Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-01-31
News Summary.

News Summary.
SENATOR PLUME Of Kansas was reelected last
week.
In New York 100000 persons occupy 1900
tenement houses.
FLoTow, the composer Of the charming opera,
" Martha, IL dead.
THE legislature Of Texas has reelected Mr..
Coke to the United States senate.
AN accountant finds the deficit Of Tennessees
late state treasurer to be 1922 427. %
The Thermometer at Butte City, Montana reg
stered sixty-one degrees below zero the other day
Henry +, MORGAN, a New York millionaire
banker, died in carriage on his way from his
office Saturday.
THE Marquis Of Lorne and suite are in Wash
ington and visits have been exchanged between
him and the president.
THREE Of the election officers charged with
making fraudulent returns Of the votes cast have
been convicted in Philadelphia.
Two leading Nlhilist prisoners, man and
woman, confined in the fortress Of Peter and
Paul In Russia have become insane.
AUSTRALIA il trying to get rid of the English
sparrow by bounty process, and heads and
eggs OF the bird come in by tens Of thousands.
The expenses OF the defendants in the star
| route trials are said to be S2OO,0OO Brady and
Dorsey are reported to have spent $4,000 each.
DAviTT, Healey and Quinn will not give bail
and have been taken to jail 1t Is said they will
be sentenced tosolitary confinement at hard labor.
| THE ice bridge and winter scenery about Mag.
ara Falls IL the grandest seen for years. Crowds
from all parts OF the States and Canada visited
| the Falls Sunday.
PRAIRIE fires are doing great damage in the
west and northwest part OF Texas to stock, and
| the slaughter in the ranges is especially great.
| Some Of the fires are incendiary.
THE labor bureau at Castle Garden last year
| found employment for 81 ,498 Immigrants, 90 40l
men at from 81 to SIS month and 81 to 81 80 a
| day, and S,097 women at from IS to $40 MONTH
TERRIFIC wind storm visited Denver, Cole
| RADIO, Monday morning and dozen or more
| buildings were demolished. A car on the Circle
| railroad vas blown from the track and several
| persons were seriously injured
| THE vaults OF the United States treasury are
full Of silver and yet the law requiring the monthly
coinage of S2,OO0,0O0 in standard dollars has not
been repealed. The amOust Of silver In the treas
ury January LIST was 1900 tons.
CALIFORNIA has CO. 900 acres OF new vineyards,
which are expected to yield grapes worth SEQ an
acre seven wears hence. The total for June Goth,
1882, was i0l. OBJ acres, and last years wine pro-
duct s estimated ut 100000 gallons.
MILWAUKEE had two fires last week, by one Of
which the female college was damaged $4,000
worth. The flames spread rapidly into the dor
mitories but the sky inmates were saved In
the other fire the lives Of four fremen were lost.
Princess LOUISE embarked for Bermuda from
Carleton, S c., last week. As she drove
: through the city she acknowledged the cheers OF
thousands OF spectators by constantly bowling and
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barked.
THE body-snatching case came up in court in
, Montreal last week mob of medical students
! attempted to intimidate the court. The magis-
trate sem for the police, who after hard fight
routed the striplings. Six were arrested for as
sauting officers.
THE precious metals produced in 1882 west Of
I the Missouri river, including British Columbia,
: land the receipts in San Francisco by express
, from the west coast Of Mexico) were; Gold, $780,
1893 000 silver, $50, $4,000; copper, s4,O55 600
a lead, SS,008 600
e The young girls who enter the English postal
: service get 81 30 per week at first. II they are
" real good girls after few years they get fifty
cents or 81 a week more MANY Of them remain
t single because the salary is not large enough to
b support a husband.
/. ADVERTISEMENTS Of the opera, " The Sorcerer -
4 having been extensively posted in Brooklyn,
| bearing caiicature Of Rev. + Dewitt Talmadge,
the latter has brought action by the district at
r torney in the matter and it will be brought to the
e attention Of the grand jury.
1 BENYoN, president OF the Pacific bank who
has been indicted for embeZzlement of its funds,
It is residing near Montreal. lie says he was the
tool and catspaw Of other parties and has no ubt
T that he can vindicate himself lie promises to
d. come back when everything is ready.
THREE freight trains hitched together became
e unmanageabe while going down a steep grade
e near Pompey, Maryland, and finally went off a
e trestlework, rolling down hill hundred feet OF
II the fifteen train men not one has been found
alive, but seven bodies has been found.
G DISGUISED men took from the Jail of Russell
i county, Virginia, few nights since two white
!. men, o. f Ferrald aud Evan Griffith, confined
4 there chlrge Of obtaining under false pretences
1 $4,000 worth Of cattle from the graz;srs of that
section. Nothing is known as to what was done
. with the prisoners but it IL believed that they
= | were lynched
u THE Delaware and Hudson mines, extending
over forty acres, caved in last week mostly COW
: cred with dwellings and other buildings The
disaster is attributed to the rotting of the posts
put in to sustain the roof There is general APP
a prehension that the present is only the beginning
"a of serious trouble. Old miners contend that the
% accident Is the result OF pillar robbing. The
:, damage l. 10000
|. JONI GILBERT, the actor who was injured in
the Newhall hotel fire. in Mi waukee, il slightly
n better physically, but is highly delirous and
q physicians announce that his injuries are such
= that should he be will be always an idiot
II fio hac p'ea tuid Of te horriblo nate OF his
n wife His ravir gs are affecting, always recurring
/ to ms dead wlie, but apparently not eompre.
hending the awful tragedy Of her fate 1t is still
doubtful If he survives the delirium.
=, THE funeral OF the unrecognized victims OF tht
y Newhall house disaster occurred Thursday morn
Z | lug. Nearly all business suspended Twenty
% | three bCdies awarded to PrOtestants anC
"a twenty to Catholics Protestant services were al
> the exposition building, which densely
crowded. After the services the professions
q formed and iuined, making line over two miles
{ in length. All OF the military bodies sodatie,
: and most OF the civic societies of the city par
u tlcipated
/, ORANGE Miss Stella Davis of Berlin closed
school last Friday in the BIldwinville district
- 1t has not been privilege to visit this school
n but we learn from the hest authority that Miss
% Davis has worked faithfully and conscientousy
Re in the discharge of her duties, and, as result