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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
House,

The House further considered the consular
and diplomatic bill without rearhine, n vote
"A bill was passed authorizing lie indoe
of the supreme court of the District of CoInH.
lia to appoint competent LAWYER to nrenare
a criminal code for the District Mr. Rog-
ers introduced bin authorizing thn annro-
priation of IS 900, Ouo toward the enlarpernent
Of the Erie canal to a sufficient canactv To
pass war vessels twenty five feet wide and
one hundred feet long ard merchant vessels
Of 600 tons urden
There was passed a bill limiting the time
for the presentation of bounty and back pay
claims TO three wears from the passage of this
act. of all other claims, except pensions. to
six years, and providing that claims here
after arising must be presented within six
years from the time they originated. Mr.
Browne announced the sudden death of
Schuvlcr Colfay, once speaker of the House
and late Vic.-Prcsident, and out of respect To
bis memory the House nd iolIrnrd
The French spoliation claims b;l w.s
passed 10y ISL yeas TO II nays This is the
third time such n bill has noSsod tho Hon.
since .S.a Tine amount Of tho claims ~ La
n,,,entcI is varinnsIv eetin,at n ~ So Uo
- 90 G0o 70 sI3 on0 ioo n,itho,t anr oiion,
onca on account OF interest Inc chinese
indemnitv hiII-a hill To return to China
esq 400 IN Loft over from nm Indemnity fund
MD nv the Chinese rovernment To Americans
T. ran3v them for losses to nronertv sustained
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office of the New York United Irishnlen
created much excitement in London, and
was for days the principal subject OF discus
sion.
A FRENCH garrison at Lambor, Cambodia,
was desperately attacked by Chinese lnsur-
gents and suffered heavy losses.
A COMPANY of forty soldiers in Mexico
mutnied, murdered their captain, his wife
and several other persons and then He'd III
body for American territory.
HERR RUMPFF, chief OF police at
Frankfort on-the- Main, Germany, was found
murdered in front of his residence in prin-
cipal thoroughfare. He was actively con
nected with the recent prosecution at Leipsic
of the anarchists Reinsdorf, Rupsch, kuech-
Ter and five others, who were engaged III the
Niederwald attempt to kill the emperor,
crown prince and other distinguished person
ages of the imperial suite. The three named
were sentenced to death and two Others to
ten years servitude, the remaining three being
acquitted.
ARNACTS have plundered three Servian
frontier villages and killed the sentinels and
several villagers Troops have been sent to
the scene.
The town hall of Warminster, England,
has been partially destroyed by dynamite
explosion.
A DUBLIN dispatch states that there is in
creased activity in Irish secret societies and a
proportionate watchfulness on the part of
the British authorities
GREAT suffering from thirst prevails among
the English troops on their march through
the desert to Gordon's relief at khartoum.
BY an explosion Of fire damp in the great
coal mine at Levin France, forty-eight men
were entombed alive. Twenty eight dead
bodies were recovered soon after the disaster.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in Colombia,
and considerable fighting has taken place.
Matters at Panama are also reported i'll a crit
icnl state
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asilingtOn.

GENERAL HAZEN chief signal officer of the
army, has tiled with the secretary of war
formal charges agains. General Chauncey
Mckeever assistant adjutant general, for
alleged remarks derogatory to Lieutenant
Greedy and the management of the expo
dition sent to his relief by thu signal office
GENERAL HAzEN's charges against Adm.
tant General McKeever have been returned
to the author, and it is understood no official
notice viii be taken of them.
The President has nominated William A
RICHARDSON TO be chief justice of the court of
claims vice Mr.. Drake, resigned, and John
Davis to be an associate justice of the court
OF claims, vice Mr.. Richardson John Davis
is the present assistant secretary of state
THE National Swine Breeders association
have had a two days session in Washington.
Colonel +. u, Curtis, of New York, presided.
The association paSseI resolutions approving
the inspection by the government of hog
products intended for shipment abroad
THE chief of the bureau of statistics re-
ports that in 1854 there arrived in the Gus
toms districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit,
Huron, Num-, New Orleans New York Pas
sanaquOddy, Philadelphia and San Francisco,
453,9s5 emgrants. These arrivals comprise
about ninety seven per cent of the emigra-
ton to the entire country. The arrivals in
lsSi numbered 500, 1876
THE annual report of the department of
agriculture makes the record of corn pro
duction for the year 1854. l,195, co., coo bush
els; that of wheat nearly 5l3,0O0,O0O, and of
oats, 5e3,OCO,OO0. These aggregates are the
largest ever recorded. The rate of yield is
25.S bushels for corn, Is for wheat and "a 1
for oats. These are the figures for permanent
record.
THE Senate committee has reported ad
versely on the bill giving pen sion Of $50 a
month to Mrs. belong, widow of the Jean
nette commander
THE Senate has passed. resolution direct
ing that marble tablet be placed in the room
in which Vice President Wilson died, record
inS the fact and the date of his death.
AT meeting of the House committee on
military affairs, Mr. Slocum was authorized
to call up in the House at the first opportunity
the first bill introduced in the Senate of the
, present Congress providing for the placing Of
General Grant on the retired list AT "A sub
sequent meeting of the committee a motion
authorizing him to call up the Edmunds bill
passed by the Senate, and having for its
object the retirement of General Grant was
lost by vote of to-
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

