The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
Summary OF News.

THE North Carolina peach crop is a failure.
Now Boston man claims to have discovered
perpetual motion.
The debt statement in June will show re-
duction of over S13, 10000
NEW national banks have been organized for
the past six months at the rate Of one day.
THE New York aldermen have adopted an
ordinance prohibiting the sale Of the toy pistol
THE receipts from postage stamps for the
quarter ended March 81, 1888, were S11 329 III.
THE liabilities of McGeoch, Everingham e.
Co., the Chicago lard dealers recently failed,
are now set at Sc 600, 900.
A HEAVY rain storm last Wednesday did
great damage on Long Island. the damage to
crops being estimated at 800, 900.
THE number Of drowning accidents this sea-
son is very great, the deaths of twelve people
being noticed in Saturdays kilograms.
EIGHTEEN thousand immigrants arrived at
Montreal during June. The Dominion govern
ment has appropriated $50, 600 toward Castle
Garden there
Six Of the alumni of Yale college were ar.
rested on the campus last Wednesday evening,
while holding iollifcation with cannon, fire.
crackers and Roman candles.
THE Boston e. Maine railroad machine shops
at Prison point, Mass, were destroyed by fire
Saturday night Three engines were burned,
and the loss will reach 100000.
INDIANA has six presidential candidates
The democrats present four-Hendricks, Nc
Donald, Holman and Niblack; and the repub-
iicans two-Harrson and Gresham.
DAUGHTER of John Lennon of Lockport,
N. T., pricked her forehead with tack re-
Gently. Blood poisoning ensued and she died
in commissions few days afterward.
IT is stated that not over $50, 900, 900 will be
paid out for pensions this year Commissioner
Dudley intended to disburse 800 900 900, but
| finds that he cannot accomplish the task.
CONTRIBUTIONS are flowing in at Uniontown,
Penn. to the aid of the family Of the late Cap
tain MUTT who was killed by Dukes. who was
in turn slain by Captain Nuts son James.
AT New London, Conn. Harvard won the
| university race the 28th, defeating the Yale
crew by twenty-five lengths. rowing over the
course in twenty-four minutes and forty-seven
seconds.
PETROLEUM has been discovered at Rich
| Hill, Mo. A well sunk six hundred feet struck
heavy vein equal to the finest oil of Pennsyl-
vania, and now there Is great excitement in
| the region.
THE first victim of the toy pistol for 1883 is
| reported. Willie Chandler New Jersey boy
| of thirteen, has just died from blood poison
| Ing, the result of an injury to his hand from
| this implement.
FIFTEEN tons of molten iron burst at q blast
| furnace of the North Chicago rolling mills one
morning recently just as the day men came on.
| Two men were horribly burned and fifteen
| others more or less hurt.
THE travel over the Brooklyn bridge has
| dropped to about its normal level. In the week
ending Thursday, the foot passengers numbered
| l74,5OO. or less than on the Sunday preceding
the fatal decoration day disaster.
| The Ohio supreme court rendered decision
| on Tuesday of last week that the saloon-tax-
ing statute called the Scott law is consttu-
tional, and it goes into effect at once. This
| law imposes 5000 tax on every place where
liquor is sold, or 500, if the traffic is exclu-
| sively in beer or wine.
| NORTHAMPTON. Mass, has been treated to a
sensation by young man calling himself the
" king dentist" who nightly extracts teeth for
the crowds free, and as the patients say. with
out any pain. He has already taken out over
| hve hundred teeth, and the local dentists will
| be Kept busy for some time putting in new ones
A BROTHER of Professor T. R. Ruggles OIL
Dartmouth college arrived at Hanover, n H.
| last week after twenty years absence. Hi.
| friends have been without any clue to hi.
| whereabouts or circumstances. He comes bacl
In atf1uent circumstances. having for years sue
sfully engaged in stock raising in Wyoming
| territory, where he now owns &C, 600 head o.
live stock.
THE Cleveland, Akron and Columbus (Ohio
railway has made a new departure in its tim,
| tables. The hours are numbered from one II,
to twenty-four, the latter being midnight Thu
| confusion which so often exists between A. NJ
and p. NJ. is thus avoided. One train depart
from Columbus at II o'clock and arrives il
Cleveland at 10 30.
WHITE "peace flag" made by Hartford
Conn. women in 1868, was shown for the frs
time during the reception of the southern Wis
1tors. 1t was given to the Hartford Time
when made, but the editors we're persuaded
not to hang it out for fear their building woult
be mobbed. Since then, if used, it has beef
covered with the stars and stripes.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER was seventy year
old Monday, June Oath, and the event wa
celebrated by great public reception in tn
Brooklyn academy of music. An immens
crowd filled every part of the room many dis
tinguished people were ON the platform, ad
dresses were made, and resolutions of love, re
spect and esteem were adopted by rising vote