The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12

visit the Sioux agency, and at Yellowstone
| VIII leave their families for the summer ard
go overland by team POO miles through Ore
gon, Idaho, Washington Territory and Ne
vada to the Pacific coast The tour will last
until October.
THE President has appointed Charles II.
Robinson to he collector of customs at viii
i mington, N. c.. Tully Scott TO be receiver of
public moneys at Oberin, Kan. John c.
Byxbee to he collector of customs ut New
Haven. He has also appointed these
presidential postmasters: David j. East
burn at Fowler, Ind; John l.. Etzcl, Mt
Clear Lake, Ia; David Frakes at Ouray,
Col; A. II. Simpson at North Clarendon,
Penn; John r, Brunt at Usage Mission,
| Kansas; Augustine G.. Respess at Maysville
Kansas John Kittle at Seward. Neb (:
Joseph +. Henderson at Aledo Ill. Justinian
May Derry at Burlingame, Kansas w. H.
Gibbes at Columbia, s. c.; Albert Wentz at
Mechanicsburgh, Penn; G. A. Glider at
Brackettsvillc, Texas; Martin f. Meredith
at East Saginaw, Mich.
SECRETARY BAYARD, Senators Vest and
Cockrell and other prominent citizens
participated in the commencement exercises
of the Missouri State university at Columbia,
and the unwilling of a statue of Thomas JEFF
tersOn. From Columbia Secretary Bayard
proceeded to Lawrence, Kansas, and de-
livered an Grafton at the State university
opening.
PRESIDENT CLEvELANDs rule of DENYING
himself TO all visitors on Saturdays will here
after lie followed by the heads of all the ex-
ecutive departments
THE President has minated that he will
probably spend two or three days this sum
mer in a visit TO the New York State militia
encampment at PcekSkill, n. Y.
THE President has amended civil service
rule nine, relating to the examination of APP
plicants for Office. by inserting after the
words mo person dismissed from the public
service for misconduct and before the words
shall be admitted to examination within two
years thereafter" the following words: "And
no person who has not been absolutely APP
pointed or employed after promotion"
REPORTS received by the war department
indicate that there are not sufficient troops
in New Mexico and Arizona to effectually
quell the instruction of the Apaches.
FURTHER appointments by the President:
General W. :. Rosecrans, of California, to be
register of the treasury, vice Blanche X.
Bruce (coloredl, resigned; Herbert Foote
Beecher to be collector of customs for the dis
trict of Puget Sound in the State of Oregon
and the Territory of Washington; Archibald
Skillman to bc collector of internal
revenue for the district of Nevada, Baker
7. Lee to be collector of customs for the dis
trlct of Yorktown, Va Mr. Beecher is a son
of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and a resident
of Port Townsend, Oregon Messrs. Skillman
and Lee are newspaper men.
SECRETARY WHITNEY addressed the stu
dents at the commencement day exercises Of
the naval cadets, ut Annapolis, Nd.
ADDITIONAL presidential postmasters APP
pointed A D.. Tinsley, Sibley, Iowa;
Thomas Ingalls, at Marblehead, Mass;
\. Hall. ut Grenada Miss Hunter Wood
has been appointed collector Of internal
revenue for the second district of Kentucky
Foreign.
SERIOUS anti-Jewish riots have broken out
in Austria. The shops of many Jews in
Vienna We're wre ,kel and their owners
violently assaulted. More than forty per-
sons were badly wounded. The police were
obliged to call on the military for aid to
quell the disturbance.
HOSTILE Arabs made an attempt to wreck
the Suakim-Bcrber railway, but they were
dispersed 10y n few shells \ Nile boat, car
rying n force of tribal police, surprised a
party of Osman Dgma's men at Adj \
fight ensued, and twenty of the hostile Arabs
were killed and number taken prisoners.
About $50 of their camels and 1000 sheep
were captured.
The colt Melton ridden by Archer, the
champion English jockey, won thu Derby
Englands greatest annual racing event.
The prime minister of Madagascar ha
been stranged by the Hova peace party.
AsIATIC CHOLERA is ravaging the PROV
ince Of Valencia, Spain.
Mr.. PHELPS. the new American minister
to England, was the principal guest at ban
quet given by the lord mayor of London
and responded to the toast to the United
States.
A MOTION to impcach the French ministry
was lost in the chamber of deputies by IA vote
Of 322 to 153.
GREAT damage has been done, especially to
shipping, 10y cyclone at Alden, Arabia.
SIR julius BENEDICT, a noted English mu-
stefan and composer, is dead.
THIRTY Christian villages in Tonguin have
been destroyed by the Black Flags, and
many of the inhabitants massacred.
LATER official reports say that eighty
seven persons We're killed and 100 in ured by
the earthquake in the vale Of Cashmere.
India. Unofficial reports, however. state
that the earthquake was even more disas-
trous in its effects than the first dispatches
indicated. Whole cities and towns are
spoken of as destroyed, and the absence of
definite news is attributed to the demolition
of the telegraph lines.
AsIATIc cholera has appeared in France.