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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05
Dissecting an Elephant.

1t will be remembered that week or ten
days ago an elephant named Albert devel-
oped an ugly and pugnacious disposition at
Keene, n. H., where the menagerie with
which he was travelling was exhibiting, and
killed the keeper. He had been ugly and
treacherous on previous occasions, and it
was not considered safe to permit him to
live longer. By order of Mr.. Barnum the
authorities of the Smithsonian Institute
were notified that the execution was to take
place, and that they could have the carcass
If they desired it. Accordingly Messrs.
Houidan and Lucas of the national museum
were despatched to Keene, where they ar
rived last week Tuesday afternoon. Through
the aid of City Marshal 4. X. Locke and
Chief Engineer George Wheelock, they Sc
cured the services of Mr. j. f. Kerwin, a we'll
known local knight of the butcher-knife and
cleaver, and two other experts, and on We'd
nesday morning began the work of dissect-
ing the enormous pachyderm. The head and
trunk were first removed, and then the hide
was taken off in two pieces, being split on
the back and belly. The hide was in many
places an inch and a quarter thick, and the
work required nearly two hours In the
afternoon the skeleton was dissected, and
every bone was saved intact. The firing
party consisted of twenty-nine men, twelve
of whom fired at the heart and seventeen at
the head During the autopsy, so to speak,
six bullets were found in the heart, and
they had all been f1attened. In the evening
those of epicurean tastes dined on elephant
steak at the Cheshire House, and it is re-
ported that many who did not know what
they were eating pronounced the steak un-
usually fine in flavor but bit tough. The
hide weighed one thousand forty-three
pounds, and the skeleton one thousand -four
hundred fifty-five pounds. The beast alive
weighed about seven thousand pounds, was
supposed to be thirty years old and was
valued at $4,000. The preserved portion
was safely shipped to Washington on Thurs
day, and Messrs. Houidan and Lucas con
slider that they have secured an unusually
perfect specimen for the national museum
About five hundred people witnessed the dis
section with great interest-BoSton Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05
Windsor County.
East Bethel.

DURING heavy thunder shower, Satur-
day, barn belonging to Mr.. Twitchel,
situated in the west part of the town, was
struck by lightning and burned, together
with forty tons of hay. - Horace Clifford
and Mrs Ellen Wight went to Hardwick
cousin, Mrs. Helen Dimick. - George
Harlow and wife of West Lebanon, n. H.,
are visiting friends in this vicinity. -
Mark Burnham and wife of Valley Falls,
X. l., are visiting his mother and brother
before going TO Newark, n. Y, TO I'VE.
- Israel Kibby and family of Georgia
are visiting his sister Mrs. Ammi Burnham.
Gaysville.
A BARN belonging to Royal Twitchell
was struck by lightning, Friday, and burned
to the ground - The ladies' aid society
meets at Robert Vests next Thursday.
- A temperance lecture will be given
at the Methodist church next Sunday even
ing. Gardner Emery intends moving
back to Bethel to engage i'll the meat bust
ness. - A base ball game was played
here last Saturday between the Pittsteld
and Gaysville boys, the Gaysville boys
winning by a score of twelve to eight. -
George O.. Hassam has been in town the
past week selling carriages. 80 Miss
Phebe Smith arrived home last Saturday
night. - Mrs. Charles Durkee has gone
to Windsor to visit old friends.
Sharon.
THE commissioners on the estate of Cal
vim Day met Wednesday, July 29th, to APP
praise the property. c. III. Markham is adj
ministrator. - A large number of peo-
pie gathered at ID. f. Parkhurst's, last
Wednesday evening, to see two large BIOS
SONS of a night-blooming cereus. -
Frank Badger is very sick at the present
writing, and the chances for his recovery are
small - On Wednesday evening, Au-
gust 18th, the pastor of the Baptist church
Rev. II. S. Cook, is to be installed Sermon
by Rev. George w. Clough of Groton. The
pastors in this association are expected to
be present and assist in the exercises.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05
Chittenden County.
RicllnlnnlI.

