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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
THERE are 343 music halls in London.

THERE are 343 music halls in London.
GRAND opera IN New Orleans city in
which it once had its only abiding place in
this country, has proved failure this season.
A BOSTON journal, the Musical Observer
offers prize of $4,000 for tine best original
opera sent to the Office of the paper by July l,
1854.
THE New York Beethoven German singing
society has asked the privilege of erecting
statue iii Central park t. the honor of Bee
thoven.
Mr.. ABBEY is reputed to have lost S53, 00)
in the first season of his operatic manage
ment at the Metropolitan opera house, New
York.
Mr. LEVY, the cornet player, is preparing
for the public an autobiography. 1t will give
a full account of his professional and marital
struggles.
Miss MARY ANDERSON, the American ac
tress, in conjunction with friend, gave
dinner to 26O destitute boys on New Years
day in London.
Miss AGNES HUNTINGTON, the brilliant
contralto. and an American girl, has returned
to her native country after a series of unques-
toned successes in Europe.
Mr. BARRETT's success in "Francesca la
Riminl" continues undated, 'Lanciotto"
being probably the greatest popular success
the tragedian has ever achieved
JAY RIAL says that he can remember when
BARLEY Campbell, the dramatist used to
wheel bricks in a Pittsburg briclyard. Now
he makes over $4,000 a year, and owns an
overcOat with fur collar
VICTORIA SARDoU, the French dramatist,
is ada ting his "Patrie' as a grand opera for
Mons. Paadilbe. He is also preparing three
new pieces one for the Vaudeville, the second
for Sarah Bernhardt, and the third for the
Comedie Franchise.
n BOY of thirteen years, whose violin-play-
ing had long been the wonder or a Cossack
village, recently reached ST. Petersburg after
journey of 1,oC0 miles on foot, allured by
the hope of obtaining free instruction at the
Conservatory. But hardShps and over-exer-
ton had worn the little fellow out, ard he
was taken to a hospital, being dangerously ill
of typhoid-fever
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
SELECT SIFTINGS,

Earrings were worn by Jacobs family,
1872 b. c.
Certain Eastern nations like the smell
of valcrian and assafetida.
In proportion to numbers there are
more persons in China, who can read and
write, than among any other people on
the face of the earth.
No process of machinery has ever been
discovered which equals the effect pro-
duced on sealskin and ermne by tramp
ling them under foot for twelve hours.
A giantess named Ann Dunn died in
London short time ago, aged thirty-nine.
She weighed nearly 500 pounds, was nearly
nine feet high, and measured round the
shoulders over three feet.
A brook and lake near Northwich,
England, have been swallowed up in a
cavity formed by pumping brine and it
is feared that they will melt the rock salt
and cause serious subsidences of the
earth in the near future
dog at Milford, Penn, got tired of
working a churnine- and let the
rope encircling his neck strangle him to
death. When at liberty he was full of
play. He had tried once before to COM
NIT suicide on the machine.
The earliest colonial coinage was in
Massachusetts,, In pursuance of an order
OF the general court, passed May 81 1862,
which established "a mint house" at
Boston. The coins ordered were of the
values of twelve, six and three pence.
The Brahmins invest the COW with
great sancity. No place is forbidden to
it; wherever it chooses to feed it is at
liberty to eat; wherever it may elect to
lie down, the place is sacred to its needs.
\ COW may never be struck or even re-
preached.
Housekeeping must be simple bust
ness in those parts of Buenos Ayrcs re-
Gently described by traveller, for the
staple artiles of diet is meat; vegetables
and fruit are only eaten during one
month, and farina the substitute for
bread, is very scarce.
a clock was set going at Brussels that
continued to go for nine months and had
not run down when last heard from.
An up draught is obtained in a shaft by
exposing it to the sun. This draught
turns fan which winds up the weights
of the clock until it reaches the top. 1t
then works a brake which stops the fan
until the weight has gone down little,
when the fan is free to recommence.
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South and West.

