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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
LATER NEWS

THOMAS SMITH, farm laborer residing
near Rockaway n. j., was shot dead by ms
son Lodi in a quarrel over game of domi
noes
RETURNS from all the counties in Kentucky
give Tate DemocraU, for treasurer, major
ity of e. ,597 over Fox Prohibtion), who was
supported by the Republicans This is the
tenth time Tate has been elected treasurer.
\. S. MARINER, postmaster at Careyville,
Tenn. has been caught robbins the mails and
arrested.
THE captain OF the steamship Alexandra,
which arrived at Beaufort, 5. c., reports the
loss of the dredge Beaufort in hurricane Off
the Bermuda Islands, with all hands, num-
bering probably ten men. The Beaufort was
built on the Clyde and brought to this side to
dredge for phosphate in Beaufort harbor.
She was one of the largest craft Of her kind
in the world, and was valued at $50, 900.
LEONARD GARDNER, Springfield Gll)
restaurant keeper, arrested for beating his
wife, procured bail and then went III search
Of tho two policemen who had taken bin into
custody When he met his captors Gardner
Immediately opened fire, killing Poll 'emln
Camp and MORALLY wounding Policeman
Gall. The desperate was also killed by Gall.
Two trains coll1ed in tunnel of the UNI
derground railroad in London with terrific
force. The engineer of one train was instantly
killed and the fireman and five passengers
fatally injured.
MADRID has been the scene of great de-
monstration against Germany for anneXing
the Caroline islands. More than 10000 per-
sons assembled, and the chief speaker was a
Spanish colonel in full uniform. The Germpn
legation was guarded by fifteen police
men.
A LEADING London paper confirms the
statement that Russia has abandoned hor
claims to Xufcar Pass, Afghanistan, and
says that peace is thus secured.
THE condition of Granada, Spain, remains
pitiabe. Hundreds of people are attacked by
cholera in single street nearly every day.
There are no doctors and no authorities to
look after the victims, who often pass through
their agonies in the streets and expire unat-
tended in the cutters. Most of the unaffected
population have fled, and the few healthy
citizens that remain are disheartened and
apathctic.
THE recent disclosures of gross immortality
in London have resulted in a monster demon
stration at Hyde Park. More than 10000
people were present, and there was great
procession, the ma jorty in line being women.
a resolution was passed simultaneously at all
the ten platforms pledging the meeting to as
sist in enforcing the provisions Of the Crimi-
nal Amendment act.
INFORMATION has been received at Cairo,
Egypt, of great massacre at Berber The
popuace are starving.
SINCE the beginning of the cholera epidemic
in Spain. and up to the 23d there have been
ljG. OF cases and 81 SCI deaths
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
A NOTED STAKEHOLDER,
How He Captured Thirtcrn Wen
singh e- sranded.

One OF the most notorious stage robbers on
the Pacific slope is again on trial at San
Francisco for one of his characteristic Of
fences, after having been less than week out
side of the pententiary His name is William
Smith alias c. T. Weibussh. Smith was con-
victed of rillng Wells, Fargo & Co. S treasure
box on a stage from Milton to Sonora, Cal,
Dec -, 1881, and sentenced to San Quentine,
but was released the other day, having com
peted his sentence, less the allowance for
good behavior. He was quickly rcarrested
by the United States marshal ON a warrant
charging him with having robbed the mails
on the same stage On being arraigned in
the United States District court lie pleaded
not guilty.
Smiths greatest exploit was the single
handed robbery of Wells, Fargo q Co.'S eX-
press on tha stage from Sierra Valley to
Truckee on June 20, 1881. While he was
waiting IN ambush for the stage, a light
wagon containing seven men appeared The
robber captured the conveyance and stood
the occupants up for an hour and a half
until the Sierra Valley sage arrived This
contained four passengers, all of whom We're
compelled to get down, except tho driver
who was obliged TO break open Wells, Fargo
g. Co.'S box and hand out the contents
While this was going on two other vehicles
approached and the driver in each was COM
PEELED to get down and mngle with the other
prisoners. At the close of the afternoons
performance Smith had thirteen men, sixteen
horses, and four vehicles under control of his
double -barreled shotgun.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28

