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, 1885-11-04
ELEGRAM
ST. CROIX STATION.

81 OhO1A
New York, Oct. 31st.-A London des.
patch states that Her Majesty the Queen
has declined to interfere in the case ofRiel,
the leader of the rebellion in the North
West Territories, and that power has been
given to the Governor General to act.
1t is reported that Mr.. Gladstone and
Earl Granville have held a conference end
agreed upon the foreign programme to be
adopted by the Liberals as their platform
during the present election campaign. 1t
was decided that the party should recog-
nize the union of Bulgaria and Roumelia as
an accomplished fact, and also as an obsta.
Gle to Russian designs on Constantinople.
Likewise that Greece and Servia should be
counselled to disarm, and so avoid bank
ruptcy.
The Marquis of Harrington, speaking at
Accrington, declared that he expected %
Liberal success, but he would oppose the
proposed disestablishment of the Church,
Lord Randolph Churchill in the course
of a speech criticized the apathy displayed
by the Liberal addresses with regard to
India and Imperial federation.
, 1885-11-04
MENDMEN

proposed by the undersigned to Draft Of
Ordinance concerning the trade IN and sale
Of rum and other distilled strong liquors
IN st. Croir.
That Z be struck out, that 5 s be
inserted for 5 Sc. to 81 and 5 81 to
read as follows:
The Government reserves to itself the
right of inspecting all rum shops so as to
be satisfied that the purchaser is secured
a pure unadulterated article for his money,
say rum not under a given standard proof
to be fixed by the Government.
TranSgreSsion of this s to be dealt with
in the same manner as those mentioned
III 5 Is.
J. HEWITT,
End Member for Frederiksteds Country District.
To
The Honorable Chairman of the Coo,
NAL Council.
A vote was taken upon Member Hewitt's
amendment which was unanimously adopt
ed.
Sections 20 to % were put to the vote
and unanimously adopted.
No one requesting the word further he
Draft passed to a 3rd Discussion.
TO be c0ntinued.)
, 1885-11-04

To the Editor Of the " st. Thome Tidende''
and " The Bulletin"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
LATER NEWS

PREsIDENT-ELEcTC CLEVELAND had long
Carlisle presumably about the cabinet APP
pointments.
AN explosion outside dry goods store on
Grand street, New York, shattered the win
dows of several stores and created consterna-
ton throughout the neighborhood. One of
the dry goods firms has had trouble with its
employees, and it is thought that dynamite
was used to bring it to terms.
HENRY CALENHAUsEN, of Durand, Wis,
battered his wife's brains out with an axe,
and then hanged himself.
IN the United States Court at Fort Smith,
Ark, five men-four whites and negro
were sentenced to be hanged April II for
murders committed in Indian Territory
THE wife and eleven-year-old son of Rev.
c. H. Smell were murdered in their house
near 1nkster, Dakota by George Miller n
hired man. Miller, whose motive for the
crime was robbery, fed to British terri
tory.
THE Colorado legislature has resolved to
investigate the charges made by Senator
Hill that he was defeated for reelection to
the United States Senate by the free use of
corruption money
Hon. JAMES X. JONES, an Arkansas Con
gresham and ex-Confederate soldier, has
been elected to the United States Senate
from that State as successor to Senator
Stewart.
A HEAVY storm in London eliminated in a
terrific peal of thunder-an almost unprece-
dented event in that latitude at this season.
and raised great commotion throughout the
city, as it was supposed that dynamiters were
again at work and had blown up more of the
public buildings.
PARIS is to spend $40. 100000 in public i'm
provements.
FRANCE and China are taking vigorous
measures for an active campaign against each
other.
A BRITISH force is reported by rebel de-
serter to have captured Meemneh and to
have sent steamers with troops and stores to
General Gordon at khartoum.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
THE ICE CARNIVAL.
Opening Scenes mt MontrcaI-Thou-
sands of Visitors.

