The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

MACE, the English prize-fghtcr, and his
protege, Slade, Maori, whom he has brought
ON from Australia to vanquish Sullivan, the
the New York police from giving pugilistic
exhibition at the Madison Square garden.
THE Vermont liquor law has been declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court, and
number of persons imprisoned at Rutland
for selling liquor have boon discharged.
Two large New York piano factories--that
of Hazleton Brothers, on University place,
and that of Behr Brothers, OIL Eleventh ave-
-nuo1l.yESere burned the other day. The aggre-
gate loss is about S250,000.
RICHARD X. Fox, proprietor of New
York illustrated newspaper devo ted to the
doings of the criminal classes, was arrested
on the charge of instigating a prize-fight.
He is the "backer" of Slade, the MAJOR;
brought over from Australia, to fight with
Sullivan.
The committee on agriculture of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature listened to an interest
ing discussion on the expediency of furnish
ing a bounty for the destruction of the Eng
was causing great and increasing damage to
the crops, its ravages on apples being partic-
hiariy destructive, nearly one-half that crop
last year having been destroyed by it; it
drives away other birds that would destroy
injurious insects, while it will not touch such
yermin; 1t is rapidly driving away the native
small birds, while it, has lost all the taste for
insect food that it ever had, and it is remark
ably fecund, but cannot be destroyed without
incurringla penalty therefor. If the bird
should become common in the West, it would
rs a grain eater be great nuisance. No one
appeared in behalf of the sparrow.
JANUARY, 1883, has proved an unprecedent-
ed month for disasters by land and sea. The
New York Sun says that the fatal and terrific
collisions, fires and explosions, and the
alarming death rate, the list of business fail
ures, and the overwhelming series of shock
ing casualties that marked the month
will make it memorable for years.
More than thousand lives were lost by the
various disasters, including about 400 persons
who went down with the Cimbria, 26S killed
at a circus fire in Russia, seventy-four killed
at the Milwaukee fire, about forty men torn
to pieces at an explosion of giant powder
works near Oakland, CAL, and more than
seventy persons killed during the great in
undations along the Rhine.
TIE lower house of the New Jersey legisla-
ture has passed bill making majority vote
of jury a verdict in civil cases.
A FIRE which broke out in the carpenter
shop of the Inman steamship pier on the
North river, New York, extended rapidly and
soon enveloped the entire pier. The National
line steamer Egypt, chartered by the Inman
company, was lying alongside the pier loaded
and soon caught fire. All the pier, with the
exception of a small part of the shore end
freight, was destroyed, entailing an esti
mated loss of $2,OOO,OOO.
A FIRE in the Bear Valley coal mine, a
Stamokin, Penn, will prove unusually disas
trous, as the only hope of conquering the
flames is by flooding the mine with water
which action leaves the works idle eight o.
ten months and compels 400 men and boys t.
seek employment elsewhere.
PETER COOPER presided at a mass meeting
of protectionists in New York, and addresses
were delivered by the presiding officer, Will
liam M. Evarts and others. Resolutions
were adopted recommending american
built ships" adequate protection to Ameri-
can industry" and the enactment of laws
authorizing business corporations to pen
sion faithful persons who had been long il
their service. An address to the people was
ordered to be sent to every Senator and Con
gresham.
HORRIBLE case of death and destitutior
has been discovered near Wilkesbarre, Penn
A man named Leonard and his son were
found dead in bed, his wife dying and two
young children in the last stages of starva
ton.
john KENNY, Brooklyn bill-poster, sen
fenced to life imprisonment for killing
car driver, committed suicide in his cell OF
the day of his conviction by shooting him
self through the heart.
MRS. FREDERICK Wilcox and child, Will
riding on load of logs down mountai
at Warrensburg, N. Y, were Instant
killed by the upsetting of the wagon and tn
falling of the logs on them.
A DISCOVERY of immense new salt fields ;
Warsaw, N. Y, and vicinity has created il
tense excitement in the western part of th
State.