The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-29

chief officer shall be the secretary of agricul-
ture.
THE Senate has passed bill making ali
annual appropriation TO provide arms for
the militia. The bill appropriates 5000, 900.
THE House has passed a joint resolution
appropriating $150,0J0 to be expended among
the Indians for educational purposes.
SECRETARY FoLGER has issued the 12Gth
call for bonds. The call is for the redemp-
ton of S10000,OO) in bonds Of the three pei
cent. loan of 1882.
THE agricultural appropriation bill, as
completed by the House committee on agri
culture, appropriates $3.50 ,59O-an increase
of about $A, 90 over the last Appropriation.
The bill makes an Appropriation of 5000 for
the propagation of the tea plant.
AT meeting of the Democratic National
committee in the Arlington hotel, Washing
ton, held for the purpose of naming the
I time and place to hold the national conven-
ton for the nomination of candidates
for President and Vice President, every
State was represented either by a mem.
Der of the committee or proxy.
w. II. Barnum, of Connecticut, presided, and
Frederic o. Prince, of Massachusetts. was
secretary. A motion was adopted that the
Democrats of each organized Territory and
of the District OF Columbia be invited to
send two delegates to the national conven-
ton, Upon the third ballot Chicago was Sc
lected as the place to hold the national con-
vention, tina city receiving twenty-one
votes to seventeen for st. Louis. The date
for the convention is July s. After issuing
the call for the convention the committee
adjourned to meet next in Chicago on
July {.
The National Greenback Labor party has
issued call for a national convention to be
held in indianapolis, on Wednesday, May %,
1884. At State convention Of the Indiana
GreenbackerS in indianapolis a full ticket,
headed by II. G.. Leonard for governor, was
nominated, and twentythree resolutions af-
hrming the principles of the Greenback-
Labor party were adopted as platform.
THE Anamese minister of war is i'm
plicated in the murders of many Christians
that have taken place in Anam since Jauu-
airy. \ Chinese viceroy, prior to the cap
ture of Sontay by the French ordered the
Black Flags to murder every Christian found
in the city
PEACE negotiations between Chill and Bo.
livia have been suspended
SIXTY Irish members of the British par
lament of all shades of politics have signed
n memorial to Mr.. Gladstone asking that the
purchase clause of the land act be amended
so as to authorize the government to advance
the whole of the purchase money to tenants,
and extend the period for the repayment of
the money.
AN explosion of gunpowder in hardware
establishment at London, Canada, killeI two
men, fatally injured the third and wrecked
several buildings.
THE first sugar refinery ever established
in Cuba is about to be gin work.
FROM fear of assassins, the False Prophet
has surrounded himself with life guard
Visitors are permitted to approach him only
on all fours, and even then must remain al
considerable distance from his sacred
person
GLADSTONE has been sustained in the
British house of commons, the motion TO cen
sure the government for its policy in Egypt
being defeated after debate by vote of 81
nays to 262 yeas.