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New-York tribune., 1885-07-23
CHARLES 7. CURTIS.

ROCHESTER, July % Especial. D.-Charles T.
\. Curtis, prominent and wealthy cotton broker OF
Memphis Tenn, died suddenly In this city this
afternoon OF apoplexy. He came here some days ago
with his wife and daughter and registered at Powcrss
Hotel lie visited the OF the Whist Club and was
engaged In q game, when he suddenly from his
chair and dropped dead In the arms of man standing
by Up to that time lie apparently In excellent
health and spirits He was formerly engaged IN business
in New-York After tho War he moved to Memphis.
or II has been his custom to travel Ia the
North during the months
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KILLED BY FALLING ON A SHARP POKER.

HoRSELLsvILLE, July 22.-Homer, the 10
year-old child of Lyman Gibson, prominent resident
OF Addison. this county, playing soldier with
other children in his fathers yard yesterday he
carried ANAL stove poker n sword. In his play he
slipped and fell Tie sharp end OF the poker entered bis
and penetrated the brain nearly two inches cansng
lnlih huII.l iusfa anIix
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SUICIDE OF A pEsPoypENr HORSE.

RoNDoUT, July % tSpeciab.-Abert Terry,
brick manufacturer here purchased old horse
time for in his yard The horse appeared not to
like his work and acted strangely This morning he was
found making attempt TO get out OF the barn, and
thinking fresh air would be beneficial the hoster let him
The horse first took of mournu look at the
brcynrd and the heavy he had the day before been
compelled O. draw. then he deliberately walked down to
beach and into the Hudson River and wdded up
his breast in the water poke his head under, laid down
nd "A IA
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JoTTINGs HERE AND THERE.

OswEGo, July 22.-The canal-boat d. F. Gil
lgsn. OF Champlan, lumber laden from Ottawa, has
been fined ~ 600 not reporting at the custom house
within twenty hours OF her arrival The schooner
British Queen arriving light, Las been fined $500 for
OF having q manifest
SYRACUSE. July 22The sale OF the coaterals held by
Robert Bank belonging to the bankrupt firm OF
~ g. Gere W. H. H. Gere and II. n. Gere took place
day aud realized sso.7is 90 The firm large
the Syracuse Iron Works and the Onondaga and
Port Huron Mining Companies.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-23
CITIZEN soLpIERY AT SARATOGA.

SARATOGA, July 21.-The Veteran Zouaves,
OF Elizabeth n. j. arrived here this afternoon. They
received by the Saratoga Citizens Corps and
corted to Congress Hail. their headquarters. In the
evening dress parade given by both commands In
Congress Park. under electric light with General j.
Madison Drake of the Zouayes commanding officer.
After the parade u magnificent display OF fireworks
given. The Zousves did not avail themselves OF the in
vtation of Colonel Fred Grant 10 visit Mt NcGregor
and tner respects to General Grant Oh account OF
his auddta prOslrntlon.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-23
NAVAL ORDERS.

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Assistant Paymas-
ter L. C. Kerr has been ordered TO duty In he Office of
Inspector OF Provisions and Clothing at tho NewYork
Navy Yard. Assistant Engineer A. NJ. Hunt has been
ordered duty Professor Of Mechanical Engineering
In the Michigan Military Academy.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-23
APPOINTED TO OFFICE.

