The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-03-03
GENERAL NOTES.
The six days. pedestrian contest IN
New York began Monday.

The six days pedestrian contest In
New York began Monday.
Gen. Fltzhugh leo has begun to wrllc
a history of The campaigns of Lees
army,
The widow OF Daniel Webster died
al New Rochelle, N. ", Sunday, night.
Sho was webster's second wife.
Monday, Feb. 9th, was the seventy
hf,h birthday anniversary Of our Amer
lean poet, Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow.
Mrs. Clara NJ. Bisbee, y student at
the Harvard divinity school, has been
Installed pastor OF Boston church.
A new tout making for Barnum's
show next summer will cover field
45G feet long by go feet wide. Il has
given employment to 800 men.
Eisht individuals are indicted for
contributing by their negligence to
the Vienna disaster. Tho trials will
begin on the I'd Of May.
The late Dean Stanley attributed his
exceedingly bad handwriting to rheu.
matism, saying that he could not
control his fingers.
The political graveyard will DO ad.
vertised to let rs vacant II President
Arthur continues to exhumc Its oc-
cupants at his present rapid rate dur
ing the next few years.-[New York
Tribune.
The New York Times Louisville,
KY, special says: A comparison In
the state auditors report indicates that
there are seven thousand more voters
In the state than there are males over
2l years Of age.
Anna Dickinson continues TO draw
large houses in the West. Al one per-
formance In Des Moines, Iowa, the
receipts were 1867, and two nights
in Omaha netted $4,000. Miss Dick
inson and her managers arc, Of
course, delighted.
The census bureau report 10000
Mormons in Utah, $4,000 over 81
years old and 10000 less than nine
years old. There are a little over A.
900 Gentiles; there ars 1000 apostate
Mormons, 800 Josephites, 100 doubt
full and $1,000 Mormons of foreign
birth.
A family swept of in the big Cotton.
wood snow slide, at Salt Lake city
recently, has been recovered under
40 tons of snow, not frozen, but lying
naturally In bed-the :husb band, wife
and infant In one bed, two boys and
two girls, the eldest II years old, in
another, smothered instantly in their
sleep.
In the court-martial, Saturday,
Lieut.. Howell testified that Mason
told a reporter two days after the
shooting that he had determined to
fire upon the assassin a week or two
before the commission of the act
Mason also said he loaded the gun
before going TO the Jail. Prisoners
counsel objected to the admission of
this testimony. The court directed
the testimony and objection entered
on the record.
A gentleman In Paris owns hand
some and valuable dog named "Bis.
marck." He recently received note
from the German Embassy inviting
him to remove the name from the
dog's collar and to cease calling the
animal by 1t under the pain of pros.
ecution, upon the ground that the
patronymic belongs to the German
Chancellor and the Embassy cannot
allow 1t to be publicly applied to a
dog.
A. b. Miller, of the New York board
of trade and transportation, on Friday
of last week argued before the house
committee on railways and canals in fa-
vor Of the Hennepin canal. He eaid
the board considers the work entirely
national In character, and that the gov
eminent emulating, the spirit of that
characteristic of the state Of New York,
in connecting the waves OF the Atlantic
with the great western lakes, should In
the Interests of the commerce of
the republic. continue the extension by
uniting the waters OF Lake Michigan
with the Mississippi river, thereby Civ
Ing contiguous water navigation from
the Atlantic ocean, through the numer-
GUS tributaries OF that father of rivers,
to almost every state of the Union.