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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-19
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.


MEMPHI, is to have Il new hundred, thou
sand-dollar theatre.
Two women are painting drop curtain
for Chicago theatre
BoSToN is believed to have more music
teachers than any other city in the United
States.
DESPITE the bad season, the accessions from
the amateur stage to the professional ranks is
very large.
New YORK critics are disputing upon the
question whether Irving or Rstorl speaks the
worse English.
Mr. ACHILLE RIvARDE, a young American
viollnist, made a very successful first appear
ance the other day ut a concert in Paris.
TUE Hungarian band, which has performed
in London for about twelve years, will give
one hundred concerts in America this session.
ASBESTOS cloth is now used in Europe for
iireproof theatrical scenery. 1t costs three
times more than linen and SIX times more
than cotton.
BERNHARDT having set the fashion Of play
ing the slcep-walkng scenes in Macbeth with
bare feet, we may expect general epidemic
in that direction.
MILE. RHEA is rchearsing "ArcadaH an
adaptation from Sardou, which she will pro-
duce at the Walnut street theatre in Phikdel-
phia, in January.
MARY ANDERSON, it is probable, will re
turn to America III the autumn OF 1850. Mr..
Terriss has been engaged by Mr.. Abbey to
travel with Miss Anderson as leading man
NJ. PAILLERoN, n French dramatic writer,
will soon bring out Il new play lampoonlnS
certain American residents of Paris VINO have
fallen under the ban OF his displcasure.
ONE of WagnerS operas recently drove
man in the audience i'll Munich raving mad,
and he tried to strange the lady who sat next
to him in the deusion that she was the com
poser
l. ALL of PATHS property in France was
given TO her late husband by the court tn 1t
granted the decree OF divorce 1t IS
estimated to be worth in the neighborhOod
of 10000.
The great pianist, List, says he is over.
burdened with appeals for his autograph and
requests to examine and give his opinion of
musical compositions. Hereafter he Will an
| swer no such communications.
A PRIVATE letter has been received from
/ Signor Salvini, the Italian tragclian, by an
| American friend, in which the great tragelian
writes that he has abandoned his proposed
visit to this country this season
| ALBANI is coming over with her husband,
| Ernest Gye IN January, for concert tour,
| singing at philharmonic concerts IN various
cities and travelling with Theodore Thomas III
the spring. Mapeson is trying to engage her
for his Chicago festival in April.
a NOVEL suicide was that of a beautiful
! equestrienne at BobrinSk, in Russia. Toward
| the close of an evenings performance heT
! turn came to ride around the ring as usual
| She did 50, and went through with most dt
! her daring an difficult telts, but immediate
ly after jumping through the last hoop sht
tiourished Il revolver, placed the muZzle of il
! to her temple, and, while her horse was still
in full career, fired and dropped dead upon the
I saw-dust.
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LATER NEWS

AN explosion of gas in Il lampblack estab
ishmcnt at Ludlow, Penn. resulted in two
men receiving fatal burns and injuries to sew
cral Others.
SIX convicts at work in a convict camp
near Cool Creek, Tenn, made break for
liberty. They were pursued by the guards
two were shot dead, two mortally wounded
and the other two rccaptured
LATER reports state that the loss of life
among oystermen in Chesapeake bay and ON
the Rappahannock river during the recent
storm is not so great as was at first supposed
ALL the business part Ct BlDokvilie, Ind,
has been destroyed by fire.
THE National Democratic committee he
selected committee of fifty citizens of Wash
ington to take charge of the Inauguration
ceremonies on the 18th of March
An unsuccessful attempt Ias been made to
blow up London bridge, the most throngcd
thoroughfare in the world, with dynamite
Beyond the destruction of windows in the
vicinity, very little damage was committed
Great excitement was created in London by
tie act and thous lnds focked to the seen,
There was no clue TO the perpetrators.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong states that a
rebellion has broken out in Corea. that the
king has fed to the hills, and that his general
was killed The outbreak occurred during
an entertainment given by the kpg to the
British minister and others. On a given
signal the kings son and six ministers were
mastered. The queen also disappeared a
rOlisC l occurred etween the Cllnpsa troons
and the japanese. The king placed himself
under the protection of the japanese. The
foreign residents of Corea are safe.
