The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-30

the inference is drawn that the voters were
misled by the similarity Of names, and that
the intent was TO vote for Roger Wolcott
instead Of Wolcott Hamlin. The votes
were entered as "blank " by the canvass
ing board. The Boston Herald of last
Wednesday created a mild sensation by
claiming plurality for Halle for governor,
presumably on the ground that the votes
marked Tor Halle and Hamlin would be
recorded for the former. IL is impossible
TO get the truth about the matter now.
When the recount was asked for the re-
quest was made to keep count of the votes
for Halle and Hamlin, but that request was
not observed. Returns were made, how
ever, of the blank votes for governor, and
that is all the basis for surprising that
Halle was the choice of a majority of the
voters. He has plausible case, perhaps
probable, but IL is not proved
Foreign.
THE entire Mexican cabinet has resigned.
CHARLES MARTIAL ALLEMAND LAvIGERIE,
Cardinal Archbishop of Carthage and AL
giers, died al Algiers Saturday morning
SIR JOHN ABBOTT has resigned as pre-
mier of the Dominion of Canada, on account
of i'll health. He is to spend the winter in
Egypt.
WILLIAM O'CoNNoR, champion sculler of
America, died on Wednesday last, at his
home in Ontario, of typhoid fever, aged
twenty-nine years.
AN official dispatch received at Paris from
General Dodds, commander of the French
forces i'll Dahomey, says that in consequence
of the flight of King Behanzin, the chiefs of
the country are in a disorganized condition.
Abomey, the capital which is now in the
possession of the French, is on top of a hill
$50 feet high.
THE Berlin correspondent of the London
Ne'oS says that the German government is
almost certain to accept the bill which the
centrists have decided to introduce, pro-
viding for the repeal of the law excluding
Jesuits from Germany. The government
will thus secure the vote of the centrists on
the army bill.
WILLIAM GEHL, a son of Conrad Gehl,
proprietor of Gehl's brewery at Port Arthur,
Ont, while walking through the buildings
where the watts are, tripped and fell into
one of those receptacles, which contained
beer in boiling state. He was dragged
out. blinded and badly burned. He died in
a couple of hours, after intense suffering.
THE long looked for army bill was intro
duced last week in the German Reichstag by
Chancellor Caprivi. He said that Germany
would neither provoke nor undertake to pre-
vent war any more than she did in 1870. The
chancellor referred to the alleged forgery
by Prince Bismarck of the famous Ems dis
patch, which precipitated the Franco.
German war, and declared emphaticaly
dispatch.
SPECIAL despatch from Calcutta to the
London Times says that Afzul vi Mulk, the
regning sovereign of Chitral, together with
his younger brother, has been murdered by
Sher Afzul Khan, a brother of the late ruler
OF Chitral. He had been exiled from Chitral,
but gathered a small following and returned
to the country, and, after numbering the
melitar, or ruler, and his brother, seized the
throne. IL is also reported that the ameer
OF Afghanistan is supporting the usurper
FROM st. Petersburg comes an account of
horrible crime committed by peasants at
Zastrzki in Lithuania. The peasants as
sembled in the night at the house of horse
thief whom they wished to punish. The
thief was asleep at the time with his wife
and children The peasants set fire to the
house and kept watch for the occupants.
W hen the shreking inmates tried to escape
they were met with yels by the heartless
wretches and driven back into the flames
with scythes, knives and other weapons.
LIVELY times are ahead in Paris when
the great trial growing out of the Panama
canal scheme comes on. The government
has been forced to take up the matter, and
makes some astounding charges The CEN
trail facts are that bonds to the amount of
S5OO,OOO,OUO were marketed, and S265, O0O,-
600 cash realized while the total expendi-
lures on the canal are fixed by experts at
from SS0,000000 to 800 000, 600 only. There
is shortage, after allowing for legitimate
OUTLAWS of all kinds, of from one hundred
fifty to one hundred seventy-fve millions to
be accounted for. The receiver has never
explained it since the company went into
bankruptcy. Summonses have been issued
for Count DeLesseps, his sou, lot of the
contractors and all the directors, including
M. Effel, of Eiffel tower fame. NJ. Della
haye, in the chamber of deputies last week,
charged that 3,000,000 francs were spent in
bribing the national legislature, being dis
tors, that 100000 went to one minister now
dead, and 100000 Tor four newspapers and
that the investigation of the scheme was it.
self controlled by bribery and stock jobbing.