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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

CALIFORNIA and Oregon are liable to the
occasional ravages of three species of locusts,
the most dangerous of which is the great
Rocky Mountain locust, whose ravages sew
eral years ago came near starving out the
people of two or three western states. This
locust is remarkable for its power of flight,
and travels in dense swarms high up i'll the
air, darkening the sun or filling the sky
with the gistening light of their wings.
Observers have stood on the highest peaks
of the Rocky Mountains and, straining their
eyes upward, have seen the sky filled with
clouds of these tiny, soaring insects, so high
as to be barely discernible. These insects,
after devastating one region, rise into the
air to look for fresh fields and pastures new.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03
THE Dolphin, one of the new war

THE Dolphin, one of the new war
vessels built by John Roach, the Amer
lean ship-builder, is all right. The
first trial trip, owing to circumstances
which are inseparable from the run
ming of new and heavy machinery, was
unsatisfactory to the government. AT
another trial, on Thursday of last week,
the vessel easily fulfilled all the terms
of the contract. Politics, rather than
hot journals and defective shaft, was
really at the bottom of all the difficulty.
There seemed to be in bourbon circles
rather more than a suspicion that the
vessel was a failure. The wish was
apparently father to the thought.
Another text disappears from the re-
vised version of the democratic gospel
of republican fraud.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03
Central Vermont Railway.

AT the annual meeting of the Cen
trail Vermont Railway Company, held
recently at st. Adams, the report of the
directors showed that the receipts and
expenditures of the company and the
leased roads it is operating are, for the
year 1884. as follows
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

THE chief clerk of the government dis
pensary says that no medicine chest is now
complete without JohnSon'S AnodyRe Lini-
nent. No medicine known TO medical
science for internal and external use pos
sesses the wonderful power of this anodyne.
THIS paper has done as much as any other
Condition Powders, and means to keep it
up, too. We know of only one kind that
are absolutely and strictly pure, and that is
Sherdan's. In small twenty-five cent packs.
Large cans, one dollar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

IT is announced that Russia accepts
the counter proposals of Great Britain,
and that this practically settles in sat
isfactory manner the whole question of
the Afghan boundary. Both Maruchak
and Zulfikar remain in possession of the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

THE presence of President Cleveland and
his cabinet made the observance of Memo
rial Day in New York of extraordinary in
terest. The programme was in keeping
crate than that of last year. 1t is esti-
mated that about ten thousand men We're
in line, the column representing the leading
military organizations of the city and the
best known Grand Army organizations of
suburban cities. The entire city presented
a holiday appearance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

THE question of authorizing continuance
of the exhibition at New Orleans has been
again considered at a full cabinet meeting.
After the meeting the following telegram
was sent by the president to Senator Glib
son; The question of reopening the expo
sition has been considered by the cabinet,
and they are unanimously of the opinion
that there is no warrant of law for it, and
that it would be inexpedient on other
grounds"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

According TO the report, the almost
unanimous assent of the holders of the
various obligations of the old organiza-
tons has been given to the consolida-
ton plan of the American Loan and
Trust Company, and that plan is re-
garded as substantially consummated.
All the old litigation has been settled
and discontinued, the receivers ac-
counts have been audited, allowed and
finally closed, and the receivers dis
charged. So, with the exception of
some minor suits for damages to per-
sonal property, for the first time for
thirty years " the railway and property
have been relieved from the complica-
tons of litigation and placed under
legitimate corporate management"
The roads and property are in high
state of efficiency. The roads have
been laid with steel rails and thoroughly
ballasted, the track rendered solid and
steady by increasing to nearly three
thousand the number of ties to the mile,
iron bridges built in the place of wooden
structures, and iron will be substituted
for all the latter as fast as they require
replacing The relations with the
Grand Trunk have been improved and
extended, and arrangements made with
other roads that will contribute to the
traffic of the Central. While the pros
poets for the future depend upon the
condition of railway property generally
and the adjustment of competing rail-
way interests, the directors regard the
future with hope and confidence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03

THE governor of New York has vetoed the
census bill passed at the extra session of the
legislature last week.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1885.

