The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-10
GENERAL NOTES,


The total embezzls ment of xe.
Auditor Palmer, of New ark, N. j. foois
up 1920, 400.
Holyoke has tbre new cascs n,
small-nox, aud Pittsf .eld three.
One of the Jail of lcers says he will
not be surprised il Guiteau does moi
live to be hung, as his health appears
to be failing rapidly.
A store was bu rned at Uniondale, Pa.
Sunday by tramp, and the propriet.,
persisted in the flames.
There were II new cases of small.
pox and six deaths In Chicago or
Monday.
Fourtecn persons are still unaccoun.
ted for rs the result of the World
building fre in New York city.
AT Chicago Andrew Olson OIL Mon.
day Night drank three quarts of whisky
to ward off the smallpox and died iu q
few hours.
AWHILE coating on Mount Adams
Cincinnati, O., last Saturday morning,
two boys ran their sleds into a pond
and we're drowned.
There fare now 4,974 cars owned
and used exclusively by the National
Dispatch line, running between st.
Louis and Boston via the Central Yer.
| mont.
Unknown rufflans called Valentine
Smith, wealthy old bachelor of
Newmarket, IN. H., to his window In
the night recently, and attempted to
kill him with club, but he drove
them of with revolver.
James Harry, engineer OF Robert.
sons paper mill In Hinsdale, N. n.
was caught Ia the machinery on Mon.
day, and had one leg nearly torn off
from the effects of which he died in
the afternoon.
John Walsh, said TO be an Austrian
ex-convict, and to have drowned a
former wife, kicked his wife to death
In tho presence of his four children
at Little Falls, N. r., last Sunday.
The sale of the marble and granite
works belonging to the late Peter
Fleury, on Isle La Motto in Lake
Chainplain, last Thursday, was largely
attended, Vermont parties succeeded
In carrying off the prize at S29, 900.
A negro who was refused the usual
accommodations at New York,
"coffee and cake saloon" brought q
suit against the owner, but the case
has been finally decsded against him,
on the ground that q place of thai
kind which does not provide lodgingt
is not an inn or public house.
Joseph Willie, employed in the
Victoria mills In Schuylerville N. Y,
was caught In the shafting on Thurs
day. His right arm was torn of and
remained In the shafting, which makes
seventy-fve revolutions minute, and
he was thrown to the floor, distance
of thirteen feet. He died,
Barnum has sweet little baby ele
plant which weighs only one hundred
and forty pounds, and the guIleles
show man says he has insured its lift
for three hundred thousand dollars
and paying one thousann dollars weel
as o premium.
Some miserable speculator in human
life has taxed out policy for %, 900 o,
the life OF Mrs. Garfield, the late Pres
ident Garfeld's mother. Mrs Garfieit
Is over so years old, aud her insure
probably calculated that he would no
have to pay many assessments befor,
! be could realsze on his policy.
A boy named Martel, at Derb,
: Line. who was earring potatoes 70
d. Sweeney, fell upon hot stove il
the car In which he was at work, set
ting his clothes on fire, and burning
him badly about the face, hips an,
other parts of his body.
E. =. McCiay Of Yokohama an,
Herbert Markham, freshmen of tn
f Syracuse university, were XII 1nappe,
I by the sophomores yesterday, ant
carried to Oneida lake, distance of
miles, where they were abandoned an,
left to dnd their way home through tn
darkness aud mud. At last account
! nothing was heard Of the missin,
4 freshmen.
3 Congressman Joyce has presected IL
: the House the petition of the Sons O
: Temperance of New Hampshire, rep
D resenting 1900 members, and of tn
: Right Wortoy Grand Lodge of Goo,
: Templars of the United States, repre-
0 senting $4,000 members, for an a
4 mendment to the Constitution of til
: United States to prohibit the manufac
! ture and sale of all alcoholic beverage
r throughout the National domain; re
ferreb TO the select committee on tn
8 alcoholic traffic.
, The Coroner's jury In the matter @
4 the Spuyten Duyvil disaster on th
! Hndson River railroad brought in
verdict that declares those responsible
for the accident TO be brakeman Mclius
: Conductor Hanaford, Engineers Stan
: ford, Buchanan and Burr, Spperinten
dent Toucey, and THO management Q
. the road generally. Melius and Hams
: fore were both arrested, and have bee
: held In S5 200 bail each. The test
mony ct the inquest developed blames
q BILE parsimony and lack of care In tn
: management.
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