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

ened the other day by one of her daughters
screaming fire, and Is said to have imme-
diately regained possession of her sight.
Her loss of sight was caused by sickness.
A SCHOOL of strange marine monsters were
seen playing in Galveston Bay last week.
Friday one was caught in a seine and with
ropes and horses dragged ashore. 1t is
shaped like vampire bat, and its wings
extend sixteen feet. The body weighs two
tons.
THERE is a fourishing school at Sweet
wood, Georgia. The teacher is w. A. Rog-
ers, the tax collector. A remarkable thing
is that in school of seventy-one pupils
each and every one is related to the teacher
and to each other. Only one of the scholars
is over fifteen years of age.
AT Birmingham, Conn, Mrs. Charlotte
Baldwin, q rich lady seventy-five years old,
brought suit for an absolute divorce from
her twenty-two-years-old husband, Harry.
This peculiarly mated couple were only mar
ried last February, and their marriage then
was the sensational event of the day.
A LARGE grizzly bear one of the attrac-
tons at Coney Island, got loose last week
Friday. He ate up weeks supply of dain-
ties in the elephant cafe, tore Down one
hundred feet of ornamental railing, and de-
molished a cage which held Java peacocks,
monkeys and other pets. He was finally shot.
THE Clyde river, in Scotland, burned for
thirty-siX hours recently. A fisherman who
was wading in the water struck a match to
light his pipe, and, while still burning, threw
it in the water. Gases from the mineral
workings underneath the rivers bed had
found their way to the surface through a
fissure, and lighted up at once.
A NEW design of the face of the postal
card will soon make its appearance, and 1t
will be a decided improvement on the
present one. The design was prepared
] Of
and the dies have been sent to the contract
ors in Connecticut, so that the printing of
the new card will begin at once.
A TERRIBLE fire visited Toronto, early
Monday morning, and destroyed property
valued at one million dollars. 1t broke out
in glucose factory and extended half mile.
A factory, foundry, elevator, boat house
and other buildings, large quantities of
lumber, coal yards, wharves and shipping
were destroyed, and it is thought that one
| life was lost
JONATHAN Brown, farmer aged sixty,
residing on the Great Falls On. H. road,
while at work in his garden, was struck by
| lightning and knocked insensible. When
consciousness returned it was found that
both legs were paralyZed. He lies danger
ously ill. His hired man and woman, in the
house at the time, were also severely
shocked, the mans lower limbs being par
alyzed.
THE family at the Grant cottage at Mt. Nc
Gregor were startled by thunder and light
ming Thursday. All the telegraph wires
from the mountain to the outer world were
burned. The lightning struck the roof of
the Grant cottage and knocked several shin
giles off. 1t also entered the cottage through
the roof, tore off the plasterng and extin-
guished the electric light above the gener-
ais casket.
THE President has named the following
pall-bearers for General Grants funeral
General Sherman, Acknowledgement Sher-
idan, Admiral Porter, Vice-admiral Rowan
General Joseph K. Johnston, General Simon
b. Buckner, Hamilton Fish of New York,
George S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts,
George w. Childs of Pennsylvania, John A.
Logan of Illinois. George Jones and Oliver
Hoyt of New York.
DISPATCHES from Tashkend, in Asiatc
! Russia, state that a great earthquake has
visited that region 1t damaged most of the
houses in the town of Bsheeozek and
ruined the cities of Suluk and Belovodsk
In the latter place a church was shaken to
! fragments while it was crowded with wor
| shippers, large number of whom were
| killed. The earth opened in great assures
in Belovodsk and many persons were swal-
lowed up.
THE Russian admiralty have under con-
sderation a proposal to construct an electric
| boat Its length is to be about one hundred
| feet and its width twenty feet. The electric
power is to be stored in fifty accumulators,
which, it is calculated will suffice for four
hours. Its mean speed will be nine knots.
In the forepart lighting apparatus of six
thousand candle power is to be placed. 1t
is especially intended for action against hos
tile torpedoes.
A New YORKER has patented a railroad
indicator, to be used to Indicate the time at
which trains pass station. The indicator
is composed of a clock set in case about
eight feet above the ground. The dial looks
| like an ordinary clock; the hands are
stationary, except when train passes on
the track where the indicator is attached,
when the hands suddenly move to the hour,
minute and second, giving the correct time
when the train passes. The hands point at
this time until another train passes, when
they move ahead as before. The invention
has been satisfactorily tested.
THE first edition of the first volume OF
General Grants military memoirs is now
in the hands of the printers and book
binders, and will number one hundred fifty
thousand copies. Each volume will con-
tain five hundred eighty-six pages. The
first edition under the contracts is to be com
pleted by December, and it is not unlikely
that another edition of equal number will
be ordered to be ready at the same time
The binding alone of this edition will give
employment to three hundred men and
women for over two months. The publish
hundred thousand sets, or four hundred
thousand copies, and the present contracts
are the largest binding contracts ever given
in this country for the first edition of a work
AT sham battle in Philadelphia, Thurs.
day afternoon, between the Fifteenth Regi
ment Infantry and Battery b of Pittsburg
the infantry attacked the battery in excel
lent style and were repulsed. In renewing
the attack, the infantry men grew excited
and uncomfortable, and bore down steadily
into the mouths of the roaring cannon. The
color company, Governors Guard, Erie
Penn, charged the center section of the
battery, and in the attack the regimenta
colors were shot to pieces and Corpora
Baker of the color guard was hit with a CUR
wad and badly hurt. After the colors wer,
planted on the captured gun, Guidon Kim
mel of the battery, while attempting to cap
ture the colors, was shot in the face and dis
figured for life. Adjutant Bradden ant
Lieutenant Campbell and twelve men o
the infantry We're terribly burned in thu