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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

DEBT STATEMENT.-The public debt
statement for May shows decrease in the
national debt exceeding eleven million dol
lars. For the eleven months ended May 81
the total decrease in the public debt was
about four and one quarter millions greater
than for the complete fiscal year ended June
3Oth, 1880. The successful funding opera
lions of the treasury department and the
application OF surplus revenue to the pay
ment of maturing bonds and other obliga
tions is expected to accomplish still greater
reduction for the ensuing year. While poll
ticians are playing their pestiferous part on
the national stage, it is refreshing and reas
surfing to turn to the various departments
where business and not personal politics and
intrigue rule the day.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

In is said that the Irish are not doing their
planting this spring because of the great
uncertainty as TO what will be done in re-
gard to the tenures by which they hold their
farms. The means to buy seeds are not
plenty with them, and they feel no courage
or ambition TO do work which may amount
to nothing. If this is really so the result
must be terrible famine, worse than ever
before known even in that country OF fam
ines. The arrest Of Mr.. Dillon will not
tend TO encourage confidence in the ulti-
mate success of the land league.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

FORTUNE BAY AwARD.-The little dis.
turbance few years ago at Fortune Bay,
between some British and American fisher.
men, in which the former destroyed the
boats and fishing tackle of the latter and
maltreated them personally, has been harmo
niously settled. The British government
paid over to the state department on the %
instant $4,000, the amount of compensa
ton agreed upon. If this money share,
the fate of the old French spoliation ant
he late Geneva awards, the sufferers a
Fortune Bay or their descendants viii
not be demoralized by the hasty posses
sion of the "root of all evil +" which Eng
land has paid into the national treasury Oh
their account.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

CALIFORNIA has been in American pos,
session but thirty-four years, and its exports
and imports are this year more than twice
as great as those Of the twenty-seven states
and two territories which compose the
Mexican republic, though California's popu
lation is less than one-twelfth, aud its area
not more than one-fifth of hers.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
Russia, who Is accused both Of nihilism and semi
lunacy and who Is to be confined In the fortress
Of Dunaburg for the rest Of his life, is described
as brave, clever, exceedingly handsome and fas
cnating man His wife has been permitted by
the car to follow him to Dunaburg CONSTANT
noyitch's name was once stricken from the list oil
the imperial family because he dared to marry q
pretty girl against the late czars ORDERS but 1t was
replaced shortly before the car was assassinated
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

AT Salem, Massachusetts,, Friday morning,
during the parade of the Barnum and London
shows, the six-horse team drawing the glass en-
closed cage containing forty big serpents became
unmanageable and ran away, smashing the case
into fragments, and literally strewing the streets
with anacondas boa constructors and other rep
tiles. There was general stampede among the
immense crowd Of people witnessing the process
sion but the GOODNESS the keeper Of the serpents
aided by the courage Of the employees Of the show,
succeeded in gathering up the Shiny monsters.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

AT Leadville, Colorado, Thursday afternoon,
Walter and Lottie Smith, aged four and six years,
respectively, while playing In vacant lot, found
giant cartridge and attempted to break 1t open
to see what was inside. when the cartridge ex-
ploded, throwing them a distance OF several
yards and badly mutilating them. Both children
had their hands torn of and their eyes blown out
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

THE sdmirer Of two girls at waupaca, oregon,
could not choose between them, and neither was
willing to relinquish her claims in favor OF the
other They therefore agreed to decide the ques-
ton by the toss OF a coin, and the tossing was
done carefully in the presence OF an invited COM
pany, The loser accepted her luck uncomplain-
ingly and Is to be first bridesmaid at the wedding.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

The STAR ROUTE INVESTIGATIONS
During the apparent lull in the Star Route
Investigations the postmaster and attorney
generals have been diligently pressing their
examinations. A large number of persons,
It is believed, will be reported for indict-
ment, and Brady and Dorsey will be among
those presented. The work of removing
clerks and officials implicated in the frauds
continues. The sixth auditor is among the
liter removals. 1t is expected that the
postmaster-general will be able to save o
million dollars before July | in the matter
OF these Star Route contracts.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

DECORATION DAY.-The apprehension Of
waning interest in the observance of
Decoration day, generally expressed previ-
GUS to the 30th instant, is not sustained by
the reports which come of its observance in
city and country in all the old free states
The day has been made legal holiday in
Massachusetts, and as such received its first
observance this year. Her example will
doubtless be contagious As nursery of
patriotism, day devoted to the thoughtful
contemplation of the priceless value of in
situations which could inspire voluntary
sacrifices of the supreme possessions of the
citizens of the great republic, and as day
for preaching the gospel of political grace
aud salvation, its solemn ceremonies must
largely supplant the boisterous, senseless
demonstrations of old " Independence day."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

