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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
MADAME ANNA BISHOP.
The long and Remark able Career
of Once Famous Singer.

of n Once Famous Singer.
Madame Anna Bishop, who died few
days ago in New York of apop!exy, in her
SEVENTEEN year was once famous in the
world of song, and had most event! III
career. In the course of her long profess
sional life, she appeared in either concert or
opera in almost every country in the world
III is believed that from first to last, Mad
anne Bishop sang before a greater number of
people than any other singer who ever lived
She has sung in from ten to fifteen different
languages on one occasion, while in Moscow
succe ssfully taking the part of Alice in
"Eobert lie Diable, in the Russian language.
China and India are among the countries in
winch she has given concerts, and in 1873 she
was accorded the unusual privilege of sing
ing IN the Tabernacle in Salt Lake city, which
was iiiled by an Immense audience.
In 1866, while on the voyage from Homo
lnlu to Hong Kong, she and her party Were
shlpwrecked on n barren coral island, where
they remained for twenty-one days. In the
wreck they lost ali their personal effects
Finally they set out in n boat twenty two
feet long for one of the Ladrone islands, ], 400
miles distant, and accomplished the jour
ney i'll thirteen DAYS. They had but
Scanty supply of food and water, which
was exhausted before they reached their
journeys end. While they were almost
starving, large fish leaped from the water
and fell into the boat. There were twenty
two persons in the party, AMI the fish was
cut INTO twenty-five pieces, which were
eaten raw. Madame Bishop has referred to
her share on that occasion as one OF the most
delicious tasting III rses she ever ate.
She started on her last tour around the
world in $50 Since its completion she has
lived for most of the time in New York,
with her husband, Mr. Martin Schultz,
whom she married in 1853, few years after
the death of her first husband. Her last az
pearance in pubic was at n concert in
New York about year ago. Her voice was
wonderfully well preserved in her latter
years, and in her persona appearance and
manners she was also remarkably youthful.
Her conversation was highly entertaining,
being enriched by fund of curious anec-
dote, although she was singularly modest in
speaklnG of her own ar.I,.ic trinmphs.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

HcLNES.-Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr., will deliver the Memorial Day idress in
Keene, n. II.
LANGTRY. Mrs Langtry is evidently
prosperinr. She has mortgages on New
York real estate amounting to $4,000, to
say nothing of other investments
TABoR.-NIr. Tabor. the millionaire ex
Senator, is in luck again. lie has struck
another rich vein in one of his mines. 1t is
said that he wants to be governor of Col
orado.
BONNER. Robert Bonner, proprietor OF
the New y orl< LPdger, is sixty-two years
old. His wealth is estimated at over 81 900,
900. His interest in the Ledger is worth so,
600 year.
CULLoM.-United States Senator Cullom,
of Illinois, is no society man. He prefers to
sit in his own cosey room, in dressing gown
and slippers, insteal of going to stiff and
starchel receptions.
NANDERBILT-W. H. Vanderbilt owns $780,
$40 shares of railroad stock, worth SIS, 1j0,-
0l0, railroad bonds worth S26.3j1 APO, gov
eminent bonds worth so, $4,000, and other
securities worth 100000. His wealth
EQUALS the 5000, 900, 90 of the duke of West
minister, and the income from it is SIX per
cent, while that OF the duke is but two, so
that he is C carly the richest man in the world.
SITTING BULL.-Sitting Bull is paying his
first visit to the realms OF civilization, and
recehOiy Sou So lar easI us St. au' ne
other night the chief and his nephew visited
the Pioneer Press Office and were surprised,
though they didn't show it, by the telegraph,
telephone, fire-alarm gong, steam heaters, etc.
The chief sent a telegrem to his son in Chi
cago. saving that he had been sick. but was
much better, and received an answer right
away. The telephone broke him all up, and
forced the first exclamation from him, and
he laughed for the first time in many moons.
The nephew was placed at an instrument in
one room and Sitting Bull in another room,
100 feet distant. The chief listened, started,
grinned, and then exclaimed: "Waukan"
tevil.spiritl. In the composing room an
various millinery cuts and other pictures,
which elected grunts of satisfaction from the
old chief and he carried off the pictures as
great prizes,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
ALOndOn Gambling Den.

