The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10
Items OF Interest.

THE,decrease of the public debt for August
was So, 542, 900.
THE Hudson river Is lower than 1t has been
before for twenty-five years.
PHIL ARMOUR Of Chicago terminated his pork
corner on SATURDAY at profit Of So, 100000.
PAPER is now used for making doors, and
can be finished to resemble any kind Of wood.
There is no shrinking, cracking or warping, it
is said.
Mrs. WASHINGTON KETTER of Reading,
Penn, who has been fasting for forty-three
days, died Wednesday of last week. She be-
gan her fast after reading Christ's fast in the
wilderness.
THERE was great parade last week in New
York city OF the trades of workingmen. A
number of branches of industry were shown in
full operation upon wagons, drawn by horses
in the procession.
THE secretaries Of the American Board are
informed by cable dispatch from Foo Chow,
China, that their missionaries, as well as those
of the American Methodist Society, we're I'M
injured by the recent bombardment.
CYRUS w. FIELD, Jr., and members OF the
New York Yacht Club deny that they intend to
fit out an Arctic expedition. Engineer Mel
vile says the project has not been fully dis
| cussed, but he expects an expedition will start
| about year hence.
| In the northwestern part of Belmont, south
ern part Of Harrison and northern part of
Guernsey counties, Ohio, sheep are dying by
hundreds from scarcity Of grass, due to drouth
and grasshoppers. Sheep formerly held at SIS
head can now be bought at 81.
WHILE Miss Catherine Floss was dressing
catfish at Alton, ILL.,, six weeks ago, one of its
horns pierced the palm OF her hand. The pain
increased steadily, and the hand swelled.
| Everything possible was done for her relief
but without avail. Finally modification set in
and last week the physician amputated the
arm This at first gave relief but blood poi
soning had set in and she died soon after.
PECULIAR drowning accident occurred in
Connecticut the other day. William McBryan
! and friend were fishing on the Housatonic
| river, having a large dog with them The
boat upset and they were thrown into the water
The friend reached the shore, but whenever
| McBryan would lift his head above water the
dog would pounce upon him and keep him
down, evidently thinking it all play. McBryan
| was drowned
MELvINA BUTLER met a strange death at Bos-
| ton, Tuesday OF last week. She was in the
kitchen, leaning over a stove, when a bullet
came through the window, striking her in the
breast. The bullet caused bruise merely and
dropped to the floor. Mrs. Butler lived but a
few minutes 1t is believed that the shock and
the intense bleeding over the heart caused
death. The bullet is supposed to have come
from Charlestown.
MR. II. MEYER, the archie ologist, writes
from Nicaragua to the New York Post that he
has found, forty-two feet under the surface of
an ancient cemetery on the Island of Zspatera,
a rock which, judging from the figures 1t con-
tains, has served in remote times for astronom-
ical observations. On this rock were two stone
tablets, one Of which contains representation
of the world; part Of Africa and Asia united,
Europe and this continent. A large continent is
situated in the Atlantic Ocean, which is prob
ably the mythical lost Atlantic, mentioned in
some of the ancient authors. The other tablet
contains inscriptions, Of which part is I'm.
doubleday PhGnician.
ONE morning last week section hands EN-.
ployed on the Delaware & Hudson railroad
found a man lying on the track, about mile
and half above Mechanicville, N. Y, terri
, bly, mangled. The man had sustained deep
, cut in the head, both legs were cut off above
the knees and the body was badly bruised
! Strange to say, the man was alive and con-
, scious. He was placed on hand-car and taken
to Mechancville, where he fingered in terrible
agony until four o'clock, when he expired
!. The man proved to be Andrew Jackson a well
TODD farmer, about forty-fve years old, who
owns farm and resides at Hammond's Sta
! ton, four miles above Mechanicville. Before
. dying Jackson stated he had been run over by
! the Montreal sleeper, due at Mechanicville al
7 half-past one o'clock A. M. jackson, with hi
! dying BREATH declared that he had been thrown
: under the train by William Bolan and JohI
: Duffy, young men who reside at Hammond
i Before concluding his statement jackson died.