The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

Conventions will be held at several mining
towns.
THE house committee on elections at
Washington has agreed to declare Speaker
Carlisle entitled to his seat.
STEPHEN HELLER, one of the most de-
lightful of composers for the piano-forte, is
dead, in his seventy-tifth year.
DR. PETER PARKER died in Washington
last week, aged eighty-three He was min
lister to China thirty years ago
THE steamer "Venice from Gibraltar
passed through thirty miles of logs from the
broken Nova Scotia timber raft.
A COLLISION on the Union Pacific railway
in Wyoming resulted in the killing of two
passengers and the serious injury of a dozen
others.
LORD SALISBURY made a speech in Liver
pool urging the union plan for Ireland and
stating that free-trade caused him some
anxiety.
BISHOP WILLIAM II. HICKELooPER died
at Salt Lake City Saturday, aged eighty
three. He was the oldest bishop in the
Mormon church.
BLAINE and Cleveland are the favorite
presidential candidates among the Kansas
farmers who attended a meeting of the state
board of agriculture.
AMONG the men lost by the wreck of the
ship Alfred ID. Snow of Maine in the
English channel is reported one John Nc
Dougall of Vermont.
THIRTY THOUSAND persons in Montenegro
have been deprived of food by floods. The
car has sent shipload of corn from Odessa
to relieve the distress
IT is now stated that Austria will at once
forward large bodies of troops to the Rus
sian frontier to meet the latest military
movements of the Muscovites.
WILLIAM II. JEWELL, a republican politi-
clan and extensive farmer, was found in the
courthouse yard at Hastings, Mich, with
his arms and legs frozen solid.
Mrs. NJ. S. CRANDELL, the only surviving
actor in the terrible Ballston tragedy of
few weeks ago, is rapidly improving and
her recovery is now considered certain.
The Utah wool-growers, representing
over 100000 sheep, met in convention and
a strong resolution was passed protesting
against reduction of the tariff on wool
The wool conference adjourned on Sat-
urday after adopting the tariff schedule
of 1867, with certain amendments. The
schedule is an advance on the present rates.
AT the centennial celebration of the
Presbyterian Church in America the pro-
posal to raise 81 10000 for the aid of super
animated clergymen was warmly eulogized.
GOVERNOR WEST, in his message to the
Utah Legislature, takes strong ground against
polygamy and recommends the repeal of the
local laws conflicting with federal statutes.
The car works at Dauphin, Penn, en-
ploying about one hundred fifty persons,
were burned last week. Loss $4,000. The
Methodist church, in close proximity, was
also burned.
JANUARY II was the coolest of the season
throughout Minnesota, at st. Paul it being
1872 below; Minneapolis, 30'; Red Wing 3Jo;
Crookston, Mimi 1So; Pembina, Dakota,
52o; Winnipeg, 5O'.
LEMUEL J. CURTIS, Meriden, Conn,
millionaire, died last week. aged seventy
| five. He gave nearly quarter of mill
ion of dollars to found Curtis Home for
Widows and Orphans.
JOHN BRIGHT, in a long letter pcturing
some of the results of the granting of home
rule to Ireland warns the country that if
| it returns Gladstone to power he may APP
point Parnellites to the highest offices in
the state.
THE Minneapolis Journals revised list of
the blizzard fatalities shows ninety-seven
dead in Dakota, twelve in Minnesota, six
in Iowa, seventeen in Nebraska, two in
Montana-total, 1875. Fifty-ive are re-
ported missing
THE Florida sub-tropical exposition
opened at Jacksonville last week with the
most impressive ceremonies and demonstra-
tons ever witnessed in the state. The pro-
cession was mile long and was witnessed
by 10000 people.
p. 7. BARNUM cabled an offer for the
steamship Great Eastern" last week, and
he says he believes that it will be accepted.
He says that he will make a floating mu-
scum of the ship, with a spectacular show,
something like the fall of Babylon.
THE residence of Senator ingalls, at Atchi-
son, Kansas, was totally destroyed by fire
last week. He had recently made improve
ments costing $4,000. Everything was de-
stroyed, including valuable library which
he had been twenty years collecting.
EVIDENCE is accommodating that the band
| who lynched three men in Roane county,
West Virginia, last October for the murder of
Rev. Thomas =. Ryan, We're themselves the
murderers and that they lynched innocent
men in order to divert suspicion from them
selves.
PROFESSOR FELIX ADLER surprised the
Society for Ethical Culture in New York
Sunday by declaring that religion was de-
graded by being made common property
and that it should not be taught except to
the few capable of rising to conception of
the universe.
SIXTY thousand pilgrims have come to
Rome. Thirty-tive thousand Italians, 5000
French, 1000 Germans, 1000 Spaniards,
| tifty-two cardinals and $50 bishops are now
there. In the vatican exposition are / 800
opened cases, 800 not yet opened, 800 still at
the railroad station and 800 en- route. A
new room is being built for the 80, 900 bottles
of wine presented. The value of presents
received amounts to S12,O0O,OOO and the
money gifts to 81, 100000.
A LONDON dispatch, January 13, says;
" London entered this afternoon on its
fourth day of continuous fog. The veil
has not been lifted since Monday, and no
man has beheld the sun, moon, stars or a
square inch of blue or even gray sky.
Luckily the density of the fog is not equal
to its duration. Traffic on the streets has
been maintained, though often with diff
Guilty and danger, throughout the day. Cabs
crawled about at noon with lamps lighted,
omnibuses which have no lamps trust to
luck, the river is totally deserted, trains ar
rive and depart irregulary, accidents are
frequent, theaters are half empty, law courts
in many cases have had to adjourn, shops
and streets are lighted, and it is impossible
to read or write anywhere all day long
without lamps. The fog extends all over
the western and southern coasts"