Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-01-05
Weekly News Summary.


THr decrease Of the public debt in the month Of
December was 5000, 43o76.
THr damage at Coney island from the recent
storm Is from $4,000 to 100000.
THE minister Of the Netherlands TO Spain was
found dead In his bed, in Madrid, Sunday morning.
BISHOP QUrSTARD Of Tennessee will build a
house at Rugby, the Tom Hughes colony, and
make HE home there
KING KALAKAUA OF the Sandwich Islands, who
Is soon to start on long foreign trip, will prob
ably be in this country by February.
PETER GRuMBLY, coored, was sentenced at
Camden, New Jersey, to thirty days imprisonment
Tor kissing young lady against her will
lHE first detachment Of engineers and work
men VIII start tomorrow from Paris TO prepare
ior the commencement Of the Panama canal.
DIR ALBERT W. MURPHY, live Yankee from
New Hampshire, has been appointed dentist to the
royal court Of Spain, with residence at Madrid.
THE total immigration for 1880 at the port Of
New York was about $4,000, the largest number
arriving at Castle Garden during any year since
1880
LARGE number Of dykes in Holland have
been broken and eighteen villages flooded The
damage is immense. great number Of cattle
and sheep were lost
The amount Of four per cent United States
bonds held by foreigners is S7,042,3h0 Tlr-~-'
uonal banks own s132, 1881, 100, and individual
citizens $780,, O62, 05O.
The colored citizens OF Richmond Indiana
have sued the school authorities because. while
white scholars can study German, colored pupils
are denied the privilege.
THE London Graphic spent in preparing its
Christmas number this year $4,000 IN engravers
and authors, $4,000 on paper and $4,000 in
printing and electrotyping
PARTY OF men visited the house OF n man
named Daniels in Cork, and shot him, INJECTING
dangerous wound. The affair is believed to be
connected with Fenlansm.
THIS years logging season in the Saginaw
(Mich.) lumber district has been one Of the most
prosperous on record, aggregating 9l6, SS3, 664
feet against 1SO 1S2, 1856 feet for 1879.
WEBB, the English swimmer, is going to swim
from Holyhead, Wales, to Kingston, Ireland,
across the Irish sea, sixtyfour miles, early next
summer, and then retire on his laurels.
THK British government suspects that some of
the disturbances Matched in Ireland are the work
VI ehe gauB OI lrlsn-AmerlCan nllDusterS
who started the Fenan troubles in 1867.
THE Union Pacific road has bought the soda
lakes on the Laramie plains, intending to make
commercial soda, on which they expect to make
$3.50 on every car load delivered at Chicago
Mrs E. S. CUSTER mother Of the late General
George A. Custer is lying at the point Of death at
her home in Monroe, Mich She has never re-
covered from the shock Of the death Of her SON
The scarcity OF snow for two winters found the
Philadelphia dealers short on sleds when the snow
came last month, and there was such corner on
coasters that prices doubled right up on the usual
rates
SEAToR Brown of Georgia once practiced
sayagly with pistol for duel to which he and
Bob Ioobms had invited themselves, but COM
promise saved the torrent OF gore that threatened
to flow
BiAoN DE RoTHscHILD of Frankfort has Just
bought golden chaice for S150,0 the largest
sum paid in modern times for a work Of art.
Murilos Madonna in the Louvre cost only
$4,000
FopGER E. D. wISsLow Of Boston and Newton,
Massachusetts,, is reported to be editing a paper
at Bsnos Ayres, where he goes by the name OF
LOW anu has married tne slXteen-y6arS-Olu
daughter Of a wealthy family.
lNthe municipal cremation furnace at Gotha,
in Germany, you can get yourself incinerated for
slt Since the establishment of the furnace, two
yeah ago, thirty bodies OF the nobility and gentry
hayt enjoyed its hospitality.
1IERE are now six electric light companies in
Ne7 York, the Brush. Edison, Maxim, Sawyer,
Fu!er and Jablochhof. The Brush company
seems to be best organized, for it is in running
ordp with a capital of 100000
NJ .',.a,,a q, -A-=sa-s~ert, preslaeat -5i.bae
Swi& confederation, is attributed to temporary
nsal ty He believed his life was endangered by
secret enemies. The relatively small majority by
whic le was recently elected president is said to
have featly disappointed him.
Hon B. X. PHELPS, district attorney of the
state 6T-gew York, died last week. The funeral
took ny at the Broadway tabernacle Sunday
last. Thd edifce was densely crowded by the jul
dietary, Ibembers of the bar, heads OF depart
ments and other leading public men.
GAMBETl IRA, as he rises to speak in the tribune,
is described as clumsy, dul-visaged man,
dressed i'll tll-itting and shabby clothes But
after few moments he seems another being, his
face lights pp, hisgestures telling and his voice
has the res bnant tones Of man of power.
THE West Virginia Red Men, the regulators in
the mining gions who whip and abuse those OBJ
noxious tot nem, recently made raid on the
house of on Davis, who had incurred their ILL
will. He ls warned of their coming and killed
Struse, the{ leader, as they drew near, but the
gang burnefhm out, and, after whipping Davis,
cut his ears # close to his head
II End 81 A.
negotiate 1reaty with China. has arrived at San
Francisco from Pekin He has been besieged by
interviewers since his landing but remains strictly
reticent regarding the proceedings Of the commits
sion and the terms of the treaties As to the re-
ports heretofore published regarding the work of
the commission, he declines either to affirm or
deny them
A MEETING of the leaders Of the socialistic
party was held in Chicago last Sunday The local
party recognized with a view Of forming
part Of the national socialistic movement. 1t was
urged that the organization should keep entirely
aloof from politics, and eventually decided by
vote OF twenty-five to twenty-four that the agta-
ton should be continued as political and econ
omic movement.
CHRISTIAN X, Ross the father of Charley Ross,
is quoted as saying "The only tdings have
ever received Of Charley since he was stolen was
the demand for ransom Of $4,000 II had
paid that woud have had him long before this.
As it is, have spent $50 900, and have not got
him. | still have detectives employed, and hope
In time TO find him. have examined over three
hundred lost children in the search, some OF
whom had beer stolen, but none OF them was
Charley"
literary Notices.
FIVE LITTLE SoUTHRRsERs," by Mary W.
Porter OF Louisiana, is about to issue from the