Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-18
Summary OF News.


ITALY has resumed specie payments.
THE Alabama claims court has $40 cases upon
Its docket.
MEssRs. MooDY and sankey will sail from Lv-
erpool for America on the 10Th inst.
DIR. HARRY BASSrsrER, a well.known theo-
Logan, died few days since at Evanston, Ill.
Four hundred spinners at wooden mill In
Dedham, Mass, have struck for an advance Of
wages.
The Connecticut house OF representatives has
rejected the prohibitory amendment to the con-
stituton.
THE Apache Indians are still troublesome In
Arizona and there are frequent fights between
them and the settlers.
NEARLY all the nihilist prisoners on trial in St.
Petersburg have confessed, and the trial will
soon be brought to a conclusion
Six Of those who attempted to blow up public
buildings In London with dynamite have been
rested and committed for trial.
JUDGE LILLEY, upon whom Dorsey OF star
route notoilety recently made an assault has
sued the latter for $4,000 damages
THE BROOKLYN Congregational Association has
asked Henry Ward Beecher, who last year with
drew from It's membership, TO return.
Four hundred hands are thrown out Of en-
ployment. at the Reading Pennsylvania iron
works on account OF the duness Of trade.
THE Canadian government promises to restrict
Chinese immigration TO British Columbia until
| the completion Of the Canadian Pacific railway.
THE accumulation OF silver dollars on the Pa
cifc coast Is taxing the storing capacity Of the
sub-treasuries. There are now SAL, 100000 stored
| there.
THE state capitol at Albany has cost New York
S14, 100000 100000 more are asked for and
| S25 000,0O will be expended before 1t Is COM
| pleted.
| SEVERE storm-electrical and meteorological
| prevailed throughout the northwest last Friday.
II was especially destructive to property, but no
| lives were lost
| BUFFALO talks about a school reform in the
| way OF reducing the number OF studies and ex-
nominations, and generally putting an end to
the " examining"
POSTMASTER HAcKMAN OF Piperve, Penn. has
been receiving postage on letters in cash, pocket
ing the money and king Cancelled stamps TO the
missives. BAIL 900.
INQUIRY is being conducted at Cork with great
secrecy in reference 70 the dynamite conspiracy.
| Many arrests will undoubtedly follow the conclu-
sion OF the investigation.
THERE were fifteen earth quakes on the isthmus
| OF Panama during the week ending the It'll inst =,
most Of them slight. At Turbo, March 9TH, a
shock destroyed seven houses.
ANOTHER cave In OF a coal mine occurred at
Cartwrights mines Plainsville, Penn, lately
The surface settled five feet, extending across the
main street and covering an area Of So feet.
THE post flee department received acquisitions
April 4, for 2S,0OO 600 stamps, OOO,OO envelopes
and 2, 100 900 postal cards with total value OF
HENRY D MCDANIEL has been nominated by
the democrats OF Georgia for governor in place OF
Alexander II Stephens, deceased. The republic
cans will make no nomination and he will have
q walk-over.
FRANCIS S STREET, one OF the proprietors Of
the New York Weekly, has just died leaving an
! estate OF 81, 800 O00-mostly accumulated in the
! publication Of a paper filled with blood and
thunder" stories.
, GENERAL PORE has filed claim for s36, 664,
tha off, hot hat NJ a hriu diar
general and that OF mai general while he was
on duty according to his brevet rank from April
e l, 1866, to October 2S, 1882.
5 Miss NELLIE HUBBARD, daughter Of ex-Gover-
nor Hubbard Of Hartford, Conn, who married
D her fathers coachman four years ago, has OBJ
tanned divorce. 1t is said she became weary OF
her husband on account Of bis iliteracy and dis
similarity OF tastes.
: OF its 251, 799 children, Texas sent 16s Ol9 to
school last year-against 1O7 1879 in lS8l-in-
creased its school-houses from 1893 to 5,ll3 OF
which 215 are for negroes, had schools open five
! months against four in 1881, and paid for them
81 100, 26O against S7S5, 700
NISKTY-THRRE persons are known to have
been killed in Sonora, Mexico, since the outbreak
| of the Apaches OF whom twenty-seven were
: Americans, and it is believed that many muir
ders have not yet been reported. Ten persons
/ | were killed at Palermo ranch.
