The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-25

who have seen the dreaded pests sweep
down and consume whole fields say that the
visitation exceeds ten-fold anything they
have ever before known Of the kind.
GLADSTONE predicts that the liberals will
elect ma jority of the new house of commons.
A VESSEL which is soon to sail from Phla-
delphia takes out to Queensland twelve
locomotives from the Baldwin works.
THE number of marriages in Pennsylvania
during the week previous to the taking eff
feet of the new marriage law was 1900.
NJ DE LEssEPs celebrated his eighteth
birthday in Paris last week. He thinks he
will live to sail through the Panama Canal.
THE death-rate from smallpox in Mon
treal is rapidly diminishing. Since the cpl
demic began, over 10000 persons have been
vaccinated.
IT is said the farmers of Berl1s county,
Penn, have 100000 trade-dollars stored
away, awaiting some action of congress to
redeem them.
possible date-St. Marks day, April 25th.
The last time it so fell was in 1874; the next
will be in 1913.
CHARLES FOSTER of Indiana, consul at FL
berfield, Germany, is recalled, not being a
citizen of the United States. He swore that
he was so from ignorance.
ELIZUR WRIGHT, long and prominently
connected with insurance interests, died
last Sunday at Medford, Mass. He was
noted abolitionist and did much to help flu
gitive slaves.
GEORGE MULLER, who conducts several
orphans homes at Bristol, Eng, and who
never asks for anything save by prayer, an
nounces that over 100000 has been sent
him this year.
AT Allentown Penn, an engineer lay
down to sleep with his head on box of
1x-ro tn rfr;I nla 81, a
exploded by the heat of the boiler and he
was blown to atoms.
SMUGGLING is carried on across the frontier
| between Arizona and Mexico to such an ex-
tent that 1t is no longer regarded as a crime,
and is engaged in as legitimate business by
many reputable citizens.
LAST Friday night burglars entered the
house of an old man named Jacob Lipe, at
| Pittsburg, Penn, and made him tell where
he had hid S75 by pouring petroleum on
him and setting it on fire.
THE governors of the northern states have
been invited to attend the Southern States
Forestry Congress at Defnal1 Springs, Fla,
next month, to participate in the ceremony
OF planting and dedcating trees to the states
DESPERATE fighting has been in progress
between the Bulgarians and Servians. 1t
is reported that the former were driven
from their positions at Slivnitza on Satur-
day. but that the battle was renewed, the
result of which has not TRANSFERRED. A Sc.
we're engagement occurred Sunday the Ser
vians being driven out of the Dragoman
Pass by the Bulgarians. The Servians also
besieged Widdin and fought battle, but
| without decisive results.
COMPARATIVE tests of the GRANTEES of New
England and Minnesota instituted by Pro
fessor Winchell, with view to determine
their crushing strength, exhibits some sur
prising differences. The pieces were two
inch cubes, unpublished, and, crushed be
tween wooden cushions, the average
strength of twenty specimens of Minnesota
granite was found to be 1922 pounds, oil
23,31S pounds per square inch. The average
obtained for the same number of specimens
of New England granite was 597S5 pounds
or IA, 1856 pounds per square inch.