The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-14
LATER NEWS

OK the day of General Grants funeral in
New York impressive ceremonies of some
sort or another were held in cities and towns
all over the country. Throughout New York
State there was hardly a city or town in
which the day was not observed by either
procession, memorial services, tho tolling of
bells or the booming of cannon. At Lowell,
Mass, General Ben jamin +. Butler pro-
nounced the eulogy, and at the memorial SER
vices in Augusta, Me-, that office was per-
formed by James G. Blaine.
BETWEEN forty and fifty thousand people
visited General Grants tomb at Riverside
park on the day after his burial.
APARTY of five persons consisting of Jar
Wis Snyder, wife and daughter, aged five
years, William HaTner and George Hansen
were swept under the rapids in the Columbia
river, Oregon, while in n sailboat, and all
drowned.
FIRE has destroyed the Montezuma hotel,
near Los Vegas, New Mexico. The hotel
was large structure, built by a railroad
company. The loss amounts to $780, 900.
TWO men and woman were killed and
two children of the latter fatally injured by
a railroad wreck near Cincinnati.
JUDGE JAMES GARLAND, probably the
oldest Judge in the world, and, it is believed,
the oldest Mason in the United States, died
at his home at Lynchburg, Va, the other
lay, aged nnety-fve. He served in the war
IF 1872, and was twice amcmber of Congress-
A FARGO Dakota dispatch says the whole
country has been flooded by the most tire
mendous fall of rain ever witnessed in that
section, and that in consequence enormous
lamage has been done to the crops. The
ground was covered with from six iuches to
a foot of water.
JOSEPH q. HOWARD white, who killed f.
c. Blackman, farmer, after robbing him;
Tom Gee colored) who cut to pieces with an
axe Mary Hughes, white woman, and Tom
Mcneil (colored who killed his brother, ST.
mon Mcneil, were hanged together in public
the other day, at Fayetteville, y. C.. On the
same day Richard johnson (cooretD, suffered
a similar fate at Vidalia, La, for the muir
Ter of another coored man.
WHILE General Grant was being conveyed
TO his grave in New York there were demon
STATIONS of sorrow in many Southern and
Western cities. At Chicago there was an i'm
mense procession, the most prominent feature
being Il draped funeral car, drawn by ten
horses containing q black cas;et and fol-
lowed by magnificent milk white steed with
an empty saddle. There We're also large pa
rades at St. Louis, Cleveland and other
places, and memorial exercises were held in
Cincinnati, Louisville, New Orleans San
Francisco Atlanta, and many other cities
and towns
SECRETARY WHITNEY has written..a letter
70 the assignees Of Mr.. John Roach in which
he says the contracts with that gentleman
for the construction of the new cruisers the
boston, the Atlanta and the Chicago have
been forfeited and that the government will
complete the work at the navy yards.
COLONEL a. G.. SHARPE, chief postollice in
spector has resigned
AFTER attending General Grants funeral
in New York President Cleveland pro
ceeded to Albany, and thence to the Adj
rondacks, for vacation.
THERE are fears of another collision be-
tween the Russian troops and the Afghans in
Afghanstan.
THE scandal case in which Sir Charles
Dixie the leading English tory, is involved
has been revived, the injured husband having
returned the check for $4,000 which Dixie
had given him as reparaton
consul HEAP, at Beyrout, Turkey, has
protested against tine proposed expulsion of
some American citizens