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


New YORK produces 100000 900 cigars
every year.
JAY-EYE. SEE failed in the attempt to beat
Maud 5. 3 trotting record
THE French post-oflice department will try
machines for stamping letters
FULLY fifty thieves have been hanged or
shot in Montana the past month.
ORANGE peel is now saved and dried for kin
ding wood. Being oily it burns rapidly.
THE -four production at Minneapolis, MINI =,
last week was 101 ,030 barrels-16. S35 barrels
per day.
GERMAN company with capital OF $780,
600 is about to engage in the Angora goat bust
ness in Texas.
A PowDERMrLL at Kazan, Russia, exploded
on the 14th, killing ten persons. Five build
ings were burned.
THE Duke of Wellington dropped dead at
Brighton, last week, while entering the train.
He was born in 1907.
MORE schools have been established in North
Carolina during the last four years than during
the previous twenty years.
AMONG the articles from New Mexico in the
New Orleans exhibition will be two petrifed
trees over twenty-five feet high.
New York city has large freight elevator,
on South street, worked by electricity, and it
is reported much cheaper than steam.
THE main building of the New Orleans Expo
stion will be completed in a few days.
Machinery hall has a total length OF nearly two
miles
THE democratic convention OF the second
Maryland congressional district adjourned
without making any nomination after taking
LAOS ballots.
AN unknown man, who arrived at Niagara
Falls from Buffalo, jumped into the rapids
from an island above the falls. Several people
on the Canadian side saw his body go over
the falls.
LEIGH SMITH, the English Arctic explorer,
says that If men under him were reduced to
such straits as were the Greedy party, he
would not interfere with their eating the bodies
of their dead comrades.
In New York, Berlinger Strauss, manufac-
turers of neck wear state that their failure was
caused by defalcation Of their book-keeper,
Roundstein, who is supposed to be in Dakota.
The amount of the shortage is $4,000 to
$40. 600.
DISPATCH from Sydney, N. S. W., reports
that the sculling match between Hanlan and
! Beach for the championship OF the world and
$500 side took place Saturday on the PARA
malta river. Beach won the match by seven
! lengths
IT is rather startling to find that a statute
adopted in 1902 Is still in force in the District
OF Columbia providing that any one who bias
phemes the name of God by using profane Ian
guage shall be branded on the tongue with a
hot iron.
THE whole state of Nevada seems to have
stratum of water. filled soil about two hundred
feet from the surface which will supply artesian
wells without number. They often cost less
than $500, piping included, and good one will
yield $4,000 gallons of excellent water every
day.
HENRY HALL, manufacturer of fish lines at
Highland Mills N. Y, has failed, and is fu-
gitive from Justice His liabilities are esti-
thousands OF dollars on mythical notes. The
bank will suffer most. The national bank Of
Newburg holds $50 600.
THE store of c. K. Johnson OF Carmel
Maine, was entered by burglars the 18th, who
cut into the safe with chisels and took about
$1,000, part of which belonged to other parties,
deposited for safe keeping. s. s. Pratt loses
$500, just received as back pension money.
There Is no clue to the burglars.
THE building 108 to liz Beach street, Boston,
occupied by several firms, was damaged by fire
TO the amount of $40, 900 the 18th inst. The roof
gave way with Joseph Pierce aud James Quig-
ley, fremen. They fell into the seething mass
of flames and were burned to death. Pierce
was one Of the best known members Of the
force.
AT the funeral of Captain Shirley of the
Salvation Army, at Ashbury Park, N. Y,
Major Poore created a decided sensation by
trying to turn the funeral service into a revival
Christ TO come forward and kneel by the side
OF the casket and there seek forgiveness for
their sins.
GENERAL HAzEN, chief signal officer, has Sc
cured the consent Of the postmaster general to
hoist the cold wave flag on post Office buildings
, throughout the country to signal for the benefit
OF farmers and others the approach Of cold
waves. The flag is OF white with a black
center. 1t will remain in position twenty-four
hours after being hoisted.
M. LEvAT, a learned member of the French
Academy of Sciences has just discovered that
; melons contain somewhat considerable pro-
portion Of alcohol. This gentleman decort
Gated three kilogrammes of melon, put II
through course of scientific treatment and
, obtained therefrom five liters OF alcohol, per
fectly normal and disable.
, BELGIUM will this month celebrate the fiftetf
anniversary of the first railroad operating In
the country, with curious historical process
sion AS feature. There will be all known
carriages represented, from the Roman chariot
to the electric railway, aud the locomotive and
coaches of the first train which ran in Belgium
in 1884, manned by the men then engaged on
the line who still survive.
A YOUNG royal Bengal tigress, said to be the
| finest specimen which has been brou ght tC
= this country for many years, arrived at New