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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13
FREAKS OF LIGHTNING.

AS John Vogle, of Northampton, Mass,
was standing by his team in his barn light
ming killed one of the horses without injur-
ing the ether horse or the man.
The three little daughters of Jacob Moro
WITT, of Winona, Mimi, were struck by
lightning while walking under an umbrella
i'll the street. Two were killed, and the
other was slightly paralyzed.
Three mules stood in row in the barn of
Joe johnson, near Binghamton, n. Y. A
stroke of lightning killed both of the outer
mules and left the middle one un INJURED
The barn WIS badly splintered.
In thunderstorm at Onondaga, N. Y, a
man had both eyeids torn away by light
ming. A physician is now transferring bits
of cuticle from the patients arms to make
him new eyelids.
William Walter, of Wiliamstown, n. Y, was
struck by lightning. The electricity ran
from the side of his neck down through his
boot into the floor. He will recover.
Six negroes at Ronham, Texas, had just
left hack in which they were riding to es-
cape a storm, when the vehic lie was struck by
lightning, which killed the driver and team,
and tore the hack into kindlng wood.
Lightning struck a tenement occupied by
Hungarians at Ashland, Penn. ,paralyzing one
man, breaking the leg and arm of another,
and burying woman under some timber.
Another man became insane through fright.
Solomon Deetz and his bride, of Millers-
burg, Ohio, were clean ng and furnishing
their new house, into which they were soon
to move, when lightning struck the building
and injured them both so badly that their
recovery was considered doubtful.
A lightning bolt struck the chimney of the
house of w. l.. Greenlee, at West Denver,
COL, and dividing, one ! art ran down the
outside OF t house, ripping of the weather
toarding from the roof TO the cellar. I he
other Fart of the charge went down the
stovepipe, scattering the kitchen utens i; in
every direction, and then os led the carpet
to brass rail opposite upon which the slid
ing door rolled, cut ing the carpet in two as
if with knife. 1t set fire to the clothing in
a closet, and then made hole through the
floor into the ground.
William M ddleton, of Connersville, Ind.
stepped out of the house to ad. Just lead pipe
as a rain storm cane up. Just as he stopped
to lay hold of the ire fash of lightn ng
seemed to envelop the hou'e. Middlet n was
Frustrated, and for u moment rend red half
unconscious. Re covering almost imm d =
ately he tried to rise, bat found his limbs
wholly powerless In minute his wife and
a servant girl we're at his side and he called
for them 20 throw water on his legs, as h
thought them both afle. They did so, an |
it re,iaN ell him somewhat. So that he could
be c,rried into the house. When there
he still il sted thai his legs were lady
sc)rched, though his trou sers vera uns inged.
An exa mir alton revealed that both limbs
were very severely burned, though not a
shred of his clothing was injured.
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ADDITIONAL NLWS.

AuoosT En.ERs, his wife, and child, aged
seventeen months, while out on the Hudson
river, below Albany, during a storm, were
struck by falling tree. Mr.. Ehlers and the
child we're both killed, and the mother was
dangerously injured.
WHILE Aaron c. De.weiler and his brother
Washington O.. Detweiler, aged thirty six
and thirty eight years respectively, promi'
nent and wealthy physicians of Reading,
Penn, were bathing in the Schuylkill river,
the former was seized with cramps, and on
the latter's gsing to his assistance both were
drowned
ALL the buildings composing the Massa-
chusetts State workhouse, in Bridgewater,
with the exception of two barns, have been
destroyed by fire. The buildings were three
stories high, covered almost an acre of
ground, and we're arranged in the form of a
hollow square. The 163 inmates were all
safely removed. An estimated loss of $780,
600 was incurred. James Gilmour, colored
inmate of the workhouse was arrested and
confessed to having fred tho buildings.
JOHN d. BALDWIN, senior editor and pro-
prietor of the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, and
ex-member of Congress, died few days
ago, aged sixty -four years.
STRINGENT precautions against the intro
duction of yellow fever by infected vessels
have been taken at Galveston, Texas. In
addition to the State quarantine, the city
has established picket boat TO patrol the
water in the neighborhood of quarantined
vessels.
GEORGE AYREs, sixty years old, wealthy
farmer of Brown county, Ohio, shot and
killed his grandson, Charles Preston, who
was asleep, and set the house on fire. He
then went to the barn, which he also set on
fire, and shot himself. His body was burned
UP. Another grandson was lying beside the
murdered one, but was not harmed. The
man was insane.
PRE- '1DENr AR1HJR will visit the Yellow
stone val ey, California, early in August.
The party will consist of about ten persons
ard will be gone five or six wesks.
GENERAL Crooks captured Apaches are 10
where they are to be under the control of
the army.
POSTMASTER ENERAL GRESHAM has just
rendered decision declaring that lotteries
cannot carry on their business through the
mails.
The President has Apr owe the sentence
of the court martial in the case of Com
ma nder Hora Z. Mulla1. of the lost
A shr elot, and he has been dism cd from
the service.
TIE des ,ruction of bridges and oil or prop
erty belong ng TO the Mexican Central rail-
road resulted IN a loss of more than 5000, 0J0.
Four men were found guilty at S igo, Ire
land, of murder conspiracy. Two il form
ers test fie d that the + sc nors and a number
o Their persons, who were obeying the Or
ders of secret society, ttteml ted, in
at Galway, wi h dynamite.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

