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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24
NEWS SUMMARY
Enstcrn and Middle Stntc..

AT a meeting of the New York State Tenn
perance assembly an appeal was issued to
Republican prohibitionists urging them to
vote for Blaine and Logan. Governor st.
John, the Prohibition presidential candidate,
has published n letter in reply to the appeal
in which he urges all Prohibitionists to stand
by their ticket
THE Pittsburg PENN grand jury have
found bills against President Riddle and
Cashier Reber, of the Penn bank for the EN-
bezzlement of 81 ,2C0,O00, and against T. j
Watson, oil broker, for conspiracy to defraud
the depOstors.
The Vermont legislature has reelected
Senator Morrill, to the United States Senate
The vote ON joint ballot stood Morrill,, 20t;
Redfeld, 30; scattering, g.
SITTING BULL, the renowned Indian chief,
is said to have made $4,000 since he placed
himself on exhibition in New York.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND arrived in New
York for the purpose of attending the Demo
cratic barbecue in Brooklyn, and was received
by many prominent Democrats. A large
procession was, reviewed by the Governor
there was a meeting at the Academy of
Music, under the auspices of Democratic and
Independent business men. Governor Cleve-
land, Henry Ward Beecher, Governors Albeit,
of NewJersey, Waller, of Connecticut, Mclean,
of Maryland, Pilsbury, of Maine, and Others
was big torch light procession.
A BRONZE statute to the memory of John
Harvard, the founder of Harvard college,
was formally unveiled at Cambridge, Mass
THE Vermont Prohibitionists met in State
convention and chose presidential electors.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND held a reception
in the Brooklyn Academy of Music and then
proceeded in the long procession to Ridge
wood park, where there was barbecue, with
roast OK in abundance. There was speaking
from five stands, and the governors
of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Connecticut and Maryland, beside many
Senators and Congressman were present and
made addresses In the evening there was
another reception, and an immense torch
light procession. Governor Cleveland shook
hands with thousands of people during the
day and evening, and on the following morn
ing returned to Albany.
FIERCE railroad war has been com.
menced in New York, and passenger rates to
the West have been cut.
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ARMY MATTER.
Report of the SUPERINTENDENT of
the United States Army.

The surgeon-ge general Of the army, in his an
CCal report to the secretary of war, says that
an increased amount Of appropriation for the
purchase of artificial limbs and appliances
for the next fiscal year is necessary. He
speaks of the apparent hardships in car
rying out the laws FOR furnishing tlusses
and recommends that the existing law on this
subject be SO amended as to correspond with
that relating to artificial limbs. Medical and
hospital supplies were issued during the year
to the amount of SlGG,5G1, and the cost OF the
supplies required during the current fiscal
year VIII probably exceed that amount by at
least $4,000. He renews the suggestion
made in his last annual report, that
Congress so legislate as to permit the sale of
medical supplies to civilian empl yes The to-
tai number OF deaths among white troops was
S5O, or II per 1000 of mean strength, an in
crease of per 1000 over the rate for the pre-
vious year, The number of white soldiers dis
charged for disability was S3S. The total num-
Der of deaths among the colored troops was
q, or ~ per 1000 of mean strength, which
Is per LOCO lower than the death rate of
the previous year. He notes the fact that
this is not only the lowest death rate vet
reached among the coiored troops since their
organization, but that it is the first time the
rate has fallen lower than for white troops:
the usual average difference being 80 per
LOCO of mean strength in favor of the latter
class. The number of recruits examined dur
ing the year was 6,263 white 453 colored, and
239 Indian scouts. The number rejected was
9,0il white and l1i colorcd
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24
Toxic Streets.

