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

treasury department circular instructs all
officers in the customs department to aid
the inspectors in their work. so that it will
be practically impossible for the germs of
the pestilence to reach Vermont, the regu-
lations applying to passengers and mer-
chandise alike. The system will 90 into
effect at once and and every effort will be
taken to make the work of inspection eff
cient and thorough, the inspectors being
clothed with full power to take all neces-
sary precautions.
Other Localities.
FORTY thousand persons took part in So
cialist meeting in London last Sunday.
IT it estimated that the railroads of Penn
sylvania employ seventy thousand men.
MIR. BLAINE addressed eighteen thousand
people at the Maine state fair at Lewiston
FIRE in three Chicago lumber yards. last
week, destroyed property valued at 500 900
THE ottawa government has new cabi-
net, with Sir. John A. Mcdonald still at
the head.
a CHEESE weighing thirty-three hundred
pounds has been produced at East Aurora,
New York
THE Colorado republicans have nominated
the Hon. Samuel II. Ebert for Judge of the
supreme court.
II is said Russia will demand of the sigma
tory powers that Prince Alexander of
JOHN Balm has been nominated for con-
gress by the republicans of the nineteenth
Pennsylvania district
GEORGE WILKES, founder of JVHEes' Shirt
| Of the Times, died in New York, recently
aged sixty-eight years.
! IT is proposed to raise a fund of $50. 600 to
establish an art gallery and memorial hall
for Dartmouth College.
JAMES A. HINCKLEY has failed to sustain
his suit against the civil service reform com
missioners in New York.
THE colored people of Vicksburg have de
| termined to erect a $4,000 monument tC
commemorate emancipation.
A FOUNDRY which is being constructed in
San Francisco will be the largest in tn,
United States. 1t will cost 100000.
THE clerical newspapers of Paris claim
that twenty-four thousand Christians were
murdered in the recent outbreaks in AMMAN
SPAIN has consented to accept Pope Lee
as arbter in her dispute with Germany
regarding the Carolines, should mediation
be required.
THE discovery of extraordinarily ricl
silver mines in the Sierra Madre Mountain.
of Mexico has led to a rush of American
miners to that locality.
THE yacht " Puritan was sold at auction
for Sl3,500. Edward Burgess, her designer
bought her for a gentleman in Boston
whose name he refused to give.
THERE were five hundred twenty-on
deaths from cholera throughout Spain OF
Saturday. In Palermo, Sicily, there wer
one hundred sixty-four deaths from the dis
ease.
THREE coaches of a passenger train, con
tanning over one hundred persons, wer
thrown down high bank near Warn
Springs, N c., Friday. Twenty people wer
injured.
ADvIcEs from Bucharest report that fight
ing occurred on Friday near Adrianople
and that during the engagement twent.
Roumelans were killed and three hundred
wounded.
THE owner of the yacht " Dauntless =" OF
fers to race the :" Genesta " from here to Ell
rope, or any other long ocean voyage, 70
$4,000. The challenge is open to any othe
yacht also
JAMES w. CLARKE has resigned tn
editorship of the Boston Traceller to becom
managing editor of the Boston GlObe. II. L
Nelson is the new managing editor of tn
Boston Post.
A FATAL disease prevails among the hog
in a section a few miles west of Beloit, Wis
and it is said that at least one thousand hog
have died within two weeks. Extensiv
pork-rasers have lost entire herds.
AT Montreal the Salvation Army was a
tackled by mob of roughs in Victoria Squar