Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-10-27
Weekly News Summary.

hpVut SzVoiVOO OF property
Tue steamship st. Laurent from Europe
brought So 176 600 in specie.
THERE was heavy frost In virginia Tuesday
night. Thin Ice formed In some localities.
TnE immigration into the United States during
the year which ended June 30 was 467. 257.
THIRTY Mormon missionaries have sailed for
Europe Three thousand converts were made in
Europe last year.
Two-THlRDs OF the city Of Christiansund.
Denmark, containing Il, 600 inhabitants has been
destroyed by fire
The old dwelling Of John c. Calhoun In the
southern part Of Pckens county, South Carolina,
was burned last Tuesday night
Miss CusHMAN was chosen tax collector at the
school-meetng at Lockport On the entrance Of
the ladies, smoking and all disorder ceased
Official reports from General Ball at Paso Del
Norte' confirms the report Of Victories death and
the destruction Of his band by the Mexicans.
IT is thought by prominent army officials that
the successor to Chief Signal Oalcer Myer, de-
ceased, will be either General Miles or General
Hazen.
lr is reported that d. r. Reddell, local freight
agent Of the Michigan Southern railroad, has alb
seconded with a shortage in his accounts of
$4,000
In the parlor Of an ex-cabinet officer in Phila-
delphia hangs very creditable landscape in oil
painted by no less a parsonage than Ulysses
S. Grant.
The United States signal service has Just COM
pleted trans-contnental military telegraph line
from Bismarck, Dakota, to Dayton, Washington
territory,
The commanders Of the French and German
war vessels Of the allied fleet in Turkish waters
have been ordered home. No further naval pro-
ceedings are expected.
GREAT demonstration Of Orangemen, number
ing four thousand, took place Saturday at Donogh-
loney, County Down, Ireland, to protest against
the Parnellte agitation.
THE forest fires near South Amboy, New Jer
sey, are spreading into Monmouth county, burn
ing valuable timber lands. Many acres were
burned near Sayreville.
THE ex-Empress Eugene is in such feeble health
that she remains in bed large part of the time.
She has aged rapidly Of late, and though hardly
ffty-five, looks ten years older
THE old game OF fraudulent registration has
been played to some extent in New York city,
but the police have been vigilant that IL is be-
lieved many arrests will follow
Thirty roughs simultaneously cut the guy
ropes of the mammoth Republican tent in Brook
Ign and cut the canvass in many places. Two
watchmen were nearly smothered to death.
CONSIDERABLE losses of cotton are reported in
Texas on account of the scarcity OF pickers, al
though dollar per hundred is offered Offers
of half the crop have been made to the pickers in
several instances.
A. G. HODGES, grand treasurer Of the Kentucky
grand lodge OF Masons, is deaulter to the
amount of $1,000 lie ia aged sixty -four, is one
of the best known Masons, and had held the
office many years.
Mr.. TiLDEN has just purchased ( rty acre
tract Of land adjoining Greystone, for deer park
1t is said the price was $4,000 1ilden has re-
Gently been offered 100000 for his beautiful
country home, but does not wish to sell
Hon. S. B. CHiTTESDES of New York has of
fered reward Of So 600 for evidence that shall
lead to the arrest and conviction of the forger
who concocted the so-called "Chinese Letter"
and wrote General Garfeld's name ON it,
The Duke Of Argyle is expected to visit Canada
next year to investigate and report upon the ac-
curacy or inaccuracy Of the reports which have
been afoat as to the desire the part of the Ca
nadans for annexation to the United States
OVER fifteen million postal cards, weighing
six'y-three tons, were shipped from the agency at
Holyoke, Massachusetts,, last week, the largest
weeks business yet. 1t is expected that the
orders for this month will reach forty million.
The trackmen at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
whom the coroner's jury charge with criminal
negligence in the terrible railroad horror of the
9th inst, are being prosecuted by the city author
tiles. The state will bring charges of murder.
The exports OF domestic provisions and tallow
from the United States in September, were valued
at sii,27l, 900 in September 1879, s7,575 900 /;
in the nine months ending September 80 slO3,-
722, 600 in the same period in 1879, Ssl 9l9 900
IT is said that the questions in dispute between
Peru and Chill, which have resulted in bloody
war, ere to be submitted to arbitrators, and in
case the arbitrators should not agree the matter
is to be referred to the president of the United
States.
The post-ofiice at Manchester, England, has
been set fire by incendiaries who cut the tele-
graph wires TO prevent commu nication with Lon
don. tits thought to indicate an intention to or
ganize disturbances in England in aid OF the land
league in England,
JUDGE LAWRENCE, in the New York supreme
court chambers, has decided that where for
eigner became naturalized before his son became
of age, the son requires proof of his own citi-
zenshp beyond his oath to the facts to entite his
name to be placed on the registry
The treasury department has transferred to the
bullion fund Of the New York assay office $500 900
in gold coin to pay for foreign gold bullion and
coin expected to arrive. This makes 5000 900
which has been transferred for the payment of
foreign gold since the 10Th OF August.
THE land league troubles in Ireland are assum-
ing serious aspect. The government persists in
It's determination to make arrests OF the leaders,
and it is thought the Fenians and Land Leaguers
will make common cause OF it. Considerable
alarm prevails among the Is ndlord class.
EFFORTS have been made by Louisiana planters
% introduce Chinese labor from Cuba, but have
been thwarted by the Spanish authorities The
chinese consulate at Havana is acting in concert
With the Spanish. The Louisianians are trying to
'tir up the American eagle and make him scream.
THE Princess Louise has returned to London
Ind will shortly sail for Canada to join her hus-
'and the Marquis of Lorne. She has been on
he continent seeking treatment for the nervous
less resulting from the shock she received by
'eing thrown from her sleigh at Ottawa last
winter.
CONTRARY to both national and state law, the
egistration offices still kept open in louisiana
The national officials have made arrests OF per-
ons registering within ten days prior to the cleo
ion The state officials are resisting and the
light is assuming grave proportions. A severe
ontlict is expected.
Mr.. SIMON CAMERON, who is Presbyterian,
las presented to a Lutheran congregation in Penn
ylvana a house and land for a parsonage as a
memorial OF his wife, Margaret Brua Cameron,
Iho was deyout Lutheran. The ground on
Ghich the house stands is the site of the house In
'hich he was born in 1893.
RUST, lily, bad weather and other causes make
he wheat crop comparative failure in the south
nd many farmers who have raised small quanti-
les heretofore have given up the crop altogether.
he drawbacks are less active in the states near
at Mason and Dixon's line, Virginia leading the
hole section in this years crop with 9,7S6,0o0
ushels
The storm In the west Friday and Saturday
sst will entail great losses upon the farmers
those potato crop Is not yet dug The ground
4 a large nortion of the country over which the