The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
LAUREN B1opcErr. of Pbiladelnbia for

merry ch1e1 OF tne customs division, has
brought a suit for 500 acres of land situated
in the fashionable part of the west end of
Washington. He claims to be a descendant
of Samuel Blodgett, one of the founders of
the city. Three years have been spent in the
preparation of the suit.
A GREAT throng of people came to the cap
itul to witness the funeral services of Con
gresham Mackey in the House. The spacious
galleries of the House were pack d with
spectators and the body of the hall was
crowded with Senator's and Representatives
and the mourning family and personal
friends of the dead Congressman. Soon
after o'clock the Senators filed into the hall
and were given seats in front of the Speak
er's desk. A tap of the Speakers gayel
brought the Senators aud Representatives
TO their feet, land they remained standing I'M
til the coffin containing the body had been
placed before the desk OF the reading clerks
As the procession slowly advanced solemn
silence prevailed. The widow and immediate
relatives, clad lit deep mourning, were given
seats near the coffin. The services comprised
reading by the chaplain of the Senate of q
few verses from the Bible and a short. feel
ing and eloquent address by Rev. Dr. Ship
pen, after which the bene LECTION was pro-
nounced by the chaplain OF the House. The
body was then borne away for burial in
Glenwood cemetery, near Washington.
| SENATOR BLAIR's revised educational bill,
| reported by him to the Senate, provides that
common school education to all the children
living in the United States, there shall be
| appropriated annually for ten years a sum
of money beginning with Si5,00O,000 and
diminished by $l,0)0,0OJ in each sue
ceeding year. which sum shall be
paid out to each of the several States and
Territories and the District Of Columbia in
that proportion which the whole number of
persons of ten years and over in such State
or Territory, or in the District, who cannot
read and write, bear to the whole number of
such persons in the United States. according
TO the census of 1880. 1t provides that no part
of the money shall be paid out to
any State or Territory which shall not, dur
| ing the first five years of tine operation of
the act, annually eXpend for the mainte-
nance of the common schools at least one
third of the sum which shall he allotted to it
of this proposed educational fund, and dur
| ing the second five years, a sum at least
equal to the whoe amount of the allotment
made to it.
THE last national debt statement issued
shows the following:
Decrease of debt during january S11,9jS, 00i
Decrease of debt since June 80,
1885,. 65,0O7 Ass
| Cash in the treasury ............ 1903, 4l5, D
Gold certificates outstanding -. 10l, 250, 62(
Silver certificates outstanding. 40, Isl, OJl
Certificates of deposit outstand
ing ........................... 16,ssO,O 0C
Refunding certificates outstand-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3O7. $50
Feeal- tenders outstanding .. 46,6Sl ,0lt
| fractional currency mot includ-
ing amount estimated as lost or
destroyed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6,9S7, 25C
A DELEGATION of Indians belonging to the
Six Nations of New York have been il
Washington asking for an indemnity of about
81 100000 for lands surrendered to the gov
eminent many years ago.
A DELEGATION of six men, representing thc
Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers
the Miners association OF the Pittsburg dis
trct and the Glass Workers association, Of
Pittsburg, have been testifying before the
House committee on abor and endeavorine
to secure legislation to prevent the importa
ton of foreign laborers under contract.
The Senate labor committee ordered
favorable report on the bill establishing eight
hours as a days WORK for laborers and me
chanics in government employ.
Foreign.
STEAMERS sent TO Gear the Blue Nile OF
| FL Mahdis insurgents have failed of theii
purpose. They We're attacked furiously by
| the rebels, who waded out to the assault and
were only driven back after suffering heav,
loss. FL Mah1i marched from FL Obeid will
an army of 81 ,O0J men and plenty of krupl
guns
PROFESSOR KLINKER. noted German as
tronomer, committed suicide at Gottinger
by shooting himself.
MANY houses in the manufacturing city Of
Iaurvig, Norway, have been destroyed by {
fire
The American Lumber company, of To
ronto, Canada, has failed for 81 100000.
PERMISSION to erect a monument to Mar
tin Luther at Riga has been refused by thu
Russian authorities.
Ten THOUSAND persons, among them many
dis ingushel Germans, followed the body o
Herr Lasker, the German statesman to its
last resting Place in the Jewish cemetery a
Berlin
a BOOK containing articles grossly lbelou
of the German imperial family has causeC
great irritation in Berlin. where it wa
:eiZed by the police, and its circulation il
France has been forbidden by the Frencl
authorities The articles were reprinted from
a French periodical.
ELEVEN men were lost by the wreck of
steamer near Cardiff, Wales.
Mr. LOWELL, the American minister, re
spondel the other night to toast at the din
ner of the Lcndon chamber of commerce
He said that commerce was the great racifi
Gator between countries. 1t brought mel
lace to face, and it was the great correcto
of the eccentricities of nature, 50 that ba
harvest in England meant good season TO
Minnesota, Kansas and Manitoba.
p. W. THOMAS, Sons & Co., prominen
London stock brokers' have proven default
ers. They owe 100000 to customers
SEVERAL mountain tribes in Albania hav
revOlted and se2ad the rens of government
) They entered Montenegro territory, bu
were repulseI with the loss of fifty men.
THE king and queen of Italy are about t
visit the German court.
a SUPPOSED plot to murder the emperor @
Austria in his box at the Court Opera hous
} has been unearthed. a man was discovere
concealed nea- the box with a number of in
s;TumentS and wires
THIRTEEN school tea hers have been dis
missed in Servia for promoting the recen
revolt.
LORD CASTLEToN is the author of a schen
which proposes the est lbIishment of Ian