The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

with copper, that any metal articles dropped
into 1t are soon copper plated.
THE next German arctic expedition will en-
ploy specially built ship costing 81 900, 900.
The next thing wanted will be 81, 900
ship to look after the first one.
THE remains of Commander De Long and
his companions passed through Tomsk, Rus
STA, on the Sd, the funeral cortege being
escorted through the streets BY the military.
SUNDAY, Mary V. Young, seventh wife of the
late Brigham Young, died. in her fortieth year
Sixteen mourning widows still survive the
prophet, fourteen Of whom live at Salt Lake.
THE St. Lawrence river rose, the 81, three
feet, and the lower part OF Montreal was flooded.
Work in many factories was stopped, and six
hundred mechanics were thrown out OF en-
ployment.
APPLICATIONS have recently been made for
patents to cover new processes In the manufac-
ture of heavy cannon, to be made OF cast steel
and cast in one piece, as iron guns were for
merly made
SEVERAL cabins have been swept away and
four men killed by another snow-slide at the
Virginus mine In Colorado, and two men have
been killed at Brooklyn Gulch. Two men are
missing from San Juan.
FoREPAUGH, the circus proprietor, has re-
ceved a telegram from his agent in Algiers,
stating that he had been offered white ele-
plant for 910 900. Forepaugh directed the
agent to obtain the beast.
THE will of Mr.. p T. Barnum estimates the
property OF the great Snowman at ten millions
OF dollars. His share in the great show is put
down at three and a half millions. He has
made many charitable requests.
THE ground at Chimbo, little village in
Ecuador, forty-five miles from ChimberaZo,
has opened in many places, smoke and flames
have rushed out lava and ashes have been
elected, and it is believed that a new volcano
is in course of formation.
The consul-general reports that in wel-in-
formed official circles the number of victims
from the cholera at Alexandria is estimated at
between So 900 and 70 900. " In many villages
of the Interior" he says, a majority of the
laboring population has died, and in some in
stances nearly entire communities have dis
appeared, 30 that not sufficient effective hands
remain to cultivate and harvest the crops"
DURING the westerly winter gale, the 3d.
Mrs. Reuben Walrath of Oppenheim, N. Y,
went into the yard to secure some articles on q
clothes-line. Not returning, the family went
in search of her. They were attracted by her
groans and found her lodged in the branches
OF a pine tree, a few rods from the house. She
had been literally blown away One leg WAS
broken, her shoulder was fractured and she
also sustained some severe bruises.
On the 1st six hundred copies of the French
edition of Sarah Barnum" arrived at New
York. Next day at one o'clock, a translation
was undertaken by fifty-nne men, and before
midnight the work was done and the book was
printed and ready for SALE This Is the book
written by Marie Colombier, which Sarah
Bernhardt took as personal and attempted to
chastse the authoress with horsewhip for
publishing it, The book is characterized as
scandalous and indecent.
THE murder of Colonel Sodeikin, one of the
chief police officials OF Russia, demonstrates
that the power of the secret revolutionists is
unimpaired. He had known for years that his
10 npnAa nd fhn tolra
for his protection were as complete as human
ingenuity could make them, as they are for the
Gar, in fact. And yet the assassin was able to
penetrate his thick armor of guards, fire the
fatal shot and make his escape as swiftly and
mysteriously as though he were a spirit to van.
ish into air.
THE Cleveland, Ohio, Woman's Christian
Temperance union is about to begin another
political movement, planned by Miss Frances
L. Willard, president of the national union
who recently left here for Chicago, from which
point she will superintend similar work through
the state and local unions throughout the
United States. Her project is to get one mil
lion signatures to memorial TO be presented
to the next national convention of each party
asking the insertion of prohibition plank In
the platform.
FRIDAY was a very severe day in the West
In Chicago the mercury was twenty-four de
grees below zero. Twenty cars Of live stocl
were StdlleQ on uno WdDdSu rOdu, anu many
cattle persisted from cold. At Minneapolis
thirty-two degrees below zero; Rockford, H.
thirty-two degrees below Brainerd, MINI.
forty-two degrees below; Rock Island, twenty
five degrees below; in Iowa from twenty-five t,
thirty degrees below The steamer Wisconsin
arrived at Milwaukee covered with ice three
inches thick.
THE resignation OF Henry Willard as pres
ident of the Northern Pacific railroad wa
presented to the directors at New York. HI
! has also made an assignment to Horace Whit
of New York and William Endicott, Jr., o
Boston The real property included in tn
assignment is said to be worth 81, 600, DOC
summer residence at Dobbs' Ferry worth $3.50
600. 1t is said that he still owns large interest
in a railroad and other companies, and that hi
wife holds government bonds to the amount O
$780,
THE business failures in the United State
, during the year 1888, as reported by X. G. Du
& Co., number 9184, as against 6738 in the yea
3 1882, showing an increase of 2445, or equal I
I thirty-six per cent The liabilities for 1883 ar
Sl72, 600 900, as against S10l, 900 900 for 1888.
3 The failures of the last year are greater tina
$ those of any year since 1878, when they reache
! 10,478, with liabilities of 1924, 100000. A
analysis shows that out of every ninety-fou
I persons engaged in business In 1888 one perso
z failed, while in 1878 one person failed out {
d every sxty-four traders.
+. SATURDAY was the coolest day ever know
, at jamestown, Dakota-forty-eigh degrees b.
i lew zero. The lowest temperatures reporte
u in Canada have been twenty-five below at Parr
8 Sound, thirty-three below at Rockliffe an
:. twenty seven at Quebec In Chicago twent,
# seven below, and business was paralyzed.
st. Louis twenty-three below, the lowest sint
a 1864. At Kansas City twenty below, and mar
"a mules froze to death. At Louisville, Ky
A eighteen below, several deaths from freezir
n reported. At Fort Wayne twenty-four belo,
!. New Albany twenty-five below, the coolest
r. thirty-fve years. A snowstorm prevailed
"a Virginia, and extended even to South Carolin
A THE New York World has tabulated stat
d ment of stealngs by different classes of perso
It In the United States during the past year.
1t instances one hundred and forty -eight cas-
(amounts Of less than $1,000 not incuded),
a. which the total is $13, $50 600. Stealings
2. bankers number nineteen, and they are ere
as tied with securing the lions share, viz: s.
n 581, OOO next comes the merchants and agen
X twenty.eight, with So, 800, 600; city employ'
RI twenty cases, 81, 1856 600; bank cashiers a
d. clerks, twelve, 81, 070, 900; charity and tru
n. nine, 81, 031 700; clerks treasurers, etc, thri
IL one 1870 900; state treasurers, three, 1868 O(
n. county employees and revenue agents, sixtet
hi S7O9 600; brokers, six, $559,t0O; lawyers, fol-
n, S451 900.
ONE of the most narrowing accidents ii
has happened for long time occurred at
ronto, the 3D. on the Grand Trunk rairos
bv A suburban train left Union station at 6
- o'clock. One of the cars attached was fill
- with employees of the bolt works who live
'u- the city, and who are conveyed to their da
la hora hy thia meaua After turning n curva