The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-02

was q member OF the choir In DR.. Talmage's
church.
THE smallest salary paid by the government
to postmaster last year was nine cents, the
amount being determined by the number Of
stamps Cancelled This postmaster resides in a
town Of North Carolina
FIFTY thousand dollars with $1,000 accumu-
lated interest, the legacy OF Charles A. Reed
OF Newton, Mass, to the United States toward
the payment of the public debt, has just been
paid into the Boston sub-treasury.
THE Rev. Charles OReilly of Detroit, treas
urer of the Irish National League, has received
letter dated Dublin, and mailed at Shanghai,
China, which threatens his life unless he i'm
mediately sends 1915, 900 to Ireland.
THE schooner A. Babcock from Philadelphia
to Boston, with coal, ran ashore, in sinking
condition, near Barnegat, N. j. The captain,
four seamen and the mates wife were drowned.
The mate and a seaman were saved.
AT New London, June &c, Yale defeated Har-
ward in the Varsity race over the four-mile
| straight-away course on the Thames, winning
| by three lengths in twenty minutes and thirty
one seconds-the fastest time on record
THE new Cunard steamer "Umbria " was
| launched In England last week. Her tonnage
| is eight thousand, and her engines are the
most powerful in the world, being of twelve
| thousand and five hundred horsepower.
| A TERRIFIC hurricane visited Council Bluffs,
bition building which cost 81 ,000 Davis cir
Gus tent was also blown down, causing loss of
$4,000, and many houses were unroofed.
THE Boston dealers in paper and stationery
| have agreed to allow their establishments to
remain closed from the evening of July 3 to
Monday morning, July 7, thus giving their
clerks the benefit OF an unexpected holiday.
A PORTION of Gould's tunnel on the Pan
| handle railroad, west of Steubenville, Ohio
| which had haan naQrly mpatpd aavad in,
| burying eight men and boy Four Of the
party are thought to be fatally injured and the
others badly hurt.
AT Concord, S. c., little girl was playing
in the yard, when lightning bug flew into her
mouth and made its way down her throat.
She became suddenly i'll, and, though physi-
clans did everything to relieve her sufferings
she died in a few hours.
CAPTAIN GERDzEY, a prominent officer of the
gendarmes, 'has been assassnated by nihilists
at Odessa. His body was found with bullet
hole in the temple and dagger sticking in his
heart, with note pinned to his coat which left
no doubt that it was the work of nihilists
A THUNDER storm of unusual severity burst
upon Woonsocket, r. l., Wednesday afternoon,
badly washed, hole being made in one ave-
nue. hundred feet long, thirty wide and
| twenty to fifty feet deep. The damage to the
town is estimated at $4,000 ~
PosT-oFFICE officials report that the mail for
New York, consisting of several hundred letters,
which left Milwaukee, Wis, at ten A. M, June
| ID, was lost or stolen There was a ST 600
her of other valuable letters were in the mail
An investigation is being made.
AT Coal Bluff, Penn. a party of eleven, con-
| ssting Of William Conlin, his wife and child,
Joseph Conlin, Mrs. Wilson and three children,
Thomas Williams Robert Cook and a colored
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cream One Of Mrs. Wilson's children died
the Oath, and the 25th one of the men died
| The rest are very low. 1t is supposed the
cream was poisoned by vanilla flavoring.
| A woMAN's body has been found in clump
of bushes in Trumbull Conn. 1t is believed
that another infamous crime, likely to take
rank with the Mary Stannard, Jennie Cramer
and Rose Amber murders, has been discovered
| The head is missing, and it is evident that
great pains were taken to prevent identified
ton. People in Trumbull recollect that last
| fall and winter young man end pretty woman,
both strangers, were seen much together in the
town, and both disappeared together.
STORM Of phenomenal fury visited Wash
ington and Carroll counties, Maryland, and
| passed into the lower part of Pennsylvania
Over one hundred head Of cattle on farms Dor.
dering on Double Pine creek were swept away,
| and almost the entire fifth district of Carroll
county was under water Many of the farmers
claim that they saw enormous water-spouts,
which swept away trees, fences, barns and
other buildings like chaff. The loss in cattle,
crops and buildings is estimated at 1925, 900.
A SEVERE storm passed over northern Ohio
last week Tuesday night, doing much damage
in all districts except that lying Immediately
upon the lake. Several persons were killed.
| The electric fluid performed curious freak al
Wellington. A Mrs. Fritz of Chatham, sister
of Mrs. Snyder of that place, whom she was
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touching her face and passing down her watch
chain, nearly melting the watch case, and pass
ing thence to her feet, tearing her shoes to
pieces. The woman was uninjured.
SULPHUR water from the coal mines along
the Youghiogheny river in Pennsylvania, is
causing great mortality among the fish. For a
distance of twenty-five miles the river Is filled
with dead fish, floating with the sluggish tide
or drifting shoreward, where, in the heavy
grasses and shrubbery they lie, decomposing
and tainting the atmosphere with foul odors
1t Is estimated that five tons of dead fish have
gone down the river in period of twenty-four
hours. The stream was stocked by the govern.
ment a few years ago. and has been popular
with fishermen.
we'll driller contracted with the Warsaw Salt
Company to drill it we'll at Warsaw, N. Y,
some months ago, for $3, 800. The work was
only completed few days ago, owing to the
extraordinary character and thickness OF the
strata encountered. The drill passed through
seventeen feet of clay three hundred feet OF
shale, in which a stream of fresh water like an
underground river was struck, six hundred and
fifty-sx feet of slate, one hundred and forty.
eight feet OF extremely hard coniferous lime
stone, seventy-one feet OF pure flint, three hun.
bred and fifty-four feet of Heidelberg lime.
stone and ninety feet of mixed salt and shale
before the salt vein was reached-a total depth
of sixteen hundred and ninety nine feet The
vein itself was sixty-four feet thick and almost
as transparent as crystal.
IT Is asserted on eminent engineering au.
thority that the best wood yet discovered fol
railway sleepers is zapote, used for this pur
pose in Mexico. 1t Is essentially tropical
timber, and is exceedingly durable for outdoor
or indoor work, above or below ground Sam
plies of this wood taken out of buildings said
to have been erected more than two centuries
ago did not show the slightest indications Of
decay, the wood being as sound as on the day
1t was put into the building. In color thil
wood is nearly as dark as logwood, is very
heavy, and sinks in water, and 30 hard thai
the boring of the holes for the spikes and form
ing the grooves for the rails is very laborioui
decay, but has tendency to split II exposed
to the heat OF tropical sun for few months
for which reason the zapote sleepers have to bt
kept equally covered with ballast.
THE design adopted for the Garfield monu
ment at Cleveland, Ohio is in the tower form
, 1t rises from broad terraces, which are reached
, by spreading stairs, forming dignifed ap
proach to the monument. projecting porcl