The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-05
Items of Interest.


A THOUSAND Cinnamon sailed from San
Francisco for home on Friday.
LIEUTENANT STOREY reports exploring the
newly discovered Alaska river for distance
of five hundred miles.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has accepted an invi-
tation to attend the opening of the plenary
council in Baltimore, November 9.
The wife of George McCreary of Water
ford, n. Y, presented him with four chill
dren at birth on Sunday-all girls.
A RACE quarrel over the dedication of a
South Carolina church has resulted in the
murder of one man and further trouble is
feared.
OVER $1,000 has already been subscribed
for the carnival to be held in Montreal in
1885, which promises to excel any pre-
viously held.
TALLAPoosA, a town on the Georgia Pa
cifc road, in Georgia, was almost completely
burned Monday by supposed incendiary
fire, with a loss of 100000.
AT Waterloo, Ia, Monday, Intes Gain &
Co.'S egg packing establishment, together
with 2250O0 dozen eggs and a quantity of
cheese and dried fruits was destroyed by
fire.
FRED w. DUvENNoIs, a private banker
of Detroit, is missing. He owes depositors
from $4,000 to $4,000. He was agent for
nine insurance companies, to whom he owes
over $4,000.
MONDAY evening Brooklyn lad of thir-
teen years, who had been much abused by a
boy five years older, stabbed the bully
through the heart with pocket knife while
attempting to defend himself.
THE president has appointed ex-Sec-
rotary Hugh Mccullough to be secretary Of
the treasury, and Secretary w. Q. Gresham
to be circuit judge of the seventh circuit, to
succeed Judge Thomas Drummond, re-
signed
SAMUEL j. TILDEN's stable at Greystone, n.
Y, was burned Sunday night. The horses
and carriages were saved, but the other
contents were destroyed. Loss, $4,000; no
insurance. Tilden's valet and family occu-
pied apartments in the building and had a
narrow escape.
AN attempt to wreck the accommodation
train which left Fitchburg at twenty-five
minutes past one o'clock p NJ, was made at
sharp curve one mile east of Lunenburg
station on the Fitchburg railroad, by placing
stones and a rail on the track. The OBJ
structions were again placed on the track
after the train had passed. Norman Jones
of Shirley, twelve years old, was arrested.
He said he did it for fun.
SATURDAY night Fred Schults, while
drunk, threw a stone at a republican pro-
cesson in Bloomington, Illinois, which
struck on the head, and rendered in
| sensible, "A mounted man. The cavalry
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caught Schults, beat him severely, and, put
| ting a rope around his neck, hauled him on
a lamp post, and left him hanging and
struggling He was cut down by the police
| just in time to save his life. The repub-
| lican procession was brckbatted, and Post
master Dick and a brother of Governor
| Hamilton were severely injured.
The steamer Rhein from Bremen, which
arrived at New York, Friday, fell in with
| the Maasdam and took from her boats
| the passengers and crew, one hundred
eighty-siX in number, and landed them at
| New York. Captain Wander Zee of the
Maasdam says that on the twenty-third they
| encountered violent gale from the north
west dnring which the petroleum tank com
| menced leaking slightly. One of the crew,
| in trying to discover the leak, placed a
| lighted lamp near the tank, which exploded
with loud report, the contents taking fire
| and setting fire to the ship. Every effort to
| get control of the fire was useless. He or
dered all hands to the boats, and they re-
| manned until rescued by the Rhein. Not
| one of the passengers or crew was lost or
injured in the slightest manner.
| PAsQUALE BRIGNoLI, the tenor who for the
| last thirty years has been prominent figure
before the American public, died at the Ev-
| erett House, New York City, Thursday after
noon. The immediate cause of his death
was sudden internal hemorrhage. Signor
| Brignoli camesto this country from Europe
| III 1870. lie mad sung with much success IN
| many of the principal opera houses of Eu-
rope, but it was in this country that his name
| was made famous. Until within the last few
| years Signor Brignoli's name has been found
| on the programmes of nearly every impor-
| tant musical enterprise conducted in this
| country. For quarter of a century he was
one of the most popular tenors who ever ap-
| peared before American audiences. He sup.
| ported Nine. Patti upon her first appearance
in this country. OF such power and volume
| was his voice that even at the age of sixty
| though worn of course and lacking in fresh
ness, it was still heard with delight in con.
cert and English opera He supported
Emma Abbott in English, and was under
engagement to her for the present season
He leaves no relatives in this country, his
only known relatives being a brother and
sister, who live in Paris. Notwithstanding
the large sums of money which he mus
have made, he died in comparative poverty
WHY use gritty, muddy, disagreeable
| article, when Hoods Sarsaparilla, so pure