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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

marched upon the city of Khana-i-Bad and
seized the treasury there, valued at n million
pounds sterling, and belonging to the ameer Of
Afghanistan.
TERRIFIC storms have prevailed recently
in France, and the destruction of property
has been great. Eight persons were killed by
lightning, and a number of others drowned
RUSSIAN advices from Nladvostock say
that Russian steamship which attempted to
enter Port Hamilton was intercepted and
forbidden to enter 10y an English man-of-
war. The English are said to be- fortfying
the port, and war rumors have again been re-
vived.
A VIENNA dispatch says that 'if the United
States government refuses to recall Mr. lei
ley the Austrian government will formally
decline to recognize him."
THE crown prince and princess Of Germany
have given reception to Z nited States Minis
ter Pendleton and wife.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL who is the
daughter of Mr.. Leonard jerome, of New
York, is personally engaging in the canvass
to secure the re collection to the British parla-
ment of her husband, Lord Randolph
Churchill, tho new secretary of state for In
dia.
GENERAL GARCIA, the Mexican COM
mander, and 400 of his men have been killed
in a recent battle with the Yaquis Indians.
The Haquis repeatedly defeat the soldiers,
but the Mexican officials suppress the facts
The Sonora hospitals are full of wounded
soldiers The Yaquis are well armed and
have been preparing for war seven years.
After firing one or two volleys they charge
the troops and use short, heavy clubs.
FLOODS IN China have caused great loss
of life
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

GENERAL LOGAN, at banquet given in
his honor by the Norfolk club, of Boston,
repliedto Nice-President Hendricks, recent
speech in the same city on civil service re-
form.
The New Hampshire savings banks show
deposits amounting to $l3 SIS $50 Al
THOMAS j. MULBY, of Boston, has resigned
the superintendency of the North End Indus
trial school, and will 60 to Newfoundland.
and then TO England to look after the
Churchill estate, as he is one of the nearest
living heirs. The estate is supposed to be
valued at $50 000, 900, and is in money and
real estate. There are eight relatives of
Nicholas Churchll-the old Newfoundland
fisherman who left this vast fortune-n
America, and they will be represented abroad
ly Mulby
EDWARD A. BOYD, a New York glass
merchant and millionaire, has just been
sentenced to two years Imprisonment Tor de
frauding thes government out of customs
duties. His son, a partner in the firm, was
sentenced to pay fine of 81 900.
MRS. DUDLEY, the English woman who
shot and wounded O'Donovan Rosa, the
editor of the United hiShmen, in New
York, has been acquitted on the ground of
insanity. She will probably be sent home to
her friends in England
Mr. HEDDEN, the newly -appointod collector
OF the New York custom house has taken
charge of that office, his bond for 500, 900
having been approved.
WILLIAM MEINECKE was hanged at Bing
hampton, n. Y, for the murder of Kate
Broderhoff, New York servant girl whom
he lured to Elmira under the promise of mar.
rage and then killed for the purpose of rob
berry
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THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK,
Failures for the Past six Month v
Better Eimrs rOmiscd,

The review of the business OF tine country
Tor the past six months prepared by New
YORK mercantile agency, indicates a more
hopeful condition of business than has
been generally anticipated, owing to the
universal reports of dulnesS want of
profit, and prospective depression Compar-
ing the six months of 1855 with the same
period in 1851, the number Of failures has in
creased from 5,5l0 to G,OO4, while the liabili-
ties have decreased from Sl24, 39l, PSI to $74-
~, 355, OF these failures, however. only
2,3i6, with liabilities of S2S, COL 900, are to
be charged to the second quarter, show
ing progressive Improvement. That
the improvement is due to general
causes is shown by the fact that the SAM ra-
TO of decrease Is exhibited in the report from
the Dominion of Canada, which shows fail
ureS numbering go, with Liabilities of -, 1GG-
l65, as compared with 752 failures and liabil-
tiles of so, $40 for the corresponding pc
rod of 1851. That the failures are of much
less Importance than heretofore is manifest
by the decrease in the average liabilities
which in the last quarter show $1,000 per
failure, as against $500 in 1854 and SIS
900 in 1883
The review says: "Whis therefore a re-
view of the trade of the country does not
bring out many satisfactory elements, it
nevertheless is a fact that consumers as a
class are really i'll better condition than a
year ago, and that, in view of the low stocks
of merchandise in all hands, the decrease in
internal indebtedness the lessened number
Of failures. the low prices for liv-
ing, and the steady tendency to economy
which the year has witnessed, there is much
ground for the belief that the autumn bust
ness will be in the main satisfactory. With
the probabilities of fair yield of agricu-
tural products in the West and North
west, the good promise of the cotton
crop in the South, with tho increased
emigration of the best class which thus far
the year has shown, with a plethora of
money at low rates, a settled financial policy,
and the absence of political excitement, there
ought to be no reason why n markell improve
.nent III business should not ensuen
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south and West.

