The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02

killed. Dy n lulllnB wall.
FIFTy-srx persons died of cholera in
Toulon on Saturday Seven thousand per-
sons have fled from the city and about one
thousand shops are closed.
THE belief is growing among the military
and other friends of General Gordon that
he really escaped alive from Khartoum and
succeeded in fleeing to the equator.
A SYNDICATE of Chicagoans own cattle
ranch in Texas that has an area of three
| millions of acres. Upon 1t are 20 900 cattle,
and there is abundant room for many more.
BRAZIL still produces diamonds to the
value of 81 ,000,0 900 to 81 100000. The worth
of these precious stones has been much de-
preciated by the enormous finds in South
Africa.
SINCE the death of General Grant nearly
ten thousand ex-soldiers, sailors and ma
rines, who served in the Union army and
navy, have been mustered in as comrades
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The board of civil service examiners have
received over one thousand applications for
clerkships and letter-carriers for the next
examination, which takes place at the post
Office building, Philadelphia, September 9TH.
NEARLY $4,000 have been raised for the
Grant monument in Chicago. An eques-
trian statue has been decided upon, and a
site has been selected for it on a terrace
thirty feet high, overlooking the Lake Shore
driveway.
REPORTS received from sixteen counties
in New York state say the condition of the
crops show that in the general yield they
will be better than in 1884. The grain yield
will be about an average and fruits very
| abundant.
A PRESBYTERIAN church at Carroll, Iowa,
has the corners of it's auditorium curtained
off and furnished with cradles and rock
ing-chars, for the convenience of mothers
who are unable or unwilling to leave their
babies at home.
In Andalusia Spain, poor laboring people,
deprived of employment by the desertion of
the rich from the place, on account of chol-
era, wrecked many of the houses of wealthy
residents. Soldiers were called out, and
eight persons were killed.
New YORK contains about twenty-five
thousand more women than men; Boston
has surplus of eighteen thousand women
| III Baltimore there are seventeen thousand
more women than men, and so on in several
other of the large eastern cities.
JOHN L. WENDELL of Glens Falls, n. V,
the 18th, rescued Hattie johnson from
drowning at Lake George. One year ago
the same man saved Miss Johnsons life in
a similar manner at Schroon Lake, since
| which time he had not met her until the day
of the second rescue.
GERMANY began to rehabiltate her navy
in 1873. She now has one hundred two war
vessels, with five hundred seventy guns,
manned by seventeen thousand sailors, en-
gneers and marines. The fleet includes
seven iron-clad frigates, five corvettes and
twenty-four torpedo-boats
THERE were forty-six new cases of small
pox reported in Montreal Friday, only fif-
teen of which were authenticated. There
were twenty deaths within the city limits
reported, but these do not include the in
terments made in the Protestant cemetery,
the returns for which are only made weekly.
THREE cases of scarlet fever were reported
to the board of health at Fall River, Mass,
Monday, but proved upon investigation to
be continent smallpox, well developed and
of violent type. The family that is af-
tlicted came recently from Montreal. A large
number of people have been exposed and
an epidemic is feared.
AT Fossil (Gillman county,, Oregon, the
three-years-old son of John White got a can
of concentrated I've and drank some of the
contents, dying before medical assistance
could be summoned. Half an hour later
Rev. James Young, who lives across the
street from White, gave two of his children
an overdose of medicine containing laud-
anum, and both died.
DETAILS of the destruction in Canton
(China) and vicinity by the recent great
rain storm have been received. The flood
was the most serious which has visited Can
ton in thirty years. More than ten thou
sand persons lost their lives and a far greater
number are left in starving condition. En-
tire villages were engulfed, and the rice and
silk crops in the vicinity are ruined
CAPTAIN VoGEL of the steamer City of
Palatka," from Charleston, reports passing
twenty or thirty large vessels totally dis
masted-a result of the recent gale. None
of them asked for assistance. He found the
hull Of the Charleston pilot-boat John
Stoddard," off the mouth of the North
Edisto river, and believes her entire crew
were lost. The d" Ocean," from Charleston
is lost.
LAST year the dead letter Office at Wash
ington received 4, $40, 600 missives, of which
3,719, $50 were sent thither because they were
not called for. In the letters opened were
found S33, no. II in money and 81, SIC 94S IL
in drafts, checks and money-orders, while
84,0SS contained postage stamps; "a, 1893 re-
ceipts, paid notes and cancelled obligations
of all sorts; 3S,3iS photographs and 25, 554 ar
ticleS of merchandise.
The Grant monument fund seems to be
everywhere. Out in Lawrence, Kansas, a
game of base ball was played, in aid of the
Grant monument fund, between nine county
officials and nine business men of Lawrence
The register of deeds fell and broke his
, arm, and the county clerk sprained his
shoulder. OF the merchants nine, one suf
fered dislocation of the knee and another
had two fingers broken.
A MANIroBAN farmer was sharpening q
stake with an ak when a flash of lightning
accompanied by single clap of thunder
came from the only cloud visible, small
one Immediately overhead. The bolt struck
the head of the AK, splitting it into two
4 pieces and breaking the handle The farmer
was knocked to the ground insensibe, but
speedily recovered, and, upon searching
about, found the fragments of his ak forced
, deeply into the ground
A SENSATIONAL story prevails in Pari.
, that Prince Bismarck is anxious to Obtain
possession of Cuba and that his seizure O.
the Caroline Islands is only ruse to secure
3 an understanding between the United States
and Germany in regard to outlying Spanish
possessions as result of which Germany
| would permit the United States to secur,
t the Philippine Islands, If the Washington
government would consent to the annexa
ton of Cuba to Germany.
Q AT Weirs, N H., during the sham battle
last week Friday, a number were wounded
( including Albert Munroe of Penacook
( Charles n. George of Ashland and others
After the battle the confederate forces and
, Union men were drawn up in line in from
= of the hotel, and surrender was made
Maj r Otis G. Wyatt, the commanding of
ticer of the confederate forces" proposed
$ three cheers for the mlita-men who wer,
2, unborn when the " Johnnies were fighting
for their country.
a THREE brothers named TRULY of Martha
= Valley, Penn, were all killed last weel
within twenty-four hours. John TRULY, thir
V ty-four, a fiagman, fell into acattle-guard OF
{ the railroad and broke his neck; Jason