TERMs-s2.OO per year strictly In advance; or $3.50
II not paid within three months
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17
THE GRAND ARMY eAvEL.
A Combination of Pieces of Wood From
all Parts of she Country.

The gavel that will call to order the Nation
al Eneampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic of the United States, in June, 1885,
in this city, and that will preside over the vast
army OF veterans In deliberation, was on the
top shelf of doctors cffice in Auburn, Me-,
Saturday, in strange jumbls of pieces The
postmarks of every State and Territory In the
Union were on the labels pasted upon each
piece of wood when they had come through
the mails to DIR. W. s. Eldredge of Auburn,
who has been managing the collection, and the
making of this gavel. There are all shapes,
sll kinds, all sizes of wood. To manufacture
gavel from such jumble of woods will re-
quire the best skill of the wood-worker
The gavel is to be of ordinary size The
head Of it will be of historic woods, such as
the charter oak, the old Boston Common elm,
pieces of prison stockades, a section from
tree at Chattanooga, with rebel bullet en-
bedded in the body. Is not there something
appropriate in such mallet head? The han
die will be made of piece of Msine's best
wood, with a pine bud at the stem or end of
the handle. A box will be made from the
other pieces of wood, having each piece mark
ed with the name of the State from which it
came. The box will be handsomely polished
and upholstered for the reception of the gaYel.
DIR. Edredge has secured a piece OF the old
Boston Common elm, q piece from tree on
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, adjoining the
Belmont mansion, where Judge Peters, the
friend and companion of Washington, resided
This tree stood on the east front of the man
sion, and was probably 200 years old before it
was cut DOWN. 1t was q resort for the family
beneath its branches, and here Washington
has many times sat with the family of Judge
Peters. 1t was sent by the department COM
mander of Philadelphia, who secured it with
much difficulty. From the department COM
mander of Tennessee is a bullet-penetrated
piece of black walnut from the field of Chat
tanooRs. There is piece from the stockade
at Andersonville, a piece of pine out of the
the polished black walnut banister taken by
Lieut. Folsom out OF the hotel in Alexandria,
where Col. Ellsworth was shot for pulling
down the Confederate flag. Lieut. Folsom was
shot at Cedar Mountain. There Is piece of
one of the door posts at Libby prison, and
sprout grown in the fort at Fortress Monroe.
Among the collection of woods from the va
rious States is Usage orange from Illinois,
mountain mahogany from Utah, Rhode Island
ash, Florida live oak, grease wood from Neva-
da, shittum wood nom Texas, Louisiana yell
low pine, Missouri cherry, Wisconsin birds
eye, Vermont maple, New Hampshire birch,
Massachusetts elm, bois d arc from the Gulf of
Mexico, Kansas black walnut, sugar wood
from Maryland, holly from Delaware, red &C.
dar from California, and spruce from South
Carolina. West Virginia is the only State not
represented. Many of the pieces are black
walnut, and some of them are unnamed. An
Auburn man will make the box and gavel, and
DR.. Eldredge will present it to the National
Encempment.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17

The revenue steamer Dallas, Capt, Lay, ar
rived at Rockland Saturday, from the East
ward and repoftsFox Island Thoroughfare still
closed. The Dallas on the 18th steamed
through the new ice in York's N arrows. Sail
ing vessels were obliged to go through Mer-
chants Row. The Dallas released from the
ice off Rockport the following vessels thereby
enabling them TO continue on their several
voyages, viz: Schr Elbridge Souther of Thom-
aston, for New Orleans; schr. Fred G. Wood
ruff of Harwich, for Morehead City; schr
Lucy Baker of Camden for freight; schr. NJ
r. Rawley of st George for Savannah.
Though the season for winter cruising has
not yet expired, Capt. Lay has, in number of
vessels assisted, exceeded any winters work
heretofore performed by the Dallas. Sunday
evening the Dallas again touched at Rockland
from Fox Island Thoroughfare having released
from that locality the schooner Mazourka OF
Camden, ice bound for the past seven weeks
Capt Lay reports the ice there quite heavy,
from five to eleven inches thick. A passage
was forced through from Calf Point to North
port by the Dallas and the work was con-
tinued Monday as far east as Iron Point,
when the pass was open to navigation.
The Dallas also, Sunday morning at dawn,
released from the drift ice off Rockland the
schooner Conqueror for Deer Isle, with proyis-
ions and grain. The Conqueror reached her
destination in good con dition.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17