In full seasons millions of dollars were
often turned in one night at Crockford :
celebrated gambling club in London.
The net profits of the season were 500
600, and yet the weekly expenses aver
aged S., 600, The fitting up of the house
cost nearly $250,000 Crockford's was
ostensibly. organized as club, and the
committee elected the members, but any
one who had a fortune to lose could cas-
ilv obtain admission. The duke of We'll
ington was an original member, but was
never known to enter the hazard room.
For ten years before Crockfords was
started there was very high play at Wa
tiers (the principal frequenters of which
were hopelesSly ruined), at Brookes's and
also at Whites, where the late Lord Gran
vile was the great player. He is said
to have been nearly million to the bad
at the end of his career, although at one
time he had won $3.50, 900. Lord Gran
Vile once lost $4,000 at hazard at a
single sitting Of seven hours and $50, 900
at one nights whist.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
LATER NEWS

REV. HENRY MORGAN, well known Bos-
ton preacher and lecturer is deal.
A FIRE in New York destroyed the Elec-
trio Candle comrnny's factory, causing a
loss of about s 10000.
SIX children were poisoned near Meadvile
Penn, by slipping the juice of a tree which
they had TAPPED. Two of the little ones died.
JOIN JAY CISCO, prominent New YORK.
banker, and for eleven years assistant
United States treasurer at New York, died
the other day, aged seventy eight years. He
left an estate valued at $2,O10,000
PROMINENT veterinary surgeons in consul
taton at Neosho Falls. Kansas, united in de-
claring that the trouble with the cattle in
that 81 ate is not the dreade foot and mouth
disease.
GREAT damage to property has been don,
by the bursting of levees along the lower Mis-
sissippi, and many kilograms have been sent
to Washington from the OVERLOADED re zion
appealing to the national government for
help.
THE pension appropriation bill, as reported
by the committee on appropriations to the
House, appropriates s20,6Sl ,4a0, and pro
vides that any balance of the Appropriation
for the current fiscal year that may remain
unexpended on June so shall be roappro-
priated. This balance is estimated at so
100000.
A PACKAGE of burnt money representing
$500 was received by the United States
treasury department, few days ayo, for
redemption 1t was the property of Thoma5
Bowling, a quarryman, living near Men
osha, Wis. and represented the savings
of twenty three years of hard work.
His cabin was destroyed by fire on
March 6, aud with it all his money, which
was in the form of greenhacks and national
bank notes The charred remnants OF
the money were subnn, ted to the ex-
animation of committee of the treasury
experts and all the legal-tender notes,
to the amount OF 1880, were identified.
They were redeemed at once. The remain
der will be ira lsmittel to the banks of issuo
for their action, and tine result will be that
no entire amount of the burnt money will
be restored to its owner. This is only one of
many cases o. this kind act, ID uLor b. the
treasurer.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS eighty-seventh birth
day was celebrated in holiday fashion a,
Berlin Many buildings throughout the city
were gaily decorated, and thousands of peO
pie thronged the streets about the palace an
greeted the emparor's appearance the win
dows with prolonged cheers.
AT a consistory held in Rome the pope ere
ated two cardinals and twenty-one bishops
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are $50 Baptist churches in South
Carolina.
THE London Times has become a convert
to cremation.
CHICAGO in 1883 killed 1912, 600 hogs and
l,lS3,OO0 cattle.
FLORIDA is shipping large quantities of
Strawberries North.
TIE cost of maintaining the BROOKLYN
bridge IS about $4,000 4 year.
OVER l0O, geo, $50 feet of lumb,r have been
logged in Maine the present sea ,on.
LAST year in London l2i persons disap
peareo OF whom no trace has ever b sen
found.
At present about 1900 persons are exilel
to Siberia annually and about sixty per cent
are NODES
a LAWRENCE, Kansas, negro ate five
dozen CGgs a pound of becon and a LOAF of
rye bread, on a WAGER
TIE number of prisoners brought before
the New York " police courts last yelr
was 90, 'Ol. an increase O. . a PER c MT. or
1854 euple.
FIVE-HEAR- OLD boy i'm Oxford, Me. can
Cutplay any other boy in the State ON n cor
net lie plays any tune core ,tiy after hear
It orce, and has never received musical in.
structon.
JAMES Riley. a telegraph messenger. wa
found IN the streets of New York a rayinp
maniac, He kept crying constantly: ~ am
Butt, the boy detective His brain was
| tur ell by boy novels.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
Tired Birds.

