Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-16
Summary OF News.
YELLOW fever is prevalent at Havana.

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graph wire within their limits.
A BILL providing for a high license law has
been killed by the Illinois legislature.
BARHUM says he has secured the King OF Slams
famous white elephant for his greatest show on
earth
PRINCESS LOUISE Is a good housekeeper, cook,
confectioner, laundress seamstress and dress
maker.
ONE OF the largest elephants belonging TO Fore.
paugh's circus died suddenly at Jersey City, N.
j., Saturday.
AN apartment in the building occupied by the
Harvard medical school was damaged $1,000 by
fire Friday night
DODGE CRY, Kansas, was In the hands OF des-
peradoes for a day or two last week, but the
trouble Is now over
CONGRESSMAN THOMPSON Of Kentucky Is now
on trial for murder. The greatest interest Is
manifested In the case.
REV josiah HENSON, the Uncle Tom Of Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stoves Uncle Toms Cabin"
died at Dresden, Ont, May 9th.
IT is reported that one Adirondack panther
made sixty feet at single jump last winter, as
shown by his tracks in the snow.
THE editor Of the American ReUie,o, published
In Constantinople, has been sentenced TO impris-
onment for life for printing disoyal articles.
THE work on the Brooklyn bridge Is nearly
completed, and it might be opened several days
In advance OF the time fixed upon, the oath inst.
COLONEL FRANK II. PIERCE Hillsboro IN. H.
lawyer and a nephew OF President Pierce, Is In the
Concord mad house under treatment for intern
perance.
EIGHT hundred emigrants, who had been as
sisted by the British government and Mr.. Tukes
committee, embarked at Galway for Boston on
Saturday
GALVESTON has passed Savannah in cotton re-
ceip,s and is now the second cotton port In this
800, 900 bales
Tup nrauidapt bau dauigna,ad Cornnt,oltar ~
the Currency Knox to act as commissioner Of in
ternal revenue for ten days in place Of General
Raum, resigned.
FORT WAYNE, lind. gentleman who received
days ago, divided 1t equally between two hos
pitfalls OF that city.
ELIZA PIsKsToN, who achieved notoriety dur
ing the famous electoral controversy In 1876
has just died In Louisiana jail where she WAS
confined for larceny.
THERE was general strike OF cigar-mak ers
last week and the manufacturers generally &C
coded to their demands Strikes In other trades
were not 80 successful.
THE decrease OF the public debt during the
month Of April was only 81. s51, 402 05-much
less than usual The cause is that SO 900 600
was paid out for pensions.
EX-SENATOR WINDOW Is said to have under
consideration an offer which has been made to
him OF the vice-presidency OF the Florida Ship
Canal and Transit Company.
Mrs HANNAH SIMPSON GRANT, mother Of ex-
President Y. s. Grant, died at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. Mary Corbin, on Pavonia avenue,
Jersey City Heights, last Friday.
BosToN is excited over the shooting by crank
OF Chief of Police Wade Wade was badly
wounded, but will recover The assailants name
is Brennan and is dangerously insane.
IT is understood that the Concord, Northern
| and Boston, Concord & Montreal railroads OF New
Hampshire will consolidate their interests II per-
| mission can be obtained Of the Legislature
Mrs CHARLES WHEELER of Philadelphia has
| given $1,000 and II. g. Marquand OF New York
| $4,000 to the fund for the erection OF new
| chapel at St. Paul's school, Concord N. II.
INTELLIGENCE has been received from different
sections of Virginia OF great damage done to
| young tobacco by the tobacco fly. In many in
stances the farmers had all their plants destroyed.
DISSATISFIED Orangemen in Ontario have de-
cided to form third or Protestant party, one Of
the chief planks OF the platform to be the aboli-
ton Of separate schools and of the use of the
| French language in parliament
| JOHNSON G. WHITAKER, the colored cadet who
acquired notoriety three years ago in connection
with charge Of having mutilated his ears while
| at West Point, is now filing professors chair In
the Avery Institute at Charleston, S. C.
| THE register OF wills OF Philadelphia has
granted letters Of administration in the estate Of
Warren, one Of the lost seaman OF the steamer
Jeanette, to the mother OF the deceased. War
| rem was with Lieutenant Chips party.
MRS CRoLEY Jennie Jnne) talks to the girls
| OF Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Mass, on
| Dress" at the coming commencement; DR..
| Buckley breaches the baccalaurate sermon, and
| DR.. Duryea gives the commencement address.
