., by Pennsylvania railway train.
Tw enty-dve letters from President
Arthur, and several from the Emperor
of Russia, were found in his peokets.
The catch OF salmon In Columbia ri
yer this season is 10000 to 10 900 cases
less than last year, but as prices are
higher II Is believed the canneries have
made more money. During the season
OF four months about $500 men are en-
ployed, whose wages amount to 81 $780,
DOC. The capital invested in tho can.
neries is 81, 900, 900.
A Canadian banker says that about
$4,000 have been RENTED, through
his eforts, TO hay shippers by the
United States Government, as REIN
bursements on customs duties over
charged on hav shipped across the lines
since 1880, and he asserts that 81 ,000,-
700 Will eventually be forked over by
Uncle Sam to The Canucks.
Martha Robinson, colored, of Louis
vile. KY, heated the stove red hot,
stripped the clothing from her child,
aged two and one-half years, and laid
It on its back on top of the stove. In a
few moments she removed the little
one, and carrying IL TO O factory near
by. left 1t in the hall way. When asked
why che had committed the crime, she
said; "Because wanted to get rid OF
the child"
In New South Wales seventy thousand
women would be required to end the
disproporiion between the sexes in that
colony. With the exception of Vic
toria, the Australian colonies are offer
ing special Inducements to single
women to come there TO live. New
Zealand is ready to take thousand al
brief notice. Servants of higher cl ass
are in greatest demand, but the matri-
monial alternative is not lost to view.