thousands OF strangers were present dur
ing the opening ceremonies of the ice carni-
val at Montreal On the Place D'Armes a
monster ice lion of exquisite sculpture had
been constructed which was unveiled Dur
ing the afternoon a boulevard on the ice
was opened There were two tracks for
trotting horses and one for spectators. The
best specimens of the Canadian pony were
exhibited On the island toboggan sleds were
used by many. Close by an ancient trapper's
camp added TO the natural appearance of the
scene Toboggan slides in all parts of the
city and on the mountain were opened. Pro-
vision was also made for children, while
strangers We're heartily welcomed.
On the Champ dc Mars, what is called a
condora, resembling an. oll-fashioned cairn,
all of ice, was constructed. 1t was sur
mounted by figures of snow-shoes and by a
trapper, fifteen feet high, holding torch. In
the afternoon highly successful promenade
concert was held in the Victoria Skating
Rink, where in the evening hockey
match on skates took place. The rink was
crowded, and the best local and out
side talent took part At night the formal
illumination of the Mount Royal toboggan
slide took place. The governor general ar
rived i'll the evening, and was accorded
hearty reception. At S o'clock the ice palace
was illuminated bp electric light, while the
ice lion and condora were exhibited under
the same conditions.
The ice palace is a much much more massive
structure this year than last, the major axis
being 100 feet long and l2O feet in width.
The ground plan is elliptical in form, and on
each end of the major axis are two oblong
towers, each thirty eight feet high, with an
entrance to the building. Quite a
new thing in this years palace
are the two round towers at each
end of the minor axis, with
arched entrances The main tower is thanked
on one side with single towers about seventy
feet in height, and on the other with double
towers rising to a height of forty and fifty
feet, respectively. 1t is exceedingly graceful
in outline, and its proportions are well bal
anced- 1t is wonderfully beautiful in the day
light, but it is not until evening that one sees
to perfection this enchanted castle of gleam-
ing sea-greeD united ice, when with themoon
shining in the heavens above with that clear
brilliancy seen only in extremely cold coun-
tries, and with the electric illuminations gilt
tering through its towers and turrets, it seems
much more like the marvellous imaginings of
some opium stated dreamer than a real tangi-
bic thing. huge dazzling gem.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
THE PATENT OFFICE.
Summary of the Work Done During
Last Year.

The annual report of the United States
commissioner of patents for the year ended
December 81 1854, just issued, shows that
there was received during the year from
all sources sl,O75, 100, and that there was
expended 500, $50, an excess of receipts over
expenditures of Sl05,2l9. The fees for appli-
cations amounted to 1910, 175. The receipts
for 1883 were 81, 1920 The report shows
that there is in the treasury of the United
States balance on account of the patent
fund of s., 7sl, G95.
A summary of the work of the office for the
year shows that there were issued 20 2J7 pat
ents and designs; that JIG patents were
reissued, and that l,02l trademarks and 5l2
labels We're registered; l2,30l patents ex-
pired during the year, and patents were
withheld in 1889 cases for non-payment
OF the final fee, OF the patents issued Is,
013 were to citizens of the Cnitei States and
1,2S4 to citizens of foreign countries. The
commissioner again calls attention to the in
adequacy of room and of facilities for CON
Quoting the business of the office, and to the
unfitness OF the rooms for occupation by
human beings and says that Several deaths
have already occurred from disease con-
tracted i'll the foul. damp rooms
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
A RIDE TO DEATH.
Sleigh Filled with People struck
by an Express IrAin.

A terrible accident occurred near Port
Clinton, Ohio, about 2 A. NJ, by which three
persons lost their lives and several others
were probably fatally injured A ball was
given in Port Clinton, and among those who
attended was party of ladies and
gentlemen from Oak Harbor, who went
in large sleigh. In returning home, at a
point three miles west of Port Gin
ton, they were obliged to cross the track of
the Lake Shore road. The party reached the
crossing just as the east bound limited ex-
press came along. The members of the party
were so closely mufiied about the head that
the train was not seen or heard till the horses
had stepped upon the track. The horses and
sleigh were hurled high in the air and far
away from the track into the deep
snow The vehicle was smashed into splin-
teis and the horses instantly killed Three
OF the occupants of the sleigh were caught up
by the pilot of the locomotive and the others
hurled into the snow. Stephen S. Hall, of
Detroit, and Jennie Whipple, of Wauseon,
were instantly killed, Mrs. John Nogel,
Mrs. Charles Nogel and Mrs. Abel Ther-
wechter of Oak Harbcr, received
terrible injuries, Mrs John Vogel has since
died, and 1t was believed the other two la
dies would recover. John Vogel's leg was
broken, and Charles Vogel was more or less
severely bruised The dead and injured were
taken aboard the train and carried to Oak
Harbor station, whence the injured were
conveyed TO their homes
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
Washington.

