The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-18

preserving the peace there whenever the
federal troops are withdrawn.
THE French government is to educate free
every ninth child in Il family.
THE conductors and bralsemens' strike on
the Illinois Central has ended.
THE total yield of gold in California to
January l, 1885, was 81 ,07S,6S5, 169.
THE Grant Monument Association is to
canvass New York city for subscriptions.
THE duke of Devonshire has related the
rents of his Irish tenants twenty per cent
WILLIAM HYDE, editor of the Republicdn,
has been appointed postmaster of st. Louis.
NJ. FLooUFT has been elected president of
the French chamber of deputies by 267 ma
jority.
BENEATH Turkish mosque in Constanti-
nople a subterranean church has been dis
covered.
IT is said that all the powers except En-
gland have suspended official relations with
Bulgaria.
THE National Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, held its nineteenth annual session
in Boston the 18th.
THE bulk of the Servian army has marched
to the Bulgarian frontier, war having been
declared against Bulgaria.
A COMPANY has been organized, with
S12,OO0,0O0 capital, to lay a cable from
point near Boston to Germany.
HORACE b. CIAFLIN, the well-known dry
goods merchant of New York, died on Sat
urday, aged seventy-four years.
FoRTY-FIvE persons were lost by the re-
cent disaster to the steamer Algoma on Lake
Superior and fourteen were saved.
FIVE years ago there were 100 varieties
of chrysanthemums cultivated in Massa-
chusetts. Now there are over 1000.
AN Indiana gentleman named Goosebeck
having n m I'M a1
for him at Hallowell, Maine, of granite.
THE estimated cost of the new Nicaraguan
canal route, according to the report of Civil
Engineer Menocal, U. s. N, is $64 ,043,6 97.
A DEvIL-FIsH, too large to he taken on board
ship, was caught last month in the harbor of
Payta, Peru. The monster weighed four tons.
ALL baggage from Montreal is to be fumi-
gated before it comes into the States. caus-
ing delay of twenty-four hours in its trans
mission.
THE first discoverer of gold in the San
Juan mountains of Colorado was a German
girl named Bertha Wolf. She is now worth
100000.
A WALKING match of $500 miles, for
purse of $1,000 and gate receipts, has been
arranged between Weston and O'Leary, to
begin December It'll
THE executive committee of the Maine
legislative reunion, to be held January Z,
]
that of the Vermont reunion.
FRESNO county, Cal, is twice as large as
the state of Connecticut, four times as large
as Delaware, eight times as large as Rhode
Island and just the size of Massachusetts.
The commander of the Burmah expedi-
tionary force has been ordered by the vice
roy of India to invade Burmah at once, and
he will proceed to capture Mandalay as
soon as possible.
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subterranean reservoir of tirst-class soda
water, bubbling and effervescing out of the
ground in such quantities that all America
might be supplied.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER JOHNSON recon-
mends the adoption of the Garland BILL ex-
tending the government debt of the Pacific
railroads for sixty years, to be paid in regu-
lar semi-annual installments.
The Egyptian obeisk in Central Park,
New York, is beginning to scale, under the
weather, and the work of giving it pro-
| tective coating of paratfine and creosote, to
prevent further damage, has begun.
LEWIS DAVID REL, the leader of the
Northwest rebellion, was hanged last Mon
day morning. He spent nearly all of Sun
day night with his spiritual advisers, but
near morning slept soundly. He died with
out struggle.
SMALLPOX is spreading all over Canada,
and special uneasiness is felt in New Bruins
wick and Prince Edwards Island. Twenty
cases have already appeared at Charlotte
town. Infected ports are quarantined.
The epidemic seems to be decreasing in
Montreal and vicinity.
The Sterling case has assumed more
complicated form. At the request of Sec
rotary Manning, Judge McCue, solicitor OF
the treasury, has rendered a decision in
which he holds that Mr.. Sterling cannot be
removed without cause, and that cause
must affect his efficiency as an officer.
GALVESTON, Texas, was visited by a great
conhagration last Friday, the burned dis.
trict covering an area of 100 acres. Upwards
of 400 houses were burned, among them some
of the most costly in the city, and about
property loss is estimated at between 50 Co.,
900, and 81, SOC, 600, on which there is known
insurance of S9S0,OOO.