THE total receipts of internal revenue since
| June, 1882, are S121, 2S5, 900. During the first
four months last year the receipts Of the patent
| office were 1887 600. During the four months OF
the current year ending with April the receipts
aggregated S406, 900.
ToRNADogs destructive frosts and forest fires
mr. ha vi tnan 30 an rta ~ I'M
south and west, Caldwell county, North Carolina,
was vis ed on Wednesday by waterspout that
made great ravages. The county is In the north
wsaters, past Ut tho etaev
SEVERAL attempts have been made recently to
burn the fire department buildings in Petersburg,
Va, by throwing oil-saturated balls Of yarn
| through the windows. white man was de-
tected In the act Wednesday night, but escaped
after being shot at four times.
CHICAGO dispatch says that the saloons OF
nearly every town in the state are closed. The
| proprietors refuse to pay the high license. In
| Keokuk Iowa, licenses were fixed at $500 this
year and next year $500 Out Of seventy-six ga
looms, thirty mine took out licenses
TEXAS is about to hang a woman. She caused
her little girl to go on the streets as beggar,
submitted her to cruel privation in order to make
| her look miserable enough to arouse pity, and
| finally murdered her because she did not bring
| home satisfactory amount OF money.
Two attempts were lately made by girl twelve
years old to fire the Gendon Hotel in Boston.
She confessed that she did it because she liked to
| see blaze, and it appears that she WAS laboring
under a mania caused by an absorbing interest in
patent fire escape exhibited at the hotel.
| AN electric railroad company with capital OF
81, 100000 has bought Edisons patents for rail-
\ way electric motor and proposes to apply II first
| to the elevated roads In New York Mr. Edison
has had an electric engine drawing two passenger
coaches at Menlo Park for a year or more past.
| FIVE thousand dollars worth Of gambling APP
| paratus was burned on the public square at
| Nashville, Tenn, Thursday, by order of the
criminal court. At least five hundred gamblers
have left or will leave the city account Of the
law making gambling felony, and a large num-
Der OF them have gone to Chicago.
| The Standard oil works at Cavan Point Jersey
| City, were struck by lightning during storm
last week Thursday morning. Seven tanks eI-
ploded In succession. A store house with $50 900
| barrels OF refined oil WAS also destroyed. The
| works were the most extensive in the country.
About one-half the property is destroyed.
AMERICAN industrial art has secured a great
| triumph In the appointment Just made Of tiffany
| 4 Co., OF New York as special jewellers and gold
and silversmiths to the Qieepof England, Prince
| and Princess Of Wales, the Emperor and Empress
OF Russia, the Grand Duke Vladimir OF Russia
and kings of Belgium, Italy. Portugal and Greece
The necessary papers for the extradition OF
| Roger Amero OF Plympton, N. S, now In Jail 1T
Dgby. N. S., charged with the murder OF Mrs.
| Eta G. Carlton on March 18th at WATERFOWL.
| Mass, have been granted by President Arthur,
and placed in the hands OF Detec i've Edmund d.
| Wiggin, who is named as the party to whom
| Amero is to be surrendered.
| A MEDICAL student In New York was recently
| called home to attend the bedside OF a dying
| sister near Cleveland, Ohio. After her death and
| burial he returned TO his studies in the metrop-
oils and one day upon being sent to the dissect-
ing room he was Mortified to behold the body Of
his deceased sister upon the dssecting table. He
is now insane and his recovery Is doubtful.
A vILLAGER in Iowa bet that a stranger whose
acquaintance he had casually made could not,
| within six hours, WOO, win and marry a young
| woman who had Just arrived at the same hotel.
The sutton introduced himself to her. she smiled
upon him, minister was called in and the cere-
mony was performed. The couple left on the
| following morning with no inconsdersble sum OF
money They were husband and wife OF lorg
standing and had played the same trick in many
| places.
| Ir ia understood that at the meeting OF the
| American Baptist Missionary Union at Saratoga
| this month several missionaries will prefer n
charge that there liz a discrepancy between the
amount OF the salaries paid them and the amount
charged by the treasurer against the union for
these salaries. The total discrepancy for the
years 1875 to 1879, inclusive, Is estimated at
IS 800 1t Ia stated that speculation In stocks by
OF the officers of the society will be urged upon
the attention OF the Union.
A SITTING of the German parliament a few
days ago ended with an extraordinary scene. A
stranger addressed the house from the gallery
with the words: "Genuemen, your heads are
not worth more than cabbage stalks" He went
on TO say that in 1879 the Holy Ghost had ap.
peared to him and commanded him to undertake