Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-08-16
Summary OF News.

cause OF threatened bolts . Lynch law oyerrules
statute law IN South Carolina. Portions Of
ONO have suffered severely from storms. Ftz-
Patrick, who attempted 10 kill the recorder Of
Dublin has been sentenced 10 FIVE years penal
serytude.. The omission to introduce the usual
resolution Of thanks to the speaker Of the national
| house OF representatives causes much comment
| go. All the New York gambling houses are closed
owing to apprehensions Of police raid. The
| book-keeper Of a bank In Wyoming, Illinois, has
absconded with $1,000 Of the bank money!.
Eastern Bulgaria has been proclaimed in a state
OF siege In consequence OF the prevalence OF brig
aDdage.. The Massachusetts prohibitory con-
ventlon has nominated Charles Amy OF New
Bedford for governor. -. The nun, Sister Mary
| Agnes, whom Parepa Rosa pronounced the finest
singer she had ever heard died last week at Pitts
| burgh, Penn. There was a severe storm last
week Tuesday throughout the eastern part OF
Massachusetts and extending into Maine Col
onel James, member OF the Virginia legislature
last week assaulted John f Massey readjuster
candidate for congress at Franklin court house in
| that state Rufus Hatch and party Of English
and New York capitalists have purchased 10000
acres Of grazing lands lying between the little
missouri and Powder rivers In Montana, at one
dollar per acre. They are to stock II with 30 900
| head Of cattle 81 c. Hunter, a Montreal notary
Is defaulter In the sum Of 100000 lie has no
| property In his own name One hundred and
| fifty strikers attacked the non-uniOn men at Camp
Hill, near Pittsburgh, Penn, as they were going
| to their work. Apache Indians have entirely
exterminated the inhabitants Of the Rancho Carisa
district in Mexico. Eleven metallic collins will
be sent to Russia to bring home the bodies Of DE
| Long and party.....An infectious cattle disease
resembling pleuro-pneumona is raging in West
virginia. An unknown disease IL carrying off
cattle in Heidelberg, Penn. Kentucky and Ala
| bama have been carried by the democrats "a
| usual Two men were lately killed in Paris by
catching hold OF the electric wire used in illumin
| atng the grounds Of Tuieres. The evidence is
all in and the arguments begun in the star-route
trials. .Oswego, n. Y, is to be illuminated
with electric light. A home for aged persons Is
| to be erected at Charleston, S c.. The brewers
| OF Ohio have contributed $4,000 TO the demo-
cratic campaign fund. 80. "A number OF Irishmen
have sailed from Philadelphia for Egypt to join
the rebel army. Twenty-Five Apaches were
Chihuahua, Mexico, last week. A number OF
female clerks in the navy department at Wash
ington have been discharged, congress having
| failed TO provide for them. The Grecan gov
eminent Is about TO build several war vessels -.
Seven ice houses with their contents have been
burned by incendiaries near Albany within a
| month. There Is considerable excitement from
the fact that fifty thousand acres Of woodland In
the heart OF the Adirondack region have been sold
| to company Of lumber dealers who will Law
track and build many saw mills. Arrange
| ments have been made by our government with
Mexico whereby the troops Of the two republics
may cross the boundary line while in pursuit Of
hostile Indians. A church fell at Steubenville
| ONO, only half an hour after the congregation
had left It. large influx Of Cinnamon Is feared
| in British Columbia in consequence of the restric
tive laws Of the United states. There IL strike
In progress among the telegraph operators at
...A An old man has just been released from an
insane asylum in Brooklyn where he has been con-
| lined for four years although sane. lie quareled
with his sons and they procured his confinement
line bureau of navigation has designed new
nag TO be used whenever the president goes aboard
| United states vessel Mr.. James G. Blaine
is summering at Saratoga. b. This years peach
| crop IL estimated at 100000 baskets The
| English parliament will be prorogued on the 18th
INST The Fort William Henry hotel at Lake
George has three hundred boarders e. Another
Il Ia ct A1,a
| Ifden, Esq. II Is said that Victor Hngos men
| tai faculties are exhibiting rapid decline "A
| daughter Of John Brown has accepted position
in the San Francisco mint. ....A board OF trade.
with one thousand members, was organized at
| Indianapolis, Ind, Thursday. .....A water-spout
| occurred near Chateaugay, n Y, recently, doing
considerable damage A thirteen-years.old girl
living near Houma, La, has a light brown beard
two inches long Garry the news to Barnum"
,'''Six steamships have been wrecked in the last
five years at the place where the Mosel was lost.
AT North Greenfield, N. Y. last week Tues,
day, hailstones fell measuring three inches in cir
conference. The army worm has appeared in
the neighborhood of Troy, n. Y and is inlicting
great damage IA monthly line of steamers is
TO be established between Montreal and Antwerp
and Montreal and Havre.. A government COM
mission is to be appointed to inquire into the
grievances OF the Irish constabuary. .....Mr.
