The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-26
South and West.

CHINAMEN have dis covere a way of evad-
ing the anti-emigration law in The second
article of tie treaty, which permits any
Chinaman. other than laborer, to come to
the United States if he be provided with a
certificate issued by the Chinese government
identifying him being engaged in
other pursuits than that of a laborer
A steamer which arrived the other day at
San Francisco brought l32 Cinnamon, seven
ty-seven of whom hell tradesmen's certid-
Gates issued by the officials of the Chinese
government. Notwithstanding the strongest
external evidence of their being ignorant
Chinese laborers, they were all, with the eX
ception of six, permitted to land
SPARK Coon, a few years ago one of the
leading politicians of Wisconsin. died in Il
hospital in Milwaukee and was buried in a
place little better than Potter's Field. Coon
was once encouragement of the State, a
man of fine attainments and family and
possessed large practice and considerable
wealth. He took to drink and in little
while was ruined man. Ten DAYS before
his death he was picked out of a gutter.
FLORENCE H. PETERS, cashier for Chi
cago dealers in musica' instruments, con
fesses to having stolen IL 1850 from his EN-
ployers and losing it at faro.
AT Statesvlle, n. c., an Immense crowd
assembled, attracted bya circus A pistol
fight between white man and n negro re-
suited in the killing of the former, tn
wounding of another man and Child and the
lynching of the negro
A COLLISION between two fast-running
freight trains near Cleveland, Tenn, resdtel
in the death oe an engineer, fireman and
brakeman, and in urieS to five CT six other
train hanGs.
THE National Telephone as cation has
been holding its fourth annual convention in
Cincinnati.
WHEAT has suffered severely in the North
west from frost
AT the sixteenth annual convention of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee, held
in Cle\ Gland, Ohio, there was large attend
ance, including Generals Grant and Sher-
man, the latter presiding.
The remains OF the North Carolina Con
federate dead recently exhumed at the Ar
lington National cemetery, opposite Wash
ington, were inferred with impressive care
monies at Raleigh, n. C..
NEARLY complete returns from Iowa put
the majority of Sherman. governor-elect,
over Kline, Democratic candidate, at 25-
Az and about 800 over al.
MASKED men entered the house of Edward
Mclaughlin, a farmer, near joliet, ILL.,, and
tortured him and hi, wife until they dis
closed the hiding place of 81 900 in gold.
They then left their victims nc arly dead.
THE African Methodist Episcopal confer
ence, embracing several of the Western
States, AMI in session at Denver, Col, dis
cuSSt u tne recent utclS.On o. the OllU iu states
supreme court n the civil rights bill. The
judges action was denounced in the strong
est terms and several speeches We're made,
one of the bishops dec airing that if the ne
groes' rights We're thus trampled upon a
revolution would be the result.
THE Washington Territory legislature has
granted women the right to vote.
The Society of the Army of the Tennessee,
in session at Cleveland, reelected General
W. I. Sherman president, and voted to hold
next years reunion on August Is and IL, at
Lake Minnetonka, MINI.
MARGARET HARRIS, a colored girl was
hanged at Calhoun, Ga, for the murder
a little white girl by pois n; at Monroe,
Ga, Taylor Bryant, a colorel man, was
hanged for as au'ting white woman, and
at Columbus, Texas, James Stanley. also col
ored, was hanged for numbering a white boy
sixteen years old. All the foregoing exc
cut 'ons occurred on the same day.
MAJoR-GENERAL JAMES b. STEEDMAN
who served with distinction on the Federal
side through the civil war, is deal. At the
time of his death he was chief of police a
Toledo, Ohio.