The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-30

E. II. PALMER's house in Hinesburgh has
been haunted for some time with mysteri-
Gus rappings and other unCanny phenoni-
ena. People have hocl1ed from miles around
to hear the sounds. Now it is learned that
a sixteen-years-old girl in the family has
been fooling them all this time by a series
of clever tricks.
Other Localities.
THE Grant monument fund now aggre-
gates S1li,72S.
TwENTY-sIx college graduates enlisted
last year in the signal service.
The Stevens House at Lake Placid, in the
Adirondacks, was burned Thursday.
Much damage has been done by gales and
high tides on the New England co asst.
GOLD bars to the amount of 81 100000
were shipped to London last Saturday.
THE Newark, n. j., boys sent to Paris for
treatment for hydrophoba are doing we'll
ALL efforts to recover the bodies of the
entombed miners at Nanticoke, Penn, have
ceased.
The Fisk jubilee singers (colored) have
been denied Abundance to several hotels in
Troy, n. Y.
A COLLISION of trains on the Western
North Carolina railroad, last week, killed
three persons.
The Boston city government voted gold
watch to Mr.. Beecher for his memorial ora
ton on Grant
JUDGE S. f. GooDE of the nineteenth
judicial district court of Louisiana has com
mitted suicide.
AT Plymouth, Mass, huge elm was
suddenly Frustrated and crushed Alice
Sampson to death.
BY the explosion of six boilers of the
Spring Valley (Cal.) water-works, last week,
two men were killed.
ADELAIDE RUDOLPH, a niece of Mrs. Gar
field. has Dppn elected Latin prOtpSsOr of
the Kansas State University
JOHN BIGELow, recently appointed and
confirmed as assistant United States treas
urer at New York, has resigned.
THE Pennsylvania Coal Company at Pitts
ton has closed its collieries, throwing 900
men and boys out of employment
AN Indian runner ran a mile race in wy
andotte, Kansas against two champions on
roller skates, and beat both with ease.
In the basement of Philadelphia auction
store is an antique writing-desk said to have
once been the property of William Penn.
Two hundred thrifty Welsh families will
colonze in Dakota next spring. They will
each bring from $1,000 to $1,000 with them.
FUTILE attempt was made to blow up
the house of Judge Lambert Tree, in the
most fashionable part of Chicago, Saturday.
Four persons were fatally poisoned by
arsenic put in well in st. Augustine, Fla.
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THIRTEEN buildings, including stores and
factories, were burned in Georgetown, Mass,
last Saturday. Loss $4,000. Two iiremen
were killed.
ALBERT CHANDLER, a school-boy aged
sixteen, of Prospect Conn, was so severely
punished by his teacher, X. n. Hotchl1ss,
that he will probably die
The work of the post-ofiice clerks and
letter-carrers, always heavy during the
holiday u larf i'm
that of any previous year.
IT is reported that well known Montreal
tailor and a palace-car conductor have been
arrested at Rouses Point, charged with
smuggling clothes into the United States.
THE President has approved the bills
granting pension of $1,000 year to Mrs.
Grant and for the removal of the political
disabilities of General Lawton of Georgia.
THE alleged marriage contract between
the late William Sharon and Sarah Althea
Hill has been declared null and void by the
United States circuit court at San Francisco.
A FLINT tomahawk found in Hartford has
upon it a mark which strangely resembles
the private mark of Seutaubpisk, one of
Quannuppents granddaughter that flour
ished in Hartford in Ill.
BosToN express train was thrown by
an obstruction sixty feet down an embank-
ment sixteen miles from New York city,
Sunday morning Two employees were
killed, but none of the passengers were seri-
ously injured.
FOURTEEN examinations were held dur
ing the year by the Brooklyn civil service
commissioners, at which LIT competitors
appeared, and of whom 4i5 passed to the
eligible list. OF this latter number 143 were
appointed to places in the civil service
EX-SENATOR TABOR, who is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, wears diamonds enough to
make a king s crown. His shirt front blazes
with big stones He has a ring mounted
with jewel as big as a chestnut. His cuff
buttons are about an inch square, studded
with small gems. He must wear, all told
100000 worth of jewels. He always takes
them off and puts them in the hotel safe be-
fore going out at night.-Ne'o York Tribune.
Foreign.
GREW has been reelected president of
France.
SIXTY Servian soldiers are ordered to be
shot for mutiny.
ENGLAND has begun an attempt to recon-
quer the Soudan.
MICHAEL DAvITr favors Gladstone's plan
of home rule in Ireland.
SEvENTY-FIvE miners We're killed by a
colliery explosion in Wales.
IT is said that three crops of corn can be
grown annually in Honduras.
IT is reported that Russia and Austria are
preparing for deadly conflict.
SIXTY lives and twenty-five vessels were
lost in the late storm at Aspnwall.
PEACE has been established in Peru, and
General Caceres will probably be president.
EARL RosEBERY favors giving home rule
to Ireland, on condition that the union be
maintained.
Ten persons We're drowned at Rouen,
France, Sunday, in a collision between
steamer and ferry-boat.
SINCE 1859 there have been eighty fatal
accidents in the Swiss Alps, whereby 14
persons lost their lives.
The British Museum has now a depart
ment entirely devoted to newspapers,
which is a great convenience.
A SILVER drinking-cup which formerly
belonged to Frederick the Great has just
been sold at Berlin for 1000 roubles.
POPE LEO is said to have an income of
81 100000 annually, and it is stated on the
authority of Monsignor Capel that the
Popes personal expenses are limited to
81. day.
AN interesting relic of the famous Sir
Walter Raleigh, sold in London the other
day consists of Sir Walters original tobacco
pipe which on certain memorable occa-
sion excited the disgust of Queen Elizabeth
In Limerick, Ireland, Saturday, desper-
ate conflict occurred between two Irish fac
tons, in which sticks, stones guns and ps-
tolls We're freely used At least twenty per-
sons, including several women, were dam