The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-01-13

George W. smith, the delaultipg inter-
nal revenue collector Of Mississippi,
charged win embezzIipg $4,000, WIS
placed in Ludlow street Jail Friday night.
lie is said to have belonged to ring OF
speculative officials in the south who have
carried on operations for several years.
lie was finally Indicted at Oxford, Miss,
but fed aud was subsequently arrested in
Hartford Ct, but slipped the United
States marshal while being taken out.
He was traced to all the larger cities, and
finally overhauled in Massachusetts,,
where he was living in style. lie was
taken to Mississippi Saturday.
Jacob Mcchela, tho Russian sailor
who murdered United States Deputy
Marshall Stephenson in Jersey City last
July, was hung in tho Hudson county
Jail yard at 1928 Friday morning. After
he had been suspended about three min.
utcs, and while the body was being par
TALLY lowered, the knot Of the moose
slipped out, and he fell heavily to the
ground. In a minute the rope was read
justed and the body again drawn up.
There we're few commissions, and all
was over. The excitement was intense
during the scene.
The Middlesex county, n. j., grand
jurors, who found an indictment against
Woodwork, president of the New Bruins
wick carpet company, yesterday made a
prescntmcnt, in which they say in refer
cnco to the State bank frauds that evil
dcnce goes to show gu the part Of almost
every Que connected with the institution,
neglect of duty so gross and wiliul as to
amount practically to allotment of frauds
committed Employees obeyed without
question, aud shielded by silence the guilt
Of their surcriors. The grand jury advise
the passage Of a law by the legislature tc
provide adequate punishment FOR these
ofosoee.
Since the tunnel was begun additional
railways have been projected that seek o
connection with the new line and demand
equal facilities Herewith. The side, and
to some extent conflicting, interests in.
crease the difficulty of deciding how &c
dispose of the tunnel so as to bring the
greatest benefit to the whole body Of
our people, 1t is a fairly settled result
Of railway experience that it is dangerous
and highly inexpedient to allow indepcnd
ont lines to operate the same section o.
road. Hence, if there must be reserved
to these other companies the tight OF cq
ual advantage through the tunnel witt
; the main line, the state may retain ii
ownership Of the tunnel ard the Green
field road, aud make provisions for thcii
management through agents or trustees
1t would not be advisable to retain the
tunnel and sell the road, for the conncc
tcn is such that in this event the state
would be at the mercy Of tn" party oreI
: atiug the road. 1t would be bottled VI
in the tunnel, without power to extrcatt
itself, except upon such terms as the rail
roads dictated.
The wisest solution now possible Of tht
grave problem before Us may be to plac,
the entire interest Of the state in til,
hands of board of trustees. The du;e
OF such a board would be limited and sim
pie. They could either operate what tn,
state owned by furnishing the motive pow
er themselves, or, so long as there exist
but Que road on either side the mountair
that connects with the tunnel, they nigh
contract with ,hi, road for the operation
Of the states interest.