Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-20
Weekly News Summary.

AwAR with the Ute Indians is imminent.
FREE public instruction has been established in
San Domingo
MORE magistrates have resigned in France in
consequence OF the enforcement Of the religious
DEGREES.
THE pope has summoned some OF the Irish
bishops to Rome to instruct them, in view of the
present state Of affairs in Ireland.
THE Boston 4" Ladies' deposit company is at
last completely busted" A whole row of at
tachments have been put on and there is great
confusion and panic there.
A COTTON shed in Charleston, South Carolina,
caught fire and the result was a disastrous con-
fagration, whereby three British steamers partly
loaded with cotton were badly damaged. Loss
500 900
A LARGE meeting Of Irishmen was held in
Bradford Ireland. last Saturday. The accounts
OF the state OF Ireland published in English papers
were denounced Home rule resolutions were
adopted.
THE national association of Methodist preachers
celebrated its twenty -ffth anniversary in Balti-
more Saturday and Sunday. DR.. Wheeler, editor
of the Methodist, presided and delivered the an
nusl address.
New YORK woman died from senllity and
asthenia " at the age of forty years, Physicians
state that the woman had all the appearance of Il
person seventy years Of age or over, and that the
symptoms of her disease were clearly those OF
dissolution In old age.
A DISASTROUS storm of wind and snow passed
over Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota Friday
night and Saturday. Lake Michigan vessels
sought the nearest harbor for safety, but several
are known to have foundered Railroad trains
were blockaded by snow drifts, and provisions and
help were sent to them. 1t was the worst storm
ever known in the west.
OWING to the long continued drought the water
in the James river is so low that Richmond is
threatened with water famine. One Of the res
ervoirs is almost dry and the other contains only
two feet of water. Several large industries, in
Guiding number OF tobacco factories have sus-
pended operations in consequence. throwing out
of employment many hundred people
TEXAS has a cash balance OF nearly 81, 0OO,0 900
in her state treasury, and it is given out that Gov
ernor Roberts will advise the next legislature to
spend that and millions more In establishing
state university and building penitentares and a
state house at Austin. The governor hopes to
counteract the disposition to split the state in
twain by this means, but the measure will be OPP
posed by those determined to make two states out
OF Texas anyhow.
SARA BERsHARDT has just ordered at the Bon
Marche, one hundred and fifty pairs OF gloves for
her American tour. They are OF undressed kid Of
the Mousquetaire style with three buttons at the
wrist but with length equivalent TO thirty
button glove, and are to cost SO 90 pair Prob
ably the fascinating Sara imagnes that no gloves
are TO be procured among the ignorant Yankees
OF whose ignorance and vulgarity Francisque
sarcey warned her SO long ago.
sourH CAROLINA Democrats are alarmed at
the situation, and the Charleston Nelos and Cour-
ier in an editorial urges the Democrats to renewed
exertions to prevent coalition between Green
hackers and Republicans in some Of the counties.
The Greenback candidates for state offices will
get some Democratic votes With three COM
plete tickets 10 the ield-Democratic, Radical and
ACKNOWLEDGMENT the state government aud cleo
toral vote OF South Carolina can be wrested from
the Democracy"
The mausoleum OF the late Mark Hopkins, the
California millionaire, just completed has cost
with two or three exceptions, more than any pub
lie or private structure In Sacramento, The tomb
proper Is twenty feet long, sixteen feet wide and
twelve feet high. 1t is built OF huge red granite
blocks from the Sierra Nevada mountains some
Of which, it is said, weighed In the rough about
thirty six tons They are doweled together on
the plan pursued In building the Eddystone light
house. Black granite is used to some extent In
the ornamentstion, and the style OF the coping Is
Egyptian. The great stones forming the doors
are opened by a complicated system Of locks and
bolts.