TERRIBLE explosion has occurred in the
colliery of the Staatsbahn Company at Anuua
Steyrdorf in the south OF Hungary. Seven. =
five men were killed, all of them husband,
and the fathers of families.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS-


Mr.. Mitchell read letter from General
Grant relating to the bill recently introduced
to give him a pension. General Grant ex-
pressed the hope that the bill would be with
Drawn as under no circumstances would he
accept pension, even if the bill passed both
houses and received the approval Of the
President In Difference to General Grants
wishes, Mr.. Mitchell withdrew the pension bill
.... Mr.. Blair introduced bill to apprOpr
ate 5000, 0OJ in aid Of the COorcd Peoples
Worlds exposition to be held i'll Chicago in
1883.
The bill providing for the admission If the
southern part Of Dakota rs "A state was taken
up in the Senate, and Mr.. Harrison, Of
Indiana, author of the bill, Advocated its
passage. He said that it proposed to make
State of that part Of the territory lying south
Of the forty-slxth parallel, and to give t. the
part lying north of that parallel the name of
Lincoln, AMI continue for it the present
territorial government Estimating only
four inhabitants to Il voter, Southern Dako-
ia would now have apopulation of 23O,OOO....
The bill to amend the sections of the re-
vised statutes which prohibit delivery of reg
isterel letters and the payment of money or
derS to lottery companies was passed. The
amendment strikes out the word "fraudu-
lent making the law cover lotteries gen
orally, and not merely Fraudulent Lotteries.
Mr. Vest spoke against the bill to admit the
southern part of Dakota as state There
was 10 need to-day, he said, for the admission
Of new States in order to strengthen the
Union, and there was no nee1 to rush this ter
ritory into the condition of a State. The
population was not enough to entitla it to a
Representative in Congress, and it would to
certain extent be u distranchlsement of the
States already in tine Union to give the pres
ant population of Dakota two Represent .ives
in the United States Senate, as well "A Rep
rcsentative in the lower House of Congress
.... Mr.. Riddleltrger in executive session,
spoke against the confirmation OF Mr. McCuI-
loch as secretary Of the treasury, and further
consideration of the nomination was post
poned.
\ resolution by Mr. Sherman appointing
! February u for the ceremonies connected
with the completion OF the Washington
monument, was passed. In executive SEES
sion Mr.. Conger, of Michigan, offered a reso-
luton to remove tie injunction of secrecy
from the text of the Nicaraguan treaty.
After some discussion the resolution was
referred
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THE SPANISH TREATY.
Tex: of the Presidents Message
Relating Thereto.

The following is the message sent by the
President to the Senate with the Spanish
treaty:
To the Senate Of the United states:
/ transmit herewith for consideration by
the Senate, with IA view to advising and con-
senting to its ratification, Il cOnv ntiOn for
commercial reciprocity between the
United States and Spain, providing for
an intimate and favored exchange
of products with the Island of Cuba and Por'
to Rico, which convention was signed at
Madrid on the 18th ultimo. The negotiations
for this convention have been i'll progress
since April last, i'll pursuance of the under
standing reached by the two governments ON
the "a day of January, 1SSi, tor the improve
ment of commercial relations between the
United States and the Spanish Antilles by
the With Article of which both govern
ments engaged "to begin at once
negotiations for a complete treaty of
commerce and navigation between
the United States of America and the said
provinces of Cuba and Porto Rico" Al
though this clause was by common consent
omitted from the substitutionary agree
ment of February 10, 1854, NOW in force
until replaced by the convention be-
ing carried into effect the obi
cation to enter upon such a
negotiation was deemed to continue. With
the best desire manifested on both sides to
reach common accord the negotiation has
been necessarily protractel, owing to the
completely of the details TO be- Incorporated in
order that the convention might respond to
the national policy of intercourse with the
neighborng countries of the American system,
which is outlined in my late annual message
to the Congress in the following words
1.-THE conditions of these treaties should
be the free admission of such merchandise as
this country does not produce in return for
the admission free or under a favored scheme
of duties of our own products, the benefits of
such exchange to apply only to goods carried
under the flag of the parties to the contract :;
the removal ON both sides from the vessel so
privileged of all tonnage dues and national
imports, so that these vessels may ply I'M
hindered between our ports and those of the
other contracting parties, though without in
frnglng on the reserved home coaSting trade;
the removal or reduction of burdens on the
exported products of those countries coming
within the benefits of the treaties and the
avoidance of the technical restrictions and
penalties by which our intercourse with
those countries is at present hampered."
