Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-26
Summary OF News.

Fire ragged for seven hours at Smyrna, Turkey
In Asia, last Wednesday. Fourteen hundred
houses were destroyed and 5000 persons are
homeless....A Philadelphia internal machine
manufacturer Ia In negotiation with representa-
tives OF Arab Bey TO furnish the latter large tor
pedoes....It IL said to be common practice
among Chicago butchers 10 knock ont the eyes OF
cattle before Strengthening them, for the purpose OF
making them tractabie. :. Alexander H. Stephens
has been nominated for governor Of Georgia by
the democrats David Beatty Of Warren, Penn
syyania, was robbed Of 81, 100 at the railway
station at Salamanca, New York. There have
been many robberies there lately. Two stills
and tank Of oil were burned the other day at
Jersey City. Several more tanks will be destroyed
.Eighty-three houses have been burned in
Port.Au-Prince, Cuba. outlaws plundered the
buildings An enterprise IL on foot to illumin-
ate Mount Washington with electricity It Is
proposed TO place six powerful lights on the OBJ
servatory and 1t Is claimed that they can be seen
a distance Of hundred miles . The Geneva
award commission has adjourned TO meet in
Washington, October 4th...... The Cincinnati
boiler makers have resumed work their demand
for an increased pay having been acceded to-.
Two hundred and fifty Russian Jews have arrived
in Cincinnati In a destitute condition . .. Daniel
Kimball Of Brooklyn robbed his employer, a
jeweler, OF $1,000 worth Of goods and disap-
peared .,.T The steamer John Wilson, plying be-
tween New Orleans and Atchafalaya river, struck
a snag and sunk. Six lives were lost. Last
week Monday evening rain storm OF great force,
accompanied by hail. prevailed at St. Joseph, Mis-
souri,, for an hour and a half The loss to sewers
and roads amounted TO 5000 The damage to
crops in Missouri and Kansas was heavy.
Montreal has had Charlie Ross case. two-year
old child Of Melvin Smith, wealthy gentleman,
abducted note was left on the childs pill
low, demanding 10000 in gold a. a ransom, and
threatening murder of the child in case Of refusal.
The child was afterwards found on a door step.
1t is feared that there will be failure OF the
crops in lreland.....A terrible wind and rain
storm passed over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last
week One man was killed. . President Arthur
Chinaman was married TO an American girl at
Atlanta, Georgia, the other day. Last We'd
nesday afternoon rain fell in Boston for half
an hour In torrents doing considerable damage
chiefly by flooding the cellars and Easements by
way Of the sewers Proceedings have been COM
| menced against the railroads centering in New
| York to compel them TO forward the freight ac-
cumulated there in consequence Of the freight
| handlers strik. The sardine fisheries, which
| have been the source Of great revenue to France
and have given employment to large numbers Of
her citizens, are failing. Scientists think there is
| some relation between this phenomenon and the
extraordinary change Of climate which has taken
| place The strike by the rolling mill hands Of
Cleveland Ia a failure and they will resume work.
| There was lack OF harmony among them. 1t Is
| proposed to take down VIM Penn's house In Phil
adelphia and re-erect II on some suitable site in
| Paramount Park. 1t was erected about the year
| 1872. Rev Noah Granger, a colored preacher at
| Winston, N. c., was taken from his house in the
| night by mob and hanged because he WAS sus-
pected OF stealing corn. Fanny Parnell, sister
Of Charles Stewart Parnell the Irish agitator, is
| dead. The freight handlers strike in New York
| is nearly ended. full force of men are at work
at all the piers and freight is promptly loaded
.....John Bright will visit America during the
| recess OF parliament. Lieutenant DanenhOwer
IL now at Capon Spring Virginia. 81. The hay
| crop OF the country is the largest ever known,
and the quality is superior. The jaw OF a fish
Of an extinct species has been found in William
| son county, Tennessee, twenty-five feet be-
low the surface Of the ground Duuing the
| last three months 455 agrarian outrages have
| been committed in Ireland not including cases Of
sending threatening letters. Thirteen persons
| were convicted during that time. The troops
| Of the third and fifth United States cavalry had
an engagement with Indians in Arizona, last
| week. Twenty Indians and soldier
| killed. 1.-The army worm has appeared near
| Fall River Massachusetts,. b. The German gov
eminent disapproves Of the Alexandria lombard
ment... The late Charles Darwin is to have a
marble statue in the South kensington museum
| lien thousand acres OF grain were destroyed
| BIS the recent storms in Minnesota Cholera is
raging fearfuly in Japan. Several high officials
| have been attacked. There has been a rupture
of negotiations between Germany and the Vst-
can. The pastor OF the Catholic church at
| Coney Island has been suspended by the bishop
for accepting $1,000 from the Brighton Beach
racing association Denmark has sent an ex-
| ploring ship to the Arctic regions go. The Utah
commission met at Chicago last week with closed
doors %. ;. Since the hot season commenced "a
ship captains have died Of yellow fever at differ
| ent ports in Cuba Oscar Goodwin. cashier of
| the Logansport, Indiana National Bank Is de
faulter to the amount Of SO 900. He disappeared.
IAN Indiana colored woman is the mother of
% children. One of her daughters has 20 and says
she will beat the old lady yet .....A disastrous
fire occurred in Fairfield, Maine, last Friday 1t
| started among the saw-mlls. The loss IL over
| 100000, and 800 men are thrown out of employ
ment. The business OF the place is crippled il
| not destroyed. Indians attacked wagon train
in Arizona, killed a man and ran off the stock
| 1.-The boilers of shingle mill at Saginaw
| Michigan, exploded and the mills set fire
Several men were killed. There is chance
for a resumption of business at Alexandria for
three months The region around East Tamas
and Ausable, Mich, has been devastated by forest
fires. Ten persons were drowned by the sink
ing of a steamer at Richards landing Louisiana,
recently. During the past week nearly half the
| crops in the Black Hills have been destroyed by
| hail ...N No one desiring to give testimony has
| appeared, yet before the tariff commission,
| The crops in northwest Ireland are in deplora-
BILE condition hay is ruined and potatoes blighted.