The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-12-29

statistics, the exports Of provisions ior the
| ,leven months ending November 80, reached
SIPS. 100000, which Is S29,O00,o0 in excess
n The same eleven months Of last year. The
Increase over last year in three communities
paoon, (including hams,) cheese and lard
vas nearly s32,O coo 900, divided a. follows;
Bacon and hams, s.. 600, 900; cheese, $780,
900, and lard, Ss,0OO,OO0.
TUE controller of the currency has declared
The following dividends to the creditors Of in
solvent national banks: Lookhaven National
back, OF Lockhaven, Penn, ninth dividend,
sixteen per cent, making in all ninety per
cent; CITY National bank, OF Chicago,
sixth dividend, seven per cent, making in
all seventy-seyen per cent.i German Ma
tionaI bank, OF Chicago, fourth dividend, fl
teen per cent, making in all seventy per
cent; National bank of the State OF Missouri,
ST. Louis, tenth dividend, i've per cent,
making in all ninety-fve per cent First Ma
lionaI bank OF Warrensburg, Mo-, nth diyi-
denI, twenty-five per cent, making in all 100
per cent.
Foreign News.
A DISPATCH from Bucharest says that an
attempt has been made to assassinaie the
Romanian president, NJ. Bratiano, who was
assaulted as he was about entering his carriage
and slightly wounded in the lace by u dagger
in the hands Of an employee Of the finance
department.
JOSIAH CALDWELL, a London railway con.
tractor, has failed for 50, 500, 900.
A DISPATCH from Paris TO the London
Times says % the success of the Panama canal
enterprise is enormous. The organization OF
the undertaking is in full swing"
Hon. DAVID CHRISTIE, at one time speaker
OF tho Canadian senate, is dead in his sixty
third year,
LOUISE MICHEL, the Communist, has pro-
claimed Henri Rochefort a traitor who ought
to be expelled from the circle OF Communism.
A LAND bill for the relief OF Ireland is in
preparation by the British government. Mean
while the turmoil in that country continues.
The Irish land league is said TO be practically
IN power in many parts OF the country, and
its commands are obeyed and punishments
submitted to, while the regular authorities are
to q great extent ignored.
Foor and mouth diseases among sheep are
spreading ali over England.
A CABLE dispatch says that at Portadown,
Ireland, a body OF Orangemen attacked aud
dispersed a land league meeting, and that the
Earl OF Enniskillen, grand master of the Irish
O~rangemen, has appointed a vigilance COM
mittee TO protect the landlords.
MIR. RADCLIFFE, a member OF the British
parliament, has been unseated for bribery in
connection with his election, and his seat
given to his opponent.
The London Daily Telegraph says that the
government contemplates proclaiming martial
law in the disturbed districts OF Ireland. Lord
Kenmare, who has large landed estates in
Killarney, has discharged 800 laborers for
connection with the land league. Trouble is
expected to result.
A LONDON cable dispatch says that 1.-THE
entire interest OF tho hour is conferred in Ireland
and the land question. 1t is clear to most
has an existence in the sister island, but has
been superseded-at least for the present-by
the land league, whose DEGREES are no pro.
mulgated in open day, executed with prompt
itude and vigor and respected implicitly.
The l~eague-as, by the way, it did in 1913
has opened its own " law courts" Tor trials OF
cases and disputes, and the ordinary tribunals
might as well be closed, because no wit
ness will appear to testify before them, nor
will any OF their juries convict. The shop
keepers in the town who are obnoxious to the
land league are now " Boycotted' relentless
~, and for the moment Ireland is a part Of
the United Kingdom only in name" Mean
while, troops are moving into Ireland; "but,"
the dispatch says the soldiers really offer no
protection against the sentences OF the land
league, for they nave no power to act except
in case of actual instruction, and the local
constabulary are entirely powerless."
The death is announced OF the Duchess OF
Westminster and Francis I. auckland, O
w%ell-knoRn English naturalist.
THE shares OF the Panama canal have beer
taken no almost entirely in Franco. Frenct
DnancleTS COuSlueT IuhJ lut llhulbulhOo SuCCeSs
of the scheme is now assured. One house
alone is said to nave taken nearly one hun
bred thousand shares.
A WOMAN who was walking in Halifax, N,
g., holding an umbrella in front OF her, came
IA collision with a man. She tainted, ant
when restored to consciousness was hopelessly
insane.
A FIRE at Rangoon, the C pital OF British
Burmah, destroyed property valued at nine
teen laos OF rupees ($844, 500).
TROUBLE has broken out in South Airicf
between the Beers and the British. Fiv'
thousand Beers have taken possession o
Heidelberg and established a rep bic, witt
Paul Kruger as president and Joubert as com
mandant. No act OF violence was committed
A request for British troops for the Cape @
Good Hope was receive at the war office il
London. The victory Of the Beers places tn
~colonials in a very p~erilous situation, and it i
understood that they have notified the govern
ment that it will be necessary to forwar
troops from England without delay.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.