The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-09

lubSUdy 0lB0b VI lheb Wtchy WuiCh WhS tho |
heaviest known for years.
THE Revere Rubber Company's works. at
Chelsea, Mass, are burned, with loss OF over
5000, 900. About five hundred operatives are
thrown out OF employment.
ACCORDING to special reports received in
regard to the cholera in France, it Is believed
that q greater number OF deaths than are shown
by the official returns have occurred
MR. BowEN's regular Independence-day cell
ebration mt his home in Woodstock, Conn,
passed off in much the usual way, although the |
attendance was somewhat less than heretofore.
THE fitteen-year-od boy who was sent on
to Philadelphia, from Quincy, ILL.,, under the |
supposition that he was the long-lost Charlie |
Ross was seen and questioned by Mr.. Ross, |
who finally said positively that the lad is not |
his missing son.
THE formal presentation of the Barthodi |
statue OF Liberty Enlightening the World by |
| the French government to the United States |
took place in the Gauthier workshop last Fri |
| day. Minister Morton received the statue in |
the name of his government.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has issued proclama- |
ton warning all persons not to settle or locate
upon lands in the Indian Territory, declaring
| that those lands are set aside for the use of |
| Indian tribes, and further warning all persons
| that military force will, If necessary, be used
to maintain the lands for the exclusive use of
the Indians, as Is prescribed by the statutes of
| the United States
| DISPATCH from Cairo says that letters
| have been received there from Khartoum, stat
| ing that the place was captured during the
| latter part of May, without difficulty. There
| was no massacre. Most of the Europeans
| turned Mohammedan Among those who did
| not was General Gordon, who is quite safe, and
allowed the freedom Of the Mahdis camp
| The Mahdi himself Is at Khartoum. The Eu-
| ropeans are well treated
THE post-office is a fairly good barometer of
| the commercial prosperity OF place In Japan
a kind OF bankruptcy PREVAILS and the people
are unable to pay postage on their letters,
hence they have ceased writing to one another.
| The post-office returns for February show that
| the number OF letters which passed through
the post during that month was 208,878 less
than the number for January, and the number
| of postal cards 500, 1877 less.
PROMINENT republican politicians in Con-
cord N H., say that plans are already being
laid for the next United States senatorship
from that state 1t is understood that the fol-
lowing men are, or soon will be, active candi-
dates in the field: Henry w. Blair of Manches-
ter, the present incumbent; General Gilman
Marston of Exeter; Edward II. Rollins Will
liam +. Chandler of Concord Ossian Ray of
Lancaster; James W. Patterson of Hanover;
and Charles H. Burns of Wilton.
ABOUT two hundred laborers employed by
the Lake Shore a. Western Railroad Com
pany in Michigan arrived at Milwaukee the Sd,
having travelled two days and nights without
food, and going to headquarters of the company,
there demanded their pay for Mays work.
Being refused, they attempted to break in the
doors, but the police drove them off. The COM
pany's officers explain that the pay roll was
late and that as the pay car has gone north the
, men will not be paid until they go back to
work.
PARTY of Amherst seniors aroused the
whole neighborhood in part of Amherst viii
lage by riotous behavior. They broke the door
of Congregational church, pounded upon the
doors of private residences and broke several
: windows. A large party of citizens assembled.
and, with the aid of constables captured the
whole party but one. Six seniors we're bound
over on the charge of drunkenness and riotous
behavior, and their case comes up to-day
Wednesday at the very hour they would have
! graduated
CERTIFICATE of incorporation of the Draw
baugh Telephone and Telegraph Company Of
g Canada was filed at New York the 3d. with
capital stock fixed at 81, 100000. The lines of
= the company are to run from New York, to
$ Albany, Buffalo, Windsor, Ont, Hamilton,
I Toronto, Montreal. Then to begin again at
Albany to run to Rouses Point, N. Y, Que
bee, Halifax, and thence to different states and
territories of the United States, and Canada,
and across any other countries Of the Western
, Hemisphere.
e If a continuance, design OF which has been
: submitted to the Australian minister, for water
: supply, be successful one of the greatest ene-
e mics of the farmer, drought, will, to some ex-
h tent be avoided. 1t is a machine for bringing
e down rain, and is in the form of balloon
with charge of dynamite underneath it. The
+ | balloon is to be sent into the Clouds and the
y dynamite is to be fred by wire connecting
it with the earth 1t is the intention of the in
t ventor to make trial of the apparatus on the
q dry districts Of New South Wales.
II THE government spends about $50, 900 year
a for the repair OF mail pouches; there are abou
5 one hundred thousand mail bags in use, and
II about ten thousand new ones are bought yearly
$ The weakest point in the mail sack is where il
closes and opens. In closing the bag the
o staples are pushed through the slots, an(
II project an inch or more When the bag il
e thrown about the staples soon bend and Otter
'e break. 1t looks strange that this little item
s. should cost the government so much money
10 but it does, for that is the main cause o
1t repairs.
lie A FEEDER of the Denver & Rio Grand
10 narrow gauge railroad running from Brown
RS canon up to the Calumet iron mine, has a ire
mendous grade all the way, a maximum o
st four hundred and six feet to the mile, ant
IS curves sharp in proportion. Nowhere else il
re the world do trains run on such grade with
at out cogs. The cars go up empty, at a snail
a pace. but come back loaded with ore, and thel
lie comes the danger. All brakes are set tigh
lie and the track is sanded but still it took lonj
TT time to arrange matters so as to avoid " runa
le ways" Whole trains were wrecked repeat
W eddy, but the trainmen learned to jump, an,
there has never been a man killed on the line
p CHURCHES in this part of the country enjo
rs a well-earned reputation for ingenuity in de
OF vising schemes for replenishing the treasury
but they are simply nowhere in comparison
ut with church in Georgia. 1t was a colore
A. organization and its members got up gran
le excursion to neighboring town to see ma
n hung Posters were circulated urging every
e. body to go and see " a wonder that has nc
n, taken place in Glenn county before for twent
&c years." and as additional attractions there wa
IS. "big supper" on the steamer and hop l
d. the hall at Brunswick" in the evening
in band accompanied the excursion and ticket
rs were only one dollar, with no reduction
ly children.
he THE Citizens League Of Milwaukee, Wis
ol has decided to attempt the enforcement of tn
ne Sunday law, which demands that all dram
all shops shall be closed on that day. This NOV,
er ment will necessarily include a dozen larg
IN parks under the management Of the leadin
pit brewing companies, and the Germans, togeths
AS with the ten thousand liquor dealers now |
IL censed will resist the attempt. The law hs
heretofore been utterly disregarded, ever
ne form of liquor interest running wide open O
TX, Sunday. The first and test case will be thi
ir- OF a rum-ho called the "Y. M. C. A." whic
he opened last week, next door to the Youn
Mems Christian Association hall, and took thi
en- name. The association was strenuous in |
ats opposition to granting license to this plac
th hnt the conncil sided with the liuuor-dealer