The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

next Tuesday
In General.
LANsDowNE will leave Canada in June.
RUSSIA finds great difficulty in marketing
loans.
RUSSIA continues to expel Austrians from
Poland.
CONGRESS will not act upon the silver
question
A FIRE at Providence, II. l., caused a loss
Of S150,000
A PACK of wolves recently escaped from
London circus.
The pope hopes for concessions on the
Irish question.
SEVEN persons were killed by the st.
Gothard avalanche.
ATTEMPTS are making to settle the freight
war in the Northwest.
Nova SCoTIA's fsh-catch this year
amounted to SS,5O0,000.
CHAIRMAN Mills threatens to force tariff
discussion in the house.
SOME jubilee gifts to the pope have been
stolen from the Vatican.
ALBERT S. BARNES, the well-known New
York publisher, is dead.
The Ritornld of Rome says that Italy will
fight only when attacked.
ARMENIAN bishops have been directed to
preach loyalty to the pope.
COMPARATIVELY few valentines were sent
through the mails this year.
Hon. G. S. CAREY of Olean, n. Y. is the
new solicitor of the treasury.
THE venerable w. w. Corcoran of Wash
ington is reported to be dying.
EX-CoNGREssMAN ID. f. SoMEs of Maine
died in Washington last week.
THE Autobiography League of New York
opposes a government telegraph.
TERRIBLE restitution is reported among
the families of Shenandoah miners.
FIVE persons were poisoned by the mis-
take of a cook in Grand Parish, La.
THE autograph collection of the late Ben:
Perley Poore brought about $1,000.
BELGIUM and Holland have entered into
defensive alliance with Germany.
THE prohibitionists of Portland nom
mated General Neal Dow for mayor.
BALL-DREsSEs, round dances and wine
were denounced by an Ottawa priest.
A TERRIBLE earthquakes causing the loss
OF 1000 lives, is reported from China.
ANOTHER great fire occurred in Providence
Sunday night. The loss was S250,O0O
IT is reported that an alliance between
France and Russia is nearly completed.
JOHN NJ. UNDERWOOD of Danvers, Mass.
was frozen to death walking in his sleep
NJ. DE BRAzzA, who has arrived at Paris
from Africa, says he has heard nothing of
Stanley.
THE Mardi Gras festival at New Orleans
was thoroughly enjoyed by larger throng
than usual.
THE bonds stolen from Saco by Frank
McNeally have been recovered by his
brother Harry
A SERIOUS fire at Elmira, n. Y, resulted
in a loss of 100000. The advertiser build
ing was burned.
A COLLISION on the Grand Trunk railway,
near Hamilton, Ont, killed two employees
and wounded two.
THE proposed issue of coin certificates and
retirement of small notes is disapproved by
Secretary Fairchild.
A MILL, together with valuable machinery,
was burned in Pawtucket Sunday night
The loss was S15O,OOO.
SEVERE snow-storms in the West of En-
gland, Wales, Scotland and Austria have
blockaded the railways
FORTY prominent Chicago democrats are
going to Washington to secure the national
convention for that city
By the fall of an elevated railroad derrick
in Brooklyn hOrse-car was crushed and
three persons were killed.
THE estimated expense of maintaining
the public schools of Boston during the next
financial year is 81 ,6l5,SjS
HERMAN HARMS of Utica, Mimi, who has
slept since 1879, with an interval of a few
months has finally awakened
REPORTS from San Reno concerning the
condition of the crown prince of Germany
continue moderately favorable.
SIR G. o. TREvELYAN declared in the
British parliament that the coercion act had
not diminished crime in Ireland.
REV. S. NJ. WILLIAMS of North Adams in
/ hnri 70 oil
he gave home in her latter days.
THE most heavily.insured man in the
United States is DR.. David Hostetter,
whose policies aggregate $4,000.
AN eastern syndicate is negotiating for
the entire output of paper by the North
western mills, numbering seventy-two.
Mrs ELIZABETH WEAVER HENDRIcKsoN
of Du Quoin, ILL.,, who is 102 years old, says
she is the Oldest Methodist in America.
THE London Standdrd says England will
support the triple alliance until there is a
rupture, and will then oppose the aggressor.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is going to Florida
this week for a few days to get out of the
way of the democratic national committee
Il. ID. SULLIVAN, NJ. p, recently released
| from prison, was given great ovation in
Hyde Park by 10000 people. He spoke on
| home rule.
SEYMOUR, republican, has been elected
congressman in the eleventh Michigan dis
trict to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Mr. Moffatt
The interstate commission decides that il
a colored man pays first-class fare he must
have tirst-class accommodations or as good
as his white brethren
THE jury in the John Tyler insurance
case at New York brought in a verdict that
Tyler committed suicide so that his friends
might benefit by his $500, 900 insurance.
SAN Francisco makes a strong bid for the
democratic national convention, offering tC
pay the expenses of the delegates to and
from San Francisco aud their bills while in
the city.
FEARFUL snOw-storms prevail on tn,
Continent. In some parts of Switzerland
the snow is seven metres deep, and numer
Gus avalanches have occurred, attended by
loss of life.
In the house of commons Friday night
Mr.. Balfour made speech in reply to Mr.
O'Brien's, and Mr.. Gladstone made a re-
joinder. Mr., Parnell's amendment was re
iected by a vote of 81 to 300.
A DISPATCH from New York says that the
heirs of the late Miser Paine have settlet
their long-standing litigation. Mr.. CHECKER
ing, who has held the 100000 left by the