The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-09-29
GENERAL NOTES.

years was last week married to Il man
ten years Older.
Gen. Scioil,hl has ~ en formally as
signed ~ the cuinnnrd ct Tia, military
division OF The Pacific 'r'ni the 10Th OF
October, when Gcn McDowcll will be
retired.
While putting nn a clran SHIRT a
Georgia uia" hil uvrr g iruhk aud
broke hi cnlar bone. he Absurd and
Dangerous practice ot putting un clean
shirts should lc slopprd.
Dillon has wrilcn iciicr alnunnc.
ing his retirement fro;n Parliament on
account uf iI health. lie says it will
not bc possible tor him 10 take part in
Irish politics tor the next few years.
Austin Shelton, the hermit of Pike
county, Penn, desires ~ marry. lie
will find II willing danscl provided he
changes his name 10 meet the pecuniary
consideration, to Shutdown.
AT a meeting in New York city OF
the subscription to the diminishing fund,
it was stated that Mcssrs, PAnell, Da-
witt and Dillon had requested the stop.
Bhf.t VI Rllt uSlNdltDll VIZ tNbOlul vi ltc
injurious elect on land league receipts.
Judge Jere Black, who has been in
Washington for two or thee days,
said Saturday that, as counsel employed
by the MOrmons, he is now engaged
i'll preparing 10 test the constiluiionali-
ty of the act passed by congress at its
last session creating the Utah commits
sion.
Deacon William Richardson of Brook
lyn. charged with "disordcrly walk and
CONSTRUCTION of the seventh avenue rail-
road, of which he is president, on Sun
day, in May last, has been expelled from
the Hanson place Baptist church.
A Mcdfurd, Mass, rum manufactures
meant TO leave II will under which his
distllery would be torn down and the
business discontinued; but, as he wrote
sat the expiration ofthrcc wears" with
out specifying how soon after, the heirs
will continue at the old stand rs long
as it is profitable
j. j. Bryan, who has been mayor OF
Chattanooga AMI was an alderman fol
several years, was arrested on Monday
on the charge of attempting to ravish q
tenant named Mrs. Southerland when
he called at her room for his rent. lie
had hearing and was bound over tc
| the Circuit court.
The inquest OH the remains OF Ellen
Kindergarten, ut Woodstock, Ont.
resulted in the arrest OF all old negrcss
named Munson, at whose house Tho
woman died, The evidence showed
that for years the house had been The
resort Of a, wom Ra maj 'k stip1era dcSE
have taken place there.
The Oldest twins now living i'll thu
United States, it is said, are Bernard
and John Keplcr, who still live in TIT
quaint old hillside house in Plumstead
Bucks county, Penn, ninety years o
age. They have never parted company
for a day, and have only been out of TIT
county once, when they visited Phila
delphia for short time.
| 1t is estimated that tho loss by III,
flood at Railway, N. j., will reacl
100000. Many persons have been in
jured. The town was divided into TIVE
halves without communication for
whole night. The gas went out. PEG
pic separated from their families wer,
unable to return, and slept in churchc
and ut saloons, or walked the streets.
AT CoVington, Ky, on Saturday nigh
while Thomas Dodd was standing il
the doorway of his house by the side O
his wife, whom he married the Sunda,
previous, he was shot and killed b.
Dodd had ruiDed. Mrs. Welsh wa
with her husband. She has been arrest
ed and confesscs. Welsh escaped.
a singular case is rencc,"I,@" n4ln
| San Auf..,i-s tr~-A"s, hospitdI' "A hcAi
can was brought in who was bitten b,
ccntipedc. The leg on which he wa
bitten was treated and cured; but sine
then the man has begun to drink spirits
aud the old wound has broken on
afrcsh, and the eangrened flesh is nov
dropping of the leg where the cent?
pedc touched.
Jean Corloist has been taken [,
Paris from the Haute Saone as a medi
cal curiosity. lie is twenty years old
On the 18th of May, 1881, he was 81,
feet three inches high One dav after
wards he had grown an inch, and b,
the 18th of September of the same yea
he had grown five inches. Since thel
he has grown foot, and he is nov
seven feet ten inches high,
On Sunday an unknown man wa
III" Tchtral "farR, New York. III;
policeman ordered him TO come down
and the man not obeying, the Officer
started TO climb to the top of the obser
vatory. The man then jumped to The
pavement, distance of forty feet, anC
was terribly injured. lie died some
hours later.
a queer custome is observed in 4
town in Alsacc, where the authorities
have recently published careful and
true, lit fall the drunkards who lived
therein. The list embraces thirtv-onc
persons, aud all innkeepers are forbid.
den to sell intoxicating drinks TO per.
SONS whose names appear on this roll
of dishonor. 1t is an idea that will
bear thinking over
Engineer Melville has been instruct
ed by the acting secretary of the navy
to retain in his possession the records
of the Jeanette expedition until after
the investigation. lie will accord.
ingly keep custody of the chests which
he brought with him, but he will return
TO their writers, as far rs possible, Il
humber of letters sent to members OF
the expedition, who will never return.
Melville says there is much valuable
matter in The records which has hot vet
been published lie will give the sub.
stance of many of these records in his
report.
Monday morning. while a clerk OF
Wilson, Colston ~ Co., Baltimore
brokers, was cutting of coupons from
n number of Columbia and Greenvillc
railroad bonds in the cashiers room of
the Bank of Baltimore, two men enter
and one engaged the cashier in CONVEX