Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-06-07
Summary OF News.


Arbitration League Of America opened in Wash
ington last week Tuesday Representatives were
present from various European peace societies....
party OF Japanese has been mobbed and stoned
by Coreans. One was killed and two seriously
injured Several thousand acres Of wild land
near Patchoguo, Long Island, have been pur-
chased for German emgrants The annual
meeting OF the National Unitarian Asso citation was
held In Boston last week The receipts for the
past year were 800 900 expenditures, SS1, 900.
The monument OF General Charles G., IIalpine
private Miles OReilly) has been unveiled at
Brooklyn. At Creedmoor, last week Tuesday,
Colonel Clark won the Leach" cup by score Of
2lO In fifteen shots, at 800, 900 and 1000 yards.
meeting OF medical superintendents Of American
insane asylums was held in Cincinnati last week.
1.-The new railroad between Glens Falls and
Lake George was successfully opened last week.
.,.. The international monetary conference In
again postponed to April, 1888. ;. Earl Cowper
says he will shortly be able to iberate all the
suspects. At La Sale, Illinois, a tramp threw a
fourteen-y ear-od boy over the railing OF bridge
into the river, Go feet below The boy was un-
harmed and the tramp escaped. . Through the
persistent efforts Of John l. Davenport the author
ship Of the celebrated Morey letter has been dis
covered, and legal proceedings have been institu-
ted at Washington. Two colored girls, aged -
and 10, have been sentenced In Alabama TO life
imprisonment for fatally poisoning little girl....
William z. McCannus, president Of the Science
tady National Bank, has committed suicide He
was wealthy and III health was the probable
cause In Utah, an old California ranchman
coolly reloaded the gun, went out Of the house,
fastened a string TO the trigger, placed the muzze
10 his breast and fired 60 navy bullets into his
body.,..The Massachusetts legislature has ad-
journed sine die. DR.. Newman Smyth has f.
nally accepted the call rendered to him by the
Center church OF New Haven. b.. The su-
preme court Of Ohio has decided the Pond
liquor law unconstitutional. Michael Davitt il
coming to America. The main object Of his COM
ing II 10 attend the grand centennial celebration.
.....A large meeting at Cooper institute Endorsed
Parnell and promised him moral and financial
support. Four persons were killed. six fatally
and forty-two seriously injured by the falling OF
a church In Ralpho, Penn. The rush Of mmi-
grants TO Montreal for the northwest averages
one thousand day.. .,.. Several hundred COM
munists made demonstration In Paris last Mon
day. The tomb OF Blanqu was visited and
adorned with flowers. The business portion Of
the town Of Willows California, was destroyed by
FIRE last week. The loss Is estimated at about
Si75, 900 Fire in Wilkesbarre, Penn, last week
destroyed property valued at 500, 900. A large
lot OF letters and manuscripts in the handwriting
Daniel Webster has been discovered in a junk
shop in Boston Among them are several once
important state papers Mrs. Jesse James has
contracted to deliver twenty lectures on the life
and adventures Of her notorious husband. . The
quickest railway work ever done was in Shreve-
port, Louisiana, the other day when three thou
sand feet OF track was laid and a thirty-feet
bridge built In half day. all to avoid the effect
OF an anticipated injunction. IA subscription
Of $1,000 has been raised for the widow of Comfy,
drowned. The Maine greenback convention has
nominated Scion Chase for governor, and there
will be fusion with the democrats. e.. The
National Soldiers and Sailors Home at Wash
ington has given its house worth $4,000 to the
Garfield hospital ... Receipts OF internal rev.
enue for May, SIG, 900, are more than has
been collected in single month since the
bulk Of the war taxes were abolished. ..
tramp answering the description of one Of
the Phoenix park murderers has been ar
rested at Limerick, Ireland. John O'Connel
died at New York hospital from the effects Of
an unproyoked clubbing by a policeman. e., The
sight OF Lieutenant Danenhower's left eye Is per
manenty lost. A rupture Of diplomatic res-
tioDs between Spain and Uruguay Is probable,
because OF the ill-treatment OF Spaniard by the
latter government 81. The Jews at Broadly in
Austria are without bread and are almost starv-
ing. The Philadelphia correspondent OF the
New York Herald has been fined 81 600 for libeng
United States Senator Mcpherson Of New Jersey
49, The Russians are again prosecuting the Jews
The Jewish tows Of Cork and Smile have been
burned by them. Campanini, the tenor, has
sailed from New York to Havre Before sailing
he received n gold medal from Italians in New
York, in appreciation Of his efforts TO assist in
raising money for the Italian poor of that city.
Probably the oldest deed In the United States Is
in the possession Of Major Leland of New York
1t antedates the landing of the Pilgrims 10 years,
and was written eighteen years after the discov-
cry of America by Columbus 1t bears the sigma
tare OF John Cabot. The receipts of grain, in
Guiding its equivalent in flour at New York.
