Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-25
Summary OF News.


ton under the local option law.
NINE Nv" nickels were sold In Clay county,
Kansas, the other day for 81 SO.
BARRED wire fence has only been In existence
few years, and 600, 900 miles have already been
built.
Ex-sKRoEAsr-Ar-ARMs THOMPSON Of Ohio says
Ex-Governor Hendricks Is slowly dying OF senile
gangrene.
A BASE ball nine Of one-armed men will play a
match In Philadelphia with one composed Of one
legged men.
THE Mexican government expects to establish
daily mail service between Mexico and the
United States.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER puts the cost
70 the government Of the star route trials thus
far at 100000
STEAMERS which sailed from Liverpool on
Thursday for the United States and Canada car
ried nearly $1,000 emgrants.
ONE hundred and sixty failures are reported
the past week, an increase OF seven over last week
New England had thirty.one.
NOTWITHSTANDING all reports to the contrary,
the winter wheat crop Of Wisconsin promises TO
be an exceptionally heavy one.
DEACON SOLOMON S. GRAY, the pioneer In the
paper collar business, died suddenly last week at
Natick, Mass, 10 his sirtieth year.
The pistol which Cincinnati woman said was
the one with which her husband threatened to
shoot her proved to be beer faucet
PORTABLE paper houses are coming into vogue
extend the accommodation OF seaside abodes.
WHAT Barnum don't know about advertising
may not be worth knowing. He pays $1,000 for
letting Jumbo" walk across Brooklyn bridge.
IT is understood that the Quebec Central rail-
way will lose $4,000 by the failure in London
OF Its English agents, Messrs. Cooper Hale Il Co.
THE stockholders OF the Mutual Union tele-
graph company have ratified lease Of the lines
OF the company to the Western Union company.
NEW YORK lumber merchant has purchased
forty square miles Of timber land in Michoacan,
Mexico, and intends to place powerful machinery
there.
MRS. J. ELLEN FOSTER OF Iowa. the temper
apce advocate. has recently been dangerously Ill,
but Is now rapidly regaining her normal health
| She IL In Philadelphia.
A BILL passed by the Ohio legislature imposes
| a tax OF $500 upon spiritualistc mediums. The
spritualists lay the responsibility upon the Meth
| odist church for the law.
| In New Orleans Edward Keen and Nelson Duv-
| ignar, spirit mediums, have been arrested on a
| charge OF swindling female spiritualists out OF
several hundred dollars
| ONE OF the seve.est snow storms OF the season
struck Wyoming and Nebraska Saturday, pros
tratng the telegraph and blockading the railways.
| The snow Is passing away rapidly.
| THE Yale faculty have refused TO let the stu
dents act In a comedy for the benefit Of the Grand
1 Army post there, and the Grand Army men
claim that they are Disseminated against.
THE police OF New York city Sunday vigorously
enforced the excise law; Side doors were closely
watched, and for the first time in years, check
was placed on "the pitcher trade" large
| number Of arrests were made.
DETROIT lawyer has framed BILL which IL
now before the Michigan legislature, providing
thst man may prove bis will during his life
time on giving notice to his heirs at law and az
terward 1t shall be unassalable.
THOMAS 7. CAsULLs, colored man, formerly
| OF Obern Ohio, has entered upon his duties as
collector OF the port OF Memphis. The new col
| lector gave bond for $50, 900, all the sureties
| with one exception, being coored men.
The largest daily newspaper in the world 10
published in Sidney Australia. In single week
the Herald issued 1888 columns, the paper con-
tanning twenty pages of Australian news on three
days In the week and sixteen on the others.
CHARLES r. Miller the new editor-in.chief OF
the New York Times, il probably the youngest
| man holding such POSITION In New York lie Is
Dartmouth graduate, very bright fellow, log
ical and brilliant writer, and horrible penman
THE projectors OF the new Congregational paper
in Boston have combined with the Christian Union
and will not establish paper There is u large
amount OF capital subscribed which will now be
put into the Christian Union which will be en-
| arged.
The constitutional amendment for prohibition
WAS rejece ed n the Connecticut house by nearly
q party vote. OF the republicans voting, ia
| voted for and five against it, and OF the demo-
Gratis fourteen voted for 1t and seventy.siI
against 1t.
have formally determined to oppose by legal
| methods the Scott law" which imposes a tax
| OF $500 per year on all saloons where spirtuous
liquors are sold and 500 where only beer and
| wine are sold.