TANNER.-Dr. Tanner, the famous faster,
now resides at jamestown, n. Y.
HANLAN.-Edward Hanlan, the oarsman,
has male, it is said, S53, COZ in six years by
rowing.
MoCLELLAN.-General George B. Nc
Clellan has become the American manager
of one of the Oldest English insurance com
panies.
| ERIossoN.-Captain John Ericsson, the
inventor of the Monitor, still hale and
hearty, is now eighty, looks about seventy
and works like sixty.
SIMpsoN.-Bishop Simpson, of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, is not in good health.
He will spend the summer travelling with his
daughter in Colorado.
Dom PEDRo.--The emperor of Brazil wears
white silk and white satin when he sits on his
throne, a necklace of immense diamonds
and emeralds and rich lace cravat.
MURPHY.-Francis Murphy, the we'll known
Pittsburg temperance advocate, who has for
a long time been holding success sful meet
ings in England, will sail for his home with
his son and daughter OIL September5.
CAMPDELL.-John A. Campbell, of New
Orleans, ex-justice of the United States
supreme court, who went with tbs Confed-
crates in the civil war, has one of the finest
law libraries in the world. His memory is
wonderful. He takes only the greatest cases,
and it is said the supreme court justices
always agree with nm.
HUGo.-Victor Hugo, who is now hale
old man, rides every afternoon on the top of
an omnibus through Paris. He likes to view
the city and to chat with fellow passengers.
A few years ago he distributed about 5000
as New Years gift among the omnibus
conductors of Paris.
BABNUM.-On the night Barnum's circus
burned in Chicago porter at the Palmer
house rushed in upon the sleeping Snowman
with news of the disaster. "All right; let
her burn; I'm used to it," growled p. T., and
turned over and went to sleep again, nor
woke till the morning after the fire.
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FATAL LAUNCH.
Steamer Falls on Her side in scotiaud---
About 100 Lives Lost.

AbOut 100 Lives Lost.
The steamer Daphne was being launched
near Glasgow, Scotland, when she fell over
on her side, throwing about 2C0 workmen
into the water The Daphne, which was
constructed for the coasting trade, is a ves-
sci of so tons burden. The accident oc-
Cured after the launching, in the middle of
the Clyde, near Renfrew, five miles from Glas-
gov. The steamer left the ways at very fast
rate and when size gained the water she
rolled from side 10 side. The ersons on
board, fearing che would capsize, ran 10 and
fro. The vessel finally reeled over and
nearly disappeared beneath the water. The
cause was that she had too much top weight.
Those who had maintained their positions on
the portion of the steamer not submerged,
did their utmost to save those
who wt.e cast overheard. At the
same time boats hastily pulled to the rescue
to assist in the work of rescuing the unfor-
tunate people, and succeeded in saving quite
a number. Crowds of the grief-stricken
relatives of the victims of the disaster soon
focked to the scene of the calamity.
The Daphne turned upside down before
she sank. An eyewitness saw great num-
Der of men struggling in the water and
shreking for help. Many we're bruised and
covered with blood, having been struck by
debris.
Anumber of men at shipyard on the OPP
posite side of the river who witnessed the
disaster, but who were unable to render any
assistance at the time, say that the whole oc-
cupied about three minutes They imme-
diately set to work to help the people
struggling in the water. They say
that some of the men on the
Daphne jumped overheard and others were
thrown overheard, and that a quantity of
loose fittings fell from the deck and crushed
many unfortunates struggling in the water
A number of swimmers we're visible directly
after the ship capsized, but many of them
were afterward seen to sink. Six men we're
seen cl:nging together. -Four endeavored to
climb upon the steamer as she was sinking
but we're forced to desist by rush of steam
from port hole. Some climbed upon the
keel just before the ship was submerged.
According to statements of witnesses and
survivors of the disaster the vessel left the
slip too rapidly, causing her stern, which
entered first, to sink deeply in the water.
She was then caught by the strong current
of the river, by which, as well as by her top
weight, she was caused to heel over so far
that water entered her ports
The total number of lives lost was e'ti-
mated at 80. There we're many boys on the
steamer at the time of the disaster. Fifty
two bodies were recovere on the day after
the accident. A diver reported that the
bodies in the hold were so closely packed
that he was unable to move them.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.


