The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-02
Other Localities.

BARNUMs white elephant has got as FAR as
Suez.
THE United States treasury surplus at the
end Of 1883 was S142, 900.
TAUNTON Mass cotton mills are reducing
the wages OF the operatives.
No more American pork will be admitted
into France after January 90
THE assistant postmaster-general Mr.. Hazen,
says that two-cent postage is success.
SEVERE thunder shower visited various
parts of Massachusetts last Thursday night.
THE director Of the mint favors an even ex-
change of standard silver dollars for trade |
dollars.
A PECK of gold and jewels, valued at 800, 900,
has been found in Wilkes county, Georgia, at
the roots of a tree.
GUITBAU's skeleton has at last been artcu-
lated and hidden in a private room Of the
army medical museum.
A BREAsTPIN containing an Edison glow
light, fed by small waistcoat pocket battery,
is sold for 50 at Nuremberg, Germany.
AT Silverton. Col, terrific wind storm set
in December 49, raging furiously six days, and
proved the most disastrous to life ever known.
AN engine on the New York e. Hartford
railroad struck in large snow drift, which ex-
tinguished the furnace fire and caused an ex-
plosion.
THE Vulcan steel works. st. Louis, closed the
LIST of this month, and it is believed they will
not resume for several months One thousand
employees are thrown out of work. Dizziness Of
trade is the cause.
SINCE the East river bridge was opened to
public travel the receipts have amounted to
$40 500 from foot passengers, S42 1853 from
vehicles and S54, 115 from the railway, or a
grand total of $13S,773.
A LANsINGBURGH IN. W firm is making ex-
perimental paper powder barrels for the gov
eminent 1t is expected these will supersede
Upn "a m Hrn1 q 70 mar
featuring paper carriage tops
THE national greenback labor party has, it
appears, an organ at the national capital, and
that organ is in the field betimes with presi-
dental candidate for the party. This is none
other than the redoubtable Benjamin F. Butler.
In Providence, R. l., the liabilities of A. D.
| Smith & Co., whose failure is announced, are
placed at S1,700 900. In their various mills
the Messrs Smith & Co. operated 81 900 spin
dies, giving employment to 10000 or $4,000
persons.
THE smallest, shortest and youngest soldier
TO the late war has been discovered again. He
was John ii. Nichols of Madison, Wis he en-
listed as drummer in the eleventh regiment Of
his state when he weighed sixty-fve pounds,
was four feet high and fourteen years old, and
is still living.
THERE must be singular state Of public
morals at Chicago when alleged reputable
business men" wait on the mayor to ask him
side gamblers because the closing of the gam
bling houses would seriously affect the retail
mercantile trade.
A WOMAN has been arrested at Leyden,
Holland, charged with having murdered during
the last few years sixteen persons. The vict-
inns were nearly all members Of her own fami-
y. She insured their lives first and received
the insurance money after their deaths. The
woman has confessed.
/ GENERAL GRANT, while alighting from a
coupe at his residence in New York, slipped
and fell on his side, sustaining serious injury
in the leg about four inches below the hip
joint The surgeons say no bones are broken,
and the supposition is that bruise OF the SCI
attic nerve has been sustained.
A RECENTLY formed organization known as
the grand army of the people," which wants
among other things the right to vote direct for
States in 1884, through and by an amendment
of the constitution, will hold a mass meeting in
Brooklyn some time this month.
The report of the Mississippi river commits
sion, submitted to the secretary of war last
week, recommends an appropriation of SILL
5000 for a thorough levee system to protect
the low lands from periodically recurring floods.
, General c. B. Comstock, in a minority report,
7 says this sum Is altogether too small for the
I purpose.
! THE Missouri democratic state committee has
l appointed a committee to cooperate with the
St. Louis cltlZenS committee IN the matter OIL
= procuring the holding of the democratic ma
4 tional convention in that city. resolution
! was adopted urging the national committee tC
t call the national convention prior to the repub
r lican convention.
: THE Genoa Mercantile Courier, q newspaper
e OF good standing, reports the repeated finding
of matches scattered through bales OF Ameri
Q can cotton, and suggests that in the fact may
# be found an explanation OF some recent mys
8 terious fires on shipboard. The matches ar,
}, said to have evidently been put in purposely
It but the motive in the case ID not guessed.
THE preliminary estimates of the principa
o crops Of the country for the year show that pc
tatoes, rs we'll as all other roots, and oats, hav
o grown luxurantly, yielding abundanty. Tn,
n average yield of corn per acre is nearly twenty
n three bushels, twelve per cent less than tn
n average The wheat crop is slightly in exces
r of 400 600 bushels and the cotton produc
e about g. 600, 600 bales.
+ A SNOW slide down the mountains nea
Ouray, COL, buried eleven miners under fiftee
Dr. feet OF snow. Six were taken out dead, An
n, the other five rescued In crushed and man
X ged condition. A party which went to recove
VI the bodies was overtaken by another avalanch,
t; which carried the sleds containing dead an
Id wounded two thousand feet down the mountai
n and over five hundred foot precipice. Tn
or party escaped.
For the first five months Of the present fisci
- year the internal revenue collections amounte
n, 10 SOL ,279 900, being $l1 ,343 900 less than
49,, the corresponding period last year. In spiri
n there has been an increase of $4,000, 900 in Il
n collections and an increase Of half a million
81, fermented liquors. The total decrease in IL
al collection OF taxes tobacco is 50 19l 600,
3d. taxes from banks 81, 068, 900; on miscelaneol
taxes $685. 900.
d. FERDINAND A. WYMAN, a stakeholder in Il
IN, Humston food-preserving company Of Bosto
Or. Mass, has filed a bill in equity in which
30, asks for an accounting from the treasur
his OF the company. alleging that unauthoriz
nd debts to the amount of $50, 900 have been col
nd tracted and that the company Is practically
Use funct. This company has been advertising 9
ev- tensvely, claiming to have for sale an artiC
that would preserve meat, fish, eggs, ETC., (
in an indefinite period.
ich THE Washington mills at Lawrence, Mas
gin will stop one hundred and forty looms, o.
led ployed to manufacture suitings, az soon as t
out warps at present on hand are used up. T,
OBJ hundred hands will be thrown out OF wor
icy Already nearly one hundred and fifty ha