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


Orion N Elkins, st. Johnsbury; paper
holder, Ross White Brattleboro.
AT a meeting of the stockholders of the
Burlington Horse Railroad Company held
last Wednesday afternoon at the office Of II.
w. Peck, these directors and officers were
elected Charles ID. Haiues (presidenG, o.
w. Woodhouse 0reasurerl, George W.
Wales Clerk, Il. w Peck, f. G. Kennedy,
u. A. Woodbury., G. +. Haines. Mr.. Haines
said that no stock would be put on the
Market but bonds, which will be q first
mortgage on all the property of the com
pany, will be issued for a small amount.
They will be in denominations of 800, bear
ing six per cent interest, payable semi
annually The bonds will be put upon the
market and the company expect that at
least portion of them will be taken in
Burlington.
DARWIN G. PIERCE, forty-three years old,
transfer mail agent in the depot at Rutland
for eighteen years, was arrested last week
Thursday, charged with robbng the mail,
and was put under $4,000 bonds. Valuable
letters have been missing there since March
and nearly the whole mail of July 18th, with
bank papers, etc, amounting to $4,000 was
lost. Detectives have been at work several
weeks, and postal card dropped in the
the freight yard gave clue. Pierce has
stood well in the community. He has
wife and three children, and denies his
guilt. He was released after hearing
Saturday. He proved he was in Salem, n.
Y, July II, when the mail was stolen. His
son, Henry G. Pierce, was afterward ar
rested, and made a full confession of his
guilt and exonerated his father from partici-
patton in his crime.
Other Localities.
MANCHESTER, n. H., has case of small
poX.
The cholera epidemic shows no signs of
abatement.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has returned to
Washington.
The New England fair at Bangor, Maine
was very successful.
Two of the smallpox patients at Fall
River, Mass, have died.
LEADING New York merchants predict a
lively fall trade in dry goods.
A TERRIBLE cyclone has destroyed many
houses in the valley of the Rhone.
RUSSIA manufactures one hundred twenty
six million wooden spoons annually.
EIGHTEEN authenticated new cases Of
smallpox were reported in Montreal last
! Saturday.
Two companies of troops have been or
dered to the scene of the Chinese outrages
in Wyoming
IT is now believed that the Northern Da-
kota wheat crop will fall twenty-five per
cent below conservative estimates.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand men participated
in a labor parade in New York. and eight
thousand in a similar affair in Chicago.
THIRTY frame buildings were burned in
Albany, N Y, last week Thursday, render
ing thirty families homeless. Loss $4,000.
AGENTS are canvassing Atlanta, Georgia,
for General Grants book, and several hum
dred copies have already been subscribed
| for.
FIFTEEN hundred telephone instruments
in Buffalo, n. Y, are supplied with cleo
tricity made by the water-power of Niagara
Falls.
a BALL of fire which fell and exploded in
a field at Shiloh, n. j.. a few days ago, killed
the grass for space of many yards around
the spot.
his residence at Irvington, n. Y, last week
Friday, after brief illness, was eighty-five
years old.
THE running of through passenger cars
between Montreal and Boston has been
stopped, in order to prevent the importation
of smallpox.
The fire losses in the United States in
August We're 50 100000, as compared with
an average of 100000 for August in the
last ten years.
The last of the fifty-eight foreign in
surance companies doing business in New
Hampshire has notified its agents to write
no more policies.
IT is estimated at the treasury department
that there has been decrease of about
S3,OO0,0OO in the public debt during the
month of August.
Ex-senator WILLIAM NJ GwIN of Cali
fornia, who died in New York last week
Thursday, aged nearly eighty, had a varied
career in the South and West.
A STORM passed through the northern por
ton of Madison county, Florida, last week
which destroyed several houses. One chile
was killed and woman injured.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL said in
speech at Sheffield, last week Friday, tina
the tories decided not to coerce IRELAND
even before they had entered office.
THE anthropological congress, which il
soon to be held at Rome, will have fea
ture in a collection of seven hundred skull
of criminals, numbered and classified.
IT costs fifty cents in western city t.
have barrel of flour taken from the mill Il
the door of dwelling. Thirty-hve cent
more will land it on the dock at Liverpool.
A DEPOSIT of natural soap. twenty-iv
feet wide, has been discovered near Nam
moth, Montana 1t is said to resemble
CASTLE soap, both in appearance and quality
THE cattle have all been removed iron
. the Indian Territory, in conformity wit
President Cleveand's proclamation, excep
a few which strayed off during the roun,
up.
IHE total NUMBER OF deaths from small
poX in Montreal last week were one hun
dred two-all but ten being of French eS
traction, and one-half of children unde
five years.
r Two Milwaukee butchers recently con
: tested the " cattle-killing championship {
the state, the winner cleaning, skinning an
halving a beef in four minutes and forty
\ nine seconds
! SIMON WOLF, ex-consul general to Egyp
"a nj xxrh xx-aG VA
. him by one of the khedive's highest official,
n British Museum.
THE health authorities in New York cit
A found boy who had the smallpox on a.
# irving from Germany, ten days ago, and Ina
4 disseminated germs of the disease anon
a many school children.
Q FIRE in the livery stable of Gore
: Gray at Portland Saturday morning, d,
# stroyed twenty-three horses and man
carriages and express wagons. The loss
}. these alone amounts to $4,000.
If THERE are few cases of smallpox
l. Spring Mills, small town near Phil
l. delphia. The first case originated in I'll
It paper mills, and the disease was certainl
Of due to the use of infected rags.
- THE New York Suns Washington dspatC
l. says an Illinois democrat stated that an a
tempt will be made to remove Civil ServiC
al Commissioner Gregory from office on I'll
ID ground that he is an offensive partisan.
10 ! THE Tribune says: A report is currel
D. that John w. Mackey is negotiating vii
l, Mr. Bennett for the Durchasa of tha Her0I