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

live away from shelter during the middle
of the day.
THE cave out of which Israel Putnam
dragged the wolf is seldom visited because
it is in stony, mountainous forest, in re-
mote corner of Connecticut a picnic party
recently made the tedious trip, which in
volved several miles of rough walking.
There are pictures in primers of Putnam en-
tering the cave erect, with blazing torch
held above his head The hole is really SO
small that 1t only can be explored on hands
and knees, and an adult cannot turn around
in it. The length is three hundred feet, and
tradition says that the hero followed the
beast to the further end, shot him between
the eyes by their own glow, and then was
drawn out with him by means of rope.
BARNUM's large Asiatic elephant cal
bert" who killed Keeper James Mccormick
! at Nashua, n. H., Saturday, was taken to a
ravihe in the suburbs of Keene Monday after
noon and killed. He was chained to four large
trees and the location of his heart and brain
marked with chalk. Thrty-three members
of the Keene Light Guard marshaled in line
at fifteen PAGES and at the word " fire the
same number of bullets penetrated the vital
| spots. The huge beast fell dead without a
struggle. albert " was thirty years old
and had been used as a performing elephant
until the last three months, when he has
| shown such temper that he was drawn from
| the trained herd. He was valued at about
| $4,000. His remains have been donated to
| the Smithsonian Institute, Washington.
! ID. G.
AT Niagara Falls, n. Y, Prospect Park
was thoroughly crowded with visitors to be
| present at the opening ceremonies Wednes-
day. The villagers were dressed in gala
attire, the colors of all nations adorned the
! gray stone railroad station, and piazzas,
dining-rooms, hotel parors, store fronts
and dwelling-houses were profuse with red,
white and blue. Before the exercises com
menced the park held fully twenty-five
thousand spectators. The governor and
staff and other distinguished persons occu-
pied seats. The exercises were opened with
prayer by Bishop Coke. The national an
them was then sung, after which an Grafton
was delivered by Hon Erastus Brooks. In
the evening there was a grand display of
fireworks at Prospect Park, thousands of
persons remaining over to witness it.
GENERAL HOWARD commanding the de-
partment of the Platte, has returned to
Omaha from Salt Lake City, in which place
he spent the Fourth of July. He says there
is great apprehension there over the bad
feeling existing between Gentiles and Nor
mons. The situation has assumed graver
proportions and has been greatly intensified
by the insult offered by the Mormons to our
flag. The end is not yet, and serious trouble
may occur at any hour on the slightest pre-
text The Gentiles and United States SOL
diers are very indignant. The bitterness of
feeling is much greater than the public is
aware of, as the half has not been told in
the published accounts In anticipation of
an outbreak occurring at any day the war
department has made preparations for it,.
The MormonS in Salt Lake are all armed.
On the Fourth of July they gave evidence
of this by freely fiourishing revolvers in the
faces of Gentiles and defying and insulting
them.
A BENGAL tiger in the Geological garden,
Cincinnati, had malformed claw, and it
was determined to cut it out Dickie ~ is
| a nj a nd nOf nd
was a problem how she was to be handled.
In one OF the small compartments of the
cage low, strong, temporary ceiling was
built. Several pieces of timber nailed
together firmly, were placed on end, and
to these were attached four ropes reach
ing outside of the cage. Six strong men be-
gan to pull on the ropes. This drew the
timbers close to the iron bars of the cage,
with the tiger, now bowling with rage,
wedged between. She fought terribly. Fl
nally her right leg was caught in moose
and pulled straight out, while she was held
in position by iron bars above braced in the
timbers back of her. All this time one OF
the men held a board in her jaws, which
She crunched as if it were a cracker. For a
time it looked as if she would overpower the
men, and the operation would prove fail
ure; but the surgeon watched his chance
and succeeded in extracting with knife
and heavy pair of pincers the offending
claw.
PosTMAsTER-GENERA Villas made a caus-
tic reply to joint letter of American steam
ship lines, headed by the Pacific Mail, de-
handing his ultimation on the subsidy
question by July IA, that they might an
nounce the suspension of the foreign mail
service for August /. The principal points
that he made were: First, that while a com
bination of the steamship companies which
desired to share this subsidy was proper
enough in presenting the request for its dis
trlbutlon to the government, the request
having been passed upon adversely, he re-
garded the continuance of the combination
as improper. Hence he must decline to
recognize it further, although he would be
willing to correspond with any of the COM
panies comprised in il, individually, at any
time. Second, that as postmaster-general
II was his duty, and not that of the steam
ship companies, to notify the public as to
the arrival and departure of foreign mails
and that inasmuch as he had perfected all
arrangements for the carrying of foreign
mails for the next year, regardless of the
combined companies, 1t would not be neces.
sary to issue notice to the effect that the
foreign mail service would be suspended
August |, the arrangement to which the
acknowledgement alluded having been
made with foreign lines of steamships the
American lines having declined to take the
mails at the compensation heretofore paid
them. If at any time any of these Ameri.
can lines desires to resume the carrying OF
mails on the old terms they will be
given that privilege by the postmaster
general. Meanwhile, better service is prom
ised by the foreign lines.
THE gold fever is breaking out again in
Idaho, Montana and Oregon. 1t is in the
air and must have run. Men are at work
along the Snake river for three hundred
fifty miles, and every day new fields are
opened. Last week a deposit was found in
clay bank at the mouth of Bllingsley
creek that is turning out from $40 to 500 g
day per man with the most primitive form
of rocker apparatus. While this is singu
larly rich streak, the ground for some miles
back from the river prospects well. Al
Silver City, Idaho Territory, one of the
Oldest camps on the Pacific coast, mines
abandoned years ago are being re-opened
with good results. Out of twenty-five mines
and prospects in that locality there is not one
but that will pay largely. The old Orc Fine
is being put in shape for working, and it il
estimated that the yield this season from
the extension of that mine alone will bt
100000. 1t is worked by three men witt
picks only. Large nuggets of free gold are
daily taken out of the War Eagle anC
Florida mountains, from the pay streaks
The lodges also average well in gold ant
: silver sulphurets, aside from the free gold
In Wagontown, nine miles from Silver City
} there is a low grade quartz ledge forty feet
wide, running from S12 to $40 per ton. TIL,
building of the Oregon Short Line has
, afforded means of reaching the Idaho anC
2 Oregon mountains, and the development
, from this time on will be rapid. The recen