DISASTROUS floods have ruined the crops
and caused great distress in China and Japan
A BELGIAN officer, employed by the Afri-
can Association on the Congo has resigned
and proclaimed himself emperor of Tangan-
yika.
THE trade of Marseilles, France, has been
paralyzed by the appearance of Asiatic
FIFTY per cent of the European employees
on the Congo, Africa, have died.
CHIEF PoUNDMAKER, the leader of Riels
Indian allies in the late rebellion in Manitoba,
has been sentenced to three years imprison-
ment
A BODY OF $50 Peruvian troops have been
thrashed after five hours battle by force
of 500 rebels under Caceres, the leader of
the rebellion. Both sides lost heavily.
YELLOW fever prevails in many districts
in Mexico especially i'll Vera Cruz, where it
has become epid emc.
SIR FRANCIS HYyCKS, one of Canada's
leading statesmen, is dead.
SPAIN is much incensed at Germany be-
cause the latter country has claimed posses
sion of the Caroline islands. The Spanish
government had been making arrangements
to gobble up these islands, when Germany
stepped in and took possession.
CASES OF Asatic cholera are increasing
daily at Marseiles and Toulon, France.
NEWS comes from Calcutta, India, that
the ship British Statesman has foundered.
The captain and twenty-five of the crew were
lost.
QUEEN VICTORIA and the Prince of Wales
have gone to Norway on one of the royal
yachts.
KAssALA, the town in the Soudan so long
beseged by the rebel Arabs has at last fallen
into their hands by an amicable arrangement
made with its defenders.
SMALLPOX is spreading in Canada and has
appeared in Halifax, n. S.
THE German corvette Augusta has been
lost during cyclone in tho Red sea Her
crew of 23S officers and sailors were drowned
Her value was S1.75O0J0
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
South and West.

MAXWELL, the alleged murderer of Prel.
Ter few days after lie was brought back to
St Louis from New Zealand, declared that
he had killed his English friend accidentally
by administering an overdose Of chloroform.
The case arouses great public interest in the
West, 10th the alleged murderer and his
victim being Englishmen of good connec-
tions.
A FISHING boat containing crew of eight
men was struck by lightning near Peoria, H.
Three men were instantly killed and one
badly injured.
y FARMER of Crawfordsville, Ind. cap.
tured three burglars who had entered his
house, and taking them in turn to the gate
post, gave each one hundred lashes.
WHILE cars were ascending and descend
ing the inclined railroad at the Cabin Creek
coal mines near Charleston, W. Va. the
loaded cars broke loose and collided with a
car in which wero Layton Oakford president
OF the road; Thomas Peacock, Amos Mitch
ell, Joseph Hall, and a man named Thoman,
killing the four first named and seriously
wounding Thoman.
THE Iowa Democrats at their State conven-
ton in Des Mones, nominated n full State
ticket headed by Charles L. Whiting for
governor, and adopted resolutions indorsing
CJeveland's administration, and favoring h
license liquor law. A spirited debate on III.
sion resulted in the nomination of the Hon.
+. A. Gillette, of Des Moines Greenback
candidate for lieutenant governor, and +. VI.
Moore, candidate for superintendent of pub
lie instruction.
GOVERNOR LOwREY, of Mississippi, has
been renominated by the Democratic State
convention.
THE cabin of three brothers named Regain
was blown up by dynamite at Mceker, Col
James and Patrick ware instantly killed,
while Robert miraculou,Y escaped.
THE Ohio Democrats, at their State con-
ventiOn in Columbus renominated Governor
Hoadly and Lieutenant Governor Warwick
by reclamation and put the entire old ticket
again in the field. The platform indorses
the Cleveland administration, demands
license OF the liquor traffic, and afirms the
tariff plank of the last National Democratic
convention After his denomination Cover
nor Hoadly appeared before the convention
and made speech strongly opposing prohi
bition.
TIE British bark HaddnGtonshire has been
lost on the Oregon coast. Eighteen out of
her crew Of twenty persisted.
A RECEPTION was givena few days since
in Naukesha, Wis, to Vice President and
Mrs. Hendricks.
a LONG freight train was derailed and
wrecked near Cleveland, Ohio The cars
caught fire and We're consumed. Two tramps
who were stealing ride in one Of the cars
We're killed
Hoes are dying by the hundred in Illinois
of cholera.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
MANY LIVES IN PERIL.
Fertile Explosion on q Steamboat
sixteen Persons I'm urcd.


