The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-21
Weekly News Summary.

THE next New England fair will be held at
Manchester, N. H., the first week in September.
THE general assembly of the Presbyterian
church met at Saratoga, Thursday. Two thou
sand persons were in attendance.
IT required FIVE hundred and seventy-one
ballotings to nominate a democratic congress-
man in one OF the Indiana districts.
THE Autobiography Convention at Chicago
nominated General B. F. Butler for president.
Some Of the delegates have formally protested.
THE returns in Switzerland show such an
alarming increase in the use of alcohol that 1t
is proposed to place prohibitory tax on dis
tilleries.
ATTENTION has been called in England to
the danger OF collision between Atlantic steam
ers, on account of their failure to adopt GER
tain track.
AN odd invention appearing at the patent
Office Is " life-saving coffin" made so that IL
person is buried alive the least motion will
give an alarm.
IT is understood that there is no hope of
legislation from this congress for the redemp-
ton Of the trade dollars. Spectators in them
are unloading.
THE old seal of the United States senate has
just been found. 1t was made In 1926, and is
as large as mans hand, but seems never to
have been used.
A PETITION signed by Florence Nightingale,
Mrs. Kendall and many other ladies, has been
sent to the house of commons in England, ask
ing for the passage of laws for the enfranchise-
ment of women.
ABOUT two hundred delegates were present
in Chicago at the convention of anti-monopo-
lists A resolution favoring the making of no
nominations until after other national conven-
tions have been held was voted down.
THE gavel to be used by the chairman of the
republican national convention is to be made
in Chicago from pieces OF wood from every
state and territory in the country, including
Alaska. A piece of rock maple from Maine,
birdseye from Vermont and beech from New
Hampshire have been sent.
THE Spanish government recently arrested
the manager of newspaper in Madrid for
publishing seditious article. The manager
laughed in his sleeve and went to prison. In a
few days the government discovered that the
offensive article was an extract from Macau-
lays History and the newspaper man was let
out.
THERE were 3,177, 100000 cigars made in
this country last year and 35 100000 imported,
making sixty for every man, woman and child,
or 200 for every man over twenty-one. New
York city is the center of the manufacturing
business 1t has nearly 1000 factories employ
ing 2OO60 men, women and children, and
makes ,0O0, 0O0,0 900 cigars year.
A MAN named Case Of Franklin, Penn, is
travelling about with the smallest perfect loco.
motive ever seem 1t is only six inches long
and weighs but two pounds, and yet has all
the parts OF forty-ton article 1t makes its
own steam from water pumped by itself, and
has every little part finished with the greatest
care. Case worked three years making it,
WHILE United States Paymaster Whipple
was en- route from Fort Buford to Glendive
about forty miles out he was attacked by road
agents. Sergeant Conrad was killed and two
privates were seriously wounded. The mules
attached to an ambulance wagon in which the
and hia CLARK NIT tba
box were, ran away and thus they made their
escape
BANKERS find great difficulty in obtaining
one and two dollar notes since the appropria-
tion for printing them was exhausted, and the
standard silver dollars are quite generally paid
out. It is observed that among those who
complain the most bitterly about being COM
PEELED to receive them are the congressman
who have been the most enthusiastic advocates
of the silver coinage.
ONE thousand Grand Army posts have sent
in petitions for pension of So month to
every man who served sixty days in the army
and was honorsbly discharged, and their COM
mittees, now at Washington before the pension
committee OF congress- threaten to bring the
personal solicitations of fifty thousand men to
bear on senators and members Of congress in
behalf Of this measure
WORCESTER, Mass, had, the 18th, the worst
fire 1t has had for thirty years, in the burning
of the Parkachoag woolen-yarn mill. 1t was
brlck building, two hundred and seventy feet
long, and three and four stories high. dozen
women and girls, in leaping from the upper
stories, were terribly hurt, and some will die
A dozen more were somewhat injured. The
financial loss is $50, 900; insurance $4,000.
AsHEL SMITH and his wife of Turner'S s, N. Y,
returned from concert at ten o'clock Friday
night and drove into the barn. While Smith
was standing on the floor and his wife was in
the wagon, pistol shot was fred, which Just
missed his head and entered the spinal column
OF his wife. A blanket was then thrown over
his head, and he was robbed of 1925. The
woman was paralyzed by the shot and cannot
recover.
SEVERAL hundred prominent citizens of New
York have addressed letter to John Jacob
Astor LIE Grand B. Cannon. John A. Stewart,
j. ID. Vermiye Cornelius n Bliss, BENJAMIN
Fl. Bristow, and Cornelius r. Agnew, NJ. D.,
asking them to act as committee to designate
the time and place at which the fellow-citzens
OF President Arthur may express their approval
OF his administration, and their wish that he
may be nominated for president at Chicago.
THERE is an invention spoken Of which it is
thought may abolish the bit. 1t is called the
Garage, or anti-horse torture. 1t is composed of
steel band placed over the front bone of the
horses nose, and to this appliance the reins
are attached. The inventor claims for this SUBJ
stitute for the bit that it gives complete control
to the driver over the horse, without inflicting
the least discomfort or torture on the animal
itself 1t has been tried with satisfactory
results.
THE Ohio delegates to the national wool
growers convention. which meets in Chicago,
have decided to present to the convention a
resolution to the effect that the wool growers
of the United States will support no candidate
for national, state or other office, of what
ever party, unless pledged to the immediate
restoration of the tariff of 1867 on wool. 1t
sets forth that there are over l, 900, 600 wool
growers in the United States controlling o.
$1,000 votes, which they say is the balance OF
power.
OF republicans prominently mentioned for
the presidency General w. T. Sherman is the
Oldest, at sixty-four, and his brother John ranks
next, at sixty-one. Robert T. Lincoln is the
youngest, at forty All the others are between
fifty and sixty. Senator Logan is about fifty
five, Edmunds is fifty-six, Hawley fifty-eight,
Allison fiity-fve, Harrison and Gresham each
fifty-one, and Blaine and Arthur each fifty
four. The Democratic candidates are much
older. Tilden Is seventy-two, Payne seventy.
four, Thurman seyenty-one, Mcdonald sixty
i've, Hendricks sixty, Bayard fifty-six General
Denver sixty-six, Randall fifty-five. Flower Is
the young man in the race, at forty-nine.
The Methodist General Conference had q
tussle with the perennial woman question,
Saturday. The debate arose over the report
OF the committee on tineracy against licens-
ing the fairer sex to preach. There was quite
lively debate, In the course of which the
Rev. DR. Ives offered resolution to the eff ct
that as there is growing demand for de-
fined policy in the church as to licensing and
ordaining women to preach and administer