Thomas Hughes has accented a county court
Jndgeship in England, and is believed to have re-
tired from political life. The Hudson bay and
Nelson River railroad company has received from
the Canadian government Z, 400 acres OF land at
nifty cents per acre. ....A prize fight for the
championship of the world il being arranged be-
tween Tug Wilson and James Elliot. The man
ufacturng village of Feltve, n j., which had
been heavily mortgaged to the Globe Mutual Life
Insurance company Of New York. was sold We'd
nesday, Tor 81 40 The present year prom
ses 70 be remarkable one in railroad building
Already 5000 miles of new tracks have been con-
structed double the amount built in the same
time last year. West Point n. Y, is agitated
over the fact that when Oscar Wilde was at
Cranston's hotel there the other day, he Is said
TO have sat in the parlor, talking to a bevy Of
ladies, with his hat on The defunct Pacific
bank OF Boston will within few days pay the
hrst instalment of twenty-five per cent to its de-
posters There is little prospect Of the stock
holders recovering anything from the assets.
Alexander H. Stephens will make only four
speeches during his canvass for governor Of
Georgia. Charles A. setson, Jr., the we'll
known hotel manager, who, with his brother
Alexander, built the Stetson house. now known
as the West End Hotel, at Long Branch, and man
aged II for two seasons, died at Lynn, Mass last
week wednesday, at the age of forty-fve years
The citizens of Long Island City, L. l., are to de-
mand the resignation ofthe mayor that official hav-
ing allowed every city ordinance regarding gam
bling to be violated with IMMUNITY despite indignant
protests A national industrial convention will
be held at Denver, Col, September II and IA M
General G. X Warren, one of the corps command
ers OF the Army OF the Potomac during the re-
Delllop, died at Newport Rhode Island, last week
tuesday night. The constabulary in Ireland
have been prohibited from holding meetings..
The Harmony mills strike at Cohoes, New York.
Is ended after lasting four months and entailing
much suffering upon the strikers. Nearly all
nave gone back to work.. Maurice Becker a
noted train robber and escaped convict has been
arrested at Kansas City, Missouri .. There are
rumors in Chicago that Rufus Hatch il getting nm
corner In corn THE drouth has severely
injured the fruit crop in Massachusetts go. The
tenth annual convention of the National Travel
ing Agents Association of the United States
and opened at Montreal on the 9th instant at the
windsor Hotel. The national board of health
is winding up its affairs. e. The Great Western
railway OF Ontario, thousand miles, has been
amagamated with the Grand Trunk -. Frosts
are reported in northeastern Wisconsin.....A
noted lnclan chief IL preparing for war in Ari-
IONA The car of Russia has dispensed with AN
escort while driving and walking. The census
OF France shows that the population of the coun-
Try is 3Ib12, OBS .... The correspondent OF the
New York Star has been arrested in Ireland under
the repression act, There were fifyseven vic
tins OF the Soiota disaster Their legal represen-
tatives are bringing suits for $40, 900 each The
forest fires near Sandwich, Massachusetts have
spread over an immense amount OF territory and
efforts to stop the flames have been abandoned.
- The late storms in Ohio have been OF unpar-
alleled severity. The steamer Buckeye State
valued at SlOO 600, sunk at Louisville Kentucky
the other day, No lives were lost. Several
houses were swept away and persons injured by a
land side at Lenoir, n. c., the other day 1t was
caused by "a water spout. One hundred and
seventy suspects were in prison in Ireland, An
gust 2 Two hundred and thirty-one outrages,
number OF eyictions was 32l families, representing
/ ,6l9 PERSONS. Efforts for an international
copyright law with England have failed owing
to the great influence of the publishers . The
Hardy powder works at Vallejo, California have
been blown up and many persons killed Fifteen
tons OF powder exploded 80. Citizens OF Mount
vile, Conn, gave Peter Crow coat Of tar and
feathers because he married again in less than a
week after the death Of his wife. Two boys in
Georgia fought a duel ON account of a girl and
one was killed. >; At a fair to be held in North
Carolina this fall the principal attraction will be
the ground Thousands Of people will witness
and MORALLY wounded in Parsontown, county
ent than ever. The court house in Randolph
icial documents of the city of Huntsville de-
lnited States senator from Maryland, is dead,
,tltnte Saturday night In Chambers county,
granted new trial, were lynched e. The prop
,rty OF tue Standard oil company at Hunters
Point, n. Y, has been assessed this year at
1923 600 against SOS, 900 last year. . Nicaragua
) threatened with a corn famine by reason of the
lrouth' The decease is announced OF Senior
3arros father of the president of Guatemala
The first bale OF cotton OF the new crop raised In
louisiana arrived at New Orleans Monday
illlam W. Astor, the new minister TO Rome,
vii sail early In September. Public Printer
sounds says the census records In progress of
printing will be the largest work ever prudneed in
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