The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-11
Summary OF News.

ROSCOE CoNKLING says he is not writing
book and is out of politics.
FoRTY-THREE deaths from yellow fever oc-
Cured at Havana last week.
Mrs. GARFIELD and Mollie have gone to
Saratoga, to remain for some time.
The New Hampshire legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting the sale of toy pistols.
THE British iron trade is report to be active,
caused by the changes in the United States
tariff.
MoGEoCH, the bankrupt lard king OF Chicago,
offers to settle with his creditors at fifty cents
on the dollar, which has been accepted almost
unanimously.
OVER SIS 600, 900 of fractional currency Is
still outstanding. although 1t is practically out
OF circulation. 1t is supposed that a large part
Of 1t has been lost or destroyed
DURING the fiscal year Just ended, there
were So All applications for pensions, an in
crease of 81 sos or applications for an increase
under the act OF March 8, 1883, there were
16, 1888.
SIX hundred and eighty Mormon converts
landed in New York July 1. The converts are
from Sweden, Denmark, Wales, England and
Norway The number of men and women is
about equal.
| ASSUMING that the immigration of 1888 will
equal that of 1882 and 1881, these three years,
1t is estimated, will give not less than quar-.
| ter OF million nf German farmers and mechan-
les, and over $50, 900. 900 of German money.
JUSTICE BLArcTHFoRD Of the United States su.
| preme court, is worth S15 600. 900; Field. $780,
600; Bradley. 100000; Matthew's, $500, 900
Waite. 1000; Gray, $4,000. and Wood,
! 800 600. The poor men on the supreme court
| bench reHarlan and Miller who have nothing
but their salaries.
TEN snits were begun by Mormons in the
United States district court at Salt Lake last
week Monday, against the commissioners ap
| pointed by the president to carry out the pro
visions Of the Edmunds bill The suits wer,
instituted for damages, with the evident inten
ton OF cOercing the commissioners.
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER ELMER has prepared
a statement showing that the cost OF operatin!
the star route service in the Pacific section
comprising two-fifths Of the United States, dur
ing the fiscal year about to end was ten ant
one-tenth cents per mile az against fifteen ant
one-tenth cents per mile during the preceding
fiscal year.
THE wheat crop. according to the Price Chr
rent, will amount to 4i0 600 600 bushels, agains
5O4, 900. 600 bushels last year. The corn crop /
reported in good standing generally. the acre
age being considerably increased and the con
dition averaging we'll Many sections are suf
fering from excessive rains. Seventy per cen
of the returns report fair to good supplies o
old corn on hand.
AT the launch of the new steamer Daphne
on the river CLYDE, Scotland, July Sd, the yes
sci capszed and one hundred and fifty person
were drowned. The vessel left the WAYS at
rapid rate, stern foremost. swift current o
the river, with too much top weight, causin
her to roll from side to side and finally to kee
over and disappear beneath the waters.
large force of workmen was on board. TIL
divers discovered the passenger ways blocke
with the dead bodies of mechanics, who wit
their tools in their hands. had apparent
rushed from their work on the occurrence
the disaster. Many jumped into the streai
a mass of debris thrown from the deck of tn
vessel when she capsized. The sunken vess'
impedes the navigation of the river for larg
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