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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
TWO EXECUTIONS.
Two Wen Hanged I'm Pennsylvania,
One for His Fathers Murder.

Joseph Sarver was executed at Indiana,
Penn, for murder. A priest remained with
him from o'clock. Sarver walked with
firm step and stood upon the fatal trap with
unconcern. The only words he spoke on the
scaifold We're: Jesus, crucifed, have mercy
on my SOUL" He exhibited no nervous
ness whatever At II A. NJ. the trap was
sprung, and death was almost instan-
taneous, his neck being broken by the
fall, Only fifty persons were present
Sarver, his father, and housekeeper named
Bella Kelly lived together in tumbledown
house twelve miles from here Sarvcr grew
jealous of the attentions paid to the girl by
his father, She was the subject of frequent
quarrels between them, and the son frequent
ly threatened to kill his father. On the even
ing of Saturday, November 3, 1888, at the
supper table, Joe drew IA revolver, and,
father, who, was sitting opposite;
The ball did not take effect, and
the old man fled in the direction of n neigh
boris house some twenty or thirty rods dis
tant. just as he reached the porch Joe shot
him through the head, killing him instantly
Returning to the house, young Sarvor fired
two shots at the housekeeper, one taking eff
feet in her arm and the other in her left
cheek. They were not of fatal character
She became unconscious and the murderer
fled into the woods.
Michael Murray was hanged on the same
day in the jailyard at Edensburg, Penn, at
l;30 p. NJ. in the presence of l25 per-
sons Until o'clock this morning he refused
all spiritual advice, but at that time he sent
for priest and two sisters. To the priest
he male a confession, and the sacra-
ment was administered to him. His
crime was the killing of John Hancuff ON
Friday, October IL, 1888, on tho road near
Summit. Hancuff and a boy had met Muir.
ray, who was a one-egged tramp, on the pre-
ceding day, and the boy had called the latter
some names Murray, who was generally
regarded as weak mentally, met Hancuff,
and after accusing him of calling him names,
drew a revolver and fired four Shots one
taking effect in the abdomen and resulting in
death
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
MR.. F0LGER'S SUCCESSOR,
Postmaster-tieneraI Gresham, Score
tary of th G Treasury.

Postmaster-General Gresham received
telegram at II p M. from the President, who
had been stopping the past fortnight at Sec.
rotary Frelinghuysen's home near Somer-
vile, n. j., informing him of his appoint
ment as secretary of the treasury. Judge
Gresham Immediately qualified, and sent to
the President his resignation as postmaster
general At 10 o'clock the next morning Mr..
Gresham went 10 the treasury department
with Secretary Chandler. His appointment
from the President was given to him by Mr. o,
L. Pruden, assistant private secretary to the
President, and his commission by Third Assist
ant Secretary OF State A. A Adee The two
assistant secretaries of the treasury, Messrs.
French and Coon, were present, and rendered
him their congratulations. The new secre-
tary left in the afternoon to consult with the
President.
Under the law, First Assistant Post
master-General Hatton became acting post
master general for ten days.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
South and West.

