Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-05-10
Summary OF News.


The recent storm Oft the English coast was more
'egere than at first reported Many vessels were
ost, and the loss Of life was great In n col
iery explosion at Leeds England, seven per-
sons were killed. Henry Bergh, the proven
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT man, has been severely
beaten while arresting man who was driving
lame horse Rev Newman Smyth, lately re-
fused the position Of president Of Andover Theo-
logical School, has been called 10 the passionate OF
the Center Congregational church Of New Haven,
Conn. WIN. II. Vanderbilt has sailed for Europe.
=, Five hundred miners have struck at the Pratt
Alabama) mines because OF a threatened reduc-
ton OF wages, Lord Frederick Cavendish has
accepted the chief secretaryshp Of Ireland, in
place OF Forster. The pope has entirely recov-
N. b., partly built by Benedict Arnold
and occupied by him for a time, has been burned
The suspects in Ireland have all been re-
leased. 49,. "A Mexican In whose field stolen mules
were found grazing was shot without trial by or
der OF the officials Two hours after his limo.
ceDce was established. DIR Hammond, In his
lecture, claims that Guiteau was morally de-
PRAYED, but not insane, when he shot President
Garfield. q. Not less than $4,000 worth OF tim
Der has lately been burned near Brookham, Long
Island John Slayback Of New York has given
Syracuse University 5000 Colonel Forsyth's
command last week had hard fight with the In
dans. Seventy-eight Indians were killed and
thirty-three taken prisoners. The troops are in
hot pursuit Of the band Enough subscriptions
have been secured ~ erect suitable monument
to Garfield, but subscription lists will be kept
open IN Oruer 10 allow tne pubic 10 contribute 10
more elaborate monument The president
has issued proclamation commanding the law
less cowboys OF Arizona to dispense. The mo-
ton to quash the indictments In the star-route
straw-bond cases OF Boone, Cabell jackson, Dom
ahue and Henderson were all overrued.. ..F Five
thousand dollars worth OF diamonds were cap
tured by the New York customs officers. They
were Struggled in books. Pirates on the west
coast Of Africa are harassing the foreign mer-
chant shipping. &c. An insane murderer has es-
capped from the Connecticut lunatic asylum.
The Chicago Inter-Ocedn makes the mysterious
announcement that a step in railroading has been
discovered which will put 1t fifty years ahead OF
the age. -. There is trouble between the Gar
field memorial hospital and Garfield memorial
monument people. The former demand that all
the money raised 10 build the monument be turned
over To help build the hospital Both sides
charge Misrepresentation Of money subscribed
Vanderbilt paid At the rate OF 81 10000 an acre
for piece OF land on Fifth avenue, New York. -.
Guteau's books does not sell and Mrs Scovil's
lectures do not draw. An old gentleman in
Stockholm, New York, has been poisoned with
strychnine in his whiskey by his grandson, sew
enteen years old, to whom he had willed his
property, and told him of IT,. Rear Admiral
| John Rogers, who has been sick for some time, Is
dead. David Collier, water carrier at the
| iron works in Troy, New York, has been killed
| by rod OF iron coming out Of the rolls and
| going directly through his body. lie was
asleep at the time it happened "A railroad
| train was fired at near New Haven, Connecticut,
| the other day. The bullet shvered window
and one passenger was injured by broken glass.
| Ex- Empress Eugene is seriously sick in Paris.
| 80. Seventeen hundred employees Of the Higgins
| carpet factory In New York are out OF employ
ment in consequence of strike The Internal
| machines mailed to Messrs. Vanderbilt and Field
| were much more destructive than at first sup
| posed. The British government has determined
| 10 release Michael Dtvitt The charges of
| reasonable practices by Parnell are to be with
| drawn. fIighwaymen boarded train in New
| Mexico and robbed the passengers Of $500 go.
| While "a Of riyntpra work n
iron bridge near Deerfeld, Mass, the staging gave
way and all were precipitated into the river be-
| low, a distance of sxty-five feet Many of them
| were frghtfully injur and will de..,..D B
Henderson Of Iowa has been elected secretary
| Of the republican congressional campaign come
mttee. "A Kentucky girl has become totally
blind from touching vacciDated arm and then
| rubbing her eyes IA man and woman were
smothered by gas in state-room OF the steamer
| Providence from Fall River. They blew out the
gas when they retired ...At Mt. Sterling, Ken
lucky, Djimin Mcintosh pointed pistol at
Miss Baker and pulled the trigger several times,
despite her screams. 1t finally went off, killing
her Mcintosh says he did not know it was
loaded. ....A liquor saloon was lately blown up
by dynamite at Cleveland, Ohio The whole end
Of the building and the windows were blown out.
No one hurt. A charge was also exploded under
a drug store, doing little danqg e.... Mr. Forster
says Parnell would have become the uncrowned
king of Ireland II he had been permitted. The
republicans have suffered a loss in the recent mu-
ncipal elections in France The hand and arm OF
Bartholdi's statue of berty, which has been in
Madison Square, New York for some years, is to
he sent back to France, at the request OF the ar
tist At Columbus, Ohio, over 80 saloons have
closed since May l. 1t is estimated that il the
| Pond law is declared constitutional half of the
800 saloons OF Columbus will close by June l. OF
the 81 saloons in Corning IL have already closed
....A nihilist manifesto has been distributed
throughout southern Russia calling on the people
TO combine against the czar and the landhoders.
