The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-21

months, and on propitious day 1000 boats
bring in 100000 Goldfish.
THE display of a bloody shirt from the
democratic headquarters in Columbus, Ohio,
came near causing serious riot last week
Friday.
CANADIANS claim that the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death of Cardinal McCloskey
will be filled by Archbishop Taschereau of
Quebec.
THOMAS ATKINSON, burner in a Chicago
brickyard has fallen heir to a fortune of
100000 through the death of an uncle in
England.
THE University of Pennsylvania has sue
ceeded in paying off a debt of $4,000 the
present year, and is now free from in
cumbrance.
QUEBEC newspapers charge the Canadian
Pacific with intending to acquire the Port
land & Ogdensburg and making Portland
its ocean outlet.
THE southern express on the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad ran into an emigrant train Sat
urday. Several persons were killed and
many wounded
HUGH THOMPSON, cashier Of the Grand
Trunk freight department in Portland, is
missing, and is short in his accounts several
thousand dollars.
THE President has appointed Benjamin f.
Bonham of Oregon consul-general at Cal
cutta, and Ernest p. Baldwin of Missouri to
be deputy first auditor of the treasury.
Two million feet of lumber and thirteen
tenement buildings at Fredericton, n b.,
We're destroyed by fire last week, the
property loss reaching upward of 100000.
DTPHTHERA and typhoid fever are raging
with great severity at Kittanning, Penn,
and nearly one hundred people are down
with these diseases. Whole families have
been stricken down, and the fatalities are
numerous.
COMPLETE unofficial returns from Ohio
place Judge Foraker's plurality at II ,6SS.
A dispatch from Senator Sherman says the
latest advices give assurance that the legis-
lature is republican, by not less than three
nor more than six majority, without Hamil-
ton county.
The ambassadors at the Constantinople
conference have informed the porte that
further time will be necessary to obtain a
complete European understanding relative
to the Roumelian difficulty. While they adj
wise the sultan to continue his pacific policy,
they do not question his right to send troops
into Roumelia for the purpose of asserting
Turkeys claim to that province.
THE heavy transforms in middle August
caused several slides in the White Noun
tains, particularly at Waterville The fields
and hillsides about Elliot's Hotel were com
pletely flooded, and Mad river rose twenty
or thirty feet The famous slide on the
south side of Tripyramid was renewed and
enlarged, and that upon the north side
doubled in extent. The slides upon the
west side of Brickhouse NOW called Mount
lIowelD have also been in motion this sum-
mer. DIR. Hitchcock, geologist of New
Hampshire, has lately been making a study
of these slides and the rocks they exposed.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred on the
Boston & Lowell railroad between East and
| West Andover, at five o'clock last Sunday
morning, by which three persons lost their
lives and five were injured. The Chicago
express freight left Concord with double
header" and upon reaching West Andover
to set off for the down passenger train, it
was found that the train had broken apart.
| An engine started in search of the missing
cars, and meanwhile the passenger train
which left St. Adams at eleven o'clock, Sat
urday night, came along. The passenger
| train-men were informed that an engine had
! been sent after part of its train. That
train stopped at Andover Center, and when
about three-eighths of a mile from the place
! both trains collded, moving so rapidly that
| the direction of each locomotive was COM
! pletely changed. Both locomotives were
badly demolished and their engineers were
| found in the debris dead as was also a
brakeman of the freight train The express
messenger and baggage-master were inn
prisoned in the wreck and it was necessary
| to cut them out. The baggage-car took fire,
| but the flames were extingushed without
any damage. The tender of the passenger
locomotive telescoped the baggage car and
the latter telescoped the mail-car. There
We're two clerks in the latter. one of whom
was injured. None of the passengers were
any statement as to the responsibility. II
was very foggy in the morning, it being inn
possible for train-men to see more than
| twenty-five feet ahead of train.