THREE children were burned to death in
fire at Beaver Dam, Wis.
Ben HOLT (colored) was lynched at Adams
Station Miss, by colored people, for the muir
der of his wife.
LATEST accounts of the harvesting in Kan
sas show the wheat crop to be by 100 per
cent. better than the estimate month ago
ANDREW DUMONT, a prominent colored
Republican, ex-naval officer at New Orleans
has killed himself in that city. Dependency
brought about by domestic troubles led to the
act.
THREE girls-Rosa Miseel and Sarah and
FANNIE ROsenberg-wer burned to death in a
tenement house fire at Cleveland, Ohio Theo-
dore Trau, the lover of Miss Meisel the two
We're to be married in few days was badly
injured while trying to rescue his ailianced
and has lost his reason.
SERIOUS riot, brought about bv an at
tempt of Chicago street car company to
nil the places of striking drivers and conduc-
tors, resulted in the demolition of several
cars, the prevention of others from running,
and the calling out of the police.
A. J. SPREcKLEs, son of the Sandwich
Island sugar king in November 1854. shot
and dangerously wounded NJ. H. De Young.
proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle
That paper had attacked Spreckles
father. Young Spreckles has lust been ac-
quilted, the Jurys verdict creating great sur
prise in San Francisco. A few years ago De
1oungs elder brother was shot by Mayor
kalloch, end year or so afterward again
shot, and this time killed by Kallochs SON.
who was also acquitted.
FIRE at Peshtigo, Wis, burned twenty
Tour buildings, causing loss of $50, 900.
JAMES MCDANIELs, notorious Texas
highwayman, was shot and killed by officers
at San Geronimo while resisting capture
y PARTY of men visited the house OF J. O.
Mathews at Citra, Fla DURING his absnnca
killed Martina Lewis, Oracle Lewis and the
baby, and crushed in the skull of a little girl.
Then they set fire to the house. The girl
lived long enough to tell her terrible story.
The victims are all colored.
ONO Prohibtionists at their State conven-
ton In Springfield nominated a full ticket,
headed by Rev. a. S. Leonard, d. ID. for
governor, and adopted platform demanding
prohibition amendment, opposing all liquor
traffic, and denouncing both the leading
parties.
THE Hon. Reuben Ellwood. member of
Congress from the Fifth Illinois district, died
of cancer few days since at his residence i'm
Sycamore, Ill
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

THEODORE THOMAS lost $4,000 by the re-
cent san Francisco concerts.
BUFFALO is to have conservatory of
music, which Is to open September /.
THE French normal pitch will be adopted
by the military bands in the German army.
On the days between the lessons List, the
great pianist, plays whist every afternoon.
LONDON papers state that Marie Gels
finger will retire from the stage next spring.
1T is intended to give a season Of Italian
opera next winter at the Grand Opera house
Paris with Patti.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the well known actor.
has been confined in the Bloomingdale Insane
asylum at New York
A YOUNG American singer, Miss Theresa
Adams, pupil of Mad. Marchesi, has made
a hit at the Teatro Pagliano, Florence.
THE Munich court singer. Heinrich YOGI
will, on October |, undertake a tournee of
thirty concerts, to be given in the principal
German cities.
HERR ALBERT STRITT the heroic tenor of
the Frankfort City theatre, Germany, has
completed his engagement for the next opera
season in Now York city.
Miss ANNIE LIPPINCOTT, daughter of
''Grace Greenwood" lately made her debut
in Italian opera in Italy, where she has been
an earnest and diligent student Of music for
the last three or four years.
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POSTAGE RATES.
Important Changes i'm the POstofficc
Depnr tment.