Many of our birds fly several thousand
miles every autumn, passing not only
over Florida, where they might find per-
petual summer, but over the gulf and far
beyond into the great summer land of
the Amazon; after short stay, returning
again to the north, some penetrating to
the extreme shores of the Arctic sea.
How he small birds fly so great distances
is almost incomprehensible, but | have
seen many of our small feathered friends
on the little key of Tortugas, two hun
bred miles or more from Cape Florida,
the jumping off place of the United
States Great focks of them would
alight upon the walls of the fort, espe-
ciallv during storms, evidently thor
oughly tired; but the next day they
were up and away off over the great
stretch of the gulf and the Caribbean
sea.
Numbers of the English birds and
many from Northern Europe make yearly
VOYAGES down into the African continent,
and careful observers state that they have
seen the great storks, so common in Ger
many, moving along high in the air,
bearing on their broad backs numbers OF
small birds that had taken free passage,
or were, perhaps, stealing ride. In
these wonderful migrations many birds
are blown out to sea and lost, while
others become so fatigued and worn out
that they will alight upon boats. A New
England fisherman, who in autumn fol-
lows his calling fourteen or fifteen miles
out from shore, informed me that nearly
every day he had four or five small birds
as companions. They had wandered of
from shore, or were flying across the
great bay on the lower coast OF Maine,
and had dropped down to rest. One day
the same fisherman fell asleep while hold
ing his line, and upon suddenly opening
his eyes there sat little bird on his
hand, demurely cooking its head this
way and that, as if wondering whe Their
he was an old wreck or piece of drift
wood st Nicholas.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
Foreign.

PLANS for general assassination by the use
of explosives have been disc lvered at Biz
mngham and Newcastle Ion Tyne England
a sUBTERRANEAN spring blocked silver
Zine near Schwat2a, in the Tyrol, and sew
el al miners were drowned
HENRY Brown. colored man, died few
days ago in Niagara, Ontario, at the al
member George Washington and said that
on one occasion he drove that gentleman
from his masters plantation to Washin Jton.
ADMIRAL HEWITT isssuel proclamation
Offering a reward of 81, 900 for the head of
Osmar Digna, the rebel chief in the Soudau;
but the English war secretary ordered the
proc nation to be withdrawn. Osman
Digna was reported to be still defiant, and
returned with 1000 followers to his former
encampment. He exhorted the people to
religious war, promised them success in
third battle, and used stern mea ,ures toward
his disaffectel followers.
A WOMAN who was attacked by two dogs
in Quebec was frightened to death.
THE French government has decided to
occupy Upper Tonquin as far as the Chinese
border.
The Italian ministry resigned owing to the
smallnes of the ma ority received by the
president of the chamber of deputies.
ADMIRAL LEssoFFsKY, the Russian minis
ter of marine and commander of the Rus
sian squadron which visited the United States
during the civil war, is dead.
TwENTY-sEvEN nhilists, among them
four artillery officers, were arrested a few
days since in st. Petersburg.
THE alleged kidnapping of an Indian from
British Columbia and his summary execu-
ton by a party of masked men from the ad-
accent United States territory, has been the
sub ect of indignant comment in the Do
min.on parliament.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28

