Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-06-18
Notes and Comments.

Miss Greeley has asked that persons
having letters Of her father Horace Gree.
ley, that arc OF any interest, will iuclosc
them to her at Chappaqua, N. Y. Afcr
taking copies the original will be returned
to the owners.
Several serious engagements have
taken place 10 Cuba between the insurgents
and Spanish troops, with varying fortunes
to the contendiug parties A battle in
Mapzanillo resulted 10 loss Of so Span
iards killed and wounded, and twice as
many insurgents killed.
The cholera Is evidently working
northward slowly, and although thus far it
has not proved as fatal as 10 some Of its
previous visits, yet its approach will be
viewed with serious apprehension. Clean
illness is the best preventive against its
ravages, aud municipal authorities and
communities generally cannot be too often
reminded Of the fact
There are now, in all, about $4,000
missionaries, white and colored under the
control aud direction Of fifty Foreign
Missionary Boards, and all under the control
Of the American Board. These missiona-
ries and their predecessors have established
$500 churches, with 100000 members, in-
structed 100000 children, and translated
the Bible into $50 different languages
The most practical result of Miss Su.
san b. Anthonys agitation is the resist
ance Of a Mrs. Lee, OF present pent up 10
Utica, N. Y, to the collection Of her taxes.
The tax collector she received with o repel-
liant chair, and afterward demonstrated with
an ak, to his exceeding dismay. For this
bit of revolution Mrs. Lee was heartlessly
put into prison, to mediate there at ease
on the slavery of women.
-Cbicagohas had successful iwo-days'
musical jubilee, which was attended by
thirty thousand people. The orchestra
consisted of two hundred pieces, with Gil.
more's baud as the nucleus, and the chorus
embraced about one thousand adults aud
the same number Of school children The
affair was more successfully carried out
financially than Bostou's last jubilee, but
it was small affair compared to that.
An explosion of FIRE damp occurred
at the Henry Clay colliery, near Sbamoki in,
Pa, Tuesday. Shortly after the explosion
eleven persons were taken out of the mine
Eight Of them were dead There were from
fifteen to twenty-five persons in the mine
but by energetic efforts they were got out
| There were fifty men in the slope at the
time Of the explosion, thirty-fve Of whom
are known to have escaped, aud will recover
, The actual amount Of boring now to
I be done on the Hoosac Tunnel is said to be
little more than seventeen hundred feet
4. which is being reduced at the rate of about
three hundred feet per month 1t is OK.
pected that passage through the entire
D.. mountain will be completed by the 18th o.
n November next, after which date six month,
o will be required to put the tunnel in work
A ing order for regular trains. The first Of
July, 1874, is set as the time for the com
!. pletion Of this great work.
/. Reconstruction in Louisiana is reall,
4 making commendabe progress. Whil
IS many northern hotel and theatre proprie
is tors still discriminate with IMMUNITY lgains
9 colored customers. the proprietors Of tn
1 Mississippi steamer, Governor Allen, hav
n Just been fnel $1,000 damages, and tha
n too by New Orleans judge, for refusing
y colored woman a cabin passage and suc
5 other accommodations as were extended {
II white ladies' H. North Culum is the nam
J. Of the righteous judge.
% Young Walworth has been indicted b
= the grand jury for murder in the first de
Is gree. Well, why not lie committed tn
murder in cold blood, with confessed pre-
meditation, and with no provocaton be
'- yond the threats and i'll treatment Of bi
Ut father to his mother. No more deliberat
l. murder has been done for years. The gran
< jury has performed simple and imperativ
D. duty There are getting to be altogetbe
j. too many administrators Of personal jus
u tice for the safety of society
- The impression has been sedulousl
:, given out that General Butler is sure {
:, the nomination for Governor 10 Masss
chusetts this year. There is no doubt tina
he is after it very sharp, and such talk
encouraged by him, as it serves his end
He hopes to brighten the politicians an
=, seduce the people into his support. b.
y the Worcester Spy says his prospects ar
not as good as they were two years ago, an
the Boston Journal talks in a simia
~ strain. We wish we could share the
:, confidence.
The United States commissioner
agriculture reports the total estimated PR
TX duction Of wheat in the United States
te 1872 was 249, 1897 900 bushels, an increai
re- over the preceding year Of 1920 900 busl
ii. els. The largest production of any sing
~ state vas California, 25,60O,000 bushel
&c Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin aud low
I'd ranked next in order named, ranging fro
at 90, 600, 900 to "a, 700, 900 bushels. The tot
d. production in the northwestern states name
ed in 1872 was 81, POS, 900 bushels, an increa
ce of 26,230,000 bushels over the previol
r., year.
II. "A Mr.. Stillman, said to be I" We
ce known American" at Vienna, has written
Il. full account of the trouble with the cor
les mission at the Exposition. 1t does not di
ed fer in its general features from the sto
es, already told, but gives fuller particular
ne These are of little general interest, b
lin they confirm the feeling of chagrn viii
ne every decent man in this country mu
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