Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-08-23
Summary of News.

ing at Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoras
Mexico. :. The Cumberland Maryland miners
are abandoning their strike and resumng work.
| .ss'1he Fall River mill owners are contemplate
| ing shutting down work, In consequence of
strikes There i probability OF q break in the
| miners strike In Pennsyvonia many having re-
sumed work. The province Of New brunswick
ls sorey afflicted by the army worm, which has
nearly destroyed the oat crop. q. The new bonds
| will not be ready for transfer much, II any, be-
fore the lst OF September. Chicago brick-ayers
are on strike. The ex-Confederate Associa-
ton OF Missouri " was formed at Sedalia last
week wednesday. IA homng pigeon, Thurs
| day, made the distance from Detroit 10 Toronto,
vi miles, In less than five hours. The inten-
ton oil the government to restore King Cetewayo,
causes CONSERVATION at Durham. There have
| been several additional deaths at Weedsport, ~
| Y, from the mysterious cattle disease The dis
| ease seems now to be confined TO one herd ...
| The cattle dealers and farmers Of the eastern
| Ohio counties are greatly alarmed over an out
break of the Texas cattle disease near Steuben-
| Vile, Ohio. George Washington, James Madi-
| son, John Adams and Andrew jackson are the
names Of four walters in the service Of the United
states Hotel at Saratoga. The countfy's corn
| crop ~ estimated at 800, 100000 bushels.
| Michael Burns one Of the persons injured by the
elephant Emperor, on his Troy rampage is re-
| ported In dying condition from his injuries....
| Two Cinnamon have signified 10 the secretary Of
state OF New York their intention Of becoming
naturalized. 1.-The Jesuits Of Quebec are again
| agitatng for a restoration TO them Of all the
property confscated duriig Henry Tvs reign
| The list OF properties referred 10 contains some
| which now Of great value. There are now
| upwards Of 5000 men operating and construct
| ing the Canada Pacific railroad in the northwest.
LAT Little Rock, Ark, has just been developed
| the largest slate quarry In the United States.
| 80 The general crop reports from New York
| state show that, with the exception Of corn, the
yield OF cereals Is unusually large and promising.
| .... The bankers association began It's annual
session at Saratoga, Wednesday. The attendance
| was much larger than ever before, comprising all
sections Of the country George s. Coe, presi-
dent, gave the opening address =. Michigan's
secretary of state estimates that II, 600 600 BUSH
| els Of the wheat crop of that state have been
ruined by the recent rains, which incurs a loss of
| Sll,OOO,OOO to Michigan farmers According
| To the prediction of a western geolOgist, Montana
will sometime become the greatest coal-produciDg
state In the Union. This will be a decided i'm
provement on the annual Indian crop. ...A eel
luloid billiard ball exploded in Eureka, Nevada
the other day, while quietly at rest on its rack
| 1t made loud report and sent forth shower of
| fragments The American Woman Suffrage
Association will hold its thrtieth annual meeting
| In Omaha, Nebraska, September 18th and 18th
| ...About as perous an adventure as one cares
to experience, even in these reckless days is that
of a Spanish family in California, who were go
| ing down mountain and drove off the grade,
| falling to the bottom Of the canyon, 200 feet
Both horses were killed and the wagon was de-
| molished, but the occupants escaped without in
jury. ... When Clara s. Foltz, the lady attorney
| of San Francisco, attended the United States cir
| cult court in Oregon. recently, Judge Deadly not
only escorted her to seat beside himself on the
bench, but introduced her to all the lawyers pres
emit. ..T The Cree Indians of Canada are much dis
contented at the inroads which the various pro-
1ected railway lines will make into their hunting
grounds, and threats are freely made against the
| hapess surveyors who may begin operations on
their reservations. The amount taken by the
five masked men who robbed the Gilchrist farm
house at Amsterdam, n. Y, was $4,000 Co.,.
| Peaches are coming into market from Delaware
and New Jersey in almost unprecedented guam
| titles and of fine quality. -. The tide Of immi-
| grafton is showing marked dmnution, the ar
rivals at New York during the past few weeks be-
ing greatly below those Of the same period a
year ago. The change j. most apparent in the
move from Germany. Nothing is safe from Gu
riOsty hunters, as is shown by the fact that
great delay in the preparation of the skeleton of
Guiteau has been caused, as but one person could
| be trusted to perform the duty, for the demand
| for CHASTITY souvenirs of the assassin tempted
the other workmen to make way with every por-
tion that they could Law their hands on. A col
ored waiter at Cape May trod on ladys dress
and neglected to ask her pardon, whereupon her
husband thrashed the waiter, who had him ar
rested for assault and he was fined So. The is
sue Of standard silver dollars from the minis for
| the week ending August r. was S191 600 against
S2I6,gII for the corresponding period of last year.
| -. Mount Desert has partially recovered from
the scare that the alleged hghwaymen Gre
ated. People now venture two and three hundred
| yards away from the hotels. Melville, Ninder-
| man and Noros, survivors OF the Jeanette expe-
| dtion, arrived at Moscow last week Wednesday
and were given grand reception. Monday
evening of last week two men entered the First
| National bank in Kewanee, ILL.,, locked the cash
| Ter and lady assistant in the vault, and carried
| of $4,000. The crime was discovered by pedes-
| TRANS hearing the cashier pounding on the vault
| ga destructive tornado occurred in Bangor
Maine, last week and the destruction of property
WAS very great The estimated loss is from SJ0,-
600 to 500, 900 Mrs. Sartoris, General Grants
| eldest daughter, who has spent the last year
with her father, returned to England Wednesday.
| ga United States marine at Portsmouth, New
| Hampshire, has been sentenced to thirty days on
| bread and water for going to sleep on guard.
