The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-10-27
GENERAL NOTES.

the bride sixty years younger.
The admission OF colored man i9
membership in the Christian Church ai
Dublin, Texas, created such a hula
baloo that he had to Withdraw.
Henry Shiblcy of Indiana, while on
spree in New York city, met Mary |
Evans ut beer garden and the next
day married her while drunk. Becom-
ing sober he di'appc9rod.
Business in Cincinnati was temper
ariv dcmoralizcd the other day by the |
melting offivc hundred telegraph wires.
The difficulty was caused by tic eros
sing of wires under n switchboard.
rhcrc was an earthquake shock at
Lcavenworth, Ia. Sunday evening. Tho |
motion continued for ten seconds aud !
caused great alarm, but no damage of
consequence was done.
S. w. Dorsey insists that The recent
star route prosecution against him was
a piece of persecution and n conspiracy
instigatcd by cx-posimaslcr General
James and Attorney General Nc
Vcagh.
During the storm at Fairfield, Iowa.
lately, wild ducks gathered about the
electric lights in great numbers, and
put out all but one, and demolished
several globes. Nearly two hundred
ducks were picked up within three
hours.
At New York, Josie and Mamie
Quinn, aged . and II years, were louud
Sunday night hiding in some straw in
stable, half dead from hunger and oX-
posture. They had been there with
nothing to cat tor four DAYS. Their
father had abandoned them.
A queer case is reported from Port
Claimed as her husband by ciar Two
The man says if he married the woman
at all il was while he was under mes
merle influence, and the minister who
is alleged to have performed the cerc-
mony makes the same plea rs TO his
part of the affair.
Mrs. Levan, n widow. OF Obey town
ship, Bcrk county, Penn, recently
placed $1,000 in grecnbacks under Il C
carpet. Some days ago she raised the
carpet at the point to get the money,
but found il missing. The entire car
pet was then lifted, and in one of the
corners of the room mous~ncst was
found which was made of the missing
notes.
Miss Ida Gray, blooming sch3ol
teacher of % summers, at Dmsvillc,
n. y, and one OF her pupils, bucOlic
lad of Is, named John Henderson, be-
came victims of the grand passion, and
the other day ran away and we're mar
a. ...l - 80.
just in time TO thwart the interference
of the schoomarm's father, who had
followed clncn IN p,ro''ii
A young man started for q drive OF
twenty miles with his sweetheart
through an uninhabitcd tract in Min
ncsota. At point about midway OF
the lonely route the pair had bitter
q uarrcl. The fellow unhilchcd tho
horse, mounted It and rode away, lo w.
ing the girl alone in the wagon, where
she remained all night, and next day
walked home.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago refuse.
to accept the resignation OF Police SUI
perintcndcnt McGargill, NOM A.cd fol
sheriff, until the latter solves the mys
terry of the disappearance of Mary
y Winchester, a handsome young lady
who, il is supposed, was ruined by par
ties occupying a social position. 1t j,
believed that she is hidden somcwher,
in Indiana. The case promises TO be
; parallel TO that of Jennie Cramcr, a
New Haven.
An extremely malignant form of hog
cholera has broken ont near Iowa Civ
Iowa. Jacob Seller has lost over 100
head and will lose many ,uo'" ia
nation made shows that the animals arc
cmaciatcd and almost covered with can
ccrous sores. The lHngs seem change,
to clots of corruption. Five physicians
examined them and pronounced tho
type of the disease new.
The order for printing $50,00O,O 0t
worth of small denominations of golt
certificates in perfect shape for circula
ton has been suspended, o'~iuu io th(
failure of the public to take ,u- corliii-
Gates. Assistant Treasurer Acton nj
: New York reports that he signed 500,
, 900, 900 worth of certificates and bu
$50, 900 900 have been taken. In Phila
dclphia, where the bankers expressed
great anxiety to have the treasury issue
the gold certificates, not a single ono
, has been asked for.
The Georgia duel with whips ha.
been initiated at Guiliord Court House
N. &. Edward Johnston aud Charlcs
Williams, whoshad qnarrclcd about q
woman, agreed TO settle the matter will
, horsewhips. In the presence of about
fifty people they dashed oach other foI
, about three, hours being stripDej inJhf
Weic' exhausted and in Il terrible condi.
ton, the skin hanging in shreds from
their bodies. They were carried home
by their friends and are now in criti-
cal state.
Two young men recently arrived at n
tollbridge in the vicinity of New IIay-
en-, Conn, i'll such Il desperately money
less condition that between them they
could raise only just enough money to
pay for the passage OF one. They eX-
planned the situation, but the toll.kccper
was obdurate. In an nnguarded mo-
ment, however, he Acknowledged that
a person had II right to carry n bundle
over for single fare, whereupon one
of the paupcrs picked up his companion
and ran over the bridge with him be-
fore the keeper had time 10 eXpostulate.
The people of Clear Creek township.
n. o., have been for several weeks OK
cited over the frequent appearance ola
naked ncgress with hair reaching to her
feet and who acts in wild manner, ter
rorizing women and children by her
Screams and horrible gibberng. -Four
hundred men unsuccessfuly pursued
her and blood hounds refused to fol-
low her. Ii is said that she has been
living in the forests and swamps over
year. Ii is thought the woman is de-
ranged. One rumor is that the Great
IRE is notorious negro murderer, who
at times appeared in female attire. 1t
is asserted that the creature has carried
of several children and fearfully multi.
lafoI thnnn