MONSTER mill Is to be built in Minneapolis,
which will turn out Ave and one-half barrels OF
flour per minute, 1888 barrels per hour, 5000 bar
rels per day. 100000 barrels per year 400 days.,
1t will require 100000 bushels Of wheat per
year TO supply it, and the value Of the annual pro-
duct will be at least Sl4, 10000.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08
Vermont State News.

Tur arn,r ,,,ox.., l. .-..-,. A., --.
about Rnuand :" VIZ '''"''
Ada,.a n" win Is destroying tue young corn In
pu,, n -
waIao,... 49, VI iiS'ep"'A aooep's ca'i W
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oSs hundred and thirty-four soldiers graves
4''"'e' :" burlington
80 yho hApD oil Aiburgh Springs has been
49, ''o's'y III 'or some time.
siLAs NJ WAITE has so far recovered as to walk
ABOUT the common at Fayetteville
JAMES WOODBURY. was drowned in Lake Mem
phremagog last week while fishing.
MAN named Cassidy was struck bv lightning
and killed at East Granville Last ,vaeL
N, N, s,,,,,. -, ,,,..,
shape of a pass signed nv Benedic, Arno,5
A,or,,,.,, -, III,
h. M. -, -, - III rar-
" Vi1'OO''
ihh 'ernoh' uranu Lodge OF odd Fellows will
"' "s-'' 'P''"s' '"0 1'o INST
ihk depot IN hardwick was broken into the
o'ner night' ana three or four dollars in change
''o'e"'
WooDfoRD Is the only town In the state thus
iar hearo IRON whose valuation Is less this year
'nah ias'
DIR. AND Mrs DRAPER OF the Brattle boro insane
asylum sail for Europe June 18th for a three
months vacation.
FIvEYEARs-oLD daughter Of Isaac Cummings
OF Vergennes, wagon painter, was drowned in
Otter Creek, Sunday.
ABIAL SHuRTLEFF shot an owl in Danyie last
week that measured three feet and six inches
from tip to tip OF wings.
The centennial of the settlement OF the town Of
Braintree occurs August 1st There IL some talk
Of celebrating the event.
HENRY PARKER. pronrietor n, Rowes bo,o,
Burlington has lust been fined $50 and costs for
violation Of the LIQUOR law.
Jrrnor WHEELER has renda,oa aoo,.,o, l., a..
Stewart case sustaining Mr. Cbi,tand.n,s clair,
to act AZ counsel for Mr. s.evar,
in al, ,,s aaoa.,ran,s ,u,,,, NJ D,,,a "eI'n open
in.law of Iosenb sa,yver n, ,ha haaa
,on,,,,o w ..
:, 80 ~, ine''S VI Oa,n"'o"' ou.
ouo, q. 900 - 49, na. nes wiz" 'o'' Vi
'"' ''''"' "''u''
non H. D. PHELPS returned on saturday from
hoo'os i'o"hNSD' Esq Formerly Oh bellows
FANS mas oeen ipaue SUPERINTENDENT Oh the
O'iieaeo burlington anu quincy rahroao
A WATERFORD man wears for watcb-charm
miniature Ak made from the bone Of his left
thumb, which he cut off while chopping wood.
GOVERNOR FARNHAM has commissioned Hon.
Isaac M. Cushman OF lrasburgh to be probate
judge for Orleans county, vice L. ii. Thompson,
resigned.
ST. JoHNsBURy has voted TO refund its indebt-
edness on account OF water works, $4,000, at a
rate of interest not exceeding four and one-balf
per cent
In the Burlington CITY court Monday. SIDNEY
Hard of south Burlington WAS convicted Of crueltv
to animals and fined 81 and costs. amounting in
all to about sl4
-, Gil,
-, -. 49,.
,,r,. ha h.a No., 900. e., ..,s.,.
.s Az, NJ o.. '''f''''
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p"-A "-N -'A' Wv" o'''
Ihk hutlano herdia says that the age ana
courier, a weekly democrate sheet puDhshed In
that place ior lew weeks past mas suspended
presumably LOT wantsoi support
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

IT is rumored in New York that the worlds
fair project has been revived, and that the
announcement will soon be made OF the fact.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

