Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-08-03
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NEW YORK, July 26.
Cholera Is again increasing with the return
Of warm weather.
Sixteen new cases reported yesterday, Of
which several were fatal.
A very bad state Of affairs prevails on
Wnrd's island
Several persons here died Of Cholera, and
there are now eleven hopeless cases.
IL Il believed, however, that the epidemic
will be controlled.
Cholera has been discovered 10 tho lover
part Of State st.. there we're four cases in
one room.
/ In Brooklyn eleven cases were reported.
| on Governor Island no new cases.
/ Ths number Of burial permil. since Sunday
has been 40, aud the number Of fatal cases
Of cho ere. 20, w1ich il mofe favorable than
during the same number 90 days last week.
-Four Fsnts1s we're discharged from custo-
/ dy, at Toronto, yesterday.
+ j. is probable that several more will be re-
/ leased.
The CauadiAn military, it Is officially an
nouncel, will be armed with repeating rifles.
PHGLADELrHrA, July G.
A tornado at Hivto de Grace did consider
| able other dsmqge than the destruction Of the
new bridge. houses were prosuatsd, trees
upro3tad. &c.
A dispatch from ,here says the bridge
tremblai for a moment, and then was hurled
down from It's piers with terrific crash, and
ten spans, each $50 feet long, rendered
complete wreck The loss clnnot fall short
Of $500 600, and perhaps more. Several
workmeh were carried into the river, but
were rescued.
NEW YoRk, July 27.
II is proposed to close all the districts in
this city infected BY cholera
There were no new cases on Governors
Island yesterday, and all the old ones were
considerod hopeful.
The cholera on Davids Island is increas-
ing.
There we're fifteen new cases and three
deaths, on wednesday, 10 the 18th Ward,
Brooklyn.
The disease is still on the increase: eight
cases aad one death reported Yesterday
Special Washington dispatches say that
the British Government has proposed reci-
procity agreement between the two countries,
providing that England agrees to- send home
all distressed American seamen il British
waters, he United States recprocating.
The Hereld's Ottawa dispatch says the
Canadian Parliament has authorized the Ca
madam Government to raise an indefinite
number of troops.
MEMrHIs, July 90.
A conservative convention here to-day ap-
pointed delegates to the Philadelphia con-
vention.
Novo soro, Texas. July 26.
The convention here to-day adopted strong
resolutions, appealing to the Northern peo-
pie Of all prtiss, to disregard the radical
statements made TO the injury Of the State
delegated to the PhiladelphiA Convention.
ST. JomNs N F, July "a.
Via OF North Sidney.
There are no signs as yet OF The Great
Eastern with the Atlantic Cable y
All are anxiously awaiting her arrival.
The weather outside is very foggy.
.aR i NEW York, July 81.
special dispatch to the World from
rutland, VT, dated yesterday, says "A
man named Giddings has been arrested in
Ludlow charged with wife poisoning. Gid
dihgs wife died last fall, and though at the
tilne suHpeions were strong against him, the
matter was hushed up until recently, when
the friends of the deceased had her exhumed
and her stomach anayzed. The post NOR
TEN examination showed that strychnine in
large quantities had found its way into her
system, and as she had for some time pre-
yous to her death been an invalid, and as
Giddings is known to have purchased strych-
nine a few days previous to her death, he has
been arrested and imprisoned on suspicion.
He is = well to do citizen, and his previous
character has been unblemished His ex-
animation commences tomorrow"
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