The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-03

had been in convent, and was called Sister
Rosalie.
AT Fall River, Mass. Rev. P. J. B. Bedard
tainted while shaving, Saturday, the 23d ut,
fell upon his razor, and was 80 badly cut that
he died Sunday.
THE Cunard steamship Oregon has made the
quickest passage on record, crossing the ocean
from Queenstown in six days, nine hours and
| twenty.t minutes.
GENERAL GRANT has been engaged by the
| Century Company to write series of twenty
war articles for their magazine His compen-
sation will be $4,000.
| AN insane man Jumped from the Flying
| Yankee" on the Eastern railroad, at Richmond,
Me-, and was thrown seventy-four feet, receiv-
ing but slight injuries.
A STRANGE disease, resulting fatally, has
| broken out among swine in Guiford, Conn.
| Several animals have died. Previous to and just
after death the hair will turn.
CRyoLITE, mineral which is of great value
| in the potash manufacture has been discovered
| in the Yellowstone Park Heretofore 1t has
been obtained only in Greenland
Two business men of Danvers Mass, are
| held in the sum of $40, 900 each, charged with
| setting fire to Joel Putnam's factory One of
| the prisoners is said to have confessed the act.
| A LOUISVILLE concern is making one hun.
| dred and eghty-six beer hogsheads to go to
| New Orleans, each to hold one hundred and
$4,000
IT is estimated that the wheat crop of this
country for 1884 will exceed that of any previ-
| GUS year by twenty-five millions of bushels,
and departments all agree in reporting the
| quality of the wheat superior.
HENRY ABBEY and Maurice Grau have en-
| gagged Sarah Bernhard for tour of the world,
beginning in 1886. She will play first in South
! America and then in the far West, reaching
| New York in the spring of 1887.
| The forest fires in Michigan have been doing
| an enormous amount of damage. Sunday,
| August 24th a northwest wind drove the fire
| down on Harmon city, destroying every build
| ing but large lime kiln and one house.
| OBRIENs circus has come to grief. Several
of its horses were killed by order of city and
| town authorities In eastern Massachusetts,, be-
| cause of glanders and as a final blow the cir
Gus was forbidden the highways for the same
| cause.
A CONNECTICUT woman sued married man
| for $50 for making the match " and baking
| the wedding cake, services which she per-
formed at the request Of the mans wife before
| marriage, for which the bride expectant prom
| ised to pay.
| AN outbreak against the Jews has occurred
| at Dubrovitza, in Western Russia. An anti
| Semitic mob pillaged twelve shops and twenty
houses. Many Jews were wounded. The po-
lice and the clergy were powerless to quell the
disturbance.
A TRAIN stopped at the drawbrdge of the
| Pensacola g. Atlanta railroad. Finding no
| signals to go ahead the conductor went forward
and found the Waterman murdered, with
| twenty-three balls in his body, which was laid
| on the track
A TERRIBLE story comes from Alabama Of the
| ravages among men and mules caused by a
mad dog 1t is said that thirty-seven negroes
ate the meat of hog which had been bitten
| by mad dog, and that they are all sick with
hydrophobia.
IN the county of Ximines, Mexico, five large
springs of living water have suddenly burst
forth on the open plains, where there has been
| a continual drouth for ten years, and where a
month ago, q bird could not find sufficient water
to quench its thirst.
THE petroleum industry in America cele-
brated its silver wedding Friday, the first vein
of oil being struck twenty-five years ago. At
present the production Is 5000, 900 or G, 600 600
barrels year, and the trade is being pushed
into foreign lands very rapidly
The first attempt ever made to photograph
the interior of coal mine was successfully
carried out at the Kohnor Colliery, Penn, the
other day, under the direction of James Tenn
pie Brown, agent Of the Smithsonian Insttu-
ton. The negatives are perfect.
BLACK walnut sawdust, formerly thrown
away, is now mixed with linseed gum and
nodded into heads and flower pieces for the
ornamentation of furniture. When dried and
vanished it is as handsome and much stronger
and more durable than carved work
THE imitation of canned sardines can 90 NO
further. The packing box is made in Jersey
City, the wrapper is printed in New York, the
tin cans are manufactured in Boston, the fish
are caught on the Maine coast and the oil il
extracted from cottopseed In Georgia.
THE largest sailing ship in the world has Just
been launched at Glasgow. She has foul
masts, measures three hundred and forty feel
in length by forty-nine in breadth, and twenty.
five feet eight inches in depth, and registers
3,173 tons. She is intended for the Eas
India trade.
FRANK WALTzMAN, formerly a wel-to dc
citizen of Xenia, Ohio died in Dayton, Monday
of last week, from starvation He leaves
wife and seven children The children sur
. rounded the bed of the dying man, crying fol-
bread. The family were too proud to make
their condition known
THE steamer Rose Standish of the Boston
and bingham line was sunk in the harbor the
28th, shortly after leaving her wharf, by tn,
, tug boat Wesley A. Cove. There were on,
hundred and sixty-one passengers on board tn,
Standish, but all we're saved, although the
, boat sank in six minutes.
} STRONG carbolic acid Is powerful poison
, when externally applied. A man recently
> while carrying pound OF it in bottle in hi
pocket, broke the glass. The acid ran over thu
surface OF one leg. He experienced little pain
, but died two hours after the accident. TIT
? acid paralyzed his nerves.
PoMPEY GRAHAM of Montgomery, N. Y, die
: last week Thursday, aged one hundred ant
3 nineteen years. He had distinct recollection
OF incidents and personages of his youth. IL
Z had his second wife long before Washington
e death, and afterward married a third. He on
t joyed good health up to the time Of his death.
4 BETWEEN Saturday night and Monda,
= morning, August 23d and 10Th, the vault of tn
S Peoples Bank of ST. Paul, MINI was robbed @
} $4,000. The vault was entered by some pei
p son knowing the combination, and as Edwar,
. Mason, sixteen years old, book-keeper in tn
d bank, is missing, he is suspected of the crime
= A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred in Corye
: ham, who was recently killed by a companion
The elder Graham met his sons assassin, &C
;, companied by the latter's father, at youn
u Graham's grave. Angry words passed and
. desperate battle ensued resulting in the deaf
y Of both fathers and the young assassin.
q THERE is one town in the country in whic
s the inhabitants are sure to sleep O. nights
n Leadville, Col, has not single cat within II
4 limits. Cats have been imported there by tn
4 hundreds, and in all varieties of color and size
o but not one has ever survived the second wee
y of residence, on account of the thin atmospher
at that altitude 40, 200 feet. There is no res
v need Of cats, because rats and mice are nc
h able to live any longer than their foes.
,. ALL the French have left Canton. II is no'
Y asserted that Admiral Courbet left the Mi