The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-28
LATER NEWS.

PROFESSOR Brooks observations at the
Red House observatory in Phelps, N. Y,
show remarkable increase in the brillancy
of the comet of 1872, whose return it was Mr..
Brooks good fortune to be the first to an
nounce. The comet is now visible in good
telescopes of moderate aperture 1t is rapidly
approaching the earth and sun, and will be
visible to the naked eye before Christmas.
THIRTEEN convicts-seven colored and six
white-were publicly whipped the other day
at Newcastle, Del. The cat was well laid on,
but blood was drawn only in one case
SIX men were at work on a platform, tim
bering the sides of a newly opened shaft
in mine near Willkesbarre, Penn. A beam
that was being lowered to them struck the
platform with such force as to break it to
pieces. Four of the men fell sixty feet into
twenty feet of water at the bottom of the
shaft and were drowned; the other two men
chung to some woodwork until assistance
arrived.
JUDGE HoADLY, the Democratic cand-
date for governor of Ohio, who has been in
Philadelphia for some time under treatment
for malaria, has re5ained his health and re-
turned to his State.
A BOY and three valuable race horses were
burned to death at a fire in a frame building
on the exposition grounds, Pittsburg, Penn.
The boy was sleeping in the stable of one of
the horses, the animal being valued at 5000.
The steamer Alaska has just crossed the
ocean i'll the fastest time on record, making
the distance between Queenstown and New
York in six days twenty-one hours and forty
minutes
FOUR hunters encamped near Big Creek,
Indian Territory, were called upon to surren-
der by posse searching for horse thieves.
a fight followed and two of the hunters were
killed, the others making their escape. The
posse then plundered the camp.
The Garfield Monument association has de-
cided upon the site of the monument which
is to be erected to the memory of President
Garfield at Cleveland, and the work of grad
ing and preparing the site has just been
begun. The association has nearly $4,000
in hand.
ABOUT two years ago w. S. Hook, citi-
zen of Lexington, s. c., was murdered and
his body placed on a railroad track. Three
trains ran over the corpse i'll the night shock
ingly mangling it, Hooks administrator
brought suit against the railroad to recover
damages for injuries done the corpse, the
plaintiff charging negligence on the part of
the company in allowing such mutilation. A
referee has Just awarded plaintiff $4,000.
a LONDON dispatch says that arrangements
are being made by the Irish National league
for series of mass meetings in America,
which will be addressed by many prominent
nationalist.
DURING the recent heavy storms on the
Great Banks. off Newfoundland, forty mine
French fishermen lost their lives
CAssAMICIoLA, on the island of Ischia, has
again bean visited by earthquake shocks.
One house wa wrecked, but no lives were
lost.
A CONFERENCE among all the European
powers, to arrange an international sanitary
cole, will be hell in Rome.
SIR EDWARD SULLIVAN has become lord
chancellor of Ireland.
REPORTS fl ON the West Indies state that
the government troops have been defeated,
and that Jacmel and Jeremie are in the hands
of insurgents