The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-21
GENERAL NOTES.

Nevada reports 32 ,087 horses With
les borders, and 1853, 1877 cattle.
More than 800 persons have alresd
been killed this year by t%ornadoes.
Thirty persons were poisoned O
u nion Springs on Tuesday from eatin
ice cream.
Ex-senator Gayles, colorcd, expect
to go to the next congress iron
Bolivar county, Miss, district.
From 5000 to 900 men are Engage t
in the salmon fishery along the Sacra
mento river aud and the adjacent bays
One hundred acres of potatoe
brought "a Summer county, Tenn, far
mer $4,000. He has planted the sec
ond crop.
II was observed in Iowa that in tn,
city and county which had the larges'
brewery there was the biggest vote fol
prohibition.
The latest vegetable monstrosities re
ported from Florida are u turnip weigh
ing 81 pounds and a Chill squash weigh
ing nearly 200 pounds.
Two boys, neither ove z years Of
age, quarrcled in their class in Sunday
school at Oswego, N. Y, when one O.
them drew a jack-knife and stabbed the
other severely in the thigh.
Al English physician says that sew.
enty diseases arise directly from alco-
hol, and that in Great Britain 1900
deaths are caused annually either d.
or indirectly by drinking.
The Reno (Nev.) Gazette says a man
lake a few DAYS aAgb. trqnt.at .RyraWid
was a 4 pound sucker, aud in the sucker
was q half-pound club. In the club
was nothing but worms
At Oglethorpe, Ga a few DAYS ago
o negro who was standing under an
apple tree was struck by lightning and
instantly killed. 1t is said that while
the skin waa not scratched, every bone
In his body was broken.
A 12-months-old child of Mr.. Wood
bury of Salt Lake. dipped a stick of
in q con of concentrated I've, and
then ate it. Immediately afterward
ouC Whb kukcu rlCh, uIlu VtCu III kIthl
agony the following day.
An Englishman SEM u young girl a
New Years card with these words upon
it: "Golden sunshine will be yours at
A jury has just compelled him
TO pay her $4,000 for breach of promise,
and the prophecy is fulfilled.
Old Holenson OF DEBORAH, Iowa,
feared there was foul air in q cistern
which he was about TO clean, and pru.
8 8SSPt''Y n ssn a~p pis Sa%s1ae Eva SHy . g f9 haI
less. The girl was suffocated to death.
A woman employed in the Rossmore
hotel, N. Y, threw her newborn baby
into the furnace of the engine room,
during the absence of the engineer.
The child was burned half to q crisp.
1t Is not known whether it wks born
alive or dead.
About $4,000 thieves aud roughs paid
an entrance fee to Madison Square
Garden, New York, Monday night to
see "Tug Wilson," an English bully,
knocked down twenty. seven times, fol
one thousand dollars, by John L. Sulli
vohb oOctoh cV'iy'
When David Davis is presiding ovel
the senate he frequently forgets he is
no longer in a court of justice, and tell.
tho secretary to bring on "thc mex
asc ."-Senator Edmunds is said to DE-
more miscellaneous reading than al
the other senators together.
The Valley Falls 1ax-mills of New
York have contracted with the govern
which is to be used in The postofic,
department. This is the largest con
tract made by the government for
twine at one time, and is sufficient II
last a year.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow Of the lat,
President Lincoln, died in Springfield
ILL.,, Sunday night. She had been il
a long time, but q few days ago grew
worse. On Saturday evening she suf
fered a shock of paralysis, and from
that time on lay in q comatose stat,
until she died.
In Montana, on a day fixed for
wedding, the bridegroom did not com,
to time. He was sued for breach o
promise. and showed that all the hour
of the day specified he was freed by
bear. The defense was deemed valid
he was forgiven. and that night Their
was a merry wedding.
A romantic wedding has occurred il
~Bentleyvillo, Penn. Tho contracting
parties were Henry Weaver of Kansa
and Mr.; Isaac Slusher. widow. Bot
the giddy things were over sevent,
years of age. 1t is q case OF love d
first sight, the oourtship only lasting
week, aud Is the talk of the neighbor
hood.
A milliner in LaFargeville, N. Y.
has lately been married to a man fron
California, whom she had not seel
until q few days before the ceremony
They began their acquaintance b,
writing to each other under fictitiou
names, then sent photographs, then me
In Utica, and within three days wer
married.
A novel game of base ball was playe,
at Conshohocken, Penn, by rival club
of Connaughttown. A key of beer wa
placed on third base, and a rule pre-
scribed that no player could have
drink until he reached that station
The effect was singular. Every playe
REACHED third base, and SO frequent
that two kegs were emptied before tn
game was half over.
A sensation is caused at Washington
Pa, by the elopement and marriage {
Miss Verne Cloksy (white), aged 8
years, who is connected with the bei
families and owns considerable prof.
erty, with John Miller, aged 81 years,
colored waiter who formerly worke
for the woman's family. The woma
was once in an insane asylum, and wi
be taken back there again by he
friends.
At Downieville, Md, the other day
q tw~o-years-old child, while playin
with a dead chickens head, was a
faekad nv n r0Osiar an vinlanfIv that iii