The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-19

this country as American coin worth their
nominal value.
THE first planter in Louisiana to produce
white sugar has Just died near New Orleans in
Pierre Michel la Pice de Bergondy. He was
leading creole Of the state, owned seven or
eight cotton and sugar plantations In Louisiana
and Mississippi, and was the last surviving
Louisianian who fought at the battle of New
Orleans.
AT the Presbyterian church on Madison
Square, New York, General George B. McClel-
Ian can be seen almost any Sunday sitting in
pew with two interesting little girls cudded
close up under his arms They are two OF the
orphans of the late General John B. Hood, who
were adopted by a Mr.. Adams of New York,
and are great pets of General Mcclellan.
WESTERN farmers are making "cyclone
pits" A hole is made ten feet deep and
dozen feet square or so, timbers put across to
make floor four feet below the surface, and
earth put upon them to make the ground
smooth again, except for an entrance way at
the southwest corner. OF course family
would be safe in such place IL 1t we're lucky
enough to get there.
BILL has been introduced in the senate by
Mr. Brown to provide for reduction of the
rate OF postage on mail matter OF the second
class, providing that after the first OF October
next, the rate of postage on mail matter OF the
second class, mailed from the office OF the pub
Usher, including sample copies, or sent from
news agency to actual subscribers, shall be one
cent per pound or fraction thereof
MARCH 10th, at the annual meeting in Wash
ington of the American tract society, presided
over by ex.Justice Strong, the report showed
the gratuitous distribution OF ffty-four million
pages Of tracts. The total issues of the society
for the year were twelve million, three hundred
and forty thousand copies OF books, tracts, and
papers. One colporteur at Castle Garden among
the immigrants speaks thirteen languages.
A MEMBER of the Canadian parliament has
created sensation by giving notice that be
shall ask for a return, showing In detail the cost
of Rdeau Hall, the governor-generaps resi-
dence; also for return showing how much
| money the governor-general and his staff re-
ceive, including travelling expenses; also for
return showing how much Lord Lorne's pleas
ure trip to British Columbia cost the country.
These matters have caused good deal of
gossip, but no one has before had the courage
to demand information on the subject.
A STORY of a fisby nature comes from
Oregon. 1t is about a man and dog. There
ia nothing remarkable about the man, except
his powers of narration, but the dog possesses
varied accomplishments. Among other things,
he dives into the river and catches large salmon
in his mouth. Recently he was by the side OF
his master, who was fishing through hole in
the ice, when he discovered a choice salmon,
and dived down after it. The current carried
him beyond the hole and under the ice, but he
| swan fifty feet, until he came to another hole,
whence he scrambled out with the fish in his
mouth.
In San Francisco, Friday, at the sale of tickets
for PATHS second concert, the crowd, over fif-
teen hundred strong, burst in the doors OF the
Grand opera house and smashed all the plants
and pictures In their way. The fury of the
crowd was so great that q boy who happened
to be in the way was picked up by man and
hurled through side door of the vestibule.
The boy was badly hurt Mems coats and
women's dresses were torn from their backs.
nj Int, nd nd
many tainted. The crowd threatened to tear
down the box office and gut the whole building
unless the Office was opened
SINCE the discovery of the electric light, va
rious attempts have been made in vain to util-
ze it for the headlights of locomotives, the os-
| cillation of the great engine frame shaking the
carbons together being the great difficulty. Re.
Gently perfectly balanced lamp has been in
| vented to hold the carbons, and an electric
| headlight, made by means of this invention, has
| been in use upward of month on the Pan
| Handle railroad. Its success Is perfect. 1t is
| run by little engine and dynamo placed on
| the side of the locomotive back OF the Westing-
house air brake. The engine, which Of course
must be in constant motion, is fed from the
boiler by an eighth-of-an.inch tap.
JEFFERSON DAVIS made short address before
| the Mississippi legislature at Jackson, and was
enthusiastically received He said he had been
| deprived of everything but being Mississppian,
| and that a race newly enfranchised had more
privileges than he enjoyed. He said he had
been reproached for not asking pardon. But
pardon" continued he, comes after repent
| ance, and with emphasis-"I have never
| repented. Were the same to be done again
| would do as have done" He congratulated
| the South on having regained her autonomy in
| the sisterhood of states, and said that though
dsenthralled, she, would now take hold of the
helm and steer the ship of state into port.
BUDD DoBLE, the turfman, was gratifed t,
| high degree when he visited Goldsmith Maid
| in Trenton, the other day. "Did she know me2'
| said Mr.. Doble " Bless your soul, the minute
| entered her stall she came up to me and
| rubbed her head against my arm and face.
| She neghed and frsked around the stall like a
! colt, and did everything but speak. You re-
| member, she had an unusually long tail
used to teach her to lie down SO that her tail
| would be clear of everything. ! asked her to
| lie down this time, and you would have laughed
| to see her turn round and round, and switch
her tail about until it was just 80, and then lie
| down with 1t extended on the clean straw"
AFTER war prolonged for upward Of five
years, the provisional treaty of peace, which
| General lglesias had arranged with Chilli, was
on Monday ratified by the constitutional con-
| gress of Peru. Before this decisive action on
| the part Of the nation most deeply interested,
| a three years truce had been agreed upon by
the La Paz and Santiago governments. 1t Is
| matter for coDgratulation, not only that con-
test wantonly provoked between American re-
publics is now over, but that the pressure ex-
erted by European diplomatsts and the i'll
| timed caution Of late exhibited by our state de-
partment have alike failed at this juncture to
| Illustrate the honorable attempts at compromise
which, but for foreign Intermediates, would
| have been successful at africa more than three
| years ago.