With the new fiscal year beginning July 1
che new legislation contained in the postof-
flee appropriation bill has gone into effect. In
the Office of the first assistant postmaster
general twelve additional clerks are provided
for, most of them being specially designated
for service in the salary and allowance
division
Provision was also made for the establish
ment of a system of special delivery of letters
Immediately upon their receipt at postoices
but the postmaster-general has not yet given
the matter his personal consideration. 1t is
possible that the system will be tested in one
or more of the large cities next autumn, and
its extension will depend upon the result of
the experiment
Letters weighing one ounce or less may
now be sent through the mails for two cents,
and the rate on newspapers mailed by pub
fishers have been reduced from two cents to
one cent per pound. The deficit for the year
just expired is roughly estimated at 81 600, 900,
and the estimate for the new fiscal year con-
templated deficit of 81, $4,000.
"There is n terrible amount Of misunder-
standing and misinformation about the chan
ges i'll the postal law that have gone into oper-
ation," remarked postoilice department ofli-
cial, "and there will be great deal of mail
matter that will go into the dead letter office
in consequence of it. The only change in
which the public are directly Interested is
that hereafter letter weighing one ounce
or under will 90 Tor two cents. 1t does
not mean that ordinary half ounce letters will
go for one cent. The ordinary letter will cost
two cents the same as heretofore, but n letter
that has cost four cents in the past can now
be sent for two cents. There are certain
changes about printed matter, but that inter-
estS publishers only. Others will have to pay
as much for mailing newspapers or magazines
as they do now. There has been no reduction
in the postage of merchandise"
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Washington.

THE marble statue of the late President
Garfield has been unveiled in the statuarv
hall of the capitol.
ADDlTI0NAL appointments by the Presi-
@3neys John G TSerSrS at % VancdPT gSic
Washington Territory; Michael j. Cady. at
Bodie, Cal; j. X. Dollison, at Humboldt,
! Cal; Arthur r. Delaney United States at
torney for the eastern district of Wisconsin;
W. { Perry, attorney for the district of Kan.
/ sas; James NJ. Adams. register at the land
/ office at Spokane Falls, Washington Terri
tory; Benjamin F. Peach, pension agent at
Boston; Richard Davis, postmaster at Locust
Valley, New York.
WASHINGTON special of the 3Oth said
hat the President had decided on the an
polntment of Congressman William DORIS
4elmer to Toe United States district attorney
for the southern district of New York. vice
tlihu Root, resigned: and of Martin T. Nc
uahon to be United States marshal for the
anne district, vice Joel b. Erhardt, resigned
Congressman Dorsheimer has been identified
nth lammany Hall in New York politics
FURTHER appointments by the President:
:x-Congressman William Dorsheimer to be
Jnlted States attorney for the southern dis
rlct OF New York; Martin T. Mcmahon to
be United States marshal for the same dis
trict: Mr.. Maldrow to be first assistant sec
rotary of the interior, new Office created
by Congress; George A. jerks.
Of Pennsylvania, to be Sc ,ond
assistant secretary of the interior: William
w. Rockhill, of Maryland TO 10 secretary of
the legation Of the United States to China;
Charles DENLY Jr, of indiana, to he second
secretary of the legation OF the United States
to China; James b. Hayes, of Wisconsin. to
be chief justice of the supreme court of the
Territory of Idaho; Benjamin +. Jonas,
of Louisiana, to be collector of GUS
toms for the district of New Orleans, La. !;
+. $. Wilson of Jackson Miss to be receiver
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HORRORS OF A STORM.