The sultan of Turkey is opposed to any further
emigration of Russian Jews to the Holy Land -.
No clue has been obtained to who sent the in
fernal machines found in New York. "A Pennsyl-
vania tramp killed man and his wife who refused
him shelter. mime convcts have escaped from
the Iowa penitentiary,. The charters of many ma
tiona banks are about to expire. Most OF them re-
organize after going into liquidation. The In
dian outbreak In Arizona will be at once stamped
out by strong military force-the whole army IL
nece's 'ry. The Boston and Albany railroad has
achieved a feat never before accomplished-a run
from Boston to New York in six hours. -. There
are indications that there will be a general strike
among the 1000 employees OF the Pennsylvania
steel works. ,.... The English government has
ordered work 10 be stopped on the tunnel be-
tween Dover and Calais until action Is taken by
| parliament ..... Three hundred piano makers
are on a strike at Albany, New York. The
excess OF imports of merchandise in March WAS
| S5,WSOOO; in March, last year, the excess OF
exports was S24 S59 600; during the twelve months
ending March 81 the excess Of exports was $50
49,, eco; for the same period last year. s2i3, AZ,
900. During March the excess Of exports OF gold
and silver was So, 295 900; in March, last year,
the excess of imports WAS 81 i45 600 for the
twelve months ending March 81, the excess of i'm
ports was S27 ,4G6 600 in the same period last
year, 1854 900. IAN expressman has been
| robbed of 800 by highwaymen near Newbury-
port, Massachusetts. Thousands OF people are
dying of black small pox in Mexico Terrible
forest fires again on Long Island. .Ex-Empress
Eugene has been mobbed at Lyons, France. -.
Orders have been issued in Russia 10 prevent the
emigration OF the richer class of Jews. The
jury disagreed in the case OF Ingalls,, the Gambia
| New Hampshire, embezzer. go. Work has beer
resumed on the Washington monument. Par
| nell, Dillon and o Kelly have been released from
Kilnainham jail, and there is great excitement
and joy in Ireland. Captain Howgate has beer
heard from and says he will appear for trial and
make trouble for others la view OF his insinua-
ton that other officers aided him In his crime
General Hazen, chief signal officer, urges that al
the power OF the government be used for his re-
capture Judge Brooks Of Massachusetts de-
cides that will can only be altered by cDdcil,
that erasures are to be considered no part of the
will, and interlineations are of no effect As a
result each OF the children Of Longfelows brother
loses 81 600 and his brother Stephen loses So 600
1.-The average of the daily arrivals at Castle
Garden is !, 400 The Dean Stanley memorial
| fund amounts to S25 coo So 900 of IL by Ameri-
cans. go. The city courts of London have about
l73 600 persons brought before them every year
&c.. There are in Ohio 5000 paupers, and they
cost the state over SS0O,0O0 a year. ., Charles
Ford the slayer OF Jesse James, passed through
Chicago last week in company with two detec-
| tves. 1t Is understood that they go 10 Pennsyl-
vania, under orders from Governor Crittenden
| of Missouri, TO hunt for some members of the old
} James gang Five hundred railroad laborers at
Cornwall, n Y. struck, demanding twenty-five
cents more day. number of the rngleaders
, were arrested, aud the strike ended, The
United States fish commission will be able to dis
tribute 50,O0O,OOO shad fry this month. Chester
| Cunningham, convicted at Calais, Maine, Of mur
| der in the second degree, has been sentenced u
the peniientiary at hard labor for life. AT the
trial of Mary Holmes in Syracuse, New York, fol
! poisoning her husband, panel of 400 jurors was
exhausted before a jury WAS obtained. Nine
inmates OF Pittsburgh clearinghouse have beer
| poisoned. A boarder instigated the cook TO mi,
the poison with her bread dough, Burglars hav,
, | relieved Howard Son, manufacturers of golt
chains at Springfield Mass. Of the trouble o
: taking care Of 5000 worth OF goods. franl
, Mack, a ten-yesrs-old boy, while Stacking car,
for sport at Ashuelot ~ II had his head caugh
between the and was instantly killed.
Charles Bradaugh intends TO fight out his battle
} with parliament. He has refused a 600 Offe
| to lecture in America There Is a rumor a
Andover that $50, 600 has been pledged to endos
n new proiessorship on more liberal basis thar
the Abbot chair. Ralph Waldo Emersons mem
| DRY had become So enfeebed before his dealt
that after attending Longfellows funeral he said
, That gentleman whose funeral we have beer
J attending WAS n sweet aud beautiful soul, but
, forget his name. -. The suspects in Mas jai
yard burned in eigy Mr. Forster in their jail yard
80. Leland Stanford, president of the Contra
Pacific railway, has retired The star rout
| cases have been adjourned 10 May l6....l 1t Il
! estimated that iG costs SIG minute 10 run tn,
Union Pacific railroad large number of dis