The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23
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springleSS, and shaped something like
boat; its single seat is about double the
height of those in modern wagons, and the
affair is painted yellow. The wagon is al
most rs good as new, save that the forward
axle Is somewhat worn and one or two
spokes are broken. 1t certainly shows few
signs of the service it has done in the
sixty-nine years that have elapsed since Mr..
Spaulding bought it of Mr.. Fairbanks. The
wagon was on exhibition at the Caledonia
county fair.
COLLECTOR SMALLEY announces several
changes among the employees of the customs
department. services being discontinued and
offices abolished as follows: September 10,
1SS5-Daniel o. Calaghan, William p. Ma
son and Richard ID. Wheeler, Burlington;
G. NJ. Booth and A. S. Fleury, st. Albans
Edwin NJ. Dunbar, Island Pond; Henry 7.
Benedict, Montreal, p. O.; George W.
Brush, Lynn Station, Ont; III. b. Pettingill,
North Troy; G. e. Nelson, Derby Line. DC
tober 1st 1SS5-Clark b. Roberts, Wind
Mill Point; f. NJ. Murray and G.. S. Lyon,
Burlington. November LIST, 1855. II.
Newton, Wind Mill Point Il. NJ. Blaisdell,
Richford. December LIST, 1SS5-F. H. Lang
don, Richford; e. Il. Stone and j. e. Cook,
Burlington.
e. b. TAFT of Burlington has purchased
and presented to the University of Vermont
the fine collection of Indian relics made by
Mr.. +. G. Deming, formerly of Milton and
now of Minneapolis, MINI. The collection
1nCluueS many very me anu rare SpeClllenS,
nearly all of which were found in the
neighborhood of Milton. Among the finest
objects which it contains are a copper
gouge, the largest and finest copper imple-
ment ever found in Vermont and scarcely
equalled by any North American specimen;
several copper spear-points; some very beau
tifully polished " banner-stones;" gouges
and axes, as well as many of wider make;
drills and knives of elegant colored and
veined flint, quartz and jasper; several
hundred spear and arrow-points, some OF
them of very unique form; large stone
mortar several pestles and other objects.
In all there are over "a thousand specimens.
Other Localities.
ANARCHY prevails in Albania.
BARNUMs baby elephant is dead.
HAvERHrLL, Mass, reports death from
smallpox.
ANOTHER revolution has broken out in
Guatemala.
ARcHDEAcoN FARRAR preached in Mon
treal last Sunday.
THERE are several cases of smallpox in a
New York tenement-house.
HEAVY hail. making drifts three feet deep,
fell in Minnesota on a recent night
DoRMAN b. EATON, chairman of the civil
service commission, has rendered his resig-
nation.
RIEL, the leader of the Northwest re-
bellion, has been respited until the 18th of
October
FRAUDS amounting to 100000 have been
perpetrated by Canadian Pacific railway
contractors
JOHN i. SULLIVAN was fined 81 and costs
at Cleveland, Ohio, for participating in a
Sunday baseball game
The Smith American Organ Company's
factory in Boston was damaged by fire, Fri
day night, to the extent of 100000.
THE yellow fever is on the increase at
Guaymas, Mexico. The disease is also eX-
tending to other parts of the republic.
MICHAEL GANUE, a French-Canadan, aged
one hundred seven years, died at Rochester,
N. Y, last week Wednesday, of old age.
A PRAIRIE fire is raging over a large area
in Dakota Territory, thousands of bushels
of wheat having already been destroyed
THE Southern Pump Company of Nash
vile, Tenn, had property valued at $780,
600 destroyed by fire last week Thursday.
The cotton crop of Texas last year was
about $4,000 bales. Good judges think it
will reach million and a half bales this
year.
Ex-sPEAKER RANDALL will not be candi-
date for the speakership of the national
house of representatives at the coming
session.
Mrs. ELIZABETH THOMAS of Lorberryville,
Penn, was run over and killed while walk
ing on the railroad track She was one hun
dred years old.
p. Z. BARNUM has pensioned Matthew
Scott, the English keeper of the elephant
Jumbo, who has had charge of Jumbo since
he was three years old.
THE knights of Labor are averse to the
Chinese remaining in Wyoming, and the I'LL
innate expulsion of the Celestials from the
territory is considered probable.
THE " Puritan " is to be sold at auction in
New York this week, the several owners
deciding this is the best way to get square.
1t is likely that one of them will bid her in.
A BRIcK-MAKER in one of the small cities
of Wisconsin pays his hands Saturday in
checks on the bank. The banker tells a re-
porter that nine-tenths of those checks are
brought in by saloon-keepers.
THE cholera continues to decrease in
Spain, only three hundred eleven deaths oc-
curing on Thursday. A panic prevails in
Palermo, Sicily, on account of the rapid
spread of the disease there, and many peo-
pie have fled the town.
THE recent expulsions of Poles from Posen,
Prussia, number 10000, and question is to
be raised in the Austrian reichsrath whether
the action of the government is not a VIOLA
lation of the articles of the Vienna congress
guaranteeing the rights of aliens in Prussia.
THE mortality by smallpox in Montreal
and suburbs during the five days ending
FIludy VI ldoO WCSh was Ohc Hunulci
ninety-seven, an increase of forty-fve over
the corresponding days of the week before.
There were thirty-three deaths from small
pox in the city last Friday.
THE Baldwin Locomotive Company OF
Brooklyn recently built for the Dom Pedro
Segundo road of Brazil an engine with ten
driving-wheels of forty-five inches diameter
and a cylinder twenty-five inches in diane
ter with twenty-six-nch stroke. The total
weight, in working order, is IA 600 pounds
and with tender, 224 600 pounds
PROFESSOR A. LANDMARK, director of the
Norwegian fisheries has studied the capa
bility of salmon to jump waterfalls. He has
seen a salmon jump sixteen feet perpendicu
larly in the DRAINS river at Haugsend, where
two great masts have been placed across the
river for the study of the habits of the
salmon so that exact measurements may bt
effected.
complshed daughter of Thaddeus Dean, q
wealthy lumber-dealer in Chicago com
menced work at the spinning mills in Rock
ford, ILL.,, at sixty cents day. Her father
had offered her dollar for every cent she
could earn by her own labor. She has con
tracted to remain a year, and expects to re-
ceive $18,72O from her astonished parent.
A wELL-DREssED stranger was discovered
in yard on Diamond street, Flatbush n
Y, attempting to kill himself in a move
manner. He was throwing large stones
into the air and placing himself in such 9
position that they would fall on his head
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