Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-05-22

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Jubilee arrangements are going briskly
Forward Mr.. Gilmore is arranging the pro-
,rammo for the FIRST week Of the festival
Work on the Coliseum is being rapidly
pushed forward 800 men being employed
in the work.
The Herald says Some curiosity is
expressed as to whether the Tribune will sup
port the administration in the event Of Gree
ley's election as President If so, it will be
the first administration it has supported since
its establishment as Journal.
The eleven Territories, including Alaska,
as accurately as can at present be ascertained,
contain over one billion and quarter acres,
exceededing by nearly two hundred thousand
square miles the aggregate territory Of all the
present admitted States Of the Union.
The New York Legislature adjourned on
Tuesday evening. 1t achieved very fow Of
the objects for which it was elected, and if
the daily papers are to be believed, it was
one of the most iueflicien, and corrupt bodies
of men that ever sat in Albany.
1t is rumored that the great house Of
Roihschid does not exercise the influence
upon the European markets which it once
possessed The credit associations of Berlin
aud Vienna have deprived them Of much Of
their prestige, along with much Of their
power.
Some of the Democratic papers are quite
indignant that few Republican journals call
Mr.. Greeley hard names. 1t is doubtless
wrong to be coarsely personal, but what "hard
name" is there in the vocabulary which the
Democratic press has not applied to Mr.
Greeley?
For the convenience of delegates and
others designing to attend the Philadelphia
Convention, all the competing roads have
agreed to issue round trip tickets at about
half the usual rates, good for passage to the
city from May % to June 6, and returning
from June ) to June 10.
"A committee of the Boston Jubilee peo
Pile are busy making extensive arrangements
to accommodate the newspaper men who viii
visit the great musical splurge next month
A room in the Coliseum will be fitted up foi
their exclusive use, aud it is contemplated tC
give them grand banquet on the opening day
-Tenne c. Claain is ambitious to succeed
the late Col Fisk, as Colonel Of the Ninth
Regiment, National Guard. In letter ap.
plying for the position, she pledges herself, il
elected, to make the regiment the foremost il
the State. She don't pretend modest wo-
man--to possess the military genius of Joan
of Arc-but she does claim to be well up il
the tactics, and is filed with the desire to
command regiment.
Horace Greeley has issued card an.
nounciug that in consequence of his unex-
pected nomination at Cincinnati, and the en-
barrassment which the event causes the
Tribune as an independent journal, he will
withdraw entirely from the control Of the
Tribune till further notice. 1t would have
been much wiser, and in the end much more
satisfactory to Mr.. Greeley, had he withdrawn
from the nomination instead of the Tribune
Are the Canadian free traders yoarnine
for protection A Montreal paper notes the
number Of new mill enterprises in Fall River
Mass, and asks chow many have been started
not at particular spot, but in the Province
of Quebec, during the same period. The re.
ply is, we believe not one, aud yet we pos
sess the finest water power in the worll, cheap
labor, and boundless natural resources. But
the States are being ruined by protection. -
The great strike among the Michigan
eorper miners is still in progress, and its for
midabe nature seems to be fully confirmed.
The disturbance is general in all the mines in
Houghton county, it being estimated that
fully two thousand men are engaged in the
lawless proceedings. No one has been in.
jurod as yet, but considerable property of the
mining companies has been destroyed, and it
is apprehended that serious results will yet
occur. Several ringeaders have been arrest.
ed, but they were rescued by the mob
-Bcrgh has new plan, about to be put in
operation, designed to ameliorate the last
hours of dying brutes. 1t embraces the pur.
chase of a plat of ground, on portion of
which will be erected the offices of the society,
while the remainder will be enclosed by a high
wall and used for storing ambulances and the
destruction of disabled animals by the speed.
lest and most humane methods. Within this
enclosure will be constructed an air-tighl
chamber in which dogs aud other smaller ami
mails will be placed and killed by the admins
tration of carbonic acid gas.
According to the revised report of the
census of London that was taken one year
since, the total population of that city is 81
254,26O. This is considerably over three
times what the population was at the begin
ming Of the present century. From that time
the growth Of the city has been steady and
tolerably even, and for the past thirty years,
the increase has been very regular at the rate
of $4,000 per year. The area of the city is
7s,OS0 acres, showing that the average dem
sity of population is only AZ persons per acre,
Mining explosions in the Pennsylvania
collieries are now almost Of daily occurrence,
and in nearly every case two or three or more
lives are sacrificed to the carelessness aud
parsimonious greed of the mine owners, and,
in some cases, at least to the fatuous impru.
ience Of the careless victims. The mining
should be compelled to arrange
their galleries and shafts with such openings
that fire damp cannot accumulate, or else
close up their mines; but, at the same time,
it seems singular that men accustomed to deal
with the deadly gases in those mines should