Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-02-07
News Summary.

THE coinage OF the new Eve cent piece has be-
gun Mt the Philadelphia mint.
The Florida legislature has appropriated SO, 900
TO send delegates to Bostons worlds fair
ADA JoNFs, q bride NJ two weeks, was shot dead
by her husband at their home In Harodsburg, Ky,
Tuesday night NJ last week
CHARLES D. BUNKER state commissioner OF i'm.
migration for California Mt San Francisco, has
funds
CIrrwAyo has been reinstated king Of Zululand
In the presence Of FIVE thousand Zulus. Many
chiefs are dissatisfied with the conditions OF his
reiStatement
DANIEL CAMERON, under sentence Of death at
Columbia, Tenn, for murder, has confessed that
he killed his wife and child by crushing their
skulls with a stick.
THE grand jurors Of Jersey City have presented
twelve indictments against Boice. ex president OF
the wrecked City Bank, nine against Shaw, the
cashier, and five against Beach, the bookeeper.
Mr. b. L. AFRICAN has resigned the treasurer
ship OF the American Loan and Trust conn any
and assumed the management OF the investment
bond business OF the Maverick National Bank OF
Boston.
JUDGE QuARLEs, on petition OF ex-Treasurer
Polk Of Ter nessee, has reduced the ball Of the lat
ter 10 S5O,OOO on the ground that the defendants
heath and probably his life are jeopardized by
confinement
THE twelve year-old step-son Of Mrs Martha
Ordwav, aged nineteen, Of London, N H., killed
her Friday afternoon with shotgun, which he
Thought wasn't loaded. The deed was not known
till Saturday.
MISSOURI landlords are trying to get an anti.
dead~beat law, similar 10 that In New York max
ing 1t msdeneanor to 60 n a hotel, not intend
ing tn pay, and authorizing the sale Of baggage
held for dshonored bills.
The legislatures OF Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado
and Iowa have memorialized congress for better
protection against the Introduction Of pleuro-
Pneumonia and other diseases affectng live stock
The plan u to have regular and efficient inspec-
| ton vt the boundaries Of each state.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MARSHALL Of California
has sued the Central Pacific railroad company for
900 with interest and costs, as Gam ges for
| the refusal by that company to carry state mes
senRers, lunatics, prisoners etc, freq OF charge In
accordance with the terms under which the state
| granted aid to the company.
MIcHAFL S CoNsrpINEof PHILADELPHIA is fined.
| imprisoned and DISTINGUISHED for four years
for betting on last falls election and then acting
| as Inspector on election day He was un wise
enough IN sue the stakeholder As the bet was lis
nuted and after the court said that under the
| law the money must g. n the poOr the commit
tee OF one hundred picked Michael up on the
criminal charge
| PoTTsvILLE Pennsylvania il excited over
the reve alton OF the fact that during 1882, S45-
| 600, or over half the revenue of the almshnuse
| was expended ostensibly for outdoor relief but
that many thousands were spent tn reward per-
sonal friends IN make political capital Whskey
| hnu cigars OF WHICH no record wa kept were dis
| tribued to the extent Of hundreds OF dollars a
| day Each director issued these orders at will
| THE government debt was reduced sl3,636 1884
| In January, making the decrease since June 30th
S95,O07 668 and the debt les 1918 1856 632 cash In
the treasury il now 81 593 906 1888 The interest
| bearing debt is Bonds AZ three and one-half per
cent, S87 ,3lS 100; bonds at four and one-haf per
cent. $50 900, OO0 bonds at four per cent, $685.
| Bl 300; bonds at three per cent S29l 44i $50;
refnnding certificates, s389,l50; navy pension
funds. Sl4,O0O,OOO
| WASHINGTON special alleges that the gold
| discoveries in Alaska are far more important than
generally thought; that one quartz vein two hum
dred feet wide yielding 50 10 IS net to the ton
has been struck in southern Alaska and that
many more equally rich reported. 1t says
that coal and timber are reported to be plentiful
near the diggng+ and that New York and San
Francisco capitalists will begin operations there
early in the spring
| A TREMENDOUS storm ragged though the states
| OF Indiana, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania
last week Friday and Saturday aud the damage was
| Immense. 1t was probably the most destructive
| storm ever known In those states. Only one
| telegraph wire was woik king ON Saturday between
Chicago and New York That failing. dispatches
were sent by way OF Burlington and Montreal
Buildings fouded vessels sunk, railway bridges
carried away, horses sheep and cattle drowned,
families driven from their homes, and even lives
lost,-such in brief IL the story