WASHINGTON, July 22.-The President this
afternoon made the following appointments: william
II. Monett OF wJersey, TO lie Consulof the United
States at Athens and John Devlin Of Michigan to be
Consul at Windsor Ont.
To he postnssters: J. A. Tavlor, at Oxford. N. G.,
vice NJ. b. JONES' suspended; I. Is. Douth at Salem ~
C., vice J. Bleckenderfer, suspended; Samuel H. Smith
at Winston y. e, vice W. A Walker suspended; j. A.
Bennett nj Reidsvie, " c. vice H. H. wray, suspended
william J. Fleming. at Fort Smith. Ark, vice ]. X.
Barnes. suspended; David G.. Hackney. at Fort Pain.
" T., vice A. Hoffman. Suspended Henry Cook, at
Michigan CITY, Ind. vice H. Peters suspended George
J. Love- at Huron OAK, vice John Cain. suspended X
r. Hunley. Mt Taadega, Ain, vice Il. A. Mosely;
suspended; J. II. Bewly. ut Smyrna Del. vice william
II. Baggs. suspended.
The Postmaster eneral to-day appointed the follow
ing fourth-cass postmnsters In PennsylvaniaNathan
Dreshrr at Msrtztown Howard Kirk, at Patterson In
NewYork-Elijah Wheeler at Prattsburg; Ira W. Gil
derseeye at Matttuck John +. Graham. Of Camerson;
John G. Zimmerman. Mt Bradford; f. II. Lawrence, ut
karpns; Lemuel Matthcwson, AT Ayoca
John g. Rich was appointed to be lleltenAntCon-
mander, 4. s. NJ o. f. Lasher ard II. g. waTfng TO be
Leutenants, and c. Rogers 10 be Lieutenant, junior
grade.
Mr.. Moffett who appointed United States Consul
to Athens Is an Epicopalian minister He recently
appointed Consul 20 Beirut, Turkey, hut the appoint
rnent Withdrawn AT the request OF the Turkish
Minister who said that Consul who was minister was
not wanted.
Mr. Deylin, appointed Consul to Windsor. has been
member Of the Michigan legislature and also Assistant
Labor Comm s.oner OF the state OF Michigan.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-23
RUxs ZACH INNING
| f,afrot O o 0 D -

Earned runs New.Ymk. 3; Detroit q First base oy
errorsNew:York Detroit 2 First base on basTMeyS
eft on basesNNew.York Detroit g. Total base hits
New.Yors 27; Detroit J. Home runs-bwing and OKourse
Three se hs-O Rourke Keeie and Richardson Twopsse
hits-Est rbrook Double plays gn.st crane ana as
Query Hanou ana Bennett Nih pches-Nonse' s
bsls-o Rourke 2 Tns OF fame-One hour and nfty-nve
minutea Umpire-Mr Ferguson
The Norfolk club defeated the Trenton nine at Jersey
City Yesterday with ease The home players could not
bat Hughess pitching The fielding OF The visiting clup
was brilliant The score as follows:
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ERIGHrFUL CASE OF A COLoRED NAN.

contracted fearful OF blood poison I'm 1883 was
treated by Of the best physicians Atlanta They used
the old remedies Of Mercury Potash which brought on
rheumatism and impaired digestive Every Joint In
swollen and null Of pain. In horrible condition
When had been given up die my physicrans who had
the workings Of the medicine casss thought
would be aspendid time swrts Specific
When commenced taking the physician said could
not live two under the ordinary treatment He com.
menced the me cns strictly according
tons which continued for took pothins
else and commenced to improve from the first Occasionally
would have backset om imprudence. the rheuA.
tism left appetite became all right ulcers
which the doctor said the ghtfu he had ever
began heal and BY the LIST Of October 1894 wasa
well man again. am stronger than before.
and weigh have not failed report duty since
that ume being engaged In the oil Chess
Carey Company have been and still doing OF the
hardest work any did, and ready answer any
question that be asked concerning this case swa
Specific has saved me from early grave
Atlanta Ga. April ls. 1855. LEM McCLENDON.
Lem McClendon has been IN tho employ othe
Company for years and know the above statements
30 be true At the time he began taking sws specific no
Was In horrible condition, and at my solicitation his
ment with s. g. vas undertaken py ply after
er others had declared hs hopelessy
He took nothing but s. ST. and has been
dollar for several montha regard his mracu.
loua
W. CROSBY. Manager
Chess-Cariey Co, Atlanta Diyisaoa
Atlanta, Co. Aprn H. 1885.
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SHOOTING AT CREEDMOOR.

yesterday found 1t rather unpeasanty warm for
shooting. Consequently, the fifth competition for the
gold champion marknans badge was not as enthuslas-
range, however was In good condition fairly
good msrksinanship was exhibited. For the second
time this season J. H. Lscroix. Of the 14th Regiment
was the winner Of the badge with Of % "a
total, ~. The other prize-wtnners were:
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errors-TrenfOn o; Norfolk D. Famed ru.
Trenton o; Norfolk. o. Struck outTrenton 3; Norfolk
IL Base balls Trenton 2 norfolk, l. Passed bllls
Trenton 8; Nsrfok, Wild ptehes-Trenton. Norioik
i. UIulire-Quinn. Iime-l40.
The st. Louis and NewYork clubs VIII play at the
Polo Grounds today.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-23
A CRICKET MATCH ON STATEN ISLAND.
Tho third match of the present season be

