The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08

Eastern and Middle states.

THE committee OF notification appointed
by the national Democratic committee to
inform Governor Cleveland of his nomination
FOR President, waited upon him in the ex.
ecutivo mansion at Albany and discharged
its duty. Governor Cleveland in a speech
accepted the nomination.
pEWoLF & SWAN, New York stock brokers,
have failed through the tkievish operations of
one of their ctistomers-W. +. Scovil, stem
ographer employed by Lord, Day 81 Lors,
lawyers. Scovil stole about $500, 900 worth of
MIR. Days securities, Substituted counterfeits
Tor the genuine ones, and forged Mr.. Days
signature on the genuine stocks
THE committee of forty seven who had in
formed Governor Cleveland of bis nomination
Tor President by the national Democratic
convention performed like duty toward
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Democratic nom
inee for Nice-President, st the Grand
Union hotel, Saratoga, n. Y. The
ceremony was almost n repetition
of that ON the previous day an Albany. Col
onel Villas made the address informing Mr..
Hendricks of his nomination.; Secretary Bell
read the official letter of notification, and Mr..
Hendricks responded in a short address ac-
ceptlng the nomination.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND and Ex-Governor
Hendricks saw each other for the first time
the othBr day at the executive mansion in AL
bany.
THOMAS DICKSON, president of the Dele
ware and Hudson Canal company, largely in
terested in railroad coal and iron property,
and considered the largest owner of coal mines
III the country, died a few days since at Nor
rlstown, N. j., aged sixty years. He left
fortune of several millions
JOHN CAswELL & Co, New York inn
porters of teas have failed for about ST.
O0uQ00
Two little boys na1Red Gibbons and sick
man named Okeefe were burned to death in
A hnN ne
fatally burned, and Mrs. Gibbons was serious
" injured while trying to save her children
AT Providence, r l. the Western horse,
Jay-Eye-See, black gelding, trotted one
mile in 2:l0, thus beating the best previous
time-2;lO$4, made Ivy Nanderbilt's mare
Maud 5.
ALEXANDER JEFFERSON (colored) was
hanged in Brooklyn, n. Y, for murder. In
December, 1882, he fired into group of col
ored people, killing Henry Hicks and wound
ing his brother, Celestial jefferson. Then
Alexander Jefferson rushed into the room,
killed Emma Jacks m with knife thrust, and
stabbed her daughter Annie until he be
lieved that she was dead jefferson thought
that his brother Celestial had won from
him the love Of Emma jackson, and
went to the cottage to kill them both When
he was dragged from leneath building ten
days later he shot himself He recovered, and
was convicted of murder in the first degree,
md sentenced to lie hanged. After the rope
was cut on the gallows jefferson struggled
terribly and succeeded in getting one hand
partly loose and pulling the black cap away
from his face. The scene at this time and
until Jefferson's death was described as hor-
rible III the extreme.
The Thetis, Bear end Alert, comprising the
Greedy relief squadron, arrived at the Ports
mouth On. H.. navy yard and their officers.
with Lieutenant Greedy, were received by
Secretary Chandler and Chief Signal Officer
husband for the first time after the long sep
Araion, and the pair had an affecting reunion.