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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
THANKSGIVING DAY.
The Presidents PrOcIamatiO Des-
ignating n Day for Thanks.

The President issued the following procla-
nation setting apart Thursday, November
%, as day of thanksgiving and prayer:
By the President of the United States Of
America.
A PROCLAMATION.
The American people have always abun-
dant cause to be thankful to Almighty God,
whose watchful care and guiding hand have
been manifested in every stage OF their ma
tional Safeguarding and protecting them in
time of peril, and safely leading them in the
hour of darkness and of danger. 1t is fitting
and proper that a nation thus favored should
on one day in every year, for that purpose
especially appointed, publicly acknowledge
the goodness of God and return thanks to
Him for all His gracious gifts
Therefore !, Grover Cleveland Presi-
dent Of the United States of America, do
hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the
10Th day of November, inst, as day OF
public thanksgiving and prayer, and do in
woke the observance OF the same by all the
people of the land.
On that day let all secular business be sus-
pended, and let the people assemble in their
usual places of worship, and with prayer and
songs of praise devoutly testify their graft
tude to the Giver of every good and perfect
gift for all that He has done for us in the year
that has passed; for our preservation as
united nation and for our deliverance from
the shock and danger of political con-
NuiSlOn: Tor the blessings OF peace
and for our safety and quiet while
wars and rumors of wars have agitated and
afflicted other nations Of the earth; for our
security against the scourge of pestilence,
which in other lands has claimed its dead by
thousands and filed the streets with mourn
erS; for plenteous crops which reward the
labor of the husbandman and increase our
nations wealth, and for the contentment
throughout our borders which follows in the
train of prosperity and abundance.
And let there also be on the day thus set
apart reunion OF families, sanctifed and
chastened by tender memories and asSocia-
tons, and let the social intercourse of friends
with pleasant reminiscense renew the ties OF
affection and strengthen the bonds of kindly
feeling.
And let Us by no means forget, while we
give thanks and enjoy the comforts which
have crowned our lives that truly grateful
hearts are inclined to deeds of charity, and
that a kind and thoughtful remembrance Of
the poor will double the pleasures Of our con-
ditlon and render our praise and thankSgiv-
ing more acceptable in the sight Of the Lord.
Done ut the city of Washington, this second
day of November, one thousand eight hum
dred and eighty-live and of the indepen-
dence OF the United States the one hun
bred and tenth.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY the PreSident-T F. BAYARD, sec. Of
State
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
ANNUAL REPORTS.
What Some Branches of Govern
ment Have Been Doing.
First Yearly Statement Of the Gov
ernor of Alaska.

Governor A. P. Swineford, of Alaska, has
made his first annual report to the secretary
of the interior on tho condition of affairs in
that district. He arrived at Sitka on Sep
TENDER Is and was cordially received. The
report states that several schools have been
established at different points in tho Terri
tory by the agent of tho educational bureau,
and an increased appropriation is requested
for the extension of these schools The chill
dren are said to manifest more than the aver
age aptitude for study, and the Aleuts are
especially anxious for the establishment OF
English schools in their midst.
A careful estimate of the population of
southeastern Alaska places the number of
whites at 1000 and natives at 1000. The
native Alaskans are said to be educated to
some extent in the elementary branches, and
to be members of the Greek, Presbyterian
and Catholic churches. They are not In
dams, and differ in appearance habit, Ian
guage and in other respects from the In
dams of the United States. The governor
dwells at length upon the great natural re-
sources of Alaska, and severely arragns
those government agents who have repre-
sented the country as inclement TO degree
that precludes the cultivation of crops or the
keeping of domestic animals. Nowhere, says
he, in his home travels, from Lake Superior
to the Gulf of Mexico, has he seen more lux
uriant vegetation than in Southeastern
Alaska The harder vegetables all grow to
maturity and to enormous size, and the cat
tie are sleek and in the best possible cond-
ton.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
FIVE AT A BIRTH.
An Ohio farmers Wife has Five Boys
at Once.