The streets of Toxic, Japan, are SO
narrow and crowded that it is an annoy
ance to ride through them. Every driver
carries horn, in order to warn people
to get out of the way, yet such is the
crush of stages, cars and ginrekahas that
the blockades are frequent and some
times disastrous. A correspondent of
the San Francisco Bulletin narrates his
experience in a Tokia horse car as fol.
lows:
The other day was riding in from
Asakusa on one of the cars, when sud-
denly we came to halt. Looking out
of the car, what should prove to be the
cause of the interruption but a monster
pine tree, of the dwarf species so com
mon in Japan, which was being trans,
ported on a wagon, evidently construct
ed for that purpose, from one part Of the
city to another. At the base the trunk
must have been six feet in circumfer-
ence, but it was only about fifteen feet
high, terminating in fiat, broad canopy
of branches The blockade lasted sew
eral hours, during which time street cars
ceased running and everybody took the
whole thing as matter of course. The
motive power in transporting the tree
was long string Of oxen and scores OF
street coolies, who put their shoulders to
the hugh, canvas wrapped wheels, and
chorused the usual customary grunt Of
japanese coolies.
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has none of the barbels and curious ap-
pendages that characterize those fish. l
first noticed them in the Spice islands
when was there In 1872. 1 was walk
ing by the shore one day at low tide
where the beach was formed of dark mud
and weed-covered rocks, when my com
panion said, pointing to some small
objects that were hopping along shore
near the water: Isn't it rather queer for
frogs to go with salt waterP l replied,
perhaps it is something new So we
determined to find out what they were,
and, taking off our shoes, we waded in
and along the beach so as to drive the
supposed frogs ashore. But all at once
one started right up under my eyes and
gave hop of about a foot, and to my as
constituent it was fish; and so l an
nounced to my friend who was behind.
He wouldn't believe me; but when he
came up, there the little creature was,
high and dry, resting on stone, with
its head somewhat raised, on its promi-
nent pectoral fins. | made jump forit,
and my friend did the same, but away it
went, hopping just like a toad and for
several moments there was race between
man and fish. We soon hemmed it in,
however, and l have it in my cabinet
now. The side fins are almost arms, and
are strong and powerful, and on them
the fish rests and jumps. In Australia
some years ago some biologists found
some fossil bones that were pronounced
to belong to a large fish. In 1876 some
one discovered the identical fish alive.
"The way they did so is somewhat
curious They were on hunting trip
up the country, and one night camped
near a small stream. In the middle of
the night one of the party was awakened
by curious barking sound, and think
ing it might be some wild animal after
their horses, he slipped on his clothes,
took rife and went out. The noise
came at regular intervals from the river
below, and, taking a narrow path he
started after it. The moon was bright,
and when he got down to the level or
the water he heard the bark, and saw a
large glistening object, and then saw it
leap along or founder through the grass.
Upon this he fired. and, to his amaze
ment, found that he had shot fish. The
shot awakened the rest, and the creature
was brought into camp. 1t was about
six feet long, had a small head and enor-
nous scales, while the body ended not
in fin, but in point. 1t was found
that they breathed both air and water
with perfect ease, and that when hungry
the great fish, which was a vegetable
feeder, would come to the shore, expel
the air that it held in its air-bladder,
thus making the barking sound, and
wander over the flats in search of food.
"The other day they dredged fish
that was all head, and its mouth had a
pouch large enough to contain seven or
eight bodies of its own size. 1t had no
eyes or fins, and its gills were more or
less upon the inside. 1t was taken from
water mile or more deep. Another
fish found, and related to the cod, had
a stomach that was so like rubber that
it could swallow fishes over three times
its own size. Its jaws worked exactly
like those of a snake, and in swallowing
this monster pulled itself over its prey
like glove"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

THE late Frank Chanfrau played Nose
for twelve years.
HENRY IRVING has been on the stage
twenty-eight years.
CoULDoCK says he has been on the stage
but forty-seyen years
IT is not definitely settled that Rubenstein
will come to America this season.
Mrs. LANGTRY has been received with tire
mendous enthusiasm in Scotland.
MosT of Clara Morrs's engagements for
the present season are i'll the South.
To mark the Tooth birthday of Weber, the
composer, a statue is to be erected at his home
at Entin-
MoDJEsKA has bought Polish play, an
adaptation whereof she hopes to produce on
her return next season 10 America.
RICHARD MANSFIELD will star in tour-act
comedy drama by George Fawcett Rowe en-
acting the role OF young French composer
de thinks the part exactly Tits hun.
LAWRENCE BARRETT contemplates giving
a series of one hundred performances IN Aus
tralia next season He will educate Bret
Harte's younges, son for the stage.
NILE. EMMA NEVADA was the leading
anger at the Norwich England musical les
tival. She is considering an oher by Mr.
Mapleson of an engagement Tor tour OIL the
United States
REUBEN +. SPRINGER has made an addl'
tional gift of Sl5,0 to the college OF music
al Cincinnati. This clears the college, Oh EN-
barrasslnS debt and leaves II with properly
and funds value at not less than S@uOOJo.
Mr. CHANFRAu's son Henry is to assume
the part of Kit and travel with the dead
actors company. Young Chanlrau is "a
Princeton graduate. de is handsome and
full of ambition lie made his first appear
ance eight years ago.
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THE NATIONAL GAME,

