The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-14

assaulting and robbing people, breaking up
church and social meetings and defying the
authorities.
JOHN SWIM, who says he is ninety-nine
years old, tramp, has been taken to the
poorhouse at Columbus, o. He is said to
be worth $500, 600, but refuses to spend any
money on himself.
NOTICE has been given in both houses of
the Michigan Legislature of proposed
amendment to the constitution, prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of spirituous,
vinous or malt liquors in the state.
IT is rumored that all of General Grants
personal property, including his swords and
medals the presents received by him while
abroad, are to be sold to meet the judgment
held against him by w. II. Vanderbilt.
THE London papers are making general
attack on the Gladstone cabinet, its foreign
policy being the subject taken up, stanch
liberal journals going so far as to call for an
immediate change, or the resignation of the
ministers.
THE Masonic Temple at Cincinnati was
almost completely destroyed by fire last
week The lost will reached $4,000, of
which $4,000 will fall upon the outfit of
the Scottish Rite, in the second and third
stories of the temple
II. G. PEARSON of Pitcairn, N. Y, raised
1858 pounds of potatoes from one pound of
seed One bushel of seed at this rate would
/
the amount of seed commonly used per
acre, would produce 20 AGA bushels.
A sPIRITUALIsT named William Pearson,
near Chehalis Washington Territory, killed
his infant child with hammer, under in
spiration. He then persuaded his wife to
cut her throat and followed her example.
Neither were dead when found, but will
probably die.
! A FRIGHTFUL earthquake at sea, near the
Azores, is reported by British barque just
in at st. Johns from Cadiz. 1t was the 18th
ult. 1t nearly frightened officers and crew
out of their wits, so appalling was the thun-
| der under the ship, and so great the heav-
ing and straining of the timbers. 1t lasted
fifteen minutes
| The president will leave Washington
about the 10Th instant for New Orleans, to
visit the cotton exposition, unless the con-
dition of public affairs shall make it neces-
sary to change his present plans. He will
| be accompanied by some of the members of
his cabinet, and expects to return to Wash
| ington in about ten days.
The postal notes are a great success.
| Over 81 100000 of them were sold the past
year OF this amount S157 900 remained
unpaid. The main part of this sum is lost,
and will never be presented for redemption,
and is therefore a clear gain to the govern
ment. Over $220O0,00O in postal orders
were sent through the mails.
The neighborhood of Hazelton, Ind, is
greatly excited over the appearance of a
| Mexican lion, which no doubt escaped from
a circus last summer at Allendale, and dur
! ing the recent cold weather crossed the
| Wabash and White rivers on the ice. 1t has
been committing serious depredations and
over one hundred men are out hunting the
| beast.
TERRIBLE havoc, both to life and property,
has been reported from the recent typhoon
in Japan. At place called Kurashiki 500
4 4
| killed. AT TamaShina the sea walls were
carried away, 100 lives lost and 430 houses
blown down; while at Imabari, Matsuyama
and IyO 151 houses were wrecked, III
iunks sunk, and ITO persons drowned
A division of the channel squadron at
Portsmouth harbor comprising the iron
clads northumberland, Achilles and Agin-
court, has been ordered to Immediately
prepare for service Ammunition was
placed on board the vessels. Speculation
as to the destination of the ships is rife.
The order for their departure is considered
an outcome Of the last meeting of the cab
met.
OFFICIAL statistics show that up to the
| present time 6I3 corpses have been recov-
cred from the ruins in the province of
Grenada, Spain. Two hundred sixty
nine bodies have been recovered in AL
hama, in which city 400 houses were de-
stroyed. At Atbunuealas 100 persons were
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Reg 1876 We're killed. Additional shocks of
earthquake have occurred in various parts
of the southern provinces. The number of
| persons killed is not known. According to
| the latest dispatches it cannot fall short of
1000, but the record is by no means complete.
THE Office of ODonovan Rosa, the So
called dynamiter, in Chambers street. New
| York, where Rosa prints his paper, The
! United Irjshudn, was, about four o'clock
last week Friday afternoon, the scene of an
effort to assassinate a man who the faithful
to the cause of dynamite think was a traitor
to their principles. The victim was Captain
Thomas Phelan man closely identified in
previous years with the Irish movement in
Kansas City, Mo-, where he resides and is
superintendent of the worlkhouse. The in
tention to kill him had seemingly been pre-
meditated for week. The enmity against
him arose from an interview with him pub
lshed in the Kansas city Journal a fort
night ago, wherein Phelan apparently di-
vulged secrets of the dynamiters.