The House wing Of the capitol has had a
narrow escape from destruction by fire
Flames were discovered near the roof, but
were extinguished before they had made
much Roadway. Part of the roof was de-
stroyed
IHE President has nominated Commodore
Samuel +. Franklin TO be rear-admiral.
Mr. BURCHARD, director of the mint, saws
that last year there was obtained from the
MINES of United States gold worth nearly
81, 100000
The national board of trade has been in
session at Washington.
IHE postofice appropriation bill as com
pleted by the House appropriation commit
tee provides for total appropriation of S52.-
253.2OO. The estimates us prepared by the
postoffice department amounted to $50, OO9,-
ld9, and the appropriation for the current
year amounted to $49 040, 400.
In executive session the Senate confirmed
Luclus ii. FOote, of California, as minister
to Corea, and Commodore Samuel r. Frank
lin as rear admiral
The conference committees of the two
houses on the bills TO regulate the counting of
the electoral vote are in hopeless deadlock,
and have voted to disagree
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has sent a commune
cation to the House recommending the return
TO England of the steamer Alert which was
presented to our government by Great Britain
TO adm the search for the Greedy expedition.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

gave grand banquet and scattered money
in every direction sending $500,0O0 to the
locust eaten district in one lump, and con-
tributing &c., 00 toward paying off the re-
public's debt.
JAMES GILBERT CUNNINGHAM, the man ar
rested in London Tower soon after the dyna-
mite explosions, was committed for trial af-
ter examination. He is described as an Irish
American, about twenty five years old The
London police considered his arrest very
important All the public buildings in Lon
don are guarded by police and military, and
special detectives are watching outgoing
steamers, especially those destined for Amer
lea.
AT least 300 lives have been lost through
the recent snow avalanches on the Italian
Alps.
WORK has been commenced to repair the
damage done by the dynamite explosions in
the parliament buildings and the London
Tower
Mr.. BRADLAUGH, the member of the Brit
ish house Of commons who was expelled for
refusing to take the oath of office usually pre-
scribed, has been granted a new trial in tho
case which the government won against him
for taking his seat without taking the oath.
In blizzard on the Newfoundland coast
twenty-three fishing boats were driven to sea
and sixty fishermen are supposed to have
drowned
The crew of the British bark Wellington
mutinied off Cornwall, England, and killed
the captain and severely wounded the mate.
The captain and mate, in defending them
selves, wounded three of the crew The mu-
tineers, who were arrested, charge that the
captain had become feroclous beyond endur-
anoe through continual drinking
AT the Montreal ice carnival there was q
grand parade of seighs, more than 200
being in line and 5000 spectators filling tho
streets.
EXTRA precautions have been taken to
protect the British museum, as information
has been received that the dynamiters have
threatened to blow it up.
1NSURRECTIoNIsTs in Bolivia have seized O
number of government vessels and captured
n town.
NJ. OLIVIER PAIN, prominent French
communist, is reported to be in command OF
the False Prophets forces at Metemneh.
AN express train running at high rate OF
speed near Sydney, Australia, was thrown
into creek by the weakness of the bridge
which it was crossing. Forty passenger.
were killed.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
NEWSY GLEANINGS

