Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-12-13
Summary OF News.

The most disastrous fire for several years took
place In London last Thursday. Dwellings, stores
and warehouses were burned. Nearly twenty
buildings were burned in Covington, Tennessee,
last week. The loss was 500, 900. The Hunga-
ran government has requested Austria to stop
emigrants not provided with passports, so az to
check somewhat the extensive emigration from
the mountain districts Of Hungary to America.
.. Senators Butler Of South Carolina and Nor
gan Of Alabama have been reelected. . General
Grant has received many letters OF congratula-
lion because OF his recent paper indicating Fitz
John Porter. The boiler Of a Mississippi river
steamer exploded the other day, killing three
and iDjuring several others. The gross receipts
OF the New York and New England railway have
Increased sixty-seven per cent in the last four
years. The case Of the state Of Missouri against
C0ckrell, who killed Sayback, has been stricken
from the docket but Mrs sayback has brought
snit against him D.. Forty prominent citizens Of
Washington have formed a committee for protec-
tion against burglars and thieves. 1t Is alleged
that the police and detectives are in league with
the thieves and that property has little protection.
-, The seventh annual convention Of the national
butter, egg and cheese association began at Mil
waukee last week Wednesday afternoon. =. The
German coal miners at Perry county, Ohio, have
struck for an advance Of wages and are riotous.
sheriff and posse have gone there. It IL said
that the embezzlements and robberies In Russia
during the past " ar amounted TO 100000 rom
bles. During the past eleven months 1868
emigrants landed at Castle Garden, New York. -.
he sultan OF Turkey has been threatened with
side Of his harem. "A meteoric stone weighing
$40 pounds fell In North Carolina last week. -.
The Garfield fair recently held In Washington was
fairly successful the receipts being about 500 600
Dickson, the foreman Of the star-route jury
Is on trial at Washington for trying to improperly
influence the verdict Of the jury. The Massa-
chusetts cities at their election last week gener-
ally voted In favor Of license to the liquor traffic
...Anthony Trollope, the great English novelist,
Is dead =. The loss by the recent great London
fire Is fully 600 :. Sir Hugh Allan, the
protector OF the Allan line Of ocean steamers,
died suddenly In Ednburg, Scotland, on the III
inst. "A commission TO determine the boundary
line between Massachusetts and Rhode Island II
In session In Providence. 1t Is reported that
Dorsey, OF star-route notoriety, has resigned the
secretaryship OF the republican national commit
tee. Arab Pasha has expressed satisfaction
that he IL to be exiled TO Ceylon. Within five
miles Of North Adams, Mass, three safes were
blown open by burglars in two days. Perseeu-
ton OF the Jews in Russia continues The sui
tan OF Turkey will adopt American terpedoes for
the defence Of the Dardanelles and the Bospho-
phorus. The lasters union at Montreal has con-
coded the right to manufacturers to employ
whomever they please. Several registered let
tiers and $500 In money were stolen from the post
office in Lewisburg, Pa, Wednesday night.
The residence Of Manager Dorney of Days the
| alter in New York was robbed Of So 900 worth OF
| property Wednesday night. The West End Iron
| Company at Bo1mbury, N. j., has suspended op-
| GRAFTON at West End and closed the Turkey Hill
| mine, throwing 100 men out Of employ ment.
sity and the Colgate academy at Hamilton, N. Y,
owing to the prevalence OF diphtheria Two stu
dents have died, and six more are sick while the
| disease appears to be spreading In the viage....