BOILER in a sawmill opposite Williams
port, Penn, exploded, killing two men and
injuring seven others, one or two with fatal
effect.
A CHEMICAL factory and n number of
dwelling houses in Yonkers, N. V, were de-
stroyed by fire; estimated total loss, $780,
Coz.
A FIRE at the Shade mills, Fall River,
Mass, did damage to the extent of about
$20O,000
CAPTAIN ISAIAH RYNDERs, well-lSnown in
New York as 1.-THE old Democratic war
horse died in that city n few days since. He
was eighty years old, voted for jackson in
lS2S, and many years ago was power in
city politics.
BY an explosion in a soda-ash works near
| Syracuse, n. Y, one of eight immense dis
tilling tanks was blown seventy feet high and
landed thirty feet away. 1t weighed 10000
pounds. Eight men were injured, the case OF
two of them being considered hopeless.
PROFESSOR BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, of Yale
college, one of the leading American scien-
lists, is dead in his SEVENTEEN year.
SHORTLY before his death the late exGov-
ernor Coburn, of Maine was swindled out of
$3.50 900 in railroad securities by conspiracy
of Boston sharpers. Rather than prosecute
the rascals Governor Coburn pocketed the
loss.
GREGG &, SON. boot and shoe manufac-
turers of Binghamton, N. V, have failed,
with liabilities of 100000
Two men were burned to a crisp and three
more injured by an explosion of dynamite at
the Somerset Chemical works, Somerset,
Penn. The factory buildings were completely
wrecked, the pecuniary damage being esti-
mated at 100000.
THE New York State Dairy commissioner
says in his annual report that at least 80
per cent. of the illegal traffic in aduterated
butter has been broken up
GEORGE +. TRAvIss was hanged at Wells
boro, Penn, for the murder of Martha Syl-
VIA His victims burned body was found in
the ruins of barn shortly after he had paid
her fifty dollars for three cows and he is
supposed to have murdered her to get back
his money. Travis denied the crime to the
last
a BILL has been introduced in the Penn
sylvana senate to inflict corporal punish
ishment on any man convicted of having
beaten a woman.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL BUTLER denies the recent story
that he has engaged to write book,
Mrs. GARFIELD, mother of the late presi-
dent, has passed her eighty third birthday
THE Tichborne claimant has made arrange
ments to come TO America on a lecturing tour.
MRS GLADSTONE, wife of the English pre-
mier is a great worker among the London
poor.
THE Sth of January tie Prince Of Wales
eldest son, and tn 4refore, heir TO the throne,
came of age.
ALTHOUGH still weak from the effects of his
illness, General Grant is said to be rapidly
improving in health
EDITOR NJ. II. De You've, who was shot by
Adolph Spreckels in the san Francisco Chroa
icle Office, is attending regularly to business
again
NICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM A. WHEEL
Err is in feeble health, wifeless and childlesS,
at his old home in Malone, Franklin county,
New York.
GOVERNOR KINKEAp, of Alaska, says it
will be impossible to build railroads IN that
country. Alaska is larger than all the United
States east of the Mississippi river.
THEODORE TILToN is living in Paris where
he is described as giving good dinners TO good
persons, writing volume OF poems, ana
mingling in artistic society, INCLUDING that oil
Sarah Bernhard
ADJI GENERAL Dkl 81 II sttlu W nelSe
with General o. o. Howard in the opinion
that deserters from the army ought to be
branded He says that during the last i've
wears 10 9Ol soldiers have deserted from the
regular army, or nearly every other man.
1T is stated by Harper's Weekly that Mr..
Hayes was the only President OF the United
States since Mr. Lincoln who did not smoke
tobacco. Presidentelect Cleveland is II
smoker, as were Presidents johnson, Grant
and Garfield, ana ms is President Arthur"
A MOVEMENT has been started to keep
Francis Murphy in Pittsburg as the minister
of a "ChurCh of Gospel Temperance. A
fund of 81. 600 has already been raised in its
support During his late campaign OF eight
weeks in that city Mr.. Murphy obtained
5000 signatures to the temperance pledge
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE's family physician
at Washington is a lady homoepathist named
Mrs. Winsow During his present serious
| attack of erysipelas she has attended him
| faithfully, and everybody trusts that she VIII
soon bring him through safe and sound. The
| chief justice has been absent from his official
! duties for the first time in ten wears
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
SCHUYLER COLFAX.
His sudden Death i'm minne.ota-
sketch of his Life.

