The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-16
Items of Interest.

A SPECIAL grand jury are to investigate the
late riots in Cincinnati.
AT Laconia, N. H., Samon, the murderer, has
been sentenced to be hanged April II, 1885.
OF thirty.six states which have called con-
ventions to select delegates to the national
convention at Chicago, thirty have selected
dates in this month
THE McDonough Telephone and Telegraph
Company has been incorporated in New York.
with capital of 81 100000. The lines are to
traverse the entire country.
LETTERS from peach-growers all over the
Delaware peninsula agree on the promising
condition of the peach crop. One says the
prospect is better than in any year since 1873.
GENERAL BADEAU, United States consul
general at Havana, has resigned. 1t is stated
that his accounts are considerably in arrears.
Badeau claims that the government owes him
a large sum for notarial fees.
BY physicians advice Bismarck renounces
control of the affairs of the Prussian govern
ment, but retains the direction of imperial
affairs. In this capacity he occupies personal
and untransferable position of confidence
toward the foreign powers.
JOSEPH MEDILL of the Chicago Tribune, in
his argument before the senate committee ON
post-offices in favor of reduction of the pres
ent rate of postage On newspapers, said the pub
fishers of the United States had been compelled
to pay a tax amounting to s., 5O0,00 year
for the past ten years.
THE Philadelphia Press publishes the affi-
davits OF George Gillespie and Robert Huges,
animal keepers of Liverpool, who swear that
the alleged white elephant OF Adam Forepaugh
is common Indian elephant, artificially col
ored with paris white The men allege that
they were employed to color the animal, and
that they gave him several coats.
In response to inquiries, friends of Fitz,Johu
Porter in the house of representatives say that
IL ia nrObabla that his hill will bn allnWad In
lie on the speakers table until after the repub-
lican convention at Chicago. The friends of
Fitz-John Porter do not care to embarrass
either the president or themselves by sending
him the bill before the convention meets.
THE annual boat race between the crews of
Oxford and Cambridge universities, England,
took place the 7th instant over the course from
Putney to Mortlake, four miles and two furlongs.
The start was good, Cambridge being the favor
he When the turn was made it was doubtful
which crew led, but in moment 1t was seen
that Cambridge had the advantage, which they
kept to the end, Oxford being two lengths
behind at the finish
THE Chicago Humane Society has unearthed
a children's home" kept by woman named
Shock and supported by charity, whose wretch
edness rivals that of Dotheboys hall, or of
Crowley's "Sheperd's fold in New York.
ones were fed chiefly on mush and potatoes,
and were forced to spend most Of the day in
cellar which was also occupied by COW, and
TO sleep in dirty and wet beds.
A SUBMARINE boat which ought to be able to
destroy the navies of the world has been made
at Stockholm 1t was tried on the Malar lake.
and will shortly be brought over to France
The boat has the shape of cigar, is sixty-four
feet long, six feet wide, and has an engine of
thirty horsepower. 1t is said that it can be
navigated under water goes at the speed of
| ten nautical miles an hour and that four per-
sons can, without any danger, remain in it for
six hours running. The funnel-shaped cylinder
is the only part of the boat which is visible A
winding stair leads to the boat, which Is steered
from the top OF the cylinder, where a glass
roof enables the man at the wheel to see the
surface of the water and direct the course of his
strange submarine engine