The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

1 200 houses in the east end of the city. All
the deceased, except fifty, were French
Canadians. One hundred twenty new cases
were reported Sunday.
LAST week Monday night Wagner
sleeper was raided by robbers somewhere
west of Indianapolis, 800 being stolen
from the passengers. The victims were
chloroformed.
RAILWAY men are beginning to condemn
the locomotive headlight, claiming that it is
of little or no utility, and its powerful illum-
ination tends to render indistinct the colors
of signal lights.
REV. Mr.. TENANT died in Evansville,
Ark, Monday, aged one hundred fifteen
years. The deceased was the oldest gospel
minister in the United States and had
preached ninety years.
THE newspapers of Biddeford, Maine, an
nounce new amusement, likely to become
more popular along the Canadian border
under the present dread of smallpox. This
is I" vaccinating bee"
MILLIONS of squirrels have been emigrat
ing from the Mississippi side over to the
Arkansas shore near Memphis. Thousands
have been killed by farmers. A similar
emigration occurred in 1872.
NEBRASKA has one millionaire and just
ten men whom the business agencies rate as
eight, heading the list with Herman
Kountze, who is listed at 100000.
ST. PETERS CATHEDRAL, just finished at
Moscow, has five cupolas and nine hundred
pounds of gold were used in OVERLAPPING
them. The doors of the temple cost $780,
Co., and the marble floors 81 100000
s. r. NILES of Boston recently inserted
single $4,000 advertisement in the Youths
Companion. 1t occupied an entire cover
page of a premium number, said to have
had circulation of over 100000 copies.
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE has told the pope
that If he so advises she will induce all Bona
partists in France to work for the restora-
ton of the Orleans dynasty to the throne.
The pope is perplexed in answering her.
THERE are about five hundred forty-five
thousand native Christians in the Chinese
empire who have been converted by Roman
Catholic missionaries. Those converted by
Protestant missionaries are much fewer.
Mr.. GLADSTONE taunts the English tories
with thrusting the question of church dis
establishment forward at this time as a
political dodge, and asserts that the public
mind is not yet prepared for the scheme.
LORD HARRINGTON leader of the old wing
element in the British liberal party, has
united with the radical Chamberlin in say
ing that Ireland should have home rule.
This is considered a significant concession.
IT is said that if the Century should not
receive another manuscript of any kind for
two years the magazine could be issued dur
ing the entire period from the present sup
ply of matter. every department being filled.
THE remains of General Mcclellan ar
rived in New York city from Orange, n j.,
Sunday night, and were conveyed to the
residence of Mr.. William G. Prime on East
Twenty-third street. The funeral occurred
on Monday.
! SIR JOHN LUBBOCK says that ants of the
same nest, however large it may be, have a
means of recognizing each other not easily
explained. The recognition is immediate
and complete, even after an absence of a
year from the nest.
TURKEY is massing troops on the Greek,
Bulgarian and Servian frontiers, and is de-
termined on adopting effective measures in
the event of the ConstantinOple conference
failing to agree on plan for the settlement
of the Roumelian question.
A TERRIFIC storm prevailed along the
coast of Labrador from the 18th to the 10Th
of October, during which twenty vessels
were wrecked and upward of one hundred
lives lost Two thousand persons are said
to be in a destitute condition.
| JAMESTOWN On. Y. was lighted with
natural gas last week. 1t took the vapor
thirty minutes to come from wells at Lud-
low, thirty miles away. There are forty
miles of pipes in the streets. The gas will
be used for fuel by many families.
A PRACTICAL joker, claiming to be Bar
NUNS advance agent, gulled the people of
Albany, n. Y. He ordered breakfast for
sixty-two, $50 worth of meat of butcher,
ten tons of hay and one hundred fifty bushels
of oats of a feed-man, and then left town.
THE capitol of Georgia, building at At
lanta, is of the same style of architecture as
the capitol at Washington. 1t is to be three
hundred forty-seven feet long by two hun
bred seventy-two feet deep, with a dome
two hundred forty feet high in the center.
A RICH gold-bearing vein in Esmeralda,
Nevada on which several mining camps are
now located, was discovered by prospector
CHANGING to notice the decomposed quartz
dug out by colony of squirrels on the side
of hill. He collected some of the quartz,
crushed it in a mortar and horned it out,
getting fine prospect in gold. This led
him to search for the vein whence the de-
composed quartz had been excavated, which
he found by following the squirrel holes,
which extended close up to the rim of the
vein or gold-bearing ledge, one claim on
which has been disposed of for $4,000.