Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-10


city that 9j of them are worth 81.
Rev. j. Hyatt Smith, ex-congressman.
died at his home in BROOKLYN Tuesday.
The reduction in the national debt
during the month of November was
$1,000, 249.51.
The Democratic secretary of State of
Kentucky says that that State is liable to
go Republican in ISIS.
EX-President Arthur's estate. valued at
S2oOOOO. is by his will equally divided
between his son and daughter.
The property destroyed by fire since
january |, in the United States and Can
ada, was valued at sll0,OO0.OOO.
The case of the American Board and
Missionary Hume has been postponed -
year by the prudential committee.
Theodore 5. Mize, confidential clerk for
Miner T. Ames of Chicago, is alleged to
have robbed the latter of 500. 900
In the case at Boston of the National
Soldiers home against General b. F.
Butler the jury found a verdict Thurs
day for SlG.j37.50 against Butler.
The government counsel in the Bell
telephone case are not agreed as to where
the next suit will be brought. but they
agreed that the suit shall be prosecuted
somewhere.
Howard r. Blackstone. discount clerk.
has embezzled the funds of the Canal
national bank of Portland Me-. to the
amount of S25,0O and has abscondcd.
He had speculated in stocks and lost
Rev. DIR. McCosh laments the evils
growing out of too much devotion of
students to athletic sports, and proposes
that colleges take concerted action ON
some simple restrictive measure.
Senator Sherman is in favor of reduc-
ing the tax on national banks to half of
per cent. He is in favor of letting the
banks do business on the - per cent
bonds now outstanding. and allow their
circulation upon the face value of the
bonds
Harvard college comes in for legacy
OF half million probably by the death
at Boston Saturday of +. Price Greenleaf.
strange character nearly century Old.
who for half that period had pinched and
Scrimped and saved with no other object
than to iumortalize himself in lust thi,
way.
The general council of the Fenian
brotherhood has issued an address in re-
ply to ODonOvan ROssas recent state
ment. 1t charges him with various dis
reputable transactions and denounces
him as the cause of all the brotherhood's
troubles in recent years.
Among the passengers on the steam
ship Fuda, which arrived at New York
sunday. was a Russian family of 10, men.
women and children. They were Gus
tave Pleth, his wife, his five sons and
their wives, and Is grandchildren. They
go to Knife River, Oak.
Snow has fallen about Asheville. y. G..
to the depth of 20 inches and was still
falling Monday evening. Traffic and
travel of all kinds are suspended. The
weight of the snow crushed in the roof
of the AShville tobacco works and a large
stock of smoking tobacco was ruined.
An accident of "A frightfu and eXtraor-
binary character, involving the loss of
siN mi I
sons, occurred on saturday last at sea ION
board the steamer Westernland. Antwerp
to New York. 1t was the result of two
monster waves meeting on either side of
the ship and submerging her decks.
In his annual report Attorney General
Garland devotes chapter to the subject
of United States prisoners and the gen
eral question of convict labor. and advo-
Gates the building of Il government peni-
Tertiary and reformatory at an early day.
He recommends the appointment of IL
commission to inquire into the matter.
On saturday and sunday Southern
New England had Its first taste of snow
ground is mantled to the depth of foot.
The storm spread all over the country
this side of the Mississippi, and sleigh
ing is reported from Washington, Ten
nessee and several Southern States. In
Alabama ten inches fell-the largest
amount for many years.
Mr.. Conkling had not spoken to the
late eX-President for several yearS, but
shortly before Mr.. Arthur's death Mr..
Conkling sent him confidential message,
which gave him more qualification, the
sick man said, than any he had ever re-
ceived, and the reply was sent the next
day. Mr.. Conkling did not call at the
house after Gen. Arthur's death, but sent
a message of sympathy and regret, and
request for ticket to the church.
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