Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-04-28
Weekly News Summary.

RAILrNGs for the protection Of brakemen are to
be placed on the tops Of freight cars on the Grand
Trunk railway.
The hotels In Hot Springs Arkansas, are
crowded to the utmost extent with the lame, the
halt, the blind, the poor and the rich.
THE strike at Cohoes, New York. has ended.
The strike has continued three weeks and two
days. One hundred thousand dollars in wages
are lost to the operatives.
DuRlSo last week thirteen large steamships left
the Mersey for North American ports, most OF
them for the United States with large number
OF passengers and considerable general cargoes.
This is believed to be unprecedented.
THE bundesrath has adopted the resolution pro.
posed by the representative of Bavaria, declaring
the receipts for post-offce remittance shall be
liable for stamp duty, thus reversing the vote
which led to the resignation OF Bismarck.
THE British naval training ship Atlanta is given
I up az lost with over three hundred officers and
men There is now no shadow Of hope left for
the safety Of the ship, and her fate has carried
desolation into hundreds OF English homes.
THE supreme court has granted Denis Kearney
writ Of hdbeos corpus, returnable before the su-
perior court OF San Francisco, which decided that
1t had no power to review Its own action Kear-
ney was remanded TO serve out his sentence
THE books Of the treasury declare the interest
ing fact that the savings banks Of Massachusetts
and New York. with William H. Vanderbilt, hold
oneeighth Of the bonded debt OF the United
States, and that capitalists Of New England and
New York hold about one-haif OF the entire
bonded debt.
THE April report Of the condition Of the crops
shows an increase In the area sown In wheat last
fall Of thirteen per cent more than the fall pre-
vions. In the area sown in rye there is decline
of six per cent as compared with the year pre-
vious. The condition il ninety-eight, precisely
the same this April as last year
MIR, YosHIDA, the japanese minister, who has
Just reached San Francisco on his return to this
country, has sent to President Hayes and Secre-
tary Evarts present Of forest trees for planting
at their homesteads in Ohio and Vermont The
trees, which filled ten large boxes have arrived
and been forwarded in good condition.
An Illinois gentleman counts among his choicest
treasures, and very rightly too, quaint old am
brotype Of Abraham Lincoln. It shows a gaunt
and awkward man OF thirty-seven seated in an old
rush-bottomed chair, and dressed In well-worn
dark clothes, with an od-fashioned stock and his
uncombed hair standing out in all directions.
ADvicEs from western Kansas report that the
drouth and unfavorabe weather has totally de-
stroyed the wheat crop west OF SaliDa, and that
there will be partial failure of the crop for one
hundred miles north and south of Topeka. Many
farmers in the western part Of the state are suffer-
ing and are appealing to the executive office at
Topeka for help
The Montreal Witness says: "Snce April LIST
two thousand people have left Montreal for the
States to settle in the manufacturing districts OF
New England. OF these, about nineteen-twen-
tieths are French Canadians from Montreal and
the surrounding districts" Doubtless as many
more have come by the narrow-gauge and from
stations this side of Montreal.
The desk upon which jefferson wrote the Dec
laration Of Independence the gift to the United
States Of the heirs of Joseph Coolidge Of Boston,
has been transmitted to congress accompanied by
message by the president 1t will be deposited
with the Declaration 4 Independence in the state
department 1t is of mahogany, about two feet
square, and ingeniously constructed
PRINCE LEOPOLD, Queen victora's youngest
sou, who is to visit the United States in June, s
in delicate health and morbidly averse to being
trotted out. He is very different from his broth
ers the Prince of Wales and Duke OF Edinburg,
the latter being " fast " in every sense of the
word, and at Monaco a few weeks ago lost e409
at roulette in about twenty minutes.
THERE is terrible distress in Asia Minor, even
within fifty miles of Constantinople Cattle,
sheep and Angora goats are carried off in large
numbers by disease Brigandage, which is al
most necessitated by hunger, is on the increase
The country between Angora and lsmidt is be-
coming desert. Four thousand people Of the
Mossoul district have emigrated to Bagdad.