Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-09-06
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The Baltimore american says that man
Nlaryla land Democrats favor demanding iror
the government pay for their emancipatc
f slaves, as suggested by the Richmond Wing
Rev DR.. Mason, one Of the best know
e Of the victims at Revere had $4,000 insure
on his life He was a prudent as well as
, good man.
ten. lrich, who commanded in Stras.
bourg, has received the sword sent him by hi
couutrymcn in America lie says he will Us,
it in recovering the provinces torn by the
Germans from France
Mrs Colbaru, in Ohio, who was arrested oil
the charge Of having poisoned her first hus
band, has been discharged The poison loun,
in the dead mans stomach was placed Their
by conspirators, who wished to have Mrs
Colburu hanged
ton sherman means to get up a CRANE
prairie hunt for the Grand Duke Alexis Il,
will be master of ceremonies in the intro
duction of the bear to the bufao.-aud, thu
placed, he will be the right man in the right
place
1t Is not yet decided to proclaim martial
law in the disturbed districts Of South Carolina
although public men who have become ac.
quainted with the situation are urging it, In
North Carolina the Government is arresting
members Of the Ku-klux gangs
More than twenty thousand Of the
French inhabitants of Strasbourg have re-
moved from that city since it came into the
hands of the Germans, and it will soon be as
much a German city a, it was three hundred
year, ago
The German Democrat. of New York
are disgusted with Tammany. and there is a
prospect that they will unite with the Repub-
licnus to take the city government out of the
hands Of the dishonest clique now in control
there.
In 1924 party Of Italian brigands,
thirty.six in number, were sent to prison,
where tweuty-uine Of them died and the
other seven recently were released, after an
Imprisonment Of iorty-scycn years They'll
lind themselves in new world, in almost
every sense
"A Mrs. Mary Michael- of Petersburg,
Va, who had attained the antiquity Of 10
years, became disguised because she continue
ed to out-liye everybody and everything which
made her happy when she started in life and
the other day plunged headlong into well.
and now sleeps in The valley
The island Of st. Thomas has again been
visited by terrible hurricane, accompanied
by shocks Of an earthquake. Hundred, of
houses were swept away, and every building
on the island was damaged. About one hun.
dred and FIFTY people were killed, and six
thousand are homeless
The court martial before whom the
leaders Of the Commune were on trial, at
Paris, has condemned two Of the prisoners to
death, acquitted two, and sentenced thirteen
others to Imprisonment for periods longer or
shorter, according to the character Of the Of
fence Other prisoners will be tried at an
early day.
Dix River, little stream at the foot Of
the Cumberland Mountains, is said to have on
its banks a spring, the waters of which regu.
larry overflow every day between I and P.
NJ. A large quantity of carburetted hydrogen
gas escapes and if lighted burns up in jet
ten or fifteen feet high. Science is appealed
to for an explanation.
The worst persons in Indian raids are
white men, deserters from the United States
Army, who have joined the aborigines, and
who add the skill of the one race to the saw
ageness of the other. " One renegade is
worse than ten Turks, used to be said,-aud
now one white Indian is worse than ten red
ones.
Memphis is completing her title to take
rank as the third city of the Kingdom OF
Cotton, the American Kingdom, we mean, for
this country has lost its old supremacy in the
cotton world. The secessonists were great
smashers, and destroyed everything they
touched, except the Union, the only thing they
sought to destroy.
After many years trial, they have become
sick of two Republican newspapers at Con-
cord, n. H., and an association has been
formed which purchases both the Statesman
and independent Democrat, and unites them
about the first of October. The Statesman
building will be used by the new concern, and
a most excellent building aud newspaper Office
it is
Coy. PadelGord, of Rhode Island, has
issued proclamation appointing Saturday,
the 10th, as a public holiday throughout the
State, in order that all persons may have an
opportunity Of attending the dedication of the
monument erected by the State to the MEM
DRY Of her soldiers who fell in the late war.
Such an official recognition and honor is cred.
liable alike to the head and the heart of Gov.
Padeliord
1t is believed that the Geneva confer
ence will not meet till the middle of Decem-
Der, when it must meet, if at all, the 10th
being the time to which the meeting is limit
ed. But Governmental action is slow, govern
ments being long-livcd, and not feeling the
pressure Of that necessity which moves men
to work quickly, because life is short, and
death is certain. Probably half the Ala.
hama claimants will be in their graves
before their claims shall have been passed
upon.
The Republican State Convention of
Wisconsin met at Madison, Wednesday. Ey-
cry district in the State was represented.
An informal ballot for governor gave Gen. c.
G. Washburne l42 votes, Judge William L.
Smith Ill, and II scattering, The formal