Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-08-09
Summary OF News.

II is said that the widow OF Jesse James Is
making general restoration OF the stolen prop
erty left by her husband, so far as she can as
certain where II belongs. e.. Four OF the ele-
plants belonging TO Barnum's circus escaped
during the evening exhibition ut Troy, N. Y, and
created great excitement. Several people were
injured, Mt least one fatally, one cleaned out
rolling mill and knocked over bloom containing
red hot iron and made for the river. Three were
secured but the most furious one IL still at large.
.' The yield OF the wheat harvest on the Mis-
souri, slope In enormous The yield Of grain Of all
kinds Ia heavy. . Oats average in Dakota sixty 10
siSty.five bushels per acre, and wheat twenty-five
TO thirty-hve. "A negro lately died In Texas at
the age OF 100 years. Yellow fever IL spreading
In Japan. More damage was caused by water.
spout In Ohio than was at first supposed Gold
Ia going ont Of the country at the rate OF one and
half millions a week. The total number OF
evictions in Ireland during the first six months OF
the present year was 3,Oi9, of which 2,O5l were
for non-payment OF rent and Hl8 for other causes.
ia man has been arrested In Texas for muir
der committed thirty years ago. Corea will
open her ports TO ships OF foreign nations.
There are over four hundred cases Of yellow fever
in Matamoras, Mexico and the condition Of the
city IL frghtiul. The ladies' land league In Ire
land has been dissolved. It Is proposed 10 estab-
fish an open organization In which ladies par
ticipate. Three men who made pOst-mortem
examination Of COW at Beanville Penn, con-
tracted blood poisoning and died In terrible agony
....The steamer with CetewayO aboard arrived at
London last week. Miss Anna Parnell ia recoy-
was Si3, $50, OF %. Mrs. Ogden, a wealthy and
charitable lady of Philadelphia, was burned to
death by the explosion Of a kerosene lamp. The
forest fires In Michigan have mostly been extin-
guished by rain Forest fires in New Jersey
have destroyed more than Sl000 600 worth OF tim
Der. one death from yellow fever il reported
at New Orleans. Sixty freight cars were burned
In collision on the Lake Shore railway near
South Bend, Indiana August lst. The loss TO the
company may reach 500 900 Seven persons
ttramps( were killed. Major George $. Leland,
one OF the propIietors Of the Sturteyant House,
New York. Is dead. By flood at Maysville,
Kentucky, lately, several buildings were washed
away and a number Of persons drowned.
Trouble is brewing between Russia and England,
on account OF the Egyptian war The situation
in the Cumberland, Maryland, mining region il
threatening large number Of miners threaten
to kill the police guarding property there. The
military has been appealed TO. A riot occurred
lately at Akron, Ohio. The citizens attempted TO
prevent the rebuilding Of dam by driving off
the Italian workmen. A portion OF the dam in
the Muskngdum river at Marietta, Ohio, was
carried away by flood. A fleet Of coal barges
was sunk.....A destructive storm passed over
Milwaukee, Wis, last week. Several buildings
| were struck by lightning and much damage was
| done by flooding the Easements IA colored
clergyman was refused accommodation at Prov
| dence, r. l., hotel, and he will sue for damages
under the civil rights act. "A fight occurred at
| Phoenix, Arizona, between three cowboys and
officers, assisted by citizens All the cowboys
were captured. One person was killed and one
badly wounded. As the prisoners were going to
| jail, they were pushed under tree and calls
made for rope. A posse rescued and removed
them to jail. The Central railroad freight
| house in Albany, n Y, 200 by 400 feet, fell with
crash Thursday, and was totally wrecked
| Fifteen thousand barrels of flour and large
| amount of other goods were damaged consid-
erably. Eighteen men escaped unhurt. Twelve
| freight cars were damaged. ...Of the farmers
| Of New York state, 90 1856 occupy and cultivate
| their own farms. The North Shore rail-
way of Canada has reduced the wages of its
employees ten per cent. 1.-THE boot and shoe
manufacturers Of Montreal are organizing in
| anticipation OF a strike by their employees.