GOVERNOR HOADLEY was inaugurated
quietly at Columbus Ohio.
AT Griffin, Ga, Brewster McWillamS.
sixteen years old, while laborng under a fit
of mental excitement caused by recent sick.
ness, instantly killed a negro girl of the same
age named Matte Hood, and then deiber-
ately shot and killed himself
JOHN ELFERs, who shot Dan Haggerty
because the latter would not paw him fifty
cents which he owed him, was hanged at
Walla Walla, W. T.
\ STATUE of the late United States Senator
Morton was unveiled before an immense as
sembla@e at indianapolis, Ind.
HENRY B. PAYNE was elected United
States Senator from Ohio without opposition,
the Republicans of both legislative houses
voting blank.
GOVERNOR MCLANE sent to the Maryland
legislature a special message ON the labor ques-
ton, in which he recommends amelioratve
measures for workers of both sexes.
WHILE resisting arrest, w. A Alexander, a
COW boy and noted desperate, was shot and
killed on the reservation at Pena Colorado,
Texas, by a detachment of soldiers. One
soldier named Ross was killed, and two
others We're slightly wounded.
GOVERNOR SHERMAN was inauguratel and
the new capitol building was dedicated at
Des MoineS Iowa. Hon. John H. Kasson
tlellNtltu liz uS'lN0luiy OidtIpii.
A DINNER was give at Columbus, Ohio
to State officers and members of the legisla-
ture by United States Senator elect Henry
i. Payne.
A DIABOLICAL attempt 70 murder a three
year-old child by tying it to a railroad track,
near Mccormick, S. c., was frustrated the
engineer of an approaching train stoppin &
the cars within three feet Of the helpless lit
tie one.
DANIEL NORRIS, Mormon eighty-four
years Old having three wives, was so affected
by the governors message, that after read
ing it he hanged himself at his home near
Salt Lake
EX-CoNGRESsMAN Green Adams, of Ken
lucky, for three terms chief clerk of the
House of Repre-, entatives, died of heart dis
ease at his son-in-aw's residence III Phila del
rhia, aged sxty-eighU years.
PORTIONS of North Carolina have been
visited by strongly percepible shock of
earthquake
EIGHT men We're injured, three fatally by
a saw-mill boiler explosion near Columbia,
Mo.
JUDGE EPHRAIM X. WILSON Democrat
was elected by the Mary and legisl ture to
the United States Senate "A, successor to
Senator Groome. Judge Wilson is a resident
of Snow Hill Md, SiXty-two years old, an
was member of the Forty-th Congress.
Since 1878 he has been jud of the first
judicial district.
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Foreign.

CHINESE pirates made a night attack upon
Namdinh. Many persons were killed and
numerous houses burned.
Ell MAHD1's rebels in the Soudan have cap
tured and burned the town of Heouan
Mr.. LOWELL, United States minister to
Eng and has accepted the presidency of the
Birmingham and Midland institute for 1851
BARNUM's white elephant reached Liver
pool from Siam, and after being exhibited in
London and Paris will be sent to America in
May.
AN unsuccessful attempt has been made to
prohibit Mormon missionaries from preach
ing in Switzerland, the government refusing
to interfere
SPAIN is about to adopt the German army
system.
Ten men and a boy were descending
Welsh coal pit it in a cage when the rope
broke and the occupants were thrown to the
bottom and all killed
THE Canadian parliament is in session at
Ottawa.
COLONEL RATHBoNE, the resident of Al
bany, " Y, who killed his wife recently in
Hanover, has been declared insane and
placed in charge of the United States consul.
THE Chinese minister to France has left
that country in view of the invasion of Ton.
quin by the French.
j. G.. BIGGAR, home rule member of par
Lament, was refused permission by the polio
to speak at dinner given in his honor in
Blaclilon, Ireland
a NCMTER of Irish farmers went to work
the other day, and assisted by 100 ploughs
and $50 horses ploughed fifty acres of the es-
tate of Mr.. Parnell, the Irish home rule lead
er.
NIGNAUX, French champion, won the sec
ord five-night billiard match with Schaefer,
American champion. in Paris, making a total
of 500 points to 2,SjN for his opponent
POLITICAL differences resulted in the res
ignation Of the Spanish cabinet and the for
nation of new cabinet with Senior Cano-
vas del Castillo, a conservative as president
of the council
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LATER NEWS.

