The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-22

runway was sofa recently 10 Jay GOulu 1Or
$4,000.
TwENTY-oNE persons have been sentenced
to imprisonment for taking part in the Bel
fast riots.
A space of -four acres in the town of Shen-
andoah, Pa, has caved in and wrecked
fifty houses.
THE London Post, in an inspired article,
warns Turkey against further coquetting
with Russia.
The post-office and seven other buildings
were burned at Ceres, n. Y, Thursday
Loss $4,000.
| SIXTY deaths from measles and fifty from
diphthera occurred in New York during
the past week.
THE Mexican congress has repealed the
law prohibiting bull-fghts, and the sport
will be revived.
| "A MAGNIFICENT programme is arranged
for the Montreal carnival to take place
early in February.
MCQUADE was sentenced to seven years
imprisonment and five thousand dollars fine
for accepting the bride.
A BAND of seventeen smugglers who were
hiding in cave near Vicenza, Italy, were
killed by an avalanche.
MEASLES are prevalent all over New York
city, and 800 cases and sixty-four deaths
were reported last week.
THE steamship Llanelly, sailing from
Liverpool, has foundered at Holyhead,
drowning twelve persons.
THE barque Atlantic of New Bedford was
wrecked off San Francisco Friday, and
twenty-five men were lost.
L. MOODY BoYNToN has presented plan
to the Haverhill, Mass, business men for
building a bicycle railroad.
A SINGLE sale of wheat was recently made
in Tehama County, CAL, the money pay
ment involved being 1925 900.
AT the burning of hotel in Pipestone,
Mimi, Rev. a. S. Orcutt a Baptist minis
ter, was killed by falling walls.
OVER 100000 pounds of bogus butter
have been taxed since the oleomargarine
law went into force, November l.
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, is on the verge
of starvation, and a subscription has been
started for his benefit in England.
PRESIDENT BARTLETT of Dartmouth Col
lege denies that he has forbidden students
from attending Unitarian services.
Nova SCOTIA schooner lost all its hands
at sea except boy named Patterson who
safely navigate the vessel into port
KRUPP has built gun that will throw a
ball weighing two tons and make a hole
through thirty-eight inches of solid iron.
PRINCE FERDINAND of Saxe-Cobourg
Gotha claims the Bulgarian delegation of
ficially offered him the crown of Bulgaria.
THE dsintegration of the order of the
Knights of Labor is more than suggested in
dispatches from st. Louis and Philadelphia.
SERVANT girls in Greenvile, Pa, have
formed a union to get increased wages.
They will boycott girls who won't join them.
The explosion of kerosene engine in
Paris killed two persons and seriously in
jured the inventor, who was experimenting
with it..
A SECRET society of negroes has, it is al
legged, been discovered in York county, s.
c., which has for its object murder and
robbery.
The Dakota constitutional convention is
now in session: also the so-called state
legislature which will ask recognition from
congress.
A SEVERE gale blew the roofs off build
ings in Rockland county, n Y. The snow
has drifted seven feet deep near Rock
land Lake.
AN amendment to the civil service law is
to be offered, striking out the clause dis
barring an applicant who is over forty-five
years of age.
IT is reliably stated that Count Won
Moltke, at a dinner, gave it as his opinion
that there will be no war while Emperor
William lives.
THE lockout at Cohoes, n. Y, has cost the
operatives $500 in lost wages, and they
| are returning to work on the terms of the
HEAVY snow-storms are reported in the
north of Spain. During heavy storm at
Marin church was unroofed and five per-
sons were killed.
CROP reports at Chicago indicate favorable
prospects for winter wheat, corn moving
well in Missouri, but slowly in Kansas, Ne
braska and Illinois.
REED, the embezzling treasurer of the
South Boston Horse Railroad Company, has
been sentenced to seven years imprison-
ment in the state prison.
A FAMILY consisting of six children and
| their parents were aSphyXiated by escaping
gas at Carrick- on-Suir, Ireland. Five chill
dren We're dead when found.
ADvIcEs from Mandalay say that an en-
gagement between the British troops and
natives has taken place near Pakoha, and
that 200 insurgents were killed.
MEssRs. O'BRIEN AND DILLON, and two
members of parliament less known, have
been arrested on charges of conspiracy to
defraud by acting as tenants trustees.
THE British ship just arrived at New
Orleans from Rio Janeiro reports being
surrounded by eighteen waterspouts in one
day, and that two We're dangerously near.
GEORGE r. BLANCHARD, representing the
! central association of railroads, says the
interstate commerce bill, if passed as re-
| ported, will bear hybrid and bitter fruit"
The steamer j. Nj. White, with cargo of
cotton, was burned at Pointe Couzee, La,
last week. Number of lives lost not fully
known; the cargo, valued at Sl50000, a total
! loss.
AT Kokomo Ind, gas was struck in well
| No. and III running the drill the gas was
| by some means ignited. A terrific explosion
followed aud thirty-fve persons were more
or less injured
BISMARCK will dissolve the reichstag and
consent to the increase of the German army.
| He, like all other German statesmen of note,
believes that great European war is almost
certain to break out next spring
OWING to a sensation caused by the attack
of ministers on the ballet in Chicago ope-
ratio managers invited them to come and
see if it was immoral. Seventeen went
Thursday night, most of them with their
wives, Few have publicly expressed an
opinion since.
THE English government is seriously
alarmed at the spread of the tenants and
unfair rent agitation in Ulster. The move
ment is spreading all over the province with
astonishing rapidity, despite the desperate
efforts of the " loyalist organization to
stop its progress.
A FLORIDA girl named Gauder was freed
by bear, and the animal climbed after her,
Her father was afraid to shoot, lest he
should hit the daughter. She had the dis
gushing southern habit of dipping snuff, and
spat in the bears face. He was disconnected