The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-08-31
LATER NEWS.

Two tugs have just towed an immense body
of timber-the largest string of logs ever
made into a raft-from st. Johns, N B., to
Brooklyn. The voyage of 600 miles from st.
Johns along the Atlantic coast and through
Long Island Sound occupied eighteen days.
The raft was 200 feet long, twenty -four feet
wide and twelve feet deep. 1t is composed of
eleven sections, each of which contains about
500 logs, ranging in size from the diameter Of
pole This method of bringing timber TO dis
tant markets will, it is thought, eventually
succeed the sailing vessels trade.
COLONEL H. G. HOFFMAN, ex-memher of
the New York assembly for Chemung county,
committed suicide at Households by taking
strychnine. He told his wife before his death
that he had carried the strychnine for the
purpose of killing himself for ten years
Colonel Hoffman was fifty-six years of age,
and had been one of the most prominent men
in that section for the past thirty years. De
rangement of the mind is assigned as the
cause for the suicide
FLAMES were discovered at A. NJ. in a
crowded Boston tenement, and before the
frightened inmates could be rescued five of
them lost their lives as follows: Mrs. Fred
Savage, aged forty years Katie Mclaughlin
daughter of the above by a former husband,
aged thirteen years /; Mamie Savage, aged
seven months George Mclaughlin, aged
thirteen years Thomas Mclaughlin, aged
seven years Mrs. Sarah Mclaughlin was
fatally injured, and John Savage was badly
hurt.
AT Rochester, Mimi. $50 families have been
left destitute by the recent cyclone. Relief
agents sent out report that the path of the
cyclone was from west to east, and was about
eighteen miles long. They examined the con-
dition of fifty farms in the track and state
that every house and barn on them was de
molished, and that much valuable stock was
killed, farming machinery wrecked and
thousands of bushels of grain destroyed. The
loss to farmers in the county is not less than
100000.
AFTER eback ride of 230 miles Presi-
de-. Arthur and party arrived in the Yellow
stone region, California, and encamped in the
Upper Geyser Basin amid the natural Won
ders of the national park. Fishing consti-
tuted the main amusement of the party dur
ing the long trip.
ANDREW BURT, city marshal and Charles
Wilkens, city water master, of Ogden, Utah,
were both shot, the former with fatal effect,
by a negro whom they were trying arrest.
The negro was arrested, but was soon taken
from Jail by a crowd and hanged.
WALTER r. Pool, CongreSsman-elect from
the first North Carolina district, died at
Elizabeth City, N. c., a few days ago, after a
long illness, aged thirty-two years
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL GRESHAM has re-
moved Postmaster Conley, of Atlanta, Ga.
1t is charged that investigation showed de-
ficiency of several thousand dollars in Mr..
Conley's accounts, and general bad manage
ment of his Office.
Miss MINNIE f. HoYT, of Connecticut, en-
lows the distinction of being the first person
appointed to a clerkship in the United States
treasury department under the operation of
the new civil service rules. Her standing at
the examination was $500, and she has been
appointed to a 5000 vacancy in the national
bank redemption agency of the treasurer's
Office.
THE British parliament has closed its ses-
sion Queen Victorias customary speech was
read by royal commission. 1t stated that
matters in South Africa were not in satisfac-
tory condition. but that there was an i'm
proved state of affairs in Ireland.
A CONVENTION of the Irish Nationa
League of Great Britain, with Mr. Parnell
presiding, will be held at Leeds, England, on
September 81.
THE inquest on the twelve bodies of children
found in an undertakers establishment at
Bermondsey, near London, shows that the
bodies had been deposited with the under
taker for burial by the parents of the children,
but he had neglected to bury them, although
the cost of interment had been paid him.
In a duel between two captains of the Ger
man army one was killed