Mus CoLE Of windham, New Hampshire, de
clares that her life was saved by Hoods sarsapa
rilla. She had thirty-seven terrble scrofulous
ores.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08

back, aud Is lying In critical condiuon. her
mother also was burned about the hands In trying
to put out the fire.
The Orange county court docket contains two
hundred and eleven law and forty-six chancery
cases. Only forty-seven cases have been set for
jury trial, and the term. which began on the It'll.
will be q short one The celebrated highway
damage suit Of Melendy against Bradford comes
on, though 1t has been tried four times already,
once with verdict of $3.50.
The Burlington "Jolly Club has elected the
following officers for the ensuing year; President,
c. NJ Spaulding; vice-president, James A. shedd;
secretary and treasurer, Warren Gibbs executive
committee Ormond Cole. W. II. Waters and N.
X. Brown The club has now fifteen cottages
at its camp, at Cedar Beach. West Charlotte
During the past year four new cottages have been
built, and two large houses and capacious ice
houses, and number OF new cottages are to be
built this season.
THK electric light was used for the first time at
the Van Ness House in Burlington Saturday night.
and proved an unqualified success in every respect.
Four lamps were lighted, one each in the Office,
dining-room and parlor and on the versndah.
Each light has diffusiv power equal to about
seventy gas jets and the illumination 1t gives Is
almost as brilliant as MONDAY. The light more
over is soft and pleasant and in other respects as
well as in illuminating power Is greatly superior
to every other kind OF light in use.
The Burlington Free Press says 1.-Two men,
bers Of the American canoe association and Of the
Lake George canoe club will start from Lake
George at the close of the August meeting on
canoe voyage OF u, 600 miles. They will go down
Lake George to old Fort Ticonderoga, through the
neck of Lake Champlain to Whitehall and thence
through Chsmplain canal to Troy There they
will take the Erie canal To Buffalo, the lake To
Erie, the Allegheny river to Pittsburgh, down the
Ohio and Mississippi and around the Gulf Of Mex
leo, around the coast of Central America and to
| Cuba, aud thence back to the Florida reefs and
home by the Atlantic coast They expect to be
absent about year. The voyage will be made In
a double canoe, sixteen feet long, thirty-two
inches beam and fourteen inches In depth"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

QUITE o notable circumstance
OCCURS to our recollection as throw.
ing light upon the murder of the
late Gear Alexander II. At the
time Of tho assassination Of the
predecessor Of Gen. Lorls Melikoff
as Project Of st. Petersburg, . re-
porter Of the New York Sun had .
lengthy conversation with Rus
sian refugee-a Nihilist-then res
dent In that city. This parsonage
stated that, hitherto, the Nihillsts
had not aimed to take the life OF
the Emperor himself, but only to
invest him with an atmosphere OF
terror which would lead to the
amelioration Of the condition Of
the Russian people. Hereafter, he
said, their policy would be more
radical, and the Emperor. having
been condemned to death, would
surely succumk at an early day.
Following the outlining OF this
new programme came the explo'
sion in the Winter Palace, which
only failed Of its purpose because
the Emperor accidentally stopped
to play with his little daugh-
ter before entering the BAN
quoting hall. The kilograms
from st. Petersburg. the
other day, announced that . page
of the late Gear had been arrested
charged with having served notice
Of the death sentence upon bis I'm
perial master. As far as we have
observed, that notice was really
first served through the columns Of
our New York contemporary.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

THIS seems to be the season
when remarkable number OF rail-
way casualties are announced, at
least on our Pacific Coast railway
Systems. The ordinary monotony
Of these stories is varied, Of late, by
the narrative Of the invasion, by q
horde OF ruffians, and the robbery,
Of passenger train Of the Atchi.
son, Topeka and Santa Fs railway.
This Geographic rumor has since
been denied, but it has done Its
work faithfully and we'll. The
timld traveller does not care to
journey by . route which is liable
to have incidents of that kind
served up for newspaper readers,
without q moments notice. There
are people who are unkind enough
to insinuRte that such unfsunded
reports are circulated for the bsne-
at of the Union Pacific Railway,
which, owing to an unpropitious
weather dispensation, has not been
getting it's full quota of travel late.
ly. With such q rumor once fairly
started the rival corporation be.
comes the beneficiary Of the old
adsgs that = lie will travel over
the world while Truth is pull.
ing on his boots to follow it. Jules
Vsrnes, 10 his novel OF "Around
the World 10 Eighty Days" has
given an exaggerated picture Of
the draw backs to transcontinental
travel which sigualized the open.
ing Of the Central and Union Pa
ciio Railway. The versatile
French novelist drew exclusively
upon his Imagination. So does the
teleprapher Of to-day, intent upon
creating q sensation at the average
breakfast table, especially SO IL he
has any Union Pacific sympathies.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02
EVERY loyal Democrat feels lik,