A remarkable story comes from Henry
county, Ohio, just west of Toledo, which, if
it were not thoroughly substantiated would
be hardly credible. 1t is to the effect that
several days ago the wife of Wilhelm Freund,
a German farmer, gave birth to five children,
all boys, and that all the infants are well
formed and alive. When a corre-
spondent Investigated this stupendous in
crease he found that the event is but one of
series that have happened in this interesting
family. Mrs, Freund is thirty-six years OF
age, and during her nineteen years Of married
life has given birth TO twenty-one children,
eighteen of whom are now alive The other
three lived to various ages over a year
The mother is described as a comely Ger
man woman, rawboned and spare, and the
father short and solid, but not portly. This
happy couple live on small farm, which the
husband tills with the assistance of his nu.
merous progeny. Some of the children it is
said, were born in the hay field, where the
mother was at work.
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Steam Inspection Service.

The supervising inspector general of
steam vessels reports the work of the steam
boat inspection service for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1885, as follows In the do
nestle service-Total number of vessels in
spected, 5,63S; total tonnage of vessels in
spected, LOSS, 800. G5; total number of officers
licensed 25,235. The receipts were: From
inspection of steam vessels, SOS, S5l; from
sales of licenses, Sl2,6l7. Total Sill, 46S.
The total number of accidents during the
year resulting in loss of life was: Fire, l. col
lsions, g.; explosions, 1G; snags, wrecks and
sinking, 5. Total, 81. The total number of
lives lost by accidents from various causes
during the year was: From fire, /; explo-
sions or accidental escape of steam, Al !;
collisions IL; snags, wrecks and sinking
81; accidental drowning, 55; miscellane-
Gus causes, 4. Total, 1873. Total mum.
Der of lives lost in 1884, 27l. Total num-
Der of lives lost in 1885, 1873; decrease in 1885,
1873 OF the number of lives lost in 1885, AZ
were passengers and Sc were officers or per-
sons employed on the steamers. The loss OF
life on steam vessels for the fiscal year is the
minimum loss yet recorded, being but one to
each 43 steamers inspected as against one to
each three steamers inspected the year pre-
vious to the steamboat law of 1852.
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South and West.

MRS. MARGARET GALLAGHER, the wife of
st. Louis policeman, has given birth to
bankruptcies, all girls This is the fourth case
OF bankruptcies born in the same block within
ten years.
The municipal election in Detroit resulted
In Democratic victory, Mayor Grummond
being defeated for reelection by NJ. II.
Chamberlain
SEVEN members of the St Louis Knights
OF Labor have been arrested on the charge OF
attempting to blow up street cars with dyna.
mite. The arrested men are street car
strikers
THIRTEEN persons were more or less dan,
gerouslY injured by boiler explosion in the
PORK packing house and proprietary medicine
laboratory of w. NJ. Akin q Co, Evans
vile, Ind.
=, FEARING further trouble growing out OF
the anti-Chnese sentiment in Washington
territory Governor Squire has issued proc
the preservation OF order
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" Arlington.

