The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30

and badly beaten. Several Of the girls
heads were cut with stones. They took
refuge in store until the police arrived.
THE deaths in Europe from smallpox are
said to be sixty thousand annually The
mortality is almost wholly confined TO civil
1ans as, owing to constant vaccination and
reVaccination, the armies are almost wholly
free from the disease.
r., .. GRAVES. superintendent OF the
bureau OF engraving and printing and
Messrs Fairchild and Coon. assistant secre-
taries OF the treasury, are prominently
naiheu as CHAIRMAN Eaton's successor in
the civil service commission,
ROSWELL p. FLOWER. who aspred TO be
the presidential candidate of the democracy
in 1884, but was nominated for the second
place on the New York state ticket the
other day, positively declines to have his
name used in that connection
BRYN MAwR COLLEGE, at Philadelphia. was
dedicated last week Wednesday, James
Russell Lowell giving an address. Its
buildings cost 100000, and its endowment
of SSO0,0O0 yields $4,000 annually. 1t opens
with thirty-seven young lady students.
JUMBo's car containing the trick elephant.
Tom Thumb, whose leg was broken by the
railroad accident at st. Thomas, p. O., has
arrived in winter quarters in Bridgeport, in
charge of Scott, Jumbo's old keeper. Every
thing is to be done to save the elephants
life.
AT Lynchburg September 18th, the con-
federates Of Bedford county held a grand
reunion. Three thousand eX-confederates
were in line and much enthusiasm prevailed.
The troops marched under the United States
| flag, which was greeted everywhere with tu-
nultuous applause. 1t was the greatest
gala day that section of the state ever
experienced.
GOLDSMITH MAID, once the queen of the
| turf" died at the Fashion Stud Farm, near
| Trenton, n. j., last week Thursday. She
| was twenty-eight years old last May, and for
| seven years had been living in retirement at
| the farm. AT the time of her retirement she
had trotted one hundred thirty-two races,
OF which she won ninety-two. Her earnings
were nearly S250,000.
| THE Hartford SUNDAY Globe printed a
| story purportsng to be the true account of
the death of Jumbo, and charging that he
! was purposely put in the way of the train
and by Barnum's direction Barnum has
| instituted a suit for libel against the Globe
and the office of the paper is attached. The
| damages are set at $4,000 The suit will
| come on at the October term of the superior
| court.
DR.. GEORGE r. ELLIOTT was the micro
scopst employed by General Grants physi-
clans. In the early stages of the malady
| bits of the throat were clipped off for ex-
| animation. 1t was published that the micro
scope had proved the cancer to the cpl
thelial but the physicians did not divulge
the fact that every stage of its progress was
watched through lenses so magnifying that
a scrap of flesh became as big as plate to
| look at.
MONDAY was the day originally fixed for
blowing up Flood Rock and completing the
work of removing the obstruction to navi-
cation in He'll Gate. The discovery was
made few days ago that large number of
cases of dynamite cartridges had become
corroded and worthless. The cartridges
are now dipped in melted bees wax pre-
vious to being put in the cells, and it is be-
lieved there will be no more trouble in this
direction. The delay will necessitate the
postponement of the great explosion for
about two weeks.
SOME very remarkable stories are told OF
the tornado which wrecked the town o
Washington Courthouse, Ohio 1t is said
that in an apple orchard some of the fruit
on the trees was actually baked by the ele-
ments of the tornado. Near the same spot the
oak, elm and hickory trees were stuck full
of straws from haystacks, some of the straws
penetrating the hard bark of the shel-bark
hickory. This story is believed by no one
until they see the specimens, many of which
are on exhibition. Quite as tough state.
ment is that farmer eighteen miles distant
found carload of tin roofing, cornices
etc, which had been torn from buildings
scattered over his farm.