Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30
Summary OF News.

tetIement from politics.
THOMAS MAST has been pensIoned of nv the
iiarpers on $4,000 year.
An average Of 300 people per hour passed over
the Brooklyn bridge Friday.
RUMoBs that Mr.. Gladstone Ia about TO resign
are again In circulation In London.
ImK Old Testament revision will probably be
published next winter or next spring.
LIGHTNING did considerable damage to the CAP
itol grounds at Washington last week Monday.
THE wheat crop authorities now state that tho
harvest will DO the greatest California ever had
NtNE-TESTHs Of the Milwaukee saloon keepers
nave consented TO close their saloons at midnight
EDMUNDs Of Vermont and Wilson OF Iowa is
the ideal ticket according to Emory Storrs Of
| Chicago.
The French Chamber Of Deputies has adopted
the American postal service bill in slightly mod
| fled form.
ONE OF the Catsklll Mountain hotels will make
Its own gas, do Its own printing and issue daily
| paper the coming season.
THE supreme court Of Kentucky has decided
| that wife may recover money lost by her hus-
band In gambling games.
THOSE who have crossed East river bridge say
that the last thing one thinks OF Is that there is
| anything dangerous about it,
| IT is announced that China has decided to es-
tablish consulate at Chicago for the protection
| OF seven hundred Cinnamon there.
ALL the London newspapers comment fayorably
upon the appointment Of the Marquis OF Lans-
downe as Governor General Of Canada.
The prevailing opinion is that Bismarck will be
/ the next capital OF Dakota. Real estate men are
now flocking there and buying property.
IT is estimated that the grain crop OF Europe
| for 1888 will fall short Of the demand for home
consumption by more than $50, 900 900 bushels
| DEAN BRADLEY has made arrangements to
| place the bust Of Longfellow In Westminster Alb
hey, between the tombs Of Chaucer and Dryden.
THE saving to banks from the decision Of the
| attorney general that no taxes due since jan
| uary LIST last Is estimated at three million dollars.
RoBERT BONNER has refused an offer Of ST.
| 100000 for bis Fifth avenue block OF lots Just
above Mr.. Vanderbilts mansion They cost him
| about 81, 600.
| FIVE sea elephants are on the way from CAL
ifornia to New York. They are said to be the
first specimens Of this branch Of the seal family
| ever kept in captivity.
AUNT DOLLY SEXTON Of the Lebanon Shakers.
Is nearly one hundred seven years old, she having
been born just prior to the signing OF the Decla-
ration OF Independence
ir is proposed to construct a cable trsmway up
Pixies Peak this summer II the consent Of the
| interior department can be obtained, the noun
| tain being on government reservation.
The Rochester P0st-Egpress has a subscriber
who writes that he has just learned that Mrs.
Lydia Z Pinkham is dead, and wants to know
where he can get q complete set OF her works
NUMBER OF residents OF North Grinnell,
Iowa, along the track of last years cyclone have
prepared underground caves to which they can
Heb IpT ptOttCLlOn IN case OF a repetition OF the
disastrous storm.
The president has given an order that the
100000 fund for the prevention OF yellow fever
should be distributed under the direction of the
secretary OF the treasury II there be any need to
make the expenditure
MAKISdthe law against murder a dead letter
by the acquittal of Phil Thompson naturally in
creases the number Of shooting affairs at the
South Six murders were reported from that sec
ton one day last week
ID
steamer Tropic, which recently carried arms and
insurgents To Hayti, put trial in PhiladeI-
phia, May 22d, for having violated the neutrality
laws between Hayti and this country.
JEFF DAVIS ia said to be failing very fast OF
late His hair is very white, and he has the ap-
pesrance OF feeble, wan, bent old man. His
wife however, is a fat, hale, hearty lady, who
watches over him as she would child.
Mrs scoyILLE, since her divorce does not
want to hear her husbands name, and she Is still
less anxious to resume her maiden name Guiteau,
so she has given notice OF petition to be allowed
to take the name OF Frances Maria Howe
LAST week Wednesday the President and Cab.
met were all away from Washington The Presi-
dent and four Secretaries were in New York Secrt-
tary Lincoln on fishing excursion and Secretary
Teller visiting the Indian school at Carlisle
THERE is poor prospect for the tobacco crop
this year. Ia North Carolina and Tennessee, the
bugs have destroyed the plants, and other states
promise little more than an average crop, with
slightly increased acreage in Kentucky and Loui-
siana.
