The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-15

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A DIsPENsARy has been opened at North
! Bennington, conducted on the plan of all
city dspensares, and for the treatment of
all diseases. DIR. Goldsmith of Rutland is
over the surgical department and DIR. j. II.
Putnam is the occulist and aurist 1t is
charitable institution, supported by contri-
buttons and patients treated are not ex-
! pected to pay more than they are able.
Besides those mentioned, DIR. w. w. Sey-
| mour of Troy treats diseases of women, DIR.
! A. S. NJ. Chisholm of Bennington skin and
nervous diseases, DR.. Il. b. Daley diseases
of the throat and DR.. l.. b. Newton diseases
of the digestive organs.
ANTHONY c. RAY, who lives in Hartford,
arose soon after going to bed, last week
Monday night, and loaded shotgun saying
that he was going to use it. His wife fled
in her night clothes to a neighbours. Ray
followed and, resting the gun upon the
window, was demanding from her certain re-
fractions, when he was seized and disarmed
Ray claims that he intended to shoot him
self unless his wife retracted certain state
| ments. There has been considerable un-
pleasantness in the family lately, caused
principally by too much interference of his
wife's relatives. Ray has brooded over
this until his mind probably became some
what unsettled, and he became jealous of
his wife. Ray has heretofore been a good
citizen.
THERE arrived at st. Adams, recently,
from Washington, veteran Of the war of
the rebellion who, on account of wounds
| received, has been an inmate of the soldiers
home at the capital since 1865. This vet
eran received sixteen wounds, several of
which were severe enough to cripple him
for life. Twenty years he has been insane
from a shell wound which carried away
part of his skull, the skull being since COW
cred by silver plate. One musket-ball
entered his mouth and came out the back
side of his head, and bayonet thrust
through the right arm made terrible
wound, from which the arm has become
| paralyZed The soldier had so far re-
covered from his arrangement of mind that
he was on his way West to his family. His
wife was to meet him in Ogdensburgh.
Other Localities.
THE wife of Secretary Bayard is very ill.
SECRETARY WHITNEY purposes reorgan-
izing the government navy yards.
A PANIC exists near Creston, Ia, on ac-
count of the ravages of smallpox.
THE returns from all the cholera districts
in Spain on Saturday showed 1913 new cases
and GAS deaths.
SIXTY persons at Momence H., have
been poisoned by eating dried beef made
from diseased cattle.
THE Western Union Company on Friday
last obtained control of the American Rapid
Telegraph Company.
The floods in Austria continue to cause
great damage. The loss by the waterspout
which recently deluged Pesth is estimated
at S250000.
GENERAL SHERIDAN left Washington last
Friday night for Fort Reno, Indian Terri
tory, to personally direct the campaign
against the rebellious Indians.
The French chamber of deputies on Fri
day last appropriated SS00,0O0 to be ex-
pended in maintaining and educating every
seventh child born in French families.
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN of Pennsylvania
vetoed one hundred eight bills out of three
hundred twenty-four, which passed the
legislature of that state at its last session.
THE greatest contiagration since 1873 Wis
tied Belfast, Maine, Sunday morning, re-
sulting in the death of twenty horses, and
in the destruction of property valued at
$4,000.
ABOUT ten thousand invitations have been
sent out for the celebration at Niagara Falls
to-day when the Niagara Falls Reservation
is to be formally turned over to the state of
New York.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi. Sunday, heavy
wind and rain storm passed over Lake Min
netonka. The small steam yacht Minnie
Cook with eight persons on board, was cap
sized and all were drowned.
AT Fall River, Mass, nineteen flowers of
a night blooming cereus were in bloom on
single plant at the conservatory of Hon.
John S. Brayton, and the rare and beautiful
spectacle was witnessed by hundreds of
people.
GOVERNOR MARTIN of Kansas has written
Secretary of War Endicott, demanding that
United States troops be permanently sta
toned on the Kansas border of Indian Ter
ritory, as protection against an Indian in
vason.
| DURING a heavy shower at Lowell, Mass,
last week Thursday, the tower of the tele-
phone exchange was struck by lightning
and all the wires were destroyed. Bust
ness was interrupted for several days in
consequence
THE publishers announce that the sixth
edition of Miss Clevelands book is off the
press, but will not fill the orders now on
hand The seventh edition has been sent
to press, and duplicate set of plates have
been made to hasten the printing.
LIEUTENANT w. II. SHUETzE of the United
States navy started on his trip to Siberia
last week Wednesday. He sailed on the
steamer Fulda, bearing presents from the
United States government to the Russians
who aided in the search for the crew of the
Jeanette.
The Congregationolist of Boston has been
sued for 100000 by Rev. Edward Payson
Tenny of Manchester, Mass. Mr.. Tenny
was president of Congregational college
in Colorado, and has been suspended, he al
leges on account of articles published in the
CongregdtiondliSt.
SECRETARY ENDICoTT has ordered three
regiments of cavalry and the fourth infan-
try, making a total force of nearly three
thousand men, to proceed at once to the vi
entity of Fort Reno, Indian Territory. This
will make force of four thousand men in
the Indian Territory.
SUNDAY night a fire destroyed Burch's
stables at Albany n. Y, with twenty-three
horses and a number of carriages, and
Gray's piano factory. Loss 100000. Dur
ing the fire four of the most heroic and in
trepid firemen in the city were buried under
a falling wall of the factory.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has requested Gov
ernor Hoadley to name another Ohio re-
publican for the Union Pacific directory in
place of Ex-Governor Noyes, declined. 1t
is understood that l.. V. Harrison, president
of the First National Bank of Cincinnati,
has been asked to accept the position.
DYNAMITE to the amount of 300, 900 pounds
| is to be exploded in October, but its task is
the comparatively peaceful one of breaking
up the nine acres of rock which form a
troublesome reef at He'll Gate. The explo-
sive is to be deposited in nearly 1900
charges, along galleries more than four miles
in length.
! ONE hundred fifty carpenters, painters
and upholsterers are now at work finishing
the new Glen House at the base of Mount
: Washington, on the site Of the hotel de-
: stroyed by fire last fall. 1t is in the Queen