court Of the Territory OF Idaho; Jacob B.
Blair, Of Wyoming, assoso cate justice of the
supreme court of the Territory of Wyoming.
SENATOR HAwLEY having introduced a
bill IN the Senate authorizing the secretary
of the navy to offer n reward of S25, 900 for
the rescue or discovery of this Greedy eIpe-
dition in the Arctic regions, Secreta RES
Chandler and LIN 'oln wrote to the President
opposing any such action.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has written to Mr.
5. ;. Cox, Chairman of the committee
on naval affairs, opposing the recent
resolution of the House providing. for
another investg OF the Jean
nette expedition. He says the allegations
made against Lieutenant belong, Engine er
Melville, the members of the court of in
quiry, and the navy department, in behalf of
Jerome j. Collins, mete )rologist of the expedi-
ton, are untrue and unjust, and objects to
reopening the inquiry into what, he says, the
court of inquiry correctly termed "trivial
difficulties such as occur on shipboard even
under the most favorable circums auces"
: THE indian appropriation bill as agreed
upon by the House appropriation committee,
appropriates S1,347 ,6j3, n decrease of S13,
002 from the appropriation of last year and
So, 1919, 1856 from the estimates.
THE Senate confirmed the nominations of
Joseph f. Irish, of Wisconsin, to be consul
of the United States at Cognac; Leonard T..
Wales, of Delaware, to he United $ ates
districS ludge for the District of Delaware
James N Kerns, of Pennsylvania, to be
United States marshal for the eastern dis
trict OF Pennsylvania.
BoTH the Senate and House having ac-
copied the conference report on the military
academy appropriation bill, it went to The
President.
Mr.. BLISS, late counsel for the govern
ment appeared before the Springer commit
tee of investigation AMI explained his con
nection with the star rou Q prosecutions. He
s ated that in his opinion the Dorsey case was
the strongest of all with which to go Def ore a
jury.
THE number of postoflices in the United
States on March 20 was y ,a93, an increase
of ,l35 in less than nine months. If the
same rate of increase is maintained during
the rema nder of the fiscal year it is esti-
mated that the po'toilices will number
10000 on july | next.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Boiler Explosion on an Express
Train in Ohio.
Engineer and Fireman Blown Five
Hun5red Feet and Killed,

An accident unparalleled in the railroad
annals of that section occurred early in the
morning on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne aud
Chicago r. r., near Salem, Ohio. The New
York andChicago Unite express had reached
the locality designated, when the boiler OF
the engine exploded The train was moving
at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The en-
gineer, James Richards, and Fireman Char,eS
Rhodes were blown distance of 500 feet and
Instantly killed. The engine went down one
side of the thirty-foot embaukment while the
tender was thrown over the opposite side. =,
The train consisted of a baggage-car AMI
three sleepers The baggage-car rolled
down the embankment. The sleepers kept
the road bed, but had all the wheels
carried from under them. About two
hundred feet of track was utterly
demolished. The explosion was heard in Sa-
lem, about three miles distant and sounded
like "A peal of thunder. A farmer living
near heard the engine whistle for the road
crossing and moment after thought he
heard thunder, which in reality was the eX-
plosion.
Dr. j. A. Tressell, the railroad surgeon at
Alliance was Immediately tele2raphed foi'
and was soon on the spot doing all that med
ical aid could do to alleviate the suffering
of the injured a special train was dis
patched TO the scene, carrying, beside
the railroad surgeon, John Sharer,
undertaken, and several railroad officials.
Charles Rhodes, the fireman, was terribly
scalded about the head and had an arm
and leg broken. He was unmarried and
lived at Wampum, Penn. James Richo rdI,
the engineer, seems to have sustained in
ternal injuries, as there were no bones
broken and he was very little SCARED. He
lived in ALE yheny, Penn, and leaves q wife
and four children. Charles BiSsel, baggage
master, had his knee broken. and about a
dozen passengers were more or less seriously
mi urnd
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
SOME BIG THINGS,