Vice-President Schuyler Colfax dropped
dead at the Omaha depot in Mankato MINI.
He arrived on the Milwaukee and ST. Paul
roaa from the East at 10 o'clock and walked to
the 'c'elaha depot, q distance of three
iourths of mile, with the thermometer thir-
W degrees below zero After arriving at the
depot heMved only about five minutes II
IS suppsS6S that the extreme cold and subse-
1nent he6s Snd over-exertion caused q stop
page of the How of blood to the heart The
House OF Representatives and both bodies Of
tine Indiana Legislature adjourned out of re
spect TO his memory.
Schuyler Colfax was born in New York
city on March %, 1923. He removed to Indi-
ana III 1850, and was for some time a clerk IL
u country store. After studying law and
working as n printer and newspaper reporter
lie established at South Bend in 1916 a Wing
newspaper called the 81 Joseph valley Regis
Ter, of which he remained propric-
TOR till 1850. He was secretary Of
the Wing National conventions IN
lSiS and 1852, and in 1850 q member of the
state constitutional convention. He became
Republican shortly after the destruction of
the WING party. He was elected to the
Thirty fourth Congress from the Ninth In
diana district which he continued to repre-
sent till 1869 For two terms he was chair
man OF the House committee on postofiices
and post roads. He became n prominent
figure on the Republican side, and was elected
Speaker of the House in the Thirty eighth
Congress in 1853, and was twice reelected
In 1861 with the late Samuel Bowes and
other journalists, he made the overland trip t.
California. In 1858 he was nominated AMI
elccted Vice President on the Republican
ticket with General Grant. In 1870 he
gave notice of his intention to withdraw
from public life at the end of his term
but he was again a candidate for the
nomination for Nice-President in the
Republican National convention in 1872
and received 3l4 IL votes against 3S4 1-2 dor
Henry Wilson, who got the nomination. In
1873 he was implicated in the Credit Mobi1ier
scandals. He escaped Impeachment on the
ground that the offence had been committed
before he became Vice President. After his
retirement to private life at the expiration Of
his term as Vice President in 1873, he had lit
tie connection with and no influence in poll
lies. He was a fluent speaker, and in tn
last few years occupied himself with lectur
ing
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
A Railroad Magnate.

In letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend reports as
follows conversation which he had
with one of the best informed railroad
men in New York, whom he does not
name.
+ Whom do you consider the first
railroad man in the United States.'
1--WE rather look at c. p. Huntington
as at the head of the American railroad
system. He entered the field late, escaped
the general misfortunes of the Union
Pacific railroad, to which his company
was the complement, and with its earn
ings he has built a complete railroad sys'
TEN from San Francisco nearly to
Mexico, and thence across the desert and
Texas to New Orleans, and he has finished
his railroad from Hampton Roads to
Memphis and is thought to be the con-
trolling spirit in the new railroad from
Memphis to New Orleans. Therefore,
he is the only American who controls "a
line from ocean to ocean"
Where is lIuntingtons home nowl'
I'm the city of New York. You see,
he owns the American line of steamers
from New Orleans. In this line there are
probably as many as thirty steamers.
They are all American vessels, built at
Wilmington, Del, and well adapted for
their purpose. A branch of this steam
ship line runs to Vera Cruz. Hunting
ton also has steamship facilities from
New York to his initial railroad point al
Newport News. | would not be at all
surprised" said my friend, "to sec
Huntington one of these days complete
his railroad system to New York city
lie has married the widow of one of hi:
railroad officers, and has just bought heI
a very expensive piece of ground oil
Fifth avenue, New York. He delights
in paintings, and is pretty good judge
of them, while a modest man in hi
claims to artistic knowledge"
"How much is in Huntingtons rail
road system altogetherl'
NEARLY 5000 miles, Some 500 mile
of this is in river steamboats, on the Col
orado and Sacramento rivers. He ha
about 1. 200 miles in his Central Pacific
road, about !, 800 in the Southern Pacific
some 1900 miles in his Texas system
and he is also building into northern
California.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
TWO BIG FAILURES.
Well Known bankers and n Great
IL on Firm suspend.

Two big suspensions on the same day-one
in New Y orh and the other in Pittsburg-have
startled the business communities Of the
East. In New York the widely known
banking house of John j. Cisco g. Son
was obliged to close its doors and make an as
signment. Rumors affecting the financial
s3undness Of the firm caused such run upon
its funds by alarmed depositori that it final
" went under. The effect of the rumors
was naturally quickened by the general dull
ness of business and the persistent deprecia
ton of railroad securities. with which the
firm are said to be heavily lalen. The liza
bilities of the insolvent firm are estimated at
from s., GO $50 to 100000.
At Pittsburg, Penn, on the same day, the
great wire and steel manufacturing firm Of
Oliver Brothers &; Phillips, and the Oliver 4
Roberts Wire company, llimited) issued the
following card t. their creditors:
1--WE are to day compelled to suspend pay
ments, and propose calling Immediately
meeting of those interested, to whom We
believe we can show assets amply sufficient,
with some indulgence to pay every dollar OF
our liabilities
The report of the embarrassment of Oliver
Brothers x Phillips. the greatest iron firm III
the CITY, flew like wildfre and set the town
ag0g with excitement. Such an event was
recognized as a catastrophe unequaled by any
previous failure. The firm had about 1000
men in it, employ, and owned more than 100
pudding furnaces. i failure t. meet some
heavy notes is sal to have been the immediate
cause of its suspension. Harry W. Oliver,
jr. is the best known member of the firm
outside of Pitsburg 10y reason of his candi
dacy for United States Senator in ISL and
his membership of the Tarl!r commission He
has been known as one of the Stalwart Re
publican leaders III the State and liberal
contributor to campaign funds, but has
never held any local Office. The firms liza
bilities are placed at $1,000, 900, and it is as
serted they will be able in tims to pay cred
itnrs in fnll
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

In the marble memorial to Shakespeare IN
the Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey. the
bard, as is we'll known has one arm thrown
careessly over pile of bound volumes Of his
works When David 9arrick, the great
Shaksperean actor died he was inferred under
meath the floor in the Poets Corner, and a
few days afterward it was discovered that the
forefnger of Shakespeare's etiigy pointed di-
rectly TO Garrick's grave. 1t was purely
accidental, yet nothing could be more appro-
pirate,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

ENGLISH music is attracting at present con
siderable interest thanks to the growing in
dependence OF young English composers The
latest indication is the commission for an
opera for the Stadt Theatre, at Hamburg, by
Nilliers Stanford from Manager Pollini.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

The Italian theatres are the nnest IN the
world to hear ana see in, though they do not
compare with ours for decoration They are
oval instead Of horseshoe in shape, and ms
fireproof as all theatres are said 10 be till they
prove to be otherwise.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

ITALIA during the past week to see "Nanon.
All agree that it is a most charming opera
A waltz aria running through the entire ope-
ra, which is the work of Genee, the composer
who orchestrates all of Strauss operas.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
VOTcigu.

