The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-05-16
The Prize Fight Prevented.
PoRT DOVER.

The Prize Fight Prevented.
PoRT DOVER, ONT, May IL.
The fight between Coburn and Mace
wrs prevented by tho Canadian authori.
ties. The men were in splendid condi.
ton and entered the ring shortly after
noon. During the first round and before
a blow was struck the sheriff and county
judge, backed by a number of soldiers
from Simcoe, dispersed the crowd who
fed in all directions The fight is post.
poned indefinitely.
BUFFALO, May II.
The Mace Coburn fight has been post.
poned to Friday, June %, at Kansas City.
Coburn's gang will be here at O'Clock
this afternoon.
MRIr, May IL.
1t is reported that Coburn will not 90
to Kansas City, the place appointed for
the renewal Of the fight with Mace, and
will sue the stakeholder for the recovery
of his money.
CONNECTICUT MARSHALL
JEWELL DECLARED Hart
ford, Conn.,, May TO- The Legislature
convened at two p. NJ. The Select Com.
mittee reported the following resolution {:
Resolved, BY this Assembly, that Mar.
shall Jewell is, and he is hereby declared,
legally elected Governor of this State,
and is Governor for the year ensuing.
The report states that the Enfield case
is mistake, the Cheshire a fraud and
New Haven double fraud.
There is prospect of long discussion,
as the Democrats will ventilate the pro-
ceedings of the Committee.
ARTHuR's HOME MAGAZINE has in
every number music, engravings, fashion
plates, patterns, fashion articles. general
literature, poetry, gossip &c. The April
number has articles on "Making the Best
Oft" 1.-THE Waterfall of Puppanassum, u
John Armor's Scare" "Other people
Windows" "Our new Congressman "a
Dollar day." Zone Less in a Cottage
Home" Boys and Girls Treasury
Evenings with the Poets" and many
other valuable and interesting articles.
Justice Nelson says it will be impossi-
BILE to make the British treaty a party
question, 30 the estimate that ten Repub-
lican Senators, joined to the fourteen
Democratic, will suffice to defeat the rati.
fcation, has little practical interest.
Secretary Fish is reported as saying
that, so far as he is concerned, he would
have been pleased to let the contents Of
the new treaty 60 to the people long ago
He is satisfied it is good treaty-as
good as the American people ought to ex.
pect.
What can we expect of the Southern
Democratic papers when We find lead
ing organ of the Democracy, like the
Chicago Times, talking as follows of thu
Ku-Klux law;
at is to be hoped that our Fedora
Courts in all Of the Southern States will
exhibit so much of manhood and respec
for law and the rights of the people as t.
refuse to have anything to do with thu
abomination, except to denounce and BY
Judicial action annul it."
1t is stated that one keenly zealou
citizen of Gloucester, Mass, wanted OF
Tuesday last to put down molasses as ON
Of the prohibited "fomented" liquors.
1t is not the most uncertain thing il
the world but that New York city nigh
be benefited by little application of tn
new Ku-Klux law For the last weel
or SO it has completely eclipsed Texas
and about every other Southern State, b.
the number and character of its murder
and other outrages.
Judge Booth Of Chicago has decide
that marriage contracted while the PAL
ties were slaves was not legal, and tina
no divorce was therefore necessary.
is refreshing to find case where Chics
60 declines to divorce couple.
1t is beginning to be a well-known fac
that many Of the leading statesmen
.. the republican party, whose influence
powerfully felt in making presidents
, nominations, are getting into substanti'
agreement among themselves as to III
. non-feasibility Of renominating PresideI
, Grant.