Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-19
Weekly News Summary.

THE death of Shere Ali seems to have severed
all the ties between the Afghans and the Russians.
THE President was prepared to veto the river
and harbor grab but was dissuaded by the Cabinet.
AN appeal will be made to Catholic congrega-
tons generally throughout the country in behalf
of Archbishop Purcell.
H. NJ. CLARK, cashier OF the First National
Bank of Lowell, Mich, is defaulter to the
amount of ST., 900, and has absconded.
A. G. WOODWARD, secretary and treasurer OF
the Stanstead and Sherbrooke Mutual Fire Insu-
rance Company, is reported behind in his accounts
Sl25OO0 He has been suspended.
A MAN at South Bend, Ind, buried his wife in
nice style, but after the crowd had dispersed from
the grave he sold the silver handles of the coffin
back to the undertaken at reduced rates,
The altar in the Roman Catholic cathedral on
Fifth avenue, New York. will cost over S250,OOO
and workmen have already begun upon it. The
cathedral will be open for worship May 18th.
IT is stated that a train on the New York Cen
trail railroad made the distance from Rochester to
Syracuse, eighty-one miles, in sxty-one minutes,
said to be the fastest time ever made in America.
An engine running wild collided with freight
train on the 18th inst, west of Hoosac Junction on
the Troy & Boston railroad. Both locomotives
and the train we're wrecked, but no one was in
jured seriously.
An BEN a Chinaman, was hanged at Marys-
VILE Cal, Friday for the murder Of John McDan-
iels at Marysville Park last November. He is be-
leved to have committed several other murders,
but made no confession.
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hanged on Friday, the 14th inst. On the same
day J. q Pinkham paid the penalty of his brutal
murder of Mrs. Marion Berry in New Hampshire.
The execution took place at the State Prison,
Concord.
COLONEL ROBERT A. ALsroN, member OF the
Georgia legislature and well known at Washing
ton, d. c.. was shot dead by Captain Ed Cox, OF
De Kalb county, at the state treasurers office in
Atlanta the other day. The trouble grew out OF
a business transaction
DISPATCH from Red Rock, Penn, says that
on Saturday afternoon an unknown man, in
toxicated staggered through the streets carrying
bag containing eight quart cans of nitro-glycerne.
Shortly the town was shaken and the inhabitants
terribly frightened by a terrific explosion. The
man had slipped down, causing the explosion
which scattered his body in every direction.
THRrErS millions two hundred and seven thou
sand eight hundred and fifty dollars is large
sum of money to lose, yet that amount is due to
depositors according To the Senate committee that
has been examining into the condition OF those
broken savings banks that are yet in the hands OF
receivers in New York city. Some of 1t will
doubtless be paid, but experience teaches that the
proportion will be small.
SOME of the minor incidents OF the commercial
distress in England are heart-rending. Alta re-
cent meeting of the shareholders of one of the eI-
ploded financial concerns, a lady by title and de-
scent declared that in six months the company
had stripped her of 10000 (Which means $780,
900 and that she was now supporting herself and
family aud her mother nearly one hundred years
old, by keeping coffee shop in an obscure Lon
don street The brother of one of the Glasgow
bank directors, on hearing that they had been
sentenced to Imprisonment, literally took to his
bed and died OF broken heart
FEARFUL floods have occurred in Hungary, and
the city of Szegedin on the river Thesis, has been
inundated. The greater part of the city was de-
stroyed, and it is estimated that some four thou
sand people were drowned Eighty thousand
were rendered homeless, and the ufiering is OF
course great The Hungarian minister of finance
went to the scene OF the disaster with 100000
for the relief of the sufferers, and other efforts
are being made to succor them, The towns OF
Csongrld at the confluence of the river Thesis and
Koros, thirty-two miles north of Szegedin, and
Szentes two miles nearer were also threatened,
Later intelligence shows that nins thousand seven
hundred houses were destroyed in sZegedin
ninety thousand sheep were destroyed, and six
teen thousand horses. Diphtheria has broker
out among the fugitives, and the suffering Is in
tense Engineers and soldiers are busy with pom
toons and relief boats, and the Emperor has made
a further contribution OF ten thousand horins.
| WILLlAMsrowS.-T farmers can't make the
weather but they are busy getting Their sngarine