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

case has been in the hospital since last WIN
ter. All the prisoners are engaged in the
manufacture of shoes, with about seventy
in the shop outside engaged by the same
parties.
Other Localities.
ONE of the Farce Islands has been swal-
lowed up by the sea.
THE Johns Hopkins University is to have
100000 laboratory.
HIGH tides at Quebec, last week Friday,
did considerable damage.
THE state of Nueva Leon, in Northeastern
Mexico, is in state of revolution.
PRINCE FREDERICK, brother of King Chris
tian of Denmark, died last Saturday.
The Duke of Somerset Edward Adolphus
st. Maur) is dead, aged eighty-one years.
THERE are thirty-seven murderers under
sentence of death in Kansas penitentiary.
GLADSTONE ascribes the liberal reverses
to the tom-foolery of nominating duplicate
candidates.
Mrs. HENDRICKS has received several
hundred messages of coincidence since the
death of her husband.
PIrTsBuRa erected, between January and
November 1, SIC frame and 696 brick build
ings at cost of $227S,700.
THE Presidents message, which is nearly
completed, was read at Fridays cabinet
meeting and unanimously approved.
The British expeditionary forces in Bur-
nah have obtained victory at Pagan and
captured Mingyan after sharp fight.
KING ALFoNso's body was received in
Madrid, last week Friday with great pomp,
1900 carriages appearing in the cortege.
THE eight Indians found guilty of the
massacre at Frog Lake, in April last, were
hanged at Battleford N. w. T., Friday.
SENATOR ALLISON of Iowa is reported as
saying that the nomination of president pro
tenn. will naturally go to General Logan.
A JELLY and marmalade mandatory has
been established at Forest City, near Or
lando, Fla, with capital stock Of $4,000
A SEVERE storm and high tides on Wednes-
day and Thursday did extensive damage on
the New England and Long Island coasts.
HUGH o BRIEN was renominated for mayor
| by Boston democrats on Friday, he receiv-
ing 100 votes to AZ for Alderman Written.
THERE were seventy deaths from small
pox in Montreal last week. The week be-
fore the deaths numbered one hundred forty.
A NATURAL bridge has been discovered in
Arizona which is 200 feet long, 800 feet wide
and ITO feet high. 1t is located in the Tonic
basin.
The Pope was profoundly grieved by the
news of the death of Alfonso. He tele-
graphed to Queen Christina a message of
| coincidence.
THE Sons of the Revolution will comment
crate the anniversary of Washington's fare
well to his army by a dinner in New York
next Friday.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has given to Har-
ward library about 600 volumes of rare his
torical books and works of bellies lettres,
chiefly Spanish.
AT Mcpherson, Kansas the other day,
biscuits were made from flour ground from
wheat that was standing in the field ninety
minutes previous.
RETURNS received up to midnight Monday
show that $50 liberals, 1877 tories and % Par
nellites have been elected. The counties are
apparently going liberal.
THOMAS MURPHY of Dover, N. H., now in
that an uncle in Liverpool, England, is dead,
leaving him sole heir to $4,000.
THE British steamer Greyhound, trading
between Hong Kong and Pakhie was plum
bered by pirates, last month, and the cap
tain killed and thrown overheard.
AN informal ballot at a meeting of the Dart
mouth senior class for commencement orator
resulted: James G. Blaine, eighteen; B. F.
Butler, three; j. r. Lowell, three.
THE total number of immigrants arrived
in the United States for the month of Octo-
ber 1885, was $3.50, against 32,097 during
the same period in 1884, a decrease of G, 179.
A G. HUTCHINSON, the architect of last
years ice palace at Montreal, has been com.
missioned to prepare plans for similar
structure for the carnival at St. Paul, Mimi
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, is agtated over a
proposition, favored by many citizens, tc
make a river-bank park, about 100 feet wide
and 5000 feet in length, along the Connec-
ticut.
A CLERGYMAN at Nashville, Tenn, ha:
offered to give $4,000 to any believer in the
: faith cure who will cure by faith a disease
, which a reputable practitioner pronounce'
, incurable.
r BY the recent cyclone and flood in Indii
700 villages were completely wrecked ant
three-fourths of the population destroyed
About 400 square miles of rice land wa:
,, covered with sea water.
{ The great river Euphrates is in danger o
! disappearing altogether OF late years tn
e banks below Babylon have been giving way
' and there is danger that the river will b
swallowed up by the desert.
n FOUR thousand dollars belonging to
q business firm in Portland Maine, was a
:, legged to have been stolen, but the detectiv
: commanded the alleged losers to produce tn
v money, and they did so, or most of it.
S THE steamer Emma Graham was sunk !
:, the Ohio river near Parkersburg West VII
ginia last week Thursday, and it is SUI
q, posed that several of the crew lost the
,r lives. All the passengers were saved.
g THE manufacture of clothing for wome
If has become great business in this countr.
n nually, most of which is probably for on
a. side wear. Cloaks are the chief article.
l. A NEBRASKA man says prairie dogs obtai
water by digging wells, each village havin
r one, with concealed opening He know
De of one such well 200 feet deep having CT
n cular staircase leading down to the water
Is The new Spanish cabinet is as follow
IL Sagasta, prime minister; Jovellar wa
IL Camacho, finance: Rios, public works al
o, instruction; Gamaz, colonies Berange
ld marine; Gonzalez, interior; Alonzo Ma
tinez, JUSTICE Moret, foreign affairs.
IN THE President issued proclamatiC
lie formally announcing the death of Vic
Up president Hendricks, and appropriate a
10 ton upon the sad event was taken by O
ne governors of several states and the muni
ne pal authorities of the principal cities
10, AN idea of the extent of the coal mini
,sse industry in Illinois may be gained when
10 is stated that forty-nine counties have
mines, and that the annual product
100000 tons. Twenty-Five thousand m
~ find employment in and about the mines
he LAST Saturday night DR.. Coltharp
TX Syracuse, an astronomer, observed bri
ers liant meteoric display in the north and ca
ad The spectacle was a most brilliant one.
am shower of one hundred twenty stars dropp
! simultaneously. The shower is connect
his with the Bella comet.
,se TIE removal OF the impediments to I
til, navigation of the Danube at the Ir
yn Gate " is to be carried out at last, in confor
Sc, ity with the stipulations OF the treaty