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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29
Weekly News summary.

MORMON converts in Great Britain have been
notified that poygamy is prohibited by law in
this country
THE horses won in the horse-and man match in
San Francisco the best time Of each being, for the
horses 500 miles, and for the men $40 miles
Miss ALICE ISABEL HOOPER, stcp-daughter of
the late Charles Sumner, has just been married
to Mr.. Edward Balfour, formerly of Scotland
PROPERTY left for educational purposes by will
liam Hume Of England, valued in 1891 at $500, IL
now estimated at from s2,5oO,0Oo to $4,000
Two North Carolina colored men have arranged
for the transportation of 200 colored families, ag-
gregating 1000 people, from North Carolina to
Indiana. They leave November LIST, and have
every assurance that at least 10000 colored en-
igrants can find employment in Indiana
In two months this fall fifteen Of the Chicago
hotels have registered SO 1854 transient guests
an average of 1897 day, the highest number in
any one day being $3.50 And the local papers
truthfully say that q mere fraction Of the casual
visitors, stopping at half-prced hotel, register
their names
GENERAL SHERMAN says the troops in Colorado
are in good condition, and they will remain
awaiting orders till Special Agent Adamss mis-
sion is heard from. Secretary Schurz believes
Adams will successfully rescue the captive women
and children and secure the surrender Of Major
fhornburghs and Agent Meekers murderers
The long investigation Of the once mysterious
Lynn trunk tragedy has borne fruit at last in the
| conviction Of Caroline c. Goodrich and "Dr "
Daniel T Kimball, the former for procuring an
abortion on Jennie Clarke and the latter for being
| an accessory after the fact. Goodrich is thus
| liable TO imprisonment for from five to twenty
years, and Kimball to seven years in prison or
three years in Jail with fine of $1,000.
THERE was church fair ut Silver City, Nevada,
and wag put an advertisement in the local news
paper that hugs would be sold rs follows "Ten
cents to hug any young lady between fifteen and
twenty FIVE cents for young ladies between
twenty and thirty; 81 to hug another mans wife :
old maids two for cent; all females Of the
woman's rights persuasion are free" Inquiries
for the hugging booth were numerous.
The distress in Hungary on account Of the bad
harvest is very great The government has sus-
pended the collection of taxes till the next harvest
is gathered. In fifty-seven towns and villages in
Temes county the greatest distress prevails. In
Saros county, where some cases of starvation have
occurred forty parishes are threatened with fam
inc. Frightful accounts are also received from
the counties of Aravj, Heves and Zempn
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

UNREcoNsTRUCTED.-The experience of
Charles Graham, one of the Harper Brothers
artists, who has just returned from sketch
ing tour in the South, strongly illustrates
the lawless antagonism which every North
erner may expect to encounter who attempts
to live there. Mr.. Graham started out last
August to make sketches for the ilustra-
ton of a series of articles by Miss Rebecca
Harding Davis, which are TO appear in
Harper's Magazine, and returned to New
York few days ago. AS Northerner he
was looked upon with extreme suspicion,
and his movements were so closely watched
as to impede seriously the prog ress of his
work. 1t was even pretended that he was
mistaken for revenue officer, and he was
once shot at twice by moonshiners.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29
Future Of the Exodus.

The indications point to largely in
creased emigration among the freedmen OF
the South in the near future-an increase
not only in numbers but in extent OF terri
tory to be affected Our exchanges report
that from Texas TO North Carolina funds
are being collected, scouts sent out and
plans made which next spring will see full
filled in greater or less degree. An Aber-
deem, Mississippi citizen estimates that sixty
thousand will leave the Mississippi bottoms
alone; six hundred are preparing to emf
CRATE from Shelby and San Augustine coun-
ties, Texas the Valdosta, Georgia, Times re-
ports the negroes in that section selling off
their goods to get money to take them to
Kansas, and the North Carolina papers no.
tice the beginnings of an exodus there
What is true of these localities is evidently
true throughout the state. Of course funds
will give out employment will manage to
detain many on one subterfuge and another,
but unless all signs fail, there is to he
such movement among the negroes north
ward aud westward as has never been seen
in this country. The secret associations
which were formed for mutual protection
Immediately after emancipation are being
revived, and in every locality the colored
churches and ministers are machinery which
can be used for collecting money, sending
out accredited agents to spy out the land and
arranging details as far as possible for the
final departure. The exodus will not attain
much Importance before spring, for the ne
gro breads the northern winter and knows
that it is poor time then to establish new
home. Once begun, the movement is likely
to be steady, the cost having been counted
and the risk taken with the determination
to abide the issue. That the South will be
ultimately benefited by the exodus, what
ever its dimensions prove to be, there can
be no doubt. The remaining blacks will
get better wages, room will be made for the
introduction of white labor, and the ex-
master will learn liberation with the loss of
his accustomed help.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

