Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-09
Weekly News Summary.


MOODY AND sASKEY have entered upon the
twelfth week Of their meetings in San Francisco
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL Of Cincinnati Is suffering
total paralysis Of the left side and is almost
helpless.
The newborn baby Of the Japanese minister
to this country has been named Ulysses Grant
Yoshda
FOUR thousand cotton weayers have struck for
an advance at Hyde, England. Eleven thousand
looms are idle
PHILErus SAWYER, the new Wisconsin senator,
gave his two daughters $4,000 apiece when
they were married.
PRESIDENT CHADBouRSE Of Williams College
is engaged upon work entitled 1.-THE Wealth Of
the United States"
THE recent Utica convention OF the York state
grangers resolved in favor Of woman's suffrage
for the state at large.
TWENTY-FIVE boys escaped from the westboro,
Massachusetts, reform school. Fifteen were re-
captured Friday night
MAIL robberies occurred In Louisiana and Col
orado last week Pluuder was the only object.
The passengers were not disturbed.
SHAW university at Raleigh, North Carolina, a
Baptist school for the blacks, has sent out more
than 900 teachers among the colored people
AN unusually large number Of railroad acct
dents have occurred during the past week, caused
by broken rails-a result Of the extreme cold
weather.
ADvIcEs from the west say that the sudden
melting Of the snow in the mountains is doing
great damage in southern Colorado and northern
New Mexico.
COLONEL INGERsoLL calls :" an economical rich
man curse and pest" "That country is
blest," he says where the rich are extravagant
and the poor economical"
DISPATCH from Cape Town, South Africa, re-
ports a severe battle at Leydenburgh between the
British and the Beers, and that the latter have
taken possession OF the town.
Snow has blockaded the Long Island railroad
since last week Tuesday, completely isolatng
residents along the line from New York and
Brooklyn. except by telegraph.
In has been great winter for the galows
Another woman, the mother OF three little girls
was hanged in Pennsylvania last week, with the
man who had murdered her husband in colluson
with her.
THE slave trade in Africa is still enormous DIR.
Livingstone estimated the traffic for all Africa at
half a million yearly Colonel Gordon puts the
loss Of life in Soudan alone at 30, 900 to 10000
annually.
The richest man in the senate next to Fair is
David Davis, and twenty are worth more than
half a million each. Blaine, Cameron, Davis OF
West Virginia and Plumb are worth more than
million each. .
THE ice gorge near Delaware breakwater is
heavier than ever before The ocean, so far az
can be seen with field glasses, is a solid field Of
ice. Many vessels are fast in the ice and some
are in a perilous condition.
MAJOR D. T. CoRBIN OF South Carolina a ma
tive OF Vermont, who was elected to the seat in
the United States senate which was given to
Wade Hampton, has been stricken with apoplexy
at Columbia, South Carolina, and Is in critical
condition.
CHICAGO paper tells OF man who was COM
planning that he had invested a rather large sum
Of money in Wall street and lost it ALL SYM
pathizng friend asked him whether he had been
bull or a bear He replied Neither, was a
jackass."
JUDGE BARRETT of New York has denied the in
junction asked for by Rufus Hatch, restraining the
telegraph companies from consolidating, and the
Western Union telegraph company has taken for
NAL possession of the American Union and At
lantic & Pacific companies.
The black smallpox is ravagng the town OF
Jefferson, Dakota, brought there by a party Of
Mennonite em;grants. The town has been iso-
lated and other towns are quarantined against it.
There have been over ninety cases; thirty-two
In va diad nd oaly luye recovered
FIELD LETTER & Co.." the great Chicago dry
goods firm has been changed to Marshall, Field
& Co." L. Y. Letter having sold out his interest
for So, 100000. The business done by the firm in
1878 was SIS 900 600 in 1879 $50 900 600 and 1880
s24, 100000. The profits are said by the Chicago
papers to reach ten per cent
THE notorious Red" or John, Leary, one Of
the Northampton bank robbers, who escaped
from Ludlow street New York; Jail year ago,
was arrested last Friday and ia now in Northamp-
ton jail. The same day one Of his accomplces
was arrested in Philadelphia. 1t was all the
work OF Chief Detective Pinkerton.
AN adventurous English tourist assembled the
magnificent ice mountain below Niagara Falls
and after reaching the summit, slipped and went
down in the direction OF the river In his frantic
endeavors to save himself, he had the nails liter
ally torn from his fingers. lie only stopped in his
terrible career within few feet of the river.
The town OF Franktown, Nevada, was entirely
swept away last week by the bursting OF reser-
voir. The people had been apprehensive OF
danger and had removed their household effects
They were drawing off its water when 1t burst
and dozen men were swept down the torrent,
but they escaped by being thrown up the side of
the ravine.
THE Minnesota cane raisers have sent President
elect Garfield barrel Of the sugar they had on
exhibition at their recent state convention. They
said that 1t suggested not only the and pro-
lection which the government should extend to
so great an industry, but the now famous maxim
OF the distinguished recipient, Nothing succeeds
like success "
THE womens national antpolygamy society
OF Salt Lake City have adopted resolutions en-
dorsing the governments action in issuing a GER
tfcate OF election to Campbell on the ground that
his opponent was an alien and polygamist. The
resolutions urge congress no longer to let polyg-
amous law-breaker sit in the house. and to
adopt legislation to suppress polygamy.
MR.. GERALD PAGEr, fourth son of Lord Alfred
Paget, has been hunting with his wife in Montana
and Wyoming territories The cold has been in
tense in that region. One night they slept 10 an
open tent with the thermometer at twenty nine
degrees below zero and the wolves bowling
around them. Mr. Paget had fur bags six feet in
length made for sleeping in. He and his wife
each wore four pairs of wooden socks with moe
casins over them and fur shoes over all.
SAN FRANCISCO Sons OF VERMoST.-On Mon