\ Philadelphia dispatch gives the following
particulars OF an explosion on an excursion
steamer that resulted in injuries, in some
cases with probably fatal result, TO sixteen
persons:
When the steamer S. NJ Felton, left her
dock for Wilmington, Del, at 10 o'clock this
forenoon she carried more than two hundred
passengers. Opposite pier s, South Wharves,
the passengers and crew were startled 10y an
explosion which shook the boat from stem to
stern. and when the smoke cleared away it
was found that the entire forward part of
the vessel above the water-line had been
badly damaged and n score of passengers in
jured, many of them severely. The list of
wounded comprised six cen persons of both
sexes and several were njured so badly they
were not expected to recover.
The wrecked upper works took fire and a
frghtful panic ensued. This was speedily
checked by the GOODNESS of a number of men,
VINO drove the women and children aft and
prevented many frantic women from leaping
overheard. Beside those seriously hurt a
large number were stunned by the shock
An incident of the disaster was the
presence of some sisters of charity, who
seemed in no way excited or affected by the
terrific upheaval They passed quietly
among the shrieking passengers, searching
out the wounded, and in one case one of the
sisters was seen TO make bandages out of her
clothing. The promptness with which assist
ance came from all Sides from passing
steamers and from shore, allayed the
panic and prevented the fire from spreading
1t seems marvellous that half the people es-
capped death. Eye witnesses say that at the
moment of the'exploson everything became
envelopel in darkness and the boat rocked as
ii in heavy storm
The official report made TO H. F. Kenney,
superintendent of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad company under.
ha Ton ,tol
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Thirteen Persons Killed and Many
Hurt in an italian Farm Home

Tor Cajetani is a little commune of the
frosinone jurisdiction, near Rome, Italy.
One day recently party of farmers, men
and women, were tfreshing corn on the
threshing floor in front of the farm of Mr..
Ascani at that place. This spot was on the
top of high HILL surrounded by rocks and
precipices. There is no house on the premises,
only little hut, looking like sentry box at
a distance About sunset furious storm
burst upon the company of thrcsEers The
small building could hardly hold five persons
comfortably IN the upper room, and five or
SIX more IN the lower one. which is a sort of
grotto. The laborers, both men and women,
hurried TO obtain what shelter there was, and
those who got in the building were packed
like sardines in box \ board was held
over the door to keep out the wind and rain
by the shoulders Of the men Many who
could not find room inside stood with their
backs against the walls outside, under the
cutters of the little roof
Suddenly n bolt of lightning struck the
little house, tearing the roof and smashing
the door. The thirty eight persons who had
squeezed inside were all Frustrated Thirteen
were Killed and twenty-five badly wounded
People who had witnessed the disaster from
distance ran to the spot They found the
bodies OF the dead scattered around, while
the wounded were moaning and CRYING for
help. The sight was so terrifying that many
ran back again, and the mayor of the com.
mune could not find any one who would
watch the cOrpses. So he had to do il him
self. The neighporS were wild with terror
Doctors had to be summoned from distant
places to take care of the injured. Many of
the survivors became crazy, laughing and
crying alternately
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

