Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-25
Weekly News Summary.

CERTAIN grades of chairs are to be advanced
ton or nfteen per cent In price.
THElaw aboshing slavery in Cuba has just been
promulgated in the official gazette of Madrid.
Two hundred and four doctors were turned out
by the New York University on Tuesday week
The Dominion house OF commons unanimously
voted 500 900 last week for the Irish relief fund
Four men were killed by the bursting OF boiler
It Gorham, New Hampshire, on Tuesday week
Mrs. MURRAY Of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia,
mas Just given birth to five children, three girls
md two boys, all doing well
The Virginia senate have voted to substitute
graduated license system for the Moffett bell
punch which has proved such a failure
The Maryland legislature has passed a bill
Prohibiting publ, swearing or noisy and turbu-
lent disturbances, and providing punishment by
ine and Imprisonment.
GOVERNOR CORNELL Thursday signed bill
Idmitting women to vote for school officers. New
York makes the twelfth state which has extended
his suffrage to women.
ARCHBISHOP McCABE OF Ireland reports that
he distress is increasing and the famine extend
NJ in some districts, and money is urgently re-
iuired for food and seed.
In the poorest quarter OF Rome three weeks
$50, crowd OF furnishing workmen stopped
art load OF bread and In twinkng carried all
Jf. There is terrible restitution there
The Mississippi house of representatives has
passed bill securing to married women the right
o dispose OF their separate estates without the
consent, and independent Of the wishes, OF their
husbands.
The Princess louise was thrown from sleigh
while riding to the senate chambers with the gov
ernor-general at Ottawa on Saturday week, and
vas not only slightly injured but lost diamond
worth 5000
PRESIDENT HAYES has issued proclamation
n regard to the threatened raid of white men on
indian Territory, and warns such adventures that
hey will be promptly removed If they attempt to
make such invasion.
SECRETARY SHERMAN sent a check as his we'd
ling present to his niece, Miss Moulton, who was
married in Cincinnati last week, with the pro-
eeds of which she will furnish a room in her new
lolse to be called 4" Uncle Johns room
THE turnout Of the cotton crop in Georgia ex-
ites astonishment. Many farmers are gathering
several hundred pounds day. 1t seems as II
very boil will open. The mild weather OF the
winter has been godsend on this account, for
has given to every planter many more bales
than he thought it possible to secure at the be-
inning of the season.
DRUNKEN doctor In Syracuse put a man
lnder the influence OF ether and sewed up some
g,shes in his face. Blood flowed from the mans
mouth, and then the doctor sewed up the mouth
nd nd hx,
vigorous UNI uming succeeded in securing the
attention OF his friends who procured the services
Il another ply scian, who cut the stitches.
A GREAT fire occurred on Broadway In New
York the evening Of the 2lst. The building hay-
ing iron doors and windows, accessible only by
way of the roof. While party OF fireman were
cutting hole through the roof it began to give
way. The men retreated except two who, re-
naming too long and the roof suddenly giving
way, fell into the blazing abyss to be consumed.
FULLY ten thousand persons witnessed the
hanging Of John Hall and Burrell Smith near Lit
les creek, Tennessee, on Friday last The scat
fold was erected within three hundred yards OF
the public square and raised seats were built ia
cing it, upon which sittings sold for 81 each, and
N enterprising Snowman reaped rich harvest
The offense OF these men was the murder Of Major
Pugh, In May, 1879.
The friends OF Fisk University at Nashville,
tennessee, report that the present Is its most
prosperous year There are three hundred and
thir,y-one students OF whom nnety-two are from
outside of Tennessee, and represent thirteen
'tates. Several hundred former students are EN-.
loyed in teaching, and one hundred and fifteen Of
the pupils now in attendance spend part OF each
year teaching in the public schools.