The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-22

THE Vermont National Bank expects to
pay a ten per cent dividend August LIST, and
It is said If the banks recently assessed had
paid their assessments it would have had a
thirty-five per cent dividend to announce at
that time. The Vergennes National and
Bellows Falls Savings Institution have paid
their assessments in full without protest.
The suits to collect the other assessments
will be entered at the October term of the
United States court.
other Localities.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will spend his va
cation in small hotel in the Adirondack
woods.
FRANCIS III. UNDERWOOD of Boston has
been appointed United States consul at
Glasgow.
Mrs. BAYARD, the wife of the secretary of
state, continues to improve and her strength
is returning.
II is estimated that S6,OOO,OOO worth of
firecrackers and fireworks were burned on
the Fourth of July.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has informed the
president that no serious Indian troubles
need be apprehended
Two young men rode from Springfield
Mass, to Washington, ID. c., on their
bicycles in seven days.
No further trouble has occurred among
the strikers either at Cleveland, Ohio, East
Saginaw or Bay City, Mich.
The number of pieces of mail matter de-
livered by the postoffice department during
the last year was 275,141 ,5S6.
In all Spain on Saturday there were
eighteen hundred sixty new cases of cholera
and seven hundred eighteen deaths re-
ported.
TwENTY-sIx white girl babies have been
taken from loathsome Chinese dens in San
| Francisco. They were sold, for purpose
which is no secret, by inhuman parents or
mercenary midwives.
THE sale of American petroleum in the
Old World has been greatly lessened by the
| product of Russian oil wells, and now the
discovery of oil in Galca threatens to kill
what is left of the business.
The recent earthquake shocks in Bengal
resulted in serious loss of life. Fifty deaths
| are reported. There was also much damage
to property. More than fifty persons were
killed in the Vale of Cashmere.
THE notorious Schapiva manuscripts,
which were once offered to the British mu-
scum for fabulous price, have been sold at
auction at Lotherby's. The sums obtained
varied from three shillings to f10.
JOSEPH T. CoTTINGER, ex-secretary and
| treasurer of the Central Transportation Com
pany of Pennsylvania, has been sentenced
to four years solitary confinement in the
county prison for embezzlement and forgery.
A DISPATCH from Paris says the French
| foreign Office has received information which
| shows that the Russians are determined on
Selling Herat and that the massing of Rus
sian troops now going on near Zultikar Pass
is for that purpose.
THE Atlantic Telegraph Company, incor-
pUrated under Maine and New Hampshire
laws, with a capital of 100000, has been or
ganized The new company, which is
owned by Boston and New York capitalists,
will not extend its wires beyond New Eng
land.
THE sale of General Grants book prom.
Uses to leave fortune of at least 100000 tC
| his survivors. He receives seventy per cent
of the profits of the sales. This will amount
to good fraction over dollar volume
Three hundred thousand copies of the book
are already ordered.
PRESIDENT GEORGE WAsHBURN of Roberts
College, Constantinople, declares that the
European nations all fear and hate one
another; and when they make alliances il
is not because of love, but simply because
they can combine in their hatred of some
other nation. " 1t is sad fact, but it is a
fact" he writes.
Mrs. SUSIE WILLIAMS of Atlanta, Ga.
a widow, locked her three children uI
while she went to field to work. On her
return she found her house burned to the
ground and nothing left of her children but
their charred remains. In Georgia. within
the past six months, forty little ones lost
| Jutlr lives III lHt Sdiue lldHUtr,
A HAIL storm crossed five of the bes
wheat-growing towns of Grand Forks
county, Dakota, the other night, destroying
crops in its path. Its track is reported tC
have been about four miles wide, in por
ton of country heretofore exempt from de
struction by hail The loss is estimated a
ten thousand acres or two hundred thousand
bushels.
THE obelisk in Central Park is decompos
ranil1v than
Professor Egleston has pronounced the opin
ion that unless it be put under cover it viii
in fifteen years be beyond repair. Professor
Doremus thinks it can be saved by coating
with parafine, and surely it ought to be done
before the three acknowledgements inscrip
ton of Thothmes has all scaled off.
AS an evidence of the ignorance which
prevails through Wales, the vicar of a large
district writes that he gave to poor woman
whose daughter was i'll, a little jar of ex.
tract of meat, telling her to boil it with GER
tain seasoning. The woman complained
She had boiled it for hours, and could ge
no charm out of it. The fact was she ha(
left the jar unopened.
ALL employees on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad are compelled to join relief asso
citation, which was endowed by the company
with S1,000,0O0 and receives annual,
$4,000 from that source. The men are
to five dollars month, and they receive il
case of death or accident from fifty cents
day to $1,000 cash down. There is also
savings and loan feature, under which mem
beers may acquire homes of their own.
A MAN named Chaplin from New Jersey
who, with a partner from Brandon, Vt.
has been searching for cannon which ira
dition says the British army, fearful of {
surprise from the enemy, filed with golC
and sunk in the creek near Comstocks
Washington county, in TIT, Is positive tina
he has found the prize. A professional
diver from Boston has been at work There
seems to be about three feet of dirt over thu
cannon, which lies in water thirteen fee
deep.
PROFESSOR BRIGGS makes an attack, il
the Presbyterian ReUielc, on the Revised Yer
sion of the Old Testament. He holds 8
chair of Hebrew in leading theological
seminary. He charges that the revisers
have slavishly followed the Jewish Masor
etc text, instead of seeking to secure, a.
did the New Testament revisers, correc
text and that they have proved themselve
incompetent, from their ignorance of He
brew grammar, TO translate correctly tn
text as they received IL.
THE Post building in Washington, owned
by Stlson Hutchins, and occupied by TIN
Post, Republican, Critic, and Sunday GdzeH
newspapers, the United States Electri
| Light Company, Nealey's Autograph estab
lishment, a restaurant and a barber shop
was Quilted by fire, Thursday evening of las
week. Three presses, valued at 100000
were destroyed, and the building was value'
at $4,000. The plates and five thousan'
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