The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-03
LATER NEWS

BUFFALo's Cremation society is about to
erect the finest ''crematory temple ~ in this
country.
THE condition of General Grant was not SO
satisfactory on the eth as it had been. He
was suffering from lassitude and debility,
and his disease was progressing unfavorably.
On the 18th there was nc material change in
his condition. Those in attendance upon the
general stated that there was a gradual fall
ing away of strength.
JAMES ID. FISH, late president of the sus-
pended Marine bank, of New York, found
guilty of misapplying the Institutions funds
and making false entries in the banks books,
has been sentenced to ten years Imprisonment
at Auburn prison. Fish is sixty-five years
old, and had intimate business relations with
the bankrupt firm of Grant & Ward.
THE number of horse thieves hanged within
the past few weeks in Indian Territory by
pursuing officers and citizens has been in
creased to eighteen.
AT Laredo, Texas, State Senator Hall was
slapped in the face by Captain Sheehy, of
the State rangers. Both men drew revolvers
and began firing. Sheehy was Wounded in
the shoulder and retreated. The affair oc-
CURED in a crowded theatre, and the people
rushed in every direction to escape the flying
bullets. The affray grew out of the senator's
attacks upon the ranger; in the legislature.
A FEUD between the pastor and congrega-
ton of a Polish Catholic church at Toledo,
Ohio, has eliminated in a general riot, in
which firearms and all manner of weapons
We're freely used. Two men were killed, sew
eral injured and n number of houses wholly
or partly destroyed. The police made many
arrests.
The important offices relating to the New
York custom house, about which there have
been many conjectures, have been filled by
the President as follows: Edward L. Hedden
as collector, to succeed w. IL. Robertson;
Hans S. Beattie, surveyor in place of James
L. Benedict, suspended, and Silas
W. Burt, naval officer in place
of Charles K. Graham, suspended. Mr..
Hedden is a retired business man, and his APP
pointment was made agreeably to the wishes
of the County Democracy, backed by recon-
mendations of prominent business men. Mr..
Beattie is the present deputy county clerk OF
New York and a prominent member of the
County Democracy. Mr.. Burt was appointed
the New York naval officer by hayes in 1878,
and is secretary Of the New York Civil Ser
vice Commission. In politics he is a Mug
wump.n
The President has suspended Horatio C.
Burchard, of Illinois, as director of the mint,
and appointed James b.. kimball. of Bethle-
ham, Penn, in his stead. DR.. Kimball is a
professor of economic geology in the Lehigh
university. He is a mining engineer and
metallurgist by profession. During the war
he served in the army Of the Potomac as as
sistant adjutant-g general, and is now president
OF the Everett Iron company, of Penn
sylvania. Mr.. BurcharI's letter giving his
reasons for declining to Resign is published.
lie says substantially that he was appointed
for five years, to hold Office for that time
unless sooner removed by the President
upon reasons to be communicated by him TO
the Senate that his term has not vet ex-
pred; that no charges have been made
against him, and that therefore he sees no
reason to resign.