PHYSICIANS say that two little children
taken with diphtheria at Amsterdam. N. Y.
caught it from a doll belonging to a sister who
hal died recently of the disease.
Two of five corpses recovered soon after the
sinking of the steamer City of Columbus. and
taken to New Bedford, Mass, were women.
Frozen fast to the lapof one Of the women was
tiny pair of shoes, which had probably boon
worn by child less than one year old She
had either saved the shoes after losing her off
spring as memento or its body had been
washed from her embrace. Strong men un-
overed their heads, and many found it MOI
easy to suppress the tears which came to their
eyes as they gazed upon this woman's dead
face and touched the tokens of her TENDERNESS
and devotion.
CORRECTED passenger list If the wrecked
City of Columbus foots up eighty one pas
sengers, cabin and Storage, and there were
forty-five officers, seamen and walters.
OF this number - adding the ten
additional surv ivors eight of the crew and
two passengers who safely reached GAY
Head lighthouse-twelve passengers and
seventeen of the crew were saved making
the total number of lost ninety-seven.
WILLIAM II. GUEoN, of the firm OF vii
liams q Guion, New York agents Of the
Guion line of steamers, has failed for a sum
variously estimated at between 100000 and
10000. Previous to his failure Mr. Guion
retired from the firm
LARRY DONOVAN, hanged a few DAYS since
at Rawlins for the murder of William Leigh
ton, was the first white man who legally
suffered that penalty in Wyoming Terri
tory.
a DESPERATE though unsuccessful attemrt
has been made to steal the body of Bishop
Wheelan buried at Wheeling, W Va. in
1874, the motive for the robbery being t, o.
tain a reward for the return of the corpse.
The new Christian church in Washington.
generally known as the Garfield Memorial
church has been dedicated. 1t is designed to
be the principal place of worship of tn.
Christian church in the United States and
he funds with which it was built were raised
by contributions from the denomination of
Christians of which President Garfield was
a prominent member. President Pendeton.
of Bethany college, West Virginia, delivered
tiS 'c'u' utoiy 0tIlll'Il, dIl tX-bOFefnJ II
Bishop, of Ohio, made an historical address.
OWING to the unscttle political condition
of China, and tine conse Iuent deporable
state of the money market in that country.
several Chinese bankers have committe
suicide.
EIGHTEEN persons have beenarreste in con
nection with the discovery Of a secret print
ing office in st. Petersburg.
AMERICAN and English residents of Me
are trying to suppress gambling at Monte
Carlo. Four violent deaths, all the result of
gambling, occurred at this famous resort in
one week. These four deaths comprised three
men who lost heavily and committed suicide.
and a fourth who was murdare for the
money he had won at the gaming table.
GENERAL GORDON has been sent by the
British government to the Soudan, t. take
charge of its affairs there and direct the
evacuation of Egyptian troops
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-25
BRAVE KATE SHELLEY.
The Gratitude of n state for "a Girls
Heroic Deed.

The Iowa legislature has presented Kate
Shelley with an elegant medal and purse of
$500 for saving train from destruction on
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad on
the night of July 6, 1881. The following is
an account of her heroic deed:
just before nightfall, on July 6, 1851, a
storm of wind and rain of unusual severity
descended upon the region around Boone,
Iowa. In an hours time the Des Moines
river arose about six feet. So great was the
velocity of the wind that many buildings
were destroyed. Looking from her window
Kate Shelley saw through the darkness and
storm locomotive headlight A second
later it dropped from sight and she knew
that the Honey Creek bridge was gone, and
that the train had fallen into the abyss
There was no one at home except her mother,
her little brother and sister, and the girl
knew that if the express train, soon due, was
warned of the dreadful danger, she must
undertake the task alone. She hurried from
the house, into the storm, she gained the
railroad track, and made her way toward
Moingona, station about a mile from
Honey creek as fast as she could struggle
against the terrible wind. To reach Moin-
goia it was necessary for her to cross the
high trestle bridge over the Des Moines river
which was exposed to the full force of the
storm and about five hundred feet in length
She crept upon the structure; the wind, the
ram, the Vhunuer ana the Eg mining
We're appalling. She nearly lost her balance
and just escaped falling into the swollen
stream She could not see a foot ahead of
her. The darkness was intense, except when
the dazzling lightning revealed the timber
and the surging and seething waters below.
knowing that not moment must be lost,
she Crept from tie to tie, across the high tres
tie. Having gained the ground on the further
side She ran to the station and told her story
in breathless haste. and fell unconscious at
the feet of the station keeper kilograms
We're sent flying up and down the line notify
ing all OF the loss of the Honey creek bridge
The express train came tn1ndering along
with many passengers ON board, and was
stopped. Miss Shelley is now about eighteen
years old.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

