The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-16


inside may be of any kind of hard wood de-
sred'
A DISPATCH from Maiden, Mass, says: |
Frank II. Foster left his home at Swanton,
November TO- for this city, for the purpose OF
selling a carload of merchandise, which he
had shipped here, consisting of potatoes, APP
pies and beans. He sold them here, receiv-
ing about $500, and while in Boston at the
West End was robbed of over $500 of 1t.
He then left here for the purpose of going
home, but letter received from there says
he has not as yet returned, and IL is thought
that he was robbed of the balance of his
money in Boston, and foul play is suspected.
He is about thirty-fve years old, side whis-
kers, weighs one hundred sixty-eight pounds,
was dressed in dark clothes, with light-col-
other Localities.
D1rHTHERIA is rapidly spreading in New
York city.
Four hundred fifty-six nominations have
been sent to the senate.
THE Hendricks Monument Association was
organized at indianapolis last Saturday.
TYPHOID fever has broken out in Brook
Ign, and is epidemic in certain localities.
GENERAL LOGAN has been restored to his
old place as chairman of the committee on
military affairs.
CONGRESSMAN WEAVER is to introduce a
bill creating department of labor, with the
head cabinet officer.
EIGHT workmen were buried in a sewer,
where they were at work, in Akron, Ohio.
Three of the number were taken out alive
PARsoN Downs, the Boston clergyman of
unsavory repute, claims that he has engaged
General Butler and Roscoe Conkling as his
counsel
The federation of labor unions of the
United States and Canada has declared that
the eight-hour law shall take effect from
May LIST next.
THE petrifed skeleton of thirty -foot
whale has been discovered on range of
mountains in Monterey county, Cal, $500
feet above sea level.
THE United States supreme court has de-
cded against the Mormon Elder Cannon,
convicted of polygamy, and he will serve
short term in prison.
CHARLOTTE WICKLIFFE, colored died in
Louisville, aged one hundred seventeen
years, leaving fifteen living chidren--the
Oldest nearly a hundred years old.
RUFUS earle, New Yorker, in dying
condition, claiming to be too poor to pay for
a doctor, was taken to the hospital Saturday,
and was discovered to be worth $4,000.
THERE is pigeon-roost near Evansville,
Ind, where thousands of the birds congre-
gate at night almost destroying the timber
by breaking the limbs with their weight.
THE special senate committee on the subject
of interstate commerce will, it is said, en-
body in its forthcoming report a bill provid-
ing for the creation of a national railway
commission.
JOE PARKER, a negro, said to be one hum
bred twenty-five years old, died at the poor
farm in Dallas Tex, last Friday. He had
been a slave in Alabama, and was the origi-
nal of Old Black Joe"
THE steamer Oconto struck Charity Island,
Ontario, recently, in heavy gale. Seven
We're drowned and the rest regained the
| island, where they are now in great prlva-
ton. Succor has been sent them.
A PECULIAR natural gas explosion oc-
Cured at CannonSburg, Penn, last week
Wednesday. A large frame residence was
blown in pieces, and its occupants were
hurled from their beds into an adjoining lot.
BOLIVAR, the largest elephant now in cap
tivity, had terrific encounter with the MI
bian lion, Prince, at the winter quarters of
Forepaughs menagerie in Philadelphia re-
Gently, in which the lion, which was valued
at $1,000, was killed.
The funeral of the late William H.
Vanderbilt occurred in New York Friday,
the ceremonies at the church being of a
simple and transformations character. The
remains were taken to New Dorp, Staten
Island, and placed in a receiving vault
Hon. B. GRAFT Brown, who ran for vice
president on the Greeley ticket, and had
been governor and United States senator
died in st. Louis on Sunday, of pneumonia
aged sixty-nine years. He made the first
emancipation speech ever delivered in
Missouri.
Foreign.
ENGLAND will not annex Burmah.
THE Balkan war is virtually at an end.
ANOTHER rebellion is brewing in Mani
toba.
KING THEEBAw of Burmah has been sen
to Madras.
In England there are now upward o
10000 blind persons.
EXTENSIVE gold mines have been dis
covered in Zululand.
ONLY four deaths daily from smallpox il
, Montreal and suburbs now.
FOURTEEN persons persisted in Londol
tenement house by fire last Sunday.
ACTIVE measures are being taken to sup
press the revolt in Nueve Leon Mexico.
The funeral of Louis Riel took place las
, Sunday at st. Boniface cathedral, Winnipeg
.. NINE. PATTI is to have $1,000 for each o
six appearances in opera at Madrid mex
February.
+ THERE are forty cases of smallpox at ST
Anne de la Pocatiere, Que. Great excite
. ment prevails.
THE great publishing firm of Routledge il
/ London prints 100000 books in the yea
and binds 100000.
A CENSUS of Berlin taken on December Is
shows population of ,3l6, 1872, an increas
of 100000 since $780,
1 RUSSIA has 80, 400 doctors, of whom $50 ar
women. The dentists number but 800, ant
the pharmacists $500.
GERMANY devotes 100000 acres to tn
, cultivation of the potato. The yield las
! year was 23000,000 tons.
DOCUMENTS have been discovered at Man
dalay showing an offensive and defensiv
9 alliance of France and Burmah.
KING MILAN ordered forty Servans to b
. shot for mutilating themselves by BLOWN
- :, their trigger fingers off to escape militar
4 service.
Il AT Philipsburg, p. O., Sunday, Henri
/ Burke and Henry Cadereth and his son an
@ daughter were drowned through the ic,
while skating.
|. SENIOR CANovAs declares that the moi
II archcal succession in Spain is safe throug
e a solid union of the different sections of til
o right in the Cortes.
). THE British government will send ne
y expedition to the Soudan, the present fore
in Egypt being inadequate to cope with I'll
lie formidable army of the new Mahdi.
y The Japanese government will, ne,
a month, send dozen young, lovely and il
, telligent Japanese ladies to Paris for I'll
IS purpose of studying French and the FrenC
s. system of education.
s. THE funeral services of the late King A
fonso took place in Madrid, last Sunda
n and were attended by large number of di
e. tinguished people All the sovereigns
$, Europe were represented. The civil an