The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-04

EDWARD .. 1RATT OF mODlle mas Debn
nominated as resident minister to Persia.
THE Wisconsin prohibition convention
has nominated John M. Oit for governor.
GENERAL GORDON received the nomina-
ton of the Georgia democrats for governor.
A FARMER and his pair of horses were
killed by lightning at North Hatfield, Mass.
GEORGE A. jerks of Pennsylvania has
been nominated for United States solicitor
general.
BYRON BABoocK of North Gouveneur, N.
Y, was killed while unloading hay with
horse-fork on his farm.
A TUNNEL 1900 feet long is being cut
through the hill at Bridgeport, Conn, for
new water-works system.
A STEAMSHIP has arrived in New York
which is intended to transport petroleum
across the Atlantic in bulk.
CASHIER PrERsoN of the American Bap-
fist Publication Society is alleged to be an
embezzler to the amount of $4,000
A BOHEMIAN laborer in Pittsburg was
poisoned by eating dog meat Other Bohe-
mians who have been fattening dogs to kill
are scared
SANTA ANNA, Cal, is infested by band
of wild dogs, large and ferocious. which at
night roam through the town, killing chick
ems and hogs.
A SPIRITED prohibition campaign, under
Ulle PROVISIONS OF Ine lOcHl-ODUlOn law
enacted by the last legislature, is being
waged in Mississippi.
THE Grand Army boys as they daily pass
through Salt Lake City, hold meetings and
make speeches to the Mormons which agi-
tate those gentry much.
NATURAL gas has been discovered twenty
five miles from Louisville, KY, and COM
pany has been formed to pipe the gas to
that city and other places
BODY found in Lake Erie on Thursday
is believed to have been that of Rudolph
Schnaubelt, who threw the bomb at the Hay
market in Chicago May 4th.
A PLEAsURE-YAcHT from Philadelphia up
set in squall at the Sandy Hook entrance
of New York harbor Friday, and six ladies
and one gentleman were drowned.
AT Portland, Dakota, the estimated loss in
grain ruined by Fridays hail-storm in that
section will reach 100000 bushels, which at
the present price means loss of S450,0O0.
AT the Connecticut prohibition conven-
ton Rev. Samuel Baker Forbes of Rockville
was nominated for governor and Phineas p.
Anger of Middlefeld for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
EDITOR AND POSTMASTER RATTIGAN of
Petrolia, Penn, was horsewhipped by twelve
women for disparagng talk in his newspaper
about the women's temperance work and
their picnic.
THE train bearing General Logan, Gov
ernor Alger and a number of Grand Army
men to San Francisco met with terrible
accident in Utah. All the passengers, how
ever, escaped with their lives.
IT has transpired that the recovered mail
bags on board the lost steamship" Oregon "
contained much dutiable matter, and here
after more vigilance will be employed to
prevent this plan of smuggling.
THE storm of hail, wind and lightning at
Eagle Bridge, n. Y, Thursday night as
sumed the proportions of a hurricane.
There is an area of about mile square on
which $4,000 will not cover the loss.
The country around Albany, n. Y, has
suffered severely from electric storms, and
many head of cattle have been killed.
Many barns We're set on fire and totally de-
stroyed Several lives were also lost.
IT has just come to light that the last
legislature of New York enacted law ex-
empting from taxation the assets of all for
eign and domestic marine and fire insurance
companies doing business in the state. The
promoters of the scheme are it is said, to
have half the money saved to the companies.
A POSTAL car which left New York for St.
Louis June 2Sth had among its mail pouches
one for st. Louis, which contained about
$4,000 in money, drafts, bonds, cheques
and other valuable papers, and property
valued at $4,000; The pouch is missing,
and it is believed it was stolen between
New York and Pittsburgh by a number OF
clerks who have since left the service.
THE Southeastern, Boston & Portland
express train of four passenger coaches had
narrow escape from a serious accident,
Saturday morning near Montreal p. @.
The Lachine canal bridge was partly open
and the Westinghouse brake gave out.
| The engine was precipitated into the water
and the first car, containing a few passen-
gers, went on until the front wheels rested
on the back of the tender. The rest re-
manned on the track and the passengers,
though much frightened were unhurt.
Foreign.
THE electric light has been introduced
into Chilli
CHOLERA is spreading at Rome and other
points in Italy.
TURKEY is said to be largely increasing
her armament.
! EVANS, prize fighter was killed in Wales
| after thirty-two rounds.
CHINA has conceded to the English the
right to occupy Burmah
SoUDANEsE rebels are reported to have
destroyed the city of Khartoum.
HANDBItLs demanding home-rule are be
ing circulated throughout Wales.
RIoTING was renewed in Belfast on Satur
day, with the usual number of casualties.
CANADA denies having sent vessels o
provisions to the distressed Labrador fisher
men.
The Peruvian government has revoked
its DEGREES which were favorable to TIN
Jesuits.
TWENTY persons are said to have beer
killed and eighty wounded during the riot'
in Amsterdam.
IT has transpired that Germany has beer
secretly training carrer-pigeons in France
for war purposes.
India one hundred Hindoos lost their live
and many were injured
FoREPAUGHs circus train was throw
from the track in Nova Scotia and severa
cars of animals overturned.
CHINESE pirates killed three officers of
Dutch steamship and took the others cap
tive, demanding $4,000 ransom.
The Spanish government will buy the re
naming 10000 slaves in Cuba, thus crown
ing its work of the abolition of slavery.
NEGOTIATIONS are proceeding betwee
England and France looking to the with
drawal of French troops from the New Hell
rides.
THE craze for collecting Cancelled postag
stamps is so extensive that a single hous
in Nuremberg last year sold 23,00O000 @
them.
THE reports of death by starvation i
Newfoundland are contradicted by the S
Johns correspondent of a Halifax new
paper.
A BALLOON containing an aeronaut an
an astronomer, both Frenchmen, success
, fully made the voyage from Cherbourg {
London.