On the night of the 10Th ofAsst month ter
rible storm was raging, and none moro fully
appreciated the force than the issolated dwell
lers on Matinicus Rock. On the night men,
TONED the second assistant keeper and family,
consisting of his wife and five children, sought
their accustomed couches. About one o'clock
on the morning of the 17th they were aroused
from their slumbers by report equal to that
made by nine-inch gun, TO find themselves
partially submerged by water, broken glass
and window sashes. For time all was hard
trials, troubles and great tribulations. The
beds and floor we're covered with glass, and
the pressure Of water against the door made it
almost an impossibility to open that mode of
egress. After considerable labor, however, it
wss opened, and the family retreated to the
lower part of the house, the feet Of two of them
being cut with the glass which strewed the
floor. A closer investigation revealed the true
state of affairs. The lower part OF the window
sash was entirely demolished, and eight of the
twelve panes of glass in the top sash brok en-
Boards, which fortunately were hsndily by,
were hurriedly nailed over the broken window
in order to keep out the spray W hich
was beating against the house necessarily.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17
Rrief Lo,,inas.

AT sunrise it was cloudy with light north
west wind, mercury 800. AT noon cloudy,
wind west, mercury $40. At sunset it was
clear.
Falmouth Lodge, No. 7Ss, K. of H., have a
handsomely printed book of fby-laws.
The Society of Friends will hold their an
nual meeting in City Hall the week before the
opening of the National Encampment.
The usual gospel temperance meeting will
be held at the Mission this evening at Z. 80
o'clock All are invited.
The schooner b. G. Cromwell which arrived
yesterday brought 800 hogsheads of sugar to
Geo. S. Hunt g. Co.
There will be s. parish reception in the
vestry of the Congress Square church this
evening.
We have received from Owen, Moore & Co.,
prettily engraved card containing the rules
for progressive euchre, the latest novelty.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the z. M. @. A.
will realize about sixty dollars from their sup
per and entertainment last Thursday evening.
There was a very pleasant social gathering
in the vestry of the Chestnut street church
last evening.
The high school dancing class and friends
had pleasant party at Gilbert's hall last eve
ming. An excellent order Of dances was en-
ioyed.
The occupants of the stores on the corner of
Brown and Congress streets are vacating the
premises preparatory to the tearing down of
the present buildings to make room for the
Beaver Block.
In the thick snow storm yesterday schooner
made the land near Prout's Neck by mistake
for this bsrbor. She was obliged to anchor
and ride out the storm. The tug Plymouth
went to her assistance.
Special services will be held in Plymouth
Free Baptist church this week afternoon and
evening, commencing at and 7.30 o'clock, ex-
cepting Saturday, conducted by the pastor, as
sisted by Rev. J. w. Parsons Of Saeo.
As barrel of beans was being hoisted
through the hatchways in the wholesale proyi-
sion store of Howard E. Soule on Commerce.
street the tackle parted and the barrel fell
through the matches to the basement carrying
one of the hatshwsy doors with it. No one
was hurt.
Advertisements appropriately coming under
the classification heads, WANTS, HELP WANT
ed, SITUATIONS WANTED, For SALE, To LET,
BOARD and RooMs aud Lost AND FOUND, not
exceeding forty words, will be inserted in the
Daily PRESS one week for twenty-five cents, if
paid in advance When payment is not made
In advance regular rates will be charged. The
large circulation of the PRESS makes 1t the best
medium for these advertisements.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17

