The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-25

crusade has been begun In Butalo against
Canadian coin. II Is taken at q discount OF
twenty per cent.
FORTY RIGHT Of the fifty-two counties Of
Georgia have been carried by the advocates OF
local prohibition.
THE official announcement Is made that the
President will be present at the southern expo
sition in Louisville, August l.
A sUBrERRATEAN forest, seven feet below
the surface of the ground has been discovered
in Chazy, Clinton county, N. Y. Many OF the
trees are in an admirable state OF preservation
THE Cairo correspondent OF the Central
NelCs says that the actual number OF deaths
In twenty-four hours was nearly 600, and the
official figures underestimate the number OF
fatalities.
ACCORDING to the American CyclopRdia, Mr..
Tilden was born In New Lebanon, Columbia
county, N Y, on February 8, 1874. Accord
ingly, he Is now sixty-nine years and i've
months old.
A MORMON bishop has recently been arrested |
for blowing up two of his wives by placing |
dynamite under their bed. The women were I
seriously injured and there was talk OF lynch |
ing the bishop.
THE telegraph strike interferes somewhat
with the signal service Lieutenant Powell |
says that the figures are sent in by inexperi- |
enced hands and are so mixed that reliable in
dications cannot be based upon them.
THE upper floors of the Munro building, II
ted by fire Sunday. The floors below were
flooded and every tenant suffered. The loss
was $500 600 Many thrilling escapes occurred
LAST Wednesday Hanlan won the four-mile
single scull race with Ross on the st. Lawrence
river near Ogdensburgh, N Y, by over quar-
ter Of mile. Time, twenty-seven minutes,
! ffty-seven and one-half seconds, the fastest on
record.
AT Rochester, Mimi, Charles Fisherman, a
patient at the Secord hospital for the insane,
committed suicide by jumping into a furnace
| in the boiler room. After getting inside he
stood with his back to the red-hot brick wall
until insensible when he fell into the glowing
| Goals.
AFTER weeks of challenging, a jury has
been secured for the trial OF Polk, Tennessee's
| 100000 state treasurer. 1t is model; not
one of the twelve has ever read a word Of the
crime, and it is not clear that any one of them
can read. Two are ignorant Of the name of
the parish, or county, or district in which they
live.
COLORADO swindle is to buy lot of
remnants of Texas herds mostly barren
cows and bony steers have them booked
compute the increase by ordinary rules, and
after while sell the lot on the range, of course
without counting. 1t is said that in this way
herds of 1000 have been sold and paid for as
10000.
A PATERSON, n. j., mechanic is building
steamboat with wooden boiler, made of a new
ale cask, and said to be capable of standing
pressure of 200 pounds to the square inch.
This novel boiler is fitted up with fues, and
the fire, instead of being under is on top OF it,
a draught being supplied by tube from un-
derneath.
A MAN in Georgia has front tooth which he
plugged with lead with his own hands over
thirty years ago. He used an awl to clean out
the cavity, and packed the lead in with the
, same instrument, after beating it out as thin as
possible on an anvil. The tooth is in a good
nj prasarVatian and ia llxalv tO last =
long as the man.
TEN thousand people, we are told, attended
. the funeral of the late Charles S. Stratton, who
became famous as General Tom Thumb. The
interest shown in the little man after he was
dead was certainly remarkable, and recalled
the popularity of his career. 1t demonstrated
in q striking manner on what curious qualities
popularity is sometimes based.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY of the Boston Pilot
aud young Cuban who started recently from
: the head of the Connecticut river to paddle a
canoe to the Sound got capsized among the
logs, but escaped with their luggage, though
losing their paddles. They took the cars to
3, Bratteboro where they again put in their Ca
: noe and proceeded down the river.
! DUBUQUE, Ia, and vicinity was visited, Fri.
: day, by the most destructive wind and rain
storm of the season. Trees were uprooted and
d many barns and fences demolished. Trains
d were delayed by washouts and the telegraph
l. lines suffered considerably. The greatest
q damage was done to the grain, however, anC
U the thousands of acres were beaten fiat.
A LARGE clerical force in the sixth auditors
8 office has been employed on special work. II
{ is understood that it relates to alleged fraudu
It lent payments made to twenty-seven star routt
o contractors aggregating $1,000,000. Tie de
IL partment of justice only awaits documentary
evidence on which to base civil suits, to bring
= prosecutions against the Dorseys, the Patrcks
tt the Salisburys the Parkers, Bruce and others
y THE three Swedes who were recently ar
t, rested at Suncook, n. H., for debt and applied
Q to the Swedish minister for assistance, hav
been released, though on what ground is no
r stated. One returned to his work and thu
10 other two away. The treatment received
E. by the immigrants from their employers an,
J. the citizens was honorable and kindly, blu
le much the larger part of them have proved in
a. dolent and unreliable
O POSTMASTER in Pennsylvania lost som
4, stamps and money orders by burglary the othe
X day. 1t is the practice of the post Office depart
D. ment (under the act Of March II, 1882 t
" allow post-masters for such loss where it ca
g. be shown that it resulted through no negl
gence on the part of such postmasters." Th
70 postmaster in this put in his claim for los
20 of stamps, etc., and in his affidavit sent the d,
81 partment stated she didn't lock the safe whc
III contained the stamps and money ORDERS 9
n there had been several burglaries in the neigl
40 borhood where safes had been blown open, an
,d he didn't propose to have his safe damaged
- that way"