The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-28

inc Case OF u woman WHO, lhllluk hbl6tD III n
railroad train, dreamed wildly that her child
| at home had been seriously hurt. She was so
deeply impressed by the vision that on arriv-
| ing in the city, she drove directly to physi-
clans office and carried him hastily to her resi-
dence, where the youngster was found to have
been thrown from swing at precisely the
| time the mother had dreamed. The story Is
told circumstantially by the persons concerned.
| r. b. ScANDRETT who presided at the mock
| republican national convention held by the
students Of Washington and Jefferson colleges,
| at Washington, Penn. has received a letter
| from Hon. George F. Edmunds, who was NOM
mated by the convention for president It
says: 81 have yours Of the 18th instant /
sincerely thank the young gentlemen Of the
colleges for the compliment paid me. much
prefer it to the actual office in question and its
| embarrassments and burdens, which do not
| desire to assume"
G. II. TEvIs, a Washington broker, is missing.
| He had established confidence among his vic
tins by the apparently lucky character of his
| investments for them, by which some made
| fifty per cent month. When they placed in
his hands a sum that proves in the aggregate
| over 800, 900 Tevis disappears. His friends
insist that he is on spree and that his &C
counts are all right An ability to pay fifty
| per cent a month profits to customers, to go on
sprees and to keep his accounts all right, makes
| a rare combination of qualifications for sue
cess in business.
JAMES ~. FISH, late president OF the marine
Bank of New York, has been arrested The
warrant was issued upon an affidavit made be-
| fore the commissioner by Bank Examiner
| Serbia, who deposed that careful examination
OF the books Of the Marine Bank showed that
| President Fish had Incorporated funds be-
longing to the bank to the amount of 81 141 600
The affidavit sets forth that this was done be-
tween March and May 6, 1884, by a series of
credits to the firm of Grant Il Ward of monies
in sums from $685. 900 to $3.50 900, which were
| entered on the books of the bank as loans to
imaginary persons and secured by imaginary
| collaterals.
PERHAPS the most curious battalion in any
army is the Norwegian corps of skaters. 1t is
composed of picked men armed with rifles,
| which they use with great precision. The
skates used are admirably adapted for travel
ing over rough and broken ice and frozen snow,
| being six inches broad and between nine and
ten inches long. The soldiers can be maneuvred
| upon ice or over the snow fields of the noun
| tains with q rapdity equal to that OF the best
| trained cavalry. AS an instance of the speed
at which they can go, 1t Is stated that messen-
| ger attached to the corps has accomplished one
hundred and twenty miles in eighteen hours
| and a half, over mountains
THE senate committee on post-ofices report
| that for the purposes OF relieving the country
| of the burden of charges for kilograms, which
are too high, OF making these charges more
| equal as between different localities and diff
| ter6nJ ClhSstb OI t6eRrdlns, anu OI guarding
| against mischief and dangers OF leaving the
| control of the telegraph business of the coun-
| try in the hands of private company, which
| enjoys practical monopoly, the committee re-
ported their bill, and contend that the constitu-
tional right of the government to establish
| postal telegraph is as clear as that the first
Geographic line in the country was constructed
operated and owned by the United States
THE brig Senorita has sailed from Thomp-
| sons Point, N. j., for Aspinwall with fifty tons
Of the terribly destructive explosive called
atlas powder. The powder contains as much
as seventy-five per cent of nitro-g cerine, and
| lis transportation is considered 80 dangerous
that none of the steamships touching Aspinwall
could be induced to carry the explosive COM
pound. Many old sea captains, who in their
time have braved nearly every danger of the
| deep, have refused to carry the powder to As
pinwall. Aside from its liability to explode by
percussion, the captains consider the risk Of
being struck by lightning too great to warrant
the carrying of such q cargo, even though the
rates of freight were terrible.
ANOTHER huge diamond has been discovered
On the 9th Of March last digger at the Kim
berley mines, South Africa, was fortunate
enough to find diamond measuring one and
three.fourths inches in length and one and one
fourth inches in diameter, weighing no less than
| three hundred and two carats This is by far
the thgest gem yet discovered in South Africa,
or, in fact, elsewhere if we except the Pitt and
| Mattdm lOI TASK Snape) III tn6lr uncut Stdte,
| and some diamonds of apocryphai history. 1t
is a perfect octahedron In shape, and of the
| usual cape or off color. Some yeans ago its
| value would have been simply enormous At
the present, however, it is reported that Sl5 900
has been refused for 1t in its uncut state
A GENTLEMAN who saw General Grant in
New York last week says he is utterly broken
down by the disclosures which have followed
the failure of the bank in which he was inter-
| ested and that the shock has shortened his life
| by ten years. He talks freely about it to his
intimate friends, but keeps himself secluded
and fears that he has lost the respect and con-
| fidence of the country The general admits
that some of his friends came to him months
ago ard warned him that Ward was an adven-
| turer and was using his name in an improper
way, but his confidence in the young man was so
great that he repulsed them, and thinks he
may have treated some Of them coolly. He is
| said to be sensitive about the NATTER that he
does not read the newspapers and knows but lit
tie of the magnitude Of the failure or the extent
of Wards fraudulent operations.
THE French brig Senorine went ashore on
the Grand Banks, off the Newfoundland coast,
Thursday afternoon and became a total wreck
in fifteen minutes. Fifty-three passengers and
nine of the crew were lost. The Senorine was
caught In heavy fog and the captain lost his
bearings. He was making for that port and 60
ing at slow rate of speed when she struck.
The widest disorder prevailed, the officers and
crew making for the boats, leaving the psssen-
gers to care for themselves One boat, con-
tanning twenty passengers and some of the
crew, was swamped, Just after she had got
away from the side Of the brig, by the lurching
OF the vessel. The screams Of the women
were heartrending and most of them sank
out Of sight almost Immediately. The men
struggled for time to keep afloat, but only a
few succeeded by catching floating spars from
the wreck. The captain was unable to main
tain any discipline, and among the passengers
very few were able to save themselves. Many
chung TO the rigging after the first shock, think
ing the vessel would stand the strain and that
they might be picked up when the fog cleared
but when the vessel went to pieces they were
all lost. Only about twenty in all were saved
SAMUEL WARD, whose death at Pegli, Italy
was announced last week, was a brother OF
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and son of q prominent
New York banker Of the same name. He was
born in 1914, and after studing at the Round
hill school at Northampton, under the histo
ran George Bancroft, he entered Columbis
college In 1929 and was graduated In 1884, skip
ping year and half Of his collegiate course
From 1882 to 1886 he studied In Europe, and
then returned to America to enter the business
whirlpool in Wall street, New York. In 184s
he yielded to the California fever. Five years
later he visited Mexico, and in 1858 he was ap
pointed secretary OF commission sent to Pa
raguay to settle the claims against that country
of certain Rhode Island colOnists. In 1862 he
was sent to Nicaragua to secure the renewal
of the travel across the Isthmus, subsequently
rendered useless by the blocking up OF the
harbor of Greytown by sand. Upon his return