The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

DURING Is 3 the number of paupers re-
corded at The different New YORK city lnstl-
buttons was 0,5Oj, the number born in the
ms itutions being 415. The total number OF
persons supported and reliev ID during the
" ar was 3S171. OF the total number re
ceved during the year Is, 1873 were natives
and p, 5SS foreigners.
TITUS SHEARD. the Republican caucus
nominee, was elected speaker of the New
York assembly at its opening and Senator
Denis Mccarthy president pro tenn OF the
enate.
THE New York and New England ra lroad,
representing about $50, o o capital has
been put in the hands of a receiver.
In his annual mes age to the New York
Legislature, Governor Cleveland shows that
the State debt on September ~ was S3,'!o,-
.Ol.Sl, the reduction during the year being
S4D1 40. The governor believes that the
burdens of taxation cou d be greatly light
ened by placing real and personal property
on the same footing, AMI abo ishing de
auctions for debts. The canal bus ness OF
the season is thought amply to justify the
abolition of tolls, and the governor would
approve system of gradual and constant
rel airs. TIE governor again recommends
regular state examinations OF savings
banks, advises the appointment of State
superut ndent of charitable AMI reform
atOry institutions supervision OF corporations,
and prompt completion Of the new ca 1itol;
Measures for preserving the Adirondack
wildorne S are suggC sted. but the who esale
purchase f those In DIS by the State is op-
posed. In conclusion, the Governor tlnus
many causes of pr e and satisfa rtion in the
prosperity and progress of the State, but
regrets the National dec1dence on the seas,
and "the Tolicy that accumu ates millions
Of use eSS and unnecessary surplus in the
National treasury
THE Philadelphia ship Allah NJ Simpson
loaded with Il cargo of sugar valued at over
$4,000 and consigned to. various parties in
Boston, has been lost near Borneo. The crew
was savel
ANOTHER commercial report that of the
New York Mercantile Il genCy OF IL. II. Dun
e. Co., put, the number of financial failures
in the United States during 1888 at 9,lS4,
as against G,13S reported in lSS2, and the
aggregate liabilities at Sl2,S4, l12 as
against Sl0l ,5i1, 5t4 in 1852.
LAST year there were 3}.9S2 deaths iii New
York city, as against 1924 deaths i'll lSS2.
During the year 3SS, G47 emigrants arrived
at the port of New YORK, against 433, 45O ar
rivals in lSS2.
Two tow-boats with coal-boats in tow left
Pittsburg for the lower ports on the Ohio.
When Davis Island was reached the b ats
lost control of the lows and swung against
the south Ter. Three of the coal-boats sank
al once, AMI one of the tow boats caught ire,
compelling her crew of twenty men to jump
into he water. The eng neer Of the tow
beat was picked up dead, and three of the
crew were missing. The loss on tug and
loaded coal boa is $4,000.
TIE four hundredth anniversary of the
br h of Uric Zwingi. the great reformer of
Switzerland, was celebrated in nearly al
The reformed churches of tie Lchigh Valley
Penn. In towns and villages the churches
were appropriately decorated with ever
green's, notices and portraits of Iwingl.
+. H KoBBE, the young and trusted clerk
of Sperry & Barnes, New York and New
Inv &c for lurfr ne
sion hlu,e, sto'e 500, 900 of his employers
money and then absconded. He was arrest
ed in Chicago and $4,000 were recovered
FoRTY-FIvE persons were murdered in New
y ork city last year.
ROBERT MARTIN, fifty three years old was
hange d in the county Jail at Newark, n. j.
shortly after 10 O'Clock A. NJ. for the muir
der OF his wife and child while drunk, il
June 1871. Half an hour later James b.
Graves, sixty-five years of age, was carried
-fretting and crying like child-to The
same gallows for the murder in 1851 of Eddie
Soden, n boy lamp-ighter, in fit Of vim
dictiveness Both men strugg ed hard while
dangling al the ropes end
GOVERNOR ROBINSON, the successor of Gov
ernor Rutler in his inaugural address to the
Masst chusetts legislature at the State houst
in Boston, favored biennial elections and de
voted much attention TO the evils of the pres
ent divorce laws.
in the Gloucnster Mass fisheries during the
past year. in 1852 twelve vessels and IL;
lives were lost
HENRY WILLARD, president of the recently
completed Northern Pacific railroad, has re
signed he presidency of that corporation anC
has given up for the benefit of his creditor
the magnificent dwelling house which he wa
erecting i'll New York. Mr.. Willard dur
ing the Tast ten years by his raj r. a
operations had built up colossa
fortune, and year ago was est mated to b
worth $5,0JO,O0l. One OF his counsel state
that his financial fall is due to his havin,
too freely lent his name and credit to tn
Oregon aud Transcontnental company. A
me citing of the Northern Pacific director
in New York, Mr. Vii ards resig
nation was received and accepted
Resolutions of sympathy for him in his tinan
cial misfortune, and the resultant s!cknes
were assed, and as he had served withou
salary during the three years that he wa
president of the road, the sum of $4,000 wa
voted to him. Mr.. Wizards caree
as railroad king, though con
paratively short, has been remark
able In a few years he had acquired cor
troll of an immense railroad and other inter
ests, and money to the extent of man
millions was put into his hands by capita ist
for inv, stment without the slightest security
The dwelling of j. V. Carver. near Duk
Centre, Penn, wa burned, and Mr.. Carver
four children, aged from one to six year
pershed in the flames.