The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-17
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Eastern md Middle states.

IN conversation with his doctors on the 9th
inst. General Grant spoke of q strong inn
preston which he then felt that he would re-
cover, although he said he knew the chances
were ninety-nine in a hundred against him.
THE Connecticut lower house has almost
unanimously passed bill prescribing severe
punishments for manufacturing dynamite,
contributing money to destroy persons or
property with the explosive, etc.
MRS. GENERAL TON THUMB has taken off
her widows weeds and again entered the
bonds of matrimony Her second husband is
the diminutive Count Primo Magri, of
Italy. The ceremony occurred in New
york church, and large audience witnessed
the marriage of the midgets.
a FAREWELL dinner was given in New
York by prominent citizens of that and other
cities cities to Henry Irving, the English actor;
United United states Senator Evarts, Henry Ward
Beecher, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of
Massachusetts,; Ex-Mayor Morton McMichael,
of Philadelphia, and others made addresses.
Mr. Irving has returned to England.
RYERsoN & Brown, owners of extensive
livery stables in New York, have failed for
$500, 600.
THE Democrats carried the Hartford
Comm municipal election by about 800
majority.
POSTMASTER Cooke, of Unionville, Conn,
was arrested on the charge of embezzling
$3,S47 of money order funds.
REAR-ADMIRAL JOHN MARsToN, on the re-
tired list of the United States navy, died in
Philadelphia the other day, aged ninety-one
years. He entered the navy in 1873
RICHARD GRANT WHITE, the well known
author, died few days ago at his home in
New York, aged sixty-four years. His best
known work is "Words and Their Uses
A SHORT cable dispatch was received
by the Grant family in New York from
Queen Victoria on the Sth inquiring after the
generals health. Mrs. Grant sent q reply
that the general was no better.
THE magnificent Cathedral of the Incarna-
ton, erected at Garden City, Long Island,
by Mrs. A. I. Stewart, as n memorial of her
late husband, was informally opened with
appropriate ceremonies. Bishop Littlejohn
preached the opening sermon before
Mrs. Stewart and a notable congregation.
The institutions built on the estate are the
cathedral, st Paul's school for bows and St
Mary's school for girls, beside the bishops
residence near the cathedral, and occupied in
summer by Bishop Littejohn and his family.
JEFFERSON DAVIS in his letter of sympa-
thy to General Grant, declared: "ff the
prayers and good wishes of all those in the
South could avail, he would conquer the dread
antagonist with whom he is now contending
just as triumphantly as he overcame the an
tagonists with whom he contended twenty
years ago."
WILLIAM DONOVAN the Elmira IN. ",
newsboy, who won the recent six-day roller
skating race at the Madison Square garden,
in New York, died few days since in the
latter city, of pneumonia. His death is be-
lieved to have resulted from q heavy cold
contracted through a lack of rest after the
match.
GEORGE II. MILLS who murdered his wife
i'll 1888 because she refused his drunken re-
quest to send one of his children for more
beer, was hanged the other day in Brooklyn.
made "a a hat
when he committed the murder he was ont of
his mind.