Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-05-12
Weekly News Summary.

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GOLD and silver have been discovered in
Wisconsin.
BRidANDAGE is assuming threatening proper
tons in Spain.
THERE are apprehensons Of trouble among the
Quebec laborers again
The war in South Africa has cost the British
exchequer S2i, 226OOO
FIVE persons persisted in a burning building at
Euphemia, Ontario, last week
The production of petroleum in this country
now exceeds 60 1000 barrels daily.
BENJAMIN p CHENEY, the Boston expressman,
has given $4,000 to Dartmouth college.
TIIE gold fever is spreading in Georgia In
White county the ore is found In nuggets.
MEXICO, with It's vast and productive territory,
has only $50 miles Of railway in operation.
The New York assembly has passed resolutions
favoring biennial sessions Of the legislature
OVER 1000 iron-workers in the north Of England
are on strike against reduction Of wages.
Six Of Brigham Young's daughters, disguised
with Mormonism, have been accommodated.
THE writing Of the Declaration Of independence
is fading out and means TO be taken to restore it,
GOVERNOR CORNELL has vetoed the bill provid-
ing for taxation Of foreign capital invested in
New York
Two United States vessels are being put in
readiness to protect American fishermen in Cana
dian waters
A SHIP canal, not less than thirty feet deep, is
to be built from New Orleans to deep water In the
Gulf Of Mexico.
FREEMAN the Pocassett chd-murderer has
been adjudged insane, and has been put into
lunatic asylum.
PHILADELPHIA is about to set its convicts at
work cleaning the streets and expects to save
$4,000 yearly.
THE affairs between China and Russia are still
threatening, and the reported conflict on the
frontier is confirmed.
A WORM called the fuke is destroying the sheep
in Great Britain. In parts of England
whole flocks have persisted.
The Russian government has forbidden the ex-
| portaton of Russian books until they have been
inspected by the government censor.
The new members of the British house Of COM
| mons are mostly merchants, manufacturers and
those connected with commercial pursuits
GENERAL HANCOCK has been elected COM
mander for the United States, and General Scho-
| field for New York state, Of the Loyal Legion
GOVERNOR ROBERTS Of Texas has been burned
| in efligy in Montague county because OF his I'M
reasonable clemency to the fouest murderers.
MEMPHIS is at last doing something to prevent
infection with yellow fever by putting in new sew
ers. About fifteen miles have been laid to date
d. C. BLooMER and his wife Aurea, who in
vented the bloomer costume, celebrated their for
tieth wedding anniversary at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
| the other day.
GEORGE b. ROBERTS has been elected president
Of the Pennsylvania Central in place of Colonel
Tom Scott. lie commenced his railroad service
| as rod man.
| A KENTUCKY doctor cured man of fever. As
| the man would not pay him and he could not give
him the fever again, the doctor gave him an ounce
| Of cold lead.
MARIAN c. EVANS better known by her nom de
plume of George Eliot, the great English novelist
| is married to n Mr.. Cross Her first husband,
George Henry Lewes, died in 1873
The stockholders of the Ogdensburgh and Lake
Champlain railroad will issue bonds TO the amount
Of "a 800 900 to retire preferred stock and outstand-
ing bonds, and make improvements.
| THE number who have died in consequence OF
injuries received in the cyclone at Marshfield,
Missouri to date is sixty-fve. Thi'ty-three others
are in hospital and will probably die.
| THE Roman Catholic immigration into this
country from 1890 to 1875 numbered 3,l5O232
The number of communicates in that church in
the United States is reported at 100000.
| Two hundred Columbia college students got
| drunk and behaved outrageously at the Hahne-
mann fair in New York city. The police were
afraid of them, and they had their own way,
A TERRIBLE conhsgration visited Allegheny
| City, Pennsylvania, opposite Pittsburgh, Sunday
night Twenty-eight dwellings consumed.
| The loss will not fall short Of million and half.
| MoNoToNoUs peace prevails throughout the
| republic of Mexico. Business is good, and there
| has been considerable increase of exports,
| mostly to Europe. The government finances are
| greatly improved
| INDIAN depredatons have made the people of
| New Mexico desperate hundred thousand
sheep have been driven of by the Indians, and
bodies of murdered shepherds have been found
dreadfully mutilated.
ADMIRAL AMMEN is still at work on his Mic
araguan canal project, and says the offer OF the
presidency of the company is still open to General
|
pany will soon organize.
| OWING to storms last fall and poor grinding
| season, Louisiana's production Of sugar and mo-
| lasses has fallen off sixteen per cent from last
| year. The rice crop is the worst known, the de-
crease being from l62, l75 to 81, 3i2 barrels.
The jury in the Foster murder at Keene,
| New Hampshire, brought in verdict OF not
guilty, thus clearing Dodge Lee and Spencer.
| The jury unanimous in the opinion that Fos-
ter was murdered, and was not a case Of suicide
| THE latest plan for crossing the English chan
mel is embodied in model now before the British
admiralty for a monster floating railway station,
which is to carry trains holding two thousand pas
sengers at the rate of fourteen knots hour
NISEry-FIvE per cent of the great tide of immi-
grafton now flowing in from Europe goes to the
states of the northwest, and it is calculated that
| the number aggregates enough every two months
| to give an additional congressman under the new
census.
LAST Friday morning at Port Henry, New York,
while about forty men were working in the Teft
shaft, the largest pillar fell, covering up two men
under about five thousand tons OF ore. Another
man had his hip broken, and several were slightly
| injured
INDIAN chief Louis Watso, who Is over one hun
| bred years Of age and was a chief of the Abena-
quis which tribe fought under the British flag on
the frontier during the war of 1912, has at last re-
| ceived pension from the British government. He
| is resident Of Lake George
AN oil well was set on fire in the oil region OF
/ Pennsylvania last week and the fire quickly
spread in all directions. village OF one hundred
houses was destroyed. Three hundred derricks
| and vast quantity of oil were consumed. The
| loss will reach $500 600, with little insurance.
THE supreme lodge Independent Order of Me-
| ehancs, held a session at Washington last week,
and, with the grand and subordinate lodges and
| visiting bodies, paraded the streets and were re-
viewed by the president Fifteen hundred men
| were in line, representing twenty-eight lodges.
THE Egyptian khediye is accused by recent
traveller of laying sacregious hands on the pyra-
mids, having removed four or five large stones
| from Immediately under the entrance to the great
pyramid to build the mosque which is to over
| shadow the beautiful mosque OF Sultan Hassan.
On starting the engine Monday morning in an
| iron mill at Rome New York, the boiler burst,
| killing four men and wounding sixteen Others.
i The cause was low water In the boiler The mill
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