PORTLAND, Oregon, has had disastrous
fire, which destroyed a whole block, including
the Esmond House, the leading hotel in the
city. The total loss is about Sl25, 1000.
THE Newcomb-B Buchanan company, of
Louisville, KY, the largest whisky house in
the country, has gone into bankruptcy. Two
years ago the company failed for 81 100000.
BY a collision between two freight trains
near New Cambria, Mo-, three men were
killed and two others fatally injured.
FIRE destroyed ten buildings in Eureka,
Nevada including a hotel and bank Loss
about $4,000.
AN important land transfer in New Next
co has been made to New York parties
through the department of emigration Of
the Santa Fe Railway company. The grant
comprises 5000 acres, and the purpose is to
found an Episcopal colony of Eastern people
in connection with which an educational in
stitution will be established.
TEXAS straight-out Republicans have put
a State ticket in the field, headed by Judge
A. B. Norton for governor.
DROUGHT has seriously injured the cotton,
peanut and other crops in large portions of
Virginia and North Carolina.
Two young girls-Carrie and Bessie Water
man, aged twelve and fourteen years, daugh-
tiers of James Waterman, farmer living near
Ottawa, Kansas-tied a rope around the neck
of a half brother, six years old. dragged him
about and beat him with a stick until he was
dead. The girls stated at the coroners in
quest that they hated the child and wanted
him dead. They were held for murder.
FROM 1900 to lOO,O 900 people We're reported
present at a Democratic demonstration in
Columbus Ohio. Clubs from surrounding
towns participated in a torchlight parade;
speeches We're made by Messrs. Hendricks,
Bayard, Pendleton, Payne, Thurman, Car
Isle, Governor Hoadly and other Demo-
cratic leaders, and letter regretting his in
ability 10 be present was received from Gov
ernor Cleveland.
South CAROLINA Republicans, after
stormy all night convention at Columbia,
nominated a State ticket headed by ID. T. Cor
bin white for governor and ID. A Straker
lcolorel) for Acknowledgements.
THE bodies of two horse thieves were dis
covered suspended from tree ON Poplar
river in Montana This makes thirty seven
thieves lynched by vigilsnts in that region
this season.
1NCENDIARIsM is rampant at Cleveland
Ohio, several attempts having been made
ever since the recent rye fires to burn down
some of the finest business blocks in the city
Miss c. |. WELToN a wealthy young lady
from New York city. recently persisted in
snow storm while descending Longs peak in
Colorado. She was frozen to death.
SIMMONS & SEwELL, millers, of Virden,
Ill, have failed. Liabilities, S2UG, 600; assets,
$4,000.
Mr.. BLAINE was welcomed at Cleveland,
Ohio, by large torchlight parade, which he
reviewed in company with General Logan.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
NEWS SUMMAR Y
Eastern and Middle states.