tween the Staten Island Cricket CLUB and the Stone Cot
tare Club was played yesterday afternoon at New
Brighton g. L. and again resulted in victory for the
former club. The scores were staten Island ieS, ana
Isanders Emerson 80, and c. d. Dodge Seaptain) ~.
Garnett Irvine the only men who made double
figures for Stone Cottage. The score was as ono"s'
STATEN ISLAND.
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command Of the squadron which TO rendezvous on Glen
owe July 20. Yacht captains srs ordered TO report
aboard the Fiagehip Polyna at $50 on that evening
The 00elet cups wM probably b raced fof Aasusto'
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ENTRIES FOR TRoTrINc RACES.

ROCHESTER,, July 22.-Ihe entries for the
August Trotting Meeting were published to-day. They
number about l0o nearly twenty than last year.
In the freeforall trot Jerome Turner Harry Wilkes
Cnngstone Trnket Clemue q. and Phyllis are entered
and In the freefora pacing Joe Bradin New.
Hope. wcstmont hchbal. Tommy Lynn, Gossip, jr
Bully 3. and Argyle.
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A TARIFF LETTER FROM MR. MANNING.

WAsuISGToN, July 22.-Secretary Manning
has letter to importers asking their views
to the feasibility OF simplifying the tariff.
New-York tribune., 1885-07-23

CRUISE OF THE NEw.YoRK YACHT CLUB.
William d. Douglas, in tho absence of the
Commodore ef the Esw.york Yacht Club has assumed
New-York tribune., 1885-07-23
MR.. Villas AND THE roREIoy MAIL SERVICE.

NTLA5 MD T..
WAsHISGroS July 22.-PostmasterG General
Villas to-day said that hai intention Of reconsider
ins his decision against dstrbutong the 100000 APP
propraod by Congress for the transportation OF mails
In American steamships. In regard 10 the threatened
termination OF the Australian service by IN. Pacific Mall
Steamship Company at the expiration OF the contract In
October, he said that while lao disposed 20 favor
American steamship ipes where he cond do 40 consist
entity, The Department would have difficulty IN
forwarding the Australian malls schedule fast
that now In use. and moreover the would DO
liprc freuucut and
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TO-DAY's PROGRAMME AT MONMOUTH.
CHANCES OF THE VARIOUS sTAKTERs-A LIST o
THE ENTRIES.

CHANCES OF THE VARIOUS 6TAkTERS-A LIST OF
THE ENTRIES.
Another fire programme is presented by the
neopmouth Park Association for to-day's racing Moth
apg sensational promised but account OF the ad
iustment OF weights in the Nsvesnk Handicap ought
g make o contest worth going many miles to see
The handicap stands third the card and is for liz
miIcs Drake Carter Is in at the top weight, 125
pounda II lac the horse he last year ne would
have but little difficulty in "spread eagling" his field
Of eleven probable starters The form shown by him
far this ID far from good however and he
hardly win. Thackeray In ct lie pounds and Eost s
1l5 pounds Tacksrsy has proved himself to be In
and-outer, and Eolist has not started in q
race % far this season. HeeandToe. at 1c4 pounds,
ought 10 win Il, and East Lynne, II her In the
mud last Tuesday did her harm, should secure the
plaes.
The nrst race 1is miles, has special weight allow
ancss It 10 virtually wslkover for Pontiac Nine colts
mfs which comes second on ths programme Dry Mono
After ths Nsvesink comes q handicap ct ono mile.
There are nine entries, and the Dwyers RICHMOND,
ably reach the string nrs though Hsva, at so pounds
seilins race Lie miles. comes NTH While Fellow
th.t the old cripple will win Executor should DO $50
sss are twsnty-ons entries for It, Though the Cana
81 b the hrst home and Marshall. he Il riddsn for
Y ss sS Y T :s ss Ss place
FIRST RACE. SPECIAL WEIGHTS. IL M1LEA
x3ssss EsSs ~ Wss scod S'ss sSi.s.. ~: "''sass ss
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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19
South and West.