THE President has appointed Alfred P.
Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, Ind, civil service
commissioner in place OF Dorman b. Eaton.
resigned and William L. Trenholm, OF
John NJ. Gregory. resigned. Both ap-
polntees were Democrats, Mr.. Ed
gerton being an ex-member of Con.
gress, and Mr.. Trenholm a commission mer-
chant.
PROFESSOR POWELL, director of the
United States geological survey, in his sixth
ennual report, Just issued, says: During the
nscal year falr progress was made in the
topographic survey of the United States. An
area OF 81, sos square miles was SURVEYED and
the maps thereof made ready for the engraver
The average cost OF the work was about az
per square mile. The amount appropriated
for the survey for the fiscal year was $3.50 O4O
OF which S4S4, 90G was expended"
The total expenditures OF the navy ds.
partment last year were ST, l54, 900.
IN his annual report the commissioner.
general advocates the enlistment of cooks
and bakers for the regular army.
A PROCLAMATION designating Thursday
November GO, as day OF national thanks
giving was ISSUED by the President.
ACCORDING to the report of the register Of
the treasury, of the 81 Oh, AGO, 262 United
states registered bonds only sl1, 027, 900 is
DohMAN -. EATON has been re-appointed
member of the civil service commission by
the President. This makes the political com
pleXion of the newly-formed commission two
Democrats and one Republican
The President has appointed William
Faxen, of Michigan, to be register of the land
office at Detroit; f. l.. Carson, of Texas. In.
dian agent at Ouray, Utah; Leigh o. Knapp.
OF New Mexico, receiver Of public moneys at
santa re- Postmasters-Otto r. Miller, at
Brighton, n Y. W. S. Hammaker. AT Find.
lay, Ohio, and G. NJ. Shelley, at Kansas CITY,
No -'''
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SECRETARY BAYARDs inherited deafness
Is said to be increasing.
WILLIAM BLACK, the English novelist,
makes about $4,000 year from his novels.
DIR. NOAH PORTER, who has just resigned
the presidency OF Yale college, Is in his T4th
year.
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard university,
and the chef in the Parker house restaurant,
Boston, receive each salary of S 1000.
THE Earl of Fife, IA young Scot h noble
man, is the coming literary orator of his
order. He is very rich and munifcent.
BEACoNsFIELD talked in soft, low voice
Gladstone talks distinctly in medium tones
and Lord Salisbury loudly, often bolster.
ously.
EX-PREsIDENT ARTHUR told a correspond
emit in New York that he had not saved a
dollar of the 100000 that he received for
President
Mons. A. BARTHoLDI the sculptor who
made the statue Of liberty given by France
TO America, arrived in New York Il few days
ago from France.
THE most remunerative professorship in
the world is that of Professor Turner, the
distinguished anatomist of Edinburgh, which
yields him so, 900 year.
UNITED STATES SENATOR SAWYER has
given SIS, 900 to the Young Mems Christian
association of that Michigan town with the
mellihuous name, Oshkosh.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, havin z
attained the age of threescore and sixteen,
facetiously remarks that he is "a Revolution
AIRY patriot-one of the men of '16.n
ADIRONDACK MURRAY said, at the close OF
a recent lecture, the six years that have
passed since he left the ministry had beer
spent in graduating for another life
UNLIKE his predecessor, Mr.. Arthur, Mr.
Cleveland cares little for the relaxation to bt
found at the theatre. A good walk in the
open air or drive behind mettled horses
pleases him better.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Bulgaria IS de.
Icribed by an Austrian correspondent as
''more than six feet in height, with broad
shoulders and features whose quiet nobility
mggests the antique. His large body is be-
coming too massive owing to loss of outdoor
exercise. King Milan of Servia is growing
,orpulent; Charles OF Roumania Il small and
rather slender.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
LAID QUIETLY AWAY.
The Burial of Gen. NcCIeIIan-Ser-
vices i'm >ew York and Trenton.


Without pomp or military display the re-
mains of General Mcclellan were buried in
Riverside cemetery, at Trenton, n. j. The
simple funeral services were held early in the
morning at the Madison Square Presbyterian
church, in New York. The pall-bearers were
Ma or General Winfield S. Hancock, General
w. b. Franklin, General Fitz John Porter,
General Joseph +. Johnston, General Martin
T. Mcmahon, General Arson q. McCook,
Colonel Edward II. Wright, Henry G. Kel-
sey, William c. Prime. S. l.. NJ Barlow,
Abram S. Hewitt John T. Agnew Thatcher
NJ. Adams, and Joseph W. Alsop. Many
OF the dead soldiers former comrades
in arms were also present. From New York
the body was conveyed to Trenton, where
business was entirely suspended, minute guns
were fired and the bells were tolled. The
members of Bayard Post, G. A. r. carried
the coffin from the train to the hearse and
members of Aaron Wilkes Post walked on
either side OF the hearse. In the procession
were the mayor and common council OF
Trenton, the Pennsylvania commandery of
The military order OF the Loyal Legion,
phia, and the Young Men is Republican and
Democratic clubs of Trenton Among those
present were United States Senator Sewell,
Governor Abbott and eK-Governors Ludlow
and Parker, General Hartranft of Pennsyl-
vania all tho New Jersey State officers, and
nearly all the leading members of the State
judiciary. At the grave the ceremonies were
simple and brief.
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Tho Adjutant General.

Adjutant General Drum in his annual re-
port to the secretary of war, invites atten-
ton to the subject of the obsolete arms and
ammunition in the hands of the State militia
or stored in the several State armories. 1t
would, says, seem most wise measure if
at the approaching SO sion of Congress a
general act was passed providing
for immediate exchange, when requested,
of all obsolete arms now in the hands of the
militia of the several States for improved
Springfield rifles, caliDer II, and appropriate
ammunition therefor He recommends that
non. commissioned officers and privateS on
the retired list be paid gross sum in money
in leu Of their present pay and communication
of allowances, and he submits a table EN-
boiying a proposition to pay them at rates
varying from So 10 par month for chief mu-
scans to $23 90 for aitiicers
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle Stnfnr.

