The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-25

with the barge The majority Of the men we're
uninjured, but three or four were seriously
hurt by being struck by the timber Of the barge.
BRICKS made of cork now constitute one Of
the new German industries. The usual size Is
ten by four and three.fourths and two and
half inches. They are prepared from small
corks, refuse and cement, and have not only
been used for certain building purposes, on &C
count of their lightness and isolating proper
ties, but are also employed as covering for
boilers, in preventing the radiation OF heat.
DANIEL CARDIGAN, chief clerk of the bureau
of medicine and surgery in the navy depart
ment, and Edwin G.. Kirkwood, a clerk In the
same bureau, have been arrested upon warrants
sworn out before Judge Smell by Secretary
Chandler charging them with embezzement
and conspiracy to defraud the government
by issuing vouchers for supplies to which the
name Of the chief Of the bureau was forged.
A HUMAN skeleton was found in secluded
spot in the woods near West Falls, N. Y, on
the 7th instant 1t was proven to be the re-
mains Of youth named Parker who mys-
teriously disappeared three years ago after
committing a theft The skull belonging to
the remains rested close by. To a strong limb
above WAS attached suspender, with moose
still dangling at the end. The place was the
scene OF suicide.
On the night before the recent dedication of
the new Mormon temple at Salt Lake, Presi-
dent Taylor claimed to receive revelation
direct from God that he accepted the temple,
the grounds, and sacrifice of the saints. All
was pronounced good" as at the. crea-
ton OF the world, and the next morning it took
the Almighty's mouthpiece thirty minutes
to bless every stone, stair, window, door, pane
Of glass, etc., pertaining to the edtce. This
prayer was 80 complete and perfect" declares
good saint, as to seem to comprise every
thing on earth and in heaven pertaining to the
offering of the temple
Aa tba ID, Ill,
g. Missouri river railroad approached Hubbel
Wednesday night the rails spread about sixty
feet from the approach to bridge one hundred
and fifty feet long, and the engine left the track,
but crossed the bridge on the ties, jolting the
weakened bridge and causing it to fall, carry
ing down the entire train. The engine smok-
ing-car, day coach and sleeper were all a COM
plete wreck. Thirty persons were injured.
An examination indicates that wreckers drew
out the spikes, removed the fish plates and
fastened barbed wire in the holes and pulled
the rails apart when the train approached.
THE American prohibtionist convention
adopted platform at Chicago last Friday which
declares that the God of the Christian Scrip
lures Is the author Of civil government. favors
the use of the Bible in the schools, asserts that
God requires and man needs the Sabbath, de-
mands strict prohibition laws, the withdrawal
Of all charters to secret lodges, and that they
be prohibited by law; opposes prison and i'm
ported contract labor; pledges the party to vote
for woman suffrage; asserts that the civil
equality granted by the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments should be extended
to Indians and Cinnamon; that international
differences should be settled by arbitration
that land and other monopoles should be dis
couraged; that the government should furnish
sound currency; that the tariff should be
reduced as fast as the necessity of the revenue
and vested business interests will allow; that
polygamy should be at once suppressed, and
that the republican party is censurable for the
long neglect Of its duty in respect to this evil,
and demands direct vote for president and
vice-president Of the United States. The con-
vention then proceeded TO the nomination for
president of the United States. S. G. Pomeroy
of Kansas, Governor st. John of the same
state, and the Rev. J. Blanchard of Illinois
were named. OF the seventy-seven votes cast
MIR. Pomeroy received seventy-two, and his
nomination was made unanimous. For vice.
president ]. A. Conant of Connecticut was
nominated by reclamation.