EVERY loyal Democrat feels like
encouraging the noble combatants
who have stepped into the arena at
Washington, armed cap. a-pie,
with lance couchant and visor
down. and who but await the wav.
lag Of . gonfalon, or the dropping
Of . lady's handkerchief, possibly
Kate Chase 6prague's, to rush at
each other with manly impstuos.
ity. No scene depicted In Ivan hoe
- occurring at Ashby de Ia Zouehe
mo joust In Holy Land in which
Richard Ccnr de icon himself fix.
ursd-was ever more suggestive OF
the pomp, pride and circumstance
ofgloriVus war than the present ct.
titude Of the Blaine and CoukIina
clans. Never let 1t be said Of the
White Plumsd Knight that he
shrank from the gage Of the "strut-
ting turkey gobbler, "whose herald.
10 devices be 90 graphically dsscrib.
% IL the House Of Rsprssen tatives
many years ago. And % for Conk.
Hog that "cristatus AchilIesu Of
the Republican party = Res.
eos Of The lordly air and Jsvs.
like front, he upon whom
'ssll TIE Gsds did seem to have
~ tAeis seaIs T. give The world =.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

Two light showers, one Thurs
day night and the other yesterday
afternoon, were the avant couriers
OF . rain which 10 undoubtedly
brewing. Fortunately the weather
We have had during the past ten
days-dense fogs and oopious mists
has been Of . character to bring
the crops along famously. It is no
sxaggeration to say that, even
without more rain, the crops
throughout the county at large
would average as we'll as last sea.
son. No farmer who sum mer.fal-
lowed and planted early will fail
to make crop. This fact teaches
. lesson that ought TO be regarded
10 the future. Only the grossest
negligence in any year in which
We have q rainfall of eight inch es
can prevent our farmers, even on
the mesa, from having a fair re-
turn for their seed and labor. In.
telligent and conscientious farm
ing 10 what is needed.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

Boston Post: A woman from the
West End has just climbed the
sixty.flvs stairs between our office
and the ground, and burst In with
the remark: ooh, gracious! I
thought I never would get up those
stairs! Mr.. Editor, I want you to
tell me how to bring up my boy"
Aud we answered: "Well. ma'am
II you must bring him up, grab
him by the seat OF hts trousers, and
tote him along; but we'd heap
rather you wouldn't bring him up.
We don't want to see the boy and
he might raise thunder here"
And she said we were an idiot and
. brute, and then she went away
very angry.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

DEMOCRATIC stock has gone up
amazingly in the early days OF
0arleld's administration. The
prolonged and sickening dicksr of
the Republican Senate with the re-
pudiator Malone, with George G.
0orham bossing the job, has
aroused conscientious Republican,
t. the dsgensracy Of their leaders.
The New York Evening Poet, the
most conservative and respecta bic
Of oil organs Of Republican opin-
len, has given voice to its unutter.
able disgust ut the bargain and
sale Lamentations which have
Introduced . Republican admins.
tration. The Post has not forgot
ten the principles which character.
izsd that journal when 1t was pre-.
sided over by WIN. Cullen Bryant.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

Rochester Herald: An unsympa.
thetic deacon: "Deacon," said the
widow, As che gently stroked In q
feline manner the Maltese tabby
that evidently lay in her lap fol-
that purpose, "don't you long for
spring, with it's balmy breath, its
warm sunshine and its gentle
showers, which awakens nature
and puts life into everything that
has laid cold and dead during the
long winter and brings everything
up out Of the cold, cold ground into
light and life ?" swell, hardly,
widow" responded the old deacon,
"you know I buried my second
wife last fall.n
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

