Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-10-18
Other Items OF Interest.
SMALLPOX RACES in Chicago.

SMALLPOX RACES in Chicago.
SECRET service agents arrested eighteen
coin counterfeiters at Upton, Indiana.
The people of Lincoln county, Missouri,
repudiate railroad bonds issued by the
county authorities.
HERBERT SPENCER, it is said, will soon
return to England, as his health is poorer
than when he left home.
| john A. CocKRELL, editor Of the st. Louis
Post Despatch, last Friday shot and killed ex-
Congressman A. w. Slayback.
The republican state committee of New
York has put in nomination Howard Carroll
for presentative-st-large in congress.
The profits of the Western Union tele-
graph company for the past year were ST.
$4,000, aud the net surplus, 81, 684,000.
THUkLow WEED is slowly passing away.
He has grown melancholy over the loss of
his sight, and refuses to take nourishment.
A SERIES of frauds and robberies has
been discovered in Newark, New Jersey,
which promises to eclipse all previous reve-
lations.
The mayor of Long Island City, New
York. has been indicted on charge of dis
posing Of S108,000 in city bonds and max
ing no return.
THE cashier OF the savings bank at Leb-
anon, Pennsylvania, has been robbed of
$4,000 He made gallant fight and was
covered with blood.
GENERAL CROOK has issued instructions
to the military officers Of his department
looking to the establishment of civil govern
ment among the reservation. Indians.
THE Right Hon. W. Z. Gladstone, premier
of England, is said to own piece of land
at Niagara Falls, between Table Rock and
the Prospect House, which he refuses to sell
at any price.
DURING the last fiscal year $4,000 claims
for bounty and back pay were disposed Of,
and over 10000 are still pending. Claims
were filed so rapidly that the grand total
was reduced but 1000.
THE treasury department has received
S950,000, recently awarded the government
in the contest over the will of the late
Joseph Lewis. 1t will be applied to the ex-
tinguishment Of the public debt.
A PROFESSOR at the Warner observatory
at Rochester, New York, asserts that the
comet recently discovered by Schmidt &C.
tually touched the sun in its perihelion pas.
sage. 1t is the second known instance.
The desperadoes who lately killed the
marshal of Caldwell, Kansas, and planned
the robbery of the Texas Pacific train a
month ago have been overtaken by posse,
and summary justice administered to them.
THERE is serious strike among the la
borers upon the Northern Pacific railway.
They demand $3.50 per day instead of ~.
They threaten to hang the superintendent
of construction troops have been called for.
THE steamer Herder, with mails, passen-
gers and general cargo, from New York and
bound for Hamburger, went ashore at Cape
Race, Monday morning. There was no loss
of life, but the vessel and cargo are wreck.
SUIT was recently brought by a resident
OF Palestine, Texas, against the Western
Union Telegraph Company for 5000 dam
ages for failure to deliver a message, and af-
ter stubborn contest verdict was given for
the plaintiff.
THE Rev. DR.. Simeon Gilbert has retired
from the staff of the Advance of Chicago
and will Immediately assume the duties of
western editor of the Congregationaiist of
Boston, which is about to establish a branch
office in Chicago.
JAMES WEsTCoTT, in employ of the cleo
trio light company at Rochester, N. T., was
killed Saturday afternoon while working at
wires around a generator. The electric cur.
rent had not been taken off the wires
Westcott had lately married.
AT a great temperance gathering at Liver
pool last week, Cardinal Manning spoke of
wretched homes being the greatest tempta-
tion to drink, and declared that those own.
ing house property are under great respon.
sibility and are bound to make it fit for hu.
man habitation.
IN order to facilitate their issue, the new
gold certificates of denominations 20, SO and
100 will be printed with engraved signature
like legal tender notes. These will styled
departmental series and will be issued from
the treasury. All higher denominations
will be issued as at present.
AN examination into the affairs of the
Fenian skirmishing fund develops the fact
that the money has been diverted from it,
original purpose to furthering the election
of certain members of parliament and brac
, ing up the editor of the Highlander. Some
twenty thousand dollars have been used fol
such purposes.
DURING the last fiscal year the weight OF
mails forwarded from the United States to
countries in the postal union was of letters
S7,92S,OOO grammes, and printed matter
oll,626,O6O grammes, showing an increase Of
! twenty-one per cent on letters and forty.two
per cent on printed matter as compared
with the previous year.
WHO ARE THE HARMLESS INSANE 1.-The Rut