The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

GOVERNOR BUTLER, of Massachusetts,, Wis
tied the State prison at Concord and adj
dressed the convicts.
GARRETT S. BoIoE, the president; Edward
+. Shaw the cashier, and John l.. Beach, the
bookkeeper of the suspended City bank of
Jersey City, were arraigned in court on in
dictments for embezzlement, forgery and
overdrawing their bank accounts. All three
pleaded guilty. Boice was sentenced TO ten
years, Shaw to six years and Beach to four
years imprisonment.
THIRTEEN school-chidren while coasting
at Milford, Mass, were thrown from a sled
and nearly all were picked up unconscious,
having sustained injuries more or less serious.
FOURTEEN white hearses, carrying white
plumes; fourteen little collins covered with
flowers, vast numbers of curious minded
people, crowded church, a solemn service,
long line of carriages vending toward the
cemetery, fourteen new filled graves-and
thus, says the New York Herald ended the
tragedy of the Fourth street school, by which
sixteen little girls lost their lives in a panic
following an alarm of fire.
PROFESSORS SWIFT, of the Warner observa-
tory at Rochester, and Brooks, the Red
House observatory at Phelps, N. Y, report
the discovery of new comet.
HE Rev. DIR. Paul A. Chadbourne, presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Agricultural col
lege, died in New York, to which city he had
come for the purpose of attending ex-Gov-
ernor Morgan's funeral. DIR. Chadbourne
was sixty years old had been a member
of the Massachusetts State senate, president
of Williams college and of the University of
Wisconsin, and was widely known.
The ocean steamship Republic arrived in
New York with the greater part of the crew
of the freight steamer Glamorgan, from
Liverpool, bound for Boston, on board.
The Glamorgan was sighted by the Republic
in mid-ocean in a sinking condition. After
several dangerous trips of the Re
public's life-boats in one of which
sailor belonging to the rescu-
ing party was lost, the forty-four me1
remaining on board the Glamorgan we e
transferred to the steamship. The captain,
second officer, second steward and two sea-
men of the Glamorgan had been washed
overheard and lost and sto&away had his
neck broken; while three of the rescued sea-
men had been seriously injured.
GREAT excitement was aroused in Law
renee, Mass, by the announcement that the
Augustinian society, a chartered Catholic
organization formed in 1870 to receive the
deposits of the parishioners of the church,
had suspended, with liabilities of about
$540,00o. The depositors number zoe,
n majority of them being poor female
mill operatives. About $4,000 is owing
to depositors, and the balance to
mortgage holders. The suspension is said
TO be due to bad management, result
ing from business irexperience The priests
of the various Catholic churches of Lawrence
in their Sunday discourses promised that all
the money would in time be paid to the de-
positors.
ONE Salmi Morse has been trying siren
rously for months to produce in New York
The Passion Play" in which Christs Gu
cifixion and other scriptural scenes are
enacted by actors in costume, with scenic
and other stage acct iories Both the out
going AMI incoming mayors refused Morse
license to produce the play, and his ap-
meals to the courts have also hitherto been in
vain. Despite these rebuffs Morse invited
about 700 persons to a rehearsal of the play
in the theatre spe cialy built for its perform
ance, and the opening scene had actually be-
gun when the police stopped further pro
ceedings by arresting the manager.