The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-24

was three-quarters of a mile from shore
After swimming some distance he was
picked up in an exhausted condition by
schooner.
NEWFOUNDLAND papers are filed with re-
ports of disasters by the recent hurricane,
which was the worst known on that coast
since 1876
AN aeronaut named Patterson fell from his
balloon, which caught fire after he was ready
to ascend, in Charleston, West Virginia,
Thursday, and was instantly killed.
BoTH branches of the Massachusetts, legis-
lature adjourned sine die last Friday night,
after having passed three hundred eighty
seven bills and eighty-one resolutions
COLLECTOR ROBERTSON expects to retire
from the custom-house at New York city on
the 9th of this month. During his four
years term he has not allowed himself any
vacation.
The resignation of the Italian ministry is
announced. King Humbert has not yet ac-
cepted their designations, but has intimated
that he will declare his decision in the mat
ter at a later period
THE whole number of visitors to the New
Orleans exhibition was 1,l5S,Si0 The show
was open nearly as long as the centennial
exhibition at Philadelphia, which was WIS.,
tied by 9,910,966 persons.
Two cases of smallpox are reported at
Plattsburgh, n. Y, in two different To-
calities. Both houses have been fenced in,
and smallpox signs put up to warn off the
public. Active measures are being taken
to prevent the communication or spread of
the disease.
A TERRIBLE explosion took place last
week Thursday in the Pendelbury colliery,
near Manchester, England. Two hundred
four miners have been recovered. Twenty
two bodies have been taken out and one
hundred Twenty-Five men are still un-
accounted for.
AT Paris the minister of marine has re-
ceived official dispatches confirming the
news of the loss of the French gunboat
Reynard. The Reynard foundered in the
terrible cyclone which swept the Gulf of
Alden, and every one on board-one hun
dred twenty-seven persons-perished.
COLONEL MEREDITH WORKMAN, an ex-
confederate who served through the war
with John Morgan Kirby Smith and other
raiders, has just been received at the peni-
Tertiary from Wayne county. where he was
few days ago convicted of forgery. He is
ffty-four years of age and has passed thirty
of them behind the prison bars.
ONE of the largest single electric lights
ever constructed was placed on exhibition
at Senaca Falls, n. Y, on arecent Saturday
evening 1t was of fifty thousand candle
power and was made in lion. The light
was placed on a tower of a building at a
| height of seventy-five feet from the ground.
1t is intended to illuminate the whole village.
AT indianapolis, Ind, Frank Whitney. a
| convicted burglar, abused the court with q
! volley of profanity, and them tearing away
from the bailiff. hurled pair of handouts
! al the Judge. The missile passed over the
judges head, SCATTERING heavy plate
| glass. Whitney turned fiercely upon the
! police, and had to be soundly beaten before
! he was subdued.
! THE annual adjustment of salaries for
! presidential postmasters, as prepared in the
salary and allowance division, has been
! submitted TO the postmaster-general. 1t
| shows the present number of presidential
offices to be twenty-five hundred thirty-one.
Twelve more will become presidential on
the LIST of July, and one hundred thirty
four will be reduced from presidential to
! fourth-claSs.
LAST November the farmhouse of Stephen
Young at STAFFORD Corner, N. H., was
blown in atoms by an explosion of dynamite
cartridges. Eight persons were in the
house, and two, George Goodwin and Sarah
| Ann Young were killed: the other six were
fearfully injured, but survived. Among the
survivors were George Young of Lowell and
his intended, Sadie Greenfield. They were
married last week.
EVERY employee of the Chicago city gov
eminent has been requested by Mayor Har-
rison to hand in a written resignation. No
special reason is assigned, except Mr.. Har-
rison's belief that the mayor should be free
If he choose. upon assuming office, to APP
point such subordnates as may meet his
views. The general handing in of resigna-
tons does not necessarily imply that all or
any of the employees will be removed.
A POWDER magazine belonging to the Col
orado Coal and Iron Company blew up at
Pueblo, Col, last week Thursday 1t con-
tanned thrty-seven thousand pounds OF
powder and quantity of dynamite. The
| explosion was caused by John Weaver, an
employe of the steel works, shooting at a
mark on the door of the magazine. Weaver
was instantly killed and companion
Charles Nelson, was fatally injured. Build
ings within radius of two miles were
injured.
AT Detroit, Mich, Joseph Kuhn, a pri-
vate banker and real-estate dealer, failed,
involving many comparatively poor deposi
tors in financial ruin. He was taken into
court to be tried on charge of embezzle-
ment. The corridor of the courtroom was
filled with women. One of the women
screamed out in English: There's the man
that stole our money Let's kill him!" She
accompanied the words with a blow from
her parasol which knocked Kuhn's hat off
1t was Immediately pounced upon by the
other women, who tore it to tatters, the first
woman in the meanwhile vigorously ply
ing her parasol over Kuhn's head and
shoulders.