The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-05
| The weight of the monument Ia between eight
and nine tons, and cost about six hundred dol
Other Localities.


for the month just closed will be 81, 100000.
AT Chicago, all the railroads but the Mich
igan Central have adopted the "twenty-four
o'clock system.
RAYMOND, the Boston excursion man, Is
talking about building $500, 900 winter hotel
at Los Angeles. Cal.
GOVERNOR NEWELL of Washington Terri
tory has signed the woman's suffrage bill, and
the law Is now operative.
GENERAL RosEoRANs has prepared an
amendment to the constitution relating to the
adjustment Of polygamy.
THERE Is great excitement throughout
Western Montana over the rich mineral dis
coveries In CGur Dalene mountains.
LETTER from Yakutsk says the czar OF
Russia has promoted and rewarded all those
who assisted the Jeanette survivors.
SoJoURNER TRUTH, the colored lecturess,
died in Battle Creek Mich, November Goth,
at the age Of one hundred and eight years.
CARL SoHUBz has retired from the New York
Evening Post because the combining and some
what grinding work OF the editor is irksome
to him.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, has become disguised with
the new standard time, and the city council
has unanimously voted to return to the old
system.
A CYCLONE, which passed to the southeast Of
Prairie du Chen, Wis, the other night, COM
pletely wrecked three farm-houses and mum.
Der Of outbuildings.
In making improvements In Plymouth,
Mass, the graves OF Pilgrims who came over
In the Mayh over and were buried during the
first winter have been discovered.
PATRICK O'DoNNELL has been convicted OF
the murder Of James Carey and sentenced to
death. He will remain In Newgate, where he
will be hanged, probably on December II.
THE masonic temple, Sixth Avenue and
Twenty-third street, In New York city, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire on Saturday and badly
| damaged by water. The loss Is estimated at
| about 100000
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG sang Home, Sweet
| Home" to the c0nvicts in an eastern prison,
| and 1t so worked upon them that seven OF
| them escaped and struck out for the parents
| roof-tree the same night
AT Aliens factory, Marion county, Ala
bama. two officers attempted to arrest William
| Stamford for insulting q woman. In the en-
counter both officers and Stamford were killed
all within ten minutes.
THE chief of police OF Milwaukee has re-
ceived letter threatening him with assassina-
ton, and adding that the town would be burned,
| II work was not soon furnished the large mum.
| Der Of workingmen now idle.
EIGHT blocks of stone were placed upon the
railway track near Northampton, England
1t is surmised that they were placed there for
| the purpose Of wrecking the train in which Mr.
Gladstone was expected to travel.
GOVERNOR MURRAY of Utah is reported as
saying that sooner or later there will be a col
lision between the Mormons and the govern
ment. During the present year 2, 800 Mormon
| immigrants have arrived at New York.
REV. WARREN H. CUDwoRTH, pastor of the
Church of Our Savior (Unitariap), East Boston,
dropped dead last week Thursday Of heart dis
ease, while offering prayer at the union SER
vice in Maverick Congregational church.
THE revisers Of the current English version
of the Old Testament have reached the final
stages of their work, and it is probable that
the result Of their labors Ia placed in the hands
Of the English-reading public.
AMONG the pupils in a school at Montgom-
cry, N. Y, are couple who were married
three months ago. The husband is eighteen
and the wife seveteen years old. When school
opened for the winter term they came with the
rest of the scholars, as they did before mar
rage, and are regular attendants. They live
with the wife's parents.
THE ship Thomas Dana Of Boston ran down
the French brig Rocaley just outside the Brit
ish channel shortly before six o'clock on the
morning Of October Both. Twenty.one persons
were saved, including the Rocaley's second Of
She was bound to St. Milo, having in all ITO
souls on board and no cargo.
A FAMILY in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, numbering
four persons was poisoned the 9th ult., and
for time 1t was thought that none could re-
cover. They had eaten cabbage soup for din
ner, and on investigation 1t was found that
Paris green had been used to destroy worms on
the cabbage when In the field. physician
found arsenic In large quantities in the SOUP
ESPECIAL Dispatch" double.leaded and
filling two columns in the Boston Globe, pur-
porting to give an account Of the massacre at
Khartoum, was made up bodily In the office,
and was without any foundation in fact. The
enterprising attaches OF the paper sold 1t to q
number of western papers, and the Boston
newspaper men are making merry over the
affair.
AN accident on the New York eleyated rail-
road occurred on the city hall branch Friday
morning. A train OF two cars, in which were
thirty passengers, mostly ladies' was derailed in
some way at Chatham Square. The heavy iron
beams forming the guard rail were splintered
into pieces of the size of tooth-pick by the
wheels of the cars and locomotive. No one
was injured.
PROFESSOR BROOKS of the Red House Observ-
atory, Phelps, N. Y, while searching for
comets near the sun, last week Thursday even
ing, discovered a wonderful shower OF telescope
meteors, some Of which were moving south
ward, and others porthward. Brooks be-
lieved this display had some connection with
the remarkable red light seen near the sun at
sunrise and sunset last week, and that the
earth Is passing through q mass Of meteoric
dust, or is enveloped on the tail Of q gigantic
comet.
A MONETARY excitement was caused at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, New York, last week Mon.
day, by the strange movements and startling
appearance OF well-dressed man OF sixty
years, who announced that he was q Kentucky
colonel who had come East with the express
purpose of killing President Arthur. He was
ordered away by the detectives and left the
hotel. The circumstance, however, caused
| quite a stir and led to extra detective precau-
tiops during the banquet at Delmonico's, which
| the president attended.
FIRE broke out in the Windsor theater
| Bowery, New York, shortly before twelve
o'clock last week Thursday night, the flames
spreading with terrible rapidity, and few
moments after the alarm had been sent out the
whole structure was in blaze from cellar tc
roof. The efforts Of the fire department were
unavailing to check the confagration, and the
building was totally destroyed. A Thanksgiving
audience, which packed the house from pit tc
dome, had been dismissed only a short tint
before the flames appeared.
SUPERINTENDENT KMBALL's annual report
shows that the life-saving service Is kept up to
Its high standard OF efficiency and has done
| lives saved was 4,017 and the value Of property
| So GIL, 7C0. which IL over two and one-hali
millions more than was saved In the preceding
year. Since 1871, when the system was intro
| duced, Is, 1874 lives have been saved and
twenty-four millions Of property. These ART
| figures which fully demonstrate the value and
| necessitv NJ the service No money apDropri