The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Eastern and Middle States.


SENATOR john A. LOGAN visited Mr..
Blaine at his residence in Augusta, Ne. and
the two had long conference. presumably
regarding the most effective plan of conduct
ing the campaign.
GENERAL WILLIAM MCCANDLESs. a veter.
an of the civil war. ex-senator of the Penn
sylvania State senate, and ex-auditor-general
of Pennsylvania, died few days ago in Phil.
adelphia, aged fifty years
A READING Penn dispatch says that the
late Hester Clymer, eX-member of Congress,
did not die ofapoplcxy was at first supposed,
but that he took an overdose of morphine, and
that the doctors worked hard all night to save
his life Financial reverses are said to have
led him to take this step.
THE firm of Carhart, Whitney & Co., one
OF the largest houses manufacturing clothing
in New York, has failed Liabilities are
placed at 81 900, with assets good.
A STATUE of General Bolivar, the "Wash.
ington of Peru has just been unveiled in the
Central Park, New York, with appropriate
ceremonies
GENERAL b. F. BUTLER has written long
letter from Boston, accepting the nomination
for President rendered him by the National
Greenback Labor convention at Indianapolis
lie says the questions presented by that con.
ventlon are higher and grander than any
mere political measure;N praises the financial
system which sprang up during the war and
endorses theplatform of the Greenback party
AT the Maine Democratic State convention
IN Bangor $50 delegates were present. Mayor
John b. Redman, of Ellsworth, was nomi
mated for governor
THE British brig G.. P. Sherwood bound
for Halifax, was wrecked off the Capes of
Delaware, and all but one of the ten men on
board were drowned. The survivor was
pickle up in small boat by passing vessel
and taken to New York.
THE Vermont Republicans. at their State
convention in Burlington. nominated n full
ticket headed by Samuel +. Pingree for gov
ernor.
AT the New York Democratic State conven.
ton held in Saratoga Judges Andrews and
Rapallo were renomnated for the court of an.
peals nearly unanimously, and presidential
electors for each of the thirty-four districts
were appointed, with Oswald Ottendorfer and
William Purcell for electors at large at the
head. Contrasting delegations from New York
city were placated by the admission of thirty
one County Democracy delegates, thirty-one
Tammanyites and ten of the Irving Hall fac
lion.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR,, was chosen
president Of the Union Pacific railroad at a
meeting of directors in New York, Sidney
Dillon having resigned the Office.
a STATUE in honor of William A. Buck
ngham, Connecticuts "War Governor was
unveiled at Hartford in presence of large
assemblage.
BISHOP MATTHEW SIMPSON, the well-knowr
Methodist divine died in Philadelphia, aged
y years He was born in Ohio, and was
elected and ordained bishop at Boston in 1852
Bishop Simpson was the author of "a Hun
ared Years of Methodism," yale Lectures
on Preaching" and was the editor of the
Encyclopedia of Methodismn In 1916 he was
selected to offer the opening prayer at the
Centennial Exhibition. He was the most
noted orator in the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
ABRAHAM LEvAN, a noted blind farmer oil
Berks county, Penn, Is dead at the age OF
eighty years. He had been blind sixty years
but he did all kinds of work on the farm He
fed the cattle, husl1ed corn, bound sheaves O.
wheat, rye and oats, and even moved gras
by the side OF his brother. who directed hi.
course. His two sisters We're also blind. bu
adopts in homework The estate comprise
loo acres of fine farming land.
COMMODORE c. X. GARRISON, prominen
New York millionaire and railroad magnate
has become financially embarrassed and made
an assignment iii favor of his creditors. Til,
Commodore was at one time estimated to b,
worth $25O0O,0O0, and his liabilities are pu
at s2,5CO,OO0, with assets largely in excess 0
that sum.