GoUGH's RETURN.-This distinguished
champion of temperance is on his way home
from Europe, after an absence of fifteen
months. Late London papers speak in glow
ing terms of his labors there, especially of
his farewell address, delivered to an i'm
mense audience in the Metropolitan Taber-
nacle, at which Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon presided
and presented him with his sermons, in
twenty-four volumes, as testimonial. Mr..
Cough went abroad for the purpose of Sc
curing that rest from labor he so much
needed, but his many good friends in Eng
land and Scotland prevailed upon him to
make numerous addresses, principally upon
his chosen theme, that Of temperance. He
returns to his home to find the rest he vainly
sought abroad.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29
GENERAL JOSEPH r. HAwLEy: 90

says some dirty blackguard, bloody shirt,
and in Democratic procession in Ohio
they actually carried a bloody shirt. Have
you ever seen, as have, mother take the
sacred relics worn by her boy from the
closet 2 The bloody shirt; uplft it Let
me be reverent. Why do you lift on high
the cross, the symbol of the sad gallows on
which Christ was crucifed nearly two thou
sand years ago? Why goad and tempt
men by casting ridicule upon their sacred
feelings. If there should be need of it, if
these men should ever be led into another
war, would as soon fight under that banner
as any other"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

THE EDDY IMPosToRs. THAT the fools are not
all dead yet, has been demonstrated lately in
North Adams, Massachusetts,, by Mr.. Mabbitt,
local editor of the North Adams Transcript, who
might, not inaptly, be styled the Fool Killer.
Mrs. Mary Eddy-iuntoon Zone Of the notorious
Eddy family which, we are ashamed to say, Is a
Vermont production,) has been giving seanees
there and deluding people, who ought to know
better but don't, into the belief in the material
zation Of spirits, Some OF the people who had
not become entirely demented determined to ex-
pose the fraud They accordingly attended one
OF the seances. Many materialized forms were
family discernible during the early part of the
evening but none were willing to leave the cabi-
net In few moments, however, with shaking
of a tambourne aud a shrl whoop, a fierce
Sioux warrior sprang from the cabinet and COM
meneed vigorous war-dance before the eyes Of
the startled audience. With leap that would
have done credit to "a panther, and put TO blush
the best college gymnast, Mr., MabbiIt sprang
upon the beWildeied savage, elasped him around
the waist, and together they fell to the floor as
sisted somewhat by blow from Webster Eddy,
brother of the female medium, which fell with
full force upon Mabbitt's shoulder Before it
could be repeated, however the puglistie Eddy
and the law, Rev Dr. Osborn, pastor of the Bap-
list church, being on his right, and lawyer A. G.
Potter ON his left. Meanwhile within the cabinet
Mabbitt and his Indian were having it rough-and-
tumble. The medium kicked and thrashed and
scratched and called for a revolver Hearing the
noise of the turmoil, two officers, who had been
stationed outside to guard against contingencies
of this nature, burst open the door. They threw
the light OF dark lantern upon the scene when
presto what sight Issuing from the door OF
the cabinet was Mabbtt, bearing in his arms
not the Indian chieftain, but the medium, Mrs.
| Huntoon, with her clothing tucked carefully be-
meath her waist OF course the spirtualists were
indignant, but the fraud WAS too transparent yet
the woman had the check to say at is very
plain, the Indian Split emanated from me- and
Of course when that man frightened It, II natur-
ally came back to me, and in trying TO catch the
spirit, what is more natural than that he should
catch me2' Mrs. Eddy -lluntoon threatens to
have Mabbitt arrested for an unprovoked assault,
but she will probably cool oil and Try some othe
place.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD IN SPAIN.-In the
southeast corner of Spain, and in one Of
her richest valleys, most destructive flood
was experienced two weeks since. After an
exceptional period of drouth, OH the night
of the 14th instant deluge descended
upon the valley, utterly destroying ten or
twelve villages, aud sacrificing three thou
sand lives, according to the latest estimate
Ten thousand families are destitute and
homeless. The loss of property is said to be
fifty million francs. The king has visited
the scene and subscribed fifty thousand
francs for the sufferers, thoughtfully asking
that the amounts which individuals or pub
lie bodies intend to contribute toward the
celebration of his marriage shall be devoted
to the relief of the sufferers. His holiness the
pope has sent six thousand francs, and {
rich inhabitant of Alicante has given nc
less than 100000.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

