The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-13
Weekly News Summary.

ton publishers. nave made an assignment.
Liabilities, $l50000; assets nominally large.
THE secretary of the navy has issued an
advertisement calling for plans, models or
designs for the construction of naval vessels,
authorized by the act of March 3 last
THE court of inquiry ordered at Aspin-
wall by Admiral Jouett, to investigate the
conduct of Commander Kane at the time of
the burning of that place, has indicated
his action on that occasion.
AGNES CANNON, Milton Musser and j. G.
Watson, Mormons, were sentenced at Salt
Lake City Saturday for unlawful cohabita-
ton. Each received the full extent of the
law-S300 fine and six months imprison-
ment.
INvAL1Ds who depend upon cod-liver oil
to sustain their vital forces should be care
full to get pure article. Cotton-seed oil is
now doing for the cod-liver product what it
long since accomplished in the matter of
olive oil.
THE Robert K. Lee camp, confederate
veterans, of Richmond. Virginia, to the num-
Der of one hundred twenty-five, called at the
White House last week and were intro
duced to the president, and were cordially
received
THE republicans have elected state sem
ator in the thrty-fourth Illinois district by a
substantial majority. This result, it is
thought, will break the United States SEN
atorship deadlock in the Legislature, and
either secure the election of General Logan
or some other republican.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has personally di-
rected the revocation of the appointment of
James Blackburn of Kentucky, brother of
the senator, on account of an outrageous
letter written by him during the war, saying
that a man who would write such a letter
was unfit to held an Office under the gov
eminent.
THE New Orleans exposition has virtu-
oil. loo,
spicuous failure, owing, undoubtedly, to
bad management. The weather, too, has
been decidedly unfavorable, rain having
fallen at frequent intervals for nearly two
months. As an exhibition of the resources
and products of our own country and of the
world, however, the exposition has been a
magnificent success.
A TERRIBLE tornado swept over the town
of Newmarket, Alabama, on Thursday. A
large church and Masonic temple was picked
up and blown into atoms. The largest store
in town was blown from its foundation.
Two other stores were also blown into bits,
and a large number of houses We're un-
rooted, trees uprooted and fences blown in
all directions. The tornado left the earth a
short distance beyond the town.
SECRETARY MANNING has directed that
the issue of one and two dollar notes be dis
continued for the present. 1t is stated that
the discontinuance has become necessary by
of late, and because they are coming back
to the treasury for redemption in about as
good condition as when first issued. which
adds a very considerable item to the eX-
pense account of the department.
REPORTS from the Indian Territory state
that one of the most fearful storms ever
known in that section occurred near Mt.
Scott on May 3. 1t began in the evening
with southerly wind, with force of
eighty miles an hour, and increased through
the night with terrific thunder and light
nin@ and driving rain. The forest for
miles was swept away by the wind, and the
destruction of everything in its broad path
is complete.
THE Newfoundland sealer, Young Prince,
colided with an iceberg in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence on the 10Th ultimO. She sank al
most Immediately, barely giving the crew
time to save their clothing and provisions.
The crew, numbering thirty-two men, lived
on an ice foe nineteen days, subjected to
the rigors of fiuctuating weather. Friday
they were deserted by the French brig
Etoil de Mer and were all landed in good
condition at st. Pierre.
THE house or sobbing wren is bird pc
culiar to southwestern Texas. Its melan-
choly note is described as very impressive.
1t begins in a high clear key like the tink-
ling of silver bells, and descending grad
ually from one chime to another, it suddenly
falters, breaks off and sobs like a child
the song dying away in gasp, The song
is heard only in the opening light of dawn
and is repeated but few times. The singer
is rarely seen during the day.
THE customs and internal revenue re-
cepts for the nine months of the govern
ment fiscal year, from July l to April 1
have been made up at the treasury for the
current year. and comparison of the re
ceipts from these two sources for the three
quarters of the present fiscal year with the
same periods in several previous years car
therefore be made. This comparison shows
total falling off of revenue from these two
sources from last year of over sos, 100000
and the falling off compared with nine
months of S2-S3 is over S54,000,0O0.
EDISON, the electrician, has invented {
new method of telegraphing to running rail
road trains. A board covered with tin fol
is fastened lengthwise to the top of amovinl
car, and this he claims will, by the well
known law of induction, catch messag,
from parallel wire thirty-five feet away
and transmit it by peculiar apparatus t.
the operator in the car and messages can b'
sent from the moving train with equal ia
ciity He says no extra wires are required
except those on the train, and that three
men could equip a road three hundred mile
long with the apparatus in three or fou
days at an expense OF - 600
A HEAVY square box, wrapped in red tap
and securely bound, was fonnd in an out-oi
United States treasury last week. The DO,
had been in the vault for many years ant
had been almost forgotten. 1t was force
open and was found to contain a bottle O
diamonds, bottle of pearls, "A bottle q
altar of roses and a lump of gold. One O
the older employees identified these as ar
ticles which had been presented to Presi
dent Monroe, about the year 1928 by tn
japanese government, and which had beel
stored in the treasury pending the passag
of an act of congress authorizing their accept
ance. Congress failed to legslate on the sui
ject. and the articles were deposited in til
treasury, where they have remained eve
since
ONE of the most important of all discoN
cries in this prolific field of Indian mound
was made near Homer, Ohio, last weel
Beneath small mound, at five feet belo'
the surface, five gigantic skeletons, wit
their feet to the east, were found in "a gray
with a stone floor. Remnants of burne
bones and charcoal were plentiful, wit
stone vessels and weapons. The skeleton
are of enormous size, the head of one bein
the size of wooden bucket. The mo-
striking articles besides the skeletons wei
beautifully finished stone pipe the bow
being large and polished and engraved wit
considerable care, in simple way, with III
ures of birds and beasts, a knife shape
like sickle reversed and having "a woOde
handle held by leather thongs, and a kett
holding perhaps six quarts. Those wi
know say this find is one of the oldest
America and perhaps the most valuable.
THE proposed railway from London
Bombay will, it is estimated extend over
distance of nearly seven thousand mile