THE Providences held the lead sixteen
weeks out of twenty-three.
THE Chicago Tribune calls the home club
an aggregation of "cripples, buns and big.
heads"
In a recent game at Westield, Mass, the
chief of police umpired the game. There was
no kicking.
DURING the past nine years the feat Of re
firing club for nine innings without safe
hit has been accomplished thirty five times.
THERE was never a season when so many
games were played in which one side or the
other played without an error as the present
one.
THE old order of things has been reversed.
Instead of being graduated from college into
a baseball nine, Vinton, the pitcher of the
Philadelphias, has just entered Yale College
THE profits of the American clubs for the
present season are estimated as follows: St
Louis 100000 Athletics, $4,000; Cncin.
matt; $4,000; Brooklyn, $4,000; Baltimore,
S15,0J0 Louisville, $4,000, Metropolitan,
5000; Richmond, 81 ,000 Allegheny, 5000.
The indianapolis and Toledo will close the
season about 5000 short. This leaves the
association about 100000 ahead of the
season, and gives it a better financial show
ing than any other baseball organization
The following is a summary Ol the League
championship campaign which ended with
the Providence club the winners of the pen
nant; the Bostons occupying second place and
the Bullalos third:
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fenced to death. Six other persons were
banished 70 Siberia

DdillSneu 10 DlUeTla
RECENT tornadoes in Yokohama and To-
kio, Japan, have done terrible damage In
the latter city twenty persons were killed and
5000 houses wholly or partially destroyed.
A STRONG anti English feeling prevails at
Hong Kong, and during recent riot there
several persons were killed.
A HALIFAX IN. 81 dispatch says that the
schooner Charles Valentine has been lost
with all hands, consisting of six men.
TURKISH brigands attacked the Turkish
mail caravan from Bag glad and
robbed it of 100000 Three robbers were
captured and part of the money recovered.
ALEXANDER NJ. SULLIVAN, the well known
Irish leader and one of the founders of the
home rule moveme mt, died at Dublin few
days since.
ANOTHER battle is reported to have been
fought between the French and the Chinese
near Tamsui Three thousand Chinese were
killed, but the French loss was trifing. Five
French men-of-war are stationed before ke-
lung and eight before Tamsui.
THE ocean steamship Nevada, from New
York for Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown
with her cargo on fire. 1t had been burning fol
several days, creating great excitement among
the passengers. A quantity of the cargo was
thrown overheard, and officers, passenger:
and crew worked increasingly to keep dowr
the fire Among the cargo were ,4G6 bale:
of cotton, IL, 15l bushels of wheat, 66,2SC
pounds of bacon and 100 barrels of lubrica
TIM oil
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