JONAS BARRIER died last week and was
buried Sunday, the funeral exercises being
held at the Universalist church. A large
concourse of people We're present from this
and adjoining towns. He left quite "A prop
erty, making requests to Goddard Semin-
airy, to the Universaist church, to the Sun
day-school, and 81 200 to the town To aid the
library recently started here. -- IL. Il.
Howard and Miss Seraph f. Hilton were
married last Monday and Immediately
started for the West, where " Harm " has a
business opening. - During the recent
different telephone poles at four different
times near W. $. Freemans farmhouse.
- The Grand Army flag has been
draped in mourning, in respect to General
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05
Caledonia County.


l.. w. RENFREw is home from Plymouth,
n. H., for a two weeks vacation. - j.
b. Morrison returned to Newburyport,
Mass >, last Monday. - Mrs. ID. n. Rich
ardson and daughter left for their home in
Davenport, Iowa, last Thursday. - Mr.
j. j. Richardson of tine Democrat, Davenport,
Iowa, made a short visit in town last week.
- John Darling, who had not been
heard from for many years until quite re-
Gently, returned to town last Saturday night
from Florida, after an absence of tifty-six
years.
Hardwick.
OIL GILCHRIsT's farm buildings in Wolcott
We're burned on Saturday last Two horses
were burned with the barn, one of which
belonged to his father, Joseph Gilchrst f
this town. Children and matches are
thought TO have been the cause. - Mrs.
n A. Bangs of this place has gone to the
Mary Fletcher hospital, Burlington, for
treatment. - Bush. Kent and family of
Burlington have been visiting at his
mothers in this place for week or more.
- Mrs. Jennie (Shipman) Thomas of
Montreal, p. g., is now visiting her mother
and other friends in this place and vicin-
ity. - Mrs. l, (Webster) Newton and
family of Westboro, Mass, are now in town
visiting friends. - Mrs. Charles III. Ship
man and family of Winooski are visiting
friends in this vicinity. - McLoud q
Marsh are buying raspberries, getting, they
report, about two hundred pounds per day
Price, four cents
South Ryegate.
KIT KARsoN, in attempting to board a
moving train at this place last Saturday
evening, was thrown under the cars and his
left leg run over at the ankle and again
above the knee. One ear was torn nearly
off and one shoulder badly bruised. He
died about midnight
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

THE following are the dates and places of
holding the various agricultural fairs in this
state: Addison, Middlebury, September 1-3;
Battenkill Valley, Factory Point, Septem-
Der 1925; Bethel, September 1913; Tun-
bridge, September %, 30 and October l;
Dog River Valley, Mortified, September
22-24 Franklin, Sheldon, September Is;
Lamoille Valley, Morristown, September
22-24 Orange, Bradford, September %, 30
and October /; Orleans, Barton, September
22-2i Poultney, September 22-24; Rutland,
September i5-l7; Springfield, September
%, %; Western Vermont, Fair Haven, Sep
TENDER 30, 30 and October /; Winoosld Val
ley, Waterbury, September l5-l7; Whining
ton, September 30.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

A TEST case of assessment in insurance
has arisen at Brattleboro. The American
Mutual Life and Accident Association OF
South Bend, Ind, has been receiving appli-
cations from Vermont, several being from
Bennington. Secretary of State Porter has
commenced action by serving papers on III
l.. Hover under the statute. The officers OF
the company propose TO make this a test
case and claim that Hover was acting as the
agent for the assured and not for the com.
pany. The case is considered important in
insurance circles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05
Making Others Happy.

Sidney Smith says he cut the following
from newspaper and preserved it for his
own guidance: "When you rise in the
morning determine that you will make some
done. A ieft-off garment To some one who
badly needs it, a.kind word to the SORROW
full, an encouraging expression to the de-
jected-triiles in themselves as light as air
will do at least for the twenty-four hours.
If you are young, it will tell when you are
the road down to the bottom of the hill. BY
the most simple arithmetical calculation
look at the result. Suppose you live forty
years after you commence this course Of
medicine and you make one person little
happier than they would have been every
day, that is three hundred sixty-tive in a
year, which multiplied by forty, amounts to
fourteen thousand six hundred persons
which you have made happy-at ali events
for time"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

