The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-10-06
GENERAL NOTES.

This c 'untrv. jamcS Elliott according {
ly takes $1,000 Forfeit money.
y pretty girl IT Is, neat IL dress aud
polite in MANNER is hootblack in
Galveston. She has % chair at street
corner, and makcs IS to So day.
The Ford brothers, the slayers of
Jesse James, are being shown the sights
by their manager. On Monday he took
them to look nj the brooklyn editors.
An apple tree at Ebcnczcr, Miss,
from Which the ripe fruit is Just disap-
pcaring, has n second crop about half
grown, aud it is still blooming for a
third crop.
a young woman at Elizabclhtown,
Ky, had her fathers wheat field CLEAN
ed after it had been harvested. securing
fifty bushels of grain 10 sell for her
own account
There were 500 weddings in Phila-
dclphia last year. which, leaving Sun
days out, is an average Of twenty-five a
day. Tho Quaker city will surpass This
average this year
At Fall River, Mass, Ellen Taylor
drowned her three. months old illcgiti-
mate child in the river on Saturday |
night because she was unable to obtain |
employment. She escaped.
Jim Rhodes, the murderer of the
Massic family ut Charlottesville, Va,
was taken out Of Jail on Sunday night
by armed men and hanged 10 tree.
Rhodes yaiiIRtlsys Ayffg9'd for mo-" '''''0
a correspondent SAYS that at Cape |
May during the past season the pr ctticst
girls were from Philadelphia, the most
stylish from New York, the saucicst
from the West and the most piquant
from the South.
II is found iii California that almost
all catfish taken from streams where
salmon arc in the habit of depositing
their spawn are full of such spawn. 1t
is feared, therefore, that the salmon
will be cxtcrminatcd unless the catfish
can be got rid of. A
Charles Victor, eighteen years old,
while returning from dance at Column
bus, Miss, Saturday night in company
with Miss Goldsmith, shot and
instantly killed Joseph Il. Butler, who
was jealous of him and had laid in wait
| anu dsSuUltCu HIN.
John Nj. JJest, a medical student re-
siding at Springfield, Mass, was arrest
cd at Syracuse, Monday afternoon, for
robbing ten or twelve physicians Offices.
Most of the booty, valued at several
hundred dollars, was found on his No"
Mrs. j. Ruff of Paintcrsvillc, Pa,
after dressing herself in white, drank
forty drops of laudanum in pint OF
whisky. She died in three hours. The
reason assigned for the rash act
was that her husband was very rude
in his treatment towards her and made
life unbcarable.
Saturday morning at three O'Clock the
steamboat Il. +. Lee, on a trip to Vicks-
burg (Miss.), was totally burned thirty
miles below. Seventeen persons are
known 10 be lost. The books of the
boat and the United States mail were
lost, with Il cargo of 800 bales of cotton.
Frank Wilson and Horace Jewell, of
Newark, N. j., who had political dis
pute, fought thirty rounds on Saturday
night. At the end of the thirticth
round Wilson threw up the sponge.
His nose was broken, face badly cut
and both ewes closed. Jewell received
slight injuries.
Miss Belle Jones of Laurens, s. G.,
S4U,ddo damages for breach of promise
Of marria IS, .i Th 1St fpsH Vic 'd defendant
ntiered no testimony, and the jury found
a verdict of $4,000 for the plaintiff.
a dark brown negro in Henry county,
Va, began to turn white ten years ago,
the change took place gradually, till
now his appearance is completely alter
ed and he would pass anywhere for a
white man, but for his hair, which
plainly betrays his race. lie was once
a slave and is GO years old.
John Birdsall, of Rush, Ind, was a
curious, hcartless miser, who brought
5000 in gold from California twenty
years ago, buried it in an iron pot, and
told nobody. His family have of late
suffered for food, and when absolute
starvation threatened them he dug up
his treasure and went OIL with it, leav-
ing his wife and four children to the
poormastcr.
Henry Todd, who lives in Daricn,
Ga, is, the Savannah Neuts eov'rgfh.
wealthicst ;,Gcins master died and LEFT
acy :cll he lost twenty slaves and some
confederate bonds. After the war he
continued farming operations and en-.
gagged in the lumber business. He is
now sixty-iive years old, and is worth
! 800, goo, well invested.
At 81 Lluls, the other dav, Lauis
Jason. - surgeon IN the army and 81
| Catholic. hurried Maggie Duncan. a
Presbyterian. Thee were Two mar
rage crrHm""">, one pei formed bv II
priest and he o'hCr by PrCsbvicrian
mihiS'"l \ sensation is caused by an
article 10 Catholic paper dcnnuncinp |
he gi"nh for submitting 10 the Pres
bNicrian ceremony. II is stated the |
priest "hn Performed thu ceremony |
VIII ring the matter officially before
the archbishop
The c0ur. Of inquiry into the histor,
OF the Jeanette expedition organizes nj |
the navy department next THU sdav.
The sessions will probably he privaic
because the Investigation is made Ly
resolution of Congress and ihc tcsti-
mony and conclusions If the court will
he transmitted by the Secretary of the
navy Ia the body when il meets next
December. Tho board Of inspection
who "eXanincd" the Jeanette before
its sailing and gave II favorable report
OF IFS condition, will now he given
chance to explain why they did so.
Melville, Dancnhowcr, Newcomb, Min
derman, Neros and the steward Tong
Sing, are ready for the inquiry.
In settling the estate of James Red
dock, somewhat eccentric bachelor
farmer at Gray River, N. s., couple
of barrels of buckwheat were sold.