The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-03-31
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
The charity population of Richmond,
Va, amounts TO $4,000 white and col.
ored.
New York state eau furnish 1l5, 600
900 pounds OF olemargarine IN a year,
II Is said.
The lower house of the Wisconsin
legislature the other day voted against
woman suffrage by 80 to SC.
1t Is estimated that beef shipped d.
rect from Texas to tho London mark
cts will, when sold at lid. a pound,
yield profit of Id.
Many married women in various
parts of Pennsylvania are applying to
the courts for the power to control their
own earnings.
The ladies of Benton, Missouri, have
organized sewing societies for the pur-
pose of furnishing the town with side.
walks.
There has been 1880, 900 actually
put into the Canadian Pacific railroad,
which is thirty per cent, of the capital
stock subscribed for.
An act authorizing the whipping
post as punishment for Maryland
wife heaters only wants the governors
sanction to become law in that state.
A recent police court report in the
Morning Call reveals the fact that San
Francisco has saloon where q man
can get seven drinks of whisky for a
dime.
A consolidation of the cities of New
York and Brooklyn il under discus
sion, with reponderance of argument
against 1t, 80 far as New York is con-
cerned.
Monaco, whose 10000 inhabitants
live entirely on the profits of the gam
ing tables, has one hundred and sixty
four priests to look after its spiritual
welfare.
More than three thousand claims to
gold and silver mines in Fulton and
Hamilton counties, N. Y, have already
been filed, and great confie dence Is felt
In their value.
The telegraph work OF England Is
now very largely confided to women.
So also are certain branches of the saw
ings bank department, as we'll as the
dead letter office.
Three years ago firm in Texas in.
vested 1000 in cattle; q few weeks
ago this stock and its increase sold al
Sl5 per head, and the sale amounted to
more than $4,000.
The imprisonment of a priest In Ire.
land for using seditious language caused
intense excitement, requiring extraor.
binary. precautions to prevent an up.
rising in County Queens.
Capt. Richard Booth of Old Tampa,
Fla, has grated in grape fruit tree
six varieties of the citrus family. Grow.
ing from the same stump we find the
shaddock, lemon, lime. citron, sweet
and sour oranges.
There are over 20 900 men and lOO,.
900 horses and mules employed in rail.
road building in Texas. There are
about 1000 miles of road under con.
tract, and about G 900 more to be con.
tracted for.
The official returns of persons apprc.
hended BY the police in England and
Wales during the Official year as con-
firmed drunkads give the number at
81 $40. OF these 27,s7S were males
and 10, 062 females.
The Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany has ordered the free transmission
OF all kilograms of the commissioners
appointed by the Governor OF Louisiana
fer distribution of Government rations
t." A"aay WHO has been spending some
little time In Hayana, being asked what
she thought of the place, said. "The
people there seem to spend most of
their time smoking cigarettes and riding
around in volantes buying lottery tick.
ets."
According to the Delaware papers
the prospect is good for the coming
peach crop in the great peach. growing
region along the middle Atlantic sea-
board. The outlook Is excellent, not
only for peaches, but for on abundant
fruit supply generally.
Forty-eight Italian theatres have been
closed during the present season as fl
nancial failures. In Rome, only the
Apollo Theatre was open month ago,
and in bologna the city had to vote The
theatre subsidy of 40 900 lire to pre-.
vent it from closing its doors.
John Gales was to be hung In Illinois
for murder, and his sentence was com
muted 10 imprisonment for life upon
the grounds that he was demented.
The Chicago Herald thinks he was
feigning insanity, for when he was told
that he was not to he hung he at once
called his lawyer blank fool.
While the sheriff OF Jackson comfy
Ala, was reading an attachment to the
captain of steamboat. who was stand.
ing on the shore, the latter gave silent
signal and the boat cut loose and steam
ed up the river till she reached the Ten
neseee line, leaving an ast0nished
officer still reading to an apparently
astonished Captain.
w. ii. Rosentranch, q wholesale no.
ton dealer Of Newark, N. j., was ar
rested on charge of basphemy and
abusing the mother of Christ, by calling
her improper names. The accused gave
$500 bail. The complainant is a Ger
man Catholic. Blasphemy is a crime
In New Jersey, punishable by fine or
imprisonment for one year.
An immense meteoric stone fell one
night recently rear Fort Assiniboine,
NJ. T., lighting up the surrounding
country with the glare. The shock was
ike the report of a cannon and the
earth was shaken. AS the time which
Elapsed between its striking the earth
and the report was nearly five minutes,
i Is thought the meteor must have fallen
about fifty miles away.
Some frightful loss Of life has taken
place at many points of the inundated
districts. One OF the Mississippi piIots