The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-27


house caught fire and all the children we're
burned to death.
SOMEBODY reminds the world that the word
"news" originated from the initial OF the
four cardinal points of the compass: NEWS
North, East, South, West-to represent all
quarters Of the globe.
Sr. PETERSBURG streets were lighted by
electricity for the first time Christmas eve, and
people we're greatly pleased with the illumna.
ton. The apparatus works badly, however,
and the light is very irregular
AT the sale in New York OF the Harrison
library the celebrated Boydell edition of
Shakespeare, thirty-six volumes, for which
S18, 900 and 81, 800 has been paid at different
sales, was purchased for $71 volume.
THE supreme court at Trenton, N. j., has
ordered a mandamus to issue against the trus-
tees Of the union district school OF Burlington,
that state, for refusing to admit the children
Of coored man named Pierce, last May.
THE old house in which General Grant was
born, at Point Pleasant, Ohio, came near being
washed away by the recent floods. The place
Is nearly surrounded by the Ohio and Little
Miami rivers, and the water rose almost to
the doors.
NEGRO girl at Marcus, Ca, has a curious
deformty of the feet Each leg has the sem
blance of two feet, growing across each other
at right angles, with two sets OF toes and two
distinct heels, and the shoes are made in the
form of a Greek cross.
NAVAL officers at Washington think that
there should be monument erected to the
memory Of those who lost their lives in the
Jeanette expedition, and have appointed a
committee to raise $4,000 by subscription,
and ask congress to vote old cannon for ma
terlal.
A NIAGARA FALLS undertaken embalmed the
body OF an old man who choked to death at
dinner in one of the hotels there last October
supposing that it would be claimed, and as no
one has appeared tries to make himself whole
by exhibiting the corpse as specimen of his
work"
THE alumni of the Chautauqua literary and
scientific circle held their first annual banquet
at Boston, Saturday, with about one hundred
| and fifty men and women present. The event
was compliment to Rev. DR.. J. ii Vincent of
| New Haven, leader of the movement in New
England.
| SEVEN thousand Indians about Poplar Rap
| ids, Dakota, have nothing but little flour for
| 70 ID, all game having disappeared Their dogs
and ponies have been killed and eaten. In
sixty days. without relief, all must starve to
death. fear of the massacre of the agents
| and post traders is expressed.
| THE will of Colonel Hunt, the millionaire
| lumberman of Roscommon, Michigan, has dis
| closed that he has bequeathed $1,000 to Caro-
line Brown, the mother OF Artemas Ward, "
| and a similar amount to Eli Perkins and Josh
Billings. Hunt loved humor and owned an ex-
tensive library made up mainly OF humorous
| literature
THE Dominion parliament at Ottawa is to in
vestigate the case Of Roger Amero, who was
extradted from Nova Scotia ON charge of
murder, detained at Boston for SO long, and
finally set free. All the papers in the case have
| been called for, and there Is talk of censuring
| Governor Butler for the way in which the man
| was treated.
The most expert robbery Troy, N. Y, has
| known for eighteen years was perpetrated early
Sunday morning. Burglars entered E. Marks
| & Sons jewelry store by way OF an adjoining
| insurance office, forced the safe door from its
hinges, and carried off between $4,000 and
$4,000 worth of diamonds, watches, jewelry
cash, ETC., leaving no clue.
SALMI MORSE, who thrust himself before the
| public 80 persistently in his efforts to produce
his -" Passion Play in New York, was found
drowned in the Hudson, at the foot Of Eighty
eighth street, in that city, Friday. There is
little doubt that 1T was a case OF suicide, fol
Morse has been very respondent OF late over
| his business affairs and has threatened to take
his own life The " Passion Play" was his ruin
CURIOUS legal question has arisen out Of
the City of Columbus disaster. couple who
| persisted on that occasion left no children, but
| considerable property. As 1t is impossible tC
| say surely which one died first, the title to the
estate will have to be determined by inference
The courts have he'd, in cases of shipwreck
that the woman, being the weaker, the Law
warrants the conclusion that she dies first
and, therefore, the husbands heirs are en-
titled to the property.
A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone passed over the west
ern portion of Georgia Tuesday afternoon, thu
10Th inst, running vast amount Of property
and killing many persons by falling buildings
The details show the storm to have been wide
spread Portions of Georgia, Alabama, Nortl
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee wer,
visited by it, which caused vast loss of prop
erty and great sacrifice Of life. Many village
were wholly, or almost wholly, demolished b,
the force Of the wind, and the destruction wal
aggravated in a number of instances by tn
ruins Of houses catching fire. The submerged
districts of the Ohio valley were also visiteC
by fierce gales, resulting in great addition t.
the loss of life and property, owing to the fierc
agitation of the waters by the wind. At eas
one hundred lives were lost in Georgia ant
North Carolina, and probably twice that mum
Der of persons were injured.