Miss SADIE ROBINSON, the thirteen-year-
old daughter of wealthy residents of South
birmingham, Mass, has created a sensation
by secreting valise belonging to her mother
and containing sixty thousand dollars worth
of jewelry, securities and money The girl,
who is pretty and weighs nearly 200 pounds,
was making preparations to elope with a
young man whom she had met ciandestinely
The valuables were recovered.
Mr.. BLAINE's visit to Philadelphia was
made the occasion of a reception to him by
the Union League club, and torchlight pro-
cession of uniformed Republican clubs, com
prising about 5000 men.
The total equalized value of real and per-
sonal property in New York State is returned
as $3,014, 80, 372.
AT the Delaware Democratic convention in
Dover Congressman Lore was renominated
by reclamation, presidential electors were
chosen and Cleveland and Hendricks were EN-
dorsed
GENERAL BUFFERS followers in Massachu-
sets, at the State convention of the "Peo-
pies party" held in Worcester, nominated
Judge NJ. j. McCafferty for governor, and a
full State ticket. Electors at large were also
chosen. After the convention Butler APP
peared and held a reception and made a
speech to the delegates.
ISAAC NEWTON, chief engineer of the New
York department of public works, committed
Mr.. Newton is believed to have killed himself
In fit of dependency caused by long sickness
and pecuniary difficulties. He was the chief
engineer on board the Monitor at the time of
her celebrated fight with the Merrimac.
Mrs. NELLIE E. HUBBARD, the divorced
wife of William Shepard, and the daughter
of Ex-Governor Richard d. Hubbard, of Con-
necticut has been married privately to Clark
Smedley, a New Haven business man. Mr..
and Mrs. Smedey will dwell in New Haven,
where her divorced husband, who it will be
remembered was her fathers coachman with
whom she eloped few years ago, still lives.
The first marriage, which created a great
sensation, was an unhappy one
Mr.. BLAINE made short speeches at several
agricultural fairs in New York on his tour
westward. At Buffalo there was large pa
rade in his honor, many campaign clubs from
surrounding towns participating
A FIRE at Pittsburg, Penn. destroyed Abel
Smith 81 Company's extensive glass works, a
large machine shop, five frame dwellings and
other property, causing an estimated loss of
100000
DURING Republican flag raising at Taft
vile, Conn.,, the flag staff fell, killing Mrs
Paul Tetrault and fatally injuring another
woman.
AT the annual session of the National BIZ
ennial Conference of Unitarians, held in Sar-
atoga, N. Y there were present {, 900 persons
representing PIP churches and thirty-three
conferences and associations The session
lasted five days.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MACKLIN, the actor, played Shylock at
ninety-ive, and died at l05.
THE oldest actor living resides in st. Louis
N. NJ. Ludlow, eighty seven.
The New York Actors fund has had
seventy-four funerals i'll four years.
LADY ushers at Rankins Third Avenue
Theatre, New York, have proved a success.
The mounting of NJ Sardou's new drama
at the Porte Saint Martin, Paris, will cost
upward of $50 900.
NINE. mazda IRsCHICK will make tour
of the United States this season, supported
by her own company.
NJ. CoQUETIN, the elder, the eminent French
actor and dramatist, will take four months
vacation in America in 1885.
VERDI, now seventy-three, white-haired
and bearded, calmly stands on a column of
20 operas of his own composing
OWING to the death of her father, Madam
Trebelli has resolved to postpone her return
to the United States until October, 1885.
EMMA ABBOTT has purchased a new opera
by the author and composer of "The Twelve
Jolly Bachelors" 1t lis called "Don Filibusto"
LANGTRY has notified several American
managers to cancel her dates. They threaten
to make it warm for her if she returns to this
country.
HARRY DUNMAN, the tenor, has been en-
gagged by Henry Irving for the tinging parts
III the latter's repertoire He joins the COM
pany i'll Quebec.
HARRY CoURTAINE, who was few years
ago one of the most popular of young Ameri
can actors, has been reduced by drink until
he is now ragged beggar
MAssINI, the new tenor, wants his expenses
paid and S30,0OO a month to sing in the
United States. Moreover he stipulates that
he will sing only eight times a month.
DAN RICE, the once famous circus clown,
delivered what he called a lecture in the Ma
sonic Temple theatre in Louisville KY, ON
recent Sunday evening, in the course of which
he displayed many of his clown tricks, sang
comic song and danced a negro break
down.
The audience was very small, SO far as the
travelling company could see in the opera
house at Marcelona Mich. but funny pas
sage i'll the play raised laughter which evil
IDENTIFY came from the outside, and ON investi-
CATION it was found that ladders accommo-
dating hundred persons had been placed at
the windows.
HE first negro song ever sung before an
audience i'll a theatre was by an actor named
Herbert. He had been a cook in early life,
and was famous for his pot-pies; therefore he
was familia"ly called Pot-pie' Herbert.
The song was entitled The Battle of Platts-
burg" Herbert made his first effort In AL
bany, n. Y. 1t was in the year 1915. He
painted his face with black paint the use of
burnt cork being unknown at that time. He
sat in chair before the curtain.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03

