The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-16

relapse.
THE Brazilian chamber of deputies has
passed a bill for the immediate abolition OF
slavery.
A CYCLONE near Freeport, ILL.,, made
havoc with buildings and injured several
persons
DESTRUCTION of property and loss of life
were caused by a cloud-burst near Maze,
Kansas.
THE Delaware democratic convention in
dorsed Cleveland Bayard and the NILS
! tariff bill.
RuBINsTEIN is to visit America. He is to
have 100000 and all expenses for fifty per-
| formances.
THE levee of the Mississippi river at
Alexandra, Mo-, broke and the town was
| overfiowed.
THE local option bill was defeated in the
! New York assembly at Albany, fifty-three
to sixty-one.
PROFESSOR c. d. HARTRANFT has been
elected president of the Hartford Theologi-
cal Seminary.
WooDARD's casket works at Owosso,
Mich, were burned Friday. Loss 100000;
insurance $4,000.
THE Emperor Frederick continues to have
his good and bad days, but on the whole he
is probably failing
GENERAL JAMES W. EWING, disbursing
clerk at the department. of justice, is said to
! Oe snort Ill MS accounts
A FALL of rock in a mine near Stassfurt
Prussian Saxony, killed eighteen persons
| and injured many more.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, is to have an orphans
home with a S2,000,000 endowment and
nearly 81 100000 worth of land.
The steel works and rolling-mill of Diss-
| tons saw works at TaCony, Penn, were
recently burned. Loss 100000.
GENERAL BoULANGER condemns colonial
adventures by France while Alasce-Lor-
raine remains German territory.
ENGLAND is making war preparations on
a vast scale A third army corps and re-
serve field corps are to be formed.
JAMES BIRNEY, ex-minister to the Neither
lands under Presidents Grant and Hayes,
died at Bay City, Mich, last week.
GENERAL BoULANGER visited Lille and
Valenciennes Sunday and made bitter
attack on the chamber of deputies.
THE steamer Eureka" which was in
collision with the steamer Benson" sank
at sea, but the officers and crew all escaped
A PRoHIBITIoNIsTs store was blown up by
dynamite near Harrisburgh, Penn, it is sup
posed by the agents of the liquor interest
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT temporary pastor of
Plymouth church, has been formally called
to the permanent pastorate and will accept.
Mr.. GLADSTONE received an address in
favor of home rule for Ireland signed by
more than three thousand ministers in En-
gland.
THE Georgia democratic state convention
was enthusiastic for President Cleveland S
reelection and the adoption of his tariff
views.
THE Methodist general conference has
got down to business and will henceforth
discuss and act upon questions of church
,, policy.
A TRAIN on the Sonora road in Arizona
- .n11 bad Gr.
r man, express-messenge and conductor were
murdered.
THE archbishop of Montreal has publicly
t rebuked the True Witness and Post of that
city for attacking the papal rescript on the
Irish question.
In the municipal election in Lozero Gen
, eral Boulanger was chosen by "a spontane
= Gus vote He also received heavy votes il
several other communes.
THE president has nominated Robert B
t Roosevelt of New York to be minister t.
A the Netherlands and Lawson V. Moore o
7 Texas to be consul at Lyons.
New YoRKs egates-at-large to the re-
publican national convention will probabl!
y be c. M. Depew ex-senator Miller, Senate
j Hiscock and Thomas c. Platt.
f. A. p. BARNARD has resigned the presi
6 dency of Columbia College on account o
L age and unstable health. He has held the
position nearly twenty-five years
l. The house in which General Grant wa
II born has been leased and will be on eXhibi
, ton for one hundred days at the approach
: ing centennial exposition in Cincinnati.
JUDGE TULEY of Chicago has decide
that all children born in slavery are illegit
!, mate and can not inherit property from tn
y father 1t seems to be very strange de
:, cision.
e Mrs. MARY A. LIvERMoRE the lecturer
who was injured while travelling in Ne'
- Hampshire few days ago by falling from
u stage-coach to the sidewalk, is rapidly re
- covering.
N p. T. WILEY of New York, while eXhibi
n ing patent washer in one of the window
n on the fourth story of the Quincy House {
Boston, fell to the sidewalk and receive
!, fatal injuries.
FL NATHANIEL w. T. HATCH, a promneI
n, member of the New York Stock Exchange
la was killed by a fall from tree while ell
of deavoring to escape from house to avoi
as an angry husband.
H. FORTY freight-cars were blown from IL
I'd track of the Nickel Plate railroad in Ii
al diana many torn to splinters and seven'
s. telegraph poles laid low by cyclone. 1t
feared that several lives were lost.
THE miscellaneous bill authorizing IL
forest commissioners to lease five-acre plo
, in the Adirondacks for five years to app
IL cants for such leases has been defeated
Ii NEARLY two blocks of the business porto
of Hot Springs, Arkansas, were burned FL
100 day, including forty dwellings, the g
works, gymnasium and number of stor
IN houses, Loss 100000; about one-fourt
90 insured
.;s A CONSERVATIVE estimate makes the shol
!" age of the winter wheat crop at from 81
000, 600 to 70, 600 bushels. Cold wealth
nc and excessive rains have delayed spril
wheat seeding but no increase in acreage
by indicated.
BISHOP HOOP of the African Methods
Irt Episcopal Zion church has been reported
saying that southern planters should ha
ce been paid for their slaves, and the color
~ men demand to know what the bish
40 meant by it.
THE property of the Springfield MAS
~. Union Company and that of Emers
'n- Wright has been attached by the admin
traitors of five of the victims of the Wrig
as block fire. in actions to recover suits
$4,000 each.
nd ST, PAULs Episcopal cathedral at Buff
was almost entirely destroyed by fire
ties 10th, owing to an explosion of natural e.
The cathedral was one of the finest