MOODY, tho revivalist has been holding
largely attended meetings in Reading, Penn.
THE fishing schooner Daisy Speaker,
which sailed from New London, Conn, Sep
TENDER 4, and was expected to return within
a month, is believed to have gone down with
the six men on board.
The Andre monument near Tappan, N.
y, was blown up by the explosion OF n dy-
Mantle cartridge at 1920 p. NJ. Both bases
were blown into atoms, and the iron fencing
that enclosed the monument was completely
demolished. The shock was so great that it
broke the glass in houses q mile away. This
is the monument erected to the British spy
by Cyrus w. Field some years ago, and it is
the third attempt made at its destruction.
A PLANK on which a safe was being low
cred in n building at Cohoes, N. Y, broke,
preciptatng the safe on two men, killing one
and seriously injuring the other
SAMUEL CHASE an Office boy sixteen years
of age, was accidentally killed by falling
against an ink eraser in the hands of Jeremi-
ah Cunningham, fellow employee in a New
York business house. The two boys were
skylarking.
MORE than 400 horses Of every description
were exhibited ut the third annual show of
the National Horse Show association held
in the Madison Square Garden, New York
THE boiler of dredging boat exploded at
the entrance to Long Island sound, and the
vessel Immediately sank, carrying down six
men.
UP to recent date the Grant National Mon
ument fund had reached s96,00O
The official returns of the vote for Con-
gresham in the Nineteenth district of Penn
sylvania, TO fill the vacancy caused by the
death of William A. Duncan, show plural
ity of !, $50 for Swope Demo.raD over Bair
(Republcan.
DURING the past few weeks there has been
strong and steady advance in the price of
stocks in Wall street, New York's great finan-
cial centre, and the question is asked, Does
this mean a general Improvement in the bust
ness of the countryp
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Htcnl,h The Army.

The surgeon general in his annual report to
the secretary of war submits the usual state
ment of finances an / general transactions Of
his bureau for the fiscal year cnded June 80
1855. Tho money value Of hospital supplies
issued during the fiscal year was
Sl1l,205. lin addition to the ordl-
nary requirements OF the service"
General Murray says, provision should DO
made for emergencies, and in view of the
strong possibility. if not probability, Of an
invasion of this country by cholera before
earnestly desired that Congress make provis-
ion by adequate appropriation to enable
this department to adopt every means within
its province to prevent as far as possible,
he spread of the disease in the army"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
Revenue Marine Service.

rine shows that the work of this service for
the past year compares favorably with that
of any former like period. The aggregate
number OF miles cruised by its vessels during
the past year was 3l2, $50. In enforcing the pro-
visions of law and the protection of the
revenue "a, iSl merchant vessels were
boarded and examined. This item
of work varies from year to
year, being proportional generally to the nc
tivity of ocean and lake commerce. or this
number ] ,425 vessels were found violating
the law in some particular, and were either
seized or reported to the proper authorities
The vessels SO reported or seized incurred
liability to fines, penalties or forfetures
amounting to a total sum of S604,5l5.55,
about two-thirds the cost Of the SERVICE which
last year amounted to $50, S97
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13

MANILA prominent seaport of the Philip
pine islands, has been swept by great fire.
THE judges on music at the International
Inventions exhibition, London. have
awarded several gold, silver and bronze
medals to American houses
FIFTY-sIx Indian prisoners have been tried
at Winnipeg, Manitoba, for participating in
the Frog Lake massacre durinO Rial's reRal
non. Slxueen or the prisoners were dis
charged, twenty-nine were sent to the peni-
tertiary for periods ranging between twenty
and two years, and eleven were sentenced to
be hanged.
The Norwegian bark Aquila has foundered
OH Gothenburg, Sweden. twenty-five per-
sons were drowned.
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A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Husband and Wife Found Dead
nd.

Dr. J. II. Nonamalicr and his wife were
founl dead in bed at Salida Col, with bull
let holes in their temples. From letters left
by them to the editor of the Denver Ne,cs it
seems that both had grown discouraged
over their inability to get friends
to indorse n note for 500, and had agreed to
commit suicide together. Twelve o'clock
was the time agreed upon to put their res
olution into effect. They retired with
loaded pistols, and when the clock told the
hour of midnight each fired, dying instantly
As Nonamaker was jealous and brutal, the
general be ief at Saida is that he killed his
wife during a JEALOUS fit, wrote the letter
and then committed suicide.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-11-13
IT, NATIONAL DEBT.
Monthly Statement of the Con dition
of the Federal Finances.