Mrs. Lewis Brown has gone to Washington.
She will remain six weeks.
Mr.. w. E. Gould of this city preached in the
First Congregational Church, Yarmouth, on
Sunday,
Among the Maine people present at Miss
Cleveland's reception in Washington, Satur-
day, we're Mrs. Blaine, Miss Margaret Blaine,
Mrs. William P. Frye, Hon. and Mrs. W. L.,
Putnam.
Governor Robie has been confined to his
home in Gorham for nearly q week with se-
we're cold. We are pleased TO sag, however,
that he has SO far recovered that he was able
to come into town yesterday.
We learn directly from the family that Mr..
Charles FL. Haskell is in good health and
spirits. So far from being dead, as announced
in yesterday mornings Argus, ne was able to
eat breakfast with his family and listen to the
reading of bis obituary.
At the Falmouth, last night, were: D. G..
Edmundson, Des Moines; J. f. Hacker, Fort
Fairfield; j. B. Pearson, G.. w. Homer, M. G.
Parker, James 81. Fink, Boston; W. 81
Peoples. Philadelphia; Max Huss, Rochester,
N. T.; Stanley Plummer, Dexter; William e.
Wood, st. John; Governor Frederic Robie,
Gorham; A. K. Paul, Norway.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17
Maine wesleyan semiuary.

KENT's HILL, March 16.
The Spring term opened the 10th. A large
number of the old students and many new
ones are in attendance.
The graduating class, from the different
courses, BIDS fair to be quite large.
The school is gradually and steadily gaining
under the supervision of President e. NJ.
Smith. A larger proportion of the students
gre taking regular courses than in past years,
and more are preparing for college.
The different literary societies met Friday
evening for the election and installation of
officers fer the ensuing term.
Miss Josie Fletcher is president of the lad
les society, Adelphian; G. It. Davis was chos-
en- in the CalliopeaD, and Geo. Thompson was
elected by the Literati. The Philharmonic
society, which was organized during the pre-
sent school year, met Saturday evening and
elected j. +. Carver as acting president.
At the Methodist Episcopal church Rev. j.
B. Lapham selected his text from Rom 1, 16:
"For / am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ, for 1t is the power of God unto every
one that believeth."
Mr.. Lapham is now near the close of his
third year as pastor at Kent's Hill. He is a
faithful worker in Gods vineyard and one
greatly respected by the students.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17

Totals. 3oo4 1854 43e 294s s41s 456
both the above tables the Islandvote is included
In that of Ward l.
At about O'Clock last evening thres fires
were lighted in Market Square in honor of the
election of Mr.. Deering and crowd OF about
two hundred men and boys gathered around
them, firing crackers, waving lighted brooms
and indulgipg their excited feelings in other
sim liar ways. During the evening salutes
were fired but the crowd in the Square was too
busy to pay any attention to them. Rockets
were discharged but it was difficult to see them
through the binding smoke with which the
Square was filled. At half past eight O'Clock
the crowd had dispersed and Congress street
had resumed its wontsd aspect A horse ran
away during the festivities, but was caught be-
fore doing any damage. In his rooms at the
Preble House, Mr.. Deering received quite a
number of his admirers and supporters. The
reception was an informal one the crowd pass
ing in, shaking hands and retiring, although
some ardent admirers went In several times
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17
LAUNDERING ON .Ae Kennebee.

laundering operations at the headwaters of
the Kennebee river, for the present season, are
now drawing to close, although if the cold
weather continues, work will not end until the
first Of April. The total cut for the winter as
estimated by experienced lumbermen, will be
in the neighborhood of 10000, 900 feet, or two
thirds that of last year. All things taken into
account it has been hard winter for lumber
ing. Many Of the men employed by those
concerns yarding their logs were obliged to
leave the woods early in the winter, owing to
lack OF snow, the choppers ceasing work 45
days earlier than usual. The Brsdstreets Of
Gardiner have been the heaviest operators
Their timber Is cut in the vicinity of Roach
Pond on the east stside of Moosehead Lake, and
they will float 100000 feet Two Augusta
firms Sturgs, Lambard x Co.. and HAYNES &
Sturgis-will cut an aggregate of 1000 900 feet
on the Parlin pond tract Elias Milliken will
put 100000 feet into Moosehead Lake to
come down the river. Townsend & Abbott
have operated largely at Carrying Place Pond,
and will float 100000 feet in Dead River, and
as many more in the Kennubec. There ara no
old logs left over to come down the present
season, every stick having been cleared up last
year.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17

