The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-12-28
GENERAL NE WrS.

nal revenue district OF Massacnusetts,
Rev. John Ireland was eonsecrated
coadjutor bishop Of the Roman Catho-
lie church for the diocese of st. Paul,
MINI.
The sentence of the convicted MUIR
derer Standermann in the Tombs, who
has been declared insane, was eommu
ted by Gov. Tilden.
Alonzo Abernethy, state superinten-
dent of public instruction in Iowa, and
graduate of the university of Chica-
go in 1898, has been elected president
of the latter institution.
The court of appeals has affirmed the
decision of the general term granting
an attachment on the property of
Henry w. Genet of Tweed ring notorl-
twin connection with the court house
frauds.
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse.
who was hanged in Salem, Mass, in
1892, on complaint of being q witch,
have formed an association for tue pur-
pose of erecting q monument to her
memory
A negro boy in Fairfield county, $.
C. was packed in bale of cotton, the
other day. 1t is supposed that he en-
tered the press-box and went to sleep,
and suffocated before his presence was
discovere |.
Several streaks of good ore have
been passed in the Sutro tunnel during
the past few days, and the rock has
become of softer character, so that
the progress of cutting the tunnel is
now more rapid.
DIR. w, p. Hammond, director of the
prison at the Shoals. Martin county
Ind, resembles Tweed so closely that
he has been arrested twice on suspi-
Dion of being the fugitive, and is now
afraid to go out of his house.
A Chicago grand jury has refused to
indict Editor Storey for libel in charg-
ing that Senator Logan pretended to
he sick, i'm order to escape an examina-
ton that would show his completely
with the whisky ring, because there
was insufficient legal ground.
Basil Brown, colored man, who
has for forty-seven years been the
messenger at the office of the comman-
dsnt of the navy yard, at Washington,
is dead. He had many "reminiscences
of the navy, and of the war with Eng
land, and Of our present admirals
when they were midshipmen.
Peter Kirsch, farmer has been ar
rested at Evansville, Ind, charged
with manufacturing counterfeit nick
els, Il large amount of which was found
in his possession He Is supposed to
be member of a gang existing in
Warren county, the place where nick
els are manufactured.
II Is now pretty certain that the rob-
bers of the express car on the st. Lou
is and Kansas City railroad, the other
morning. only got about $4,000. Had
they operated an hour earlier, they
would have got much bigger haul, as
il would have included all the western
remittances to Chicago.
Theodore Tilton was in Brooklyn on
Sunday, spending the evening until
eleven o'clock with his children. He
paid S. d. Norris $3000 the amount Of
the trial expenses. His visit was kept
secret that he might not be subppnaed
in the Eagle libel suits, and in conse-
quence lose many lecture engage
ments.
The convention to frame constitu-
ton for the state of Colorado met at
Denver on Monday. and permanently
organized, the republican majority Civ
ing the democratic minority share of
the offices. The new constitution must
be ratified by the people and approved
by Congress, after which Colorado
will become a state.
t'eehter has had to throw up his en-
gagement on account of the injuries he
suffered by fall on the stage at Phila.
delphia, few weeks ago, and it IL
feared that he may lose leg. Fechter
has had hard luck ever since he came
10 this country it is only about a year
ago that he hurt his leg at Cincinnati
so that his life WAS for a time despaired
Of
The criminal court at st. Louis has
ust found Davis r. BoOgher ct al of q
sO-oalled insurance bureau, guilty OF
unlawful combination to injure the
Life Association Of America by the
publication of false statements as to its
financial condition. The result is hailed
in Insurance circles as a fatal blow to
the black-mailing schemes OF irrespon-
sible parties.
William AllstOn Hayne. son OF
Hayne, Webster's antagonist, sits in
the California Legislature for Santa
Barbara and Ventura. He is fifty-four
years old, and describes himself as "a
Democrat of tho old school" Mr..
Hayne sat in the legislature OF South
Carolina just before the passage of the
act of secession, and went TO Califor-
mia in 1867.
The condition of the Third avenue
and Peoples savings banks proves Q
coed deal worse than WAS supposed
The deficiency in the accounts Of the
former ia found by the receiver TO be
$500, 900 more than was shown in the
former statements, and the deficiency
in the latter Is likely to be brought up
to about 100000. In the accounts o.
both there seems to be evidence of very
loose management and still loOser in
spectiOn.
A horrible massacre occurred, a few
days since, near Atokis, in the Indian
nation. The bodies of four persons
we're found burned on the prairie, two
of which were females, and were
burned beyond recognition. The 9th
srs were whites. A pony with lady'i
slde-saddls,a dog and gun were fount
near by. Three men who were seer
riding nine miles from the spot ar,
supposed to be the murderers. TIL,
Fralfle was nreu 10 destroy the Trail.
Col. Joyce has introduced in Con
gress Il petition of Mrs. Lucia Greer
Brown, of Montpelier. and one thou
sand others, praying for the appoint
mont of a commission to inquire ant
report rs to the results OF tho traffic II
alcoholic liquors in connection will
crime, pauperism, and the publ
health, and to recommend what add
tional legislation, If any, would b
beneficial TO suppress in the sphere 6
of national authority the trsffic in al
coholie liquors as beverages whicl
was referred to the committee en- tn
Judiciary
The commissioners of the Kansa
state school fund have Just discovere
that State Treasurer Lappin instea
OF buying $4,000 of genuine distrie
sshOOI bonds as thew Orderad mn