The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-23
the bite which he received from a rattlesnake
at an exhibition In his show at High Bridge.

the Dlte winch ne received from rbttlesnhke
at an exhibition In his show at High Bridge.
OVER fifty thousand post-offices are required
to handle the mail matter Of this country.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has been designated by
the president TO act as secretary Of war in Sec
rotary Lincolns absence.
THE father OF Charlie Ross has spent $4,000
In the search for his son and examined over
seven hundred boys supposed to be his.
ApvIoEs have been received from Dongoa
that General Gordon was safe ut Khartoum on
the 22d Of June, but their truth is doubted.
AN express train on the Manchester &
Sheffield (England) railway was wrecked last
Wednesday and twenty persons were killed.
LIZZIE EMMERIoH, aged twenty years, shot
and killed herself in Franklin penn. township,
because she was unable to keep up with the
other scholars at school.
AN error in the Indian appropriation bill just
discovered, gives the Cheyennes and Arapahoes
twenty million dollars, instead OF twenty thou
sand, as intended by congress.
IT is officially announced that the Baltimore
and Ohio bankers and merchants and the pos
tai telegraph companies have combined for
long struggle with the Western Union.
HALF dozen Amherst College seniors, who
were arrested commencement week for creating
q drunken disturbance, pleaded guilty at Am
herst and we're each fined $i1 and costs
In Detroit, Abram Williams, a rag pedder,
and his family OF ten persons were poisoned
by eating meat which had been cooked in a
brass kettle Mrs. Williams father will die
FIFTEEN girls from Mount Hoyoke, Mass,
are tramping through the Adirondacks. The
ffha,, ntand 20 ." ain,b tha biahast n,anntain
10y, i"'e"A W o-' '-o "is '
' -. ,, o.oo $780,,
against the constable who arrested him in
Nova Scotia, some time since, on charge OF
Tradition 70 Roston
A.,
AN armed moo attacked tne county Jan AT
Owensboro Kentucky, killed Jailer W. ). La,
tooL nnt Pichard ID Nav a nearo and baneed
hin, 70 a ,rea in tho coTit. bonsa yard
:, n-,1 49,.
IHh wnole OF DeiKnap, Montana, excepting
tne oepot ana nVe noE H,o wa Was gurneu ias'
week' az a loss Vi over @lVuoVi Lsrse nuii '.
oers U, peopie are almost uesItute, as tney
S-.., 80. ~ Al, W.. NJ,
STORM saturday nlght M .he Wnlle NOUN Gun
lam region causeo neayy sliue on MOUNT VII
latu. me Track oi tae Lur'ianu " Vuens9urg
I Iil. was coveieo witn giavei lor tons
distance, compete,y blocking the ROAD ior a
''lhe' NO one WAS hui'
WHILE riding IN the hippodrome races AT
B BaInuln circus AZ oucs, y. L. l9oniss
nice hlcharo was 'nroWn ron MS norse anu QUE
ioot hanging 70 .he stlrIup' ne WAS uraeeeu
nan way arouna inc course; ne was injured
ih.e'haiiy' anu HIS reooVeiy is uouo'iui'
THoMAsP. GRAHAM, chief OF the stamp divis-
ion OF the ,postotfice department, has, at the
Iequest Oh tne pos.mastet-gene.al VINO believes
.nas pruegeSan .nei. VI s.a.nps was renaeIe ,
possiole ny ",ahan neslgence, .enuereu nus
reslgna'ioh MI "raiiai'i integrity Is ho' I'LL
pugheo'
ALL the business portion OF Cedar Springs,
Mich, excepting two stores and a newspaper
office, together with two'thirds OF the resi-
dences, were destroyed by fire. Three men
and boy were burned to death. The prop
Ely en6So o MOSS ID es'ina'eo a' irom @looooo W
@zoo'VVo'
The banking house OF Fletcher u Sharpe,
the oldest financial institution in indianapolis,
Ind, suspended last week Tuesday morning. A
very cursory examination showed liabilities to
be VI, guy, QUO and assets " zoo, 600. 1t will be
several days before detailed statement can
be made.
GREAT frauds have been discovered in the
great dry goods house of Arnold e. Constable