The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

sudden shock of her daughters death, two
weeks ago.
II is said that the 10000 liquor-saloons in
New York take S22000O per day, or $74,0O0,-
600 annually.
p. W. MosHECK, a master of ten lam
guages, died in the Erie Penn) alms-house
last Saturday.
A MARVELLOUS iron region is said to have
been developed on the west end OF the Mich
igan peninsula.
JOHN G. KrMBALL, his wife and three chill
dren were frozen to death in the recent
storm near Dodge City, Kansas.
FRoG-RAIsING is q new industry in New
York and Baltimore. Thousands are canned
and shipped to France annually.
FIRES: A large freight depot at Grand
Haven, Mich. loss $4,000 Eight build
ings at jackson, Miss. loss 100000.
THREE Massachusetts, towns will soon be
$50 years old-Springtield in May, Dedham
in September and Scituate in October
CONGRESS voted yesterday, almost four to
one, to increase the pension of widows of
soldiers from eight to twelve dollars per
month.
THERE was shower of dust at Austin,
Texas, last week. 1t came from clear sky
at four o'clock in the afternoon, and con-
tinued through half the night. A similar
phenomenon was witnessed eight years ago.
THE Ohio senate is now divided into two
bodies, because of their differences over the
Cincinnati election fraud cases. Efforts to
reach compromise have been made, but
the republicans will not consent that the
fraudulent senators shall vote on their own
cases.
EX-SENATOR DAVID r. ATcHIsoN of
Missouri, who died last week, aged seventy
nine, was twice president of the senate, and
was president of the United States for one
day, Taylor taking Office March 9TH He
was great pro-savery advocate in the
Kansas and Nebraska troubles.
THE statue of Daniel Webster, to be pre-
scented to the state of New Hampshire by
Benjamin p. Cheney of Boston, arrived in
| New York several days since. 1t is of the
purest Munich bronze, and is eight feet
high. 1t is to be dedicated the 18th of next
June, the anniversary of the battle of Bunker
| Hill. President Bartlett of Dartmouth Col
| lege has accepted an invitation to deliver
the address.
GREAT sectarian excitement prevails in
Joliet, ILL.,, owing to the arrest of six
| disorderly members of the Salvation
Army The city attorney, Protest
ant, refuses to prosecute the case. The
mayor, the chief of police and the city
officials are Catholics. The common council
the Salvationists have sued the city for ter
thousand dollars each for being dubbed by
the police
Foreign.
THE British regular army numbers POI 900
SERIOUS floods have prevailed in Southern
France.
ANOTHER revolution is threatened on the
Isthmus of Panama.
THE French have decreed protectorate
over Anam and Tonquin.
SEVERAL persons were killed in a labor
riot at Decaseville, France
THIS is the hardest winter Scotland has
experienced in twenty years,
GREECE shows signs of yielding to the de
mand of the Powers to disarm.
TwENTY-THREE Nihilist conspirators hav,
been arrested in st. Petersburg.
FIFTEEN steamers, representing 81 ,750, 900
are lying idle at Leith, England.
A DIABoLICAL plot to overthrow the gov
eminent of Guatemala has been discovered
BULGARIA agrees that, in case of need, sh,
will contribute $4,000 troops to the Turkisl
army.
BULGARIA has ordered the Servian frontie
closed to traffic. The Servians are great,
irritated by this action.
FREEMAN CLARK, an Indian-Spanisl
negro, died at Windsor, Ontario, last week
aged one hundred twenty-one years.
RUMoR says that the King of Greece will
abdicate. His people want war witt
Turkey and the great Powers of Europ
firmly insist that he avoid it.
ONE of the industries along the Shannon
river, in Ireland, is the capture and cultiva
ton of cells. The taking Of 1000 in singl
night sometimes occurred years ago; but tn
present product is much less, owing to tn
drainage of the country and other influences
PRINCE BISMARCK made a speech in tn
Prussian Landtag, Thursday, in which he eS
planned the reason for the government ex
pulsion of the Poles from Germany. He ais
announced that the government had deter
mined to buy up all the real estate owne
by Polish mobiles in Prussian Poland an
place German colonists on the lands hithert
occupied by the expelled people. Thu
undertaking will cost Germany $75 200, 600.