Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-12-20
Summary OF News.

ONE New Haven dealer sells !, 200 900 cigarettes
a year, mostly TO students.
SUICIDES and deaths by dueling are becoming
frequent In the Prussian army.
JURY has been empaneed in the star route
cases now on trial at Washington.
THE assistant postmaster-general has declared
that reduced postage Is practicable
ELEVEN men were recently killed by boiler
explosion in Shawneetown, Illinois.
D. G. THOMAS, president Of the bank Of Abing-
ton, Va, has failed; liabilities, $4,000.
Two Brooklyn aldermen have been convicted OF |
contempt Of court and locked up in jail.
DURING the present year thirteen vessels and |
115 lives were lost in the Gloucester fisheries.
AUsTRALAsiAS mine In Creswick, Victoria, has
been flooded and twenty-five persons drowned.
DIpHTHERrA still RACES in Philadelphia. The
deaths aggregate one-third the number OF cases.
TWENTY-FIVE tramps were sentenced to the
house Of correction in Boston one day last week.
THE prospects are that the logging season In
Wisconsin will be one OF the most thriving for
many years.
THE palace Of the sultan Of Turkey Is practi-
cally in state OF siege. He Is alarmed by sedi-
tion among the troops
IT is reported that the Lacowsic wooden COM
pany at Hampden, Massachusetts, has failed liza
bilities $500 to 100000.
GAMBErTA has again been confined to bed:
owing to an intestinal touble which necessitsted
the consultation Of several doctors.
THE grand jury at Philadelphia returned true
bill, Wednesday, against all the prisoners impli-
Gated in the recent grave robberies.
THE bridge on the Mexican Pacific railway fell
one day last week while one hundred men were
at work Ipon it. Eleven were killed.
CYCLONE in northern Colorado blew freight
train from the track aud carried a house several
hundred feet, killing twenty occupants.
THE commissioner Of the general land office
has received report from Yankton, Dakota, oil
the arrest or sixteen timber depredators.
HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN Of Maine has returned
| to this country and has announced his Intention
to resign his position as minister to Spain.
PRINCESS LOUISE will spend the winter In Brit
| ish Columbia. The governor general will not re-
turn to Ottawa until the middle OF january.
The jewelry store Of II. L. Miles OF Cleveland,
Ohio, was robbed Of $4,000 worth of diamonds
| Thursday by a man who escaped unnoticed
THE committee on rules of the Connecticut leg
| islature will recommend rules to keep members
| Of the third house off the floor OF the legislative
halls.
ALBERT PALMER was elected mayor Of Boston
| last week Tuesday by plurality OF 2,3l5. HIS
principal competitor was DR.. Green the present
| mayor.
Two men were recently buried alive while dig
ging a we'll in Danbury, Connecticut. One was
extrieated alive, but the other was dead when
dug out.
| lHE United states supreme court mOnudy ren-
dered decision affirming the constitutionalty OF
the law under which General n. NJ. Curtis was
convicted.
NAVIGATION of the upper Hudson has closed.
The steamers OF the Rondout line have ceased
| running for the first time in several years. No
| boats are frozen in.
The state of affairs in Russia is worse than
ever before. There have lately been several en-
counters between the police Of st. Petersburgh
and students in the city.
THE national street railway association was
formed at Boston last week Tuesday. Delegates
were present from all the principal cities OF the
United States and Canada
STUDENTS Of Yale College became intoxicated
at a tiremans ball last week. The result was a
free fight in which several were injured. They
were expelled and arrested.
THE Triton cotton mills of New Castle, Del.
which suspended work last Saturday, resumed op-
erations Tuesday, all the workmen submitting to
the reduction In their wages.
GEORGE WATSON, who was found guilty Of for
gerry in presenting raised checks at the First Ma.
tional bank OF Oswego n. Y, has been sentenced
to seven years in Auburn prison.
THE National agricultural convention assem-
bled at Chicago last week Wednesday and the
president, N. t. Sprague OF Brandon, Vermont
delivered an address upon silos.'
The medical college difficulty at Kingston
Canada has been settled No more females will
be admitted to the college, but those now attend
ing will be allowed TO finish their course.
COLONY of Russian refugees on Sicily island
Concordia parish, La, has been broken up on &C
count Of the prevalence OF swamp fever. Th'
coonists will go to New York and Chicago.
WHILE attempting to arrest moonshiners Bot
Thomas and n. I. Williams W. l.. Goodwin
revenue officer, shot and killed the latter ant
dangerously wounded the former, at Alfalfa, Ala
In the suit OF Jane MARROW against John Wall
saloon keeper at Chicago for selling her husband
liquor to the extent of making him almost imbe
cile the iury gave a verdict of 500 She asked
for So 900.
BY collision on the Southeastern railway
Thursday, between a passenger and freight train
the engine and several cars were wrecked and al
employe fatally injured. The passengers wer
badly shaken up.
The police Of Dublin believe they have collected
sufficient evidence to sustain charge Of conspir
acy to commit the Phoenix Park murders agains
the prisoners now in custody on suspicion OF beini
concerned In the crime
GREAT suffering Is reported among the Chero
!, kee Indians on account Of the ravages Of small
, pox. One family OF five have died. The terrific
! rial government has appropriated $1,000 to secur
!, attendants for the sick.
| MATT SrMMERMEN, the murderer Of Sheriff
Woods and two others, reached kearney, Neb
Friday night, with two officers who capturedtheu
+ in Kansas. Fifty men have sworn to lynch them
when they go to Minden for trial.
I THE exports of petroleum and petroleum pro-
ducts in October were valued at s4, ,00i 900; in DC
tober last year they were So O62 600; In the tel
= months ending October, S3S 1862 900, and in tht
D same period last year SiO015.OO0
: MINISTER OSBORN of Brazil is reported on hi
way to the United States. 1t is stated that tn,
that the Argentine confederation have taken pos
session of territory claimed by Brazil and tina
. both countries are preparing for war.
q AFTER running twelve hours the Delaware
rolling mill at Philipsburg, n. Y, compelled
Q TO close. The mill fired up on Monday morning
with full force, but at night the heaters struck
5 for higher wages, with the above result
JOHN T. POTTER, a celebrated representative ii
congress, who, in 1860, being challenged by Roge
A. Pryor named bowie knives as the weapon
= and locked room as the place Of battle Is dylnl