Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-05-17
Summary OF News.

appointed papal delegate for Canada, Inc
Jeanette survivors have sailed from Russia for
England. The body Of Under-Secretary Burke
has been buried In Dublin. There was general
suspension Of business on the day Of the funeral,
and crowds lined the streets Hamilton, under
secretary to the admiralty takes his place for six
months. There Is a little rebellion Of Williams
college students against the Latin instructor....
George Otto TreveyGn IL the new secretary for Ire
land Navigation Is interrupted along the La
brador coast by immense fields Of ice and the
seal fishing is a failure. While Alexander H.
stephens OF Georgia ascending the capitol steps
his crutch gave way. lie fell and was severely
injured. flames Gordon Bennett gave Presi-
dent Arthur and cabinet ride down the Potomac
In his steam yacht last week fIe IL now at New
port, r. l., with it,. The grand Jury in New
York has returned another Indictment against
General Newton NJ. Curtis for collecting assess
ments Of otice-holders for political purposes.
By an understanding between the two govern
ments, United States and Mexican troops are al
lowed TO cross the border in pursuit Of hostile In
dians.. . General n, p Banks is president Of the
Lincoln monument association. The society Of
the Army Of the Tennessee met at St LOus last
week. Henry Dawson, the inventor Of knitting
needles, IL dead The English minister to Mo-
rocco has been stoned the street Six hun
dred men have been imprisoned for the assault.
....A $4,000 fire occurred at Cairo, ILL.,, last
week. One hundred and thirtysix sailing YES
sells and fifteen steamers were lost during the
month OF March. .. Egypt Is in a state Of revo-
luton and 1t Is expected that the Khedive will be
deposed. Several European governments are
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leave San francisco next month for the relief Of
the Point Barrow expedition. No more visitors
TO Guiteau will be permitted. He has little chance
for the staying OF his execution. Eight persons
were killed and ten injured by wind storm at
McAlister, Indian Territory, last week..
| An insane mother In Boston killed one child and
stabbed three others. Fear Of starvation prompted
| her to the desperate act. The president has
signed the Chinese bill, and there Is great reipc-
| ing In California The supreme court Of the
| United States decides that the court martial in
| Sergeant Mason's case has full power to try and
| sentence him, and refuses writ of habeas corpus
| Attempts were made at Mortified, MINI, last
| week, TO blow up several liquor saloons Frank
| Stringfellow, once a rebel spy and said b. have
| killed more than one hundred federal soldiers in
the war, IL now the rector of the Episcopal church
| at Farmye, Va. John W Guiteau thinks that
| Scoville believes his wife, Guiteaus sister, to be
insane, and that he desires TO put her n an asy-
lum. Guiteau It is said, Is doing his best to keep
her out OF Scovilles sight and possession The
| United States supreme court at the late term dis
posed of three hundred and ninety-nine cases,
| leaving eight hundred on the docket The
annual session Of the supreme lodge OF Knights Of
| Honor opened in Baltimore, May 9, Thirteen
| thousand members death benefits were paid,
amounting to $500, GOO. IA tornado which
passed over Lakefield, MINI, last week, de
stroyed several dwellings and schoolhouse In
which were sixteen children and the teacher
Four children were killed. Twenty-four thous-
and coolies are expected to arrive at Victoria
British Columbia, in August The Chinese will
thousand at Hong Kong awaiting shipment to
America. Many tornados in different sections
OF the west are reported. The United States
military reservations near Plattsburgh are to be
| coded to that village, and the grounds will be
dedicated as a park in the name Of Commodore
| McDonough Twenty-one buildings have been
| destroyed by fire at Lincoln Center, Maine The
loss il heavy but cannot be estimated . The
trial OF the Durfee forgery case has been finished
at Newport X. l. Verdict guilty. Time has
been given TO file reasons for a new trial. The
British government offers fl0000000 for infor-
nation which will lead to the conviction " the
murderers of Cavendish and Burke, and G coo
for private Information The suspects in Ire
land will not at present be released, although
that was the intention before the murder Of Cav
endish and Burke IA cyclone recently destroyed
part Of the Wesleyan college at Warrenton, Mis-
souri,. Three students were injured. The town.
ship elections in Indiana show republican gains,
which was unexpected because of the Introduction
Of the prohibitory issue into the contest. The
New York Central railway has dismissed 600
men from his employ, on account of decreased
tonnage. During April there were "a assassna-
tons in Havana 80. 1t is said that Gladstone is
about To resign. An engineer and fireman on
the New York and New England railway, fearing
a collision, deserted their engine. 1t into
Hartford, Conn, at the rate of 30 miles an hour
and smashed two cars and engine. Nobody
; hurt. -. An Internal machine was placed under
! the stoop of a house in Plattsburgh, n Y, last
week, where it was exploded without doing seri-
Gus damage. The chinch bug has appeared in
| !.