A perusal of the convention now submitted
will suffice to show how fully it carries cut
the policy of intercourse thus announced. /
commend it to you, i'll the expectation that
it will receive your sanction 1t does not
seem necessary to my present purpose to en-
ter into detailed consideration of the many
immediate and prospective advantages which
will flow from this convention to our pro
ductions and our shipping interests.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
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SOutll and West.

THE J. l. Case Plough company, of Racine
Wis, has failed for about $SOJ,0OO, with NOM
inal assets of SGGS,O0O.
Mrs. WILLIAM SCHULTZ, resident of
Thornburg Station, Iowa, while her husband
was at work cut the threats of her two
infant children and then terminated her own
existence in the same manner. As no motive
for the deed was known, she was probably
laboring under a temporary fit of insanity.
CHARLES STEVENS, a desperate who killed
Hubert Kramer, at Marysville, Mo, was
taken from jail after fight with the sheriff,
by mob, and hanged to railroad bridge.
GENERAL WADE HAMPTON has been
elected by the South Carolina legislature to
succeed himself as United States Senator.
Mr.. REUBEN r. SPRINGER, so widely
known by his gifts to the city of Cincinnati
of the Music hall, the exposition buildings
and the college of Music, died there few
days ago in his eighty-tifth year. leaving a
fortune of S3,OjOOOO.
A DISPATCH states that one James Lyman,
a resident Of Brown county, Ind, was ad-
dicted to the most volube profanity upon the
slightest occasion, but that his tendency in
this respect has been suddenly checked IN a
most extraordinary manner. While swearing
with the utmost vehemcnce during a par
oXysm of anger, he suddenly fell to the
ground with speech gone sight destroyed,
and unable to move a muscle The dispatch
borerS Lyman was borne to the house, where
he has since been resting in a halfconscious
condition.
a GAS tank at st. Louis containing 100000
feet of gas exploded, causing n loss of $780, 900
After the explosion a solid column OF fire
soc feet high shot into the air.
{ AT dinner given to United States Senator
Gorman, chairman of the National Demo
cratic Executive committee by the business
men of Ba timore, Governor McLane. many
Democratic Senators and other prominent
Democrats were present.
THREE girls were hemmed in by the flames
of a burning candy mandatory in Detroit,
and persisted.
GOVERNOR PIERCE, of Dakota, sent a body
of militia to Rediield to preserve the peace.
There had been serious trouble, with threat
ened bloodshed, about county records.
WARREN PRICE was hanged at Wrights.
Vile Ga, for the murder of his son-in-law
and at Cheyenne Wyoming George CJol;
suffered the death penalty on the same day for
taking the life of his brother-in-law.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-19
HOOKING VALLEY.
Distrcssing scenes Among the St-ik-
ing Miners -t;uarding the Mines.

\ correspondent at NclsonVille, Ohio sends
distressing story Of the scenes witnessed in
Murray City He writes: ''ro-day ] made
\ trip through Buchtel and Orbston to Muir
ray City. All through the valley in their hutS,
hugging the bleak barren hillside could he
seen the starving miners and their families,
some were mining coal for their own use in
little entries where coal cropped out. At
other places bare footed, ragged children were
raking over the Stag pile for refuse coal.
The women seem even more determined than
the men to resist the operators. One woman,
with scarcely enough clothing TO cover her,
said L will 90 out and lie down on the bank
of the creek and die with my baby in my
arms before | will allow my husband to work
fer fifty cents tom
"a the foot OF The hill, rs one drives down
into Buchtel is the mammoth store of the
Syndicate the doors guarded by uniformed
sCntrieS, armed with repeating rifles and re
volverS. There are fifty of the guards in the
little hamlet of Buchtel alone At the entrance
to the mines and on the surrounding hill tops
and in the commanding positions ON the Stag
piles, strong forts have been built. Three Oh
four men in each could repel an attack OF
hundreds, They We're just finishing and
equipping the strongest and most command
ing fort to-day. The guards are quarterel in
the large hall over the companys store. The
store is large concern, supplying o the mi
ners the neCessarieS of life in exchange for
the checks that are given in payment OF
wages. These checks are good at the com
pany's store only, where goods are said TO be
from five to twenty per cent. higher than at
cash stores. Across the street. in an aban
doned storehouse, $50 of the imported miners
without families are LODGED and fed. \ board
ing house keeper assured me that his proftol
twcnty-seven boarders for a month was Sl45
| | was told that the monthly payroll amounted
/ to 81, 900 and that $4,000 of this sum wa
/ consumed in garrison expenses.
