The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-06

twenty-one years ago, died in Indiana the
other day.
THE Brooklyn bridge cars carried q ,G04,-
226 passengers from January 1, 1885, up to
December 81. These passengers paid in
fares S626, 1915.
THE warm weather has been bad for the
Staten Island florists, whose roses under
glass, have been so forced by 1t as to com
pei early cutting and selling.
SECRETARY MANNING has called for S10,-
OO0OO0 three per cent Unites States bonds,
issued under the act of July IL, 1882, pay
able on the LIST of February next.
STEAD e. Co.'S cotton-seed oil mill and
several thousand bales of cotton at Green
vile, Mass, were destroyed by fire, recently,
the property loss aggregating 100000
RECENTLY, at the Flynt Granite Quarry
in Monson, Mass, q slab 354 feet long, three
or four feet thick and eleven feet wide was
successfully separated from the main ledge
THE completeness of the work done by
the earlier astronomers is shown by the
fact, recently stated, that out of the 5000 or
more nebulp now known the HerSChelS had
discovered 1000.
THE Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis rail-
road, narrow guage, was sold at Indiana
polis recently, under foreclosure of mort
gage, for S1,501 900, to Sylvester A. Knee
land of New York.
THE commissioners of Ohio to the New
Orleans exposition obtained large amount
of floor space and an appropriation of $1,000
from the managers. Their sole exhibitor is
a man who peddles Ohio cider.
CONTAGIOUS diseases have excited the
people of Fairhaven, Mass, to such de-
gree that the horse cars carry two bags of
camphor as dsinfectantS, one at each end,
placed there by the board of health.
UNDER instructions from the war depart
ment, United States troops from California
and Nevada have been sent TO Arizona to
protect the Indians on the San Carlos reser-
walton from attack by white settlers.
BETWEEN the towns of Barnstable, Sand
witch, Falmouth and Plymouth, Mass, there
is tract of brush and woodland which can
be safely estimated at not less than $4,000
acres, on which there is hardly house.
In November San Francisco stood first in
the country in the export of barley and
wheat, and third in flour, New York and
Boston leading her in this For the eleven
months of 1885, however, she stands second
in export of breadstuffs and grain, only
New York leading her.
1.-TWO French women recently demon
strated the rate at which women can talk In
three hours time one champion, reading from
Eugene Sues fuelliton, pronounced 203,560
words. She was defeated by her adversary,
who succeeded in jabbering 28,311 words
during the same time. '-BoSton Journal
We may be considered insane if we question
the veracity of any statement concerning
the linguistic abilities of woman, but twenty
four words per second, according to the rate
above given, seems such an abnormal num-
Der as to be beyond even her capabilities.
Foreign.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's correspondence amounts
to 5000 letters per month.
NJ. DE FREYcINET has been summoned by
President Grevy to form new French min
istry.
GREAT excitement prevails in the state of
Colima, Mexico, over an eruption of the
volcano of Colima.
KossUTH thinks there is impending a war
between Austria and Russia for supremacy
in the Balkan peninsula.
New ZEALAND, with population of about
100000 has debt of nearly e31 100000, or
over $3.50 for each inhabtant.
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has inn
parted scheme of church reform in En-
gland to the bishops of the church
THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the access
sion of Emperor William to the throne of
Prussia was observed quietly Sunday.
The British government will oppose the
construction of a tunnel under the English
Channel between England and France.
IT is said that Mr.. Gladstone is awaiting
the production of the local government plan
of the conservatives before revealing his
own scheme.
The British steamer, Sidonian, from Leg
horn for New York, has been sunk off SYRIA
cuse, Sicily. Her passengers, crew and
valuables were saved.
THE proclamation announcing the annex
alton of Burmah to the British empire was
read at Rangoon last week Thursday. En-
gland cedes part of Upper Burmah to China
THE British forces in the Soudan. under
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Stephenson, have cap
vii nf of for N In
hours engagement completely routing the
rebels.
AN experiment is being tried at Ports
mouth in England with the object of deter
mining the practicability of applying liquid
fuel as a steam generator to men-of-war.
The fuel consists of creosote, which is pro-
durable at a penny gallon.