The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-06-03
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The Park street church of Boston has
extended n call TO Rev. Dr. ]. II. With
row. pastor Of the Second Presbyterian
church Of indianapolis, Ind.
\ Berlin dispatch to the London
Telegraph states that the Porte has lndi
rectly notified the powers that he vii
on no account consent To q two months
armistlce.
Official kilograms received at Constan
tlnople announce that the lnsurrectlof
in Bulgaria Is completely subIugated
and military operationsin that province
have ceased.
The carpet on which the Sultan o
Turkey daily prays is kept in order by
several persons whose Joint salary is
525OO wear. The Sultan's doctors and
apothecarles cost $4,000 year.
Sheriff Clark of Boston declines to give
the public the last written confession Of
Piper, withholding it at the request OF
the family, but says 1t fully confirms
Piper's previous alleged confessions.
The steamer plymouth Rock gol
aground at Rockaway Sunday evening.
and kent some thousand excursionlsts
there till late at night and then charged
fifty cents extra to bring them home.
At the general assembly ofthe united
Presbyterans at Philadelphia, Monday,
resolution was adopted appointing a
committee 10 report relative to the BIZ
BILE in the public schools.
Some $50 steel workmen in the Union
mills at Chicago lnaugurated strike
Monday, but returned to work, Thurs
day, having given up the hope of thus
securing ten to fifteen per cent. advance
in wages.
Ina quarrel, Monday, between union
and non union bricklayers near In.
dlanapolis, Samuel Luke shot and
killed an unknown man. Luke gave
himself up to the police, claiming that
he acted in self.defense.
A Georgia paper gets after the wrong
Rarnum thus: 1.-THE Democrats in the
Nutmeg state must have been hard run
for timber when they took up that old
exhibitor Of mermaids and monkeys
for United States Senator"
Frank II. Young of Brdgehampton,
n. T., of the class of rs, Cornell uni
versity, was drowned while bathing
near Ithaca, Monday evening. He was
young man of promise, and was pres.
ident of the Christian association of the
university
A body, Unidentified as that of d. d.
Burdette OF Washington, d. g., ex-
commissioner of the land Office, was
found in creek at North Bergen, n.
Y, MAY 81. When last seen alive
May, 13, the deceased had In his poses
sion several thousand dollars and valu.
able jewelry
The committee, nj the iron manufac-
turers and the boiler makers union at
Pittsburg have been unable to COM
promise their differences about the
price of labor. And the boiler makers
union has determined to stop work af
tel Wednesday unless the advance they
demand Is conceded.
The general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church south, in session at Sa-
vannah, has adopted a resolution cor
daily reciprocatlng the friendly sentl
ments of the Northern Presbyterian as
senbly, and expressing entire willing
ness to enter into fraternal relations
with the latter.
James Bailey has died q petition
with the surrogate of New York city.
asking that the will OF A. T. Stewart
be set aside, claiming that he Bailey
and several others are. as relatives, en-
titled TO share in Stewards property.
The matter Is to be heard June Is.
Nearly 2OOO buildings were erected In
san Francisco in 1875, and over 1000 in
Oakland, while the number for the en-
tire stnte of California was not less than
7000 exclusive OF bridges and quartz
mills. OF the buildings put up In San
Francisco, only forty-four were of brick
the others being generally Of wood.
There has been a large emigration Of
winter and spring. While on their
way to the Arizona settlements on
Wednesday. President Wells and seven
men were upset while crossing ferry
of the Colorado river, and Bishop
Roundy, one Of the party, was drowned.
4 fresh decision against the civil
rights act comes from Judge Sawyer of
the United States circuit court at San
Francisco, who decided In case of
negro against theater manager, Mon
day, that the act, so far as 1t applies to
theaters is unconstitutional, on the
ground that theaters are private prop
erty, and can be run as proprietors
wish
There were only slxty-seven arrests
At New York Sunday for the violation
of the excise law, and they were all
bailed out. Six bar-keepers were ar
rested at the Hippodrome Sunday even
ing for selling beer and they were
promptly bailed. Among the audience
leo iAv
excise commissioner and several city
Judges.
The more unluly of the negro popu-
lation Of Petersburgh, Va, have been
trying hard every since the election,
last Thursday, to stir up riot evident
~ with a view to plumber, and on Sat
urday night q band of them started out
Tor raid, but the prompt action of the
police in meeting them and arresting
eighteen Of the leading spirits prevent
I'd bloodshed, and Friday all was quiet
again.
Some fourteen hundred pounds of
old kilograms, recently disposed Of as
waste paper by the Atlantic and Pa
cific telegraph company, have been OBJ
tanned by congressional official, and
will go 10 Washington for the use of the
House naval committee. They are said
to contain the original kilograms of A.
G.. Cattell and George NJ. Robson as an
individual and as secretary, Jay Cooke,
McCulloch & Co., and individual men,
bers Of that firm during the months of
September and October, 1879.
The city council of Quebec voted Sat
urday, not to open the lower governors
garden for the use of the public. At a
late hour in the evening, large pum-
Der of citizens gathered on Durham
terrace and proceeded to open the gar
den by bsttering down the gates and
throwing them into the street, the po-
licemen on duty being quietly put
aside. The work accomplished, the
crowd dispersed, giving three cheers
Tor the queen, three for citizens rights.