Mrs, JOHN w. BALcH of st. Johnsbury
met with a serious misfortune, last week
Sunday, by a fall received while in the house
While no bones are thought to be broken,
the injury is severe and painful A year ago
slipping on the sidewalk, and last fall she
suffered "A shock of paralysis, making one
side useless until recently.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

Grants memory, and suspended from the
hall, and the large flag near the depot has
also been draped and run up at half.mast.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

The census of North Dakota, which is just
completed, gives the population of that sec
ton of the territory rs one hundred fifty thou
sand. The report for South Dakota is not
in, but il is estimated that it will not be far
from two hundred fifty thousand,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

You can't afford to laugh, dear girls,
Unless your teeth are white as pearls
Unless your mouth is pink and sweet,
And your two lips in rosebuds meet;
And you cannot supply this want,
But through the use of SOZODONTl
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05
The Grant Monument Fund.

The Grant monument committee of which
eX-President Arthur is chairman, has is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05

when it discloses Il pretty set of teeth.
Wilderness, when nature has supplied this
element of loveliness may be retained
through life by using the fragrant 5000
DON'T.
SpALDING's GLUE is like witt good thing
well applied.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05
East Gilmore.

Miss JOSIE FTsKE is at home from Walden,
being obliged to give up her school there on
account of poor health. - Ella and jim
mic Swift of Blackstone, Mass, are visiting
friends in this vicinity. - Lucy Cave re-
turned to her home in Montpelier last week.
- Mrs. w Cook and daughter are visit
ing at W. Sideways.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22
New York Politics.

1t is the opinion of many shrewd politi-
clans of both parties in the State of New
York that if the Republicans make jul
dicious selection of Il standard-bearer-
one on whom the several wings and fac
tions can cordially unite-they can carry
the State, and restore it to the Republi-
can ranks, this fall. The names of posi-
BILE nominees for Governor are beginning
to be canvassed, and the importance of
the issues at stake ought to, and we trust
will, compel the selection of the best man.
The New York sun of Monday gives the
following list of possible candidates Hon.
Frank Hiscock, Gen. j. b. Carr, the Hon.
James w. Wadsworth, the Hon. :. s.
Rogers of Buffalo, Mayor Low of Brook
len and Col. lie Grand b. Cannon of New
York. Each gentleman is commended,
but the sun suggests that Mr.. Rogers
cannot be nominated because he support
ed Mr.. Cleveland against Judge Folger,
and Mr.. Roosevelt, while mo SLOUGH as a
public man." will "have to wait till his
beard is longer" OF Col. Cannon, whom
it calls the business mans candidate, the
sun says:
He resides in this city, and is variously
engaged in railroads, in mining and man
ufacturing iron, and in other large enter
prises. A protectionist in political econo-
my, he is one of the natural leaders of his
party, though, so far as we are aware, he
has never held any political Office His
military title was gained by actual ser
vice in the civil war, and his qualities of
intellect and character give him great
deal of weight in political as well as bust
ness affairs. He always votes the straight
Republican ticket. Though not II Blaine
man, his support Of Blaine last year was
unqualified and most efficient.
The Troy Times says:
This is the first time we have seen Col
Cannon's name mentioned in this connec.
ton but it may not be the last time. The
Colonel is native of Troy, and has large
business interests here and in northern
New York, as well as in the metropolis
Col. Cannon would make a strong candi.
date before the people, and good COVER
nor if elected, as we are not without hope
the Republican nominee, whatsoever he
may be, will be.
Col. Cannon would undoubtedly make
very strong candidate ; and we incline
to the belief that he would carry the State
if it can be carried this year by any Re
publican. He is Il man whose integrity
independence, patriotism, public spirit
and executive capacity are beyond dispute
He is widely known and as widely respect
ed and he would make clean, high
minded and able governor Can oul
brother Republicans of the Empire Stat,
do better than to place his name at the
head of their ticket
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22