A whale sixty feet long has been killed Off
Beaufort, S. G..
AN Iowa man drank three quarts of cider
in three minutes.
A TEN-FoOT alligator was captured re-
Gently near WaxahatcAie Texas.
THE government envelope fac, ny at Hart
ford, Conn, uses ton OF gum Il week.
A SEA DOG was killed on the beach near
Long Branch, n. j., not long ago 1t weighed
l43 pounds.
WHILE trapping near Bridgman, Mich.
William Williams caught an eagle that
measured nine feet.
AN owl measuring four feet and two inches
from tip to tip was recently captured in
Franklin county, Ga.
MIssIssIPPIANs feel very proud of their
State library in the capitol at jackson. 1t
comprises IS, 900 volumes.
A cow HORN four feet eleven inches long
and eighteen inches in diameter at the base
is on exhibition at Monticello, Fla.
A STRANGE fish was recently cagtur of
Block Island, Newport. 1t was four feet
long, and it mad a mouth ten inches wide. 1t
weighs 200 pounds.
A LADY sixty years old residing in
Rochester, n. y, skated from that city to
Brockport, twenty miles, in an hour and
twenty-five minutes.
New ORLEANS recently had baby show
with ninety nine infants ON exhibition. Ths
first prize was won by seven months old
baby that weighed tn rty-one pounds.
CHARLES WHITE OF Thorndyke, Me-, has
three yokes of oxen whose united weigh i,
l2,2lO pounds. One yoke measures eight
feet four inches, and weighs 1, s65 pounds.
J. b. KERNs, Of Stokes county, N. c.,
went there from PIttsburgh, Pa, four years
ago. In that time six children have been
added to his family. He has been married
to the same wife eighteen years, and ha,
twenty-three children livi e. Seventeen OF
them are boys and six girls His wife i:
forty-six and he forty eight.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-28
South and West!

A CALL has been issued for national con-
vention OF Anti Monoposts, to be held in
Chicago on MAY II, TO nominate a pre>den-
tial ticket. The quota of representation will
be four delegates from each congressional
district, four from each Territory AMI four
from the District OF Columbia.
SEVERAL large plantations were inundated
10y break in the levee on the Mississippi at
Baton Rouge La.
WHILE c1lored man and his wife were at
work in field not far from Mclean, Ga,
their four children We're murdered.
A DISPUTE between three men PLAYING
cards near Hutsburg, Tenn, ended by one
of the players shooting his two companions
dead.
JOSEPH F. SANDERS, bookkeeper for ST.
Louis wholesale grocer, stole SD 900 of his
employers money and spent it in speculation
AN affecting scene occurred the other dav
at a prayer meeting in Chicago
Mrs. Georgiana Miller, widow,
remained on her knees in the attitude of
prayer, while the rest of the worshipers
slowly left the hall. Examination showed
that Mrs. Miller was dead.
FIVE miners in Colorado were killed by a
snow-side fifty feet deep.
BISHOP KAVANAUGH, senior bishop Of the
Meth dist Episcopal church South, died at
Columbus, Miss, alter painful illness.
THE Virginia senate before final adjourn
ment authorized the transmission to the pres
ident OF the United States Senate of a COPY
of tie resolution recently adopted requesting
Senator Malone to resign.
BY the explosion of an oil still in Cleye-
land, Ohio, three employees were surrounded
by e-caping oil, which had caught fire. and
were burned to death in sight of helpless
crowd.
A TRAIN Of forty cars, handsomely deco
rated ami loa led with corn valued at S IN 900.
has been sent to the Ohio flood sufferers by
the IeOple of Sedgwck county Kan. in
grateful remembrance OF charity extended
when they were suffering from the grass
hopper plague in lS74.
Mrs. JOHN SMITH, of Jackson county.
Ga, filed a pot with water, put it on the
fire, and when the water began TO boil She
plunged her head into it and died.
THE Gill Car Manufacturing company. of
Columbus, Ohio, has fniled for about $3.50,
| coo.
A FIREMAN and three children were in
stantly killed by the explosion of the boiler
attached toa saw mill at Newport, Ark.
Two brothers-Rudolph and Champ Fitz-
patrick-wcre hanged at Columbia, XIV, for
| the murder OF Miller Brewster last August
All three men were farm hands, and the
| murderers maze away with their victim be-
| cause h, was better liked by his EMPLOYER
| than the,