The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-22
Other Localities.

A MAN has died in Quebec OF Canadian
cholera.
MIR srURoEoN is in Scotland suffering with
the govt.
THE Grand Union hotel at Saratoga was
damaged $500 by FIRE, on the 10Th.
THE Prince of Wales has contributed Rl00
toward the fund for the relief Of the sufferers
at Ischia.
THE president of St. Louis street railway
company has been imprisoned for running cars
on Sunday.
CAPTAIN RHODES says he will certainly at
tempt to swim the whirlpool rapids at Niagara
within ten days.
A STATE hospital for colored lunatcs has Just
been completed at Mlledgevile, Ca 1t con-
tains five hundred rooms.
THE st. Louis Republican asserts that sum-
mers in the West are becoming cooler, while at
the East they are becoming hotter.
ONE of Forepaugh's elephants stepped upon
the foot Of a rustic at Binghamton, and the
Snowman settled by paying him 500
DANIEL +. BEATTY of Washington, New Jer-
sey, the great organ builder and advertiser,
was thirty five years old on Tuesday last.
SPECIALS from forty counties in Georgia and
Florida state that II the drought continues the
cotton crop will probably be thirty to fifty per
cent short.
AT Warren, O., the second national bank
cashier is reported defauter to the amount
of $40, 900 or 5000
THE returns OF the New York railroad COM
missioner show that for the six months ended
August LIST, 100 persons we're killed and 141 in
jured on the railroads of the state.
THE Essex savings bank has forecosed a
mortgage of $4,000 on ST. Mays church at
Lawrence, Mass. The property is to be sold at
auction This is portion of the Augustinan
socety's property.
THE town of Boscawen n. II has celebrated
| the sesqu- centennial A granite memorial
| marking the site of the first church erected in
| 1879 was presented to the town by prominent
natives of Boscawen.
| THROUGH the nstrumentalty OF the man.
| ayers of the " country week vacation" given
| under the auspices of the Young mems chris
tian union of Boston, 400 children have al
ready enjoyed short vacation this season.
AT Charlotte, Mich, on the race course the
| trotters Raymond and Banker Rothschild ran
into each other Raymond was killed and the
other dangerously hurt. Eight thousand dol
| lars had been refused for the horse which was
killed.
THE cotton crop is in an unpromising condi-
ton 1t was too cold in May, too wet in June
and too dry in July. Still, the results cannot
be accurately prophesied until the critical
| period, from August to October, has been
passed.
q. + HEATH of Chicopee, Mass, rode down
Mt. Washington from the Summit house to the
Glen house on a tricycle.. The distance eight
miles, was made in fifty-fve minutes. The
previous record on a bicycle, over the same
road, was an hour and fifteen minutes.
THE most severe rainstorm ever known in
| central Nebraska struck Grand Isle the 14th
| The National hotel was shattered by a thunder.
bolt, and several guests were Frustrated by the
electric fluid. number of barns were struck
by lightning and destroyed. The damage tC
crops will exceed 100000.
HANLAN won the race at Lake Washacum
Mass, Friday, in thirteen minutes and forty
seconds. Hosmer was second in thirteen min.
utes and forty-three seconds and Lee third in
thirteen minutes and forty-fve and one-hali
seconds. The course was about two miles
There were 5000 spectators. Courtney, Plais
ted and Hamm were entered, but failed to
appear.
WILLIAM III. VANDERBILT is popular among
the student walters at the Glen House in the
White Mountains. When his party left TO
Saratoga last Monday he left a check TO
$4,000 to be divided into "tips " of 500 eacl
for the walters as a token of admiration TO
the pluck and energy displayed by the STUDENT
in trying to overcome the obstacles encoun
tered in the pursuits of collegiate education.