The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-02

but it is hoped that the fare may yet be
brought down to $50.
WoRKMEN at Florence, Arizona, while
digging into bank Of earth, struck large
stone vault, which proved to be tomb con-
tanning the skeleton of a giant. The man
must have been eight feet tall. The thigh
bones are about two feet long and nearly
twice as large as those of an ordinary man.
TESTS made OF the elevated railroad
structures, of the Brooklyn bridge cables
and iron store fronts show that they are all
magnetized. The induced magnetism from
the earth is supposed to have been fixed by
the Earring to which these structures have
been subjected while under magnetic in
fiuence.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: "The
death of Mr.. Hendricks changes the social
situation. Mrs. Hendricks would have
been next to Miss Cleveland, and she had
made great preparations for social activity
during the coming winter. She Is very
ambitious woman, fond of society and polit-
ical power"
THE Chicago Columbus Centennial Worlds
Fair and Exposition Company has been
licensed to incorporate by the secretary of
state. The capital stock is S1,000,000. The
object is to hold an international exposition
in the city of Chicago in 1892, which will
celebrate the fourth centennial of the dis
covery of America.
Two archdukes of Austria, brothers of the
young Queen Christina of Spain, will attend
Alfonso's funeral. The king of Italy will
send two aides to represent him. Alfonso
was insured for 100000. After the funeral
Premier Sagasta will convoke the Cortez to
proclaim the child Mercedes queen and de-
clare her mother regent.
GEORGE MCCLUER, who recently died in
| New York, was diamond expert for Tiffany.
He had probably handled more diamonds
than any other man of the present day and
knew more about the traffic. He could also
| tell who owned the most valuable diamonds
in New York, and probably in America, for
the Tiffanys did a national business
FROM the annual report of Chief Inspector
| w. A. West of the post-ofice department.
| 1t appears that $50 arrests were made by
post-ofice inspectors during the year; 459
| post-offces were robbed and 256 burned.
| Thirty-three postal cars were destroyed
| by fire. Complaints of loss of mails to the
number of 1869 were investigated during
the year and actual loss was found to have
occurred in 800 cases. The inspectors re-
covered ,203 of missing funds during the
year and $4,000 was restored to the owners
KING THEEBAw of Burmah, becoming
alarmed at the rapid approach of the British
expeditionary force, sent a messenger to
General Prendergast begging him to grant
an armstice for the purpose of peaceably
settling the difficulty between Burmah and
the Indian government. General Prender-
CAST in reply, demanded the surrender OF
the Burmese army and Mandalay, the CAPT.
tai, stating that only then could he enter.
tain any request looking to settlement OF
the dispute. King Theebaw acceded to
the terms, and the Ava forts with twenty.
eight guns were turned over to the British
troops.
A CONSIDERABLE number of senators, rep
resentatives and public officials called on
the President, last Saturday, to urge him tC
| reconsider his determination to attend the
funeral of the Vice-president. A democratic
member of congress said that every justice
of the United States supreme court and
every republican senator in Washington
had advised the President not to go to In
dianapolis. Mr.. Cleveland also received
dispatches from Samuel j. Tilden and from
many friends of Mr.. Hendricks at Indian
apolis to the same effect. The President
was finally prevailed upon not to attent
the funeral; and said that in the present
peculiar situation he felt that he ought no
to take even the remote chance of acciden
incident to travel to Indiana.
JENNIE JONES is pretty young lady re
siding at Highland, Ulster county, N. Y
She is dressmaker, and, one day about {
year ago, while employed in New York, sht
befriended an old lady who had lost he
pocket-book by lending her small sum O
money, and also assisted her across tn
street when the horse-car, in which she ha
met her, came to the place where the oil
lady wished to alight. Miss Jones gave he
name and place of residence to the old lady
at her request, and thought no more abou
it. A day or so ago Miss Jones received
that, by the death of an old lady in tina
city, she was heiress to $4,000. The lad
who bequeathed the money was the perso
, whom Miss Jones had assisted.