KATE KANE, Milwaukee's only female LAWYER,
threw glass OF water into the face OF Judge NAL
| lory In the criminal court Friday. She fined
$50 She aims that the judge insu.ted her. She
refuses to pay her fine and will go to jail unless
her friends intercede.
Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsToRs diamonds are kept
| in a safe so big that to rob it part of the house
must be knocked down. and when she wears
them she is accompanied by detectives who are
said to be splendid fac-similes of the society
gentlemen OF the period"
In the Binghamton inebriate asylum there were
| at one time eighteen cases OF persons whose con-
dition was directly traceable to Black FIJI
day. Political failures are also accountable
| for manv cases. Political campaigns always
| send considerable contribution to the asylums.
The rivalry between Kansas and Nebraska this
| spring In regard to Arbor day has been COM
mendable one. The governors OF both states
| Issued prnclamations In favor Of tree planting,
and in the single town OF Ellsworth, Kansas, ar
| raDgements were at once made to set out 1900
shade trees. Other states would do well to i'm
| itate these.
THE Brooklyn bridge will be formally opened
| May 24,h. Hon. William NJ Evarts will be the
orator OF the occasion The total cost OF the struc
tnre will be about SO, 100000 The president
and ex-presidents of the United States, the gov
|
powers, and other distinguished persons, will be
| invited to attend
| ABOUT % 900, 900 shingles were sawed in Aroos-
took county, Maine, last winter. The cedar cut
will fall much short OF the estimate OF last fall.
Many OF the largest operators have not more than
onehalf or two-thirds supply for the years use.
The great depth Of snow was the cause Of the
shortage. The cut OF spruce will also largely
| fall short OF the usual supply.
In Southern Iowa winter wheat is In fair con-
n yai Ia m a
OF spring wheat Is larger than usual. Rye is in
good condition. large acreage Of oats is being
sown. The farmers are preparing to put in
greater area OF corn than last year. In Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska fifty per cent Of the old
crop OF corn is still 10 farmers hands.
SENATOR TABoR's first wife, writes one who
knew her In earlier days, was the banker for the
| miners who worked with her husband At times
she had thousands OF dollars OF gold dust in her
| bosom wrapped in little buckskin bags, each
| labeled with the name OF the owner. Tabor him
SELF was always believed to be as scrupulously
honest then as he Is known to be generous know.
DAKOTA is getting large share Of this springs
| emigration Two trains day now leave Chicago.
bound through to that territory, and It Is esti-
| mated that its southern half will contain before
| the end OF the year population OF over $50 600.
| popularity OF this occupation IL that the COM
ers are chiefly from other parts OF the United
| States, fully ninety per cent Of the present nhab-
| itants being native Americans.
| THE appropriation for the redemption OF worn
|
| year 1882 SO is nearly exhausted No appropria-
ton for this service for the next fiscal year was
made at the last session of congress; therefore,
after the present appropriation shall be exhausted
| no notes of this description can be redeemed at
| the treasury department until congress makes
another appropriation for that purpose.
TERRIFIC cyclone swept over portions OF
Mississippi on Sunday afternoon, the work OF de
| strucllOn being the most severe ut Wesson and
| Beauregard. At the latter place alone twenty
| four persons were killed and forty-fye wounded
| while the loss OF life at Wesson was nearly as
| great The cyclone also visited Georgia, Ala
| bama and Tennessee, and although the devasta-
| ton was less severe many lives were lost, and
J much property destroyed
| A wFLLKSows foreign correspondent, NJ. Ivan
| de Wostyne, who will represent several papers at
| the coronation, writes that the ceremonies will
| extend over nine days at St Petersburg and six
| holders are already asking :. 900 roubles (about
| 50 250l per fortnight for suite OF four five
| rooms. Houses round the Kremlin, hired for the
| court. are taken at $3.50 per day Cab fares dur
| ing the fetes are already up to ST. 30 per day.
| The subject of educston Is the prevailing
| mania In Texas, and ia considered without re-
| apart an additional million acres Of land towards
the endowment OF the universities for white and
| colored Texans and additional million acres
| for the free schools. II has also passed joint
| resolution submitting constitutional amend
| ment for an ad yslorem tax sufficient 10 run the
| free schools six months annually and a district
| tax as much longer as two-thirds OF the tax
| payers may desire.
| IoRnAs MAasH AZ ca tbA great Rostop Ann