The st. Louis club travel about in open
barouches.
WHITNEY, of the Bos ons, ranks as the
swiftest pitt her in the profession. He struck
out seventy men in nine championship
games, including twenty four in three played
with the Detroits.
In match at Brooklyn between the
Brooklyn and Harrisburg clubs Umpire
Tally was bit in the face by tn own foul
tip ball from Schappert, the ball fractu1ing
his Jaw bone, and had to retire.
The greatest baseball game of the season
was played at Grand Forks, Dakota, between
former winning, "a to 0. The winners did
the heaviest batting ever seen in that part of
the country, making more than one hundred
base hits. Lyons, of the home club, did the
heaviest batting. He broke three bats.
The Fourth was an uolucky dly for ball
players. Goldsmith and Flint of Chicago,
and Hankinson, of New York. had fingers
broken O'Brien, of the Athletics, and La
than, of Louisville were sunstruck; Nc
Clellsn, Of the Philadelphians, and Richard
son, of Detroit, h I'd their ankles disco ated,
and Hogan was overcome by the heat in
Philadelphia.
On the Fourth of July the New York lea rue
cub defeated the strong Poston nine in the
morning by score of 10 to Z, and in the
afternoon won a game from the Providence
club leaders in The race for the champion
ship, by l to 0. On the next day, however.
the New York club made a miserable dis
lay with the Providence nine, who scored
e'even runs in the first inning, winning the
game b. IS to l.
LEAGUE CLUB RECORD.
The official record of the league champion
ship games played up to the 9TH is as fol-
lows.
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RECENT SNAKE STORIES.

Archie Reed, of Villanow, Ga, killed two
IA tlesnakes. one of which was trying to
swallow a rabbit
Hundreds of rattiesnakes have been killed
in blasting away the rocks for the railroad
extension beyond Redding, Cal.
Mrs. s. A, Robinson, of Newman, Ga.
killed coach-whip snake in her front door
yard that was four and one-half feet in
length. 1t was chasing a rat.
Pennsylvania appears to be full of black
snakes this season. Samuel Fry, farmer,
near Reamstown, killed several in one day,
the largest being ne feet long.
A snake six feet in length attacked a Boon
ton N. J; boy and chased him a hundred
yards. Then the boy mustered up courage,
and turning about killed the snake.
A black snake entered the house of F. NJ.
Van Dyke, of West Kalamo, Mic h . to get a
canary that hung in cage in the open win
dow. The snake was killed when il was with
in six inches of the cage.
As Michael Mccarthy and Henry Wood
we're cutting brush in the mountains near
Bro ldway, n. j., they were attacked by a
large blacksnake. They killed il. 1t was
eight feet seven inches long. They then
started a ire in a hoe in the rocks, and
snakes of various kinds and sizes darted out
and soon eighty-six were killed.
As Henry Strunz was climbing the noun
tain just below Compounce, Conn.,, he
reached up to grasp the edge of a ledg and
he put his Rand upon raitlesnake. He
succeeded in killing the reptile. 1t was
three feet eight inches long.
The attention of farm hand on Belle
Reaches ranch, near Redwood City, was
attracted by the strange noise of a bird
circling in the air. He saw it suddenly fall
and, running to the place. found it in the
Jaws of a rattlesnake. which he killed. L Q
snake had sixteen ratt.es and was six feet in
length.
The two little daughters of Ezra Lewis of
Shelby, Ky, discovered a rattlesnake on the
lawn, and ran for something to throw at it.
Finding piece of broken stove lid. one of
them laughingly threw it at the reptile. and
singularly enough struck it on the back of
the head, killing it. 1t was trife over six
ieat in length.
Hugh Levy, a painter Of Menu his, viii,
fishing stopped over 10 seize a crawfsh he
saw under a log, when snake fasi enel its
fangs in the third and fourth fingers of his
left hand. He sucked the olson from the
wound, and then drank quart of whisky,
whith h, he says, had not the least Q lect upon
him, bound n ring tightly about his wrist,
aud started for home. During the evening
he drank two gallons of whisky. He fina'-
" recovered.
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Foreign N ews.

