The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

and have adopted measures for securing
cheaper transportation for travelling sales
men and freight.
AT the Wolvercote mill, near Oxford,
three hundred seventy-hve tons of rags
have been consumed in making two hum
dred fifty tons Of paper for the Oxford edition
of the revised Bible.
THE steamer City of Rome, which arrived
at New York last week Thursday, ran into
and sunk French fishing bark in a dense
fog on the 18th. Two of the crew were saved
and twenty-five drowned.
The first shipment of red slate ever made
to Europe was sent the other day from
North Granville, N. Y. The only red slate
i'm the world is found in four towns in
Washington county, N. Y.
THE Wool-growers' National Association,
ST. Louis, adopted resolution demanding
the restoration of the wool tariff of 1867, and
declaring the association will support only
such men and parties as favor protection.
ONE hundred fifteen workmen-black-
smiths, iron platers, machinists, shipwrights
and laborers-employed in the construction
department of the Brooklyn navy-yard,
have been discharged by order of Secretary
Whitney.
COLORADO is threatened with a devasta-
ting invasion of grasshoppers. Millions of
them are reported to be coming out of the
sandy soil, on the south side of the Arkansas
river, and devouring early vegetables and
tender shrubs.
WHILE man was sprinkling benzine on
/ furniture in Philadelphia store, last week,
the benzine exploded. One wall of the
building was blown out, killing a lady who
! was passing and injuring others, and the en-
| tire building was burned.
AT recent consultation the physicians
| expressed opinions as to the time that
| General Grant would live DIR. Sands thinks
| it is matter of three months, while DR..
| Shrady thinks it is a matter of six months
The disease is progressing very slowly, but
very surely.
So immense were the demands for flowers
by admirers of the dead poet, Victor Hugo,
! for tributes at his funeral, that there is a
! flower famine in Paris. Tennyson sent a
diadem composed of Irish lilies. The peo-
! pie, of all shades of opinion, in England sent
| floral tributes.
BLIND Tom has an unfortunate rival
prodigy. He comes from Macon, Ill, and
is called Blind Boone. He is twenty-five
and has been blind since he was six months
old. He never received a musical educa-
ton, yet he plays all sorts of things by ear,
as Blind Tom does
THE Pixies Peak railway, which will be
in operation probably next year, will be the
most notable piece of track in the world.
1t will mount 1000 feet higher than the
Lima & Croya railway in Peru. 1t is now in
operation to a point over 1900 feet above
the level of the sea.
The records of the photographic office
show that the amount of ice and the num-
Der of bergs which have appeared in the di-
rect path of European steamers within a
month is Unprecedented Twenty-seven
vessels were injured by collision with ice
bergs during the month.
The second annual New England musical
festival will begin at Weirs, n. H., July /,
holding over the Fourth, under the manage
ment of II. G. Blaisdell of Concord. Carl
| Zerrahn of Boston will be musical director,
and eminent vocal and instrumental per-
formers have been engaged
A PASSENGER train on the Wabash, St
Louis & Pacific railroad arrived at Chicago,
Saturday, in charge of a mailman. Out OF
the twelve or fifteen men-otficers and cit
zens-who finally secured him, one officer
is dead, shot through the body another
probably fatally wounded and several citi-
zens INJURED.
THE fifty-sixth anniversary of the Brook.
Ign Sunday-school Union was celebrated
last week Wednesday. After devotional
exercises in the churches the children, to
the number of sixty thousand, marched
through the streets and were afterward re.
viewed at the park by the mayor and dis
tinguished citizens.
VIRGINIA democrats in Washington seen
depressed by the result of the municipal
elections held last week Thursday through
out Virginia. Malone gained everywhere
He not only carried Petersburgh, his own
town, by an increased majority, but in
creased his majority in other towns, and
correspondingly decreased the democratic
majorities.
THE first carload of cherries ever shipped
from San Francisco to an eastern marke
was dispatched on May Goth. The fruit
came from Alameda county. Eight tons OF
cherries were put up in small baskets of tiv,
pounds each, and these were putinto crates
through which the air circulates freely. TIL,
car was also open at each end, the ends be
ing protected with wire gauze
PROFESSOR ARMINIUs VAMBERY at Lon
don, in an interview, stated that he be
lieves an Anglo-Russian war to be newt
able, but he thinks England will not b,
ready for it for year or two when til,
Indian railways and military roads viii
have been completed. He has perfect faitl
in England's ability to repel an attack
and predicts that the whole of Central Ash
will eventually come into the possession o
England.
DOCTORS wife in Glasgow prescribe,
for a patient during her husbands absence
Her medicine produced salvation, and tn
patient sued for $3.50 damages. The plain
tiff sought to show that the wife was re
sponsible agent of the husband. The de
PENDANT denied that his wife had authorit
to prescribe; he had no power to delegat
such a privilege, and the plaintiff took tn
medicine at her own risk. The Judge coin
, cided in this view, and found the plainti
liable in costs.