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Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vt.), 25th U. S. college to receive its charter, celebrated its 125th anniversary. Principal orator: U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent...
...Sovereigns and receiving in return the King's salutes and the Queen's bows. Dense crowds lined the streets from the Piazza Colonna, down the Corso Umberto, through the Piazza del Popolo to the Quirinal square. The most touching scene of the procession was when 50 surviving Garibaldi veterans, wearing their red shirts and led by Ezio Garibaldi, grandson of the Patriot, marched past the grandson of Vittorio Emanuele II whom they had helped to make King of United Italy. Emotional Italians on all sides broke down, sobbed; others raised thunderclaps of cheers; mothers lifted their babies...
...John Garibaldi Sargent,* 64, six feet three, about 225 Ibs. in weight (he has been nearer 300 Ibs., but recently has been ill), low-collared, with stormy gray hair and a wrinkly weather-beaten face, was turned into an Attorney General almost before the country knew...
Died. Marie Sophia Amelia, ex-Queen, wife of the late Francis II, last of the Bourbon Kings of Naples; at Munich. Married at 18, she was deposed before she was 20. In 1860, Garibaldi conquered Naples; and although she rallied her forces, flag in hand, Gaeta, the fortress of her last stand was betrayed and capitulated...
...heads, blood flowed and angry cries rent the air. Yet all was comparatively quiet. It was that the Opposition press had been effectually gagged; that a hundred questionable politico-social clubs had been closed: that the urban and rural branches of the Italia Libera Association, of which General Peppino Garibaldi is head, were shut down; that a number of subversive organizations had been rooted out; that people had been terrified by many hundreds of domiciliary searches made by rowdy and violent Fascisti; that scores of cafés had been forced to close their doors; that hundreds of agitators, revolutionaries...