Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-10-04
Summary OF News.

The net earnings of the Northern Pacific rail-
way for the past year were 81 S57 001, an excess
OF SsSS 900 over the previous year. The cost
OF the star route for the year 1882 80 600 600
less than Brady's estimate. The receipts of the
posofice department for the past year were more
than 81 ,0O00 900 in excess of expenditures The
damage caused by the Panama earthquake will
reach S25O000 The president has accepted of
225 miles Of new track Of the Northern Pacific rail-
way. A plot to assassinate the emperor Of Aus
tri has been discovered and frustrated. Prof.
f, T. Barnard Of Nashville, Tennessee, on the
1ith instant discovered new comet located near
the star Lembda, in the constellation of the
Twins. His discovery announced by tele-
graph 10 Mr. II ii Warner, at the Warner OBJ
servatOry, Rochester, n Y, and almost at the
same moment Professor Lewis Swift, director of
the Warner Observatory, received intelligence
that large naked eye comet had been discovered
In Rio JaneirO, South America Professor Bar
nard l. the first person the present year to receive
the Warner prize of 5000. The fact that these
two comets came into view at the same time il
exceedingly significant. A railway collision oc-
CURED on the Troy and Greenfield railway near
Ioar station last Tuesday afternoon and con-
ductor, brakeman and engineer were killed. Both
engines were smashed and several cars wrecked.
-. Since August, 1866, the public debt Of the
United States has been reduced 1858 S36 900 or
forty per cent Twenty persons were killed by
an explosion OF fire damp near Dartmund, Ger
many, The Maverick National bank of Boston
has been victimzed to the extent of nearly Sc 900
on a raised draft. The Pittsburgh strike is
ended after lasting ZIG days. 1t is estimated that
the men have lost in wages between eight and
ten million dollars and they leave off Just where
they began There was a terrific storm at
Newburgh, Ontario last week Tuesday and the
destruction of property was immense. julius
Erasmus Of Philadelphia, poetic contributor to
most of the leading German papers in the coun-
try wrote a touching poem of fifteen verses,
titled " The Singers Death" descriptive of his
domestic trouble, signed his name to 1t, drew
pistol and blew his brains ont .... A Woodstock
Ontario, girl committed suicide bv building fire
and standing over it till horribly burned 80. Ex-
Senator Christiancy has at last procured divorce
from his young wife. "A Dawson, Iowa, Quaker
shotthree men who raded his melon patch. A gen.
eral fight occurred alta Baltimore democratic ward
meeting Several pistol shots were fired The
government has given up its search for Captain
Howgate 1t is reported that his female friend
VINO returned to Washington after he disappeared
has now joined him. CORTLAND, the oarsman
won race for 81 1000 ut Poplar Bay, St Lawrence
river last week against Ten Rick and Dempsey.
In the late Creedmoor rifle match, the British
rltemen carried off all the hunors .. Mrs David
Warden, after being cruelty beaten by her hus-
band at wayne Indiana, fired the house and
threw nerself into the flames. She WAS secured
painfully burned ...A man at Amelia Court
House, Virginia, deliberately lay down upon the
track as train approached and he was COM
pie ely decapitated The wholesale Boston dry
goods house of Wellington Bros & Co has
failed Liabilities, 500, 600 nominal assets,
sI25OO0 1t is believed the creditors will be paid
10 full. The national woman's suffrage asso-
citation convention met at Omaha last week.
man confined in the Detroit. MINI jail for
beating his wife set the Jail on fire and persisted
in the flames. Fifteen years ago George Hal
lenbeck and William Stratton quarreled in Pal
myra, Y. Last week they met near Carrizo's
Pass in Texas and determined to settle the old
feud. They went into darkened room and
fought duel. Sratton fired four times when
Hallenbeck fired killing Stratton Hallenbeck
WAS quiet and deuded his antagonist who To-
Gated him in the wrong corner =. The boat race
between Ilanlan and Kennedy has been post
poned to June !, 1888, when it will come off at
M ia
raging fearfully ut Cape Town. Thus far there
have been two thousand cases, of which six hun
dred were fatal. The strike among the iron
workers at Wyandotte Mich, il ended and the
men returned to work the old scale. 1t has
lasted ever since the Pittsburgh strikers went
out. A miser named Eddy died in Philade-
phia the other day in abject squalor and misery
He was worth 100000, =. The Sultan of Turkey
demands the withdrawal OF British troops from
Egypt. A strike in shoe factory at Bidde-
ford, Maine, has resulted in an increase OF wages
of fifteen to twenty per cent, A great prairie
fire is raging Redfed Dakota, and the
town is threatened with destruction =. Matthew
Fisher a fnsher in the shovel department. of
the Lehigh Manufacturing Company, is now
bironet and heir to a large estate in England.
The son of land agent at Kildysart, Ireland, has
been found dead by the roadside. His father
recently elected tenants. ...A large comet has
been seen at Quebec. IA shock Of earthquake
was felt through central Illinois last week