The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11

dead from burns and suffocation. But five
of the men have thus far been recovered
alive.
A DISPATCH from Teheran states that the
insurgent native chiefs OF India have already
raised the fiery cross and proclaimed in
favor Of Russia
RICHARD GRANT WHITE is reported to be
dangerously i'll at his home in New York.
He had an attack of pneumonia several
weeks ago, and partially recovered, but
other troubles have set in.
Mr. BLAINE was at Baltimore March 4th
burying his sister. The day on which he
was to have been inaugurated, II he had
been successful in the election, was turned
into mourning when his sister lay dead.
LAWRENCE BARRETT, who was member
of Company b, Twenty-eighth Massachusetts
Regiment in the late war, has sent check
for $50, for the erection of a monument to
the men of that command who were killed.
ABOUT two hundred custom-house bro
kers of New York city celebrated the inaugu-
ration by sending presents of crow to five
deputy collectors, and by marching in a
body to the custom-house and indulgng in
cheering and singing.
T. s. ARTHUR, the well-known writer and
publisher, died at his residence in Philadel-
phia Friday night, aged seventy-sx years.
Mr.. Arthur was actively engaged in literary
work. and in editing Arthur's Home Magazine
to cease his labors and take to his bed.
A NEW epidemic has appeared in Lancas-
ter county, South Carolina, to which five
members of one family have been victims in
the past few weeks. 1t first makes its appear
ance with nausea, with bloody flux and
gripping, followed by excruciating pain. 1t
is similar in many of its symptoms to Asiatic
cholera.
THE farmers of the Province of Manitoba
held large meetings the 9th, and many of
| them are joining the ranks of the secession
lists and annexationists. They invited Pre-
mier Norquay to be present and report what
| he had accomplished toward getting conces-
sions from the dominion government. He
did not attend. They passed resolutions
condemning him as guilty of shameful sac
rifice of Manitoba's rights.
As an instance OF rapid telegraph service
the sending of President Cleveland's in
augural message to London has attracted
attention. The whole message was in Lon
don at sixteen minutes before one o'clock,
and probably was known there as soon as
| it was in Wall street. Extras may have
appeared there almost as soon as in New
York. The work was done by the Anglo
| American cables, of which three were in
use at times. The exact time of the trans
mission was not taken, but it is believed
! that it was the shortest ever made.
LAST year over a million and a half of
cats were killed for their skins, which have
become valuable as fur lining. The indus
try of cat-skin collecting is of very recent
growth If within so short a space of time
the casual destruction for their hide of a
few stray cats has assumed the respectable
dimensions of solid traffic, estimated in
round numbers at hundreds Of thousands
of skins, what will it be decade hence ?
About the superiority of cats skins over
rabbit, rat, or squirrel skins, there is no
question. The cost of production, too, can
not be called excessive, seeing that each
skin is stolen, and the whole original out
lay is one stout stick for despatching puss,
and a sack to carry her home in, while the
total working expenses are the wear and
tear of shoe leather in tramping the streets
| for prey.