Terrible reports of devastation by storm
and flood continue to be received from
many parts of Austria and
Hungary. The town of Horodenka
has been almost destroyed by n connagration
caused by lightning. Many houses were set
on fire simultaneously, and 600 buildings
We're burned. Many persons were burned to
death, and over 5000 are homeless
The tower Of Iechovitz, in Bohemia. has
been partially destroyed by food. At ' is
nitz, in Galicia, eight persons have been
Killed by lightning, and thousands of trees
have been blasted and uprooted.
In Hungary the corn crop on thousands of
acres has been ruined At Csoka church
filled with worshlpers was struck by light
nlng. Two of the congregation We're killed
and tbirty-two injured.
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DETERMINED STRIKERS.
Five Thousand Cleveland IRON
workers Close the Mills.
Street-Cars in Chicago Prevented
from Running by Strikers.

Cleveland Ohio dispatch says that "the
strike in the Cleveland Rolling mill has as
sumed extensive proportions in.a wonderful
ly short time. Every department but one
has been closed and 1000 men are idle. The
strikers are determined and aggressive Riots
were of frequent occurrence, and few
men have been injured. The men refuse to
return to work unless the order reduc-
ing their pay is countermanded and an in
crease of twenty-five per cent granted. The
plate MILL however, and the rail and bloom
ing mills started up with all hands at work
The blacksmiths, machnists, yard brakemen
and common laborers about the yards were
at work as usual.
"About o'clock two Or three hundred
men gathered outside the yards beat down
the gates and marched in, compelling all the
laborers and transfers they met to stop work
at once. One teamster whipped up his
horses and att mpted to drive through the
crowd. A shower of stones assaled him
and his horses one of the missiles striking
the man on the head and inflictine a
serious wound. The brick rod mill was visit
ed first Here the men were soon forced to
quit work, and the engineer was compelled to
draw the fires from under the boiler. The
new rod mill men Were approached with the
same success. The engineer at the blooming
nm IN was liuuceu 70 supp MS engine upon
threat to throw him INTO the fly wheel
About 1000 strikers paradcd and decided
to hold mass meeting. When it was re-
ported among the strikers that Superin-
tendent Walker had agreed to restore the old
wages, the men refused to entertain the propo-
sition, and they will now demand twenty
five per cent. increase and two weeks pay in
advance before returning to work A man
named Stephen Harrington announced his
intention of returning to work, when a Polish
striker seized him and threw him from the
Connatton Valley Railroad bridge. Har-
rington sustained broken leg and serious in
ternal in ures.
There are now out about five thousand
men. This includes all the employees EXCEPT
those in the plate mill, who are working under
the amalgamated scale and have no cause to
quit. An extra police force was sent out to the
Eighteenth ward and as rapidly as the strikers
gathered in little knots they We're disperseln
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GREAT STRIKE IN CHICAGO.

The strike among Chicago street-car con-
ductors and drivers has caused much trouble
and inconvenience. When an attempt was
made to run cars with new men. they were
stoned by the old hands, and the cars were
badly injured and had to be returned to the
station. A Chicago dispatch describes the
situation as follows:
The statement is made that the governor
may be called upon to order out a force of
National Guard troops, but q disl atch from
the State capital declares that no application
for such an order has yet been made The
street car company officials declare that they
have an ample force of men to man their
cars, provided they are assured protection
from assault
"ln the meantime practically every carry
all in thu city has been pressed into service for
the accommodation of the west side tray
cling public, and beyond the discomfort
which naturally follows of mounting an
ordinary express wagon having plain pine
way Inconvenience. The street-car compa-
MES in the past having purchased or driven
out of the business all omnibus companies
comparatively few of the latter style of
vehicle remain in the city, but the present
emergency has resulted in bringing to
llghta considerable number, and it is almost
idle to state that these and every band
wagon or other side seated convey
ance in the city has been pressed into service.
The prevailing fare is ten cents, and express
wagon drivers state that they have collected
from Sl2 to $50 a day from passengers in the
ordinary run of traffic. The hanson cabs,
with which the city is supplied in large nun.
bers naturally cannot support the full de-
mands made upon them.
Several meetings of citizens have been held
to protest agrnst the delay of the street car
company III resuming the car service, and
legal proceedings have been threatened to
compel forfeiture of the company's charter
under provision which compels the com
pany to run its cars daily. Several employees
OF the company upon attempting TO approach
the car stables this afternoon We're chased
away by a crowd, but beyond this no further
violence Of any kind has been reported"
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LATER NEWS