/ The struggling hamlet digniied by the
/ title Of Murray City, bristles with fortified
/ tions. A log fort on a hill top commands tn,
narrow entrance to the valley, and n sontine
with Winchester rifle over his shoulder
PAGES to and fro Near the hopper where tho
/ coal is loaded into cars is another fertilization
/ in the center of the town another and still
others at the front and rear entrances to tn,
! company's store One of the several hranche,
/ Of the Hooking Valley road winds down III,
valley to Murray City. There are numerous
! bridges, where the railroad crosses the creek
/ At each bridge is a small fort built generally
/ of ties, the loop holes guarding every ap
proach. n strong guard is maintained a
each of these forts, and every night a patro
train runs over the road and its branches
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-19
FARM PRODUCTS.
Their Prices nv Reported by the De-
partmcnt OF Agriculture.


The department of agriculture reports the
prices Of farm products in home markets
The tendency to general decline of prices op
pears to have depressed values somewhat
aside from abundant supply.
The average price of corn is 3G1{ cents.
which is one cent lower than the average for
1919, when the supply in proportion TO pop
ulation was quite as large. 1t has been lower
but twice in ten years, in 1877 and 1875. after
two previous years Of abundance. 1t is high
est in Florida, 50 cents per bushel, and the
lowest price is IS cents, in Nebraska :
Kansas % Iowa, 90 Missouri, 2G :;
Illinois and Minnesota, 81 Indiana
Kentucky, 49, 1t is 80 in Pennsylvania, "a
in New Jersey and 60 in New York. The
rangeof values in the South Atlantic States
is from SO in Delaware to ~ in South caro-
Ina and 80 in Florida, increasing in the
order of movement except that Georgia re-
ports GG cents, In the more Western States
il is 10 in Tennessee, 81 in Arkansas, 81 in
Alabama, ~ in Mississippi and Texas and G.
in Louisiana.
The average farm price of wheat is sixty
five cents per bushel, against ninety one cents
last December The December price in thlr-
teen years has previously been below 81 per
bushel but five times, in 1874. 1873, 1850, 1882
and 1888. The average in Nebraska is forty
Two cents, forty-fve cents in Kansas, forty
six cents in Dakota, fifty cents in Mime
sofa, fifty-five cents in Iowa, sixty two
cents in Missouri, sixty-three cents in
Illinois, siXty-seven cents in Indiana.
seventy four cents in Michigan and seventy.
five cents in Ohio. The average home grown
wheat in New England exceeds 81. In New
York it is eighty five cents, in Pennsylvania
cighty-siX cents. It & eighty cents in Vir-
ginia and eighty three cents in Maryland.
The average value of oats is twenty sight
cents against thirty-three cents last Deem
Der and 80 cents in 1852. The present value
is the lowest ever reported by the department,
the lowest State average is - cents, III
Nebraska; the highest is 90 cents, in Florida
Iowa and Minnesota. 20 cents: Kansas q
cents Illinois, p cents; Indiana % cents, and
Ohio, ~ cents. The average is from II cents
to 80 cents in the South.
The plantation prices of cotton as reported
averages from . cents to 81 cents per pound
1t is 8 cents IN Tennessee, Arkansas and
Texas; 9 ITO cents in Louisiana, 9 ID cent.
in Georgia and $40 cents in the Caronas
and Virginia.
The average farm price of the entire croI
of potatoes is forty cents per buShel. The
lowest price is twenty-five cents, in Michigan
The average in New York is thirty nine
cents forty-two cents in Ohio, thirty five
cents in Indiana, thirty-four cents in Illinois
twenty-eight cents in Iowa twenty cent
in Nebraska and forty-eight cents in Kansas
The average price Is two cents lower than las
year. though the crop is not so large.
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Washington.

THE Senate in executive session confirmed
the following nominations: Thomas q. OS-
borne, of Illinois, to be minister resident and
consul general of the United States TO the
to be minister resident and consul general of
the United States to Venezuela: Willard r.
1isdel of Ohio, to be agent Of the United
States to the states Of Congo association.
