The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-05-18
GENERAL NE W'S.

The International Sunday school con-
yeptiop. which was in session at Balti-
more, last week, concluded its business,
Thursday, and adjourned sine die.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague telegraphed
to Washington forbidding the sale of
the library of her father, the late chief
Justice, which was advertised to take
place last week.
The latest discovered blunder of the
revised statutes Is that they abolish the
orphans court of the District of Column
bia and do not give probate jurisdiction
to any other court.
There was some excitement at Fair
Haven, Conn, Monday, over the dis
covery of human skeleton buried on
tile Iauu ur >. NJ. Brown, and some ex-
perts say it Ia 200 years old.
The principal object of Vice-Presi-
dent Wilson's trip to the South at this
time is said to be to visit the spot at
Austin, Texas, where his only son, an
officer in the regular army, died.
About sixty weavers at the Ritten'
house wooden mill, Paterson, n. j.,
have struck because the speed and ma
terial furnished them do not give fail
opportunity to make their wages.
A son of the Belgian sculptor Code
charb, who died recently, has left 600,
600 francs TO the Belgian Government
the interest of which is to be applied tC
the annual endowment of Belgian
sculptors.
Clews have been found in Baltimore
N. H. by which it is thought that the
burglars who robbed the Souhegan
national bank of Milford, and who re-
Gently surrendered most of their plum
der to the president for price, may be
discovered.
The Washington correspondent o.
the Chicago Tribune states that many
of Mr.. Blaines friends, now at the
capital. avow their belief that, if the
Republican National Convention was
held to-day, Mr.. Blaine would be the
nominee.
The Indian prisoners now confined
at Fort Leavenw orth, Kas., are to be
conveyed to st. Augustine, Fla, and
confined in Fort Marion under special
guards. That will diminish very ma
terially their chances of escaping back
to the plains.
The governor is suspending action
on the case of Lowell, the Lewiston
Me. wife murderer, until the supreme
court decides in the Gordon-Wagnel
case, on the question Of the governors
right to issue warrant for execution
under the new law. The hearing takes
place at Portland to-day.
A Norwich, Conn, man has o
powder-horn belonging to the father Of
Thomas Mumford, who signed one Of
the notes for the payment of expenses
of the Ticonderoga expedition. On il
Is a registry of the births of the CHILDREN
of the owner, among them Chat of the
redo".t~Li~ Tiivnias i" 1Teo.
Caroline Jorden, aged 40, daughter
OF William Jorden, of Mechanic Falls
Maine, committed suicide, Tuesday
morning, by hanging herself from THE
banisters ofthe front hall in her father's
house with a lady's scarf She was
respectfully connected, of good charact.
err, and no cause can be assigned for the
act.
The Baltimore American regards
third-termism as effectualfy disposed
of by Senator Sargent's statement in
San Francisco, and then adds: "As tC
the various prominent candidates nam
ed for the Republican nomination, We
think the choice of the party in Mary
land would strongly concentrate upor
Speaker Blaine"
A fresh Indictment has been fount
against the correspondent Buell. for al
legged libel upon Senator Chandler. II
is intended to meet the points made by
Judge Dillon at st, Louis, when he lis
charged Buell. on the ground that tho
former indictment ala not allege that
Buell. had committed an offense in the
District of Columbia.
DR.. James Beale has placed in the
State Library of Virginia portrait o
Pocahontas, which he says Is an exae
copy, made by the elder Sully in 1880
of the original portrait of the Indiar
princess painted during her visit t.
England between the years 1916 ant
1917. 1t has been in poss session of tn,
descendants of Pocahontas up to tn,
present time.
The laborers at the Delaware ant
Lackawanna tunnel in Jersey City
who, to the number of four hundred
struck for an increase in wages, two
weeks ago, have returned to work Il
the reduced rates. The leaders of til,
strike have been reduced ten cents ad
ditional, and were notified that, if they
did not submit to this reduction, othe
men would be at once employed il
their places.
The reason Sixth Auditor Sheats il
asked to resign is, because of his per
sonal relations with Kinds, the indict
ed mail contractor, and other person.
who have been connected with the mai
contract frauds. The postmaster-gen
eral has for some weeks held no inter
course with Sheats, from the fact tina
his room has been made the head
quarters of several of the persons impli
Gated in the mail contract frauds.
An indianapolis correspondent say.
that Senator Morton is of the opinion
that the municipal elections of Indian
apolis and throughout the state, settl,
the question as to how Indiana will e,
In 1876. He feels confident that Liber
ais and other Republicans who hav,
not acted with their party for severa
years in that state, will take their oil,
places in the ranks of the party of pro
gress, and aid in securing IA complet
Republican victory.
Lawrence Habel, the most exper
letterbox; thief in the country, VIII,
pleaded guilty In April, 1874, to tn
charge of robbing letter-boxes in New
York city, and who was sentenced b,
Judge Benedict of The United State
circuit court to three years imprison
ment at hard labor, has been pardone
by the president, upon the recommen
dalton of Lyman Tremain, and. as tn
pardon states, "a number of respectabl
citizens I'M Chicago" where Habel ono
lived.
Ben Wade advocates good anti
third-term plank In the next platform
of the Ohio Republicans. 1t havln
been queried whether this would not b
an affront to the president, "Aff'ront
fudge !" said he. "There's no affront i
1t. / wouldn't be mealy-mouthe
about that in the platform. / woul
say that no good Republican could b
in favor OF keeping the vast power {
the Executive of this Government i
the hands of any man for more tina
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