The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-26
Weekly News Summary.

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pleted, and is to be sent to Montreal.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BREWSTER has gone to
New Orleans TO prosecute the Louisiana lottery
case.
M1NNEsorAs butter produce for 1883 will
nearly reach 180000 600 pounds, worth So
100000
MR.. BARNUM, it is stated, offers S25, 900
premium for insurance on his white elephant
for year.
New YORK aldermen have passed an ordi-
nance requiring all electric wires to be laid un-
derground.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has refused Bar
NUNS $4,000 offer to lecture one year in this
country and Great Britain.
The Washington National Vie,o (grceuback
organ publishes an article Advocating the
nomination of General Butler for the presi-
dency.
MRS. ANNA SoHocK, aged forty, keeper Of
the home for children at Chicago, has been ar
rested for starving and maltreatiDg the chill
dren in her charge.
A COUPLE in Springfield, Mass, made an
economical bridal trip. They babe adieu to
their friends On one side OF the train and step
ped off the other side and into a Springfield
hotel.
RECEIVER PRICE of the wrecked Pacific bank
at Boston has sued the directors and officers of
the bank for 81 ,000, 900 or more, holding them
liable for the acts of the president and others
IN WreCKlng tne DARK.
THE senior postmaster in the service is Henry
Beardsley of North Lansing, N. Y. He was APP
pointed in June, 1925 and has served to this
day under his original commission. All his
bondsmen are long since dead.
THE health commissioner Of Brooklyn has
forbidden the use of antiseptics called rex
magnus and venetian red. The former is COM
posed largely Of boracic acid Numerous in
stances are given by the Brooklyn papers Of
serious and deadly effects from its use.
YOUNG James Blaine is acquiring large ac-
Quaintance with colleges. He has gone through
three rather hurriedly, completing his course
at the faculty's request-at Georgetown on
other two were OF the same general nature.
MANY friends OF prohibition, largely clergy
men from all parts OF Massachusetts,, call a
convention in fremont temple, Boston, for
Thursday. to demand THAT the manufacture
and sale Of Intoxicating liquors as q beverage
be prohibited by provision in the consti-
tution'
GENERAL HANCOCK had magnificent recep-
ton in San Francisco. Five thousand invita-
tions were issued for the reception-and the
general was escorted from his hotel to the Pa
vilion by the governor, the mayor, the state
and federal officers, and deputation of the
state militia.
ANOTHER ocean horror is reported The
steamship St. Augustine, on the way from
Manila to Liverpool was burned in the great
Bay Of Biscay on the 10th; and out of
eighty persons on board, fifty lives were lost.
The survivors got to land in boats or were
picked up by passing vessels.
THE Cantilever bridge over the Niagara river
was formally opened at Suspension Bridge, N.
Y, last week Thursday. Its strength was
tested by running over twenty locomotives and
twenty-four cars loaded with gravel. The cars
extended from one end of the bridge to the
other, covering both tracks. Ten thousand
persons witnessed the test
JOHN L. MCMILLAN, who is making type
setting machine in lion, n. Y with which he
expects to set 8, 600 ems an hour, says that $780,
600 was spent on the Alden type-setting and
distributing machine before II was given up as
impracticable, aud that 81 ,000, 900 was wasted
on the Page machine, whose patent right was
subsequently sold for $4,000.
A SPECIAL agent Of the post-ofice depart
ment has notified II. H. Warner & Co. of
Rochester, N. Y, that thirty five large sacks
OF their circulars are in the Boston post-office
and will be returned to them by express at their
expense. The circulars, in addition to the ad
vertisement OF patent medicines. contain lot
terry scheme, and delivery is refused.
A COMPANY has been incorporated in New
York which proposes to construct floating
theater at a cost Of $500 One of the trus-
tees says river and coast towns will be visited
and first-class performances given. A stock
company Win De employed and kept on
board all the year round. The vessel will be
constructed on the catamaran principle, and
will be called the Gladiator.
THE London Standard remarks that the en-
ergetic American life insurance companies now
actively competing with the home companies
for business in England must moderate the
liberality Of their inducements There are
several points in their prospectuses which will
need explanation before they can be accepted
in preference to the conservative methods
based upon science and experience.
To- ,ola A. l..
made at private sale in any country has re-
Gently been made by Messrs Burlegh and
Bodwell of Hallowell, Me, to the Indiana
blooded stock company 1t numbers two hun
dred head Of imported Aberdeen, Anglers and
Hereford cattle. All the cattle had been per-
sonally selected by Mr.. Burleigh from the most
noted herds Of Great Britain. The price re-
ceived for the transfer was 1893, $50.
The Manitoba Farmers Union has adopted
resolutions demanding the right of the local
government to charter a railway In Manitoba
TO have absolute control OF the public lands
that the duty on agricultural implements and
building materials be removed and the GUS
toms tariff on articles Of daily consumption
greatly modified. motion was introduced to
appoint delegates to the Dominion government
10 submit the demands Of the provinces.
Miss SABRA PHILLIPS of Norwood, r. l., is
hundred years old. The Providence Journal
says: She lives alone, does all her own
homework, saws wood for her own fire
and brings 1t on her back from the woods
She is constant reader of the Bible and re
ligious books, reads without glasses, and il
ready at any time to preach a sermon upor
any passage Of Scripture, which she often doel
10 those gathered around her She is the last
OF her generation"
IT is trif1e astonishing to hear that Tabo
of Colorado nourshes presidential hope, means
10 put up his lightning rod in 1888, and will do
it openly because he doesn't believe in dark
horse business. II he is elected we are tolC
that " his present wife, who is lady of versa
tile talents as well as marked personal beauty
would appear to great advantage in the Whit
House." And she could then pay off tn
stuck-up Denver women who have been snub
bling her and making 80 much trouble lately.
AN earthquake shock occurred in Lisbon Sat
urday at half-past one A. NJ. but was not gen
orally noticed. The strongest shock occurre,
at haf-past three A. M, and lasted twelve sec
onds. Being accompanied by heavy rumbling
which awoke the entire population Of the city
1t caused panic in the narrow streets Som
old buildings and number Of chimneys wer
damaged. At Setubal, eighteen miles south
east OF Lisbon, the shock was so severe tina
many Of the inhabitants rushed to the seashore
81 KNOW a man." General Comfy said to
Cincinnati Enquirer reporter, " who had 1S
600 sheep on one Of the Hawaiian Islands, 70
which he had been offered one dollar head
He refused the offer, expecting to do muc
better with them; but there was a drought