The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09
have been done by accommodation carriage
drivers, whose business was destroyed by
the running of the train in question.

drivers, whose business was destroyed Dy
the running of the train in question.
other Localities.
RAIDS by hostile Apaches are reported
| from Arizona.
THE population of Wyoming Territory is
about 6S, 900 and increasing.
THE heat in the retorts at the Mt. Olivet
creamatory averages 1000 degrees.
THE late Peter Donahue Of San Francisco
left $12,000,000, mostly to his family.
The special delivery letters in Brooklyn
fell off nearly one-half in November.
JOHN w. DANIEL has been nominated
for United States senator by the democrats
of Virginia.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has called special
session of the Kansas legislature, to meet
January 10Th.
FORTY thousand stand of arms, valued at
100000, were shipped to Turkey from New
York last week.
The public debt was increased $4,SS7,-
19S.47 in November, making the total debt
| 81, 452, 544, 1866.
A WRECK occurred on the Texas Pacific,
| near Gordon, last week, injuring severely
twenty-eight persons.
VIcE-PREsrDENT HENDRICKS left all his
property to his wife. The will was written
| by Mr.. Hendricks himself in 1866.
THE oil mills of j. p. Mills & Co. at In
dianapolis were burned Sunday with %, 900
gallons of oil. Loss about $4,000.
A MINERS unburied bones were lately
| found in Amador county, Cal, and near by
an old boot containing $1,000 in gold
THE fve-story building of Rollins, Shaw
& Co., Chicago, dry-goods dealers, was
burned Sunday. Loss about 100000
THE boiler of the tow-boat Iron City on
the Allegheny river exploded last week.
Two persons were killed and five injured.
rT.r. nj 80
$4,000, 900 more annually than its wheat crop
and 10000, 900 more than the cotton crop.
Two persons were burned and three
houses destroyed by the explosion of natural
gas in dwelling in Pittsburg, Pa, recently
Boston is not the only large city in which
the women predominant. In Philadelphia
it is said that there are $4,000 more females
than males.
HENRY o. KENT of Lancaster, N. H., has
been appointed naval officer at Boston, and
James w. Porch United States consul-gen-
eral to Mexico.
SEVEN hundred clergymen of all denom-
nations attended a farewell reception given
by George w. Child in honor of Canon
Farrar in Philadelphia.
Miss SUSAN MORSE, daughter of S. f. b.
| Morse. inventor of the telegraph while en-
route for Havana, threw herself into the sea
in temporary fit of insanity.
EXTREME cold is chronicled in all parts of
| the West At Bismarck OAK, the tempera-
ture sank below zero. There is much suf-
fering in some portions of the Northwest.
WITHIN six months over 200 foreign glass
blowers have been compelled to return from
Pittsburg, Pa, to their native country, home
laborers having been given the preference.
THE war department has recently re-
ceived reports from Utah stating very I'M
settled condition of affairs on account of the
enforcement of the laws against polygamy.
A PET deer in Gunnison, Col, attacked
some ladies on the street, threw a baby-car-
riage into the air with its antlers and gored
and tramped on man who came to the res
cue. 1t was finally killed.
THE table of disasters to lake shipping
during 1885 is published. 1t shows that
sixty vessels were lost during the year, in
volving loss of 81, ole, 200 TWENTY-FIVE
were steam and thirty-eight sail vessels.
THE Chicago signal service reported the
temperature as one degree below zero there
Monday morning, while other reports made
it from eight to ten below. The tempera-
ture at Winnipeg was twenty below zero.
Two trains on the Brooklyn bridge
railway ran into each other and in the
smash-up six persons were badly injured
The failure of the grip to work ON the cable
is supposed to have been the cause of the
accident.
Mrs. GRANTS profits on the subscriptions
thus far taken for " Grants Memoirs - will
be $50S,000 The book was circulated or
Tuesday in England and Germany. France
and Italy will have the book next. The
second volume, which is larger than the
first, will be ready in March.
The Barnum Wire and Iron Works in De
troit, Mich, were destroyed by fire las
. week, the property loss aggregating S262, 900
The McGrau saw-mill at Bay City, Mich.
was burned last week, the loss reaching
$4,000. The spring factory of E. M. Welcf
at Forestville, Mass, was also damaged tC
the extent of $4,000 by fire last week.
TERRIFIC fires near Winfield Kansas, are
reported as a result of Fridays gales. Tn,
,, most destructive and continuous northeast
wind ever experienced in that section pre-
vailed. The cattle ranch of Towlin &
Webb in Indian Territory was entirely de
stroyed, with from four to six hundred cat
tie that were caught with no means of es
; cape. Five other ranches were destroyed.
DIR. CHARLES ID. BRADLEY, a Chicago physi
clan, has been taken to the Washngtoniar
Home mental and physical wreck, wrough
by the immoderate use of cocaine No
only the patient himself, but his entire fam
: lily have been ruined. Three of his children
: have been sent to st. Vincent's Hospital
and his wife and the remaining two children
: to St. Joseph's. 1t is considered doubtful
whether any of them will ever recover thei
normal condition.
u THE annual report of the life-saving serv
|
year the service embraced 202 stations. TIL
number of disasters to vessels during tn,
year was 256, and the vessels had ON boar,
e 2,2O6 persons, of whom 2,196 were saved
n The number of persons who received
succor at stations was 56S. The estimate,
J, value of vessels wrecked was $3,519, $50, an,
$ of their cargoes 81 ,084 ,905, of which amour
1882, 100 was saved.
l. Foreign.
&. The Carlists are organizing in Madrid.
d KING ALFONSO died in debt and had N
q life insurance.
y A BRITISH force in Egypt has defeate
v 1000 rebels near Giniss.
THE railroads near Quebec are becomin
!, blocked with snow-drifts.
J. THE funeral of the late King Alfons
II takes place at Madrid on the 18th instant
|, THE armistice between Bulgaria an
}, Servia has been prolonged until Jan. 18th.
\ MANDALAY advices say that riotng ther
- is such as to drive Europeans from the city.
The revoutionists in Peru are victoriou,
q General Iglesias has surrendered to Cacere,
n THE town of Msia, Algeria, has bee
q visited by an earthquake. Thirty-two PEI
V sons We're killed and twelve injured.
q THE occupation of Mandalay by the BIRTHS
If is officially confirmed They have estal
s. lished provisional government in vi,
torias name.
IS The Pope has written letter to tn