The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-02
GUsTAvE DOM, the eminent French painter

GUsTAvE DoBJ the eminent French painter
and designer, is dead, in his fifty-second
year. He vas IN extraordinarily productive
artist, the number of his works including
about 5000 designs. The works for which
he is best known are illustrations for the
Bible, Milton, Rabelais, Dante's "Inferno,"
etc. His talent was universal. He was
painter, engraver, designer, a sculptor and
water color painter. He had such an as
tonishing ocular memory that he never
worked with model or sketch. His studio.
formerly a riding school, was a scene of in
describable disorder, full of immense scaffold-
ings, huge canvases, immense palettes. colors
md brushes, all pell-mell, piles of drawings.
statues, modelling clay, etchings, engravinps,
wood cuts, and in the midst piano, and on
the piano a valuable violin. He will live in
history as one of the most famous of French
artists.
Mr.. O'BR1EN, the indicted editor of the
United ireland, has been elected to the Brit
ish parliament from county Cork over the
government candidate.
The whole central portion of the town of
Nicolief, Russia, containing $1,000 inhabi-
tants, has been destroyed by fire, involving
some loss of life.
NEW GUINEA savages murdered the seven
teen men comprising the crew of lost
schooner; and in retaliation the captain of a
schooner searching for the missing men
burned the native villages and destroyed all
their canoes.
DESCRIBING the scenes at the time of the
Cimbria disaster, correspondent saws:
lone red Indian brandished his tomahavk
before an officer of the steamer, and had to
be disarmed. The tumult on board was in
describable. One married couple cut their
own Threats, in order that they might die to.
gether The ships surgeon encouraged those
in the rigging TO hold fast, telling them that
the Sultan would soon rescue them, but sew
eral became delirious and let go their hold.
The surgeon subsequently leaped into the
sea, saying he would make an end of it,"
THE revolution in Ecuador continues, ard
the government has refused to become re-
sponsible for the safety of foreigners.
The silver wedding of the crown prince
of Germany and his wife, Oldest daughter of
Queen Victoria, was celebrated in Berlin, the
royal pair receiving numerous visits of con.
graduation.
Two prominent foreigners died the other
day-Baron Won Flotow, the well-known
German composer, at Wiesbaden, in his
seventy-second year, and Lord Greville, ex-
member of the British parliament, in Ireland
aged sixty-two years.
CHOLERA has scourged the southern part of
the state of Chiapas, Mexico, and has not yet
ra6 fo, ;nI, -,
fight. On some plantations there are only
three or four persons left alive. The town
of Tuxtla had 5000 inhabitants, 800 of whom
are dead OF the 6,OOO in Tonala upward of
1000 are dead. This town has suffered most
severely, twenty to thirty persons dying daily.
STEAMER Agnes Jack was wrecked near
Swanson, Wales, and her crew of twelve
were drowned. OF Mumble's Head, Wales,
the German bark Admiral Prinz Adalbert
went ashore, and six of the crew of life
boat that went to her assistance were drowned.
All but one of the banks crew were saved.
IN desperate battle between Mexican
soldiers and bandits the latter were routed
and had eleven of their number killed,
while the former had six killed.
Frances disturbed condition following
the death of Gambetta and the manifesto of
Prince Napoleon eliminated in the resigna-
ton of the French ministers President
Grevy called upon NM. Fallieres and Jules
Ferry TO form n new ministry.
VIOLENT storm in Hungary destroyed
most of the houses in the district of Ora.
vita.
AT Madrid, Spain, French Geroraut was
killed by the collision of his balloon with
house.