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

ion, has been granted q respite till the 10th.
THERE is said to be slight diminution in
the number of deaths from smallpox in
Montreal.
The Turkish war office continues active
preparations. A reserve corps has been
modified.
The democrats will have a majority of
sixty on joint ballot in the new Virginia
Legislature.
S. Cox in the eighth New York congress
sional district.
HOPKINS (republican) was elected to con-
| gress in the Illinois district, to succeed ELL
wood, deceased.
IT is thought losses by fire throughout this
country and Canada during October will ag-
gregate S5,750,000
A TORNADO at Carmi, ILL.,, blew down the
Baptist church and other buildings, and
killed Joseph Burrell.
The Norwegian bark Aquila foundered
| off Gothenburg last week. Twenty-Five
! persons were drowned.
WORK has begun on the Grant memorial
| fountain, to stand in the center of the pub
| lie park at Atlantic, Iowa.
| Two Germans, aged twenty and twenty
four, out in a boat on the Niagara river,
Sunday, were carried over the falls.
THE Andre monument at Tappan, N. Y,
was blown up by dynamite on the night of
the Sd. Both bases were destroyed.
MARY GLouFFERr, forty inches high and
| one of Barnum's curiosities was found dead
in bed at Rockport L. l., last week.
A COMMISSION has been appointed to ex-
anime into the mental condition of Riel
the leader of the Northwest rebellion.
NEARLY all the lumbermen of Maine have
agreed to employ no man in the woods next
winter unless he has been vaccinated.
THE discovery of the conspiracy at Bel
grade to take the life of King Milan causes
intense excitement throughout Serva.
| OF the laboring classes in Massachusetts,
thirty-two per cent of the females and eleven
per cent of the males work on Sunday.
A CYCLONE in Dallas and Perry counties,
Alabama last Friday killed thirteen per-
sons and did great damage to property.
The circuit court at Cincinnati has rem
dered decision in the senatorial election
mandamus case favorable to republicans.
THERE are said to be 10000 Waltham
watches sold in England every year, and
the Elgin Company are going in for a share
of the trade.
IT is said that the boomers have obtained
foothold in Oklahoma and that it will take
the United States troops some time to rid
the country of them.
The President has issued proclamation
calling upon the people of Washington
Territory to desist from their unlawful VIC
lence against the Chinese.
WOODSTOCK, Conn, had an old-fashoned
husking recently The invitations were
printed on corn-husks, and the grounds
lighted by pumpkin iacR-o' lanterns.
Two steamers collided in the Ohio river
the other day. One had travelling circus
on board, and two members of the company
and ten valuable horses were drowned.
a PROCLAMATION has been issued by the
governor of Washington Territory calling
on all good citizens to assist in preserving
the peace and in protecting the Chinese.
PRESIDENT GREW declines to accept the
resignation of the French ministry, as he
believes the cabinet is in accord with the
new situation resulting from the elections.
SIX hundred chairs and benches were dis
tributed among the barns and fields in the
nelghboring country, one night last week,
by the students of Hillsdale (Mich.) College.
JOHN BRIGHT has written letter in which
he says that Ireland's greatest enemies are
her protested leaders, who incite her peo-
pie to disturb the peace and destroy industry.
The whale fishery on the coast of Maine
mas come to an end. 1t proved an unprotit-
able industry, and the stencil from the
factories at Boothbay and Bristol was in
tolerable.
A wAsHoUT on the West Shore railroad
New York, Monday, precipitated pas
senger train into swamp. The wife of AS
semblyman Pratt was killed and several per-
sons injured.
FRANCE, Greece, Italy and Switzerland
have renewed the monetary convention for
five years. Silver coin is redeemable in
gold, and no additional silver coinage will
be permitted.
THE Boston report that business is good
in spots applies quite accurately to the
whole country. In some lines it is brisk, in
others slow; but, upon the whole, the situa-
ton is still encouraging.
THE commission appointed by the Span
ish government to Investigate the Anda-
lusian earthquakes, last Christmas, reports
that 4 400 buildings were ruined, 745 per-
sons killed and ,4S5 wounded.
SINCE the raising of ostrches was begun
in California, the Cape Town government
has placed an export duty of $500 on each
ostrich taken out of the country. Fear of
American competition is the cause.
ALFRED CARDozo, once associate justice
on the supreme bench of New York, best
known by his connection with the Tweed
business and the impeachment proceedings
brought against him, died last Sunday.
THE great Mexican volcano, Popocatepetl,
is II 800 feet above the sea. The crater is
two and one-half miles in circuit and 1000
feet deep. The center of the top of the
mountain is composed of solid sulphur.
HE DOdTu OF bishops OF Une MeUnOu1St
Episcopal church approves the appeal of the
Freedmen's Aid Society for 100000 a year
for Christian education in the southern
states among white and colored people.
A YOUNG girl at Warsaw was suffering
from diseased eye, which an occulist said
must be removed to preserve the other. An
operation was performed, when it was dis
covered the sound eye had been removed.
The President has selected Dorman B.
Eaton as the republican member of the civil
service commission. 1t is understood how
ever, that his appointments only temporary,
and was accepted as a favor to the President.
THE President has appointed Alfred r.
Edgerton of Fort Wayne, Ind, as civil
service commissioner in place of Dorman b.
Eaton, resigned, and William L. Trenholm
of Charleston, S. c., in the place of John NJ.
Gregory, resigned
A STEAMER lately took to New Zealand
consignment of bumbe-bees. Glover does
not seed in that country because there are
no bees to fertilize the flowers. The i'm
porter hopes they will save him 5000
year in clover-seed.
A LARGE and ferocious wildcat, which is
believed to have escaped from Barnums
circus at Elizabeth week ago, is roaming
about Plainville, n. j. The beast dug up
newly-bured body in the Roman Catholic
cemetery and devoured it.
In April last two deaths occurred in
Montreal from smallpox; in May, u; in
June, %; in July, 81; in August, 212; in
September, 697; in October, 1,622 Total,
265l. There are now 5000 cases in the CITY