The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16

land horizon, and other distant objects
seemed distorted and unreal.
A CANE containing ten hundred sixty diff
ferent pieces of wood, all cemented upon a
musket ramrod found on a southern battle
field, and nicely polished, has just been fin
ished by a physician Of Murfreesboro, Tenn.
A PEEKsKILL woman lost bag contain
ing $500 worth of jewelry in Hudson
River railroad train, and advertised her loss
The passenger who took the seat vacated by
her and found it saw the advertisement and
handed over the bag.
AT Green Bay, Wis, John b. Owen, a
railroad conductor, was walking homeward,
| when a can of vitriol was dashed into his
face, destroying the sight of his right eye
and otherwise burning him. The motive for
the deed is not known.
AN eagle attacked an eght-years-old boy
near Bullion, Arizona, recently, while he was
| riding horseback, and lifted him clear from
the saddle, dropping him to the ground and
bruising him badly, besides tearing his
shoulders with its claws.
AwoMAN in Allentown, Penn. goes to sleep
every evening at nine o'clock and sleeps
soundly until five o'clock the next after
noon, and has been keeping up this practice
uninterruptedly for eighteen months past.
Her health is of the best.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's political letter to his
| Midlothian constituency will not be issued
| until after the meeting of the radical leaders
next month. 1t is stated that if the radicals
! and wings can reach a common understand
ing. the ex-premier will formally indorse it.
The recent case of smallpox in Boston
was brought there by Captain Robson of
| the schooner Dallas Hill" Two weeks
ago he left his wife in st. Johns, who was
| dying of smallpox. Before leaving her he
kissed her, and in that way he became af-
fected himself.
THE Portland (Maine) police have I'M
earthed one of the most remarkable liquor
traps discovered since the prohibtory law
went into force. A lead-pipe containing
whis<ey, and laid in cement, was followed
one hundred thirty-eight feet over a public
way to the source of supply.
The president has made the following APP
pointments to be consuls of the United
States: Henry w. Gilbert of New York at
Trieste James NJ. Rose of New York at
| Three Rivers, Canada; Moses A. Hopkins
of North Carolina to be minister resident
and consul-general of the United States to
Liberia.
AT last the yachts of England and Amer
ica--the center-board sloop Puritan and the
cutter Genesta-have met in a race of thirty
eight miles over the inside course of the
New York Yacht Club. Monday, in ex-
tremely light weather, the center-board de-
feated the cutter by sixteen minutes, and
forty-seven seconds.
THE celebration of the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the town of Concord
Mass, occurred last Saturday and was
grand affair. Hon. George Frisbee Hoar
delivered the Grafton. Among the speakers
were Governor Robinson, Judge E. Rock
well Hoar, William NJ. Evarts, James Rus
sell Lowell and George William Curtis.
WHILE the Rev. Mr.. Clark of the East
Haven, Conn, Congregational church, was
finishing the opening prayer on recent
Sunday a dove flew into the church and
alighted on the center gallery. When the
pastor read from the first chapter of John
the clause, 81 saw the Spirit descend
ing from heaven like dove and it
abode upon him. the dove perched on the
open Bible. AT the close of the service Mr..
Clark said that this might be mathematical
of the presence of the Divine Spirit AS he
said this, the bird alighted upon his head.
The clergyman took the winged visitor
down and held it against his breast Many
were moved to tears, and the whole congre-
CATION were vsibly affected.