DIssENsIoN has arisen in the French cabi-
net on proposal Of General Lewal, the min
lister of war, to declare war against China
RHE Pbelan-Short shooting ARRAY in the
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23

THERE will he 1900 tickets, at s. each,
issued for the inauguration ball. That viii
make $50 900, an amount that will probably
a great deal more than pay the expenses
Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-20

Chilled, recognized the world over as the
best chilled pillow made. We have some(
new features in the pillow line, viz: The
No. Vineyard, with reversible point and !
wing, which sharpen themselves. We also
have the New Vineyard, with slip nose
points. Both of these plows are SO arranged
that the horse walks in the furrow, throwing
Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-20

the lead. This imple-
ment was invented by
L. B.Hogue,of Carpen-
terra, and thoroughly
tried before putting
upon the market. 1t
is being manufactured
by the Judson Manu-
featuring Co. Of Oak
land, California. We
have already sold a
number Of these cult
vators and ask you to-
give them a trial. With
them it is no more
Los Angeles daily herald., 1885-12-20

trouble take fifty orchard
We our
vinyrs
labor
Steel Standard Planet Combined Horse Hoe and Cuvat also
The Planet
known the Pacific Slope For HORSE RkES
Half Wagons Trucks, Header
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-02-22

NornPt pts parts;
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-13
CORVALLIS OREGON, NOVEMBER l3 1885.

The pastoral letter, as usual, contained a
summary of DEGREES or rules passed by the
council, and when published, one paragraph
attracted considerable attention. 1t read as
follows: There is one way of profaning the
Lords day which is so prolific of evil re-
suits that we consider it our duty to utter
against it our special condemnation. This
is the practice of selling beer or other Ii
quors On Sunday, or of frequenting places
where liquor is sold. This practice tends
more than my other to turn the day of the
Lord into dissipation and make it an occa-
sion for breeding iutemperance. While We
hope that Sunday laws on this point vii.
not be relaxed, but even more rigidly en-
forced, We implore all Catholics, for the love
ot God and of the country, never to take
part i'll such traffic, nor to countenance or to
patronize it. and we not only direct the at
tention OF all pastors to the expression OF
this abuse but we also call upon them to in
iuce all of their focks that may be engaged
the sale of liz lors to abandon as soon as
they can the dangerous traffic, and to en-
brace a more becoming way of making "a
living"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-13
FOREIGN NEWS.

1t is now definitely stated that the rice,
tes nj silk crops of Japan will be above
average.
1t is stated that Sir Hector Langevir,
~an,dian minister of public works, and
don. Mr.. Chapleau, secretary of state, will
esign lii the event OF Riel being hanged.
the jury in the Armstrong abduction case
'oaght IN a verdict OF guilty agai,.st Edi-
tor Stead and Rebecca Jarrett, ai.i acquit-
el both jacques and Booth.
President Grevy has refused to accept the
resignation of the French ministry, on the
Found that the cabinet is i'll accord with
the new situation resulting from the re;ene
elections.
Great Britain just now is intensely excited
over politics The Irish question has talle
back seat, and III its place appears the
church question, which threatens TO iniur.
the liberals. Giadstone's party is hopeicss
~ divided to disestabishment, ncarl,
half of the liberal candidates standing
pledged against the union of church and
tate
A dispatch from Eagle PISS announc' 8
that the last spike of the Canadian Pacii :
was driven IN the AFTERNOON, the core.n,. y
b ing simple and to the point. Mr.. Van
Horne stated that the western end would
not be in operation this winter further than
Calgary, but every effort would be devoted
t. place the line in trst-ciass shape, aud
through traffic would begin about the lst OF
May next.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-13

A Portland gentleman engaged in the
wheat business says: "AIthoush quotations
OF wheat are very low aud ti.e Pacific coast
trade seems denura.izsd, [ do not believe
tlat quotations represent the actual value oi
wheat, AM il is not likely that either our
farm rs speculative holders of any
strength Kill sell wheat now
| believe that strong parties WHO have load
ell up with charters for u. K. at top prices.
b oth here and III San Francisco, are NJ. king
IN effort to scare the holders of wheat and
they daily unloal a little spot wheat foa
cash in the effort t. cpmpei large sales
Charters are weakening every day and no
business worth mentioning is done i'll
wheat.
[ should deem it advisable for turner's te
hold their wheat until February next, as by
that time the real ren{th of wheat will be
plainly manifest, and the gentlemen inter
ested in high charters will be over their
scare, as wheat on its merits will place them
ON dry land, booted and spurred As for
the enormous surplus east, L think the mills
will need every pound of it to fill orders