The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-04

the plaintiff. The case was tried at the
June term, ending in a disagreement.
Another trial was begun by the jury, but
the case was settled before evidence was
given The case of lockwood Holden
against Joseph Chandler, an action of tres
pass, qudre clduSdm, for cutting down
bushes on the plaintiffs land, was tried by
the court, and the counsel agreeing on GER
tain facts, judgment was rendered for the
plaintiff, to which defendant excepted.
The criminal trials began Wednesday, the
28th, with the case of the state against Asa
and Silas Magoon for larceny of a swarm of
bees and forty pounds of honey from T. w.
Stratton, farmer in Washington. The
and fifteen in chancery. There are also
twelve petitions for divorce.
In General,
WRECKS are reported off Cape Elizabeth,
Maine.
AN autobiography left by Garibaldi is to
be published.
DIPHTHERIA is alarmingly prevalent at
Pittsfied, Mass.
THE Grand Theater at Islington, London
has been burned
fridays snow-storm nearly blockaded
traffic in Chicago.
MORE pacific advices come from st. Peters,
burg and Vienna.
THE Berlin National Zeitung says peace
will probably prevail.
THE Abyssinian army is advancing in hot
haste upon Massowah.
REDUCTION of judicial rents are proclaimed
throughout all Ireland.
AMONG the presidents Christmas presents
was large golden eagle.
FROM 20o to 400 below zero in Minnesota
and Dakota on the 2Sth ult
CHOLERA of the deadliest type prevails to
an alarming extent in Chill.
A LARGE portion of Hicksville Ohio, has
been burned. Loss 100000.
LORD STANLEY of Preston has accepted
the governorship of Canada.
THE Reading railroad men outside of
Philadelphia refuse to strike.
LATEST advises from Hawaii show very
bad condition of affairs there.
A GREAT snow-storm, blocking railroads
prevailed in the West Thursday.
EMANUEL (Presbyterian) church at Mil
waukee is burned, Loss 100000.
Portions of the Paris hippodrome have
been purchased for Barnum's show.
TWENTY-FIVE million francs have been
voted for fortifying Bulgarian ports
DEADLY threats are made against those
aiding boycotted persons in Ireland.
EARL DUNRAvEN has scheme for re-
organizing the British house of lords.
The value of the jubilee gifts to the pope
is estimated at twenty million dollars
BY sleet-storm in Pittsburg on Saturday
forty persons sustained slight injuries.
THE Alhambra Theater at Antwerp was
destroyed by fire at midnight Monday.
THE Warren Steamship Company pays
fine of $1,000 for importing a stowaway.
A BLIZZARD has prevailed all over Kansas
and portions of Nebraska and Arkansas.
Two children were fatally injured in a
panic at a Christmas festival in Chicago.
a MAMMOTH cave, with interesting relics
has been discovered near Bloomfield, Ky.
CASHIER RAsBACH of the Herkimer On. Y. }
National Bank has absconded with $50, 900
The republican representatives-elect of
Ohio have chosen a Blaine man for speaker
KING. the murderer of Van Norman at
Malone, y. Y, has been arrested in Kansas
JULES VAN PRAET, Belgian historian and
diplomat, is dead, in his eighty-second year
A MAN said to be worth S75O,OOO died in
an inebriate asylum in Brooklyn a few days
ago.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's jubilee gift to the
pope is copy of the United States Consti-
tuition.
sNow-BoUND train in Iowa was run into
by freight engine. Several persons were
injured.
Ex-Governor JOEL PARKER of New
Jersey died of paralysis Monday in Phila-
delphia.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's desire is that the
democratic national convention be held in
New York.
BY the will of the late William Hilton of
Boston $40, 900 are left as conditional pub
lie requests.
NEARLY all the business portion of Egg
Harbor City, n. j., has been burned. Loss
about 100000.
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE of Missouri, who
had been sick several days with pneumonia,
died last week.
A LITTLE boy skating at Adams, Mass.
ran into barbed-wire fence and is not ex-
pected to recover.
THE interstate commerce commission re-
fers to congress the question of liability of
express companies.
SIX persons were killed and many injured
by collision on the Cincinnati Southern
railway on Saturday.
THE Seminary chapel at Quebec was
burned Sunday, with paintings valued at
half million dollars.
A HURRICANE and snow-storm has pre-
vailed over Greece and TWENTY-FIVE vessels
are reported wrecked.
MIsER PAINE's will, giving 100000 to
D,
been declared invalid.
DRUNKEN men created a disturbance on a
Chesapeake Il Ohio railroad train and sew
eral persons We're shot.
SENATOR BLACKBURN of Kentucky is re-
ported from Washington to be suffering
from cancer of the stomach.
V. X. & A. II. JONES shoe-factory at
STAFFORD, n. H., has been burned. One
man was killed Loss $4,000.
The physicians of the crown prince of
Germany have issued a very favorable bull
letin about their patients health.
THE epidemic of typhoid fever in Pitts
burg is increasing and an analysis of the
city water shows it to be very foul.
THE snow-storm of Thursday and Friday
extended over all the Central States. In
Wisconsin it was the worst in two years.
DPHTHERIA has been doing deadly work
in Schoharie, n. Y, and vicinity recently,
and there have been twenty-eight fatal cases.
The British steamer " Newcastle City,
from Newcastle for New York. has been
wrecked on Nantucket Shoals. Crew saved
THE severe gale of last Wednesday even.
ing along the coast did great deal Of dam
age to shore property and anchored vessels
IN a collision of a passenger with freight
| train near Meadville, Penn, Saturday, five
! persons were killed and thirteen wounded