The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-27

March, was mounted by III. a. Brush of
Milton and is to he placed in the University
museum,
Other Localities.
New YORK is to have its Arbor Day, and it
is to be the 30th day of May.
SOME important changes will he made
in the treasury department June LIST.
THE Boston & Albany Railway Company
has been indicted in Hampden county,
Mass, for running Sunday trains.
THE governor of Pennsylvania has APP
proved of the bill prohibiting the manufac-
ture and sale of imitation butter.
The steamship Isere, with Bartholdi's
statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
on board has started for New York
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered an in
qury relative to the expenditure of 100000
for the reconstruction of the United States
steamer Mohican.
A PASSENGER on the Lake Shore railway
was elected from a train some time ago and
permanently injured. verdict has been
rendered in his favor for S4S, 700.
AT Pittsburg Penn, a boy sixteen years
old shot a little girl, four years old, dead,
with revolver, made an attempt to shoot
her mother and then took his own life.
THE New Orleans exposition will be closed
May 3lst. The friends of the exposition
have raised $4,000 by subscription to meet
the expense of carrying it over until next
|
THE customs officials at Montreal have
made a seizure of $4,000 worth of patent
medicine imported and entered, it is al
| legged, under value at the place of shipment
by j. G. Aver Co. of Lowell, Mass.
THE English governments persistent re-
! fusal to announce the state of the peace ne
! gotiations with Russia tends to confirm the
now universal belief that the hitch is of the
utmost gravity. The situation looks warli<e
FOREST fires have destroyed large
| amount of property in the lumber regions of
Bradford and Sullivan counties, Penn. dur
| ing the past few days. At Northrup over
100000 feet of lumber ready for manufac-
! turing was consumed.
THE steamship City of Berlin, which ar
rived in New York Saturday, came in col
lision with an iceberg on the Goth inst, when
! approaching Newfoundland, and narrowly
escaped laundering. She had on board
fourteen hundred passengers.
II. b. ScUTT & Co., of Joliet, H., have
| filed bill in the circuit court against the
| Washburn x Moen Manufacturing Company
! of Worcester, Mass, and H. l.. Ellwood of
| Dekalb, ILL.,, to recover 500 600 paid them
| for royalties on their manufacture of barbed
wire from January |, 1882.
WHILE a great meeting of the Salvation
Army was being held in Sixth street church,
Sacramento, California, the other night,
several hundred men and boys mobbed it,
wrecked the church and injured number
of members. The entire police force had to
be called out to dispense the mob.
Miss CLEVELAND, who has been visiting
friends in New York for some days past,
has returned to Washington. 1t is under
stood that Miss Cleveland, while in New
| York, placed book in the hands of pub
Usher, who will soon issue it. The name of
the publisher and the title of the book have
not yet been announced.
A TERRIBLE disease is prevailing in Lang
! worthy, Jones county, Iowa, which causes
death in a few moments The patient is
taken with slight sore throat. The sore
ness then goes to the lungs and from there
to the spine, when death follows. 1t battles
the physicians, some calling it sort of ship
fever, caused by impure water.
THE seventeen-year locust is expected to
appear in eastern Pennsylvania this week,
as well as in Maryland, South Carolina,
Georgia and at Fall River. The German
town records show that these lOcusts, which,
however, are not like the western locust,
have been very regular in their appearance.
The dates are 1917, 1884, 1851 and 1868.
SUNDAY being the anniversary of the fall
of the commune, the communists of Paris
attempted to hold a demonstration at the
tombs of their comrades at Pere La Chaise
| cemetery. The police interfered and pre-
vented a display of seditious emblems. A
serious conflict ensued, in which several
men were killed and wounded. The police
finally dispersed the rioters, thirty of whom
were arrested.
A CURIOUS wedding ceremony took place
Saturday afternoon at the Dime Museum in
Philadelphia. 1t was the marriage of John
Huber, the arlnless man, to Miss Sadie
Bernstein, a German maiden residing on
Oxford street The ceremony was per-
formed by Methodist minister, the groom
placing the ring on the brides finger with
his foot There was no Joining of hands
except in tigurative sense
A HEAVY cyclone passed over the north
western outskirts of Winnipeg Thursday OF
last week. 1t caused great waterspout
where it struck the river. Roofs were blown
off of several houses and a few people were
injured. A similar storm was seen at the
same time to the southeast of the city, going
in the same direction. 1t is not known
what amount of damage was done The city
lay between the tracks of the two cyclones,
and the people are congratuating them
selves over their lucky escape.
A PORTLAND & OGDENsBURG passenger
train going east on the White Mountain di
vision of the Boston K Lowell railroad ran
off the track about mile east of Bethlehem
junction, Thursday The engine and ten
der plunged down a twenty-foot embank.
ment into the AmmonooSuc river and were
made a total wreck. The forward end Of the
baggage car went down the embankment
The engineer and fireman went into the
fering only few bruises. No others were
injured The cause of the accident is I'M
known.
SEVENTEEN lives We're lost in a burning
building in Cincinnati, Thursday of last
week. A can of benzine exploded, and the
flames shot up the elevator we'll cutting off
the only means of escape from the fifth floor
on which large number of women were
employed. The flames We're extingushed
quickly, but eleven women were found
dead five We're killed by leaping into the
street and man persisted after heroically
rescuing several girls. All might have es
capped upon the roof had they taken advan
tage of a scutte. The building was dam.
aged but slightly
THE mediation of Honduras, which has
had for its object a settlement of the Difficult
ties existing between Salvador and Guate
maa, has failed. The revolutionary forces
led by Menendez, who has been candes
timely armed and assisted by Guatemala
have been driven back by the Salvador
troops to the town of Santana. -Four hun
bred Guatemalan troops have crossed tn,
frontier of Salvador. This invasion compli
Gates matters and probably will result in re
opening the whole Central American ques
ton. 1t is expected that the original ALI
. ance against Guatemala will be renewed.
| Hon. FREDERICK 7. FRELINGHUYsEN
President Arthur's secretary of state, died a
his home in Newark, n. j., on Wednesday
= afternoon of last week. He did not recove
: consciousness, but passed away quietly il
) the stupor in which he had lain almos
t throughout his entire illness. Although h
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