Since it leaked out that the Maine Demo-
Gratis were planning to have Colonel Morton
made postmaster at Augusta, several prom
inent Republicans have been to see President
Cleveland about it. They represented to him
that Morton's paper, the New Age, published
at Mr.. Blaine's home, circulated the stories
concerning him and his family In the most
offensive way, and urged the President, as
personal courtesy to Mr.. Blaine, not to put
Morton in as postmaster These facts were
also laid before Postmaster General Villas. AS
a result, says the Boston Advertisers despatch,
it is doubtful if Morton is nominated, as the
Maine Senators will be pretty sure to defeat
his confirmation In the Senate, and as the
policy OF the administration is clearly not to
antagonize the Senators for personal reasons.
it looks as if Mr.. Blaine may secure Morton's
discontinue.
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17
SUBURBAN NE WIS.
FaIanOuth.

EatamOueh.
A corporation has lately been organized in Fal-
mouth. under the provisions of chapter 55 of the
revised statutes of the State of Maine called The
Pine Grove Cemetery Corporation" for the purpose
of owning managing and protecting certain lands
for public cemetery In the town Of Falmouth.
The old cemetery at the Point, on the Falmouth
shore road which is part of the land under the SUI
pervsion of this corporation, has been place Of
burial for many years. 1t is supposed that here the
fret settlers of this part of the town buried their
dead The corporation would feel very grateful for
any historical facts relating to the early occupancy
poration will be held next Saturday, March II, at
The schoolhouse near the cemetery at p. M, and
all persons interested in th Improvement of the
place, are hereby invited to be present.
saccarappa.
fire in Girard's store, Saturday evening, was
extinguished before much damage was done.
Mr.. George Il. Winslow, the head machinist of
the Westbrook Manufacturing Company, who was
seriously burned by the explosion of gas during the
fire Friday night, is getting along comfortably
conld be expected The loss by the fire is not as
much as was at first supposed.
Bowery Beach.
Last Thursday was breezy day outside, the wind
blowing whole-sail gale from the nor'west. We
counted seven sail of the southern mackerel feet
flying out past the Cape under all sail bound south
III pursuit. VI bno htiipeu duu bpObtou sComuor-an
earlier start than usual.
According to the papers, the amended lobster law
has the following clause Between April 1st and
July 18th Holsters not nine inches long may be
caught, not including female Holsters in spawn,
The last six words might be omitted without in any
way affecting the welfare of the embryo lobster.
Who every saw baby lobster in spawn.
The writer had the temerity to beard the lion iE
his lair the other day, by venturng among the cit-
zens of our towns largest and most enterprising
village, He found the people all in ferry happy
frame of mind and apparently inclined to forgive
if not forget, that innocent remark about the
"double-end bridge"
Mr.. William Murray is building an extensive an
mex to his Bowery Beach farm buildings connect
ing the house and new stable.
The three last preachers including the present
one assigned to this charge by the Methodist Con
ference were Christian named respectively, SAL
val" "Alyeah" and alpha
A disagreeable southeast storm, beginning with
SHOWN ana turning to rain, prevailed along the
coast Sunday
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17
Mail RernIa,inna

An important change in the mail regulations
is one taking effect July 1st. It provides for
the issue Of a special ten cent stamp which,
when attached to letter, in addition to the
regular postage, shall eptitle the letter to i'm
mediate delivery at any place containing
four thousand population or over. within the
carriers limit of any free delivery office, OF
within one mile of the post Office of any other
place coming within the provisions of the law
and such specially stamped letter shall be de-
livered within the hours of a. m. and mid.
mint
The Portland daily press., 1885-03-17

NOR SALE-House on the best part of Winter
Street, II rooms bath room ali in good re-
pair; will be sold at bargain w. II. WALDRON,
$50 Middle st. Ill