Wholesale rObbing OF graveyards near Philadel-
pha has been going on for some time Four OF
the robbers are now on trial, twenty-five police
men being present to protect them. Forbes,
| demonstrator of anatomy of Jefferson College
| testified that the college got about one hundred
and fifty bodies year. He never made an inves-
| tigation Of the manner in which the bodies were
procured. All the GOLFERS employed by the
| Reading, Penn, coal company have been put upon
| three fourths time.....,A passenger train in
Georgia ran off the track and every passenger was
| injured. "a number Of Jew merchants in New
York have obtained temporary injunction, re-
straining the police from interfering with them in
| their Sunday trade. 80. A wildcat fire insurance
| company In Denver, Colorado has gone to pieces
| The company claimed 70 have capital stock Of
over million and half, while in fact 1t had
| next to nothing. Four negroes we're hung last
| Friday in the south-al for murder. Water has
| reached the heart OF the city OF Paris, France
| The rains in the low quarters are unable to find
| an outlet and the water has risen to a level with
| the roads. The cellars OF the foreign Office are
| flooded. The Notre Dame quarter is swarmng
| with rats driven out Of the sewers and the people
are suffering from their depredations. The water
has invaded the chamber Of deputies. Eight
hundred persons have been thrown out OF emplo Y
ment by the recent great London fire. Diphthe-
| ria Is raging ut fearful rate on Prince Edward
| Island -. The official canvass Of Massachuset
gives Butter LOO b4D ana BlsnOp llJHJl, AHes lof,
| 1853 anu BDwefman 116, CTS -. The Saginaw (Michi-
| gam barrel works have been burned, entaing q
loss OF $4,000 Eleven convicts at Little Rock,
| Arkansas last week attacked and disarmed their
| guard and escaped. They were pursu d with
bloodhounds but they killed three of them and
the pursuit was then abandoned ... The wife and
| child OF u Russian Jew named Selenger troze to
| de- tn on their claim between Grand Forks Da-
| kota, and DEVILS lake, Thursday. General
Sidney Burbank. on the retired list Is dead. He
| served in the Black Hawk and Florida wars and
the of the rebellion. 1t is estimated that
| there are 200, 900 tons OF ice housed on the Hud-
| son river from last years CROP. Despatch
from various localities throughout the northwest
show that the cold wave subsidized as suddenly as
1t rose. The business failures of the last seven
days number 100, of which 165 occurred in the
country and % in New York city and ,nada.. .
Hong All Duck was executed at San Rafael Cal. ii,
Friday, for the murder Of fellow convict in the
penitentt ry also a Chnaman, two years ago..
Philadelphia, loan and collection agents, has dis
appeared leaving number OF anxious creditors.
IA Cleveland despatch says there is no change
in the situation at Adelbert college, The faculty
not disposed to reinstate the juniors, and the
students stay away from rectations.. Two
mills have shut down at Eas,on, Pa, In conse-
quence of low water in the Delaware. The river
is frozen over from shore to shore, are also the
Lehigh river and Morris canal. The friends OF
Henry Rich, a New York butter merchant, are
anxious about him He disappeared few days
ago, and opinion Is divided as to whether he Is
uttntnteu OF mas met Win loul pIhy.'.. lue npuee
OF Newell Jolly, eight miles from Gallipois, Ohio,
was burned Thursday night Mr. Jolly, who IL
quite old was burned to death. His wife escaped
through a window, but was badly burned and
may die $50. The schooner Unadilla is frozen in
four miles below Bear point Lake Erie. Two
tugs sent to her also became fast, and 1t Ii
! doubtful il the schooner can be reached. Three
unknown schoonets are fast in the ice off Col
chester reef. 49,. An explosion Thursday in tunnel
| No Of the Oregon and California railroad e1'
tension, twenty miles from Riddle, killed four
Cinnamon, dangerously injured four others and
blew a number out OF the tunnel. After the
blast had been fired, the Cinnamon began drilling
again and struck a charge of giant powder which
had not exploded. The head of one Chinamar
was blown off and the egs OF another torn from
his body. The Potomac river Is frozen ovel
sody from the foot OF Analostsn island to Little
Falls The spe ;acle is unpre cedented within the
! memory Of the Oldest river men. The body OF
Guiteau is to be turned over TO the party desig
mated by the court before which the litigation Ii
pending. =. The paintings " The Baptism OF Pc
cahontas and THE Embarkation OF the Pill
grim Fathers " In the rotunda OF the capitol a.
Washington were ruined during the late Garfield
fair. 1t is stated that the projectors OF the Pan
anna canal have decided to construct a canal Will
locks instead of a sea level canal, as first pro
posed. This change is due to the enormous eI
pense Of the original project,