The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-24

press ltS SAFE. w. M llnknam vigorously
denounced oleomargarine. He said law
should be passed making the propretors of
hotels that used it display this sign; =" None
but spurious butter used here"
HINEsBURG adopted the town system of
schools in 1871, and the town, which was
nearly divided on the question then, is
practically unanimous now in favor OF the
system. Seven new schOo-houseS have
been built, the number of schools lessened,
the average number of weeks of school in
creased, the cost week to the town de-
creased and a uniformity in school-work has
been substituted. District quarrels have
disappear ed.-Erchdnge.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT DART has Sc
cured Mrs NJ. H. Hunt to deliver a lecture
before the educational institute to be held
at Northheld this week BY request OF
members of congress Mrs. Hunt has been
spending some time in Washington, in aid
of the scientific education bill, and comes
directly from that work to fill appointments
in this state, Northfeld, we believe, being
second on the list. Rev. Joseph Cook says
of her; Mrs. Hunt has always charmed
me whenever | have heard her address an
audience. She is both a pleasing and con-
vincing speaker. While she never loses her
thorough womanliness, her grasp OF her
subject is always strong. Vigor of 1udg-
ment, excellence of taste and great vivid
ness and grace of language appear to be
united in her with extraordinary symmetry
and elevation of womanly character l re-
joice that the cause of temperance has her
powerful advocacy"
Other Localities.
A FIRE in Pittsburg, Monday, caused loss
of 100000.
FoRTY-Two Cinnamon have been elected
from Oregon City.
THE Apaches have killed eight sheep
herders in Arizona.
THE New York fund for Mrs. General
Hancock has reached $2S,715.
MOODY AND SANKEy are meeting with
great success in New Orleans.
SEvENTY-FIvE Mormon converts have left
Chattanooga, Tenn, for Utah.
WAsHINGroN's birthday was celebrated in
New York, Boston and other cities.
STRIKES in Pennsylvania have compelled
st. Louis iron works to shut down for want
of coal.
THE house coinage committee voted, seven
to six, to report against the suspension OF
silver coinage.
EIGHTEEN persons were injured Monday
by an accident on the Buffalo & Phila-
delphia railway.
DURING the present month the treasury
department has paid out nearly S10,000,000
on account of pensions.
THE expulsion of Americans from China
is threatened if the Chinese now in this
country are driven out.
FIVE deaths from smallpox have occurred
at Fort Worth Texas and twenty-eight per-
sons are down with the disease
KENwARD PHILIP, a journalist who was
charged with the Morey letter forgery in
1880, died in Brooklyn on Sunday
A BLOCK of nine buildings was burned a t
Pittsburg, Penn, Saturday. A man per-
ished in the flames. Loss $4,000.
n 4 &C.,
the redemption of $4,000, 900 three per cent
bonds of the issue of 1882, to mature April 1.
The coke strike in the Connellsville,
Penn, region has ended in favor of the
strikers, the operators having granted their
demands.
LOUISE E. PERKINS has obtained $4,000
damages from e. j. Baldwin, the Califor-
mia millionaire, for breach of promise of
marriage.
BOTH sides in the Amoskeag strike at
Manchester, n. H., seem to have settled
down for siege, each expecting the other
to weaken
BRIEF services were held over the re-
mains of John B. Cough last Friday, and in
the evening they were placed on train for
Worcester where they arrived Saturday.
In the senate, February 18th, Mr. Morrill,
introduced a bill in aid of education in the
states. He said he intended, at an early op-
portunity, to address the senate on the bill
SAMUEL j. PIPER and Albert G. Herndon
life prisoners in the Albany penitentiary for
robbing a mail coach in Texas, have been
pardoned, in recognition of services rem
dered during an epidemic in that institution.
AT Parkersburg, West Virginia, loco
motive was left standing on a side-track,
when some scoundrel jumped into the cab
and pulled open the throttle. The engine
collided with a freight-tran, and five men
were terribly injured.
THE steamer Baden, loaded with turpen-
tine, resin and cotton, was burned at her
wharf in Wilmington, n. c., causing loss
of 81 5000 to property on the steamer and
wharves Several buildings in the vicinity,
including Methodist church, We're also
burned.
Foreign.
AN earnest war feeling still prevails in
Greece.
TURKEY will not grant any concession to
Greece.
GENERAL CALLEJA has been appointed
viceroy of Cuba.
Four leaders of the socialist mob in Lon
don are held for trial
THE Nova Scotia mines yielded $500 ,0OC
worth of gold during the past year.
THE British tories have resolved to OPP
pose any measure conceding home rule to
Ireland.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL was received
with great enthusiasm by the Orangemen in
Ireland.
THE revolutionists in Uruguay are max
ing preparations to seat their candidate for
the presidency.
RUMoRs prevail in Paris that plot ex-
lists to unite Spain and Portugal under the
Duke of Braganza.
THE ministry of Portugal has resigned
and the progressists have been summoned
to form a new cabinet
Mr.. GLADSTONE has officially announced
that on March ODD his Irish programme will
be laid before parliament.
| Mr.. PARNELL proposes to apply the Irish
church surplus not yet exhausted to reliev'
ing the distress in Ireland
THREE statues of women have been dis
covered in the excavations of Acropolis, al
Athens. They are in good condition.
THE Parnellites in the British house Of
commons are satisfied with Mr.. Gladstone's
statement on the question of legislation fol-
Ireland.
THE London socialists $4,000 strong, held
a meeting in Hydepark, London, on Sun
day. Violent speeches were made, but
| there was no rioting.
THE city of st. John was visited by a
tidal wave last Saturday, which submerged
| all the wharves and the floors of many stores
and did great damage.
A Barber's Invention.
According to the Chicago Inter Ocean, Mr.
| A. II. Godfrey, hair-dresser and dealer OF