Florida expects to raise 100000 boxes of
oranges this season.
CHINESE children are not allowed to attend
the public schools of California.
THERE are thirty colored but no white
women in the Georgia peni entiary.
The honey production of Los Angeles, Cal.
for 1854, is estimated at 1000 tons, and
valued at 81 100000
ABOUT 10000 Jewish emigrants land at
our ports yearly, and they have been coming
at that rate for ten years.
THERE has been falling off of fifty per
cent. in lawsuits in Philadelphia in the past
ten years. As a cous ,quence there Is panic
among the lawyers.
MEXICO, according to the most recent
statistics has a population of ten millions,
and the value OF property i'll the country Is
estimated at 50, 81, OOO,OOO
The two islands in the straits of Sunda,
Steers and Calmeyer, which sprang up last
year at the time of the krakatoa eruption
have again been swallowed up by the sea.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX says she has
written over loo poems.
MRS. LANGTRY's Chinese page is called the
"Beauty's Beast in London.
ROBERT BROWNING, the English poet is
seventy-two years old He thinks OF visiting
America.
LIEUTENANT GREELYs account of his Arc
tic voyage is ~ be published simultaneously
in New y ork and London.
DIR. EMMA l.. CALL is the first physician
who has passed the examination admitting
women to membership III the Massachusetts
Medical society.
the highest Pruss.an orders but one. lnclu-
sive OF his foreign order, he has no fewer
than forty seven.
OSCAR WILDE has evolved n new style Of
hat, which he hopes will suporsele the pre-
vailing stovepipe shape. 1t bears strong
resemblance to a tlower-pot set bottom up
wards.
DR. JANSEN, the famous French scientist,
who attended the meridian conference at
Washington, is a man of pleasing address, with
a White beard and mustache. lie walks with
a slight limp.
JEFFERSON DAVIS is the last of his line
The death Of the son OF General joseph r.
Davis, of Biloxi, Miss, took away the last
hope of perpetuating by male descendants the
name OF Jefferson Davis
THE State of Vermont now furnishes the
oldes. Senator in years, Senator Morrill,, and
in term OF office, Senator Edmunds. Though
the latter is eighteen years the junior, la
looks older than Senator Morrill,.
SIR GEORGE ROSE SARToRIUs, TIL senior
admiral of the British navy, has just com,
pleted his ninety-fourth year He has been
upward of eighty-three years in the navy
which he entered in June, 1901, and rose to
the rank of admiral of the fleet in 1869. He
is the only surviving officer who took part in
the battle of Trafalgar in 1906
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Foreign.

Ell MAHDI the False Prophet, has sent two
armies TO attack the city of Dongola-
A POLITICAL riot at Birmingham, England,
grew out of an attack made 10y Liberals upon
a conservative meeting The speakers plat
form was demolished and the hall where the
meeting was held looked as if it had been the
scene Of an explosion
THE False Prophet is collecting a strong
force to invest Khartoum and starve out the
garrison.
A GREAT political trial, conducted private
ly, has just been fini he'd in st. Petersburg
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FRANCE DEFEATED.
Admiral Lespcs and the Fra h
Fleet RepuIsed at Tamsui.

Admiral Lespes and the French fleet at
Tamsui have been defeated by the Chinese
The Chinese, by hiding in the brushwood
suffered some six hundred Of the
French forces to land and come
within easy range of their gun.
Lefore they appeared The Chi
nese General rso then led an attack upon the
rear of the Fre1ch forces, which he anne pinl
icstrcken. Ghe Chinese forces killed seventy
men and captured one gun. They also he
headed twenty-five French corpses, but de
sisted from that horrible feature upon the pro
test of the British consul The Chinese loss
was 200 in killed and wounded The fighting
'asted five hours, at the end of which time the
French retired to their ships.
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A Santa Barbara Gal fisherman has
found near San Miguel Island little
island about three acres in extent, which
was so covered with sea-fowls' nests that
it was difficult to walk without treading
on the eggs. The man says it would be
easy to load ship with eggs from that
island. The real owners of them were
gulls, shags, and small bird called the
saltwater duck. Though SO close
neighbors, they appeared to live in per-
feet peace. Don't you think it strange
that each bird could know her own nest
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24
OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
Revised Returns from Ohio and
West Virginia.
Republicans Win in the Former and
Democrats in the Latter.

On the second day after the election in
Ohio and West Virginia dispatches gave
the Republican ticket in the former
State a maj rity of 10000 to 1900 votes, and
the Democratic ticket in the latter State II
majority of about 5000. The following table
shows at a glance the figures received from
the various counties of Ohio, with a com
parison of the vote for governor last year:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24

Only one game had to be played when the
season ended, and that was between Boston
and Buffalo. Chicago leads New York, by
having won the series between them by twelve
games to four.
The American championship campaign ha
also ended. The Metropolitans won the pen
SAINT, the Columbus club being second and the
Lousvilles third. The record in full is as fol
lows.
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CONGRESSMAN PROBABLY ELECTED.