Boston, Montreal, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New
Orleans and Portland for the year 1881 were
800, 102 725 bushels, against 80 726 44 in 1880
The exports from the first five cities in 1881 were
1872 4SS OO4 bushels against 265 49,, 1913 bushels in
1880. The decrease in the debt during the
month Of May was S10375 AL TO-. The second
annual meeting of the Massachusetts Divorce Re-
form Association was held in Boston last Thurs
day Attention was called to the failure to
cure the apportonment of the state, $500, of the
sum needed by the New England association to
set at work its agent, Rev. S. w Dixie OF Royal
ton, Vt....A Springfield, Ohio, man killed his
daughter because she kept company whom he
disapproved. lie narrowly escaped lynching. 49,.
The car Of Russia will soon issue a manifesto
stating that he IL DESTROYS OF celebrating his coro-
nation by nstituting reforms but that he is COM
PEELED to postpone the celebration for year be-
cause OF the impossibility of completing prepare
ton earlier. There is great exodus Of Euro
peans from Egypt the steamers being crowded
.... Governor Crittenden of Missouri is negocia-
ting for the surrender OF the noted outlaw, Frank
James. 1t is said the governor will grant him
free pardon. G. n. Morgan, a prominent cit
izen OF Barton, Florida, while being in his bed
suffering from shot wounds received at the hands
OF an unknown party, was shot dead by a masked
man, who escaped. Professor William B. Rog-
ers, president OF the National Academy of Science
recently died Of heart disease at Newport, Rhode
Island, while addressing the graduating class of
the Massachusetts, Institute of Technology -,
The editor Of the Quincy Illinois, Gern,dnia was
shot last week by Gus and Casper Hellhake and
Dr. I. Spear, and lies in critical condition. The
assault was unprovoked and cowardly, and grew
out OF recent article in the Gernldnid The
search for Lieutenant Chip continues The crew
of the steamer is building boats to use in case the
steamer becomes useless. The New York cot
ton exchange handled $4,000 bales during the
past year james and Henry Garfield visited
the New York legislature last week and were in
troduced to the members. Twenty stu
dents Of st. Victor College at Kankakee, Illinois,
have left the institution because they were re-
quired to attend classes on Decoration Day..
over thirty passengers were injured by a late &C
cident on the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy rail-
way. The Grand Trunk railway station and
sheds at Quebec were burned last week Loss
variously estimated at from one to four hundred
thousand dollars according to the value OF the
freight. -. The surplus revenue for the fiscal
year ending June 30 will reach $3.50, 600. 600 ....
party OF Mexican bandits was surrounded at
Toluca, Mexico last week and cut to pieces only
two escaping. A mysterious cattle disease has
appeared at Holliston, Mass. The animals are sick
two hours, being taken with trembling, and, turn
ing in circle froth at the mouth, rush for water
and die..... The committee of the New York
legislature investigating the Spuyten Duyvil dias-
ter are of opinion that the accident was caused by
tranman George Melius negecting his duty.
Over !, 800 miles of railroad have been built in the
United States this year against 500 miles at the
same time in 1881. The Spanish cabinet in
clines to enforce the law of 1870 which enacted
emancipation OF all negroes not duly included in
the census of that year This would liberate sew
enty thousand blacks Illegally kept in slavery in
Cuba. The yield of small grains in South Caro-
lima, North Carolina and Georgia is greater than
1t has been in any season for twenty yesrs.......
The schooner Industry went down during terri
BILE storm on Lake Michigan last week and all
hands persisted 1t came ashore total wreck
destructive hail storm occurred in North Caro-
lima Sunday afternoon. Houses were blown
down and two children killed The stones we're
~ large as a mans fist. One man has been
killed and four fatally injured by the explosion
OF a twenty-five FOUNDER breech-loading gun on
a British iron clad. Princess Louise has arrived
at Quebec from England. A monster mass
meeting Is soon TO be held In New York to protest
against the new penal code. The New York
legislature has adjonrned,......A An employee of
Forepaugh's circus went into he lions cage at
Lansing, Michigan, and was attacked by the ami
NAL which fastened its jaws in his arm. The
beast WAS shot and his jaws had To be pried open.
Ten elephants belonging 10 Barnum's circus
escaped at Meriden, Conn, Friday morning. and
scattered over wide expanse of country. They
created much excitement After hours Of pur-
suit they were captured Fences, etc, were con-
bama was almost totally destroyed by fire ON
Saturday night. The fire was set by a crowd Of
drunken negroes, who had been driven from the
town in the afternoon, but returned in the even
ing Reed, Guiteau's counsel, made a motion
before the supreme court of the District OF Column
bia for correction Of the record but the court
denied 1t. The next move will be an application
to the Judge of the criminal court, and, failing
there there will be appeal to judge OF the
supreme coart for writ OF habeas corpus.....
Curtis, the murderer Of Bgelow at Greenfield,
Mass has been arrested. The Indians are again
committing depredations in Arizona 80. There
have been 1000 cases of measles at Painfeld, N.
j., within n month. She poured kerosene oil
tha fro ha Ia nd I q.