In Great Britain ssl. OOO, 900 is invested in
street railways.
DENMARK spends $55 900 year for agri-
cultural teaching.
A NEW machine for making cigarettes does
the work OF thirty men.
THERE are $40 churches in London within a
radius of twelve miles.
DURING the year 1884, S3,051 persons died
in London, or 223 a day.
DIPHTHERIA has within five weeks swept off
twenty-five children at Fullerton, Neb,
ONE hundred and twenty-five million dol
lars worth was the fire sacrifice of 1884.
On the basis of the November vote the
United States proper has "a, 792, 56S popula-
ton.
THE State of Maine paid last year 50, 745 as
bounties on bears, the number of bears killed
being $40
A BERLIN physician was fined the other
day for not keeping himself informed on
modern methods of practice.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ROBERT BROWNING, the poet, aged seventy
three, is about to marry.
IT costs Jay Gould about $500 for every
mile he travels in his yacht
WILKIE COLLINS, the novelist has just
celebrated his sixty first birthday anniver-
sary.
MRS. PHIL SHERIDAN is taller and much
younger than her husband, who is greatly
devoted to her
j. l. CASE the owner of Jay Eye-See, has
lost about 81 900, 900 in bad business ventures
within the last few years.
OF the five correspondents who started on
the march from Gakdul to the Nile three
have been killed and one wounded
Mrs. GARFIELD is expected to make trip
South, during which she will visit a gold
mine which she owns in North Carolina,
THE ex Empress Eugene has not lost all
interest in things mundane, he went all
over a cracker factory in Englan d the other
day.
MISS TILE FRELINGHUYsEN, daughter of
the secretary of state, is said to be the most
popular unmarried lady in Washington so
ciety.
MRS. SENATOR BAYARD is n tall, slender,
elegant woman, and dresses richly and with
refined taste She is the mother of nine
children.
Edison, the inventor is only thirty-seven
years old. lie wears short, brown hair, but
no beard. His gray eyes are remarkable for
their enormous pupils.
Hon. JUSTIN s. MORRILL,, of Vermont,
who is the oldest living Senator, has been in
Congress just thirty years. He is over six
feet tall, but stoops little.
The only Methodist Episcopal bishops in
America are Bishops Bowman, Harris, Fos-
ter, Merrill. Andrews, Warren, Foss, Hurst,
Walden, Mallalieu and Fowler. Bishop
Ninde is in India and Bishop Taylor in West
Africa.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
THE CONGO CONFERENCE.
Why the United states Participated
In L..

The President has sent to the House the
secretary of states reply to the request for
information respecting the participation of
the United States in the Congo conference.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen says that in the spring
of 1881 the President, in obedience to
the request of Congress, recognized the flag
of the International association of the
Congo, and appointed commercial agent for
the Congo basin In so doing the govern
ment recorded its share in the already general
conviction that the prospective rich trade of
the Congo valley should be open to all ma
tons on equal terms On October II, 1884,
the German government, through its minister,
invited the | nited States government to take
part in conference to be held in Berlin to ar
range conditions which would assure the de-
Velopment OF commerce with the Congo re-
glon. The state department at once asked
Mr.. kasson, United States minister to Ger
many, to report the nature of the measures
TO be proposed at the conference. Mr. kasson
reported that the subject before the conference
would be the development of the various
nations commercial interest with the Congo
valley that each government would have
the right to adopt or reject the conferences
conclusions, and that our participation APP
pearei to be advisable and consistent with
our precedents and policy.
The government thereupOn determined to
accept the German governments invitation,
on the understanding that questions of ter
l1t)rlal jurisdiction should be excluded by the
conference. Minister Kasson was directed to
represent the United States, and afterward
Henry 5. Sanford was made his associate
delegate Mr.. Frelinghuysen complmentE
Mr., hasson for the manner in which he has
represented us.
Attached to the report is a letter from Mr..
kasSon, dated January Z, 1855, in which he
says that all through the Conference he has
insisted that no declaration should be agreed
upon which would bind any government
which did not agree to it.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.