Two hundred and fifty employees Of the rolling
mill at Phillipsburgh n j., have struck. "A
suspicous-looking canister has been discovered
outside the lord mayors mansion burning
fuse attached to 1t was extinguished by police
man General John q. Barnard for many years
at the head of engineers of the United States
army, is dead ... A train on the Fort Wayne and
| Cincinnati railway was derailed in Metamora,
Indiana thrown down an embankment forty feet
Six persons were killed and others injured. "A
, severe storm ragged on Lake Ontario last week
; and there was much damage to shipping. The
2 cowboys Of Arizona indignant at the presi-
dents proclamation. The rechartered national
banks will soon be furnished with new notes en-
graved from partly new designs and differing in
appearance from the notes now in circulation.
one million dollars is gold was shipped from New
York last Thursday. Judge Lynch is holding
court in Arkansas. Two horse thieves were the
, latest cuprits before him. e. More floods in Ar.
kansas. The national encampment of the Grand
! Army of the Republic meets in Baltimore next
month. Preparations are making for the recep-
tiOn Of from 10000 to 5000 veterans. The
grand jury of Minneapolis has been instructed by
Judge Lockham OF the supreme court to indici
: the lynchers Of McManus.. The Guiteau case
: has virtually been decided, although the decision
will not be announced till May %. 1t afirms the
sentence Of the court below and overrules the er-
captions, The New Orleans custom house has
been damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000.
The will of William L Naux of Philadelphia be-
queaths S2S,OOO 10 charitable institutions and
$4,000 TO the academy OF natural science. 1t is
sists in lecturing aud threatens to make it very
hot " for all the Guiteaus. At an election riot
in Galveston, Texas, twelve persons were injured
IA British steamer laden with coffee ran
ashore at Deal Beach, n. j. The cargo, valued al
100000, was lost, but the crew and passenger
were all saved. John Anderson, the crazy
murderer who lately escaped from a Connection
| insane asylum, has been arrested at Newark, n
| j., where he threatened to kill the ladies of the
family. Hon. c. e. Washburn, ex-member o.
congress and ex-governor of Wisconsin, Is dead
-. Ferris, alias Sir Roger Tichborne, the Cali
| fOrnia claimant mentioned some months ago, Ii
again in San Francisco His attorney says thai
recently he has been put in connection with three
persons resident in California, formerly in the
employ Of the Tichborne family. These three
met Ferris at an attorneys office and after a CON
versation, recognized and acknowledged him AZ
Roger Tchborne Arrangements being
made for Iichborne 10 visit Father LeFebvre, his
| former spiritual adviser now living in Paris
| Three white men and two negroes were publicly
| whipped for various crimes at the jail at New
castle, Del, Saturday The yield Of wheat and
oats in South Carolina and Georgia will be tn,
largest for twenty years. There was a sever,
snow storm in the Catskill region Saturday. >.
| James Emory, aged about one hundred, beat his
; wife, woman of ninety years TO death with 4
maui. lie had been desperate, sort of moderr
| Bluebeard, all his life. lie had been married
seven times and murdered all his wives in d
! shocking manner. More cyclones in Louisiana
AT Green Bay, Wis, man named Belanger
over eighty years of age, has become crazed with
murder of young Belgian twenty five years ago
! whom he shot and robbed of 81, 800. ,Johr
Brogaaro, who fatally stabbed his wife, at Balt
more, March 18th, committed suicide at thai
place, Sunday, by jumping from the fifth story o.
the Jail. Tine national convention OF Ancient Or
der Hibernians at Chicago passed resolutions de
} Tending lrishmen in Ireland and America agains
, the charge OF secret sympathy with the murdereri
of Cavendish and Burke. The first prosecution
under the new Sunday law in Ohio was tried il
Cleveland, Friday, and the accused person wa,
convicted by jury. Robert Smalls, the noted
Carolina negro, has been turned away from thu
Revere house, Boston, because he is an African
go. OF the nineteen persons who were poisoned a
! Canton, Ohio, from eating corned beef three ar
still in a critical condition. Arsenic and stryeh
. nine both were found in the beef. At Harris
, | burg, Pa, the county court has dissolved TIT
hity-eight mutual assessment insurance compa
e niles lately proceeded against by the attorney
+ general. The home of Henry Clay in Lexington
: | Ky, has been sold for $4,000. 1t includes -
acres Of choice land New York's stat
Z capitol building has Cost already $4,000, 90
!, finish It,. John Brown, MD, of Edinburgh
: the well known author, Is dead. The govern
ment intends " the re-indictment of Rerde
. and the other members OF the Dorsey party witt
Brady and Turner in order that it may proceed OIL
, "a single indictment The Irish detective force 4
to be recognized. Four inches OF snow fell on
| Berkshire hills Mass, Sunday. In Croatai
l. Sound, Va, 6OO,OO behring's we're caught in ON
4 haul Turkey has signed the treaty OF settlemen
Il of the WAL indemnity with Russia. Four prisoner
dug out OF the Jail at Rock Island, Ill, stole hand
\ car and escaped. In Dublin, Sunday, Canoi
Il Murphy dropped dead in his pulpit while preach