The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-17

will probably recover, but 1t Ia thought the |
daughter will die.
Two Highland tourists lost their lives the
other day in Fingal's Cave. While they we're |
standing on ledge overlooking the water a
wave of unusual volume swept over the slight |
iron railing running around it, and carried |
them into the sea.
In harmony with an act passed at the last |
session OF Congress, comm ssion Is to leave
Washington about the first OF next month, and |
visit the South American states for the purpose
OF gaining clear and technical view OF our
trade relations with Brazil and our sister re-
publlcs.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
will lose in the Chippewa valley half million
dollars worth of property by the flood. The
lumber companies lose heavily, but the heaviest
losers are poor people, whose homes are swept
away. The newspaper offices are all flooded
and no papers are issued
THE brig Anita Owen sailed from st. Jago
with five sailors before the mast, and arrived
at New York Wednesday. OF the crew only
one remained alive, the rest having died from
yellow fever. OF the ten persons on board the
vessel all except the two mates and the cook
had the fever in the course of the voyage.
IN subduing thousand women convicts In
Spanish prison, of which they had gained
| possession by open revolt, the troops were
ordered to use none but blank cartridges, and
| while noise Of musketry was being made at
| the main entrance, a hole was battered in the
wall at another point, thus affording ngress.
AT Cragin's japanning works in Brooklyn, a
| kettle of japan in process OF manufacture took
fire and exploded, setting fire to the building.
| Several OF the workmen were unable to escape,
| James Hodgkns being burned to death and
| Sydney Myron so frightfully burned that he
| cannot recover. Two others were badly
scorched but probably not fatally. The build
| ing was damaged to the amount of 81, 000
A TELEGRAPHIc shorthand has been in
| cd hxrS iunnr Minha1a xuhioh bao fnr
some time in use in the Italian senate and is
now on an experimental trial in Paris. 1t
works on the phonetic system, by which the
| sounds that go to make up speech in any Ian
| guage are grouped into series and represented
| by certain signs. This obviates the necessity
OF signal for every letter in a word, as is now
the case
On account of the depression in the trade
| the Edgar Thomson Steel Company at Pitts
burgh notified its employees that unless they
accepted reduction OF wages suspension
would be necessary. The company employs
| nearly five thousand men. The probabilities
are that the reduction will be accepted. Only
about half of the mills and glass factories there
are In operation, and there is great distress
among the poor.
A DUTcHMAN lately bought kitchen stove
in Paris at an enormous price. When the stove
had TO be fixed after long journey to Rotter-
dam, the manufacturer who WAS intrusted with
that task declared the stove to be one that had
been made in his own factory. The Dutchman,
nothing daunted, pointed to the French trade
mark, but was undeceived when, after remov-
ing the little iron mask, the metal trade mark
of the Dutch manufacturer appeared.
THE later returns from Maine increase the
plurality for the republican ticket. The vote
of 429 towns was, ROBBIE, II, 155; Redmap, S.
306; scattering, 1886. The remaining towns
voted in 1882 as follows: Robbie, 2,429; Plaisted,
2506; scattering, IA The republican majority,
so far as heard from, is II, 263, which will prob
ably be increased slightly. And Robes plu-
rality, 80 far, is 81, 151. This is the largest
plurality ever given in the state for governor
in a presidential year.
THE French inventors of Siderable balloon
are not unlikely to be forestaled b. German
competitors in the same field According to
letter from Kiel, DR.. Woefert has just &C.
complished there two successful experiments
in aerial navigation. The balloon, like that of
Captain Renard, is cigar shaped. One of the
voyages lasted two and half hours during
which Woelfert is said to have navigated
against a northeast breeze. A special motor of
five-horse power is in course Of construction,
with which he feels confident OF being able to
navigate in the face Of strong winds.
The mystery that surrounded the life of
Private Henry previous to the Arctic expedition
has been cleared up by search OF the military
records at Leavenworth, Kan, and an inter-
view with Lieutenant Wallace OF Troop G,
seventh cavalry. Private Henry's real name
was Charles II. Buck, and from 1876 to 1878 he
served in that troop. In 1S7She was sentenced
to four years imprisonment for forgery, but
was released after having served one year. He
re-enlisted under the name OF Charles Buck
Henry in the fifth cavalry, and was subse-
, quently detailed for the Arctic expedition.
, Lieutenant Wallace says that before trial and
, | conviction Buck was hard case, but after
, ward he behaved well and was considered an
| exemplary soldier, when he was detailed for
the expedition.
In paper on Incendiarism," read before
7 the Fire Underwriters Association of the
Northwest. Milo E. Lawrence Of California
: said that the waste by fire In this country in
| the past year was over 500, 600 OF 20, 4S9
fires occurring in the United States in the last
, twelve months, there was absolute certainty rs
i to the origin of SOL. OF this number 1894
were of incendiary origin, and it was fair to
, presume that large percentage Of those
! whose cause was not known were the acts OF
| incendiaries. The entire West, with an aggre.
gate fire waste Of $12, 1853 251, had no more in.
cendisry fires than Georgia, with loss OF
1 S2838,075. For incendiarism, Mr. Lawrence
l said, Indiana stood pre-eminently at the head
/. of the list Of the states With fire record Of
| 1851, 845 she had more incendiary fires than
, the four states of Pennsylvania, Iowa, Kansas
and California. The system OF compromising
agents, he held, was one OF the causes of much
{ incendiarism The policy Of absolute indem'
4 nifty likewise had its defects.
A CURIOUS case is before the tribunal in
: Paris. A gentleman was getting down from
q an omnibus in crowded thoroughfare, when
8 he missed his footing, nearly fell backward,
and, to recover his balance, caught hold OF
: another passenger. The latter, taken by sur
r | prise, also found himself In danger OF falling
a and in his turn, caught hold of a woman with
: an infant in her arms, the upshot being that
: all four rolled together into the road. A heavy
a goods van was coming along behind, which
/. had it not been for the prompt action Of the
O omnibus conductor, who seized the horses
: head, would have run over some OF the pros
trate forms. AS it was the gentleman who
i was the original cause OF the accident escaped
: with few trihlng bruises the other male pas
Q senger falling on him was not hurt at ALL AND
9 the infant was equally fortunate; but its mother
had her arm broken, and sustained other Sc
we're injuries. Which of the two gentlemen
should pay damages is the questionable one
z who canght hold of her or the one who caused
him to do 80 by catching hold OF him.
: The seal fisheries in the northwestern part
8 of Alaska are controlled by the Alaska Com
mercial Company The contract stipulatei
~ that not more than one hundred thousand seal'
i year shall be killed, for which the company
pays the territory an annual fee OF 500 600, be
sides 80 for each skin shipped from the territory
q, and fifty cents gallon for seal oil also tina
u the company shall annually furnish free to thu