The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-19

| iuully ~ having QUO hdS btch StnJ
| to the lunatic asylum at Utica.
Miss ADRIANNA BRINcKLE has just been
released from the Pennsylvania lunatic hos
pital after a confinement of tweuty-seven
! years on the extraordinary charge of " ex-
| travagance and eccentrcty." She claims
| that she never was insane.
The banks throughout the country have
received an official notification from the
United States treasury that no more one
and two-dolar bills can be furnished, and
that the silver dollar must be used for all
sums of this denomination.
THE value of iced drinks was recently H.
Illustrated at Bombay. The supply of water
ran so short that the artificial ice-machnes
had to stop, and for three days no ice was
to be had. During those three days the
death rate more than doubled.
a STRANGE brain disease of great fatality
is raging in the northeastern part of the
state of Georgia. 1t kills in thirty-four
hours. In one neighborhood in Murray
county, six deaths occurred in one day. In
another place, five persons died in one day.
Four children were born to Mr.. and Mrs
John Ash, living near LenoBe, Arkansas,
on the oath of July. Their aggregate weight
was twenty-one pounds and thrty-siX hours
after birth they were well and hearty. The
mothers small woman, twenty-eight years
| old.
AT Pittsfeld Mass, Benjamin Norton
James Carney and Miss Mary Granger,
while walking the track in coming from pic
mic, Saturday, were struck by a train The
two men were instantly killed and the girl
so badly injured that she died several hours
later.
The advance orders for General Grants
new book are already ahead of the inn
mense first edition that is in process of pub
LEGATION now. 1t is said that three hun
dred thousand sets have been ordered, and
the first volume will not appear until
December.
A MAN who has inspected the damaged
district in Genville, in Schenectady county,
n. Y, on the Mohawk, says the farmers
have lost 100000. Crops were badly dam
aged by the storm, and on some farms
heavy deposits of rocks and gravel have for
ever ruined fertile fields
CLANS to the number of dozen or so fell
recently from a clear sky at Mamscato,
Mimi, the velocity of their descent shatter-
ing the shells. The clans were alive
and about four inches in length The
phenomenon, it is said, was witnessed by
several trustworthy men.
COLONEL WRIGHT, commissioner of the
labor bureau, has revoked the appointment
of G. p. Judd as special agent of the bureau,
because OF his recent arrest in Colorado on
the charge of DEMONSTRATING and his admit
ting his guilt, and also that he had served
two terms in pententiary for the same of
fence.
THE fifth annual congress of the Interna-
tional Association of Shorthand Writers
will be held at Buffalo, n. Y, on Thursday
and Friday of this week. Besides papers
and discussions on subjects of interest to
the profession, there will be a large exhibit
of shorthand and type-writing machines and
appliances
The president of the Montreal board of
health declares that smallpox is now ep-
idemic there. The civil hospital is crowded
with thirty-eight patients, and a new wing
is in progress of erection which will hold
fifty more patients 1t is not known how
many are suffering from the disease in
private dwellings.
THURSDAY night tremendous cloud burst
over Greenwich township, Penn. 1t fell with
terrific force, washing out fields and swell
ing streams. The storm was confined to a
small section of the country and lasted only
an hour. Several houses and barns We're
struck by lightning and demolished. The
damage amounts to many thousand dollars.
THE White House watches are now regtl-
lated by the old mantel clock which has
licked the time for many years, says the
| Philadelphia Record. President Arthur $
secretary had clock connected with the
naval observatory in his room. but Colonel
Lamont objected to paying $50 from the
| contingent fund of the mansion to have it
| continued.
AT Wahpeton, Dakota, another heavy
storm of rain, followed by hail. prevailed
several hours last week Monday night. The
latest news received shows that at least
three hundred square miles of territory were
devastated. Fully eight hundred farms are
affected. Most of the standing wheat was in
jured. The same region was swept by hail
storm last year.
A CURIOUS story is told of man who died
at Atlanta, Georgia, the other day. Thirty
years ago, when he was an infant, his
mother missed needle. The doctors said
it had entered the child's body and would
come out some day. An hour before his
| death he complained of an itching sensation
in his shoulder, and a few minutes later the
long-missing needle forced its way out.
THERE is an understanding in the depart
ments that, with the exception of fourth
class postmasters, there are to be no APP
pontments during August and early in Sep
TENDER except such as were virtually settled
before the departure of the secretaries. At
the state, war and navy departments it is
stated that no removals or appointments are
to be expected during the next few weeks.
OVER four thousand boys have been dis
charged from the colleries in Schuylkill,
Penn, region since August |, in pursuance
of the new law prohibiting the employ
ment OF boys at the mines under fourteen
years of age. Their places are being filled
with Hungarians and Poles. Over ten thou
sand boys will be discharged in Luzerne,
SchuyllSill, Carbon and Northumberland
| counties.
CAPTAIN RICHARD G. LUCE, who died at
Vineyard Haven, Mass. last week, was,
during his life, at sea three hundred ten
months, or nearly twenty-siX years. He
landed in New Bedford thirty-eght thou
sand barrels of whale OIL eight thousand
five hundred of sperm oil and three hum
dred eighty-three thousand pounds of whale
bone, and he was called the champion of the
whale fishery.
DERRICK A. PANGHERN, a wealthy farmer
of Oregon township, Indiana, was taken i'll
several days ago of pneumonia. On Satur-
day night the two physicians who were in
attendance pronounced him dead, and ar
rangements were being made to prepare the
remains for the coffin, when all at once the
corpse started up in bed and asked for a
glass of water. In a short time after drink
ing the water Mr.. Panghern breathed freely
and is now declared out of danger
GRANTS tomb has become Mecca to the
women of New York. But few men are in
the crowd that constantly gathers. 1t il
made up of well-dressed women, who come
with their parasols, children and lunch
baskets. They carry away pebbles from
the gravel walk az mementoes, and in front
of the tomb the walk is becoming denuded
The guards think that excursion parties from
the country will soon begin to appear. The
superintendent ola Sunday-school in Ouch
ess county has written to ask what facilities
the school could have If it decided to hole
its annual picnic near the tomb.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Syracuse Jour