Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-17
Weekly News Summary.

BURGLARS robbed Dallas, Texas, bank Of
s64 900 the other day
The official vote OF Maryland gives Hancock
93706; Garfield, 7s,5l5
THE notorious DIR. Buchanan has pleaded guilty
to selling academic degrees
SOME three thousand inhabitants have left Du.
cigno because Of scarcity Of food.
THIS years wheat crop in Russia Ia failure,
and insects are eating the corn.
Two persons have died Of yellow fever at Key
West, and there are ten other cases.
The revenue authorities in Georgia seized four
stills with their apparatus the other day.
GuKRrLLAs are still nfes,ing Cuba. party Of
them has been badly defeated and captured.
THE official count OF Rhode Island gives Garfield
1875; Hancock, 1918; Weaver 1856; Dow, 20.
THE returns from all the counties Of Indiana
have been received. Garfeld's plurality Is $50.
THE designations Of Paris magistrates on account
OF the enforcement Of the religious DEGREES are
announced daily.
THE official vote Of Pennsylvania gives Garfield
444 7O4, Hancock, 4O7, 49, Weaver, 40 66s; Dow,
1889; Phelps, A.
THE New Orleans Picdyune says more than one
million bales OF cotton were marketed during the
month Of October.
THERE is a general feeling among the Liberal
party that Gladstone will be compelled to aban-
don his eastern policy.
OFFICIAL returns give Garfield rs 126 majority
over Hancock in Iowa, the largest majority she
has ever given any man
A BosroS policeman has been brutally clubbing
a man. Apparently there is call for a society
for the prevention Of cruelty to man.
SUNDAYS storm partially destroyed the reser-
voir at North Adams, Massachusetts, from which
the town derives its supply Of water.
THE post-ofice department has stopped the de-
livery Of registered letters to the lottery firm of
J. Goldsmith Co, st. Stephens, Canada.
| BY collision on the Union Pacific railroad
| Saturday, one passenger and brakeman were
killed and several passengers badly wounded.
| THE alumni OF Williams College without dis
tinction OF party, have invited Garfield to din
ner at Delmonicos at any time he might name.
ENGLAND, at the instance Of Persia has re-
quested the Porte to station guard on the from
tier to prevent the inroads OF Kurds into Persia
CAPTAIN ANDREW BLOOD, a member OF the
Lowell, Massachusetts,, police force for the past
twelve years, committed suicide Saturday morning
The socialists are to be expelled from Zurich with
the beginning OF the new year. 1t is understood
that thereafter they will make London their head
quarters.
A GAS company has been formed for lighting
Jerusalem, and n street company for connect
| ing that city with the Mount OF Olives has been
limited at
THE official returns from all counties in Mis-
souri, give Hancock 20s 5s9 Garfield, 1853, 5s7 /;
Weaver, 80 1876; Iianc ock's plurality, %, OO2;
iority, 1887.
SMALL-roX has been brought to Gardiner,
Maine, by negro sailor, and two children have
lied. Several are sick, and new cases are fire.
quently reported.
COOPER BAILEy's baby elephant, which has
been the great card of their season, now tips the
beam at 1000 pounds, and is growing too fast to
continue a novelty
| THE official vote Of Ohio is ~ follows: Gar
field, 375,Ois; Hancock, $40 ST.; Weaver, 5,456
Dow, 26l6 Plurality for Garfield, BAIT; ma
jority over all, 26 l05
THE Republican central committee OF ST. Joseph
county, Indiana, actually wound up the campaign
with S775 surplus cash on hand and have given
it to the South Bend poor.
THREATS were made by the rank and file Of the
land league that bloody revenge will be taken
for every conviction of agitators that may be OBJ
tanned at the coming trials.
THIRTY million feet OF logs belonging to the
Hartford lumber company, that have been lying
in the Connecticut river near Waterford, have
| been started down stream
THE majority for Jorgenson, Republican in the
fourth Virginia district is over s 600 In total OF
IA 600 votes the largest vote and the largest ma
jority ever given in the district.
COLONEL +. L. DRAKE, the founder of the i'm
mense petroleum business, died Monday last at
Titusyie, Pennsylvania. statue to his men,
DRY is to be erected by his townsmen.
The health of Senators Lamar of Mississippi and
Grover OF Oregon is precariou1. Should they moi
return to the senate, the Republicans will organ
ize that body without Mahone's help.
THY are already making preparations for Gen
eral Garfeld's Inauguration as president. All
civic and military organizations in the countr!
are invited to take part in the ceremonies
THE land leaguers are active in organizing
lodges In America. The lodge In Lowell, Massa
chusetts met Saturday and raised Sll0 for Par
nell. lodge is to be formed at Lawrence.
Mrs HAYES has already invited Mrs Garfield
tn visit her this winter in Washington, In order
that she may become initiated into the domestic
and social responsibilities of the White House.
WILLIE SrRAGuE son OF ex- Governor Spragut
of Rhode Island, attempted to shoot Mr.. Robert
Thompson, trustee Of Mrs. Kate Sprague, Satur
. | Ia off II Ia tha int IN
the boy.
4 LITTLE girl went into candy store in New
port Rhode Island when a large dog pouncet
upon her aud she would have been torn in piece,
had not bystanders taken the dog off. The dog
was promptly killed, but the girl is in a critica
condition.
JOHN II. ELKISs, who killed Andrew J. Dear
born at Kingston, New Hampshire, on the nigh
OF October %, has pleaded guilty to murder in tn,
second degree, which plea has been accepted b,
the government.
| FULLY one thousand persons were present a
the funeral OF Lucretia Mott In PHILADELPHIA las
, Sunday. Resolutions of sorrow were passed, an(
letters OF regret by Elizabeth Cady Stanton ant
Others were read.
, The epizootic ID spreading to an alarming ex
tent in Montreal. The disease is more sever
. than on any previous occasion, Deaths are al
!; ready numerous. The disease is spreading mostly
} among the draught horses.
THE wrestling match between w, J. Farrell o
California and John Mcmahon OF Vermont a
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, for the championship
belt OF America and 81 900, Saturday night, re
suited in a victory for Mcmahon, who threw Far
rell twice out OF three times
SENATOR BLAINE, ex-Secretary Mccullough
Cyrus II. Mccormick, Jr,, and other capitalists o
thvRichmond and Allegheny road, are exploring
Western Virginia, intending to push the line oil
to Pittsburg, and thence west.
THK Ladies' Stock and Mining Exchange, rui
by Mrs N. +. Warren OF New York, on simila
principles as those of the Ladies' Deposit Compan!
In Boston, has closed, and hundreds OF ladies ar
anxious To find Mrs Warren
THE receipts OF wheat at St Louis nearly equa
| those at Chicago, which is unprecedented at thi
date in the season. This sttte OF things Is at
tributed to the influence Of Ead's jetties and thu
barge lines down the Mississippi.
0 Moopy AND sAsKEy have left for San Fran
cisco, after having had crowded meetings at Sal
D Lake City for eighteen days They make strong
9 impression, par,i, ularly on the Mnrmons. Many
think they ought To stay indefinitely and recon
vert the Mormons.