Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
Weekly News Summary.

the guests Of the city Of Boston.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and his party have safely
arrived In Florida lie Is already benefited by
his trip
SCARLET fever has broken out in the state agri-
cultural college Mt Des Moines, Iowa, and II has
been temporarily closed.
THE Hawaiian government has asked permits.
sion, and II has been granted, to have Its coins
minted at the United States mints.
ARRANGEMENTS for the trial Of the Pbmuly
Park murderers have been completed. The gov
eminent will resist any postponement.
A wATERsPoUT broke at Nashville, flooding
the streets, II was accompanied by vivid light
ming terrific thunder and strong gale.
PRESIDENT TAYLOR Of the Mormon church do
cares that their settlement is 800 miles In cir
conference and extending The Mormons are
jubilant,
A CONFEDERATION at vallorbe, Switzerland,
destroyed 145 houses, with the postofiice, 10
which important securities were deposited.
Twelve hundred persons are homeless
AT meeting OF the privy council at Ottawa
| Saturday, II was decided not to allow the mporta-
| ton Of American whiskey In bond, even under
the seventy-two hour Limitation clause.
TERRIBLE cyclone swept over the country
| south and east OF Hot Springs, Arkansas, day
| or two since, and scarcely tree was left In It's
| path. Farm houses, fences and bridges were de-
/ molished.
THE Denver exposition promises to be unus-
| ually attractive this year. Three hundred appli-
cations for space from eastern exhibitors have al
| ready been fled, Warner Miller Of New York
| delivers the opening address.
| THE Prince Of Wales never opens book or so
| much as glances at a newspaper but the officers
| OF his household are all bright and clever, and
keep him accurately informed OF everything that
Is going on in politics and society.
THE firm OF Jordan, Marsh & Co, which has
long been at the head OF the retail dry goods bust
| ness Of Boston, has decided 10 abandon Its whole
sale business Several Of the old employees Of
| the wholesale branch are retained.
EIGHTEEN registered letters supposed to be very
valuable were stolen from the Brooklyn post
office, Saturday, under similar circumstances to
those OF the theft Of 81 800 from safe Office
few months ago. No clue to the thieves.
WEDNESDAY afternoon, while Sergeant Hughes
and Police Officer Gold, in q hallway in base
| n ent OF the Eastern Departmental building at At
lanta bottle containing an explosive was thrown
from above and burst with tremendous force.
THE legislature Of Ohio has agreed on the re-
port OF the conference committee for the submits
! sion Of two propositions for amendments to the
constitution on the liquor question. One pro-
yides for prohibition and the other for legislative
control.
. THE tide OF immigration to the northwest set
In this month as usual and far surpasses any
|, thing ever known. All roads to the northwest
are taxed to the utmost and freight yards and
, side tracks are filled with cars carrying immi-
: grants goods.
I | HUNDRED and fifty delegates Of various
{ Irish organizations gathered at a hall In New
!. York last Saturday and repudiated ParnelI 8
peace policy, and declared dynamite to be the
+. only policy Of the future. The meeting ad-
' lourned amid great confusion.
I THE following figures give the religious status
. Of India. Hndus, S9,93I 400; Mohammedans,
e 80 12l $50: Naturp-worshpers 6 426 oil Buddh-
9 | lists, 4l8,S84; Christians, 1,S6263i. OF the
k Christians over one-half are Catholics There are
beside these several million Of minor divisions OF
!, | oriental religious beliefs
THE coronation Of the car Of Russia has been
0 postponed until June. Precautions of all kinds
are continually invented in the hope Of thwsrting
u the Nihilists. Forty thousand moujks have
:, been enlisted and promoted to the ranks OF the
y nobility. They will be clad in citizen garb and
D act as private detectives.
: HOTEL in Greeuville, Texas was destroyed
/. by fire last week and several lives were lost
a One man cut his throat when he found the flames
a were consuming him. The cause Of the calamity
is uncertain, but 1t il thought explosion OF pow.
der in a hardware store blew out the west walls
n | causing the entire building to fall.
T. FRIDAY being Decoration Day in the South, con
At federate graves and monuments were handsomely
= decorated. The Association OF the Army OF the
Tennessee, assisted by delegations from the AS
ISOLATION OF the Army of Northern Virginia and
the Grand Army of the Republic, laid the cornei
J. stone Of the monument to the Army OF the Ten
Is nessee at New Orleans General Charles Hooker
If of Mississippi delivered an Grafton.
's THE Montreal star compositors are on a strike
! | because girls are employed at the case, and the
editor asks indulgence while he is fighting for a
r " great principle" and retaining his girls. He
n claims they are employed because OF the mora
y effect they have upon the average composi'ors
Il and has accordingly advanced their pay 20 pei
I'D cent, 1t now being 30 cents per 1000 ems.
:, NORWAY seems to be stamping out leprosy BY
:, the isoating OF patients There were 1868 cases
a in 1856. Since then treatment by isolation has
T. been practiced more and more, with constant
- diminishing OF the disease, and In 1880 there wert
: but $50 cases known. 10 Hawaii upon the
4 other hand, where there Is little horror OF the
"a malady and victims 60 about in public freely
~ the number OF cases constantly increases
GENERAL GRANT has been elected presiden
d and life director Of the national rifle association
1t was decided that competitions for the selection
N Of team to go to Wimbledon shall be made a
d Cteedmoor June 18th for practice. Competition
will be required to coniine themselves to Reming
ton or Brown rifles. The military authorities o
several states will be requested to their iniu
n ence to induce members OF the national guard u
a compete.
n JUDGE McCARTER Of Newark, n. j.. has de
Is cided that all saloon and tavern licenses granted
y Tuesday last void, as they do not comply witt
II the new law in giving the location of the real es
tate OF the signers Of petitions, No licenses cal
r, be granted until September az the law require
2 all applications to be made the first day OF thu
e term. number of leading hotels In that cit,
r are without licenses and liable to indictment 1
X they sell.
re THERE is now every indication Of an early open
! ing Of the great Brooklyn bridge. Workmen ar,
N putting up posts for the electric lights the con
. Quoting wires are at han1 part of the machinery
for pulling cars the bridge Is ready to b.
y put in place, the boiler house is approaching
completion and some Of the boilers are already IL
. position ferryboat passengers looking up at TIT
y bridge high over their heads can see the long
u rows of plank flooring extending from tower Il
u tower ready for the tramping feet Of men and
j. finals, and everywhere on the great structure
4 workmen can be seen giving the finishing touches
y to cables and floors and ratings.