DENMAN. Judge Denman, of the English
bench, is surrounded by police force while
on duty
ROBINSON. Robinson of Massa-
chusetts, still fills his place rs superintendent
of the Chcopee Unitarian Sunday-,chool
SrAN1EY.-H VI. Stanley the explorer,
will remain with the expedition which he is
now conducting through Africa until May.
ARNOLD Matthew Arnold, or his return
to England, will be secretary of the educa-
tion department at salary of $4,000 a
year.
ASToR Mrs. j. J. Astor, of New York,
ha, sent ,0j3 homeless children to the South
and West in the last few years, at an expense
of nearly $lG0OJ. The reports show that in
an immense majority of the ca es the trans
fer of the children to new surroundings has
rosulte in great good to them, and to the
satisfaction of the families to whom they
We're sent.
SPRECKLES. Claus SpreckleS, the Hawai-
ian sugar king, is sixty years old. and is by
birth ilanOverian. He is compactly built
Of medium height, with white har, irOn-gray
whiskers and a ford face. lie landed in
South Carolina thirty years ago without a
cent. went To San Francisco and, after having
the foundation OF his fortune began his sugar
investments in Hawaii
SALOMoN.-Louis f. Solomon. the presi-
dent OF the Republic of Hayti, is dcscrib d as Il
massive, broad-shouldered giant. at least six
feet six inches in height, with the physical
proportions of a gladiator; snowwhite locks
heeE, re tlcss eyes. glittering like diamonds
in q setting of jet; high, intellectual fore
heal and form, despite his advanced age,
erect rs pillar OF stone, with a dgnifed air
lie was educated at on of the most famous
college, in Paris, and is Il person of no ordi-
iary ability, being brilliant conversations
allst and lnguist and Il crafty diplomat.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States

A FIRE ON the East side of New York de
stroyed three large warehouses, causing a
loss of about 100000.
THE holy of Charles Delmonico, the best
known of New York restaurant keepers
| was found i'll the woods near Orange, N.
j. About ten days previously Mr., Del
monico, who had been suffering for
some time from a nervous disorder, had
gone out for a walk, and that was the last
seen Of him alive. While in dazed condi-
ton he had taken n train for Newark wan
dered off TO a lonely spot and succumbed to
exposure. The Delmonico family were the
most noted restaurant keepers in the coun
try, and Charles was the last of that name
in the business. He ran four large and fash
ionable restaurants, and left large fortune.
A JAPANESE wrestler imported to this
country for the express purpose of defeating
the American champions, was easily thrown
by Edwin Bibby at match in New York
a WORKMAN named Posey was blown to
atoms by the explosion of powder mill near
Lebanon, Penn.
In view of the prohibition of American
pork by Germany and France the Boston
Produce exchange adopted resolutions re
questing Massachusetts, Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress to urge the passage
of retaliatory bill restricting or prohibit
ing the importation from those countries of
wines, etc.
CHARLES p. STICKNEY, well-known as one
Mass. TO fine Concord state prison. and who
was pardoned bv Governor Butler last Nav.
was probably fatally burned Mt his residence
in Fan River Mrs. Sticlxnev was pour
ing bcnzine on n Garnet to xiii moths.
inc an exnIosion she was inet ontl,, envel
oped in flames. Her husband rushed to her
assistance, and in his efforts to save her his
own clothing caught fire. When nelghbors
came rushing in they found the wife a charred
corpse and the husband shockingly burned
BURGLARS spent all night in building in
New York occupied ey wholesale jewellers,
and broke into three safes. from which tbey
obtained watches, diamonds, rings and gold
aggregating in value $50, 100.
AT n meeting of the board of directors of
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THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
scnaior EEoar's BiI. as II Passed the
Senate.

