The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
LATER NEWS

PRESIDENT ARTHUR, General Grant, Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, and other prominent
personages were present and responded to
to toasts at the annual dinner of the New
England society, of Brooklyn.
GEORGE L. GORDON, a sea captain who
abducted Addie Bresnan, n schoolgirl, from
Astoria, Long Island, and took her to Jersey
City, N. j., has been sentenced to the full
penalty of the law-five years. Imprisonment
and the payment of a one-thousand-dollar
fine. The mayor OF New York refused to
marry Gordon to the girl, and he claimed to
have then married her by performing the
ceremony himself.
BY COLLISION between two trains at Glad
stone, ILL.,, palace car was burned, one pas
senger killed and six injured.
NEARLY all the projectors, editors and re-
rorters of the Chicago daily paIer were sub
roened 10 appear before the grand
jury in that place to testify concerning an
alleged corruption fund of 100000 that had
been raised to bride the common council to
permit a railroad the right of entry into the
heart of the city.
AT Grafton, w. Va, Carter Smith, bar
Der, stabbed George McDaniels to death with
a pair of scissors.
GENERAL HANCOCK was rendered grand
reception by the citizens of San Francisco,
the mayor making a formal address, to
which the general responded.
Twoyou men-Adam Hill and George
Snyder-were shot and killed at a dance
near Winchester, H., by two brothersnamel
Sutton, who we're arrested. The crime was
caused by faction fight over the location of
a school-house.
AT meeting of the Colored Mems National
committee, held in Washington, delegates
were apportioped to the national convention
to be held in Richmond Va, next July
Each congressional district was allowed two
delegates, and each Territory one repre-
sentative.
DIR. SINCLAIR, chief of the consular bureau
of the State department, has been engaged
for several weeks upon report, ordered by
the last Congress, of the cost of compensat-
ing the entire consular list with salaries, in
stead OF by the present fee system. The
report will deal with about one thousan |
officers of the service, fixing alaries accord
ing to duties performed. On the whole the
1ay would be increased, but if the report is
adopted it is believed that a saving TO the
treasury will result. A salary system Will
tend to purify the service, it is claimed. and
to guard against the collection of exhoibtant
fees.
A MEETING of the lar of the United States
supreme court. held in the couit room of the
capitol, for the purpose of taking action on
the death of the late jeremiah S. Black, was
presided over by Senator Edmunds. RGSc-
lutions euogistic Of Judge Black were passed
and addresses in the same strain were dc
livered 10y Senators Bayard, Vance, Garland
and others.
FIVE of the Glasgow dynamite conspira-
tors have been sentenced to penal servitude
for life and the other five to seven years i'm
prisonment. The prisoners are all
Irshmen who were convicted of trying to
blow up the public buildings in Glasgow.
AFTER two days fighting the French
troops assisted by the French fotila, cap
tured the town of Sontoy, Tonquin, with an
add tional 10 of 100 men killed and wounded.
THE remains of Commander De Long and
his comrades of the Jeanette expedition ar
rived at Irkutsb, Russia and were borne in
procession through the streets, escorted by a
detachment OF troops In presence of "a multi
tude of people.