The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-14
GENERAL N.EW IS.

non -union men from working.
The Hudson river at Albany Is on
rise, and the Central railroad track ls
aud Amsterdam.
A, b. Wilson, inventor of the Will
son sewing machine, is now seeking
from Congress an extension Of the pat
ent known as four-mction feed for sew
ing machines.
Maiden, Mass, boasts all old elm Sc
feet high, % to 20 feet in circumference
and 225 years old under which @.
Washington and staff once halted Its
photograph is to be sent to the centen.
nal.
The Saxony wooden mill at Rock |
willie, Conn, will shut down In fort |
night, eight sets of machinery are to be |
stopped at the Rock mill, and the
Windermere is going Oh to coarser
grade of goods.
The 100000 suit against Tweed
was ended "Wednesday in verdict
for the people of 81, 794, 800 with inter-
est from September, 1870, amounting
in all to S6,537, 1877,
The April number of Scribner's will
contain an article on Yale college by
Prof. Henry A. Beers, accompanied by
over thirty pictures. illustrating not
only the buildings, but New Haven
student life n general.
North Stonington, Conn, is scandal
lied by the fact that less money was
spent, the other day. for the burial of a
town pauper. than was given him, last
spring, for his vote. He was carried to
the grave on loade ! team, an buried
without prayer.
Jesse Wells. the oldest man in Alba
ny county, New York, died ut his resi-
dence at the Shakers last week, while
oil his knees in prayer. He was the
last of family of nine, all Of whom
died at the Shakers. at an average age
of over rs years.
Ex-Governor William Beach Law
renee of Rhode Island 10 carrying his
quarrel with Mr.. Dana over their rival
editions of Wheatun's Elements Of In
ternational Law to the ridiculous point
of opposing his confirmation as minis
ter to England, but of course without
any prospect of success.
Since Belknap has turned out so bad
ly In Washington, folks out in Iowa
are recalling that he was involved In
some Financial Irregularities" when
he was q lawyer at KeOkuk before the
war, and that there was considerable
talk about whisky rings in his district
when he was revenue collector after
the war.
Col. j, H. Baxter. Chief Medical
Purveyor of the United States Army
was married, Thursday evening. March
8, in Boston, to Miss Florence Tryon,
by Rev. DIR. Bartol, assisted by Rev. s..
II. Winkley. The wedding took place
at the residence of Hon. Otis Norcross,
and was attended by Gov. Rice, ex-Gov.
CASTOR, Mayor Cobb and large num-
Der of army officers and distinguished
civilians.
The most notable recent case of social
out-spokenness is that of the Bristows.
During the first year of his administra-
ton the secretary lived quietly at the
Arlington, and when Mrs. Bristow was
asked why she did not entertain, she
frankly answered that her husbands
salary was not sufficient to enable him
to do So Mr. Bristow had children at
school and was really unable to support
large establishment
The ways and means committee will
tow's bill for refundng the debt into
A per cents, believing the credit of the
nation is equal to per cent, and will
recommend either the issue of only
S2C0, COX, 900 Al per cents. running thirty
years. or $500, 900, 900 per cents. pay
able in forty or fifty years, or to let the
law stand as at present, which author
ICES $500, 900 900 Al per cent. fifteen
year bonds, and 500, 900 900 thirty year
per cent bonds.
William s. Robinson ("Warring-
tOnn), the we'll known journalist, died
at his residence in Walden, Mass.
Saturday, aged fifty-elght years. Mr.
Robinson was born in Concord, Mass.
December 7, 1918. For six years, from
1912 to lS4S, he was editor of the Lowell
Mass Courier; of the short-lived
Boston Wing In 1859, and afterwards
Of the Republican. Commonwealth and
Telegraph. He represented Lowell in
the legislature in 1925, and was clerk
of the legislature from 1862 to 1874
Under his nom de plume of Warning
ton" he has won wide and high rep
utation, and thousands of ne ~spapel
readers will mourn his loss.
An investigation has been quietly In
progress for some days which has re
suited in unearthing some startling
evidence Of corruption on the part o
three democrats OF national reputation
aud probably Others The matter hal
been cautiously worked up 30 as TO pre-
vent any publicity until all the proc
became complete and the facts so estab
lishsd as to satisfy the entire country
when made public. All names arr
withheld, but the exposure will b,
made within a very short time ant
will create. in the opinion of those wit
know all about the transactions ant
what evidence has been obtained,
greater sensation than Belknap's cor
ruption.
The st. Louis, Alton and Teri
Haute railroad company has filed IL
the United States circuit court at New
York, a bill in equity against Charlie
Butler, Samuel J. Tilden, and Russell
Sage The bill claims that the defend
ants, as trustees, and ~ q purchasing
com nittee for the creditors of the origi
nal corporation to which plaintiff
successor by purchase, consolidation
and reorganization, facilitated an over
issue of the bonds and stock Of variou
kinds of the new corporation. Gov
Tilden is called upon to answer wheth
tE EZu.Wn ltcciNtu db touHFci tce
was all he made in the business an
the other defendants are interrogate
as to the salaries and compensation RI
eeived by them. The bill alleges this
there has been an over-issue of securitie
to q very large amount.
A strange and startling case Of abdut
ton happened at New York. Wedne'
day afternoon. While Senior Isst
Oljeaba, an eminent Spanish gentle
man, resident of about twenty-fiv
years in Havana, was standing on th
corner of Lafayette place and Fourt
street, in company with his nephew,
man placed his hand on his shoulde
and, showing a shield, pretended to Al
rest him. Neither OF the Spanlard
understood English, and the nephe,