Boston Post: Editors are terribly
pestered by bores, and generally
calculate to be out when they call.
And Mr.. Durnshsrp, . country cd
itor, invented q neat contrivancs
to get rid of them. It was q bounc.
ing chair. The door Of his private
office is just ut the head Of flight
Of stairs. Just inside the door is
located tho chair. The pressure OF
Q man sitting in the chair works
springs in the floor. After three
minutes' pressure the door opens, q
thing like a mans arm, with Q
fearful claw on it, reaches in, grabs
the occupant of the chair, yanks
him up and hurls him down stairs.
Soon after making the Invention,
Durnsharp took . partner, Mr..
Snakes, and neglected to explain
to him the chair. Mr.. Snakes
came into the Office with some
friends, one day, and giving them
seats, took that chair himself.
They had just got comfortably to
talking, when, whewl The door
dew open, and Mr.. Snakes disap.
peared like . shot. The guests
were amazed. But in q minute he
returned, bruised and very mad,
and explained that some one threw
him down stairs. Search failed
to reveal the thrower, so they sat
down again. Very soon Mr.. Snakes
made another involuntary expedi.
ton down stairs. He came up
that time with his clothes torn and
bis shins scraped. He was almost
wild. Still they could find no a..
sailant. He asked one OF his
friends to take the seat and let him
watch the door, but the friend
guessed he wouldn't; so, after post
ing = friend outside to watch,
Snakes sat down. The way he
turned handsprIngs and sommer.
saults down stairs that time,
wrenched every bone in his body,
and he lost couple of teeth; and
the friend swore nobody approach.
Cd the door. Thsn they began to
get scared. Some thought It was
spirits. but Snakes swors he didn't
believe In such things, and he
would solve the mystery or die.
With two watchers outside, be
once more sat down. It
didn't take long for the ma.
chino to work. It grabbed him
20 10 to tear his clothes badly, and
gave him . header down stairs.
He met bis partner coming up and
they both returned to the foot OF
the flight together. They had to
b picked up, and after Mr.. Durn.
sharp got over his surprise he ex.
planned. "0ood Lord, why didn't
you tell me Ut it before" cried
Snakes. II forgot It," said Durn-
sharp. Snakes was badly used up,
but he summoned strength to vic.
lently assault his partner, who will
remaln In bed for . week yet. Then
they'll dissolve partnership and
bother the Courts and support .
couple Of lawyers for . year or 90.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02
Harrow.a..g. system 90 n..,eo.


ST.. LOUIS, April 1st.-Col. J. w.
Paramors, Of this city, President OF
the Texas and st. Louis narrow.
gauge railroad, has just returned
from New York, where he obtain.
cd 81. 00O, 600 for the construction Of
nArrow.gauge roads from Texar-
cana through Arkansas to . point
opposite Cairo, Illinois. A large
force of men 10 already employ Cd
on this line, and the work will be
pushed with great vigor. 1t 10 ex.
pectsd that the whole work will be
completed this year. This line is
q link in the great narrow.gauge
system which 10 to connect New
York with the City Of Mexico via
st. Louis.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

surancs Of . man." surely 1t will
not be written, In the weighty
chronicles that will contain the
history Of Gardsld's administra.
ton, that his soul failed to thrill
with responsive fury when the
knight Of Maine, In the custom Of
the brave days Of old, bit his
thumb at him? Verify the interest
thickens, and every Democrat feels
like rs.eehoing the sonorous vaunt
Of Macbeth,-"Lay on Macduff,
and damned be he that fret cries
hold, enough"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-02

For some days past tho people OF
the United States and the world ut
large have been treated to u won.
derful amount of nonsense about
the imminence of . war between
Russia and Germany, the latter a.
the ally Of Turkey, with France
coming in later az the friend of
Russia, and Austria as the co.Ad.
Jutor Of Germany and Turkey
God save the mark. There 10 about
- much immediate danger of wal
between Russia and Germany al
there is OF George Francis Trains
being elected Pope Of Rome or Pa.
dlshah Of the Moslem faithful. The
entire groundlessness Of this silly
talk was shown by the speech oil
the Crown Prince Frederick Will.
liam while in st. Peterborough, the
other day, In response 10 deputa.
tlon Of Germans who had waited
upon him from Moscow. The
Prince assured his compatrlots res.
ident In Russia that he knew the
new Gear we'll aud that the tradi.
tional friendship which had existed
between the two empires would b.
maintained. France IL In no humol
for war just now, while Alexander
the third Is principally concerned
with the devising Of measures tc
preserve bis own precious life. Til,
most pacific and intimidsted man
In Europe to-day 10 the new ruleI
Of Holy Russia. He Is as timid Of
= mouse and as unnerved a. q bys.
terIcal woman. Instead OF seeking
to make war on Germany, In his
heart he would like to take rsfup,
there.