The Rev. Thomas N. Burke, the we'll.
known Irish priest and lecturer, is dead, in
his fifty-fourth year. Deceased visited the
United States in 1872, and delivered lectures
and sermons in all parts of the country. An
animated controversy arose ON his series of
lectures in reply to Mr.. Froude, the English
historian, whose views of the relations of
England and Ireland he combatted.
THERE has been almost panic in London
over the outbreak of cholera in Egypt. In
Damietta, a town of not more than 5000 in
habitants, the deaths reached 120 day. The
disease has also broken out at other places
in Egypt.
DURING temperance fete at Sheffield,
England, panic among the thousands of
school children present resulted in two of
them losing their lives and injuries to
twenty others.
FIRE at the town of Friedrichs stadt, Rus
STA, on the river Duna, Las destroyed fifty
buildings, including the postoffice.
GREAT BRITAIN will cease sending her pau
pers to the United States, Mr.. Treveyan
having made statement to that effect in
parliament.
on tour, was about to ascend in an elevator
CT factory which he was inspecting at
Milan, Italy, the weight attached to the car
fell, killing the governor of the district,
who was accompanying his majesty, and in
juring the manager of the factory The king,
vho had entered the elevator before the ac-
cident happened, was much overcome and
abandoned his tour.
JOHN WINroN SPENCER CHURCHILL, seventh
Duke of Marlborough, Marquis of Blanford
and Earl of Sunderland is dead.
HEAVY floods have prevailed in the district
of Surat, India, causing great damage to
property and some loss of life. Five hun
bred houses have fallen at Surat; many vii
lagos have been destroyed by the floods and
thousands of people are homeless.
The first case of cremation has just occur
led in Rome, the body burned being that OF
Senator Cipriani.
FIVE hundred members of tribe of ma
tiyes attacked detachment of British troops
which, with political agent, had been sent
to chastise refractory village in Assam,
India. The natives were repnlsed with o
loss of fifty killed.
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A BUNGLING EXECUTION.
Terrible Scenes Enacted mt n Hanging in
Teyna.

Terrible Scenes Enacted nj n Hanging in
Texas.
A dispatch from Ell Paso, Tex, says: 10
seph Brewster, the soldier who assaulted
Mrs. Davis at Fort Davis one year ago, was
hanged ut Ysleta yesterday afternoon. He
made no confession, but delivered speech
of twenty minutes duration, during which
he took two big drinks of whisky,
his religious adviser taking the bottle
away from him once. The knot was tied in
u bungling manner, and af err the trap fell
Brewster wr.thed and twitched terribly.
Then the rope slipped and he was hauled up
from the trap and upon the Platform. The
rope was rep'ac d and the mal was then re-
hanged After being cut down the body
wa placed in a redwood colin and given in
charge of the ten ing Catholic priest
Over eight hundre persons were present
and th.-ty vehicles we scattered about.
The best of order prevailed.
John Cone, a negro, was also hanged on
the same day at Houston, Texas, fer assault
ing and dangerously injuring Mrs. Ellie
Scott.
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Any plant bearing blossom which
resembles that of potato is to be
avoided, according to an exchange,
which says further: Strange to say,
the same family includes the valuable
potato, tomato and eggplant and the
noXious nightshade and belladonna. 1t
is well known that potato seeds, toma-
to stems and eggplant juice are poison
Gus to some. The blossoms of all these
plants are very much alike, so that few
but botanists can tell which are limo
cent and which are not. Nightshade
is frequently found growing where it
is least expected.
People have been accustomed to re-
gard the buttercup as harmless-buti 1T
isn't. Not that it is poisonous, but it
is most terribly acrid. Simply bite
upon it and it will burn the tongue like
mustard plaster. Cows Will not
touch buttercups. but will eat the fields
bare around them. There are several
species of buttercups, net so snowy as
the one best known, but much more
fiery. One variety appropriately bears
the name of cursed crowfoOt. These
plants are fire. luently seen b side creeks
and damp places.
There is another plant. every part
of which seems to burn like a coal of
fire. This is poisonous, all the more
dangerous from the fact that it is so
insignificant and inconspicuous in APP
pearance. 1t is the lobelia inhata.
This is very abundant, growing in al
most every grassy or weedy place. SO
much so that one can scarcely take
country walk anywhere without find
ing it. 1t may be known by its short,
branching stem, small, pointed downy
leaves tiny. pale blue, irregular bios
SONS, and propOrtionately large, in
flated pericarps or SO d yesses.
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Eouth and West