! THE northwest is filing up with immigrants
: this spring faster than ever before. They are
g pa ssng through St Paul at the rate Of 10000 a
7 week, and railroads have hard work to supply
= the nj cessary rolling stock Minnesota, Dakota
t and Manitoba will receive The most OF them.
$ A GANG OF strikers at the rolling mill in Spring
. | field, Illinois, recently fired upon, killed and
wounded several non-nnion men who had taken
| their places The men are determined to remain
at their posts. The members Of the firing party
have not been identified and no arrests have been
made.
, DESPERATE Indian war seems probable. The
4 Mexican troops have driven the Apache marau-
' ders out of the mountains into Sonora. There Is
great danger of another eruption In Arizona and
4 New Mexico. General Crook and the Mexican
Il generals are now cot peratng together. They
. are now in council near Nogales, Arizona.
n ANOTHER of those periodical revolutions has
: occurred In Hayti The revolutionary commander
has compelled all the able bodied citizens there to
: join him. March 3lst two steamers arrived with
= government troops. battle followed and the
t government forces were scattered with loss Of
= | 85 killed and $50 wounded. The loss to the rev.
l. olutionists was slight.
8 INTELLIGENCE has been received from near
= Emporia, Kansas, OF the capture OF Andy Taylor
one Of the notorious Taylors who captured train
on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia rail.
Vt liberated their brother One OF the three broth
. ers was killed several months ago Hite, one Of
Q the James gang, was captured at Jonesboro
!, Tenn, by Chicago detective.
The green three-cent postage stamp which e Q,
!, out in October, will have had run OF thirtee q
. | years 1t succeeded the short lived blue design
:, which came after the reds Postage stamps be-
y gan in 1S4l with fve-cent issue bearing the por
- trait of Franklin, and ten-cent stamp with
. WashiDgton's picture, and a second series with
:, five observation-disclosures three, five, ten and
~ twelve cents-came not long afterward.
n THE government bonds and currency lost and
e destroyed in one way and another will in the end
% cut no inconsderable figure in reducing the ma
tional debt. OF the $40 600, 0N of fractional cur
rency issued, over $4,000 600 is still outstanding
ii redemptions have almost entirely ceased, and i
h Is certain that the most OF the amount Is de-
- stroyed The loss of greenbacks will Of course
N be smaller proportionately, but 1t must make
k very large amount, and there will be many mil
lions represented by bonds burned and lost In the
hands OF unlucky owners.
FREEMAN, who in a fit of religious frenzy muir
IS dered his child at Pocasset four years ago and
p was committed to an asylum at Danvers, Mass, il
Is now considered perfectly sane. For some time h,
10 has been under nominal restraint, being allowed
10 to travel about with single attendant, visit
IN friends, etc. There have been no symptoms OF I
ID return OF his malady. An indictment for murde
< is pending against him, which will soon come ul
in court. Freeman has no recollection OF com
d hitting the crime and says his inspiration
II must have come from the devil. There is much
y speculation to the final disposition Of the
e. but it Is believed he will be released.
rs THE colored people of the District OF Columbis
p were out in force Monday celebrating the twenty
"a first anniversary of their emancipation. Al
Is through the drizzly morning the streets wer,
n dusky with them as they hurried to the render
vous. Several colored companies arrived from
e Baltimore and shortly after noon the strange ar
L. ray, a mile and half in length podded away
from the capitol on its twelve miles walk through
the sloppy streets. dozen military companies
half that number of brass bands, FIVE sable god
desses OF liberty wonderfully constructed char
+ lots, a regiment OF mounted aids and wonderful
agglomeration OF secret societies in strange appare
10 made up a bewildering legion of psrti-coloret
s. uniforms, paper flowers and braying music, u,
y they struggled and jostled along. This year 4
E. feeling was apparent among some that the cele
s bration of Emancipation day ought not to be keep
'r up, and that all memories VI slavery should bs
n blotted out This is likely to be done, and the
IT one characteristic holiday OF Washington wi.
Is thus disappear.
:. THE PRESIDENT AT ST.. AUGusrISE-The pres
- inent reached the quaint old city OF st. Angus
IN tine on Saturday morning. The party was re
)" ceiyed by committee consisting OF General
L L Danf liantenant- Cnlnnal Pinar of the third "A