OF the Federal Finances.
The following is a recaptulation of the ma
tional debt statement issued for last month:
DEMONSTRATING Debt
Bonds at AZ per cent .,... $3.50, 900, 600 90
Bonds at per cent. ........... 73I, 740, $50 90
Bonds at 3 per cent. ........... 1914, 100, 800 %
Refunding certificates at per
cent e..................... 223, 500 90
Navy pension fund at 3 per cent. 14,0J0,O0J 10
Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per
cent. observation-disclosures. O4,oS3,0l3 w
Principal. ...............Sl,2 1850, rs, 162 90
Interest ................ 9,5050IS 10
Total .................s1,2 1O, 374, ITO 10
Debt on winch nJel est has
ceased since maturity:
Principal ............... So, 7s4, sos 90
Interest ............... 2l9,3S4 30
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S3oj3, $50 rs
Debt Bearing no Interest
Old demand and legal
tender notes. .......... 1916, 73s, sn 90
Certificates of deposit mann. Is, l45, 900 90
Gold certificates .............. JOS, 020, go 90
Silver certificates. ............ 90, 146, 712.00
Fractional currency, less
SS,315 H34 estimated as lost
or destroyed. ............. 6,961, 1872 80
Principal, ................s574,O l2, 535,SS
Debt Bearing no Interest
Old demand and legal tender
Total Debt.
Principal. ....... '''. ST. SIS, 525, 0O3 IA
Interest. ............. 9,Sl5,333 60
Total. ..........:...... s1,S4s $40, S35 "A
Less cash items avail
able for reduction OF
the debt .......... $685., So, 475 81
Less reserve held for
redemption of United
States notes 800, 600 10000
--S333 SG4, AIS 81
Total debt, less available
cash items ............sl ,514, AIS, $50 Al
Net cash IN the Treasury GGSlS, 292 80
Debt less cash in the
Treasury, Nov l, 1855 81 Al, 657, sos 90
Debt less cash in the Treasury
oct. l, 1855. ............: 146O, o3i, 342 81
Decrease Of debt during the
month. ,..................".. 1926, IA IS
Cash in the Treasury
Available for reduction of the
public debt,
Gold held for gold certf-
Gates actually outstanding, S109, 020, 760 90
Silver held for silver certf-
Gates actually outstanding, 93,146,772 90
United States notes held for
certificates of deposit actual
ly outstanding .............. 1915 900 90
Cash held for matured debt and
interest unpaid ............. 13,54963 Sc
Fractional currency .......... 1905 Al
Total available for reduc-
tion of the debt .. $233, S64 AS 81
ReSerre Fund.
Held for redemption of United
States notes, acts of Jan. IA,
1873, and July II, 1882. .E.-.S10O, O0Q 900 90
Unavaila lie
for reduc-
ton of the
debt: Frac-
tional silver
coin, ...... 500, 965, 535 10
Minor coin. .7l9, S31 81 23,6S5, 1868 "a
Certificates held as cash. ....... GO 49,, 3G4 %
Net cash balance on hand 90, SIS, 292 IS
Total cash in the treasury as
shown by the treasurer's
general account. ............4s7,S 500, 4oS 50
Net increase in cash. ........... 3.S64.341 81
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Paymaster Generals Report.

Paymaster General Rochester, in his an
nual report to the secretary of war shows
that the disbursements; made by his bureau
during the last fiscal year amounted TO
Sl3, 4S3, 727, including sl97, 900 to the signal
service, and S2l3, 900 to the military academy,
and ST., $40. 4 10 on army pay rolls.
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Report of the First Comptroller.

The annual report OF First Comptroller
Durham shows that during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1885, 600 warrants, aggre-
eating 81 ,6O4 975, All, were examined, regis
tered and countersigncd. and that 26, $50 ac-
counts aggregating 1857 ,52l, AS, received
from the auditing officers were revised re-
corded and certified to the register.
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THE lumber operators of Maine. with one
or two exceptions, have agreed to employ no
man in the woods during the winter unless
he has recently been vaccinated.