The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-01

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Mr.. John Hay, once an editorial writer on
the paper and its manager during MIR. Reds
absence in Europe in 1881.
THE Vanderblts are curtaling the Sun
day freight traffic on the railway lines under
their control. The movement is generally
credited to Colonel Elliott f. Shepard,
through whose efforts the Sunday stages on
Fifth avenue were suppressed.
IT has been discovered that Thomas Con-
nor, United States sailor, who died in the
naval hospital at Philadelphia, last Decem-
Der, left $4,000 deposited in New York,
Boston and Philadelphia. There is no clue
to any relative of the deceased.
A FARMER at Ellsville, N. Y, searched
high and low for his fathers will after the
old gentleman died, ten years ago Last
week he took up the fami y Bible and the
missing paper was found between the
leaves. 1t had been there all the time.
A SUIT is about to he begun in the name
of the state of Illinois against Frances e.
Willard, Mrs Caroline Buell. and Miss
Esther Pugh, in which the legality of their
seizure of the national temperance hos
pital last January will be inquired into.
THE Nicaragua Canal Company is steadily
pushing the project forward and making
its plans for an early start on the work of
construction. On May 10 an expedition is
to sail from New York to Greytown, and on
its arrival active operations will immedi-
ately be begun
On the person of William Atkinson, a
sai-mal1er, who died suddenly at the Mare
| Island navy-yard, a short time ago, was
| found $3.50 sewed up in his clothes, over
! $4,000 being in greenbacks and the rest in
| gold coin. He is said to have lost some
money in bank failure in 1855, and has
since trusted no one but himself.
THE Washington centennial celebration
is now in full blast in New York city. The
military parade occurred yesterday and the
grand civic parade will take place to-day.
| 1t is estimated that eighty thousand men
will be in line, the committee having cut the
number down from 100000, as such a long
| procession could not be handled. Full ac-
counts will be given next week.
The Michigan house of representatives
has passed a novel capital punishment bill.
| 1t requires in case of conviction for murder,
that every juryman must sign written
verdict recommending the death penalty
before it can be imposed, and even then the
| trial Judge may exercise his discretion and
make the sentence life imprisonment. The
execution may be by hanging or by cleo
tricity.
THE Minneapolis street-car strike has
ended in failure for the employees and
may result in the disbandment of the Street
Car Employees Assembly of the Knights of
Labor. President Lowrey insists that every
man who works for him shall sign an IRON
clad contract to form no connection with
of the new men who are competent will be
discharged.
ARTHUR SUMNER, ex-editor of The War
Cry, the Salvation Army organ, has left
! Toronto. He was about to publish book
entitled " The New Papacy, or Behind the
Scenes in the Salvation Army" and the
commissioner of the army gave him the OPP
portunity of suppressing the book or being
sent TO the penitentiary for an offence which
he had confessed The book was a criti-
cism upon money-getting and other schemes
of the army.
THE Minnesota legislature has passed
capital punishment law, similar in some
respects to the New York law. Under its
provisions the prisoner is to be kept in soil
tary confinement and see no one but his
| family, his lawyers and spiritual advisers.
He is to be executed before sunrise, and
may invite three persons to be present.
| The sheriff invites six persons, besides the
surgeon. 1t is made misdemeanor for any
newspaper to publish anything more about
| the execution than the mere fact.
A MAN named Mccarthy entered a bank
last week Tuesday at Ventura, Cal, and told
the clerk in charge to give him $50, 600, back
ing his demand with six-shooter and pack
| age which he said contained dynamite. The
clerk lodged behind the counter and ran
out OF the bank. The robber seized a tray
containing $4,000 and walked into the
street. The clerk gave the alarm and the
sheriff stepped into hardware store, seized
shotgun and persuaded the robber to sur
| render. The money was all recovered ex-
cept twenty dollars, which was probably
lost on the street.
| THE vital statistics of New Hampshire for
the year 1887, issued recently, show that
during that period there were 6910 births,
3,49O marriages and 6,479 deaths There is no
| record of divorces in the state prior to 1870,
but there has been yearly increase since.
| The record of 1887 is better than that for the
| preceding year. 81 less divorces having been
granted. From 1882 to 1887, inclusive, 800
divorces were decreed. In 1883 there was
one divorce to every 1913 marriages. in 1884
to 10.4, in 1885 to 1919, in 1886 to S3, and
In 1887 to lO.7 This is larger divorce
rate than that of any other state in the
country.
Foreign.
GENERAL BoULANGER and party arrived
in London last week Wednesday morning.
LORD SALISBURY, in a speech at Bristol a
week ago Tuesday, ridiculed the home rule
agitation.
A LARGE railroad bridge in Peru, which
cost 100000, was swept away by land
slide last week.
FIVE persons were killed by an explosion
in colliery in Durham, England, last
week Wednesday.
THE car is suffering from extreme ner-
vous excitement, being in constant dread of
attempts upon his life.
ADvIcEs from Berlin say that it is in
tended to fortify the coast towns and vii
lagos in German East Africa.
AN exposition of agriculture and forestry
is to be held in Vienna from the middle of
May to the middle of October 1890.
In the municipal election in Charenton,
France, M. Eberlin, republican, received
$500 votes and General Boulanger 1898.
lie PARIS says that the lquidator of the
Panama Canal Company has sent an agent
to London to contract a loan for the benefit
of the company.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN and Lord Randolph
Churchill are engaged in an interesting cor
respondence as result of a recent polital
misunderstanding.
PROFESSOR WELDoN's bill to amend the
Canadian extradition act was passed by
the commons of Ottawa, but so amended as
not to be retroactive.
DISPATCHES from West Africa state that
British expedition has destroyed the chief
town of the Wendell tribe, on the Sulymah
river, and released 5000 slaves.
IT is reported that the French govern
ment will arrest any one found leaving the