The latest blunder at Washington was
the selection by Attorney General Garland
of one Zach" Montgomery for the office
of assistant attorney general of the United
States for the interior department, under
which the bureau of education is placed.
While President Cleveland was at lunch
Saturday he was informed that Montgom-
cry wrote two bitter pamphlets against
free schools some years ago. The pamph-
lets were sent for from the congressional
library, and Mr. Montgomery will not be
nominated for the place designed for him.
1t is remarkable how much backing and
filling of this sort is going on at Washing
ton; but perhaps there is no more than
was to be expected, considering how hard
it Is to find Democrats without ugly black
spots on their records.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22

ton of all, from calumny, malice and per
secution. The best men are sometimes
subjected to them and men in active
business, extensively connected with pub
lie affairs, and parties to heated business
and political controversies are always
liable to them. This is Il crooked world
of ours. 1t is not right that honest men
should suffer by knaves; that the indus
trous should have to support the idle I;
that the lawbreakers should live and prey
upon the law-abiding; that the wolves
should browbeat the lambs that men of
peace should have to support and suffer
by men of strife. But these things are
inevitable as men are made and human
society constructed. The time is coming,
we must hope, when these things will be
Strengthened out: but it will not come in
our day nor when it comes will the cure
OF human folly and wrong be reached by
legal machinery.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22

Police Sergeant Crowley of New York,
who was found guilty of committing an
assault on Maggie Morris, an innocent
young girl, whom he met at a ball, was
sentenced on Monday to hard labor in the
Sing Sing States prison for seventeen
years and six months. The sentence,
severe as it is, was deserved, and it is to
be hoped that no legal eXpedient or exc
cutive clemency will prevent its execu-
ton. AS Recorder Smyth, who presided
at the trial, remarked, it is the duty of
officers to protect women, instead of as
saulting them ; and the summary enforce
ment of justice in this case will enforce
the admonition, for all rascals of the
Crowley type.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22

The complacency with which some of
our leading journals view the war cloud
lowering over Europe, and the confident
way in which they assert that America with
so many thousand miles of ocean rolling
between her shores and the armies and
navies of the turbulent old world, has
nothing to fear from any complications
which may arise in that direction, natur-
ally prompt to the question whether they
really believe what they say, or if they do
believe it, how they can have been so
short-sighted and foolish as to arrive at
such a conclusion What, for instance
are thousand miles of sea to modern
war-shlp? The navy of any one of the
great European powers could open bonn
bardment upon our Atlantic coast cities
within ten days after receiving sailing or
ders. And what could be done, in the
mean time, to provide against such an at
tack d; Absolutely nothing. We have,
practically no coast defences worth men
tioning. Our navy would be less effective
for purposes of resistance than a fleet of
Chinese luggers. And as for the pro
lection of our harbors, the forts which
used to defend them are so situated as to
be almost worthless against modern ar
tilleIy. A hostile fleet could anchor off
Coney Island and throw shells into Brook
Ign and New York. A line drawn around
the City Hall at IA radius of ten miles
passes outside the shore at Manhattan
Beach. A modern war-ship could drop a
missile weighing half IA ton, in the very
heart of New York city from this distance
And the harbors of our other large At
lantic coast cities are still more made
quately protected than the harbor of New
York.
The advance in the enginery of war has
been so great within the past few years,
that the ordinary coast defences are prac-
tically no protection at all. If the hostile
fleet had to sail into the Narrows before
1t could lombard New York-as would
have been the case twenty-five years ago
it would be consistent TO speak of the
harbor of the metropolis as impregnable
But as the case now stands, with no well.
equipped fleet to protect it, New York is
as helpless and exposed as any fishing
hamlet. Its forts at the entrance of the
harbor could do nothing to protect it
against a fleet anchored off Coney Island.
III we need navy then we need good
one.
If the new administration really means
to do effectual work in reforming the de-
partments, here is good place for it to
make beginning. Secretary Whitney
has one of the finest opportunities ever of
fered to a Cabinet officer. Let him pro
vide few first class men war to guard
our great seaboard cities let him furnish
the entrances to our harbors with the best
torpedo equipment known to modern sci
ence, and he will have made beginning
for which the nation will owe him lasting
gratitude.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22

