The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-04-21
GENERAL NOTES.

Three inches of snow fell ut Dres-
den, Ohio, last Monday.
Two steamers anl two ships filled
with coolies are now IN the way TO
Victoria, Is. e., from China. Other
ships will follow.
Five hundred and tliirtv-one Italian
Immigrants, who lauded at New York,
on Monday, brought an aveia age OF ON.
ly ten cents in money each.
Thomas Harrison, the ''bny preach
err" closed at Cincinnati, Monday
night, a series of revival services which
lasted for thirteen weeks. There have
been over 5000 conversions.
A leltcr.carrier in Meriden, Conn,
whose wife has inherited $50. 200, still
goes his rounds, although the postmas.
ter has several applicants for his place.
Perhaps his vile won't ''divvy up"
&. 5. PARCEL was released from
prison, Monday morning, aud ia now
on his way to England The release is
on parole for week in order TO enable
him to visit sister In Paris, whose
child has jus, died.
The electors of Iowa are to vote on q
proposed amendment of the constiiu-
ton ENGRAVING prohibition upon that
instrument, on the 18th of June. The
contest will be exceedingly hot, aud
extcnd into every school district.
The trial of Walter and James Msl-
ley and Blanche Douglass, who are
charged with the murder of Jennie
Cramer, opened at New Haven, Con-
necticut, on Tuesday. Hundreds of
persons were unable to gain admission.
1t is expected that it will take several
days to secure jury.
Clara Belle has made a iii scoyery..
"There seems" she says, "to be a vas,
difference, to mems eyes, between tn.
twcedle-dee of an outer dress and tn.
tweedle-dum of undertaking. can
understand why, but 1t is so. Nine
men out of ten will rush wildly to a
window to see woman in flowing
white across the way, and turn away
disappointed when they find tn at the
snowy garment is wrapper ms cad of
chemise." Oh, Clara Belle, how
could you?
Somebody's darling will never come
back, as the following recital of ro-
nance in the Atlantic garden in New
York will show: A year ago an
amiable, well-dressed young man, who
confessed to his confidential friends
that he was the s III of q rich German
nobieman, and was travelling under the
assumed name Emil Spepz, appeared
at the garden and fell in love with The
girl who beat the drum. They Ivere
engaged to be married, but a few DAYS
before the date set for the wedding
Spenzsdled in SO great poverty that
there was not enough money to bury
him, and the attaches of the garden
subscribed money 10 inter his remains.
A modern Jonah, HON prosperous
would do we'll to avoid.
has just shaken the dust of Nevada from
his feet: Before starting thence for
Oregon he made this concise but COM
prebensive statement of the ill-Iuck
which has bounded lin: 81 went to
Maine and the ice crop failed; went
to Florida and the frost killed all the
gardens and orchards; went to Mis-
sissippi and they had flood; l went to
aud the people began to die |
with smallpox. Since l struck this |
state the Comstock mines have never
paid dividend, and i'll go to Oregon |
am willing to bet they will have a
drouth."
Thirty years ago John Potts, a black
smith near Carbonate, Penn, adopted
4 poor girl and gave her an excellent
education, extending e yearss to aitera r66 sr
graduation the girl disappeared, and
Potts never heard of her again until two
weeks ago, when a strange lady APP
1eared at his home. Potts recognized
ler as his adopted daughter. The lady
proved 10 be Mrs. James Rutledgo of
the wife of q millionaire,
who had come TO take Potts TO her
rome. She paid OF the mortgages on
he Potts property, purchased hand
ome monument for the grave of Mrs.
Potts, and started with her old friend
or her home in Pittsburgh. Soon after
heir arrival she made Potts gift of
$4,000 in United States bonds.
A subscription has been started at
,edalia, Mo-, for the benefit of Jesse
lanes widow and two children, 1t
mounts to $500, and it will be increas-
d. Although James participated in
obberies, the plumber of which amount
d in value to $263,778, it is claimed
hat his widow has only about 5000 left.
he has received the offer of a good
slsrv 80 tay1s-c ;jhues, nofses nave ,
leady been sold for circus. Mrs.
ames says that her husband was
red of a bandits life, and was anxious
settle down on farm, but they
ould never live long in one place, as
le officers were always after them.
IL the officers had just left Jesse alone, G
ne said, 1--WE would have lived all right,
nd he would have been an honor to
Is country"
Jennie O'Brien,. a handsome Saratoga 9
lrl OF IL years, who had been employ
the Sturteyant hotel, New York,
as arrested Tuesday charged with
numerous thefts at the hotel, including !
le stealing of $4,000 which Willie / l
douin, the variety actor, had conceal
1 under the mattress of his bed. When !
ne was taken to court Tuesday she
III in fainting fit and died in a few
lomcnts, as supposed from heart dis.
use. She was the sweetheart of an ex.
onvict. and 1t is said that she was the
'ol of desperate gang of hoiel thieves
'ho had laid ont heavy schemes of rob-
cries in New York and at Saratoga
lis summer. One of her accomplices,
n ex-convict, had opened an oyster
iloon in New York. An ex-convict
managed it, and another is employed in !
The detectives had perfect net I
FORK about her, and would have con- s
icted her, and through her it was ex-
ected TO convict others. Two officers
ad gone TO Saratoga to arrest other
ersons. The girl confessed to the de-
'ctive after her arrest that she had