DROWNING ACCIDENTAL sad drowning acct
dent happened at Mallett's Bay Sunday evening
A Mr.. Benoit OF Burlington hired Thomas L Esper-
ance 10 take him across the lake In his boat, the
yacht Victoria, to see his sick wife The two men
sere accompanied by a couple of Others named
Goquet and Fuller. The trip across was safely
made, but when the party started on the return
a strong south wind was blowing. When about
half way across the lake the boat became I'M
manageable and L'Esperance concluded to run
for Malletts Bay, thinking that in this way a
landing could be easily effected. Entering the
bay they had got nearly to land and to a point
where the water was only ten feet deep or less,
when L Esperance stood up and attempted tc
arrange the broken sail. The boat was covered
with Ice where the water had dashed over 1t and
frozen. and slipping on this the unfortunate NAL
plunged headlong into the lake. His companions
made every effort to rescue him, but to no pur-
pose, nor could they recover his body. Monday
morning a party went out from Burlington AND
after some difficulty found it and brought 1t t.
that city
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

A SuoorrSG AFFRAY D,nestic infelicity in
the family of Lumap A Smith of Williston eul-
minated in a shootinc ARRAY last Thursday. which
resulted in the death Of Smith ON Saturday last
There are two different versions Of the affair and
probably only judicial investigation will deyelop
the truth The undisputed facts are these: Smith
and his wife lived with her father. Joseph B.
Woods. and have had treatment ouarrels which she
claims often resulted in his beating her and
Threatening her life thougl smith denied this In
the afternoon her father demanded of Smith the
team to take Mrs Smith to Wiiliston village.
whereunon a dlsnnte arose and Woods drew a re-
volver and shot him twice Mrs Smith hearing
the cries nroeured a revolver and also shot her
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

The new postal card to be issued next
month can be sent to all countries belonging
to the postal union, including nearly all OF
Europe, Cniua, Japan and Brazil. The de-
sign contains more printing than the present
card. At the top are the words, " Universal
Postal Union," and repeated in French in
smaller type. Then come the words
" United States of America" which are alsc
repeated in French The stamp is wei
designed head of liberty, surrounded Oh
each side with the figure 20" aud the words
"U. S. Postal Card"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

WHILE the dead and wounded were being ex-
trcated from the railroad wreck near jackson,
Michigan, one lady, afterwards ascertained to be
Mrs. Rice Of Philadelphia, discovered to be
dead with her arm wound around the neck OF her
little four-y boy, Both lay under the car,
the boy alive, but with his leg broken, and SO sur
rounded and confined that it was for an hour OF
more impossible to get him out James Melon
ough Of the round house force worked long and
faithfully, without moments rest to rescue the
child. The poor little fellow moaned out; "Oh!
II 90 tan on'y dit me out III be 10 goodl Tate
me out and tate my mamma out' AT last Nc.
Donough freed him from the car, and Dr. Nc
Laughln tenderly set the little sufferers leg
| His father also lay mangled and dead behind him
| but not where little Willie could see him
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

