The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-11

awarded S12 900 damage Tor personal lnJu-
ries sustained by falling down the stairs OF
the defendants hotel
IT is stated by persons who are greatly
Interested in Pacific railroad matters that
the president Is now preparing a message
for transmission to congress in which he
will take strong grounds against the Pacific
railroads.
SHAREHOLDERS in Brazil are opposing the
final extinction of slavery on the ground
that 1t will be impossible to carry on coffee
planting on large scale If slavery is abol-
ished. The history of this country shows
the contrary.
THE officers of the Herkimer On. W bank
have discovered that the cashier, Marcus
W. Rasbach, is short in his accounts to the
amount of S34, 900. 1t is thought the cashier
is victim of stock speculation. The last
seen of Rasbach was December 10.
THE American ship Alfred d. Snow 4"
of Thomaston, Maine, Captain Wiley, bound
from San Francisco for Liverpool, was
wrecked Thursday at the entrance to Water
ford harbor during violent hurricane and
all on board, numbering twenty-five, were
lost.
Thu pope gives his jubilee gift money to
st. Peters treasury to be expended in
propagandism. The artistic articles will be
placed in the museum of the vatican and the
objects of worship in the vestry of st.
Peters. All the rest will be given to the
hospitals.
The Massachusetts legislature convened
the 4th and had the most quiet opening for
many years. The senate elected Ii. j.
Boardman of Boston president and Herbert
e. Clapp clerk The house elected Charles
j. Noyes of Boston speaker and Edward
Mclaughlin clerk.
REV. DIR. ISAAC p. LANGwoRTHY of
Chelsea, Mass, died Friday at the age of
eighty-two He had been for twenty-five
/ inv lta l,la tn Ora
gational denomination as the librarian and
corresponding secretary of the American
Congregational Association in Boston.
THE pope said mass at ST. Peters Thurs
day for the benefit of the pilgrims remain
ing in that city Thirty-four cardinals and
one hundred eighty-nine archbishops and
bishops were present, while the congrega-
ton numbered 10000 persons. After the
service the pope was carried around the
church amid cries of " Long live the pope
king"
AT Belgrade, Montana, on Saturday
spirit thermometers registered 52' below
zero. 1t seemed to be the coolest night
since 1865. Stock is suffering severely.
Should the present cold snap continue the
losses will be heavy, All freight trains
have been abandoned and passenger trains
going west were twenty-four to thirty-sx
hours late.
The pope addressed the pilgrims the Sd.
He expressed his JOY at the evidences of the
cohesiveness of the Catholic church and
said: D." You, like ourselves, are convinced
the church by her holy mission ought to be
| Independent whatsoever of terrestrial au-
thority. The church is divine institution,
and to try to reduce its interests to a queS-
| ton of the laws of Italy can only be the
result of the most deplorable blindness"
VARIOUS plans will be submitted relative
to the Indians aud Indian Territory The
| president and Secretary Lamar are pressing
| for the passage of the bill drawn up by Mr..
! Lamar to create a commission of three mill
tary men and two civilians to treat with
the Indians, with the object of getting them
massed closer together 1t is proposed in
connection with the general plan to treat
! with the Indians to move over to the east
ern part of Indian Territory, leaving about
81 100000 acres of the western part of the
| territory open for settlement. To this it is
! proposed to add " No Mans Land, " or Mr.
| Springer's Oklahoma, which comprises but
5000, 900 acres, thus making territory of
"a 900 acres-about as large as the state
of Ohio.
A CORRESPONDENT at Shanghai gives a
! graphic picture of the tremendous loss OF
life in China from the overflow of the
| Hoang-ho river and of the tremendous
| famine now threatened. He says; About
one-sixth of the entire area of the garden
of China, as Honan is styled, is now con-
verified into a vast lake. The people so ter
rbly visited cannot number far short of the
whole population of Ireland, as the prov
ince includes about 25,O00,000 inhabitants,
with an area of 5000 square miles, and the
| W tiers of the river now cover between 5000
and 10000 square miles. According to the
best and most trustworthy authorities which
l have been able to consult the loss of life
will not be numbered by thousands or tens
of thousands. but literally by hundreds of
thousands, while the starving people must
amount to many millions who are utterly
beggared and depending for subsistence
upon the charity of others"