The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19

agency in Wisconsin. q. d. schwartz or
Pennsylvania, chief Of division in the third
auditors Office.
THE adjutant general has completed a list
of casualties in the Federal army during the
late war The aggregate number of deaths
is shown to have been 359 496. OF these 3D.
49S occurred among Union soldiers held as
prisoners of war The total number of troops
reported as furnished by the various States
under the various calls is g, 772 40S. Some of
the returns were duplicated, and it is esti-
mated that the actual number was about
2,500,000.
SECRETARY MANNING has revoked all or
ders heretofore made concerning the disinfec-
ton of rags.
SECRETARY MANNING has ordered the rev.
enue marine cutters to observe unusual vigi-
lance, and patrol the Atlantic coast from New
England TO the Virginia capes, to prevent
the arrival of vessels infected with cholera,
yellow fever, or other contagion
H. C. de alma, who some weeks ago caused
the arrest of the commission of the land Of
flee for assault. has been dismissed from his
position as special timber agent of the land
office
A SERENADE was given to General Logan
the other night by the colored people of
Washington In honor of his return to the
Senate. General Logan made an address.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered another
trial of tho Dolphin in order to test her
strength when subjected to the strain of q
heavy sea.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the land office,
has submitted to Secretary Lamar report
upen the famous Maxwell land grant in New
Mexico, for which nearly two million acres Of
public land were claimed and patented in
1919 The report is to the effect that the
land was fraudulently obtained, and that
proceedings be taken to set aside the patents.
Foreign.
SEVENTY persons were killed and many in.
jured on a train in Russia which had been
wrecked by robbers, who placed bar of iron
across the track. After the smash-up the
robbers plundered the train.
TEN members of the Rhine club were
drowned in lake near BaS>e. Switzerland
the upsetting of their boat.
THE latest estimated number of killed by
the earthquake in the Vale of Cashmere,
India, is 200.
1GNACE BoURGET, archbishop of Montreal,
is dead in his ninety second year
THE cholera scourge has broken out in
Madrid.
THE instruction in the United States Of
Colombia has been suppressed.
A FIRE at Aux Cages Hayti, has destroyed
800 buildings and rendered about l,COO fami-
lies homeless. The loss is is estimated at over
S2,000,000.
A LONDON dispatch announces that CON
corning the claim of Mayor Maitland to the
Lauderdale peerage, which is before the
house of lords, United States Minister
Phelps and Senator Edmunds will give testi-
mony relating to the law of marriage as it
existed in the American colonies in l712.
A HALF-BREED named Remeau has reach
ed the mission at Calgary, Manitoba in an
almost dying condition and with terrible
story of massacre by Riel's Ind ian allies un-
der Big Bear. Remeau's story is to the effect
that his wife and five children and three other
families, while travelling toward Green Lake,
were caught by the Indians and all foully
murdered.
Ten men were killed and as many more
injured by an explosion of giant powder in
mine near Iacatecas, Mexico.
FINDING the country impossible for
troops General Middleton has abandoned the
pursuit OF Big Bear, the Indian ally of Riel
in Manitoba.
LONDON advices of the 18th state that the
resignation of Mr.. Gladstone and the liberal
cabinet had been accepted by Queen Nicto-
ria. The queen summoned Lord Salisbury
the conservative leader, to Balmoral for the
purpose of forming new cabinet.
QUEBEC dispatch states that lawyers
have been retained to defend Riel, the insur-
gent leader, and that his plea will probably
be insanity.
AN earthquake has occurred in the Eastern
Caucasus. The Russian town of Sikuch was
completely swallowed, and the township suf-
fered damage to the extent of several million
roubles
A FIRE in London has destroyed the Indian
museum annex to the great building in
which is being held the International Exhi-
btion of Inventions Many rare and costly
lals ppn