SALVINI, the Italian tragedian, will sail
soon for the United States.
EDWARD REMENYI, the noted violnist, is
on a concert tour in China.
New YORK city will have Italian and Ger
man opera again the coming season.
VERDI is putting "Othello' to music. Tue
opera will be called "Iago,n and is to be pro
duced at Milan in 1856
Mr.. JOHN FRANCIS GLIDER is giving piano
recltals at various summer resorts, assisted
oy Mr. William II. Lee, the baritone
The greater portion of Colonel Mapleson's
Italian opera season will be spent in the
Western cities in which he last year made
considerable money.
EDWIN BOOTH lives in a sumptuous Queen
Anne cottage ON ore of the least fashionable,
but most beautiful streets in Newport Mr.
Booth is very ho'pitable
Mr. S. PRATT, the American composer,
lately produced parts of his opera "Zenobia"
at Steinway hall in London Among the
Vocalis,s were Miss Grlswold and Miss Hope
Glenn.
FRENCH adaptation of the "Silver King"
Is being prepared for the Paris Ambigu. Its
performance there will be the first in France
IN many years of an English drama adapted
to the French stage.
DIANE DE LYSn is one of Dumas plays
That has not yet been seen on this side. Fanny
davenport produced the play in England.
Modleska Will present a new dramatization
of the piece in this country.
RICHARD WAGNERs representatives, says
the London Truth, have positively refused to
allow "Parsfal" to be performed in America
on any terms whatever except as an oratorlo,
as 1t was given in London last winter.
Miss WHOM, known by her stage name,
Emma Nevada is to be married in Paris DC
tober 10 DR.. Palmer, who was her secretary
during her recent American engagement.
She will make a concert tour in this country
in November.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE died worth about
S5.OlO,U00
THE empress Of Russia wants Miss Cleve-
lands BOOK translated in Russian.
ONE of General Grants pall-bearers, Gen
eral Joe Johnston had never seen him.
EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR CowAN is
slowly dying of cancer at his home in Lig-
onier, Penn.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN. of musical celeb
rity, fingers at Los Angeles, Cal, place of
delight, he thinks.
erected in this country unless some of the
present projects fail.
LORD WOLsELEY was offered the post of
commander-ln-chief both in Ireland and in
India, but he declined both appointments.
Roscoe CoNKLING will he urged to deliver
an Grafton on Grant at the New York Acad.
envy OF Music as soon as he returns from
Europe
Mrs. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE writes to a
Washington friend that her husband grows
younger looking every day of his stay in
Europe
PROFESSOR NoN RANKE, of the chair of
history i'll the university of Berlin, is ninety
years of age, has been sixty years in the po-
sltlon, and continues to work eight hours q
day.
DIR. DOUGLAS has nearly 200 slips of paper
ON which General Grant communic heated with
him during his illness. He will have them
Autographed and present the originals TO the
family.
MRS BEIVA LOCKWOOD, who is now in
California, implores the papers not to mem
ton her name in connection with another
presidential nomination, because sit is a po-
litical principle that booms must not DO
doomed too early"
PRESIDENT GREvY, who IS approaching
the end Of his seven years term of service
in the executive chair of the French
republic, is seventy-.ive years old, and is not
n candidate for reelection. FreycInet or Bris-
son is likely to succeed him.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will probably visit
Richmond on the occasion of the Virginia
State fair, which commences on the 2lst of
October and continues for four days The
President will be accompanied by the cabinet
members, and will make an address.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
WashlnRt0n.

CHIEF CLERK JOHN WEEDALE, of the war
department, will act as secretary of war dur
ing the absence Of Secretary Endicott. The
secretary will be absent until October |.
A WASHINGTON dispatch states that Gen
eral Black the pension commissioner, has
discovered gross irregularities in the pension
offices at Chicago, Philadelphia and other
large cities. At Chicago CSC cases Of fraudu-
lent pensions have been ascertained showing
collision of gross carelessness. The names are
now dead or who have disappeared for years,
or in the case Of widows have married
again. The Chicago pension agent is Miss
Ada Sweet
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28

MORE than 200 replies have been received
at the treasury department TO the recent cir
cular letter calling for expressions of opinion
from manufacturers and importers on the
subject of tariff revision.
THE treasury department has just pur
chased 100000 ounces of silver for delivery
at the Philadelphia mint for coinage into
standard dollnrs
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-26
THE DUDE AND HIS GUN.
Showing that Fine Feathers Somc-
times Make Fine Hirds.


One day there appeared ON the streets of
a Texas town a dude of the dudiest type,
and, of course, he was the observed of all
observers. He was quiet in everything
but his dress, and until o'clock in the
afternoon he got along very well, but at
that hour he went out for walk, and, as
he passed saloon on the opposite side of
the street, he was saluted by chorus of
yells from lot of cowboys in front.
Put thimble over it, Tie a blue
ribbon to it, " Do it up in pink cotton"
Grease it and slip it into knot hole"
"Give it to tailor" and such cxclama-
tons rang out and the dude walked very
slowly and took it all in.
Finally, Bolus llaukus, the terror,
shouted:
i" Hold on, boys; git still mint an
watch the fur fly. Stick your peppers on
TO tubular biler hat and see me shoot a
hole clear throus.l it.
Bolus pulled his gun, and the other boys
stood back to enjoy the sport. while the
dude walked slower than ever.
Pop went the gun, and the hat flew, but
the dude, quicker than a flash, whirled
around, and long, pearl handled revolver
shOpe in the sunlight for an instant and
then cracked Bolus' hat jumped SIX feet
off his head, and before any of the boys
could think, five more hats jumped off,
after five little pHiisr Of blue smoke rose
from the other side, and then the crowd,
with yell, broke around the corner as il
. cyclone had been after them.
The dude smiled and scratched his chin
"Well' he said to himself, "clothes
does make some diff in a mans looks, an
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-26

