The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29

OAMUEL hUSSFII O1OtkEh VI w luuSoI
died the Dist instant, after long sickness,
having had shock of paralysis about six
years ago. He was sixty-nine years old and
native of Windsor, where he has lived
nearly all his life. He was a merchant for
thirty years and prominent in the affairs of
the town. filling nearly all the leading
offices. For many years he was prominently
known among Masons, having taken thirty
two degrees and being a member of Vermont
Lodge, Windsor Chapter and Council, and
Vermont Commanderv of Windsor.
A STOCK train on the st. Johnsbury &
Lake Champain road met with serious
accident, Monday morning, one mile and a
half from Morrisville The train was APP
preaching a observation-disclosures trestle,
fifty feet high, and when within ten rods
the fourth car from the engine jumped the
track. On reaching the trestle the four
rear cars were plunged into the carriage
road. One was loaded with corn, one with
oats, one with butter and eggs and one was
empty, and all were completely wrecked.
Three twenty-foot spans of the trestle were
torn out and it will be several days before
trains can pass. One brakeman was slightly
injured.
A FEW weeks since man living in North
| field sent letter asking the price for which
slate could be delivered in Northfeld
After correspondence the best freight figure
obtainable was $50 per car of ten tons from
Rutland to Mortified, or fifteen cents per
hundred pounds. From Poultney to Rut-
! land the rate is five and one-half cents,
making a total of twenty and one-half cents
from Poultney to Randolph. Upon COM
pairing with rates to other points we find
that the rate from Poutney TO Boston is but
eighteen cents; Poultney to Buffalo, n. Y,
fifteen cents; Poultney to Pittsburg, Penn,
fifteen cents, Poultney to Cleveland, Ohio,
nineteen cents; Poultney to Chicago, twenty
five cents.-POultnen journal.
Other Localities.
SWEDEN is busy with military prepare
| tons.
The Austrian government has seized sew
eral papers for criticising the ministry.
ELEVEN miners were buried by snow
slide on Eagle river, Colorado Saturday
A FIRE at Philadelphia destroyed the
Pullman Palace Company's repair shop and
nine Pullman cars. Loss S15O.OOO.
The Rochester On. " astronomers attrib-
ute the heat of last week to an outbreak in
the sun, signs of which had been observed.
THREE more Mormon leaders have been
arrested for polygamy. President John
Taylor denounces the war against polygamy
as tyranny.
ARBoR day was duly observed in Phila-
delphia by the planting of trees in the park,
public squares and some of the streets and
around school houses.
GENERAL HAZEN's sentence for talking
disrespectfully of Secretary of War Lincoln
! proves to be formal reprimand 1t is
| given by the president.
IT is expected that three weeks will be
consumed in counting the money in the
| United States treasury, prior to the new
treasurer assuming Office.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued proc
lamation prohibiting entry and settlement
upon the Old Winnebago reservation and
the Crow Creek reservation"
CHAPLAIN MCCABE, the interchangeable
money-raiser and church builder of the
Methodist church. has undertaken to col
lect this year missionary fund of 81 100000.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND declines to exer-
else the power of executive clemency in
regard to the sentence of the court martial
in the case of Judge Advocate General
Swain.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND has re-
versed his recent decision empowering the
commissioner of agriculture to purchase and
slaughter cattle affected with contagious
diseases.
THERE is a salt lake in Hdalgo county.
Texas, which is one mile in length, five
miles in circumference, and from three to
four feet deep. Its bed consists of crystals
of pure salt.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, the members of
the cabinet, General Hancock, and Gen
eral Sheridan have accepted invitations to
be present at the ceremonies in New York
on Memorial Day.
THERE are twenty persons whose gifts to
colleges in this country aggregate over S23,-
OOO,0OO. Three of these rich men-Stephen
Girard Johns Hopkins and Asa Packer
gave over S14,0OO,0O0.
AN enterprising individual from Missouri
has been doing an active trade at Washing
ton, selling offices. Several prominent poll
ticians have been victimized. There is no
law covering such cases
-, L.
dent Cleveland asking for the pardon of
Jefferson Davis. The petition declares that
this act would relieve the South from great
deal of modification and distress.
ISAAC w. ENGLAND, publisher of the Nev
York san, died Saturday afternoon, aged
ifty-three years. He was a native of Eng
| land, was city editor of the Tribune during
the rebellion, and became publisher of the
! Sun in 1868.
A. NJ WYMAN, treasurer of the United
States, has rendered his resignation, to take
effect on May l. c. n. Jordan, formerly
cashier of the Third National Bank of New
York city, has been appointed treasurer in
place of Mr. Wyman.
THE arrangements for an American Con-
gress of Churches in Hartford, Conn, May
II, II and Is, are approaching completion.
The programme embraces topics of great
Importance. The discussions will be opened
by men widely known.
A MOVEMENT is on foot at Chattanooga,
Tenn, to tender General Grant the free use
during his convalescence of private hotel
on Lookout Mountain, in sight of the battle
fields of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Look
out Mountain and Chattanooga.
THE frightful epidemic prevailing at
Plymouth, Penn, has practically stopped
all business in that town except in the drug
stores and undertaking establishments.
Nine funerals were held in one day. The
whole town appears TO be in mourning
THE three hundred twenty-first anniver-
sary of the birth of Shakespeare was cele-
brated the ODD in Standardization. The
town was brilliantly decorated, and the
church bells were rung all day. Hundreds
of strangers thronged the place, visiting and
inquiring about everything Shakespearean
with the zeal of pilgrims.
THERE We're terrible torEadoes and rain
storms in various parts of Texas last week.
The wind is estimated to have blown at one
hundred miles an hour from southerly di-
rection. Many buildings in Dallas were in
jured, roofs partly torn Off church steeples
blown down and Easements flooded. The
loss will probably reach $4,000.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA has broken out in a
herd of fifty-nine cattle at Fulton, Mo. As a
rule, such outbreaks are denied by inter-
ested persons, who would have us believe
the disease is never known except near the
eastern coast; but in the present case DIR.
Trumboener has made five post-mortem ex-
aminations, and in each case has declared
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