The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01

HE IennSylNHUl6 DTOnlDlulOu1SIS nOlh-
mated G. f. Wolfe for governor.
THE temperature in the West last week
is reported to have been 1862 in places.
THE Michigan state republican convention
nominated Cyrus g. Luce for governor.
A HEAVY thunderstorm at Rochester,
N. Y, Monday, caused loss of $4,000.
| OREGON has this season sent to the East
ern States daily ten carloads of salmon.
THE Mississippi pours into the Gulf of
Mexico annually 100000 600 tons of dirt.
BRIGADIER-GENERALJ JOHN NEWTON of the
army has been retired at his own request.
REV. S. T. l.. SHIPMAN, the oldest Congre-
gational clergyman in Connecticut, Is dead.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina, was badly
shaken by an earthquake Friday and Satur-
| day.
ROGER SHERMAN publisher of the Ency-
| clopRdia Britannica, has died in Phi1adel-
phia.
THE California republican state conven-
ton has nominated John f. Swift for gov
ernor.
FOUR millions of letters are received an
nually at the dead letter Office at Wash
ington.
THERE were over 10O,OOOOOO pounds of
oleomargarine made in the United States
last year.
THE Texas republican state convention
nominated A. M. Cochrane of Dallas for
governor.
THE President has gone into the Adiron-
dack back woods, out of the reach of the
telegraph.
A VEIN of gold quartz was uncovered by
cloud burst at Pine Grove, Nevada, a
week ago.
HoG-CHoLERA is carrying off hogs in Madi-
son and adjoining counties in Indiana by
| hundreds.
PROFESSOR Cook of Cambridge accident
ally shot himself at Chatham, n. Y, and
died soon after.
EVERY time the roll is called in the house
of representatives at Washington it costs
the country $500.
The New Hampshire veterans camp at
Weirs, n. H., was visited by 5000 people
last week Thursday.
CoLoRED men propose to raise $1,000, 900
for monuments in Washington to the bene-
factors of their race
The Hudson river steamer Daniel Drew
was burned to the waoer's edge Sunday
while at her moorings.
MANY of Riels half-breeds are causing
considerable trouble to the Canadian and
United States land officers.
BAYOU SARA, in the upper portion of st.
Francisvile, La, was burned Friday. The
loss is estimated at $11S,000.
THE estimate of the Michigan peach crop
between Laketown and South Haven is
placed at 100000 baskets this season.
CRATER LAKE, in Oregon, has been ex-
plored, and it is believed to be the deep
est body of fresh water on the continent.
MADGE DoLARo, a handsome Chicago girl,
has gone to New York, where she will make
an attempt to jump from the Brooklyn
bridge for purse of 1000.
THE crop reports from the West show
some improvement in the corn belt and that
wheat is still suffering for want of rain.
Hog-cholera prevails to some extent in Hi
nois.
THE St. Paul ice carnival of 1887 was born
yesterday, says the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
1t was voted by the board of directors to
hold carnival beginning January 17th to
run not less than three weeks.
REV. JAMES c. BEEcHER of Cos Cob, Conn,
brother of Henry Ward Beecher and Rev.
Thomas X. Beecher of Elmira, N Y, COM
mitted suicide at the water cure last week
by shooting himself through the head with
a small rifle. He had been suffering under
severe mental troubles for number of
years.
A SUBMARINE torpedo boat tested in New
York has proved a practical success, diving
under the water and traversing quarter of
a mile before rising. Two men manage the
boat and have compressed air and cleo
trio light for their aids. The Peace
maker" as it is called, is thirty feet long
and shaped like cigar.
The bones of mastodon were dug up
near Milan, Mich, a few days ago. The
measures are as follows: One part of tusk
broken 81 inches long, IA inches in crcum
ference, femur, 40 inches; two bones of hind
leg, "a inches; short ribs, laid out from seq
ment of vertebra, 46 inches apart, "a inches
long; spine of dorsal vertebra, II inches
long a tooth, 12l inches across top, 81 inches
wide, inches deep. Many parts of the
skeleton were lacking.
THE national agricultural convention, tC
be held at the Continental Hotel, Philadel
phia, Penn, September 14th and 18th, viii
be the largest and most important gather
, ing of dairymen, live stock breeders an(
5 general farmers ever held as it is to bt
/: a congratuatory meeting over the success
l of the oleomargarine bill in congress and tt
: take counsel for the further promotion o
the interests of agriculture by legislation
Delegates will be present from the differen
3 state and county agricultural and dairy as
9 socations and oranges, and the friends o
8 agriculture in general All interested il
a the object and work of the American agri
+ cultural and dairy association are cordial,
= invited to attend For cards of admission
address the secretary, f. X. Moreland, 16
: Chambers street, New York city.
!, Foreign.
a PRINCE ALEXANDER arrived at Tirnovf
= Monday and issued manifesto.
THERE nave been TWO erupJlOnS OF NeSu
vius, and the volcano is still very active.
n The French ship LEtoile has bee
e wrecked and twelve of her crew drowned
h MICHAEL DAvITT, in a speech at Escanabs
S predicted bloodshed in Ireland next winter
d SERvIA has made an alliance with Blu
. garia in consequence of the recent event
y in the latter country.
n In railway collision eight miles fror
8 Vienna seven persons were killed ant
II twenty-five wounded.
,. RECENTLY published English record
T. show that there are 725000 more female
II than males in England.
SEVEN lives were lost by the burning of
d factory in the City of Mexico Friday. Tw
d of the victims were Vrginians.
4, The Congregational Baptist and Evar
;, gelical Union association gave breakfas
d to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at Glasgo'
l. Monday.
n AFTER a hail-storm in Shantung China
,r large hailstones laid inches deep over seN
n eral square miles. Villages were destroye
l. by the tempest.
II CHOLERA is raging terribly in Japal
ID the mortality being greater than in til
s. plague of 1882. The death-rate in two cite
I'd for the last few days has averaged three hun
ii dred cases daily
Is THE adherents of Prince Alexander seeI
to be determined to replace him on I'll
throne. Their provisional government Ia
ia issued a proclamation calling for the alleg
in aupa of Rulpariaus