The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-15

AN attempt has been made to wreck the
cars summer palace at Bucharest with
dynamite.
f. X. BRAzIEN e. Co., fancy goods mer-
chants of Montreal, assign, with liabilities
of $4,000.
RIOT among unemployed mill hands at
Amsterdam n. Y, was summarily stopped
by the police.
ASIDE from the tariff debate, the proceed
ings in congress the past week have been of
little interest.
CHARLES WARNER, the author of fifty-two
inventions, was committed as vagrant in
New York Friday.
PRESIDENT BARTLETT of Dartmouth Col
lege fell and broke his right arm near the
shoulder Thursday
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
road shops at Aurora, ILL.,, were damaged
100000 by fire Sunday.
PRESIDENT SIMoNs of the First National
Bank of Fort Wayne, Ind, killed himself
Friday, as a result of overwork.
IT is said that the President threatens to
call an extra session, unless there is action
on the tariff and silver questions.
LAKE CHAMPLAIN is closed from White
hall north to opposite Port Henry, and from
Rouses Point south to North Hero.
THE steamers Kilawarra and Helen Mich
| oil have colided off Queensland, resulting
]
THE first vote in the Georgia legislature
upon the temperance issue resulted in sixty
! four " wet " votes to twenty u" dry ones.
A HOT fight in the courts at Sioux City,
| Ia, between temperance societies ana Sa-
loon keepers has been won by the former
II. X. Cross, postmaster at Bombay,
| n. Y, has been arrested for forging some
$4,000 worth of notes held by local banks.
A NUMBER of Tuareks have captured the
! fgrtr ut 1nt int ha Sab md
cred one hundred members of the garrison.
DIR. JAMES A. MILNE of Oswego, n. Y,
who was killed by being caught in shaft
in his mill, was born in Orange, VT, in 1Si5.
THE Bulgarian government has replied to
the Porte that Bulgaria will never accept
Prince Nicholas of Mingreia for the throne.
A LILE-BoAT has been wrecked at South
port, England while endeavoring to relieve
a distressed vessel, and thirteen persons
| drowned
THE Union Pacific is changing its clocks
and watches so as to register up to twenty
four o'clock. The new system goes in force
January LIST.
AT Philadelphia Archbishop Ryan an
nounces, under the DEGREES of the Baltimore
plenary council, that balls for charitable
purposes are prohibited.
A LONDON lady died last week, leaving
f10, 600 to dogs home at Battersea, while to
family, was left f100 as legacy.
AN explosion occurred in Hazlett & IN
derhill's playhouse and box factory, East
Cambridge, Mass, Saturday, injuring seven
men, three of them reported fatally.
THE Lake Shore switchmen in Chicago,
who struck last simmer, are now anxious
to get back to work. They have been black
listed and cannot get work elsewhere.
The track spread under an express on the
Wisconsin, ('pptra1 Nppnan Thursday
and threw the cars off a sharp curve. A
fire ensued and several lives were lost.
AT conference of liberal unionists in
London recently Mr.. Gladstone's course
was sharply criticized in letter from John
Bright and a speech by Lord Harrington.
A CABLE car in Cincinnati got loose and
ran down heavy grade, plunging over an
embanlment. All the passengers, includ-
ing baby, were badly bruised, but none
! killed
ARCHBISHOP WALSH of Ireland has
warned the government that the hostile
popular feeling against it will be increased
if it continues to pack juries to convict
Irishmen.
A HUNDRED female Russian students, who
attended the funeral of prominent liberal
lately have been deprived of their pass
ports, and several have been expelled from
st. Petersburg.
THE will of Charles Francis Adams has
been probated. With the exception of
bequest to the Unitarian church at Quincy,
his estate, estimated at 81 ,25000 is divided
among his family.
THE explorer, Ludwig Wolff, just returned
\ to Brussels from the Congo, reports having
met in the Sankeurou region many tribes of
dwarfs generally measuring less than four
feet, beardless and with short and woolly
hair.
AMONG the public requests in the will of
Mrs Caroline Wood of Cambridge, Mass,
is one of $4,000 to Wellesley College, one
of $4,000 to Bates College and one of $50
600 to found an old ladies' home in Cam
bridge.
THE New York Daily Commercial bulletin
estimates the November fire loss in the
United States and Canada at $4,000, 900,
which is an increase of one-third upon the
November average since the Boston lire
in 1872
DIR. LINCOLN, the regular medical attend
ant of President Arthur during his resi-
dence at Washington, is quoted as making
the startling statement that three times dur
ing that time Mr. Arthur lay at the point
of death.
PROFESSOR WOODROW, professor of sci
ence and revelation in the South Carolina
Presbyterian Seminary, has been removed
} by the concurrence of synods in Georgia
Alabama, Florida and South Carolina, fol
} teaching evolution.
RouMANIA, Bulgaria and Servia are on
the eve of signing an offensive and defen
; sive convention, by the terms of which each
is to have identical rights and the disposal
in event of war, of the combined army OF
the three countries comprising 100000 men
THE general council of the Fenian brother
hood has issued an address in reply t.
O'Donovan Rossa's recent statement.
charges him with various disreputable trans
actions and denounces him as the cause o
all the brotherhood's troubles in recen
years.
The Indiana circuit court has decided
against State Senator Smith, the democra
; who claims to be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, anC
; in favor of the recently elected republican
, candidate. The case now goes to the su
e preme court. AS the legislature is very clos
f much depends on the presiding officer of thu
senate
DECEMBER returns of average farm price
q by counties show material reduction, a
compared in values of the crops of 1885, il
wheat, rye and barley. Corn has made al
advance nearly equivalent to the percent
age of reduction in quantity. Oats, in sym
II pathy with corn, rather than with small
grains used for human food, averag
II slightly higher than last year.
A MAGNETIC disturbance of great intensit
|, was noted in Rochester, n. Y, Wednesda
noon A magnetic needle two feet lon
" moved over an arc of five degrees. TIL
" motion of the north pole of the needle wa