The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-30
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| Iuluulo bHu WtSteIu slsttts lhst WoOhs
THE resignation Of Major Conger, the super
| intendent of the Yellowstone Park, has been
| demanded because of incompetency.
JOHN c. Emo has rented a splendidly-fur-
nished residence at Quebec, and has been
| joined by his wife and three daughters
THE district around Galena, Kansas, is cred
| tied with being the largest znc-producing To-
cality in the world. Last year 10000 tons were
mined
VEIN of salt, one hundred feet thick and OF
| the finest quality, has been struck at East
Gainesville, N. Y. Extensive works will be
| erected Immediately.
AN old resident OF Norwich, Conn, says that
JohI Cox, blacksmith in that place, built and
used bicycle, with one large and one small
wheel, sixty years ago
julius MITCHELL, nearly full-blooded ne
the West Point Military Academy from the
seventh district Of South Carolina.
THE snow at Fabyan's, Monday morning Of
| last week, was an inch deep, and the weather
cold enough to demand fires in the principal
rooms Of the hotels and private houses
THE tug Elsie, which has been working on
| the wreck Of the City of Columbus, has sue
| ceeded in getting about five hundred tons OF
| iron. One OF the boilers has been raised.
A NINEry-YEARs-oLD colored man at Talla-
hassee, Florida, while out hunting, short time
| since, killed three BEARS an alligator, a rattle
snake, ten skunks and cut three bee trees.
| THE business of the moDey-order department
of the New York post-ofice last year amounted
to S74 505, 045, an increase of Sc, 229, 505 over
the year preceding. There was net revenue
of SO, Ala 498.
THE coffee fields of Brazil cover 1900, 900
| acres with so, 100000 trees-that Is four hum
| bred per acre. Each tree averages one pound
| of coffee per annum, the industry employing
| 100000 hands.
AN enormous ranch in Mexico has Just been
purchased for 100000 by a syndicate of En-
glish and Scotch Spectators, Of whom Lord
| Tweedmouth is one. 1t extends over sixteen
hundred square miles.
THE farmers In the hill towns of northern
| Massachusetts are overIun with plague Of
| grasshoppers. In Franklin and Hampshire
counties these troublesome insects have de-
voured most of the pasture grass.
Two Danes have undertaken the task of
| padding, in a skn-covered canoe, from Alaska
to San francisco, distance of about $500
miles. The canoe is nineteen feet long, and
covered with the skin of sea lions.
A DETROIT telephone got out OF order and
| the man who was sent to fix 1t up discovered
that hole had been punched in the instru-
ment by somebody who had innocently thought
he could hear better through 1t that way.
THE boring of the Vosburg tunnel, on the Le-
high Valley railroad was finished two weeks
ago. The tunnel is 1866 feet long. The
biggest driving accomplished in any one
month was two hundred and forty-two feet
ADJOINING pigeon has just flown from Atlanta,
| Ca, to Keyport, n. j., seven hundred and
twenty-five miles. This is the longest fight on
record in this country, and the bird is one Of
four in training for thousand-mile journey.
THE latest earthquake is at Massowah a
town of 2, 300 people, situated on an island in
the Red Sea, and chiefly noted as being one OF
the hottest places in the world. The earth
quake made nearly clean sweep, sparing only
| few houses.
THE Washington monument has reached the
height of four hundred and eighty-eight feet,
and is now the highest structure in the world
| with the exception OF the Cologne Cathedral.
The work on the pyramidal cap which is to
complete the shaft, will begin about the first
Of September.
PHILADELPHIA is being entertained with a
novel newspaper war. The Times and Press,
two leading papers, have each deposited &c.
600 with Mr.. Childs, editor Of the Ledger, to
hold until committee shall decide which has
the largest circulation. The loser Is to pay its
stakes to city charities.
THE president has called for the resignation
Of General James Longstreet as United States
marshal for the northern district of Georgia.
This action is based on the recommendation OF
the attorney general who had preferred charges
against him for carelessness and inefficency,
| anu dShtu lOT HIS lluuoulhto TciuONdl
CAROLINE HAMILTON, a mulatto, died at
Wheeling, West Virginia, aged one hundred
and ten years. Five weeks ago she absolutely
refused TO take nourishment and nothing has
passed her lips since then but cold water. Hell
father died in Pittsburg, many years ago, al
the age of one hundred and eight years.
VIOLENT caving in of the mines in the
Hyde Park portion Of Scranton, Penn, produced
| a panic in that quarter OF the city last
| walk The aubtnrrannan lalOn first mani
, tested itself with a loud rumbling, like that OF
thunder, and this was followed by the shaking
Of the houses as If an earthquake we're in play
STILL another wholesale cattle-rsising scheme
is reported A company has been organized
in New York, with General Mcclellan as 6
member, with ranch " measuring forty by
sixty miles, and containing $780, 600 acres, II
the southwest corner of New Mexico. Tn,
concern starts with 16 600 cattle and $50 horses
CHARLES W. RoEDENBURG of the Elysiar
Fields Garden dug up, on April 10 last, a cannon
Q marked La Grouette Strasbourg, ITO" Mr.
! Roedenburg has had the piece mounted on his
Y grounds. He says he knows nothing about thu
: history OF the gun. 1t is supposed to be ont
e of the guns brought from France during thu
I revolution.
! AT Richmond, Virginia, there Is great indig
nation over the dissertation Of the tomb o
: Thomas Jefferson by relic hunters. Recent,
Z party Of southern excursionists carried OF
l. | the lock ana large pOrtlOn Oh tne Ornamental
: lions of the iron railing. The base and othe
r portions Of the monument have also BEEF
t clipped off.
RICHARDSON, one of the contestants in tn
y Fourth of July walking match in Augusta
u Ga, has since died. He had walked abou
y three hours when he suddenly fell on tn
u track and had to be carried away. He has nc
=. | been out of bed since, and died from loss G
~ blood. He had ruptured some internal blood YES
. sci in his efforts to win.
n THE total number of negroes in the Unite
n States Is estimated at 6, 900 000 or one-ninth
n the entire population. Only seven norther
a states have higher coloeed population tina
90, 000 and of these the highest Is Pennsylvania
with 60, 600. The last census indicated the fa'
~ that the white population doubled itself
. every twenty-five years.
i THERE is great deal of complaint made
Maine of hard times. Many mills are runnin
ID on reduced time and quite a number have shl
Z down completely. During the past six month
i one hundred and fifteen failures of bushes
" houses are reported, with nearly SIC, 100000
,ee general liabilities, and one-half that amour
~ reported rs nominal assets
le THE fastest time ever accomplished betwet
le Chicago and Boston is that now REGULAR
~ made by the limited express leaving Chicag
re at g. 81 r. NJ. via the Chicago and Grand TruI
20 and New York, West Shore and Buffalo RAJ
I'd ways, arriving in Boston via the Fitchbur
If railway at IL: 10-less than thirty-three hou
w between Chicago and Boston
THE Lincoln monument at Springfield, II
r. was so badly built that 1t Is already bell
m do IN a mi