A gigantic oak at Mount Vernon, which has
! always hean known washington 4 oak, was
destroyed by a stroke OF lightning few days
ago The tree has many historic associations,
and gained its name from the fact that the
presidents favorite resting place after the heat
and labors OF the day was beneath its gratefu
| shade. Arkansas advertses for loan of $780,
900 for twelve months silk culture has be-
come an established industry in South Carolina
| 1.-The New England fair Will be held at Wor-
cester, Mass, September 9Th, 18th and Sth.. ....A
hog owned by farmer living near Petersburg,
Va weighs 800 pounds. Mississippi has
gani2ed several live stock insurance companies
a new departure. The wooden plate factory at
Newbern, N C, turns out 100000 of the plates
each week. 4 sulphur well at Palatka, Florida
discharges 90, 600 gallons Of water every three
hours. One hundred and twenty varieties of
cotton goods are turned out by the Mississippi
mills. A negro man named Adams, said to be
one hundred twenty years old died at Mckinney,
Texas, Sunday last ~, Another large iron firm
at Pittsburgh, Pa, started up their works Mon
day, with non-nniOn men. Lieutenant Danen-
hover says the stories regarding the Jeanette eX-
| sequence of reports of yellow fever in many
southern ports the health officer of New York has
made careful preparations to enforce proper
quarantine. There have been several cases of
yellow fever already at the New York quarantine
station. f. Leslie, bookkeeper for the commits
sion house of Areng and Major at Bloomington,
H., was arrested Wednesday charge of en-
bezzement Experts have already found def
cheney OF $1,000. 1.-THE apartments of General
Daniel + Sickles in New York were ransacked
Wednesday by boy employed in the hotel, who
dttritI, 1iav a. dotl,
of which is at present unknown The Mssis-
sippi river commission is now considering whether
any portion OF the appropriation by congress shall
be expended for levee repairs. A convention
called to meet at Duluth, Minnesota, Tuesday of
last week, for the purpose Of organizing move
ment for the construction of a canal to connect
Lake Superior with the waters of the Red river of
the North, the Assiniboine, Saskatchewan and
other large navigable rivers in British America,
adopted resolutions calling on congress for aid,
and on the state legislature for support in the
appeal to congress. Emil l.asere, prominent in
Louisiana politics before the war, and an ex-
member of congress, is dead, aged eghty.....A
man in Scbley county, Ca, dreamed he was in
swimming and diyed out of a second story win
dow. He was fatally hurt The coal measures
of the Warren, Ala, coal field are four thousand
feet in thickness. The seams number forty-two
as far as developed, .r.A large number Of Chi
nese aborers enroute for home from Cuba, who
desired to land At Baltimore, Md, have been
refused the desired permission The fruit crop
of Texas is immense, Eastern Texas is selling
bushels will be converted into brandy $50. West
gate, the self-conessed assassin of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Mr., Burke, in Dublin has arrived
at jamaica and Il Is said that the evidence impli-
eating him in the crime is strong The propre-
tor Of the hotel at Seabright, n j., where the
guests were stampeded by an outbreak Of typhoid
fever has consented to allow Mrs. Andrews and
Mrs Levy, the victims of the disease, to remain in
the hotel payment of 81, 500 each. The first
of the new "brOwnbaCks," the substitute for the
old national bank notes, given out on circulation
TO the banks renewing the charters were sent TO
Cleveland last week Monday. They bear General
Garteld's head as a yignette ON one side. The
cattle plague has appeared in Cayuga county, New
York, and many cattle have died. Almost the
entire town of Mankota Kansas, on the central
branch Of the Missouri Pacific road, was destroyed
by fire Sunday night AT Indiana, Pa, Duks
Ray a desperate, after raidlng two houses was
pursued by a sheriff and pose, lie surrendered
after three bullets had been fired into his body.
The sheriff was seriously wounded At Steu-
benville Ohio, the Texas cattle fever prevails to
an alarming extent, and In the neghboring coun-
ties Of Ohio and West Virginia Iamong the cattle
directly brought from the south and west. A
large prop lrtion Of the animals have died. &C..
The forest fires have burned over two thousand
acres Of woodland on Cape Cod, few houses
were also we're destroyed. Many people narrowly
escaped suffocation, being obliged to lie flat on
the roads and allow the flames TO run over them
The fire is now under control. O.. The returns of
the hop crop of the United States received at the
agricultural bureau, indicate u small yield. ..It
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