The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-30
LATER NEWS

A FOREST fire nine miles in extent and COW
ering several thousand acres of valuable
timber land has been raging in the vicinity Of
Huntingdon, Penn About 5000 cords Of
wood and as many cords of bark were con-
sumed
DEVELOPMENTS show that the late A. b.
johnson, the prominent Utica On. y J lawyer
who shot himself, was a defaulter in the sum
OF S3O0,OOO, the money misappropriated be-
longing to the Mcdonnell estate, of Roches-
ter. Mrs. Mcdonnell is a sister of johnson,
and he had entire charge of the estate
MARY OCoNoR, a young operative, jumped
out of the burning mill of Samuel G.. Kelley
a Philadelphia manufactures, last December,
and sustained injuries which crippled her for
life She sued Kelley, and the jury have just
owarded her $1,000 da nages
MRS. HUSTON, farmers wife, and her two
children, were burned to death in their home
near Unionville, Mo.
THE liabilities of the suspended Mississippi
Valley bank, of Vicksburg, will probably
reach 100000.
NEW island, created by volcanic action.
has been disc )vered OF the coast of Alaska.
ANDREW TAYLOR, the last of the three no.
torious Taylor brothers, who murdered Sher-
iff w. T. Cate and his deputy, j. J. Conway,
in the fall of 1882, was banged at Loudon.
Tenn. On the day previous to his execution,
while being conveyed to Loudon from Knox
Vile he ierked pistol out of the pocket of
one of his guards. and was about t. shoot
another sheriff, but was knocked down and
the weapon secu ed before he could do
further harm. On the gallows he appeared
unmoved, and died with curses on his lips.
THE President has appointed Surgeon Rob-
ert Murray, now on duty in New York, as
the chief medical officer at Major-General
Hancocks headquarters, to be surgeon gen
eral of the army vice the late General
Charles H. Crane.
In his annual report Mr.. Knox, com troler
of the currency, says thai the total number
of national banks in operation Oh November
f. was 2,522, the largest number thai has been
in operation at any one time. During the year
2f2 national banks were organized, VT an
aggra gate organized capital of s2S, % 1870.
Forty banks, with aggregate capital Of
! 81, 736, 600 and circulation of Si,13 ,033 have
voluntarily discontinued business during the
year From November l, 1882, to November
! /, 1873, the production of gol1 by the mines
| of the United States is estimated to have
been S32 0OO,O0l. The total amount of silver
coined during the year has been, after de
Quoting the recoinage, so, ,14}, of which
/ SOS. S91 .0G0 we're standard silver dollars.
The following is the amount of coin and cur
] +ho q.
Gold coin and bullion, SjSl, 970,2j4; silver
coin. S2i2, 7Ol ,9}2; legal tender notes, s3lG,-
ISL .Ol6 national bank notes. s352,U13, 49,
total. 81 SO, 3GG,9s9
THE trustees of the Exhibition hall in Cork
refused to permit Mr. Parnell, the Irish home
rule leader, to use ii for the purpose of max
ing an dre;s to his C )nstituents.
Two internal nachines of sufficient power
to delnolish any building. were discovered by
the London police at the residence of a SO cial-
ist name Wolff, who was arrested.
COUNT FREDERIC DE LAGRANGE. French
politician, and a prominent patron of the
turf. die in Paris few days ago, agel
s;Stv-seven His horses captured the Derby
in 1868 and 1866.
TWENTY passengers were drowned by col
Ision between two steamers on Lake Geneva,
] Switzerland.
A DISPATCH from st Thomas say the Hay
tian steamer Dessaines has sunk La Patrie
the war ship of the revolutionists.
A PARIS dispatch asserts that Marquis
Tssng, the Chinese ambassador, has notified
Earl Granville, the British foreign secretary
that war between China and France is Ger
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