The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-13
Weekly News Summary.

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THE deposits in the state and savings banks
of the country since 1880 have been nearly
$500 100000.
THE agricultural department estimates the
wheat crop for this year at four hundred and
eighty.fve million bushels
AN Internal machine was found In the mail
in New York on Tuesday OF last week. 1t was
mailed at Williamsburgh and was addressed to
an Italian.
THE New York board Of alderman have de-
cided to permit the construction of surface
railway, to be operated by horsepower, on
Broadway.
j. /. CASE has arranged to trot Jay-Eye-See
against 2:09l, the record OF Maud s., aud
Phallas against his own record OF 213a at Bel
mont Park on August To-
FRANK T.. EVERETT the banker who COM
mitted suicide at Denver, three weeks ago, was
short in his accounts with depositors about
100000. He carried $50, 900 life insurance
A NEW geologic curiosity in Baltimore Is an
Australian fish, called the goby. 1t Is said to
climb or jump out of its aquarium, and to crawl
with great ease for several hours upon terra
firma.
AT Rockaway Beach the season thus far has
been disastrous for hotels and other summer
resorts. Several of the proprietors are fnan-
cially wrecked and some have been dispos-
sessed for nonpayment of rent.
AMILANEsE cabinet-maker named Pelosi, died
suddenly on July 8, from emotion consequent
on a priests communicating to him that his
wife was entitled to $40 600 under the will of
relative who had died in America.
THE cornerstone of the pedestal of Bar
tholdi's statue of Liberty" was laid at Bed
loo's Island at half-I asst two O clock on Tuesday
of last week, amid the booming OF guns,
strains of music and the shouting of an enthu-
siastic multitude.
JONAS G. LAMsoN of Chicago, H., who left
home May IL, in wagon, arrived at Saratoga
on Monday OF last week, having driven the en-
tire distance. He intends visiting Vermont
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire before he
returns home. The horse he drives is twenty
four years old.
NEW YORK has still another daily newspaper
and the editor is no less a parsonage than Mu-
rat Halstead of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette. On Monday afternoon Mr.. Halstead
started his newspaper, which is penny after
noon sheet, modelled after the famous Petite
Journal OF Paris
THE autumn expedition for the relief of
General Gordon will proceed up the Nile by
way Of Dongola. Suakin has been abandoned
as a base of operations. The project Of con-
structiug a railway from Suakin to Berber has
likewise been abandoned, and the plant has
been taken to India.
THE Puget Sound oysters are sometimes two
feet in diameter, and weigh, inclusive of the
bnoll, as much d5 blNIy pOunuS. Two OF THESE
gigantic molusks were lately transported and
planted in the South Bay Either the trip or
the new habitat disagreed with them, as both
died few days afterward.
THE Washington monument has had strange
visitors since its erection. A gaunt and hungry
cat climbed to the top; five rats have made the
ascent to get the crumbs from the working
mems lunches; wasps build their nests and
pigeons roost ut night four hundred and thirty
four feet above the habitation Of man.
FIRE in the engine room of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works at Philadelphia, destroyed
the machine and tool shops and a large number
OF valuable patterns. The total loss is est-
mated at $4,000. The fire is supposed to
have been caused by lightning. Part of the
boiler-house was subsequently destroyed by
falling walls
A DAIRYMAN in Milan keeps an intelligent
rooster in his bedroom to wake him up in the
morning. The bird, in order not to disturb his
masters slumber, refrans from Growing until
six o'clock when he emits one loud crow
jumps upon the bed, and begins eagerly to
peck at the slumberer. He has been taught
that his breakfast Of corn depends upon it, and
he knows when 1t is six as correctly as the
clock does.
THE work of raising the hull of the steamer
City OF Columbus (piecemeal is being pushed
rapidly forward by wreckng party from the
Boston Tow Boat Company, and it is thought
that before the bad weather of the fall months
most of 1t will have been secured. The work
is done by gang Of divers and bargemen, a
wel-equipped wrecking lighter, furnished with
steam hosting apparatus, being securely an
chored directly over the sunken hull.
THE revision of the Old Testament which, it
was hoped, would be out this year. will prob.
ably not make its appearance before early in
1885. The eighty-fifth and last session of the
English revision committee has been he'd,
but months must intervene before the COM
plete work can be given to the public. Moth
ing is positively known Of any changes made in
the old version, the revisers on both sides of
the Atlantic having kept their pledge Of
secrecy.
A CHILD in Leominster Mass, placed in the
garden small piece of looking-glass, in an up
spent three hours each day capering in front of
it. 1t will stand and peck away at Its reflected
self until it gets thoroughly excited, then run
back and forth along the fence, then return to
its attack, and continue 1t until 1t falls ex-
hRusted and apparently dead. On recovering
1t flies away, only to return at the same hour
the next day and renew the contest.
THE two meetings held by the Boston de-
mocracy, to ratify the nomination Of Cleveland
and Hendricks in Faneuil Hall and fremont
Temple, Friday evening, did not come up to
those expectations which the grand old party
were fairly filled at the opening of the meeting.
but the attendance began to dwindle very ma
terially soon after the first speeches were under
way, 80 that, when the last speakers opened
their remarks they spoke TO use a theatrical
term, to many empty benches.
wELLKNowN Philadelphia citizen, J. ].
Boyle has just returned from Vigo, Spain,
where he has discovered after a thorough and
exhaustive exploration of the inner harbor OF
that town, fleet Of sunken Spanish galleons,
supposed to contain not less than 800 000, 900
in bullion, which he expects to rescue from a
dam ralI
ton OF fleet of treasury ships sunk in the har-
Dor in the early part OF the eighteenth century,
during conflict between the English and Hol-
landish war-ships and a French and Spanish
feet
A FIRE broke out in the blacksmith shop al
Roachs shipyard in Chester, Penn, and,
spreading rapidly to the punch shed and bend
ing shed, all three buildings were burned to
the ground. The principal loss will be in the
punch shed, where there was a great deal OF
heavy and expensive machinery, valued al
$350,000. Much of the machinery was new
and will require several months to be replaced
The loss In the bending shed will reach over
100000. The buildings were worth $50, 600.
The loss is said to be fully covered by in
surance.
THE number Of immigrants arrived during
the year ended June 80 in the customs district.
of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Mime
sOta New Orleans, New York, Passamaquo
Philadelphia and San Francisco was 500, 83l
81 400 less than during the preceding year. and
2G0, $50 less than during the year ended June
30 1882 The principal decrease was u immi
grants from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland