The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
LATER NEWS.


and settled, amounting to s120, 1877, las.
The number examined and settled dur
ing the previous fiscal year was 27,7S0, and
the amount S1O2 ESQ., Alp. The average month
ly employment of clerks was seventy-ninc.
There were pending and undetermined on
June l. 1855, 2,9j4 claims and accounts, and
on November 1, 2,7SO
AMONG the visitors during President
Cievelands public reception, the other after
noon, was lady, accompanied by her hus-
band, who had just been married for the
third time, and who for the third time had
made bridal trip to the White House, her
two previous visits being during the admins
trations of Grant and Hayes.
THE President has appointed Robert B.
Smith, of Montana, to be United States dis
trict attorney for Montana and Paul Dowl-
ing to be postmaster at Greenfield, Ia.
A BAND of robbers boarded a train in
Italy, shot down the gaurd, secured 1000
francs and jumped in safety from the train
whilc it was running at full speed.
THE number of emigrants who arrived at
the port of New York during the past fiscal
year is 294 ,0l3.
STEPHEN B. WAIMsLEY fifty mine years old,
chief clerk in the New York bureau of cleo
tons, has committed suicide by shooting.
He had been made sick by overwork.
FULL returns put Hills majority for gov
ernor of New York at Il $50, and Jones' ma
jority for Acknowledgements at 1900.
Two young men in n small boat got into
the rapid current at The Niagara Falls, and
were carried over the great cataract.
JOHN MCCULLoUGH, the eminent Ameri-
can actor, died suddenly a few days since at
his home in Philadelphia, to which he had
been removed recently from New York in
sane asylum. He was born in Ireland in
1887, and for many years acted with Forrest
the tragedian.
CHIEF JUSTICE HAYES, of Idaho, has Just
sentenced eight Mormons under the Edmunds
act against polygamy to the full extent of
the law.
A FIRE in the old Farwell block, big Chi
cago business building, has caused an aggre-
gate loss OF 100000
DURING a tornado in the vicinity of Dan
wife and their four children were killed. A
widow named Bruce and her daughter were
dangerously injured.
THE village of Brownsville, Ala, has been
totally destroyed by a tornado. Many people
were injured.
Hon. EMIL kEISEwETTER, the Ohio au-
ditor of state, met w. J. Elliott editor of
the Sunday Capital, in the corridor of
Columbus hotel and shot ut him twice, one
bullet piercing the editors hand. Keisewetter
was arrested and gave bail There has been
a long standing feud between the two men,
growing out of an attack made upon the
official in the editors paper.
MRS SHY and her eleven-year- son were
shot and killed by band of Indians near
Demng, New Mexico.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent James A. Bayard, of Maryland, son
of Secretary Bayard, to be secretary Of Ari-
IONA; Joseph c. Stranghan, of Indiana, to be
surveyor general of Idaho; James A. Daw-
son, Of Colorado, to be surveyor general of
Colorado; John Hise, of Arizona, to be sur
veyor-general of Arizona; George Frank Bay
les to be surveyor of customs for the port of
Port Jefferson, N. Y; Edward r. Pierce to
of Portland and Falmouth, Me; Russell
G. Woodman to be assistant appraiser of
merchandise in the district Of Portland and
Falmouth, Me-. Robert A. Thompson to be
appraiser of merchandise in the district of
San Francisco, Cal; Christian Refs to be as
sistant appraiser of merchandise in the dis
trict Of San Francisco, Cal.
PpFS1nE<T iceuaJ
proclamation commanding all persons at
Seattle and other places in Washington Ter
ritory who have assembled for unlawful pur.
poses to desst therefrom and to disperse and
retire peaceably TO their homes. The proclaim
alton has been issued because it was feared
violence and bloodshed would result from the
intense anti-Chinese feeling lately exhibited
in the Territory.
TURKEY has notified the European powers
that Servian invasion of Bulgaria will be
regarded as a cause for war. Warlike
preparations continue in Turkey, Bulgaria,
Servia and Greece.
THE English court at Yokohama, Japan,
has assessed damages of 100000 against the
British steamer Glamorganshire for sinking
the American ship Clarissa B. Carver
A MOVEMENT of great Importance is being
quietly organized among the various socie-
ties of Irish workingmen. 1t is proposed to
form vast federation comprising all the rep
resentatives Of organized labor in Ireland
for the sole purpose of keeping out of that
country all goods of British manufacture,
with the exception Of such articles as Ireland
is unable to produce
LONDON has been for weeks excited over
the trial of Editor Stead of the Pal NAL Ga
zette, and others for the abduction of young
girl, Eliza Armstrong, against her fathers
will The defence claimed that the child was
taken with her mothers consent-the object
of Mr.. Stead being to obtain evidence as to
the fragrant immortality prevailing in the
English metropolis The jury found Mr.
Stead and Mrs. Jarrett guilty and acquit-
ted the others Great crowds thronged tho
court room and adjacent streets during the
progress of the trial.