The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-30

and the current, Dr. Watson swan to the
shore, where he was taken into custody by the
police.
AT half-past nine Tuesday morning OF last
week an earthquake shock was felt In the
eastern counties OF England At Ipswich the
walls OF houses were shaken, plates ratified,
bells rung and the people were thrown into
such q state of CONSERVATION that business was
suspended. The shock was still more severe
at Colchester. The conclusion lasted half
minute The first symptom was deep, rum
bling sound. This was speedily followed by
quaking and shaking Of all buildings and the
fall OF chimney Stacks factories fell and other
lofty structures were destroyed. In one part of
| the city a fire was caused by the shock. The
damage was great.
KARL KRoM, q journalist, rode bicycle a
distance of 422 miles, at an average rate of
forty-two miles q day. On one day he made
over 100 miles. One hundred miles in twelve
hours has been done frequently. One hundred
and twenty miles In ten hours riding time has
been often done. A ride of 236 miles without
a dismount was done in England, and 4O4
miles in six days. riding eighteen hours day.
w. +. Sutton rode 260 miles over English roads
inside OF twenty-four hours. An English tri-
cyclists record Of road riding for the year 1883
amounted to 6053 miles In six years and
half the number of wheelmen In the United
States has increased from three to thirty thou
sand. The best bicycling record for mile from
| flying start Is 81 20
| IT is said that the Mexicans who occupy the
Mesilla Valley in New Mexico cultivate the
earth in the same crude manner as did the an
| cient Egyptians. They pillow their lands with
| the forked stick, yoke their oxen by the horns,
reap their grain with the sickle and thrash it
| with goats pound the grain between two
stones, cook it on earthern ovens and eat it
with their fingers all the whole family sitting
| on the ground They have no furniture OF any
| kind they need none they live out OF doors
most Of the time, sitting In the shade OF their
adobe built houses. Their houses are all built
of mud, the floors and roofs being of the same
material few Of them have any windows, and
many no doors. II a horse, COW or hog dies Of
any disease they will take the carcass, dry and
| eat 1t.
| THE situation in the Northwest is regarded
at Ottawa with considerable alarm. The pro-
vincial legislature of Manitoba has formulated
its demand OF the Dominion government, and
the whole provincial cabinet Is on its way to
| Ottawa to lay its case before the governor-gen-
eral. The feeling Of dissatisfaction, which was
at one time regarded as trifing, has spread
| throughout the country, and the people have
not been idle in preparing themselves to en-
force their rights On the other hand, equip
| ments and clothing we're sent a short time
since to supply the new infantry required at
| Winnipeg. 1t is believed that Louis Riel, who
headed the Red River rebellion in 1871, would
again take hand, should any trouble follow
the Dominion governments refusal to meet the
| demands made on it. Sir John Mcdonald has
been informed that, should he refuse the de-
| mapds OF the provincial government, the mat
ter will be laid before the queen, and that, in the
| event of that failing, the people OF the North
| west will take the matter into their own hands.
A CALL, signed by seven hundred and fifty
| OF the most prominent Taxpayers Of Massa-
| chusetts has been issued for meeting to form
league devoted to the furtherance of revenue
reform The signers to the call declare that
the present enormous surplus OF the national
| revenues is demoralizing and dangerous; that
1t should be cut down without further delay,
| not by increasing the public expenditure, but
by reducing the burden OF taxation; that this
burden should be removed from the necessaries
of life, and not from whiskey and tobacco
and that the policy Of taxing imports, not for
the purpose Of raising revenue, but Of obstruct-
ing trade, Is unsound, and must ultimately be
abandoned" OF the fifty-two national banks
situated in Boston proper. thirty are repre-.
scented upon the call. Ten Of the most prom
inent private bankers (being all who were ap-
piled toy signed the call. In the shoe and
leather trade, twenty-four manufacturers Of
those applied to signed, and four refused In
the sugar trade, twenty signed and two refused
In the crockery trade, eighteen signed and
three refused. Twenty-one wholesale grocers
tsigned and two refused.
DIR. REINsCH, a German chemist, has found,
as the result OF q long series of minute invest.
cations, that the surfaces Of ffty-pfennig pieces
which have been long in circulation in Ger.
many are the home and feeding ground of a
minute kind of bacteria and vegetable fungus
An extended series OF observations showed that
this is the case with the small coins Of all ma.
tions, the thin incrustation Of organic matter
deposited upon their surfaces in the course oil
long circulation rendering them very suitable
for this parasitical settlement. Dr. Reinsch
scraped off some of these incrustations, and,
with a small scalpel, divided them into frag
ments, which were subsequently dissolved in
distilled water The employment Of lenses OF
very high power showed the bacteria and
fungi distinctly. This is matter of no little
importance. from hygienic point Of view. II
terra form the chief agency in the propagation
of epidemic disease. The revelation that they
have a chosen domicile in the most widely cir
culating medium which probably exists in tht
world, presents us with new factor in the
spread OF infectious disease There is, how.
ever, a remedy. Where coins have been in cir
culation for a number of years, II they arr
washed in boiling weak solution OF causti
potash they will be cleansed from their organic
incrustation, and 80 freed from the unwelcome
guests which they harbored.
} MONACO, France, has q CHASTITY sensation
| which promises to make 1t rival of Mont
Carlo as q theater for sensational suicides o
: ruined gamesters. The heroine of this lates
. tragedy was a lady Of great beauty, distin
guished manners and aristocratic bearing, WIN
| | has for months occupied the villa Clementina
, The mysterious stranger preserved strict In
| cognito, being know only as the countess +
the few acquaintances she made, and even +
her servants, of whom she engaged quite
retinue after her. arrival at Monaco. RumoI
however, credited her with being the wife of
: German nobleman who occupies prominen
post at the imperial court, and it was furthe
!, whispered that her infatuation for the gamin
table had led her to abandon her husband an
? take up her residence at Monaco. 9Th
: countess" was accompanied by an infan
: daughter, aged about two years, to whom sh
appeared much attached. She was q constan
habitue at the casno where she played fo
!. tremendously high stakes, and lately with
I steady run of ill-luck. She remained at tn
I roulette table until a very late hour, one night
. and lost several thousand francs. The nez
0 morning the servants at her villa found " tn
v countess lying in pool of blood on the foo
q | of her bedchamber. Still clutched In her han
t was a razor, with which she had cut her throa
0 causing almost instantaneous death. On th
Q bed, which had not been occupied, WAS tn
body Of her little child, strangled to death b
l. its mother, as was indicated by the finger-mark
Q on the childs throat. The theory is that tn
q | countess" had ruined herself by her passio
+, for play, and. being afraid to meet the II
e proaches OF her husband, had determined I
Il end the disgrace by double crime
: FOrty-Elghth Congress.
TUESDAY, April 22-The senate passed