Twenty-three iron mills have resumed work at the
| rates demanded by the strikers, one with nom
union men. Long Island City has again de-
| fauted payment of the interest on its bonds
| The amount due is 1000. The Chinese mer-
| chants Of Portland, Oregon, have formed union
| to protect their business interests The Chinese
must GO. There are in the English naval ser
vice 1854 line officers and III engineers and in
the United States 1904 line officers and $40 en-
| gineers. -. The army worm has made its appear
ance in New York state, where it has trimmed the
meadows with a taste and skill equal to the best
| moving machine Herman Schmoyer has been
arrested at Fast Texas, Pennsy lvania, for shoot
ing Samuel Zimmerman small pox nurse, who
stopped at his house to enquire the way. Schmo-
yer claims he mistook Zimmerman for a burglar.
1.-The yearly Fenian scare y is reported from
| Montreal, where the citizens, with bated breath,
| relate II fearful scheme for kidnapping the prin-
cess Louise The total imports of foreign mer-
chandse into New York last week were $40, 1885,,
iTs, of which S7,932 900 represented general
merchandise and the remainder dry goods. Since
January /, the imports aggregate 1894, 140, 75l,
compared with S246.7Si ,727 for the same time in
1881. New Orleans suffered last week the most
disastrous fire since the war Property valued at
s237, 600 destroyed, which is covered by
$4,000 insurance &C.. At Nashua, n H., a
Frenchman named Theodore Wellet, while in
somnambulistic state, fell out of window, and
was fatally injured. By the falling Of foot
bridge over the canal on Green Lane, Philadel-
phia, Sunday evening of last week, ten persons
were injured and about one hundred were thrown
into the water. Lewis Losenbnrg Of Nicks-
burg Miss, lately acquitted OF the murder Of DR..
Williams Of Merchandising, has been notified to
leave the country by committee OF citlzonr.
In Chattanooga, Tenn, eight circus men were
arrested charge Of swindling Robo't Mni
ply, prominent farmer Of Pulaski county. ny
about which so much noise was made In tho GAIN
paign of 1876, is 20 be dismissed without uiat
go While Vermont crops are being injured tN
drought the harvest In Michigan has lees saS,
pended by heavy rains Twt~ihiuis 81 gsc " : sS3
crop is still in the te.ds Ari dNsu SsyJ ,lil-
erick, Ireland, has been pr1clAt-1sG 4giss -
repression act. Any one oGi - 3s,-s A.ssc
set Is liable to arrest ll,rs S3vt:es .4l,sra
eral skirmshes recently beswvea - AI td
Peruvian troops. Financial AnA sVGs FasrsuS u,t5
tiers in Lima are going frOn ea4 a. gsess,
Hotel thieves are operating a. iAs So u >lnAis
go. The strike at Cohoes, y y. 81 .vaa.i pss,
e., Some 2i6 039 persons used IL free llAllr u
New York city last week The rsFr-ssr . D., Iz'ini
To enumerate those who did not lss = s1Z ,s.tfis
tired and gave up the Job. Owe; S.oN. NJ
worth of property in southern New 's-ssY ls,s
been destroyed by forest fires during tie siSsa
week. The superintendent OF the PhilAds- r1ls
almshouse is $4,000 short in his accounts
Highwayuen have appeared at Bar HSses,-,
Maine where a party of ladies and genilemez
were relieved of watches and iewelry 10 the value
Of 81, 400. Eighty-five thousand immigrants AZ
rived in this country in June, $4,000 during the
fiscal year, much larger number than during
any previous year, exceeding the year before by
1900. From 1000 to 10000 OF the Irish con-
stabulary threaten to resign The men demand
increased pay. Rain storms are frequent and
disastrous at many points in the west The
president has appointed Ulysses S Grant and W.
Henry Prescott as commissioners to negotiate y
commercial treaty with Mexico Mrs Scoville
has applied for divorce. Sixty buildings were
burned at Gardiner, Maine last Monday. The
loss is between 5000, 600 and 500, 600, and more
than 400 people are thrown out OF employment
80. An oil well was struck at Arcola, H., Satur-
day, which threw oil $50 feet in the air, A
steamer blew up on the Ohio river the other day
and sunk. Seventeen were killed and forty
seven wounded Great damage has been done
in the vicinity of Lynchburgh, Virginia, within u
few days by Hoods
EAST HARpwIcK Rev c. T. Gordon left town
last week His friends presented him with a
purse containing S65 before he left There has
been preaching at the Congregational church
for the last two Sabbaths, but supply is expected
/ IL.