Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-09-13
Summary Of News.

lnree American Crhcksmen nave broken 1all at
Montreal and escaped The sultan has issued
His proclamation declaring Arab a rebel -. Prep
arations are secretly making for the cars visit to
Moscow e.. Great forest fires are raging in Nova
Scotia, and large tracts of valuable timber land
have been DESTROYED Ex-mayor Otis Norcross
OF Boston Is dead, aged seventy-two. Twenty
thousand men were in line Mt the great labor
demonstration in New York last week. Revolu-
ton IL impending in the state of Sonora, Mexico.
80. The cod fishing off the coast of Labrador is
almost a complete failure. The city treasurer Of
South Bend Indiana, has absconded. Mount
Vernon. Indiana, has been threatened by a mob
in consequence of effort to close the saloons on
Sunday and at eleven O'Clock at night. The resi-
dence Of the city marshal was burned to the ground
and the deputy city marshal was terribly beaten
by gang OF roughs. The reports Of harvests
throughout the world indicate that there is no Sc
Gus deficiency in any quarter, and general abun-
dance throughout Europe and America The
National Telephone Association was in session in
Boston last week and the attendance was large.
The reports showed that there Is steady growth
OF the telephone business all over the country -.
Emperor William Of Germany has had r severe
fall and is confined to his room. The weapons
supposed to have been used for the assassination
Of Lord Cavendish and Burke In Phoenix Park,
Dublin, have been discovered in the house OF a
man now in jail for connection with Fenian
troubles The defalcatons of Hunter, the alb
scOndng Montreal notary, exceed 500, 900. -.
Ashburnham, Massachusetts,, is experiencing an
attack of dysentery, Of malignant character.
Many fatal cases are reported. Forest fires are
raging near Calais, Maine D.. The democrats car
RED the Arkansas election by about the usual
majority. Ice made by machinery is almost ex-
cusivey used In southern cities, aud is furnished
at 81 30 per hundred. .. Minnesota has magnif-
cent crops this year Secretary Sherman having
arranged things when he visited that state two
wears ago. President Arthur is at Bar Harbor,
Maine The drought in some parts of China
threatens another famine. The men at Pitts
bnrgh are rapidly breaking away from the ANAL
gamated association, and a number OF mills will
soon he in operation there with union men, who
have sgniied their desire to return to work with
ont signing the scale at last years rates. Sat
urday nigh there was the severest storm at PEN
sacola, Florida. ever experienced there. Vessels
capszed and blown ashore and many men
drowned. The Mississippi delta has overlooked
and the crops destroyed. W. ii Colgate, son of
New York millionaire, has been arrested at
Winfield, Kansas, for burning flour mill from
which he had been discharged. Captain Hale,
who killed l.. W Blair in a political alteration
at Columbia, South Carolina, has been acquitted
go. Friday, n freight train on the Pennsylvania
Central railroad containing eighty five cars,
heavily loaded, ran away at the foot of the
mountain near Penobscot, Pa The grade is so
steep the engine could not hold the train The
brakes upon the cars became red hot and the
train ran at great speed for several miles until
it reached the bridge. The engine and several
cars were wrecked The train h nds escaped
with bruises. George f. Willis, trial Justice OF
Putnam, Conn. was arrested the It'll, on a charge
OF conspiracy To burn the property in Putnam
where large fire occurred last spring. 1t is I'M
derstood that an alleged confederate named War
rem has been arrested in Putnam. The yellow
fever at Brownsville and Matamoras is decreas-
ing. Texas is suffering from Il DDS and storms
49,. Sumter county, Georgia, is excited over its
hrst coored jury. 4 curious sea turtle caught
at Manasquam, j had fanges instead Of feet
It weighed over 1000 pounds. :. Mrs Burns, one
Of the women injured by Barnum's elephant
which ran away in the streets Of Troy, n. Y,
August I'd, died the other day. Patrick Burns,
her husband, who was also struck by the ele-
phant, is not expected to live and Mrs. Langley,
another victim Of the elephants pranks, is dying
Patrick COnlon, who was thrown across the street
by the elephant, has commenced suit against
Birnnm for 5000 damages. There are thirty
one cases Of small pox in Paterson, n. J....At
Bradford, Pa, John Beatty was shot by a tramp.
Beatty had refused him food. The citizens hanged
the tramp. George \. Reeves, speaker OF the
Texas house of representatives, has died from
hydrophoba. He frothed and raved in the most
horrible manner for several hours before he died.
ia woman in Reading, Pa, has gone mad
from hydrophobia. The Mormon priesthood has
been circulating secret circular giving instruc-
tons to their people directly opposite to the law
and the ruling Of the commissioners. They also
have decided to have three bishops sit with the
precinct registers and oversee the registration.
The Ocean hotel at Swampscott, Mass, has been
burned. Loss $50, 900. 1t Is reported that the
difficulties between China and Japan relative to
Corea have been settled Panama was badly
injured by earthquake last week. The Ca
thedral and many of the largest baildings were
demolished, The loss is several hundred thou
sand dollars. Henry Scrbner brother of the
New York publisher, was assaulted by ronghs at
Des Mones Iowa, who attempted robbery, but
failed lie has since died ..... Great COM
plants are made in Ireland Of the utter with
drawal of English capital in every form in
Ireland Three men buried alive by the
cayiDg In Of y sand bank at O'Gormans Island,
Long island Sound. The services Of special
cOnstables have been dispensed with in Dublin.
Two hundred and fifty natives and four for
egners, including the American consul, have died
at Manila OF cholera IA large barn on the
Sprague estate, adjoining Narragansett Park, K.
l., has been burned by an incendiary 1t ia the fifth
building destroyed on the estate by incendiaries.
-. The star route trial is said to be the costest
one ever had in the United States. -, At Lam
caster, Penn hail and rain storm damaged the
tobacco crops TO the extent of $50 200. Ga the
advice OF physicians, Bismarck will temporarily
abstain from taking part Ia public affairs. Five
hundred thousand dollars worth Of property WAS
destroyed and one hundred fifty families made
homeless by late fire at Port-au-Prince, Hayti.
...A An earthquake has made the Panama railway
impossible for Il distance OF ten miles. - salt
basin underlies the whole valley at Warsaw, n.
world .., The democratic congressional conyen-
ton at South Bend, Wis, have taken $50 unsuc-
cessful ballots "A cyclone struck Peasantyile,
near Atlantic City, j., a few days since and
did much damage, The James river suddenly
rose the other day, overlooked its banks and de-
stroyed crops, dams and railway bridges. De-
stTuctye storms have prevailed in the south and
west during the past week.