The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

York by the last Bremen steamer. Such
tigers, It is said, are becoming scarce and
costly, being worth from S2, 800 to So, 900, or
twice as much as lions of the same quality.
The tigress Is temporarily 10 charge OF a
Chatham street naturalist " named Reiche,
but 1t is expected that she will be placed on
exhibition In the Central Park m enagerie be-
fore being finally disposed Of.
AT West Springfield, H.. Thomas Henchie,
recently released from the insane asylum,
climbed into wagon in which we're three
farmers. He threw an arm round Julius Per-
kins' neck and drew large knife twice across
his throat, grazing his wndpipe, and severing
a branch Of the temporal artery Perkins fell
out of the wagon and the maniac pounced upon
John Colvn in n similar manner, inficting q
less severe wound in his throat, when he also
fell out OF the wagon Colvin's father jumped
out just In time to escape the murderous knife.
The maniac escaped.
THE long-delayed expose by United States
Commissioner Davenport Of the Morey letter
is published. The person who actually penned
the letter was q lawyer named Henry ii. Hadley,
OF - Park Row, New York Davenport de-
scrbes him as manipulation of insurance
companies of doubtful character and other
matters equally precarious, with an innate love
OF intrigue, and with a craving for notoriety
and an unconquerable desire to dip into poll
tics and correspond with public men He was
always a democrat, though ut the time of the
commission OF the forgery he was secretary OF
the Hancock Republican Association, In the
rooms OF which the forgery was committed.
Hadley has fully confessed his guilt
AN opium joint has been discovered in Bos.
ton. 1t is managed by Americans, and Is
much more luxurious than those run by
Cinnamon, although not equaing In elaborate
appointments the place In New York depicted
so artstically in recent paper in one of the
magazines of that city. Men and women,
nj fnr gOpiaI
some long given to dissipation, here inhale the
drug on couches and divans, there being
several rooms, and one floor devoted to
private chambers, where sometimes one
woman, sometimes two together, and occa-
sionally man and woman together can in
duge this dreadful appetite without being
seen by others.
THERE has lately been completed at the
shops Of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
at Wilkesbarre an engine which Is expected to
move train at the rate Of eighty miles an
hour. The inventor, who Is a Philadelphia,
has constructed his cylinders with fewer grid
iron valves than usual and, by a peculiar gear,
makes the steam and exhaust pipes independent
of each other. The steam brake is also oil
original design. The weight of the engine and
tender is about 10, 600 pounds, and the engine
| is expected to show from l 400 to 800 horse
| power The officers Of the Lehigh Valley Rail
| road Company are soon to test the capacity Of
| the engine to keep up great speed while draw
| ing heavy trains
In the American bankers convention at Sar
| atoga, resolutions were submitted in regard tC
| the silver dollar coinage and recommending
its discontinuance, and in favor of Legislation
providing for the impending emergency caused
by the absorption Of the securities upon which
national bank note currency is based both o
which were adopted Mr.. Potter of New
York made a brief reference to the presen
banking system as one to which he gave hi
early attention He did not want the system
used to perpetuate national debt, but to b,
used as long as the debt remained He hoped
| the bill would be favorably considered in con
gress. II passed, its effect would be to plac,
our interest upon as high q plane as that o
any nation in the world After the reading o
several papers, the convention adjourned
| sine die