Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-11-03
NOVEMBER 3, 1880.
Items OF Interest.

BIsnop DAGGErr of the Methodist Episcopal
Church is dead
A CHINESE physician has registered for practice
at Buffalo, New York.
THE steamship wieland from Europe has
brought 81, 346,O0O Of foreign gold coin.
THE second chamber Of states-general, by vote
OF Al to 20, has refused to reestabsh capital pun
ishment.
The King Of Greece has issued decree order
ing the formation Of fifty battalions of infantry Of
060 men each.
THE Catholic bishop Of Ottawa, Ontario, has
cut off from church sacraments all the faithful
who send their children to the public schools
THE car Of Russia is very sick and rumors are
rife that he has been poisoned by the nihilists.
Two of the imperial cooks have been arrested on
suspicion.
ABRAHAM LIsCoLN's widow, who has been in
Europe for health for some time, will sail for
home next month and probably live with her
son Robert hereafter
THE Ansona clock company's buildings in
Brooklyn have been burned Loss $3.50, 900; insur-
ance s25oOOo About nine hundred hands are
thrown out Of employment.
RABBITS are causing SERIOUS ueVasIatlon IN
Australia and it is said that one estate which
used to support 900 sheep has had to be aban-
doned on their account.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, a crippled old shoe-black
of vicksburg, Mississippi, has just been made
happy by S6543 his accumulated pension for ser
vice in the Union army
| IT will cost the cotton planters about $40 0O0,
600 to market their crop this year, OF which $685.
100000 will go into the pockets Of colored labor
ers, many Of whom are women and children.
PILLsnuRy, Pennsylvania, has school diff
Guilty. growing out of the determination of some
ward trustees to keep negro children out Of
ward school to which the teacher had admitted
them.
GARFIELD has sent his autograph and photo
graph to George Vanankin, the nine-years-old
Mishawana Indiana, boy, who ridded with
shot by older lads because he would not hurrah
for Hancock.
DAN RICE has fitted up floating opera-house,
which he intends taking about to the towns on
the Mississippi river and its tributaries. The boat
Is over $50 feet long and has an auditorium that
will seat 1000 persons.
RILEY declines to row Elliott on the Tyne i'm
prizes, but will row him on the Thames a week
previous to that match, for elO0 or goo Elliott
and Hawdon decline to row for the cups offered
by Newcastle firm.
The Pennsylvania road will spend Sc, 900, 900 on
construction and repairs this year, most of which
will go into the elevated road into Philadelphia.
The company is building 1900, 900 bushels ele-
vator at Jersey City, Strengthening the track to
New York and building new stations at Chicago,
Cincinnati and other western points The road
has already gained s2Sis,9 26 so far this year on
the earning OF its eastern lines.
AT the annual meeting of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers in Montreal the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand
chief p. NJ. Arthur; second grand engineer.
George Burdett; second grand assistant engineer,
n. vanpatten; third grand assistant engineer, f.
A. stephens; grand guide, W. II. Smallwoodi
grand chaplain, G. w Tyre Baltimore has been
chosen as the next place Of meeting
The flag which inspired Key to write The
Star Spangled Banner" was a conspicuous dec
Grafton during Baltimore's gala days last week.
1t foated over Fort MclIenry during the British
attack on Baltimore in the war Of 1872. 1t has
fifteen stripes instead OF the customary thirteen,
and fifteen stars. Mrs. Sanderson who helped
make the flag and placed the first star in position
was present at the celebration, though eighty
years old.
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