A BILL to punish "dynamiters" has been
introduced in the New York senate.
A GREAT religious revival is going on in
Central Pennsylvania; Methodists, Mennon-
ties and Salvation Army people are making
hundreds of converts among all classes
ENGINEER MELVILLE, of Arctic fame,
wants TO 60 on another exploring expedition,
and has issued an address from Philadelphia
declaring that the time is ripe for the making
of final and successful voyage to the North
Pole. He wants some wealthy man to fur
nish the means to pay for the fitting out of
another expedition.
A RESOLUTION condemning the attempt to
blow up the British parliament buildings was
passed by the Connecticut assembly.
THREE Italians drank what they supposed
was anisette in Brooklyn barber shop, and
were taken with violent symptoms of poison.
ing. Two of the men died in few moments,
and the third man saved his life by rushing
into neighboring grocery and drinking of
sweet oil, which brought on a violent fit of
vomiting.
EX-GOVERNOR MOSES, of South Carolina,
was taken to prison at Cambridge, Mass, for
obtaining $34 by false pretences from Colonel
I. W. Higginson. Moses has been in similar
scrapes numerous times of late years
NEW YORK literary circles have been much
excited over the mysterious disappearance of
S. S. Conant, editor of Hdrpers Weekly
1t was feared his mind had given way through
overwork, and that he had committed sui
eide.
PRESIDENT ELECT CLEVELAND was called
upon at Albany by Hon. John G. Carlisle,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
The interview between the two lasted until
nearly midnight, and the subject under dis
cusslon is supposed to have been national
government matters.
TwENTY-THREE persons were injured, two
or three with probably fatal result by an ac-
cident which caused an express train going
at high rate of speed TO leave the rails near
Jersey City, N. j., and crash into q train of
loaded coal cars on a side track. The pc
cuniarY damage is put at 500 600.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
Foreign.

NICToRIAHA NIEvEz, an old Mexican re-
siding in Carmen, Mexico, is worth several
million dollars. and has just celebrated his
golden wedding In honor Of that event he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-12

WHAT is the reason there is such tre-
mendous futter because Governor Porter
took occasion to refer to what everybody
knows is dangerous condition of the State
Treasury9 To call attention to this confessed
evil does not necessarily impugn Mr.. Cooper's
integrity. 1t is perfectly we'll understood
that the State money is loaned out to banks
and, possibly, to private individuals. Mr..
Cooper does not deny that and does not care
to deny it. The State is party to the
violation of the law, and Mr.. Cooper is in no
danger of being proceeded against for doing
what all the people understands is done, and
which the Legislature has winked at. But the
people are interested in knowing the real condi
ton of the Treasury Governor Porter did
not overstate the necessity or propriety of
an examination. Why is there such fear
full squeall
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-12

THE attention of those in charge Of theaters,
and those whose influence is felt, is turning in
the right direction at last. In its last issue
the New York Hour is candid enough to say:
1--WE are glad to hear that considerable re-
duction is contemplated in the salaries of
many actors in this city and elsewhere. Ow-
ing to causes in their nature Temporary, many
actors have been getting two or three times as
much as they are worth--many times as much,
Osact as the same degree of ability would
insure them in any other profession" And
Lawrence Barrett makes telling point when
be says that 1.-The real cause of the bad theat-
real season is that the companies are not so
good as they were a few years ago Great
actors must not delude themselves with the
idea that the public care to see splendid and
affective part ruined by an unsympathetic
support The visit of Mr. Irving and his
splendid company has doubtless had its effect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-12
TIE News saws:

'At any rate, let us have square vote
with the yeas and nays. on the question of
the passage of a resolution by the Indiana
Legislature recommending Congress to put
Grant On the retired list. We have been told
in ali manner of shapes, by all sorts and con-
ditions Of men, that the Democratic party is
the soldiers friend. Messrs. Hendricks and
Voorhees, have been piped melodiously to
this keynote. Now let us see how the rep
resentatives of the Democratic party stand
on the question of mere resolution asking
for such simple justice to the greatest sol
der of the war. By all means call the roll
and let US see who it is prevents, far as in
him lies, this measure of right toward the
old, impoverished, crippled hero"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-12

Hon JOHN w. DANIEL, of Virginia has
been selected by the Washington monument
committee to deliver the grafton before Con-
gress at the Washington monument dedication
ceremonies on Feb. 21.-Current Item.
If this be true. it is an unmitigated out
rage. Mr.. Daniel is the gentleman who is
reported to have made a speech during the
LASS campaign in which he said that there
should be new flag as a prerequisite to the
''new Nation So long as such an expression
as this stands uncontradicted or unapologized
for, Major Daniel is not fit person to stand
before the American people and speak at the
dedication Of monument to the memory Of