Mrs. DUDLEY, the Englishwoman who
shot O'Donovan Rosa in New York, has
been taken to the Middletown On " insane
asylum
GEORGE DUNBAR, one of the weathiest
and best known citizens of Pttsfield Mass.
was found murdered in the street. He had
been shot to death and robbed.
KEToRTS received from the New England
fishing fleet now off Newfoundland state that
the schooner Lewis King lost seven men in a
gale, and that the schooner Mary Jane Lee
was run into by an unknown vessel and sunk.
a CROWD of striking car drivers and
conductors at Chicago attempted to pre-
vent cars from running, but were dubbed by
the police and more than 100 of their mum.
Der were arrested.
THOMAS Z. NASH, of Centralia, Wis, has
been appointed chief clerk of the postollice
department, to succeed C. NJ. Walker, of In.
diana, resigned.
OWING to continual i'll health, Mr.. Hay,
first assistant postmaster general has resign.
ed, and A. +. Stevenson, of Illinois, has been
appointed his successor
The President has made the following ap-
pointments Judge Lambert Tree, of Illinois,
to be minister to Belgium George V. Brewer
to be general appraiser of merchandise in the
district of New York; Samuel 7. Hauser, of
Helena, Montana, to be governor of the Ter
ritory of Montana; Montford 5. Jones to be
United States attorney for the western dis
trict of Louisiana. To be attorneys of the
United States: James C. j. Williams, for the
east district of Tennessee; John f. Lamb, for
the district of Indiana.
a FREIGHT train, consisting of locomotive
and sixteen cars, fell through bridge into a
swollen stream near Fort Scott, Kansas and
the conductor, engineer fireman, and another
man We're drowned.
IT is stated that owing to her financial de
preston Mexico has proposed to our govern
ment to sell some of her territory, compris-
ing six states on her northern boundary.
The area embraced in this proposition is
about 33D,00J square miles. Texas contains
only 23523l and California only 1sS, 9S2,
while New York and Pennsylvania, the
largest of the older States of the East, have
only 10000 square miles each
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, the young
tory leader whose American wife went
around electioneering for him, has been
elected to the British parliament by vote
Of 532 to 401 for his opponent.
INDEPENDENCE DAY was celebrated by the
Americans in London. Cyrus W. Field gave
a dinner to Minister Phelps Senator Ed
munds, Consult General Waller, John Bright.
the Duke of Argyle, and many other noted
EngAshmen were present. A cablegram was
sent to President Cleveland, and a reply of
thanks received
SIX Cana liam raftsmen were drowned in
the Gatineau river 10y the upsetting Of their
boat.
BIG BEAR, the Indian alley of Riel in the
late rebellion in Manitoba, has been captured.
His warriors have nearly all surrendered
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FOREIGN TOPICS.
Various Affairs of Moment Across
the Atlantic.
The New British Ministry Abandons
Coercion in Ireland.

The British cabinet council has decided to
entirely abandon coercion in Ireland and to
rely upon a strict administration of the gen.
eral law. Mr.. Sexton, NJ. p, address,
ing meeting at Wakefield urged
Irishmen to support the con-
sentative candidate for parliament and
to give the conservatives chance. The
past conduct of the liberals Gladstone fol-
lowers, he said, gave them no claim to
Irish support. Lord Arthur William Hill,
member of parliament for Down, Ire
land, and comptroller in an election
speech at Down referred to the recently
proposed bill for the renewal of the
Crimes act, and said such measures were, in
his opinion, needless, as the ordinary laws
were sufficiently ample for the government of
Ireland. The present Land act, he said, was
afailure. He would support the Land Pur-
chase bill which the liberal government had
proposed.