The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-28

cross rivers without getting off the machine;
can be made single or sociable combining
all sport with road travelling No harder
! to work than the ordinary machine, and no
heavier"
GEORGE BUCK died in Chicago few days
! ago under peculiar conditions. Every bone
in his body had turned to blood red mat
ter resembling liver in its normal state
| The case is one Of the most remarkable on
record.
A SUSPICIOUS looking tin box was found
| in the lobby of the postofiice at Montreal
Monday evening. 1t was at once removed
to the police station The box weighed
three pounds and was supposed to contain
dynamite.
ONE of the most enthusiastic democrats
who expects to be present at the Inaugural
ton ball at Washington is an old lady of
| seventy-five years, who danced with An
drew Jackson when he was president, and
who attended the last Democratic iuaugu-
ration ball.
THE largest bridge in the world crosses
Lake Ponchartrain, at New Orleans, and is
twenty-five miles in length. 1t is trestle
work, on piles, and is made of cypress wood
which was first saturated with creosote oil,
which renders it impervious to moisture
and proof against the attack of barnacles.
THE heirs of Governor Morgan tell him
that the Grant fund of $4,000 is actually
in Wabash bonds, which are worth but very
little, and that they (the heirs) will guaran-
tee them three years more, making ten
years in all. At the expiration of that time
the probability is that there will be neither
principal or interest, as the bonds will be
valualess.
The liberty bell was taken from INDIE
pendence hall, Philadelphia, (for New Or
leans,) under an escort of five hundred po-
licemen. The truck on which it was hauled
was decorated with garlands of flowers and
Ha md Iraxx Nv ix hap han 1unt w
conparisoned. Two bands were in the pro-
cession and many houses along the route
were decorated
EVANGELIST MOODY has closed his meet
ings at Richmond, Va, after a season of
more than usual success. Notwithstanding
the embarrassing conditions of his arrival
there, he succeeded in destroying the i'm
preston of the southern people that he was
hostile to the southern leaders. His meet
ings were crowded, Stonewall Jackson's
widow being among those who attended and
to whom he was presented.
SECRET Service Agent Seaman states large
number of counterfeit treasury notes, bear
ing the head of Daniel Webster, have lately
been put into circulation in Philadelphia.
The counterfeit is generally well executed
but may be detected by the poorly engraved
head of Webster. Agent Seaman says that
the plate from which these notes are printed
has never been captured, and that they
periodically make their appearance.
DIR. DIo LEWIS says that some years ago
he laid thousand feet of paper pipe, two
inches in diameter, to convey water from a
spring to his house and barn in the country.
1t has never leaked, and has never i'm
parted any perceptible taste to the water
This pipe is made of strong paper wound
into pipe form and thoroughly soaked in tar.
1t becomes so hard and strong that it will
bear pressure almost equal to iron.
A STRANGE scene exhibited in Wall street,
New York. in the banking rooms of John j.
Cisco, when Mrs. e. II. Green, &C. the rich
est woman in America" rolled on the floor
and shreked, because the firm, in giving
back to her about S26000,00O in first class
bonds from their trust-fund vaults, per-
sisted in retaining half a million as secu-
rity for her husbands loans. This woman,
owning $4,000 900, is said to walk, in the
worst winter weather, rather than pay a
shilling for cab.
THE supreme court of the United States
backs up the supreme court of Utah in re-
fusing bail to Rudger Clawson, the polyga-
mist, who was sentenced to four years i'm
prisonment and $500 fine for polygamy and
unlawful cohabitation. A warrant was is
sued on Monday last for Penrose, editor of
the DESSERT Neics, on the same charge, but
he could not be found. Angus NJ. Cannon,
president of the Norman state, was arrested
for polygamy and held in $500 for examin-
alton. He is brother of George Q. Cannon,
III SOHPTtSS.
THE Minister of Agriculture has delivered
a decision in the case of the Bell Telephone
Company, declaring the patent void for the
reason that the company or its representa-
tives had imported the patented articles af-
ter twelve months from the date of the pat
ent; also for not having manufactured in
Canada such articles to the extent required
by law after two years of existence of their
privilege, and also for having refused to sell
or deliver licenses to persons willing to pay
reasonable price for the private and free
use Of the patented invention.
A YOUNG man named Otto Funk has been
arrested at Chicago for having in his posses
sion over three hundred valuable books
stolen from the public library. The books
were seized at his house in large boxes,
which upon being removed to the new city
hall building yesterday were found to con-
tain six OF eight Internal machines with
dynamite, any one sufficient to blow up an
entire building. The detectives believe that
Funk had devised the machines to blow
himself up should his populations be dis
covered. Funk stood by and watched with
out remark the careless handling of the
boxes containing the machines.