A Rutland correspondent, sympa-
thizing naturally and strongly with ex
Governor Page in his recent troubles,
suggested that the fact that such a suit
was possible argued defect in our system
of Jurisprudence, and he urged the need
of additional safeguards against malicious
prosecutions. The feeling that there
ought to be some means of protecting men
from undeserved annoyance and injury
under the forms of law, is natural one.
The difficulty is in devising any practical
means to secure the end. AS there is no
practicable way of preventing the violent
and reckless from using implements of
peaceful industry as instruments of muir
der, or from using medicines as poisons, so
there is no practicable way of preventing
men from using the machinery of Justice
as an instrument of injustice and torture.
Until human communities and human ma
ture itself are reconstructed, there can be
no absolute prevention of injury to the in
nocent through the malice and wicked
ness of their fellows. The prosecutors in
the case against.Governor Page have to suf-
fer the penalty of the heavy costs, and the
humiliation of defeat but the risk of
these penalties did not deter them from
bringing the suit, and will not deter them
from carrying the case to higher court
uuder similar risks. An added penalty
would probably have made no difference
in this case. Men do not count the cost
when their passions are aroused !;
and no way has been ever devils
ed for absolute or even proximate Iprotec-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22

The breaking of the deadlock in the Hi
nois legislature, and the election of Hon.
John A. Logan to the Senate of the Unit
ed States is a Republican triumph which
will everywhere be hailed with delight.
The bitterness and persistency of the con
flct has been uneXampled. Every means
has been resorted to by the opponents of
Mr. Logan to prevent his election. Both
parties have been urged again and again
to put forward other candidates But
they have fought it out to the end for
their respective champions, and the result
goes into political history as an instance
of what can be accomplished by bulldog
persistency.n 1t is famous victory for
the Illinois Republicans.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22

Mr.. Levi p. Morton, the retiring United
States minister to France, was the recip-
lent of notable honors in Paris, at an as
sembly called in his honor, on the eve of
his departure for New York. Three mem
bers of the French Cabinet. NJ. NJ. Flo
quet, Goblet and Sadi Carnot NJ. Tirard,
NJ. de Lesseps, and about two hundred
other distinguished men, were present to
testify to their esteem for the retiring
minister, and their regret at his approach
ing departure. President Grevy said, up
on accepting Minister Morton's etters of
recall, that if the usages and traditions of
the two countries had permitted he should
have asked as a favor of the United States
government that Mr., Morton be retained
at Paris, The retiring ministers both to
France and England, have set good ex-
amples for their successors to follow.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-22
The Postmaster Generals Circular

We print elsewhere the private circular
which Postmaster General Villas has sent
to the Democratic members of Congress
from Ohio A similar circular has been
sent to the Democratic delegations of In
diana and Virginia, and was to be sent to
those of other States. This some
what peculiar document first appeared in
the Cincinnati Enquirer to which copy
was doubtless furnished by some recipient,
and its genuineness is not denied.
Some points in this circular are worthy
of notice. In the first place the plan sug-
gested is thoroughly partisan proceed
ing 1t is intended to relieve "our people"
from partisan postmasters. "Parti-
SAN" in this document, rs in all Demo-
cratic pronunciamentos, is another name
for Republican. Thus in the second para
graph, the ownership or editing of RE
publican newspaper" is offensive parti-
sanship." "Our people, under this side
light, becomes another name for the Dem
ocrats for no others are impatient for
relief from Republican postmasters. The
articles, speeches, clubs and meetings,
alluded to, as furnishing evidence of of
fensive partisanshlp, Of course are Re
publican articles, speeches, clubs and
meetings 1t is not offensive" to Colonel
Villas, or to the Democratic Congressman
whom he addresses, to publish Democrat
ic papers, address Democratic meetings,
or organize Democratic clubs, and all
that kind of thing is not going to be of
fensive, but highly proper and praise
worthy to the powers that be- To print
Republican papers, however, or write ar
ticles which do not suit "our Democratic)
people" or do any work for the Republi-
can party, or as Colonel Villas might have
added, to vote the Republican ticket
though that probably is included in the
"other acts" he alludes to,-is cause
enough for immediate removal and re-
movals are to come at the rate of several