Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-12-14
Weekly News Summary.

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In Montreal the electric light Is rapidly super
seding gas.
| UPWARD OF five hundred agraran outrages we're
perpetrated In Ireland last month.
| PHoToGRArHIo counterfeit SO bills on the
Boylston National Bank Of Boston are in cir.
culation.
JKFF DAVIS has returned from Europe, and
while In New York city last week declined to be
interviewed.
The paper on which President Artbur's mes
sage was written had heavy black border and
was fastened with black tape
| john W. FoRSEY, noted journalist and poll
tician, died at his residence In Philadelphia Fri
day morning, aged sixty-four years
MIR. Henry HARMON and wife Of Manchester
New Hampshire, have lost all their children, Eve
| In number, from scarlet fever, within two weeks
IT IL now considered certain that the propeller
Jane Muller went down In Georgian Bay with
twenty-five persons, including sixteen passengers.
AN attempt was made one evening last week to
blow up the city court house at Montreal, by an
Internal machine, made OF zinc, wound up like
clock, and containing ten pounds Of dynamite.
II Is STATED that De Lesseps has now the money
| requisite to the successful prosecution Of the
work on the Panama Canal. The excavators will
| begin operations as as the rainy season Is
over. All the preliminary work has been done.
COMPANY has been organized at New York
for supplying the cities Of the eastern, middle and
| southern and a few western states with gas man.
ufactured at the coal mines in western Pennsyl-
vania and conducted 10 the place OF consumption
| through pipes.
THE body Of Earl Crawford has been stolen
from the mortuary chapel OF the Dunecht house at
Aberdeen. 1t is conjectured that the robbery
was suggested by the report Of the revival OF ne
gotiations for the recovery Of the body Of A. T.
Stewart Of New York
IT Is STATED that John Taylor, head Of the
Mormon church, was married to wealthy widow
last month. The ceremony was performed in the
| new Mormon temple at St. George. 1t is said the
| marriage was in defiance OF the law, and would
| not have been tolerated in Salt Lake City.
AT Gibson Station near Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, last Saturday two-story railroad shanty
in which forty-five men were sleeping caught fire.
| Ten men were taken out dead, three were 80
badly burned that they cannot live and several
others received injuries. Twenty-three were
saved unhurt
| STRANGER walked into the presidents office
Of the commercial national bank at Cleveland,
| Saturday and while Daniel p. Eels, the president
was talking to fri md, picked up a box contain
| ing $4,000 In bonds, from which Mr. Ees had
been cutting coupons, and slipped out again with
out attracting attention.
| ANNA PARSELL wants intelligent and reliable
American women to go to Ireland and give conso-
lation and relief to her suffering country-women
| She has placed funds in the hands of her sister,
Miss Fanny Parnell, Bordentown, New Jersey. to
pay the expenses of such as may choose to CO. and
| the latter has authority to make selection from
those who may apply
| PETITION has received the signatures OF some
| OF those accustomed to travel on the New York
and New Haven railroad, requesting the directors
| to set apart the rear car each OF the morning
| trains to New York for the use Of those who de-
| sire to hold religious services on the train The
| services are to be held between Mount Vernon
| and New York, and will consist Of Scripture read
ing, singing and prayer.
| ELECTIONS were held in many OF the cities Of
| Massachusetts Tuesday, the 9th inst. The most
| significant feature Of the contests the fact
that in large number Of the cities the vote was
| in favor Of no license" and the success Of the
citizens movements in number Of cases. Spring
| field and Lawrence elected democratic mayors.
Brockton had its first municipal election, electing
| the republican mayoralty candidate