Next Tuesday the voters of the sew.
eral towns in this state will be required
to vote, yes or no, upon the question of
the adoption or rejection of the town
system of schools. This is a matter de-
serving serious thought. 1t is the opin-
ion of many of our best educators that
the town system will give us better
schools and at less cost, than our present
system. There is certainly this about
1t, it would equalize the burden among
all the inhabitants of the several towns,
which fact, it would seem, would COM
mend It to lovers of jnstice and fairness.
In Vermont education is matter for
and by the peoplc-the whole people,
and it would seem to the most casual
observer that the whole people should
share, equally in its burdens.
That this is not the case, under the
district system, every one knows. And
it would puzzle any one, we conceive,
to give u good reason why this should
not be the case, under system of edit
cation, the cost of which must be de-
frayed by direct taxation. We hope
that every voter will camly consider
the matter and act upon his best judg-
ment, without regard to selfish aims or
ends.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-26
TIE EGcTCI1.
He Is a Gentle TO nkfnr Boast. Eut is
Full ct Guile.

a broncho is a horse. He has four legs,
Ike the saw-horse, Tut is decidedly more
skltti3h. The bronc.,0 & Of gentle dcpcrt-
ment and mode. t mieu but there isn't a
real safe place about hin. Thare is moth
ing mean about tie broncho, though: ha
isperiettl rcasoIabee ard ac:scn principle.
All he asks is to lie let alone, but he DOGS
ask this, and even aists on it. lie is firm
in this matter, and 10 kind of argument
can shake his determination. There is a
bronrEo that lives cut some miles from
this city. We know him right well One
day man roped hun and tied him TO put
saddle On him. Tie broncilo looked
sadly at him, shock h.s head, and begged
the fellow, as plain as could be, to go
away and not Try to interfere with q
brontho who was simply engaged in the
pursuit of his own happiness, but the man
came on with the saddle and continued to
agrees. Then the broncho reached out
with his right hind foot and expostulated
with him SO that he did. When thorough
ly aroused the broacho is quite futal and
you can get close enough to him to ey-
anime his cranial structure you will
find 4 cavity just aboat the eye where the
bump OF remorse shoJid be. he broncho
is what the COWBOYS Gail high strang"
If you want to know Just low high he is
strung. climb up oIiti his apex.
erode Il broncho cnce. We didn't travel
far, but the ride WIS mighty eyhilaratinc
while it LASTED We got on with great
pomp and 9 derrick Int we didnt put on
am unnecessary gtI in wont RI
get of. The beast ev.ncpd cons idcraile
surprise when We took up our location up
on his dorsai fin. He seemed to think n
moment, and then he -.:t herd I'D his loins
and delivered vo,!ay Of het Is and had
ware, straight cut flon the shorller.
The recoil was fearful We saw That our
seat was going to be ctn cs I'll, AMI sre be-
gan to make a mo ion TO diSn!odn., but
the beast had got Hnsirr way ny IL time,
so we brea; he'd silent h grnn and :i.,,itr--
ed our grip. lie now went on Into !. snasm
of tall, s;if-.egged lu Ks. lie nitchd MS
so high that every ii re we started q. .wn
we would met him colriig up On a.io,her
trip. Finally lie CAV US one srani. fare
well boost and we i,yc Gla frrnanlcn
and split up Though I Ie il .sil Il a. .,cr,;l |
until cur toes ached from tic lJwress, q.
the temperature AMI we 9 luld d inctly |
hear the music Of the sri.rPs Then We |
came down AID fell in y littic heap a'oat |
one hundred yards from The siar.,ny |
point A kind Samaritan gathered III orr |
remains in a cigar-boS an I carried lis TO |
the hoSpt-l As they lo1Sed pisyin:.iv ut |
US, the attic .d:-nt surge rs naivuIcd is t.
the nature % our i'Ii>hnr. Oe said il |
was cyClone, another taat Is was u RI : |
road sinasii-rp; hist w. hsught uf ill.,, /
caiic,i-hitet Ioay thu w.ts glazing !
Peacefully III tie dewy inesd. and held our
Sahta re EtmocrGt.