Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-07-30
General l1ews.

ing OF last week.
Miss Matte r. Tyler, granddaughter
of the former president of the United
States, has been appointed postmistress
at CORTLAND, Va.
A gold discovery on the banks of Dry
Fork creek, near New Florence, in Mont
gomery county, Missouri, is announced
by the geologist of the state university.
There are now only six surviving wild
ows of the soldiers who fought in the
War of l776. The seventh, Mrs. Levey
Aldrich, died in San Diego, CAL, last
week.
President f. B. Andrews of Brown
university, has resigned his office. His
views on the silver question were dis
approved by the members of the cor
poration.
A disastrous landslide occurred at AL
toona, Pa. The Pennsylvania railroad
tracks were covered for 100 yards to the
depth of several feet. All trains were
delayed several hours.
The exploring party of Jesse Grant,
which landed on Tiburon Islands, in the
Gulf of California, were driven off the
Islands by the Seri Indians, who are re-
ported to be cannibals.
The Yale class '06, who planted an ivy
from the grave of Robert E. Lee last
year, have not been discouraged because
that one was torn up. They have plant
ed another one this year.
! The average price of cheese exported
in 90 was only sic. per pound, against
Ole. in 90. For 10 years the average
has been between 0 and lOc. in SO it
was II &c and in 10 1850.
The various Confederate veteran camps
in New Orleans have combined to estab-
fish an intelligence bureau for securing
employment for Confederate veterans
and their sons and daughters.
In the British house of commons, Mr..
George Curzon, under secretary Of for
eign affairs, announced that the govern
ment declined for the present to have a
conference on the sealing question.
The formal presentation of an elabor-
ate silver service to the United States
gunboat Helena, from the citizens of
Helena, Montana, took place at Wash
ington, D. c., on Saturday evening.
The brass star and marble tablet in.
laid in the mosaic flooring of The Penn
sylvania station at Washington to mark
the spot where President Garfield fell
after being shot has been removed.
The decree has gone forth that every
man who marches in the big Labor day
, parade in Chicago, must wear union
made shoes, and that every horse mus
be shod with union-m made horseshoes.
The largest number of appointments
: of fourth-class postmasters ever made il
a single day, was scored Friday last
, with an aggregate of 1853. The hes
previous record was l57, made June IL.
, The Chicago Sugar refinery, which US
, es 400 tons of bituminous coal daily, ha
/ suspended, owing to the high price o
l fuel, as has also the Aurora, H., Cotton
mills The latter concern employs G0
hands.
. The Epworth league has held a mos
! successful meeting IN Toronto. Tn
: cabinet has decided that the convention
r next year will be held at either Seattle
g Wash, or Omaha, Neb., probably tn
latter,
4 & Forest and field fires are raging i
various parts of California Near tn
. . town of Red Bluff the greatest damag
has been done to residences and cattl
+ ranges. The loss is already owe
= 100000.
s A force of French cavalry in Timbu(
It too, while pursuing band of outlaws
J. met with serious disaster. Two Euro
= pean officers, two non-commissone
g officers and twenty-nine native spah
z were killed or are missing.
The attorney General of the Unite
It States has decided that persons VIII
were honorably mustered out of the vo
g unteer service and who have no arm
y connection now may wear the uniform {
| their rank on occasions of ceremony.
d The agricultural interests of the coul
y try will be represented at the Paris eI
IS position of 1900. the ASSOCIATION of Anne
IS lean agricultural colleges and exper
II ment stations having decided to make
= collective experiment station exhibit.
st Two fishermen, Olson and Carlson, {
Ashland, Wis, sat down to Dime
"a The meal progressed in silence, an
n when Olson finished and arose to leaN
d the room he found that his companion
n who had been ill for some time, was
!. corpse.
le The parents of Theodore Durrant, Il