AONINf-SShEN l'itDBAbb1 ELECIED.
District
/. b. Butterworth, Rep
p Chas. f. Brown, Rep
8. Jas. E. Campbell, Dem.
4. c. NJ. Anderson, Dem
;. Benz. lie Fevre Dem
=. VIM. D. Hill, Dem
:. Geo f. Seney, Dem.
5. John Little, Rep.
9. VIM c. Cooper, Rep
10. Jacob Romeis, Rep.
II. W. w. Fishery, Dem
L.. a. c. Thompson, Rep.
-. j. II. Outwhite, Dem.
II. G. II. Grosvenor, Rep
II. Beriah Wilkins Dem.
Ii, Geo W. Geddes, Dem.
Il. A j. Warner, Dem.
Is. Isaac H. Taylor, Rep.
10. Ezra b. Taylor, Rep
20. VIM. Mckinley, Jr., Rep.
81. Martin A. Foran, Dem.
ID emocrats. IL Republicans. 10
In Forty-eighth Congress, Democrats, Is;
Republicans, s
Both the Democratic and Republican press
agree that the election in Cincinnati was the
bloodiest ever held there, Following is list
OF those injured: Joseph Lowry, shot in spine,
fatal; Bridget Hughes, struck in the breast
Muir MURPHY shot 5t0n' in dn stS%aG6 iS SiR
wound Andrew Bennett lcolored), shot
in the side, not dangerous John Dalton, shot
in the leg, not dangerous Samuel Taylor
lcoloredl, shot in the side, serious Michael
German, policeman, shot in the back dan
gerous F.; Henry Sherlock, policeman, shot in
the back, dangerous Henry Brown, (coloredl
shot in the abdomen, fatal Besides the fore
going Albert Russell lcolored), was killed 10y
a colored deputy marshal
Returns from West Virginia came in
slowly. and on the second day after the cleo
tiOns but meagre figures had been received
from many counties The dispatches at that
time stated that the Democratic State ticket
had been successful over the Fusion ticket by
majorites estimated from 5000 to 10000
The legislature was Democratic in bItl
branches
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Washington.

THE secretary of the navy has issued a gen
eral order for the establishment of college
Tor an advanced course of professional study
tor naval officers, to be known as the Naval
War college 1t will be under the general
supervision Of the bureau of navigation. The
principal building on Coasters Harbor
Island, Newport, r. l., will be assigned to its
lse
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed First
Assistant Postmaster General Frank Hutton
10 be postmaster general in place Of Judge
Gresham, who succeeded the late Judge Fol
ger as secretary Of the treasury.
BARON Won ALBENsLEBEN, the new min
ster from Germany, was formally presented
20 the President the other day by the score
AIRY of state.
THE delegates of the International Meri-
liam conference, headed by Admiral Rodgers,
allied in a body at the executive mansion to
pay their respects to the President. They
were presented to him in the blue room by
Secretary Frelinghuysen.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-18
A Spectators Ups and Downs,

AS a social philosopher / have been
greatly interested in the career of Mr.
ames Keene, whose failure. says a New
York correspondent, has been one of the
sensations of the city. | had slight ac-
quaintanee with Mr.. Keene for many
years, and ] have admired the CELEBRITY
with which he has run up and down the
commercial gamut, if j may use the
figure of speech. He was one Of the sharp
men whom the late William G. Ralston
recognized as a rising genius. RalstQn
gave him many good lift after Keehe
had quit the business of peddling milk
and had taken TO curbstone brokerage,
and when Ralston committed suicide un-
der the pressure of great losses Keene
was one of those who made sacrifices of
his own time and money to retrieve the
fortunes of the Bank of California and
save the credit Of the dead banker When
Keene came to New York, flushed with
his California successes and bringing a
fortune of three or four millions in hard
cash, | wondered, as many others did, If
his genius and luck would be equal to the
demands made on them by the increased
area Of his field of operations. / used to
see him at Delmonico's seated at table
In the corner of the Fifth avenue restau-
rant; obscquiously waited upon, eating
and drinking sparingly, dyspeptic-look-
ing. saturnine, impas>ive, surrounded by
toadies, and continually occupied, even
in the hour of dining, with kilograms
notes, cards of would e-callers, and gen
orally taking the part of Wall street
magnate. What with his special trains.
his special steamer, his Newport villa,
his famous trottcfs, his pictures, and his
enormous wealth, Keene was notable
figure for a while. Sam Ward acted as
social guide, philosopher, and friend TO
Keene when he first arrived here, and
Keene. who was never ungrateful and
never forgetful Of favors received, settled
handsome annuity on the genial old
bon vivant. We cannot stop long in this
worldly scramble to moralize over the
downfall of anybody, but as the average
man ponders in his mind the fate of this
cratic and finally unsuccessful peculator,
he will say, "he meant we'll"