ENocH Pratt has pres ented to the city of
Baltimore magnificent free library and
$685., 3}3.33 10 be invested for its mainte-
nance and supper.
w. H. VANDERBILT has added 800, 900 to
the endowment fund of Vanderbilt univer-
sity of Nashville, Tenn, making total en-
doNment of 100000.
A WAGON driven by William Be tseh and
containing Henry Kracker. huckster, his
wife and five children, rang ng in age from
seven to nineteen years, was crossing rail
road track at Cincinnati when it was struck
by passing express train and broken to
splinters. Every member of the Kracke
family was killed and the driver was serious
ly injured.
HUNTER named Jamison, residing in
Skipworth, Miss, killed himself by placing
his rifle to his side and compelling his seven
year old son to pull the trigger.
JAMES !. JONES !Democrat) has been
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elected to Congress from the hrst Alabam,


district.
The Georgia legislature is in session.
CoNv1crs in the State prison at Salem, Ore
gon, made n desperate attack on the officers
and attempted to escape. Three of them
were killed, two wounded and eight go
away.
ABOUT 250 delegates, representing four
teen States, responded to TIE call for ma
tional conference of tie anti-monoplists
held in Chicago. The original call outlined
as the purpose of the convention the organi.
cation of a new political party, and delegates
WEI requested to att end who we're in favor Of
restricting the power of corporations, the
holding of pu bic lands for actual settlers, the
suppression of gambl.ngin the necessities OF
life and the overthrow of ell monopolies,
Denis Kearney was excluded from the Q IN.
vention by large ma .ity. John F. Henry,
of Brooklyn, was made permanent chair
man. and G. G. Post, of Indiana, secretary.
BOILER attached to a saw-mill near
Huntsville, Texas, exploded with terrible re-
suits. !" Dick" Grant, the colored fireman,
his assistant, John Barkful, a convict, and
two other convicts named Slade and Jordan
we're instantly killed. Four other convicts
were seriously injured, while Mr.. Kelly, the
proprietor, his partner, Henry Miner, and q
man named Harrington were severely
brui ed and scalded. The mill was totally
destroyed.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL, the well-known
Catholic prelate of Cincinnati, is dead.
Forty bi:hops were telegraphed invitations
to the funera.
A PARTLY constructed raft in which -four
colored men and two colorei women were
attempting to cross a stream near White
vii 9, n. c., went to pieces, and all six were
drowned.
The casualties in Chicago consequent
upon the celebration of the Fourth num-
bered thirty-eght, including three deaths,
five fatally wounded, twenty three more OF
less manned for life, and seven slightly
injured. The chief instruments of destruc
ton proved to be toy pistols and small
cannons.
AvAoANcr in the postmas ership at Sal
mon Falls, Idaho, resulted from Charles E.
Eggleston, postmaster, and Frank E.
Eggles ton, assistant postmaster, having
committed suicide
Mrs. AMOS BIDwELL, a farmers wife,
twenty two years old, shot and killed Alex
ander Perry, fifty years old, at Otsego Lake
Mich. Perry had insulted Mrs. Bidwell and
attempted to enter her house during her
husbands absence. Justifiable homicide
was the jurys verdict
TwENTY-sIx buildings we're destroyed by
fire at Evansville, Mimi; loss, about $50,
co.,
HEAVY iron darr OK nearly 100 feet high
suddenly fell upon a crowd of men at quarry
at Lemont, ILL.,, instantly killing three men
and seriously if not fatally injuring six OF Ell
men al d a young lady.
NELSON HOWARD, a Co.ored railroad hand,
who had killed white bridge In lde- during
drunken alteration, was taken from jail
at Mound City, ILL.,, by thirty masked men
and lynched.