GENERAL FOSTER, United States minister
to Spain, arrived in Washington and pre-
sented to the secretary of state the proposed
treaty between the United States and Spain.
The terms of the treaty have been made pub
lie and have. caused great excitement in GER
tain industrial quarters, particularly among
cigarmakerS and Louisiana SUGAR planters
BY its provisions duties on Havana cigars are
reduced and Cuban sugars are admitted free
of duty.
THE Senate has confirmed the nominations
of James Harlan, of Iowa, to he presiding
judge of the court of commissioners of Ala
bama claims. and of Walter q. Gresham, of
Indiana, to be United States circuit Judge for
the seventh judicial district.
THE national conference of State boards of
health met at Washington in conformance
with a call which sets forth the danger to
this country from cholera and the Importance
of adopting necessary measures to resist and
restrict it.
THE subcommittee of the House commit
tee on appropriations having in charge the
subject OF pension appropriations agreed upon
a bill appropriatmg 6O,OO0, O0O-the amount
asked by the commissioner of pensions-foI
the next fiscal year
DURING November 2G,037 emigrants ar
rived in the United States against 35,3J3 ar
rivals in November, 1883.
THE House has passed bill granting Mrs.
Emma de Long, wife of Commander de
Long, of the lost Jeanette, pension Of $50
u month.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GOVERNOR CLEVELAND is expactel t. visit
Chicago soon after his inaus uration as Presi-
dent
COLONEL OYAMA, JapaueSc minister Of
war, now ON visit to this country, was re-
Gently presented to the President.
Mr.. MANNING HoDGDoN, Dartmouth
graduate who is to be principal of the Linn
erck, Ne, academy, is a native OF Gre5n-
land.
GROVER CLEVELAND, in 1855, viii lay the
capstonA of the Washington monument Of
which James X. Polk laid the corner stone
in lSH.
LIEUTENANT GREELY and his wife will be
the guests of General and Mrs tuggleS IN
Washington until their own house is ready
for them.
MRS f.. ID. f.. y. SOUTHWORTH is in her
sixty fifth year, and engaged upon her sixty
fifth novel She writes with gold pen IN a
heavy hand
THE car of Russia is said to he growing
quite gray, and to bear ON his face the
wrinkles Of premature Old age, lniuced by
worry and anxiety.
Miss IDA LEWIS, the heroine of Lime
Rock, was on a recent Sunday received INTO
the communion OF the Methodist Episcopal
church at Newport X, |.
GENERAL CUVIER GROVER now colonel of
the First United States cavalry, and stationed
in Montana with his regiment, is a nephew of
Presidentelec Cleveland
SIR HENRY BEssEMER now holds ia pat
ents ON his inventions 1t is said that his
steel-process patents brought him 5000 900 a
year for twenty-one years.
THE New York Herald asserts that PreSi'
dent Arthur Will continue to make appoint
ments to office up to the 4th of March, an
ticipating vacancies whenever practicable.
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drowned Another steamer went down i'll
the British channel with all on board.
CAPTAIN DUDLEY and the mate of the
wrecked yacht Mignonette, who were found
guilty by London jury of murder in killing
the boy Parker for food TO keep themselves
alive, were sentenced to death by Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge. The condemned men
pleaded for mercy in view of their terrible
sfrt1Tt1Un in the open boat when the deed of
cannibalsm was done. Queen Victoria was
advised to respite the prisoners
IN order to avoid threatened complications
with Australia, the French government has
transferred its penal colony at New Gale
donia to Madagascar.
Mr.. ADAMS, the English lawyer who re-
Gently gained libel suit against Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge has married the latters
daughter
GENERAL EMILE FLEuEY, distinguished
French officer, is dead.
A VIOLENT hurricane which ragged for three
hours in Vienna overturned omnibuse5, cabs
and even railway trains, unrOofcd numerous
buildings, blew down high walls and injured
many persons
A DESPATCH from Odessa says that ''the
Turkish atrocities in Macedonia are increas-
ing. AS many as two hundred Christians
have oeen murdered within the past few
weeks and three villages have been burned
kidnapping is common, and the inhabitants
are afraid to leave their houses"
ORDERS have been given to the French and
Chinese commanders in Tonquin TO suspend
hostilties pending an attempt to AMIGA
bly, settle the difficulty between the two
col1ptrip