The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
GENERAL NOTES.
Gen. Skobelefl the celebrated Russian
colder, died snddenly lust week.


Gen. SkobeleiI, he celebrated Russian
soldier, died suddenly last week.
A merchant ut Morelia, Mexico
caught thief In his store the other
night aud locked him IN room with
q fierce dog. The animal reformed
the thief 10 death.
Mrs. Scoville, in an open letter to
the Rev. Mr.. Hicks, spiritual adviser
OF Guiteau, claims the autopsy shows
her brother was insane, and asserts that
she will begin legal proceedings to get
possession of his body and the prop
erty left by him to Mr.. Hicks.
A Dublin dispatch says: 1t Is very
generally believed that rising of Irish
men Is imminent. The crisis in Egyp-
tian affairs and the military embarrass-
ment of the government are regarded
by the Irish revolutionary leaders ss
furnishing long-sought opportunity.
A woman and two children have
starved to death in lonely section in
Van Buren, county, Ark, In tho noun
tains. 1t is believed the woman fell
sick, and the children, being too young
to secure aid, persisted. A third child
gnawed q piece of flesh from the arm of
one of her dead sisters. 1t died soon
after 1t was found.
Five miles from Denver Wednesday
morning, mob captured Charles Huff,
q young cattle thief, and hung him to
tree. A squad of police attacked the
mob aud desperate fight followed.
Several shots were fired, and number
w, Pc. snsnty wvuuuvu.
While the fight was in progress, Huff
was cut down and resuscitated.
An American by the nsme of Livings-
tone, who has lived in Florence during
the past thirty years, is seen almost
every day driving twenty horses-ten
spans attached to an ordinary wagon
and he manages them with perfect ease.
The harness Is quite curious in its adj
aptation to the purpose of driving 80
many horses at once.
Editor Mcintyre of the Long Island
Courier and Justice Kavanagh had a
free fight Wednesday in q saloon at
Long Island City, the former being
angry because the latter granted q dis
possess warrant against him. Two ex-
policemen, the advertising agent and
the editor of the College Point paper
joined the melee. No one was seriously
hurt.
Mics Myrtle Peck of Michigan, aged
fourteen, rode on the Rochester driving
park Saturday twenty miles In 43 min
utes "a IA secones, beating the best
recorded time two minutes. She rode
seven norses, none OF which woro CON-
sidered fast, and two or three were
considered slow. The time was taken
by reliable parties.
Hanlan, who Is almost entirely recov.
cred from his late illness, says: "I will
row any five men In the world two
miles straightway, or two miles and
turn, for from 81 900 to $4,000 q side.
will row these five men after the lapse
Of forty-eight hours, two full days, from
each other on ahy suitable waters on
the Continent of America. The chal-
lenge 10 open to the whole world"
The champion further adds that If he
could bring about these matches in
America he would forego for the pres
emit his intended visit to Australia.
The Washington Herald of Sunday
last says: "The wife and daughter of
Senator Edmunds left Atlantic CITY q
few weeks ago and have gone for the
summer to one of the highest points OF
the White Mountain region, where they
have rented q retired farm house for
ife,eaar 1n, Ihtier r1r,Gr Tdm Yn5 ~,nner-
ent journeys undertaken for her welfare
this year. In the fall Senator Edmunds
will have q special car fitted up, and
take this idolized daughter into the dry,
warm climate of New Mexico, which
has helped so many consumptives to q
recovery by the soft, healing infiuen-
ces of that soft, dry air."
There was serious rioting on the
docks of the Erie railway In Jersey
City Tuesday afternoon by which one
Italian workman lost his life BY drown
ing in an effort to escape from the
striking freight handlers. A number
Of strikers were wounded by pistol
shots from the Italians. A parry of
roughs In the company of the sh iksrs
is said to have begun the riot by Il row.
ing stones at the Italians. The total
number of casualties ia unknown, bu.
several men on the opposing sides W, re
seriously injured. There Il q genei al
feeling of uneasiness in Jersey CITY,
and . renewal ofthe difficulty is appre :
hended.
There are annoyauces In summer
that far exceed any that are due merely
TO the heat. Nothing, for instance,
can be more horrible, when the Their
mometer is at ninety degrees. than 10
pass an eating-house, and smell from
the Kitchen the aroma of fried ham,
which is being prepared for some un-
sentimental patron of the establish
ment. And persons whose courage
has been tested on the field of carnage
have been known to tremble and turn
psio when, on going into q restaurant
to cool their coppers with cold tea and
Ice cream, they have beheld q compat-
riot at the next table satisfying his APP
petite on pork and beans.
John Harrison, negro adjudged IA
vagrant by the Circuit court, of Jeffer-
son County, Kentucky, was sold at
Pnoilc auction In Louisville, last
wednesday, by order of the court. In
reality it was only his labor for one
year which was sold, and the purchas-
or, who paid two dollars, was required
to give bond that he will properly
care for the negro and keep him we'll
fed and clothed. But the spectacle
wac not q pleasant ono, howevor famil-
lar II may have been to those who re-
membered the auction mart when the
sheriff, appearing with Harrison upon
the Court House steps, ordered him to
stand up on a chair and take bis hat of,
and then yelled at the crowd who surg
ed around the building: Chow much
am offered for this able bodied man,
who is worth no less than $500 II he Is