The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
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marked Design NO. | ana presented Dy y.
Phi. Rim, an artist and architect of Boston,"
They will also express the nope that the So
ciety will take the proper and needful
measures to ensure a full attendance of the
Monument Association on the 18th of Au-
gust, in order that the question of design
may be definitely settled. Mr.. Rims de-
sign is for massive shaft three hundred
feet high, to be built of Bennington blue
limestone.
other Localities.
MELONS sell for twenty-five cents dozen
in Georgia.
The Chicago gambling dens were all closed
by the police last week Wednesday night
New York CITY is the defendant in over
five hundred lawsuits, the claims varying
from 100000 downward.
WESLEY BABCoCK of Montgomery, n. Y,
the other day lifted nine hundred fifty
pounds as a test of strength.
MORE than four hundred saloons have
closed in St. Louis since the LIST of July, I'M
der the operation of the high license law.
THE class which will graduate next year
at West Point numbers eighty-three-the
largest fourth class known in the history of
the academy.
THTRTY-EIGHT years ago Brigham Young
and his followers took possession of Salt
Lake valley. The Mormons celebrated the
anniversary of that event last Friday.
GEORGE SMITH threw package of dyna-
mite into Lake Winnipisseogee at the
steamboat wharf Weirs, which exploded
and killed. it is estimated, one million fish.
A REMARKABLE bedstead, made to order
by a Milwaukee furniture firm, is twenty
four teet wide, and has nine compartments,
each intended to hold one of the purchasers
children
The Ramapo river, in Orange county,
N. Y, is covered distance of nearly three
miles with large white lilies in bloom. In
many places they are so dense that the
water cannot be seen.
A NEW railroad is projected from Fabyans,
in the White Mountains, to Plymouth The
distance is only forty miles, and by means
of this link the time from Boston to Fabyans
would be reduced over two hours.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Chicago to inn
mediately raise money for colossal statue
of General Grant, to be placed in Lincoln
Park. Five thousand dollars has already
been raised. The statue will cost $4,000
FIFTEEN thousand people attended the
opening of the Chautauqua University. One
of the instructors, who conducts his exam
nations and gives out new lessons by mail,
has now over twenty-eght thousand pupils
in his class.
FRANCE has now 81 900 kilometres of rail-
ways, conveying 1S0,0O0,000 passengers a
year; and the gross receipts are | ,150,OOO,OOO
francs. Twenty-three thousand persons are
employed on these railways. and the state
derives a revenue of S3,000,0O0 francs
from them.
ANOTHER frightful explosion occurred last
week Tuesday night on the South Pennsyl-
vania railroad, one mile and half south of
Fort Littleton, Trenton county, instantly
killing one Hungarian and two Italians,
and probably fatally injuring the foreman
and an unknown negro.
Mr. GLADSTONE is the owner of probably
the longest pencil ever made. A manu-
facturer at Keswick sent him a walking
stick, thirty-nine inches long, made of cedar,
and forming large pencil, with Borrow
dale lead nearly half an inch square running
through it. 1t has solid silver band, which
bears an inscription in verse.
THE English Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals has noteworthy record
During the last twenty-five years, out OF
ffty-six thousand prosecutions, fifty-ive
thousand have been successful and during
the whole period not one single action has
been brought against the society for excess
OF duty or illegal proceedings.
THE use of grindstones by the farmers in
the United States is no small item in the
trade. Each year they take about twelve
thousand tons of small grindstones, varying
IN weight from forty to one hundred fifty
pounds, besides some thirty thousand stones
mounted on frames ready for use. All the
latter are made in Cleveland and Berea, o
QUEEN VICToRIA's youngest child, Beat
rice, was married last week Thursday
morning to petty German prince, Henry
of Battenburg. The ceremony occurred OF
the Isle of Wight, and was conducted by
the Archbishop of Canterbury. The roya
guests came from London in the queen
yacht. Tennyson has written verses on tn,
event.
A NOTABLE monument is TO be erected a
Atlanta, Georgia Near the base, in inches
are to be statutes of Grant, Lee, Johnston
and Sherman. Near the top of the column
will be two soldiers, the blue and the gray
clasping hands, and at the top, standing OF
aglobe, will be the Goddess of Liberty. L
is to be one hundred eighty feet in heigh
and will cost 100000.
The king of Dahomey, West Africa, will
many followers on May 10 made a raid OF
the villages under French protection nea
Porto Novo. His troops INDUCED in whole
sale massacre of the inhabitants anC
burned all their dwellings. One thousan,
youths and women were captured ant
carried back into Dahomey, to be sacrificed
at the cannibalistic feasts.
A RAILWAY similar to that on Noun
Washington is to be constructed on Noun
Royal at Montreal. BY means of it tn
magnificent views from that famous spo
WILDE brought within the reach of the mill
ions. The road is to be completed by Sep
TENDER, and eighteen cents will pay for
round trip horse-car ride from any section
of the city and the ascent of the mountain.
AN official at Washington, who is engaged
in counting or weighing the money in tn
treasury vaults, estimates the silver in tn
vaults to weigh five hundred forty-thre
thousand seven hundred pounds TIL
money is not counted dollar by dollar, bu
weighed on one of the most perfect scales !
the world. Although one thousand pound
can be weighed at time pin placed ol
the balance will incline it.
THE largest gun in the world for throw
ing dynamite projectles has just been con
pleted in Jersey City machine-shop. TIL
barrel of the gun is sixty feet long, with
bore of eight inches, and is brass-line
throughout. With its ponderOus frame an
carriages the great weapon weighs forty
three tons. Compressed air is to be used il
stead of gunpowder and the projectile col
tains one hundred eighty pounds of dy
Mantle.
A MAGNIFICENT lion has been received {
Liverpool from Africa. He is one of emo
nous dimensions as compared with til
specimens usually found in geological co
lections, and as he is still young and likel
TO grow considerably yet, he promises to /
the largest and most beautiful lion eve
seen in England. Although so strong an
powerful, the noble beast is as gentle as
lamb, and was the pet of the whole shi
He consumed twenty-four sheep and lively
goats on the passage.
AN ambitious mathematical person show
that at the present rate of scalping pos
masters the President will get through wit
his job in about twenty months, while Il