Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-11-16
Weekly News Summary.

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has slain eighty bears
The cholera is raging terribly at Mecca There
were nearly FIVE hundred deaths in three days
The Vanderbilt lines announce an advance Of
hve cents hundred on grain and provisions from
Chicago to the seaboard
SMALL rox prevails on emigrant trains in ILL
nos and the state board Of health is taking meas
ures to prevent ts spread
MRS DIssMoRE, formerly Gulteau's wife, now
living In Leadvlle, Colorado, has been summoned
as witness at the assassin's trial.
The mikado Of Japan has announced the estab.
lshment OF a constitution with representative gov
eminent to come into force In 1890.
ABOUT s2,oOoOOO OF confederate bonds were
bought up In New Orleans during the recent
craze, largely for European account
THE Thanksgiving proclamation Of Governor
Long Of Massachusetts, Is made up Of four texts Of
Scripture and a harvest hymn by Whittier.
HARRY GENET OF the Tweed ring, having served
out his eight years Of imprisonment, was released
and escorted home by large number Of friends
The London Economist says Virginia funded
bonds have fallen six per cent because OF the sue
cess Of the readjuser party in the recent elections
In Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania dogs
are being killed because 1t Is believed that the an
imals have the small pox and are spreading the
disease.
IT has been discovered that the Cuban treasury
has been defrauded OF more than $40, 900, 900 In
in the past few years through a false Assessment
OF taxes
GENERAL scHEscK, after suffering long from
Bright's disease, began six months since a milk
diet, and is greatly improved in health, II not
wholly cured.
AN Iowa man who owns the battle-nag Of the
forty-seventh Ohio regiment, Of which Garfield
was colonel, has refused $4,000 offer for that
relic OF the war.
SOUTHERN newspaper prints rate bill OF the
Georgia railroad issued in 1910 by which negroes
and dogs were carried through for SO each, and
passengers for So
GRANGE stores are having an unusually success
ful run in Texas. They have been increasing in
number for two years, and now nearly all the in
terror towns have them.
STEAMER with full steam on ran into a
schooner last Saturday in New York harbor, sink
ing it almost Immediately. Most of the pas
sengers and crew were lost
The railroads centering at Atlanta have reduced
fares and begun running excursions and the at
tendance at the cotton exposition is greatly i'm
proved and rapidly increasing
IT is estimated that the Wisconsin river log cut
will be forty per cent smaller this year than last
Heavy rains have interfered with preparations,
and wages and supplies are high.
THE Monaghan Ireland) land commission on
turda ,.l.I
granting in nearly every instance a reduction OF
from ten to twenty per cent in rent.
BILLS aggregating $500, 600 have been received
at the treasury department for mourning decora-
tons on the public buildings throughout the coun-
try in memory OF the late president
MAYOR LArRoBE Of Baltimore has signed an
order absolutely prohibiting the sale of toy pistols
in that city. The large number Of deaths by
lockjaw last summer prompted the passing of
the act
BRICK tenement house of four stories in New
York city lately fell, buryng the occupants in the
ruins. Eight persons were killed. and several
more were seriously injured, some of whom
may die.
IT is said vigorous effort will be made during
the coming session Of congress, to throw Indian
territory open to settlement. The railroads, it is
reported, have bought up all the remaining In
dian claims
QUEEN VICTORIA completed on October 25th
reign Of forty-fou years and one hundred twenty
eight days. She has reigued longer than any
other English sovereign except George III, Henry
III, and Edward ILL.,
By an incendiary fire the greater part OF Wood
stock. N. B., town of five thousand inhabitants,
is for the third time in ashes. No accurate state
ment of the loss has been made, but 1t will not be
less than $4,000, on which the insurance is about
$4,000
TEN boilers in a lumber and salt mandatory
at East Saginaw, Michigan, exploded early SUM-
day morning, killing four men and doing damage
to the amount OF $500 Low water Was the
cause. The boiler house and part OF the mill are
a mass OF ruins
Two Americans, Larkin Mead and Henry L.
Gay, are among the competitors for the monu-
ment to King Victor Emanuel of Italy. Two thou
sand drawings have been submitted, and were ex-
hibited in Rome September Odd The premiums
are $4,000, $1,000 and 81 600.
The blasting 10 the St. Gothard tunnel has all
been done by dynamite So violent have been
the explosions that many arch stones have been
shaken from the roof During the progress the
work more than two hund ed workmen have been
killed, and great number wounded.
ALL the personal effects of the late president.
stored in thirty boxes, including books, pictures,
etc, were removed from the White House last
week for shipment to Mentor. An Alderney COW,
presented to Garfield, also placed on the train,
to be sent to Mrs Garfield at Cleveland
Two passenger coaches Of Colorado Central
train were Saturday blown from the tracks two
miles east of Georgetown by a severe wind storm.
The coaches were badly smashed. There were
thirteen passengers aboard all of whom were
more or less injured, but none dangerously
GENERAL GRANT, being invited by Mr.. G. W.
Childs to a dinner given to the Farmers club Of
said in letter declining the invita-
ton, that he would have liked to be present as
the speeches would certlinly be short II the speak
ers confined themselves to their farming ex-
periences
Six hotels have been burned at Old Orchard
Beach: The lawrence, valued at $40 O0O insured
IS, 800; the Blanchard valued at SIS OOO insured
$4,000; the Adne, valued at $4,000, insured
81 800; the St Cloud, valued at $4,000 insured
s2 800; the Fiske house, valued at $40 900 insured
81, 900; the Belmont valued at 50, 900, insured
81, 800.
TERRIBLE typhoon has just ragged in western
ronquin, China. Two hundred churches, thirty
our parsonages and colleges and two thousand
houses have been destroyed, and six thousand
Christians have been ruined and are without re-
'ources. The losses are INNER Sc and the distress
5 terrible. A telegram to the foreign missionary
ociety begs for the promptest help
The old Texas state house at Austin Was Quilted
by fire few days ago. The walls are still stand
ng, apparently uninjured. The fire started in a
book room, used for storing reports It
'te its way above and through the speakers
Dom. Smoke from the burning books had been
een pouring out of the chmneys in dense VOL
imes long before it was supposed the building
was on fire The records OF different offices were
generally saved but are much scattered and dam
ICED. Some $4,000 worth of Il vised Statutes,
he state library worth $4,000, furniture In the
legislative chambers, portraits and paintings on
he walls, altogether worth $4,000 with the
,hilding, worth perhaps $4,000, make total
oss OF $500 600
The CAMPAIGNS or THE CIVIL WAR-It was
lot merely happy but patriotic conception Of
he Scribners OF New York to present the history
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