The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-27
Summary OF News.

and is out Of debt.
In England over 5000 bicycles are used in
the mail service
New wheat has been shipped from Texas;
the earliest recorded
THIRTY murderers await trial at the next
term of court at Llano, Texas.
EX-SENATOR WINDOW sails for Europe to-day
and expects to be absent year.
THE reported murder OF two German mis-
sionaries in Zululand is confirmed
THE Mexican newspapers are agitating the
question OF annexation to the United States,
IT is reported that Rev. w. II. II. Murray
Will enter the lecture field again next season.
THERE are ffty-three cigarette factories in
Havana, which collectively produce $4,000, 900
cigarettes day.
DURING the first months of 1882 II 800 Chi
nese arrived at San Francisco and during the
same period this year 1850.
AN old lady in Georgia, having lost all pa
thence, has sued neighbor for IS for coffee
borrowed cupfull at time.
1T Is now proposed to change the name of
Washington Territory upon her admission into
the Union as state to Tahoma.
| The St Louis school board has ordered that
after september LIST next, corporal punishment
shall be abolished in the public schools Of the
city.
OVER thousand deaths have occurred at
] 'oih NIuLs mtAlCO, from C1Olera curing the
past month 1t is also very prevalent at Ha-
vana
IN the last hours of the democratic legisla-
tuIe OF Indiana resolutions were passed voting
extra pay to almost every employe In both
branches.
A PROMINENT Indiana greenbacker, Milton
jennings by name, is said to have been made
insane by over-anxiety in regard to the ma
tional finances
MRS MARY CLEA1MER and Mr.. Edward
Hudson, both we'll known as newspaper cor
respondents at Washington, were married on
Tuesday of last week.
A DECREE of court permits Mrs. Frances
MARIA Scoville. sister of Charles j. Guiteau and
divorced vile of George Scoville, to change her
name to Frances Maria Howe.
Two storehouses at Gibsonton, Penn, con-
tanning 10000 barrels of whiskey were de-
stroyed by lire last week. Several explosions
look place and many persons were injured
AT the boat race at New Haven last week
wednesday, Harvard won against Columbia
by twelve lengths, the winning time being
twenty-four minutes and forty-five seconds
FORTY thousand dollars, sent from the Ma
rine bank OF New York, to Susauehanna Valley
bank, over the New York, Lake Erie, and West
ern Railroad have mysteriously disappeared.
IHE fifty members of the Texas legislature
VINO were indicted some time ago for poker
paying, have about all settled their cases with
out trial by the payment of fines and costs
The London Truth says the queen for two
months mas been in a state of mild melan-
cholia which in course OF time II not relieved
would probably become very difficult to treat
NEW YORK exports thousands of baby car
risges to Europe and American manufacturers
make carriages for the future crowned heads
now peacefully trunded along like other babies
The fume at the White mountains was
washed out by the heavy rains of last week
and the high walls extended about five hum
bred feet. There was no damage to property
IHE government was not ready to proceed in
the Kellogg and Brady cases at Washington on
Saturday, 80 they went over until next Sat-
urday. Brady gave his recognizance in an old
case.
GENERAL BUTLER received formal invita-
tlon 10 De present at the Harvard commence
ment ana promptly accepted it, much to the
annoyance of the officers of the institution. II
Is probable that he will 60 simply as a private
citizen.
ALREADY about thirty suits for damages,
aggregating $3.50. 600, have been begun against
the board of bridge trustees and the corpora
lions OF New York and Brooklyn az co.defend-
ants, IN consequence Of the disaster on the
bridge.
AT Durham, N. H., Perry Long, aged seven
companion, James Gladden. aged nineteen. He
hau oeen asleep in the hav-loft GLADDEN. SAYS
ne found gun in the loft and it went off ac
cidentally, killing Long.
JOHN DONOVAN, aged twenty-four, unmar-
rieo, log driver Of Bangor. Me, engaged by
d dne Connecticut River Lumber Company, was
drowned at Hanover, N. H.. Saturday. He
WIN nve others was endeavoring to shoot the
rapids when the boat upset.
MILITIA companies OF the South have been
enjoying the conrtesies of northern military
organizations. The Continental Guards Of New
orleans nave been in Boston. and the Wash
ington Light Infantry of Charleston have been
IN New Haven and Hartford
The Mississippi river has been rising the last
week and much damage has been done, ten TO
fifteen millions of acres northeast of St. Louis
are Hooded, all communication north by rail
was cut off by the washing ont of the tracks
ana the damage to crops Is estimated at
THE following officers were elected In Joint
convention of the New Hampshire legislature;
Secretary OF state, A B. Thompson OF Con-
cord state treasurer, Scion A. Carter of Con-
cord; state printer, Parsons B. Cogswell Of
concord; commissary general, Gilman B.
johnson of Concord.
JUDGE HoADLEY. the democratic nomin ee
for governor of Ohio is described as a bright
little man with boyish face, and a complexion
which almost approaches the color of ripe
banana. Upon the stump he is not brilliant
but he speaks rapidly. and with nervous en-
phasis and self-reliance
POSTMASTER GENERAL. GRESHAM saws that
the most trying day he ever passed was last
Thursday. On account of lack of appropria-
tons, twenty clerks had to be dismissed Each
one had tears and friends. The postmaster
general had a sad time All the other cabinet
officers are having similar times.
The case of the foreman OF President
Richardson's horse railroad, for violation of the
BROOKLYN Sunday law in laying switch on
Seventh avenue on a Sunday morning, and
which was brought through the advice OF sew
eral brother Baptists, has been dismissed, the
Judge deeming It work Of necessity.
ON Wednesday the Philadelphia police found
In the cellar Of dwelling formerly occupied
by DR.. Isaac Hathaway an alleged abortionist
the bodies OF several children and large num-
Der OF human bones. Dr. Hathaway was ar
rested in March, 1881, for criminal malprac-
tice but was admitted to bail and fled.
YOUNG Nuts victim, N S. Dukes, was
buried at Uniontown, Pa. Sunday week. The
judge who tried Dukes. and the one who in
all probability will try Mutt IL Evans Wilson,
profound lawyer and an equitable Judge. In
the opinion OF an eminent lawyer Mutt will be
convicted of murder in the second degree, and
then immediately pardoned by the governor.
THE receipts from the Brooklyn bridge traffic
since May "a show steady decline from the
beginning. The average for twenty seven days
was SSi9 o. The expense of running the bridge
and the interest on the bonds amount to over
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