Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-05
Items OF Interest.

THE emigration movement in Germany
last year, according to the official statement,
exceeded by 100000 persons the large emil
grations of 1872, 1873 and 1880. There
passed through Bremen and Hamburg 245,-
800 emigrants, and of this number 1921 ,935
were Germans, and all but four thousand
came to the United States. The present
year will see an even greater movement
from Germany. One line of steamers dis
patched in the month of March from Bre-
men twenty steamers as against fifteen in
the corresponding month of last year, and
in April, nineteen, six more than in April,
1881. Besides those mentioned, 26,l us Ger
man emigrants left Antwerp in 1881, the
most of them being from the eastern prov
inces of Prussia.
A PARIS paper gives an account OF the de-
cline of an industry which was profitable to
that city. Two years ago over twelve hun
dred persons were engaged in the manutac-
ture of gold and silver laces and fancy trim
mings. The workmen, thinking they were
underpaid, went on strike. The manufactur-
ers sent their orders to st. Etienne and other
places, and then the Paris employees induced
the st. Etenne workmen to strike. The result
was that the orders were transferred to Eng
land, Germany and Belgium, where the work
is done more cheaply than 1T could be done In
France, even if the workmen were paid the
wages demanded. OF the large number at
work in this trade two years ago in Paris,
less than eighty are now employed. lhe
significance of these facts is obvious.
The New York Tribune says of recent
decision made in New York: :" A limited
ticket is no longer limited, and the railways
will have to resort to other devices to pre-
vent travellers from getting too much for
their money. The court Of appeals declares
that a man holding one OF these special
tickets can start at any intermediate point
between the cities named on the coupon
but that his journey must be continuous
Aud if the ticket is accepted by conductor
on the last day on which the company de-
clares that it is good the traveller can go
through ON the contract thus made, even II
he does not reach the end of his trip until
after the limited time has expired. Great
will be the regret now of many travellers who
heretofore have made haste and waste so
that they might reach their journeys end
before their time was up.
BosroN Advertiser /" The imperial apart
| ments at Gatschina, name which must
have a familiar sound to American ears,
are warmed by open fires OF wood. 1t IS
said that the czar is 80 fearful lest some
explosive material be introduced into the
flames that he prepares all the fuel with his
own hands 1t is reported to be touching
sight to see Alexander III. in his shirt
sleeves, with his crown hanging on peg in
the wood-shed, saving and splitting huge
pine logs into fire-wood, while his son, the
Grand Duke Nicholas, conveys the same to
the imperial fireplace. A like timidity
would compel the czar to black his own
boots, for a nitro-gycerine bomb might be
deftly concealed in the toe; it must be an
even more touching sight TO see his imperial
highness down cellar with his Day Mar
tin bottle and blacking brush, putting on a
polish which will do credit to his appear
ance in his patent burglar-proof, patent cut
off steam drawing-room."