THREE Pullman cars attached to train
running between Toronto and Montreal left
the track, broke from the other cars and
tumbled thirty-five feet down an embank-
nent after which they caught fire Forty
or more persons were injured, twenty of
them quite badly.
THE British gunboat Wasp has been
wrecked off Tory island, on the northwest
coast of Ireland. Fifty-two of the men on
board were drowned. Among this number
all the officers were included Only six per-
sons were saved. On the rocky coast where
the disaster occurred it was impossible 10 use
small boats in the attempt to rescue the ships
crew. The Wasp had a registered tonnage of
465 tons and carried four guns.
GILL1E LEIGH, a member Of the British
parliament, lost his life in Montana by
falling over precipice.
SIX vessels were lost on the Labrador coast
during a recent easterly gale. In the White
Bay district three thousand persons are starv-
ing.
Two Paris editors have fought duel, one
receiving a wound in the arm.
The British war department has forwarded
100000 in gold to General Lord Wolseley to
defray expenses incidental to his expedition
to Khartoum.
SUSPENSION of warlike operations by the
French troops in China is said to be due to
Germany's mediation Ii Hung Chang, the
famous viceroy of Pee Chi Ii, and leader of
the peace party in China, has been reinstated
in all the offices he formerly held.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, has been COM
pimented for his herosm in visiting the
cholera-infected districts by tn president of
the French republic.
GENERAL DIAz has been elected president
of Mexico for four years from December 1
next.
THE decline of receipts at the custom houses
of Italy, owing to the prevalence of cholera, is
ettimated at $4,000 900.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
FATALITY AT A FAIR,
Two Men and n Girl Crushed During
Balloon Ascension,

The last days exhibition of the Erie County
Agricultural society, at Erie. Penn. ter
minated with a terrible fatality. When Oscar
hunt balloon was inflated and moved off, it
Is alleged that some malicious person cut the.
ropes which held a large pole which held the
balloon and the pole fell, instantly killing
samuel {. Pherrin, farmer and leading
man III Erie county, crushing his head into O.
shapeless mass. A daug liter of Pherrin. who
was standing beside him, was badly in
Jured. James Wadswarth, well-known
turtinan of Girard, was struck down
and fatally injured. VIM T. Edwards of
Erie had leg broken. Great excitement
prevail d, and the exhibition broke up at
once, all of the races and the rest of the pro-
gramme beng declared off. Hunt, the bal
loonist, being greatly affected by the accident.
lost control of his balloon, and sailing over
the lake, fell with his air ship and was picked
up nearly dead from exhaustion.
Miss Pherrln was badly hurt but it is be-
lieved will recover. Her injuries are az
gravated by the death Of her father and an
injury received at the hands of woud-be
lover few years ago. Her lover, a re-
spectacle young man who lived on an
adjoining farm, lost his reason and
one one night scaled a ladder, entered her
bed chamber, struck her on the
head with a hammer and then fed
The Erie fair this year has been attended by
a number of fatalities. While returning
from the first days exhibition, Mrs. w. S.
Quay, OF Mill Valley, drove off a mar
row bridge over French creek and. with
the horse, was drowned. Her two
children We're saved by a passer-by.
At the second days exhibition one Of Buffalo
Bills wild Texas steers broke away and rush
ing into a dense crowd gored and trampled
several persons seriously. William Hallihan,
who was returning from the fair, was struck
by fast train on the Lake Shore railway and
killed before his own door.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
JOHN W. GARRETT.
sketch Of The Late Head o the Hal
tim3re and Ohio Road.

