The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-11-10

ed its 10th edition i'm London. More
than 100000 copies of the poem are
said 10 have been disposed of in
America.
A resident of Kirkmansville, KY, il
a cousin 10 his own children, having
married his aunt. lie is uncle to his
brothers and sisters and cousins, and
brother-in-law to his father and moth.
err.
Simmonds's Gap, Va, has patriarch
of eighty years, living with his ninth
wife, who is father of fifty-three child.
rem. AT q recent reunion over 800
descendants wished him long life.
United States Senator Vest of Mis-.
souri, had an narrow escape from
drowning while fishing in the Ouachita
(river, six miles south Of Hot Springs
Ark. He was carried over mill'dam
in his boat, and came near being swept
away by the swift current.
In Virginia City, New, last Thursday
Mrs. Daniel Glassett, while insane.
left home, taking with her three child.
rem. She returned on Saturday, hav.
ing in the meantime murdered the
Youngest child because its crying an.
noyed her. The child was found with
its head cut of.
A farmer at Washington, Ia, was
milking in a barn on Saturday night
and accompanied by two iufant sons.
The loft fell in, crushing all three be-
meath it, and the hay caught fire from a
lamp the farmer was using and both
boys and several cows and horses were
burned to death.
George Flaking of West Bloomfield,
N. Y. Oh Monday morning while crazy
drunk shot at his wife three times
without hitting her, and thinking that
he had murdered her he fed, after hay
ing fired the house and barn, which
were destroyed. Officers are pursu.
ing him.
Mrs. Mary Martin, charged with
poisoning Mrs. Kireger, has been
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree at Emporia, Kan. Mrs. Martin
and her son Moseley procured insur-
ance for $4,000 on the life of Mrs.
Krieger in favor of Moseley and pois-
oned her with strychine.
A young woman named Marie Nette
at Chippewa Falls, Wis, on Friday,
went into the woods to gather tama-
rack gum, and not returning one hun.
dred people went in search of her.
They found only portions of her body.
She had bscn dcvourcd by bcare after
A Harrisburg man sent to the State
Prison in 1852, has emerged at the end
of his 80 year sentence. lie made
more money in the penitentiary than
he would have made out of doors, no
doubt; for 81 POO house and lot of his
in that city have been absorbed by the
business of the town, and he comes ont
to meet an offer of $4,000 for the
place.
The inquest in New York city in the
case of Mrs.l DR.. E. e. Seguin and lher
three children disclosed that she was
very melancholy and queer, and be-
fore committing the act sent the nurse
and hall boy out of the house on err
rands. The jury returned verdict
that she murdered the children and
killed her self while suffering from a
Temporary alteration of mind.
A singular and not altogether pleas
ant experience was that of MIR. Henry
l.. Clapp, manager of the New York
agency of Fairbanks az Co., the great
scale-makers. He went down to the
bay on a European steamer to bid %
60 across the ocean, the boat in which
he expected to return 10 shore having
left him in the lurch. In the mean
time report of his "mysterious disap-
pearance" was telegraphed all over the
country and created no end of talk and
trouble.
The saloon of Joseph Hart at Balti-
more has been frequently complained
of by the neighbors OH account of the
noise at all hours OF the night. A
minor son of Mrs. Annie Michigan is
visitor of the saloon. The mother
has repeatedly cautioned the prophet
or not to sell intoxicating stimulants
to her boy. The youth returned home
Sunday afternoon in a state of inebria-
ton. This aroused the anger of the
mother. She seized an ak, and visiting
the saloon, demolished the door, the
bar fixtures, and whipped five men
who attempted to check her.
The native language is gradually go.
ing out of use in Ireland, and a Gaelic
Union has been founded in Dublin for
the purpose fpreserving what remains
of the language and encouraging its
study by the whole population. 1t is
not generally believed, however, that
the extinction of the native tongue will
be averled, though it is very desirable
that the language should be Kept alive
in view of the vast number of beautiful
and valuable mpositions-poetic
historic, philosophic, religious and ro-
mantic-which will otherwise practic-
ally drop into oblivion.
A Bakersfield, CAL, highw ayman
stopped citizen on the street one night,
and aided by the display of knife
which flashed in the moonlight, robbed
him. The next morning he was found
dead bnt few steps from the scene of
the robbery, lying fiat upon his back
with his murderous knife in his own
hand, and the plumber of which he bad
robbed the citizen, in the other. A
post mortem examination of the high.
waymen. Failed to showanything but
perfect health; and why one with per-
feet health in his system and wallet
in his possession should die, mysti fies
the people of Bakersfield.
The constitutional amendment pro-
hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor
in Iowa has been declared invalid by
the District court of Davenport in that
State. Judge Hayes rests his decision
on two grounds the act SUBJ
hitting the amendment is not set fourth
, in full In the Journals of the Legisla-
ture, nor is there any record of the
yeas and nays taken on the bill 4; and
(2) that the two houses of the Legisla-
ture did not pass the same bill, the one
adopted by the Senate prohibiting the
use of liquor for any purpose whatever,
and the House prohibiting only its use
| as beverage.