The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-28
GENERAL NOTES.

ehAo JCai 90 Aldltidu WIFI
row this year under any circumstance
Miss Celia White committed suicit
at Montpelier, Indiana, by taking mel
phlne. Her sweetheart had transfe
red his affections to another voun
lady. as isJp.F
Jane Murry, an aged colorcd woma
OF Ottawa, Canada, who died recent,
was imported as slave in the last ehi
that legally discharged Its human carg
in United States port.
AT Dacatur, Alabama, Mary Nook
aged four, Sunday morning, during tb
absence of her mother, tied q rop
around the mock of her infant sister
dragged her from the cradle to the /,
the yard, and beat her to death with
club.
John X. Randolph, who lives nea
Pittsburgh, believing that the Lord Il
soon to visit the earth with another
flood, is building an ark after the pat
tern of the vessel Noah. He has ipyit
ed some of his friends to take the voy
age with him.
A prize fight occurred on Sunday al
Blissville, L. l., in the rear of Mayor
Bevoise's residence, between two New
orkers whose names are not ascer.
tanned. Twenty-eight rounds were
i fought in thirty;llys %iastsss faHsssuo One OF
A Mormon elder of Salt Lake has
had thirteen wives photographed, botIl
in a group and separately. The pic.
lures have been placed il an elegant
album, and under each woman is en-.
crossed a quotation of sentimental
poetry, suggestive of her best quality.
Flora Tillman, aged sixteen years, of
Fort Wayne, Ind, attempted suicide
Saturday by cutting her throat from
ear to ear with razor. When asked
why she committed the act she said her
father, who died four years ago. had
appeared to her and called her to come
to him. She cannot recover.
A Montreal woman, who is now
years of age, has been for
sixty years iaw-breaker in that city.
and 1t is estimated that she has appear.
ed before the police court fully 800
times. she has passed through all the
teclining grades of vice, and was the
'ther day sent to Jail for being drunk.
The p0lai45Ii W aunenu the constitu-
ion in Iowa, prohibiting the m manufac-
ure and sale of intoxicants shows a
otal of 2Sl 1881. This is 1915 more
'otes than were cast for governor in
Sol, but 4 ,2S7 less than were cast for
PRESIDENT in 1850. The majority for
is 20 ,751.
One Wills recently bought a diseas-
I'd hog in Milwaukee. He was warned
lot to use the meat, but he, however,
attened the animal, killed it and with
lis wife and three children ate the
Iesh. Both adults are now diving.
nd the children can hardly recover.
he flesh of all the victims is literally
live with !richiun.
John 7. Reed and his wife, Sarah T..
Reed, are under arrest in South Boston
N charge of murder, an infant two
weeks old having been found In pail
# water at their house. The Inothe.
laims she found the child in the bucket
rowned, and intimates that the father
lid it. The father gives a contrary
tory and duplicates the mother.
hat American criminal laws allow 10
ynamite projects is a scandal and
hame to American legislation, but a
iore enormous scandal is the attitude
ublic opinion in America assumes
)ward them. Never was there BODY
national opinion SO inquisitive aud
cen which could have shown itself
lore feeble and inert in the defence nf
,rhtiiua sInce Une dynamite school be-
lme notorious.
"A strange freak of lightning is re-
orted from Rockingham, N. &. The
fife of Daniel Gay heard sound re-
the bursting of gun cap in
II adjoining room, and ON looking in
10 room was astonished to see blaze
f fire ascending from the floor, near
,here two children were seated. The
laze apparently ascended to the roof
nd went ou'. About an hour after.
yard ball CT fire nearly as largo as
hild's head came in the direction of
Irs. Fay and seemed 10 strike her in
he breast, then burst in three or more
treams of fire, the fire quickly going
mt. Mrs Gay was considerably stun
ed.
Oscar Wilde has been to Long Beach,
where he was entertained by fashion,
bile lady. In the afternoon the party
PRESENT went to The beach and induIged
n the luxury of a swim. One of the
he party was attacked by cramps and
ank Amid the screams of the ladies
seth Green swan out to the drowning
nan and gallantly rescued him just IN
inc. 1t lis touchingly related that "Mr.
Wilde, who was one of the party OF
was very much excited by the
and congratulated both par
les ON the happy outcome of their ad-
venture" But he didn't risk his Ss-
hetic person in attempting to rescue
The endangered person.
A three-year-old child of Mr.. aud
Mrs. Wallingford, living twelve miles
from Seattle, Washington Territory,
while playing on the doorstep recently,
was attacked by an eagle and lifted
eie ht or ten feet from the ground. The
screams of the little one brought Mrs.
Wallingford to the rescue, who sue
,aadad tinaiI.- Il. I..;--;--e st.S Ss.srS away.
The child's shoulders and arms were
lacerated by the sharp
talons of the eagle, and the mother was
SO overcome by excitement that she has
since been prostrated. 1t was subse-
aaently asceriained that the eagle was
one of pair which had nest in the
cliff of ocks about 100 rods distant
from the house, aud it is reasonable to
suppose that had not the child's mother
put in timely appearance the body of
The little one would have been carried
TO the cliff and torn in shreds and
divided among the young eaglets. Mr..
Walingfords rifle, however, has put a
quie tus on any further depredstions by
this particular pair of marauders. The
largest of the two eagles measured sever
feet from tip TO tip, and weighed nearly
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