John w. Garrett, president of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad company, died at
Deer Park, NIL, after protracted illness, in
the sixty-fifth year of his age. He had been
at Deer Park for some time and it was sup
posed that the mountain air would be of bene
hit to him; but his mental as well as phvsi al
prostration was so great that he could not
rally.
Mr.. Garrett was born in the city of Balti-
more, July 81, 1920, and was the second son
of the late Robert Garrett a wealthy
merchant and banker. His education was
completed at Lafayette college in the State of
pennsylvania, when he entered his fathers
couhthg-room, and was shortly after, at the
age OF nineteen, made partner in his fathers
business. His first connection with the Bati-
more and Ohio railroad was in October 1897,
When he was made director of the company,
n time when the embarrassment of the road
was OF most serious character. In 1875,
MI Garrett was elected TO the presidency of
the company, which position he has since re
tanned.
The practical wisdom of the policy in
augurated by Mr. Garrett was shown at the
Close OF the first year, the aggregate net
gains OF the company during the first year of
hls administration being S125, 352, L. In the
second year the improvement in the affairs
OF the company were even more marked than
during the first. During the war the geo
graphical position of the road placed its lines
IN constant jeopardy, but the indomitable
Will and energy OF Mr., Garrett made The
road useful for the transfer of troops at all
times, and the practical utility of the road
was never lost.
After he became president and gave his
time SO largely t. the duties of his office the
directors, by unanimous vote, increased his
salary from $1,000 to $4,000 per annum.
This increase Mr.. Garrett declined Here
pealeily declined to accept the offers of the
presidencies of other railroads. though ac-
companied in one case by an offer of a salary
of 5000, and in another by a proposal to
give him S5O, 600 year. Mr.. Garrett was also
the head OF the banking house of Robert
Garrett 4 Sons
100000 or $6,000,OOO. W.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Philadelphia club has had seven pitch
ers this season
Z. DUGAN, pitcher of the Virginia club, is
but nineteen years of age
PROVIDENCE audiences have averaged q
uttie over ,OO) per game this year.
OVER 10000 people have witnessed the
League games in Boston this season.
EX-GOVERNOR FOSTER, of Ohio, is fire.
quent attendant at the ball games at Column
bus.
AT Fremont, Ohio the Fremont club beat
a club composed of Potawatame Indians by
81 to 2.
ALREADY the clubs throughout the coun.
try are looking around for PLAYERS for next
season.
RADBoURNE, of Providence, has struck
out more batsman than any other pitcher in
the League.
EACH League club plays 1l2 games this
season, and there will be AIS games played by
the eight clubs.
IT is probable that the pitcher of 1885 will
have a foot more room. Nearly all of them
find the box too small as it is.
A RECENT Cincinnati Allegheny game was
remarkable for the fact that six double PLAYS
were made-a very rare occurrence, indeed.
NEITHER in the American or the Union as
ISOLATION is much attention paid to the rule
requiring the ball to he delivered below the
shoulder.
THE Irontons played the Daytons, in Day
ton Ohio, recently, two games, one of which
was most interesting from the fact that it
was the quickest played on record, lasting ex-
actly forty-seven minutes, the previous best
on record being fifty-tive minutes.
AT the end of the twenty-second week the
record of the League clubs in the champion
snip race was as follows, the Providence nine
being too far in front to prevent their win
ming the pennant:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
A VISIT TO A JAIL.
Four Prisoners Taken Out by n Mob
and Lynched.

special dispatch from Brookhaven, Miss.
says that "a mo- of forty men visited the
Franklin county jail, oyerpowered the iailer
and took out four negro prisoners and
lynched them to trees in the court house
yard One was charged with an at
tempted assault ON white girl, two with the
murder of other negroes and the other with
arson and robbery. -Four other prisoners
were in Jail at the time-one charged with
criminal assault, the Others with arson-but
they Were unmolested The mob informed
the jailer that unless the circuit judge cleaned
out the jail this term they would return and
make clean sweep. The affair is greatly
deprecated by large majority of the citi-
Gems of the county, where six men have been
sacrificed by Judge Lynch in eighteen months
past"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
What Grows on Waterloo.

On the two fields of Waterloo and
Linden, splendid crops of crimson pop
pies appear every year. The ground
which nourishes these is packed with
the remains of soldiers. The prepare
lions of opium derived from the poppy
have been used in the form of laudanum
and paregoric. So pain has been stil.ed
by the remains of pain and death, and
babies put to sleep by the dead bodies of
men who fell in the deadly onslaught.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03
Washington.

PAYMENTS from the treasury on account
of pensions during September were S6j0,c0l.
Over SlO,0O0,O0O was paid out for pensions in
August.
THE acting secretary Of the treasury has
for the redemption of bonds The call is for
SlO,OO0,0O0 of the three per cent. loan of
1882
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03

Up 10 GATE the League clubs had PLAYED
81 games and the American clubs 4l0 games,
exclusive of ten games, making a total in ali
Of over a thousand championship matches
IN nVe months, a record unequaled in the his
tory of the national game.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-03

Inc record OF the twelve American Associ-
atlon clubs at the end of the twenty-second