The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01

of the fisheries of Canada, Prince Edward
Island and Newfoundland, which may be
imported into the United States after July
LIST, will be liable to duty under existing
tariff laws, without regard to their origin.
Other Localities.
THERE were 1862 new cases of cholera in
Spain on Saturday, and six hundred eight
deaths.
THE university race between Harvard and
Yale, Friday, resulted in an easy victory for
the former
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the tragedian, was
placed in the Bloomingdale insane asylum
on Saturday.
THREE men were killed by the exploding
of a boiler in distillery in Kentucky last
week Friday.
THE Pacific mail steamer City of Toxic
has gone to pieces on rocks outside the har-
Dor of Yokohama.
FIVE hangings occurred last week Friday
in Kentucky Arkansas, Tennessee and Geor-
gia, four of the victims being colored and
one Cherokee Indian.
GENERAL HAzEN, chief signal officer, has
| issued an order extending to day and
half in advance the weather predictions,
which now cover only day.
WHILE digging holes for telegraph poles
| on the plains seven miles from MERGED,
Cal, the workmen struck a stream of water
within three feet of the surface.
THE work of placing lightnng-rods on the
roof of the Washington monument has been
completed. 1t is thought all danger to the
monument from lightning is now averted.
STRAWBERRIES on which Paris green had
been blown from a neighboring potato field
| have occasioned several cases of serious
| illness in and near Easton, Penn, within a
week past.
A STARTLING expose is made of the oper-
ations of gang of professional swindlers
rI,,1 4, ;aI thnir orb
extensively and Systematically in this coun-
try and Europe.
A DISEASE, alleged to be identical with
that raging at Plymouth, Penn, has broken
out at Bealsville, Ohio, a little town on the
Bellaire, GAINESVILLE & Cincinnati railroad,
and the greatest excitement exists.
MOST extraordinary case is that of the
| Partisan matchmaker who has been indicted
for poisoning his mother, two wives and vari-
GUS other women. The record of his crimes
makes him veritable Mephistopheles.
BUDDENsIcK, the builder of cheap houses
in New York, one of which, by its fall be-
fore its completion, caused the death of sew
eral workmen, has been tried and found
guilty. He has been sentenced to ten
years imprisonment in the state prison.
The war on Mother Hubbards, which was
so vigorously waged last summer in various
parts of the country, is being renewed in
Dawson, Georgia, where an ordinance has
just been passed imposing fine of five dol
| lars on persons wearing the Objectionable
garment on the street.
THE prohibition state convention at
Grafton, West Virginia, split on the third
party question, and about a third of the del
egates favoring non-partisan action with
drew. The remainder resolved that third
party is expedient in West Virginia With
a few exceptions, they were all republicans
who left the convention.
NV 1o,r ~ lou+ lar anly
ages of counterfeit dominion bank bills were
found in a lane at Toronto, Canada. The
ink on the notes was not yet dry. Hun
dreds of dollars of counterfeit money have
been put in circulation in the city in the
past few weeks, and the imitation was so
of the notes as genuine.
THE president has issued an executive no.
tice stating that a temporary agreement has
been reached between the United States
and Great Britain by which the provisions
of the existing fishery treaty will be con-
tinued during the season of 1885, On its re-
assembling congress will be asked to assent
to the appointment of joint commission for
the negotiation of a new treaty.
ACCORDING to the receipts from internal
revenue customs and miscellaneous sources,
the falling off in the estimates for the cur
rent fiscal year will be about S10,000,0 900.
The expenditures have been greater for
pensions and deficiencies than was antici-
pated so that the surplus will probably be
between S15, 100000 and $40 200, 900 less than
was calculated by Secretary McCulloch
THE war department has received reports
from Fort Reno, Indian Territory, dated the
10Th instant to the effect that great excite
ment prevails at that place over a threatened
Indian outbreak by the Cheyennes. The
Indians known as the Southern Cheyennes
are making preparations to go on the war
path. Troops have been dispatched to
quell the disturbances If these Indians go
on the war-path there will be great diff
ficulty in quieting them. The Cheyennes
are reported to be as troublesome to deal
with as are the Apaches.
A DISPATCH from the City of Mexico, via
Galveston, says: "The recent and unex.
pected decree funding the outstanding
obligations against the government in a
25,000,0O0 issue of bonds has had the
effect of making the money market
tighter than ever. The National Bank
has stopped all discount business, steI
that has been generally followed by brokers
Exchange, both foreign and domestic, has
stiffened in price The commercial outlook
is yet more ominous, and it is reported thai
a number of houses reputed to be of good
standing are on the verge of bankruptcy
Mexico is in the lowest depths of poverty
The official estimates for the fiscal veal
1886 reach S3S 903,363. The receipts o.
, the government are not sufficient to NEE
these estimates of expenditures. The exec
utive has the authority to give preference Il
the expenses of actual administration, leav
ing other less pressing claims in abeyanc,
until such time as they can be liquidated
Representatives of the National Bank OF
Mexico and Central and National railways
have had an interview with the secretary o
the treasury regarding the new $50, ,0O
, funding law. Strong arguments were pu
forth for a repeal or modification of the law
The government however, assumes a stronI
attitude, and has refused to reconsider il
( step.
3 Tunbridge.-The band of hope meets a
4 Mrs. IL. r. Hayward's Sunday evening
: - Lyman Stillson of Michigan, with hi
I wife formerly Miss Ladella Cushman) ar,