SPRiNGFIELD Republican: 1.-THE Dem
ocratic papers all over the country are de-
claring that it is an absolute necessity for
the party to carry New York this fall. 1t is
safe to say that no party ever carried an
election when it was necessity The
tide Gibbs and flows with small regard to the
necessity of a drowning swimmer. In poll.
tics, as elsewhere, to him that hath shall be
given, and the Republican party is grabbing
pretty big fst-full this autumn"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

ATLANTA (Georgia) Constitution: "The
time will come when the colored people OF
the South will regard slavery as benefac-
ton and boon rather than as a curse.
They will come to recognize the fact that it
had its place in the economy of Providence,
and that its mission was to civilze and ele-
vate rather than to degrade. They will
perceive that it gave to them and their
children's children future that no other
method or process Of civilization could have
given them; and they will come to know
that the southern Shareholder, like them.
selves, was mere blind instrument in the
hands of fate
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

WILLIAM A. WHEELER Cornell now
carries the flag of the Union upon the Skin.
mish line for New York's position in the
great fight of next year. follow that flag
wherever | see its folds, whoever may be
the standard-bearer, and from the position
gained by New York on the fourth day of No
vember next, she will lead the storming
column in 1880, and plant the banner of the
Republican party upon the ramparts of the
fortress of Democracy and rebellion.
know Mr. Cornell well, and Mr.. Cornell ia
man of spotless integrity, of rare good
judgment, and of high executive ability"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

SPRINGFIELD Republican; Blaine wound
up the Iowa campaign with as much enthusi-
asm expended over his appearance as if he
had been General Grant himself. Flags,
notices, brass bands and cannon welcomed
the hero of the hour, and the impression is
that even General Grant is not popular
enough in Iowa to seduce the states dele
gates in the next national Republican con
vention from Blaine. The Blaine boom has
evidently gained ground since he took the
stump in person in Ohio and the Hawkeye
state"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29
Notes and Notions.

lHh anti- amnany democracy I'D view
York seem to have lost courage and har-
mony In council
The positions are being occupied and for
titled in 1879 that will control the result of
the contest in 1880.
LAST year the Greenback vote in Ohio
was over $4,000. This year it foots up 9,129
in total of 66S,667 votes cast for governor.
ACCORDING TO the Washington cores
pendent of the Philadelphia Press, the Dem.
ocratic managers in that city have finally
been obliged to regard the election of Cor
nell as certainty.
LOUISVILLE Courier, Journal saws; oJudee
Thurman's career, which is practically
ended-for, except as A probable member of
Mr.. Tildens possible cabinet. he has no DO.
litical future---oupht to be a lesson to the
vounp men of the country"
o,a.o. w,, r,n 49,, III A..
o,hor o,,D;r 90, dr;,Lars ,,h, ,,ro,,oso q,
scratch Cornell ought not tn forget that
President HAYES saws If he resided in New
n.
yoyk Commercial Adpertiser.
c, ,.nu o..; upo
,,h,o,n sta,o oo,,,,i,,oo oxnr,,,sos = hoI;ot
,ha, Corn.u ,yi, rrn no,rIn ono hrndroa
,ho,sand ahaad 90 poh,nsnn and ,ha, ,ho
rest of the ticket will have maiorities rang.
inc from twenty to thirty Thousand.
Io,., p,,ss,, yo,,v, ..,,. ,ho, c,onoroi
l. .ua ,u..al.. - 90 ,..u
tt, ,,,,. .,,.,,. ,r.... 81
.. -. h. ,t;.' -, u.,,;,,1.
~, .' tai H.. 49,, IT,
oor,d .raro, al, nioh, and 600 oioh,s al, dav
s,.ov c,vv,ov .h;nls No rona, On
oo.,h oo,, ,,ro,,an. tho ron,;,at;on of Gran.
IL 1880 ..t ,ovar so,, onv,b;,o iii. !, y,
ha so;a rooa,,l, 70 a r.r,r,sr If tho pbila.
ds,,b;a pscor5 uaxcsnt with Jackson
Tbere vas a hurrab started with him inst
like this Grant boom. and il went ALI over
tho countrvn
Tur vot. cast :, Obio the 1atb for state
oficers and members of the legislature WAS
officially connted last week. Tn. total vote
for governor was 6es 667 divided as follows
Foster. Renublican. 336. 2Gl Ewing. Dem.
ocrat. 3lo l32. Stewart. prohibitionist. 4.145,
Pratt. National g.129: Fosters majority
over Ewing. H. 100.
p r.u ,.s.,.o
who WAS arrested in Canada last week. can.
not be brought to punishment after all.
The Canadian antbor;t;es decide that en-.
bezzlement is not an extraditable offense,
and he was released Tuesday of last week
at Quebec. He immediately left with his
family for Europe.
r,,,. s,.;,.e.1, p..h,; 1000. ,,oho
a,,l,, ,.,,,o,,ooaa H., ,.,lo,d,.hirtn oa,
naipn If the R.publicans in Ohio Now i,
saws. .Ohio has sobared the Sontbprn nress
and. with remarkable unanimitv. thew urpt
a conc;Iiatorv conservative ro,;cv that oh /,
not mako the Soutb resnonsibe for keen;no
the sectional issue alive"
rrn,, ~ w u,, p...;,,. u.
-, .., -,1., Al, y
IN record the strongest evidence that tb,
coursa of tho administration hos ,;etad III,
Marty n crouud hiober than II bas occun;e,
since 1870 and has repdared nract;ca,lv cor
tain the election of a Republican presiden
!, 1891
v,,p, wu :. .
man ,,ho has oha,.s,,,,, ao,..n,oa 49,. no,r
tt A.. CO, H. .,,.o A.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