A FIRE in Suffolk, Va, destroyed all the
principal business portion of the place, in
Guiding the Suffolk hotel the Southern Tele-
graph Office and the Commercial bank. Tho
losses aggregate 100000.
Mr.. OSTERHOLZ and wife, of Charleston
s. c., died from drinking water drawn from
an impure cstern.
FLAMES broke out in the center building of
the Eastern Lunatic asylum at Williams
burg, Va and before they could be got under
control everything was destroyed. The build
ings burned comprise the original ones of the
institution, and were erected over 100 years
ago. The 800 inmates were all rescued, but
one old woman wandered away and was
drowned. The total loss will reach $50, coo,
IMMENSE swarms of locusts are ravaging
portions of Illinois and Tennessee.
TIE marauding and murderous Apaches
are escaping into Mexico, with United States
troops in hot pursuit.
HEIRS of Martin Coonz claim half the
business section of st. Louis.
GENERAL SIMON B. BUCKNER, of Ken
lucky, the well-known exc Confederate officer,
was married a few days since i'll Richmond,
Va, to Miss Della Claiborne.
A SURGICAL case without parallel is re-
ported from Chicago. Mrs. L. J. Putnam
had iIsutfered for thirteen years from
internal tumor, and finally determined
to submit to an operation for its removal
She was put under the influence of ether and
an incision made in the abdomen when, in
stead of a tumor, the operator drew out a
child, which was alive and in good health!
The patient regained consciousness and there
was hope of her recovery, but she suddenly
became unconscious, and died from shock
= THE following appeal was sent to President
Cleveland from Tombstone, Arizona, by the
sheriff and other county and city officers:
About one hundred Indians from San Car
los have been raiding over the country for
the last week, destroying property and kill
ing our ranchers. Last night w. A. Dan
six miles from Bisbee. There are plenty of
petent to do anything. Can you not help usp
For the second time Judge Joseph B.
Foraker, of Cincinnati, has been nominated
for governor by the Ohio Republicans. The
State convention was held at Springfield, and
form adopted favors national bureau OF in
dustry, the enforcement of the eight hour
law, appropriations for general education,
and stringent laws against contract labor:
also favors protective tariff, demands the
restoration of the wool duty of 1867, and de-
nounces Cleveland's administration "for its
general discrimination in the appointments
so far made against Union soldiers and in IA
vor OF men who fought against the Union"
etc.
FOUR soldiers were caught in an Arizona
canyon by the inarauding Apaches and
killed
A TUNNEL caved in on railroad construc-
ton train at New River, Tenn. Six persons
were killed and twenty injured
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19
A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
Fall of a Stairway in a French
Court House.
Twenty-four Persons Killed and
More than $50 Injured

At Theirs, town in the department Of
Puy-de- Dome, France, murder trial has
been in progress some time. The circum-
tances of the murder and the exciting incl
dents Of the trial have engrossed the atten-
ton of the people, and few days since-the
last day of the trial-the court house was
crowded with men and women anx-
ious to witness the closing seen es
When the people were leaving, i'm
mediately after the adjournment of the court,
and were jammed upon the stone stairway
leading to the street, the lofty staircase fell.
The scene that followed was appalling.
Immense masses of masonry from above
crashed down upon the struggling people
below, grinding through their flesh and
bones and manning and mutllating them
in q horrible manner The fail
of the staircase and the shrieks of the people
lying helpless in the ruins caused a panic in
the courtroom, and there was rush for the
now wrecked exit Those who were in front
were unable to Withstand the pressure from
behind and were hurled down upon the men
and women crushed in the fall of the staircase,
and whom the people in the street were already
striving to rescue. When at length the panic
had exhausted itself and the immense stone
steps of the fallen staircase had been re-
moved twenty persons were taken from tie
ruins dead. The in iured numbered not less
than sixty, and many of these will die of
their injuries
A later dispatch from Theirs says that in
addition to the twenty persons killed fully
100 persons were injured. Many of the in
jured were women, and their wounds are of
a serious character When the massive stone
stairway fell the scene was fearful to witness.
The immense stone steps above, with the peo-
pie upon them, were precipitated upon the
dead and dying below, adding to the horror
of the awful spectacle.
eft lnta iii fob oil tba
court house calamity there far more disas-
trous in its consequences than the earlier dis
patches indicated. The dead already number
twenty-four The total number of the injured
is now placed at 1863 OF these fourteen are
very seriously injured, and some of them will
die.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are LOSS homeopathic students in
the United States.
ROUMANIA, like California, is complaining
of seVenteen-year locust
A CALIFORNIA match mandatory turns
out $780, gross year.
THE tobacco crop of Kentucky this year
will be the poorest ever known
EIGHTEEN bodies have been inclnerated in
the Lancaster Penn crematory.
ITALY has 100000 lemon trees, which
bear !, 260, 600 900 lemons annually
THE inventor of barbs ON fence wire re-
ceives a royalty of sl2O, 900 year.
GERMANY, by recent negotiations has be-
come the dominant power IN New Guinea
Four attempts to jump from the Brooklyn
bridge have been made since Odlums fatal
leap.
THE Ohio valley, not Dakota, is the great
center Of wheat production in the United
States.
IN Pennsylvania, after July l, il will be
punishable offence to have oleomargarine IN
possession.
TIE population OF France is decreasing,
and the mortality among infants OF the
poorer classes is appalling.
FIVE hundred policemen in citizens clothes
are employed in guarding the pubic offices
Of London against dynamiters.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19
LATER NEWS

