The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-23
LATER NEWS.

PERE HYAcINTH, the well-known French
minister, preached his first sermon in this
country the other day in New York Protes-
tant Episcopal church.
In New York and other cities there was a
general resetting of clocks and watches on the
L tn to conform the local time to the new
time standard recently adopted by the lea ling
railroads of the country.
PTTTsBURG PENN dispatch says that
there il unusual depression in the iron trade,
and that several large mills will close down.
The first and only stone bridge across the
Mississippi has just been completed at st.
Paul, Minnesota. 1t is a massive stone struc-
ture, a railway viaduct, twenty-one hundred
feet long, twenty-eight feet WIDE fifty feet
high, with twenty-three arches and sixteen
spans of eighty feet each and cost $780,
600.
SENATOR MALONE has issued an address to
the Readjuster party of Virginia, attacking
his political enemies and declaring that he
will renew the contest in 1884.
THREE hundred masked men entered the
Jail at Oxford, Ind, took Jacob Smelling,
farm hand, imprisoned for the brutal and I'M
provoked murder of Ada Atkinson, his EN-
ployers daughter, and lynchei him.
A CHICAGO dispatch asserts that Anna
Dickinson, who several years ago left the
platform for the stage, VII lecture again and
until the close of the presidential election
next year will speak in all the leading cities
OF the country in the interests OF the Knights
I Of Labor.
THE Mississippi steamer S. H. Parisott,
from Vicksburg bound for New Orleans
caught fire near Matches and was totally con
sumel. Included in the cargo were 3 ,5Gi
lales of cotton. The total loss is estimated
at more than S?50,0O0. One life was lost.
JUDGE Cox, of the District of Columbia
Circuit court, has set aside the verdict for
100000 awarded by jury to Hallet Kill
| bourn. In 1876 kilbourn was lockel up
forty-fve days for refusing to answer the
| questions of committee of the House Of
Representatives, concerning the transactions
of q certain real estate pool in Washing ton
After being released he brought suit against
the ex-Sergeant-atarms of the House, Mr..
Thompson, and others, asking damages for
fase imprisonment. A verdict for $780,
COO was rendered in his favor, but a new
trial was granted and the verdict in that has
now been set aside Judge Cox holding that
SGN,0O0 is an excessive sum.
JUSTICE HARLAN, of the United States Sl.
preme court, has filed an opinion in which
he differs with his associates in the case af-
fectng the civil rights of colored persons
Justice Harlan, in his lengthy argument,
holds that Congress was fully empowered to
Ia,s the civil rights acts, that they are con-
t tutional and should be sustained.
a TIRE near the City of Mexico destroyed
irse cotton factory, burned five opera
tive to death, and caused pecuniary loss
of s,0000o.
FOREIGNERS in China are uneasy because
the White Lily society, a powerful secret
organization is reported to be again active.
In speech at Manchester, England. NJ. de
Lesseps said the Panama canal would be
fin he'd in five years.
REBELS in Egypt attacked an Egyptian
for of 800 men and killed every man ex-
ceit fourteen, including Commander Mon
Grief. The who'e movement is due to the
slave traders in Upper Egypt who profess
to act in the name of the Mahdi, the False
Prophet
DURING heavy gale two British steamers
the Condor and the Hymettus-were
wrecked off the coast of Holland. Eighteen
of the persons on board the Condor were lost,
and but few of the crew on the Hymettus
were saved.
THREE leaders of the revolt in Servia have
been sentenced to death.