The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-16
Items OF Interest.

THE snow at Leadville is from FIVE to seven
feet deep.
GENERAL GRANT is rapidly recovering from
his recent injury
NEW YORK state made a profit OF nearly
$40 600 out OF its prisons last year.
WHOLE herds CT cattle on the plains in the
western states and territories are reported to
have persisted In the recent cold weather.
THE gale the 9th caused $3.50, 900 to 81 ,000,-
600 damage at Coney Island. The Inhabitants
feared the island would be submerged by the
great tidal waves.
LITTLE boxes, containing FIVE strawberries
each, were sold at New York the other day at
seventy-fve cents box Larger boxes, hold
ing seventeen berries, cost 80.
| THE association for regulating the production
Of Kentucky whiskey has ordered the produc-
| ton this year to be reduced to sixty-six and
two-thirds per cent of the production Of 1881
| and 1882
A GERMAN, who murdered shepherd in
| Germany about five years ago, committed sui
| eide near Hawley, Pennsylvania, recently, hay
| ing been recognized by woman who had come
| to this country from the same place.
| In the republican congressional convention
at Chester, Mass, Francis W. Rockwell Of
Pittsield was nominated on the fourth ballot
| by twelve majority. This is to fill the vacancy
| caused by electng Congressman Robinson to
| be governor OF the state
Mr. HAMILTON DIssToN of Philadelphia has
$500, 900 insurance on his life in thirteen regu-
| lar companies, while he is good for several
| thousands additional in mutual companies
He has probably a heavier life insurance than
| any man in the country
A MONUMENT composed of Vermont granite
and costing $1,000 has been placed in the burial
| lot Of Matt Ii. Carpenter in the cemetery at
Milwaukee 1t is in cabinet form and Grecian
STYLE seventy-fve feet high, and simply bears
| the name of the late senator.
NEW JERSEY has 5000, 900 in pocket and
| need assess no state tax this year, and Gov
| ernor Ludlow suggests that II railroad and
| other corporations were made to pay for their
| privileges properly there would be no general
assessment for years to come.
| In some sections of Montreal visited by
agents of the society for protecting women and
children, it is said that there is as much over
crowding and restitution as in the slums Of
| London. In some small rooms as many as
| fourteen or fifteen men, women and children
| were found on the floor.
| A COMPANY of militia sent by the governor
of Texas to stop fence.cutting in Karnes county
has returned from the expedition with fifteen
| deer in their game-bags, and now citizens OF
the locality have fitted out private force of
| ten men to catch the fence-cutters. The deer
cost the state S112 head.
THE cost to the government of the fruitless
Star Route prosecutions was simply amazing,
Mr.. Bliss got $50 600, Mr.. Cook SO, 200 land has
| So $50 more coming to HIM, Mr.. Ker 1871, S77,
Mr.. Merrick $4,000, Mr.. Gibson $1,000, De.
tective Pinkerton So, $50, and Attorney General
Brewster $1,000 (for services performed prior
| to his appointment.
| PARTIES who contemplate visiting Europe
| will do we'll to correspond with DR.. +. Tour
| jee, Boston, the leader of 80 many pleasant
| trips over the ocean, who will send q descrip-
tive pamphlet free to all applicants. The
| Christian Union SAYS: "Dr 1ouriees excur-
sions are the most satisfactory, the best planned
and conducted, and embrace wider range OF
travel than any other Of the excursion tours. "
A BILL of Importance to patent medicine
| manufacturers has been introduced into con-
| e esq., 1t requires that, before advertisement
of patent medicine is placed in the mails, the
| formula and sample must be placed in the patent
Office, and a certificate that no injurious in
gradients are contained in the medicine must
be obtained from the secretary of the interior.
| The penalty for noncompliance is a fine OF
| imprisonment, or both.
In Pittsburg, a machine has been invented
| for manufacturing hob nails, hitherto done by
hand and factory will shortly be established
there. The machine, it is claimed, is capable
| of doing the work Of one hundred men. AS q
thousand men are now engaged in the manu-
facture of hob nails by hand, the invention
will result in throwing out of employment a
large number of men throughout the country
Each machine is operated by three men.
THE government has been defeated in the
| New Orleans lottery suit. Postmaster Merchant
| by direction of the pOstmaster-general refused
to deliver letters addressed to the New Orean,
| national bank, on the ground that they were
been denied the use of the mails. Judge Par
dee OF the United States circuit court decides il
favor of the bank, decreeing that 1t was en-
| titled to the full and free use of the mails.