Senator Hoar's electoral count bill, passed
by the Senate, fixes the time for the meeting
of the Presidential electors on the second
Monday in January next, following the ap-
pointment 1t provides for the determine
ton by oach State at least six days before the
III, e fixed for tie meeting Of electors of any
controversy concerning the appointment
of such electors, and declares that
Congress shall b, in session on the sec
ond Wednesday in F, bruary succeeding
the meeting of tie electors to count the
votes. 1t also provides that objections 10
certificates of the electoral votes must be
made in writing, signed hy at least one
Senator and one member Of the House OF
argument. 1t re Wires the affirmative
vote of both Homes to reject
vote from any state from which
Int one return ! a, been received and pro-
vide {. at il more than one return from
State shall have been received by the preSi-
dent of the Senate, those votes only shall be
counted which 5. all have been regularly
given 10y the electors whose appointments
have been recognized by the State tribunals.
The bill provides also that in case OF dis
pute rs To which of two or more State tribu-
nas determining the titles Of electors is the
lawfully organize tribunal, the votes only
shall be couutel Of those electors whose title
as such the two Houses acting separately,
shall concurrently decide Is supp 4 ed 10y the
Cecis n of the tribunal authorized by the
laws of the State in question. In case
of more than enc return from state which
snail not have determined the legality of the
title Of the electors as provided by the bill,
it IS provided that those votes only shall be
counted which the two Houses, acting sepa-
ia ely, shall concurrently decide TO be the
awful votes of the appointed electors of
such State
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MAN AND WIFE LYNCHED.
Vtgiinnts Execute speedy Justice
For n Cruel Murder.

Some three months ago, says Denver
COLI dispatch, Mary Rose Matthews. a
bright, winsome little girl ten years old was
adopted from the Denver Catholic Orphans
Home by Mike Cuddihie and wife, living on
a rancho ten miles from Ouray, a small min
ing town in the southern part of the State.
Last Saturday morning little Rose suddenly
died, and was buried by Cuddihe in distant
part of his ranch. The little girl had been
cruelty treated from the first, the neighbors
sald. and her mysterious death and buried
burial aroused their suspicious The coroner
at Ouray was notified He immediate re-
lalred TO the ranch. found the grave and ex-
humed the body. when unmistakabie evil
dences of her cruel death were revealed. The
body Was covered with knife wounds one
Lex was broken, the skull crushed and limbs
trIen. She hal no doubt b Ell driven out
IN the winter to die. Cuddihie and wife were
Immediately arrested aud pla ed i'm Jail Yes
terday they were tried aud both found guilty
OF murder About O'Clock this morning a
band of masked men went to the hotel where
Iudd HE an wife were temporarily held i'm
custody, overpowered the sheriff. guard and
TOOK the prisoners away. They both cried
loudly for mercy, but as they had ever been
d af to the pleadings of little Rose for mercy,
50 the vi ilants closed their ears to
the cries of the prisoners. They were
taken outside of the town limits. where
the woman was hung to the ridge pole
OF a vacant cabin, while her husband was
strung up to the limp. of a tree on the onno-
site side of the roal. Then the work being
done thu vigilants quickly retirel. The
bodies were cut down and buried by the
coroner. John Carroll Cuddihies brother
m-law. was arrested with the Others but for
want Of sufficient evidence was allowed to 90.
ms Is the first time woman has been lynched
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postofflces and postroads, Senator Edmunds
made long address in behalf of his bill for
the erection of telegraph lines by the govern
ment He said that Congress had the con-
stitutional power to pass such a bill and that
a postal telegraph would be beneficial to the
country and the people
THEreply of Secretary Chandler to a SEN
ate resolution calling for a statement show
ing the date of construction, original cost
and total expense for all repairs since their
construction of vessels borne on the navy
register in November, 1888, has been sent
to the Senate. The report shows that there
were ninety-two vessels on the register OF
these twenty were built prior to the civil war,
thirty-one during the war and forty-one
since the close of hostiities The original
cost of the ninety-two vessels amounted to
$40, 196,6l3; repairs on all the vessels aggre
gate 81, 2OO, SO, making the total cost of the
vessels amount to ISL ,991, 4}5. The repairs as
the figures show, have exceeded the original
cost by Si04, 200
THE House committee on pensions has di-
rected favorable report to be made on the
bill of Representative Hewitt, of Alabama,
granting a pension to all survivors of the
Mexican war, the wars with the Creeks,
with the Seminoles, or in the Black Hawk
war.
president ARTHUR has sent message to
Congress recommending that action BE-
taken for the relief of Lieutenant Greely's
arty in the Arctic regions
CONTRIBUTIONS by the Ser ate: Richard
Lambert Of California, to be consul at San
Bias Mexico Commodores Robert W. Shu-
feldt, Alexander c. Rhind and Thomas Pat
tison to be rear admirals; Chief Engineer
Charles II. Loring TO be chief of the bureau
of steam engineering at the navy depart
ment; Captains Thomas $. Fillebrown and
John H. Russell to be commodores: Com
manders Byron Wilson, F. NJ. Bunce and
Frederick V. McNair to be captains.