The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-18

HineSburgh, 500; Perry Miles, HlneSDurg,
$40; and Mr. Booth, buyer at Essex juno
ton, 5000.
other Localities.
Both houses of the Dakota legislature
have passed the woman suffrage bill
AT London it is reported that Minister Low
ell rendered his resignation some time ago
SEvESTy-sIx thousand people emigrated
from Ireland last year, a decrease of 10000
compared with 1855.
THE great railroad strike on the Gould
lines has been settled by yielding to the de-
mands of the strikers.
The treasury department has received
| specimens of counterfeit one cent pieces,
| believed to be extensively in circulation in
New York and vicinity. The counterfeit is
made entirely of copper.
SIR CURTIS MIRANDA LAMPsoN is dead.
| He was born in Vermont and went to Eng
land in 1890, and became naturalized. He
was knighted for services rendered in con-
nection with the laying of the Atlantic cable.
AMONG the mail of Mr. Villas, Friday, was
II letter from a postmaster in Iowa, inclos-
ing photograph and diagram of his leg.
| He said that he was afflicted with rheu-
matism as the diagram would show, and
thought he should be retained.
ORANGE raising in California has not been
| successful this year, prices having fallen as
low as thirty-hve cents a box in some in
stances. The fruit is not so large as usual,
| DuU eXc6llenL Ill IlhNOT, anu, InOuRD HOW
ripe, will be better if left on the trees till
| May. The lemons are large and fine.
A MICHIGAN man claims to have been mi
raculously cured of a rheumatism which
had made him helpless for many months.
His hired man was carrying hive of bees
through his room and dropped it. The pa
| tent is now an active member of society,
and says he is thankful to an inscrutable
| Providence"
| Mr.. GLADSTONE announced in the house
of commons, Friday evening, that an agree
ment had been reached between the govern
ment and the Russian officials, by which
| both powers pledge themselves to make no
further advances in Afghanistan, pending
negotiations looking to an amicable and
peaceful adjustment of the Russo-Afghan-
istan question.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued proc
| lamation ordering the " Oklahoma BOOM
ers " from Indian lands in the Indian Ter
ritory, and also warning all persons and
associations against any organized and
| forcible settlement upon said lands. If this
order is not voluntarily obeyed the military
power of the government will be invoked to
secure its enforcement.
In some Michigan towns the saoon-keep-
ers have resolved to boycott the owners of
skating Kinks, for the reason that their bust
ness is damaged by the attractions of the
rollers. They say that young men go to the
Kinks instead of the groggeries. Some of the
clergy and press, on the other hand, charge
that saloons spring up in the neighborhood
of the Kinks for the accommodation of the
skaters.
DAKOTA is only territory, but it has two
hundred seventy-five newspapers - more
than any New England state except Massa-
chusetts, or any eastern state except New
York and Pennsylvania In the number of
postoffices it ranks above twenty-three
states and territories, and it has popula-
ton as large as Nebraka or Connecticut,
and nearly twice as large as Vermont or
Florida.
THE horrible suffering of cattle in Kansas
is getting into print. 1t consists of starva-
ton and freezing. The streams have been
frozen to the bottom, and cattle, in crust
ling :" for water, have fallen on the ice, and,
too weak to rise, have frozen by hundreds.
Again, in a wind, cattle bunch in big herds
for warmth, the weakest being driven to the
center and crushed to death. Heaps of these
dead cattle dot the praries.
THE largest and finest memorial stone in
the Washington monument is the one pre-
| sented by the corporation of Philadelphia.
The stone sent by Switzerland bears this
inscription: This block is from the origi-
nal chapel built to William Tell, in 1888, on
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland at the spot
where he escaped from Gessler." Since it
was sent here the Historical Society of
! Switzerland has demonstrated that no such
persons as Tell and Gessler ever existed.
ANOTHER successful experiment with dyn-
| amite projectiles was made the 18th, with
| siX-inch guns, under the auspices of the
| senate military committee. A cavity thirty
feet in diameter was opened in target of
solid rock at distance of one thousand
yards, and pit six feet deep excavated.
Fragments of rock were hurled half mile
Military and naval experts present ex-
pressed the opinion that the shells fired
would have seriously racked the strongest
ironclad.
Mr.. HENGLER has successfully produced a
stag hunt at his circus in London. In the
first place, there was the usual meet, at
tended by about fifty or sixty ladies and
conference.-the former as well as the latter
attred in the scarlet uniform of their club
Then rode in the huntsman, followed by a
fine pack of yelping hounds, and at his
tally-ho the whole started in pursuit. They
disappeared through one entrance of the
ring, and presently, at the opposite entrance,
appeared the stag, the beautiful, timid crea-
ture seeming for a moment bewildered, but,
hearing the pack in full cry behind, swiftly
disappeared, only to appear again and again,
when hurdles, five-barred gates, hedges and
other impediments crossed his course, all of
which were cleared with natural ease The
hounds came after-the ma iority scrambling
through whatever openings they could avail
themselves of-others trying to jump over,
and not few coming to grief in the attempt,
all the while giving vent to that music so dear
to the ears of the hunting men. In proper
course the dogs were followed by the hunt
ing party. In conclusion, the captured stag
was borne in upon the shoulders of peasants,
and the scene concluded with sportsmen's
| phOruJ