The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01


THE national soldiers reunion at Columbus.
Ohio, closed last Friday. The principal fes-
ture was grand parade, in which II Is esti-
mated that 5000 people participated About
100 regiments were represented In the line.
The polygamists In Utah will not be allowed,
under the Edmunds BILL TO vote for members
OF the next legislature of the territory, and the
commissioners expect to carry ont the provis-
ions Of the law. The election will be held this
month
THE eighty-seventh annual course Of lectures
In the medical department of Dartmouth col
lege begins to-day with an address by Profess
sor Louis Esberg of New York. The fall term
OF the Thayer school Of civil engineering also
opens to-day,
FROM January to May, inclusive, the num-
Der OF German emigrants to this country was
30, as against l02, 324 in the same period OF
last year. The prospect OF an unusually good
harvest this year In Germany may have some
thing to do with the decrease.
CARRIAGE containing the skeletons OF
three adults and two children sitting upright
under large tree has been found near road
In Llano county, Texas. The tree had been
shattered by lightning. The weather-beaten
appearance of the carriage indicated that the
event happened year ago.
THE fly-wheel OF the engine in the Grant To-
connective works at Paterson, N. j.. broke re-
Gently In singular manner, the rim remaining
intact while the spokes flew all about the en-
CINE room. A number Of men were standing
about at the time, but luckily none OF them
were hit The building was considerably
damaged.
A DUEL with pitchforks WAS fought at High
Grove, Nelson county, Kentucky. Wednesday,
between two farm laborers. growing out of a
quarrel. One procured long-handlPd two
pronged fork and the other short-handled one
with four prongs. They fought 1t out alone,
and both are likely to die without being able
to describe the contest.
THE treasury department has received a re-
monstrance from the British authorities against
the return to England of three alleged pauper
emigrants who were going TO friends in this
country who had promised to take care of
them and which emigrants had shown letters
TO that effect upon their arrival in the United
States. The matter will be inquired into.
SENIOR Don FRANCISCO BARcA. Spanish min
lister to the United States, shot and killed him
self in his rooms in the Albemarle hotel, New
York city, between two o'clock and sunrise
Sunday morning. He left letters saying that
the cause OF the act was his Indebtedness He
mad lived very extensively at Washington
during the two years he had been in this
country.
A CASE OF genuine leprosv was presented at
the San Francisco health office on the 14th inst.
The subject was Swede, who had the appear
ance OF being forty or forty-fve wears of age
although he might have been much younger,
SO utterly does this disease destroy the ordn-
airy indications of age. He was sailor and is
supposed to have contracted the disease in the
East Indies.
AN excursion train on the R. w. e. O. rail-
road with en engine on each end ran into n
freight car which had been blown by high
wind from side track at Carlvon, N Y,
about half-past nine o'clock Friday night
Three cars were completely demolished and
the Others piled in one great heap. Twenty
two persons were killed and tbrty-five
wounded. Owing to conflicting stories the
coroner's jury have been unable to agree on
verdict
A NEW post-office has just been organized in
Laurens county, Ga. Several citizens who had
interested themselves in the establishment Of
the office, asked that it might be named e Hat
ton The department, with unaccountabe
modesty replied that 1t could not accede to the
request, as there was an Office Of that name in
the state already. To this the reply came !:
well, then. suppose you call 1t 'Hatoff. If
you can't call it Hatton'" The suggestion
was accepted and Hatoff " is its name.
The bond call issued last week Thursday
contains new provision. which is highly COM
mended by cOnversative bankers. It provides
that any bond embraced in the call may he re-
deemed prior to maturity upon presentation
with interest to the date OF redemption The
great money pinch is in September and October,
when the new crops are marketed, and this
clause will enable the holders OF bonds to re-
deem them with accrued interest when the
rates of money In Wall street will pay them to
do so, privilege which it is anticipated will
relieve the secretary of the treasury of de-
mands during the fall months for financial re-
lief Secretary Folger says he has S14 600 900
or S15,000,000 Of lspsed appropriations in the
treasury to meet the call. On August LIST the
reserve will be So 600 600 in excess Of the limit
He will then require hut little over S14 900, 600
for the remainder of the amount and will have
the receipts of three months out of which to
pay it.