The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-05-04

ELIZA PrNKsToN, who excited national in
terest in 1877 by her testimony before the
Louisiana returning board, died a few days
since in the anton (Miss.) Jail, where she
was serving a term for grand larceny.
WILLIAM PACK, convicted at Annapolis,
Nd, of whipping his wife, was given twenty
lashes on his bare back. He made piteous
appeals to the sheriff as he laid on the heavy
olows. This is the first enforcement of the
law Furnishing wife-beaters in that county.
GREAT destruction of property resulted
from the sudden visit of a huge waterspout
in Caldwell county, S. G.
MEMORIAL day was observed at Savannah,
Ga, Montgomery, Ala, and other Southern
cities by decorating the soldiers graves with
flowers.
ONE hundred vessels, carrying 4,250,COO
bushels of grain, chiefly wheat, corn and
faxseed, are lying in the river and outside
the harbor Of Chicago awaiting the an
nouncement that the Straits of Mackinaw
are open, Which will be the signal for their
departure.
A CONFLICT of authority between the Uni
ted States and the State courts has taken
place in Missouri and in consequence the
United States circuit court at Jefferson
City ordered the imprisonment of three
judges of the Lafayette county court for
contempt of court in refusing to obey a
mandate of the United States court direct
ing them to levy a special tax of $4,000 to
ray an ins,ailment on the judgment obtained
in a suit upon the county bonds
AHEAvY freight train dashed into a passen.
ger train near Battle Creek, Mich, telescop-
ing two sleeping cars and splitting them in
half. The conductor and two passengers
were instantly killed and nine persons were
injured, one or two with probably fatal re-
suit.
CAPTAIN hill B. THOMPSON, Congress
man-elect from the eighth Kentucky dis
trict, shot Walter Davis, a prominent mer-
chant, as he was stepping from a smok n!
car on the Cincinnati Southern railroad at
H~arrodsburg, Ky. Thompson was inside
the car md the ball vent through Davis
head, producing instant death. The cause
alleged for the deed was an undue intimacy
of Davis with Thomrson's wife.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, of Chicago, was
elected president of the new Irish national
league of America, at the Philadelphia con
v%ention, and Colonel John Byrne, of Gin
%cinnati, vice-president.
FRAZIER COPELAND, a colore1 preacher,
was hanged at Walhalla, S. c., for the muir
der of W. j. Hunicutt, the motive for the
crime being robbery; and on the same day
Henry Revells was publicly hanged at Lake
Providence, La, for the murder of Henry
Hymans.
The pecuniary damage suffered at Beaura-
gard, Miss, by the recent cyclone aggre-
gates $i50,000. In several Mississippi
counties scores of persons were killed or in.
jured, and hundreds stripped of everything
but their land.
FoRTY-Two thoroughbred y~earling horses,
sold at the Belle Meade farm, near Nash
vile, Tenn, brought $27,4iO, an average
per head of $G53.33, the largest single price
being $3.50.
BUFFALO CHATS have killed hundreds of
head of cattle in the country along the over
flowed Mis- sissippi.
A TERRIFIC storm of wind, hail and rain
has swept across Texas, doing great damage
to crops, buildings and property generally,
and killing several persons.
In an ARRAY at Port Royal. S. c., a white
man named Wallace shot three negroes, in
stantly killing one and MORALLY woundinp
another.