AUGUSTA Georgia. Chronicle: some OF
the most distinguished public men now in
office, and who more than ever looms up fol
the leadership of the presidential contest on
the Democratic side, told us with earnest
he greatly apprehended that the South
weary Of strife and disguised with Dem
ocratic laundering and impotency, would, in
despair of better things, make bargain
with Grant or any other potent individual
by which she would be released from eter
nal unrest and disappointment"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

The governors of the thirteen original
states recently in Philadelphia went to
church Sunday OF last week at the old Christ
Protestant Episcopal church which Wash
ington attended while president. They
were seated ia the pews formerly occupied
by Washington aud Robert NJ jrris. Gov
ernor Hoyt's staff were in full uniform. The
church was decorated with flags and ma
tional shields containing the names of George
Washington, Robert Morris, Bishop White,
Benjamin Franklin and Francis Hopkinson
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

IT now comes out that the Tilden nego-
tiator in South Carolina who proposed to
bride four members Of the legislature in that
state in November, 1876, with $4,000, and
then secure the arrest of the Republican cleo
tors so as to prevent them from casting the
electoral vote of that state, was Mr.. Mclean
the Tilden police commissioner of New York
When the cipher dispatches fell into tn
hands of the Tribune, he begged SO hard moi
to be exposed that he was promised that i
would not be done unless IL was necessary.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

PRESIDENT SEELYE of Amherst: at
ought to be before us all that political Of
fee is not dignity to be enjoyed, but a sa-
cred trust to be administered. 1t is not to
be given to any man because he deserves i,
as reward for service rendered his party OIL
his country. No man can ever deserve an
office, for the moment we speak of desert
here we are treating the Office as though il
were boon to the person filling it, rather
than blessing to the people for whom il
should be filed"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

A DAUGHTER of Governor-elect Foster of
Ohio was visiting in Atlanta, Georgia, when
the news OF her fathers election was flashed
over the country. The young men of At
lanta, probably animated by spirit OF con.
ciliation, serenaded the young lady in honor
OF the event.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-29

IT is estimated that the amount collected in aid
of Archbishop Purcell OF Cincinnati will not ex-
coed 1000, not enough to pay the interest on
the debt since the assignment. II has been de-
cded that the archbishops assignee shall bring a
suit to test the question OF the liability of the
church property generally throughout the diocese
for the archbishops debts.