The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-20
A. N. FOSTER, Cabot, VT.
ment, and, while the money has not been
delivered, it is now in Havana.

menu, anu, W0ll6 Une money mas nOU Do6n
delivered, it is now in Havana.
MUCH alarm has been caused at St.
Petersburg to jewellers along the shores of
the Neva by that river OVERLOOKING its
banks. Last Saturday heavy gale drove
the water into the streets on the river side.
Thousands of houses were inundated to a
depth of four feet. At last accounts the
water was still rising and the people in the
threatened districts were moving their pos
sessions to higher ground.
AN order was received at Davenport,
Eng, last week, for detachment of troops
to prepare to embark from Liverpool for the
gold coast of Africa, where they will join
the expedition that will be sent against the
King of Ashantee. 1t is understood that a
similar order has been dispatched to other
garrisons. The London Globe publishes the
statement, upon the authority Of the Ex-
change Telegraph Company, that the lead
ing members OF the cabinet met privately
last Thursday and decided to Immediately
make war upon Ashantee.
THE entire body of foreign diplomats in
Constantinople regard the present condition
of things as unbearable. The sole policy Of
the sultan is that of playing off the powers
against one another, policy which he has
pursued in many previous emergencies with
success, but upon this occasion he is COM
pletely nonplussed by the unanimity of the
representatives OF the powers in pressing
their demands. The correspondent of the
London Times does not expect that there
will be fanatical outbreak against Chris
tians. The danger, he thinks, lies in quite
another direction.
LATER particulars regarding the loss of
the steamer "Kung Pal, ~ in Kinchow Bay,
China, show the disaster to have been more
terrible than at first reported. She blew mp
when on voyage from Tientsin to Kin
chow. She was carrying troops to the num-
Der OF about 1000, and had six foreign Off
GERS and one foreign passenger on board.
Out of this number, nine Chinese and two
foreigners are reported safe. All the rest
seem to have perished The "Kung Pal
was fifteen years old, having been built in
Leith, in 1880, and it has long been no.ori-
GUS that her boilers were in dangerous
condition.
THE newly-discovered coal deposits in
Newfoundland cover total area of six by
twelve miles and consist of three distinct
troughs one of which is ten miles long
and mile wide. The deposits are within
forty miles OF the water and are q ute ada
cent to shipping passing through the st.
Lawrence river. 1t is expected that the de
posits will greatly improve the colony's fu-
ture. 1t is estimated that the quantity of
coal in one trough is nearly 100000 tons,
and the others are supposed to be equally
rich. The find will do much to extricate
the colony from its present embarrassments
it can be worked advantageously.
REPORTS of dire restitution along a GER
tain section of the Newfoundland coast
are brought to st. Johns by mail steamers
This suffering is caused by the bad fishing
this season, poor prices for the catch and
the retrenchment policy of the government,
The usual grants in aid of the roads and
bridges and other public undertakings have
been suspended this year, owing to the
colony's financial difficulties, and conse-
quently the people are without the custom
AIRY assistance from these sources. The re-
ports represent these impoverished people
as in desperate circumstances, and it is
feared that numbers will starve during the
next six months