OLIVER Bros, the largest iron firm i'm
Pttsburg, who employ 1900 men, have signel
the scale This, a Pittsburg telegram says,
virtually ends the strike in favor of the IRON
workers
AN explosion of gas has ruined the Dor
rance coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Penn. The
pecuniary loss is SO, 900, and 800 men are
thrown out of work
THE wife of the late President Rutter, of
the New York Central railroad, died at Sing
Sing on the 18th, two days after her hus-
bands death.
A MOB at Osgood, Ohio shot down Turner
Graham, a colored barber, and his wife, as
they were returning to their home. Mrs
Graham was killed, but her husband will re-
cover. The sheriff arrested three men for
the crime.
a CYCLONE has swept through Iowa, carry
ing death aud destruction in its track. The
village of Pulaski was wrecked, not a house
remaining whole, and four persons-Mrs
Myers and her two children and man
named Tutewiler-were killed. The town of
Nicola was also badly damaged and large
number of farm houses in its vicinity de
stroyed From numerous other points through
out the State come similar reports of devasta-
ton, and the pecuniary loss will reach many
thousand dollars Five persons are known
to have been killed, and several fatally in
jured.
/ OWING to the exhaustion of the corn supply,
and meagre wheat crop, the people of the
border counties in Southwest Virginia are
greatly distressed for food, and are threatened
with starvation.
A PORTION of Minnesota has suffered heav
lily from a cyclone. Two entire townships
were desClated, two or three lives lost, large
numbers of stock killed, the crops DESTROYED
and many buildings leveled to the ground.
A WASHINGTON special says that frank
Hurd, of Ohio, the prominent Democratic
free trade member of the last Congress, will
contest the seat of Romes, his Republican
opponent at the last election. to a seat in he
next House. The contest will be made by
Hurd on the ground of fraud in the election.
l. i. MYERS, the American champion short
distance runner, is in England, defeating the
leading English runners. He won three races
in one day at an athletic tournament near
Manchester
The steamer Spoke Hall, from Liverpool
for Bombay, has foundered in a cyclone in
the Gulf of Alden, There was only one sur
vivor.
THERE has been a renewal of attacks grow
ing out of land troubles in Ireland A farmer
was killed at Millstreet, county Cork, his
skull being altered in. A farm laboror near
Tippo rary was shot but not fatally injured,
A DESPERATE street fight occurred at &C.
noa, Italy, between procession of cericala
and a mob of rutiians One man was killed
and many persons were wounded.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-06-19
A NEGRO TURNING WHITE,
Queer case which Is Exciting wa.
CONS COlOrch pcnnIr.

On Fourth street, Macon, Ga, resides Tom
Jones, negro, who is fifty five years old.
Some time ago curious white spots began
20 appear on Jones' hands. His friends
thought he had contracted some
unknown disease and suggested that
le call on a physician. This Jones
refused to do, saying the spots gave him no
pain. Recently Jones's arm began to turn
white, and soon after large white spots APP
oeared all over his body. His friends again
suggested calling physician, but he again
-efused, saying that freedom hal come and
;he Lord intended to turn all negroes white
Jones' strange whiteness became known to
The negroes in the city, and many of them az
;epted his explanation of it. Their view of the
matter has been strengthened by the appear
ance of more white spots on Jones and his
continued refusal to have a doctor visit him.
Oscar Redlich, who has conversed with
Jones, says there is no doubt that he is turn
ng white. There is no appearance of disease,
and the negro while past middle age, is
strong and healthy. Others who have seen
The man are much puzzled, and they are
anxious for some physician to examine the
freak Of nature presented by his case