The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-01-29
'uEsDAY, JANUARY 90, 1885.
NEWS or THE WEEK.
NIIDDLI.utIRY. VT.

FuRgiGS AFFAIRS Fresh items Ivy
the caOl. are, that The court of admiralty
at London has given Il final judgment in
favor Of the United States in the Kappa
hammock case Lord Derby has concluded
not to present any reform bill to the
British parliament at the next session
tlie English papers contain accounts from
all parts Of the country of great storms,
floods, SMpwrccks and deaths from cold
AMI starvation. ard in Liverpool there
has been bread riot, not very serious
one, however, the Crotans have secured
another brilliant victory over the Turks,
AMI the chief OF tic insurgents has written
u long letter thanking tho American
people FOR the sympathy extended TO the
Crctans; and pclitioning for American
ships of war to convey women AMI
children from Gambia TO safer Islands Il
rumor is current in Paris that An order
has been Issued which relieves Marshal
}azaine Of his high powers in Mexico
GaribAldi has written letter applauiing
the election Of "olor2i deputies to the
Massachusetts, legislature, earnestly ex-
pressing LIS hope for the preservation and
future harmony o. the Union, AMI urging
the president to come to terms with
Congress; the sultan has been forced 10
make a concession in Scr,iH. and has
agrccl to cvacuatc the forts held by
Turki-h troops there; Hungary carries
her point, and Tie patent for the re organ.
i1itinn O, the Austrian armies will not be
carried out Queen Victoria il going TO
visit the Paris exhibition, stopping there
on her WAY to Germany; the Empress
Carlotta has quite recovered from her
recent illness; a new Spanish minister is
TO be sent to this country, and the Greek
government is about to send special
c0mmissi Jncr to the United States Il
Mot has been discovered to a-sa.>inate the
pncha Of Egypt AMI subvert the govern.
IN nj, but it was early frustrated.
SOUTHERN Ntws.-The supreme court
O Alabama, in session at Montgomery,
has decided that the act of Congress re-
qniring stamp upon state legal processes
is unconstitutional also that as Alabama
WAS dc iacto government under the con
lcderacy, its personal representatives are
projected from all loss upon confederate
investments under acts of the legislature
Tho suspicious that the negro prisoners
were purrosely lcti to burn to death in the
jail at kingetrce, : G., Is removed 10y the
rcg,crt Of the military officers sent to inycs-
iigatc Ike affair. though they ccn,nrc the
i,.lcr for not being in hls place when the
.,I -. Al.
murder of Dr. Almon Case, one Of the
Mon state senators of Tennessee, show
it TO have been n deliberately planned and
cold bIoolc1 affair DR. Cases son lad
Of l6, WAS shot dead a few DAYS previous
to the meeting of TIE present Legislature
William J.. King and Abe Owen, the
railroad train robbers. who killed Harvey
King, one of their band. have been sen.
fenced by the cont at + ahlr, Team,
to be hanged March q -Great de.titu-
ton is reported in various parts of the
South. and cases Of actual starvation Of
the widows and children Of confederate
soldiers have occurred recently at Sayun.
nah, Ga.
STATE LEGISLATURES. Several new
United States senator's were chosen by
various state Legislatures on Tuesday and
Wednesday. In New Jcrac}, Frederick
L. Frc.inghuyscn, who now holds the
place by appointment of the governor,
WAS chosen 10y n vote of A to 50 for John
l.. stockton. Gov. Morton was elected
IN Indiana, by vote Of - to 10 in the
81 -, IL, I
In Wisconsin, Timo'hy o. Howe was re-
elected by vote of % 20 ! in the Senate
and y to % in III, Iiole, In Kansas,
). G. Pomeroy ard +. G.. Ross, were re
elected, the former for the long term, and
the latter for the unoxpired term Of Sen
ator Jim Lane. The Troublesome radical
member in the Maryland Senate has been
unseated, and Gov. SNann VIII doubtless
nov I've elected senator without difficulty.
In Kentucky the Legislature does not
succeed in clecIing senator yet, though
the contest has narrowed down TO three
candidates, Powell, conservative, Harding
democrat, and l'rl'tow, radical. The
Nevada Senate has ratified the con,titu.
tlonal amendment in concurrence with the
previous action Of tie House, making the
thirteenth state TO adopt the amendment.
The resolution instrucling senator Duolittle
to resign, was passed by the Wisconsin
Legislature on Tuesday, by a strict party
vote
CoSGREss -Tho Senate has passed
the bill regulating the tenure Of Office, by
II vote of 20 to 8, but without the amcnl-
ment Of Mr.. Sumner, to bring all the
offices with salaries as small a. $500
under ;he' control of the Senate the
principal business Of the Senate hes been
Il debate upon the bankrupt bill, which
passed the House last session, and which
is now likely to pass the Senate with
some amendment, and the tariff bll which
has occupied part of each day The
House was startled cut Of its propriety on
Tuesday, by two measures, the frt
intended 10 protect all persons acting
during the war under orders from their
superiors, and all who may be in danger
from the Mlligan decision of the supreme
court; and the second intended to make
Of no effect the recent decision of the