The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-08

the city was in their possession during the
rebellion.
OVER three hundred seventy-fve candi-
dates applied for admission to Harvard Col
lege this year.
GOVERNOR ROBINSON will he the guberna-
torial candidate of his party in the coming
Massachusetts election.
THE total receipts of the United States
treasury for the last fiscal year are about
nine millions below the estimates.
A TwELvE-poUND colt, which is perfectly
formed and doing well, is the pride and
astonishment of an Indiana farmer.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS cele-
brated the Fourth of July by an afternoon
reception at his residence in London
TEXAS is just now doing wholesale bust
ness in the lynching line. Eight hangings
were reported one morning last week.
A VERY bitter war between the prohibit
tionsts and the anti-prohibitionists has been
in progress at Armourdale, Kansas, for sew
eral months past.
THERE have been six thousand four mer-
camille failures throughout the country dur
ing the past six months, with aggregate liza
bilities of S740O0,0OO.
THE Ute Indians threaten to make an at
tack on the Mancos and Dolores settlements
in Colorado, and an appeal has been made
by the whites for state protection.
AT Toronto, Hanlan gave an exhibition
of walking on the water with galvanized
iron shoes of his own invention. His gait
resembled that of a man walking through
deep snow.
MALCOLM HAY has rendered his resignation
as first assistant postmaster-general. The
president has accepted it and appointed ex-
Congressman A. K. Stevenson of Illinois to
succeed him.
A REDUCTION of one hundred nineteen
Al. ~.
craving and printing at Washington was
made recently, effecting saving in salaries
of over 200 per year.
IT is understood that Mr.. Kelley, recently
appointed minister to Austria, will not be
recalled. He will go to Vienna, and, should
the Austrian government refuse to receive
him, it is intimated that the United States
government will remain unrepresented at
the Vienna court.
LUCILLE YsEULT DUDLEY. who was tried in
New York, last week. for assault on ODono-
van Rosa, was acquitted, on the ground of
insanity, by the jury in five minutes after
the charge was given. Sac has since been
taken to an insane asylum, where she will
be confined for an indefinite period
SECRETARY WHITNEY, in revoking the or
der of eX-Secretary Chandler in relation to
officers attached to cruising vessels having
their families with them, says he does not
assume to question the existence of some
evil which the order was intended to rem
edy, but that it was found impossible to en-
force it.
In North Carolina where the legislature
recently appropriated $4,000 for the benefit
of disabled soldiers who had served in the
confederate army, on the supposition that
there would be about one thousand appli-
cants, each of whom would receive $50 over
three thousand applicants have already pre-
sented their claims and it is thought that
the whole number will reach four thousand.
If this expectation is realized, each disabled
veteran will receive the municent gift
of $50.
A NEW thing in electrical inventions is
the electric-light carriage, or telpherage"
system, which is being experimental with
in Philadelphia. The idea is to transport
packages up to eight hundred or one thou
sand pounds in weight upon cables strung
on wires, like electric light wires, by means
of electric motors. Two cables are used,
one above the other, the package being sus
pended from the upper and steadied by the
lower, and the cables serving as conductors.
The invention is English and is said to be
in use in South American mine. The Gin
cinndti Commercial Gazette wants this sys-
TEN tried upon the towering masts which
raise the telegraph and telephone wires
high above the business streets of that city,
and the imaginative editor even sees-in his
mind-a network of private lines reaching
out to the surrounding hills, by which bust
ness men shall speed between Fourth street
and their suburban homes, each in his own
wire cage. Travelling "by actual lightning
express the enthusiastic Halstead calls it.