Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-02
General lleps.
DOMESTIC.

y flre III Buffalo. y. =, Friday after
noon, caused loss of more than half n
million dollars.
Secretary Lamar is confined to his bed
at Washington in consequence of severe
cold contracted Monday.
EX-President Arthur. who has been i'll
for some time at his New York home. is
better and able to see friends.
The Northern Pacific car and locomo-
tive shops at Brainerd. Mimi. with %
freight cars, were burned Sunday; loss,
100000, fully insured.
Attorney-General Garland is suffering
from Il severe cold and is confined to his
bed. His physician advised him to re-
main away from the department few
days.
The President has recognized Charles
Alan Henderson, consul of her Britannia
majesty for the States of Massachusetts.
Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, to
reside at Boston.
The postmaster-general, in response to
Il Senate resolution. has reported to that
body that the total number of removals
of fourtll-class postmasters from March
4, 1855, to March B. 1856. was SG35.
The business failures during the week
ended Friday numbered for the United
States, l91, and for Canada -. or Il total
of 22l, as against total of 225 the week
before and 230 the week before that.
Mrs .Parnell mother of Charles Stewart
Parnell. is seriously sick at New York,
but her physicians, in response to ca
blegram from her son, report that her
condition is not Immediately dangerous.
The total values of the exports of mer-
chandise TO the United States during the
year ended February Is We're SG63, 123,-
5l4, against SIS, SOB, POI the year before {;
imports SG07,1ll,7 0l, against s6O4. 49,
40.
Jacob Hoffman, owner of the flour
mills at Elba, Mimi. and his son were
drowned in their water wheel Thursday
night. They had gone into the wheel to
remove an obstruction when the water
was turned on.
The President has transmitted to Con-
gress the third annual report of the civil
service commission, and with it Il message
commencing the usefulness of the board
and asking that Congress give to it its
liberal care and protection.
The Blair educational bill has been re-
ferred by the House of Representatives
to the committee on labor by a vote of
lbs to ll3. The Randall amendment to
send it to the educational committee was
defeated by vote of ll5 to 1874.
Senator Fair on Tuesday introduced
the Morrow Chinese bill in the Senate
with an amendment changing from 20
years to 10 years the period during which
the entrance of Chinese laborers into the
United States shall be prohibited.
Congress authorized the postmaster
general to establish the special delivery
service, but did not make the requisite
appropriation, and now the question is,
work without a special appropriation.
\ great sensation was created at Ok
ford, "A small town in Connecticut. Mon
day, by the most brutal murder of Miss
Louisa p. Williams, a young and hand
some lady, by her rejected lover. Jay
Andrews, and the latter's tragic suicide.
The question of silver coinage was dis
cuSSed in the national House of Repre-
sentatives ON Saturday. Speeches were
made by MessrS. Long and Whiting of
Massachusetts, by Mr.. Culbcrson of Tex
as, Lore of Delaware, Halsel of Ken
lucky and Taylor of Tennessee.
Secretary of the Treasury Manning is
"A very sick man according to all ac-
counts; and his recovery will probably
be very slow. He seems to have had
stroke of paralysis, which may be of per-
manent effect. His early resignation
from the cabinet is expected.
Gen. Logan has introduced bill in
the Senate providing for an increase in
the army and Gen. Sherman writes a
letter favoring the bill and saying that
the saving in the cost of bringing troops
from distance to quell Indian outbreaks
would nearly meet the expenses of main
tanning the additional number of men
for which the bill provides.
Ex-senator Bruce and delegation
of prominent colored men have applied
to the President for his support to put an
end to the wholesale murder of negroes
in the South, like the late massacre in