AT townsville, Mo, is a couple who have been
married seventy-five years Husband and wife
are each ninety-ive years old. Peter Bogart, the
husband, is in poor health, but Mrs Bcgart is
smart, and does her own homework They have
the fifth generation living
GREAT enthusiasm prevails in Charlottesville
Virginia, two miles from Monticello, the home OF
Thomas Jefferson, over the preparations for the
unwilling of the monument erected by the United
States government to the memory OF jefferson.
The ceremony will take place July Fourth
On account of the failure OF the Augustinian
society in Lawrence, Mass, st. Mary's cemetery,
embracing nearly hundred acres will be sold to
satisfy creditors When this Is done the holders
OF lots, in order TO retain them, will be compelled
to repurchase what they have considered their
own property.
A LADY at Upper Oswego Falls n. Y, who
had vainy besought her husband to saw large
against the house in windy weather, borrowed
| saw and mounted the tree, determined the sever
the obnoxious limb. She sat on the branch she
was saving, and was half killed by the fall.
EX-SENATOR TABOR OF Colorado sued W. H.
Bush, his partner in the Windsor hotel for alleged
| embe ment, and Bush was acquitted. The
suit brought because Bush's wife refused to
| recognize the last Mrs. Tabor. The Denver club
of which Secretary Teller and Senator Hill are
members, have expelled Tabor because he mar
ried woman with whom their wives could not
| associate.
The election in New York this fall will be one
OF considerable Importance. legislature is to be
chosen, and as the senate holds for two years. it
| will participate in the election of United States
senator in place of Lgpham. The other officers
to be chosen are comptroller, secretary Of state
attorney general, state treasurer, state engineer
and surveyor superintendent of public works,
together with large number Of county officers.
| Much impotence was manifested by Wiscon-
| sin woman who was the plaintiff in divorce
sun. The conrt had decided in her favor, butth
formal decree was likely to be delayed until the
next day. Her lawyer protested and, being COM
PEELED to give reason for the hurry, he explained
that his clients betrothed second husband was in
| the room, and that the couple wished to go at
once to minister for marriage. The Judge
dered the decree to be made out at once
| THE trustees OF Columbia college, who recently
| declined to admit women students within its
| walls, now announce that the college will insti-
tute preparatory tests for women similar to fresh
| man examinations for men, prescribe lines OF
study, conduct other examinations, in writing, as
| often as may seem necessary, and will at the end
| OF a four years course give appropriate certifi-
| Gates The students, however, must find their
own places for study and their own teachers, for
the college will give them no instruction.
| The Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania is overrun
/ with tramps, thieves and burglars who have been
| driven out of the large cities For several years
they have copgregated during the summer in the
| vicinity OF Esston where they have camp in
| which there are usually from twenty-five to one
| hundred. They live principally on what they
| steal in the surrounding country. Several years
ago the farmers organized and drove them of,
|
| by burning barns and njurlng cattle, and now
| they are nnmolested except by occasional visits
from officers in search OF particular criminals
| The Storm the fore part of last week was VIC
| lent and varied In southern New York and New
jersey there was heavy rain and lightning, in
| Ohio rain and wind and, on high land, snow; in
| Illinois ice one-half inch thick was formed In
| Georgia fires and overcoats were comfortable.
| The shipping on the big lakes was much damaged
and crops were injured by cold and frost. A
Helena, Arkansas, dispatch says that the cotton
| crop is suffering greatly from Monday nights
| cold weather. The murcury touched thirty-eight
| degrees, the lowest ever known at this time OF
year. Some localities report slight white frost.
| SEw food preservatiye has been discovered,
| or rather invented, by the Humiston Food Pre-
serving Company of Boston, which they call
Rex Magnus," 1t claims to preserve and keep
meats, fish, milk, eggs, butter, cream, etc. fresh
and sweet without change, under all conditions.
| IL 1t will do this 1t will be very great addition
| TO the economy Of the household and the fam.
| Professor Samuel +, johnson, the chemist OF Yale
College, tested the thing thoroughly and speaks
| very highly OF 1t. quantity Of beef pork NUT
| ton, fowls, fish, milk and cream were treated
with 1t by him and kept in his laboratory Ia warm
| room for thirty-fye days when they were cooked
and eaten by him and other gentlemen, and they
pronounced everything perfectly fresh and sweet.
| The company, whose office is at " kilby street,
RO.tan hava hA fullast anndanca n the thing