The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-26

hanging of leading and eminently
respectable townsman. The latter's
brother-in-law and father-in-law were
among the signers, and every signature
proved genuine.
THE Chicago Journal does not regard
the mere fact that General Sherman
and General Joe Johnston walked arm
in arm at General Grants funeral as
conclusive evidence that I" the embers
of civil war have at length died out"
and asks: ais it safe for citizen
with black skin to vote republican
ticket anywhere in Mississippi"
THE navy department has been
forced to back down from its untenable
position in the matter of the Roach
contracts. 1t has now been arranged
that the unfinished war vessels will be
completed in Mr.. Roach's yards, under
the supervision of the advisory board,
almost precisely as was agreed upon in
the original contracts. Thus one dem
ocratic reform issue has gone to seed
prematurely.
THE Springfield Republican comedies
that the pardon of Mullen must be
set down as one of the gravest of the
Presidents Mistakes" but sets up the
familiar and time-worn plea that Mr..
Cleveland has, without doubt, been
imposed upon" 1t is difficult to see
how he could have been imposed upon
when the facts in the case had been
familiar for months to the whole coun-
try.-Journal.
SMALLPOX is spreading rapidly in
Montreal, the number of cases at present
being estimated at one thousand. The
number of deaths recorded is one hun
dred twenty. The great obstacle to
checking it is said to be the opposition of
the large majority of French Canadian
doctors to vaccination. They do not vac
cinate their own children. The clergy
are beginning to speak from the pulpits
in favor of vaccination.
THE London Spectator, in a recent
issue, gives the figures in what it well
calls the wonderful but rarely noticed
fact of "the white mans march," OF
rate of increase as compared with that
of other races. Two centuries ago the
white men constituted but a bare tenth
of the human race. A century later
that is, in our own time, the white
race constitute one-third of mankind
BY computation, it is believed that in 6
century more the present four hundred
twenty millions of whites will become
one billion and be much more thar
half of the whole race.
WE were assured by some of oul
independent contemporaries, severa
weeks ago, that the administration
would not use the public patronage fol
the benefit of the democratic party il
the fall elections. But we now learr
that the postoffice department is work
ing the official guillOtine in Maryland
for the benefit of Senator German, wht
wants reelection; and the Ohio cor
respondent of the New York Time
(mugwump organ) says the postmaster
general has come Loyalty to the aid o
the democracy in that state, which ha
recently been favored with shove
of patronage"
THE New York Cremation Society i
ClcSliiiS a hhC OiOhiiloiN pOtNCOh VI
Mt. Olivet and Lutheran cemeteries, OIL
the Long Island railroad. The build
ing is to have handsome marble ia
cade, and will be two stories high.
funeral party, on arriving at the ere
matory will pass through the front hal
: and enter the rear chapel. This is
7 large hall, with a stationary catafalqu
, in the middle Here the coffin will b
deposited and covered with a pail
While the final funeral rites are il
progress the coffin will be noiselessl
= lowered into the basement, where ar
t the appliances for incarceration. N
, one hears the creaking of machinery
:. no one sees the body descend; no on
except those familiar with the proceed
? ings knows that it has disappeared
t The process to be employed is the on
, known as dry distillation. No fire
brought into direct contact with tn
flesh, but the body is subjected to in
. tense heat, which volatilizes all that
susceptible of being turned into gas
and leaves only the mineral residuum
1t is claimed that the cost of such
= funeral is about one-third of the eX
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