The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-22
iality, after which the invited guests took

iality, after which the invited guests took
their leave.
JAMES MoRRIsEY was last Saturday Sc
verely bitten by dog. Securing n Ratchet,
Morrisey chopped the dog in such manner
as to leave 1t for dead, but the dog crawled
back to him and was again attacked by Nor
risey and thrown into the river. Mr.. Nor
riseys wounds, over dozen in number,
were thoroughly cauterized, and no trouble
from them is apprehended.
THE Pittsburgh Telegrdm says that Wy
man Macomber of Grand Isle ON Monday of
last week started from his home to go to
Port jackson in row-boat, and since that
time nothing has been heard from him. On
Wednesday the boat was found on the
shores of Isle La Motto overturned, and
later in the day an oar aud one of the bot
tom boards of the boat were found on Provi-
dence Island. On Monday night parties on
Grand Isle heard man calling for help,
and search was made, but no one could be
found, and it is supposed that it was Mr.
Macomber The missing man was about
fifty-five years of age, and recently married
Widow Vantine, whose husband was
drowned about two years ago while attempt
ing to cross from Plattsburgh to Grand Isle"
Other Localities.
CHARLESTON felt another tremor Friday
morning.
CHARLESTON has received S300,1 in re-
lief so far.
THE Charleston fund in Boston amounts
to over S66,000.
THE price of coal has been advanced very
materially in New \ ork.
A CHORUS of 5000 school children will
sing at the st. Louis exposition.
WHEAT is active and lower at Minneapolis
and flour sells freely at decline.
A GOOD average corn crop is now an
nounced for all parts of the country.
600 of the three per cent bonds of 1882.
JOHN CocHRANE has been nominated for
governor of Wisconsin by the labor party.
THE Pennsylvania greenbackers have
nominated Robert j. Houston for governor.
ABOUT 10000 of the new letter sheets are
sold every day at the New York post-ottice.
THE sugar crop of Louisiana is expected
to fall fifteen per cent below that of last
year.
THE health of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
is seriously affected by the death of her hus-
band.
The democrats of Minnesota have NOM
mated A. A. Ames of Minneapolis for gov
ernor.
GERONIMO admits that he has been de-
feated and will now keep peace with the
whites.
THE New Hampshire republicans nom
mated Charles II. Sawyer of Dover for
governor.
OTIS CLAP, senior member of the firm of
Otis Clapp & Son, Homeopathic pharmacists,
Boston, is dead.
AN lily constructed storehouse in Chicago,
containing 100000 worth of goods, crumbled
to pieces Sunday night.
EVERY one in Charleston needing food
and shelter has been provided for by the re-
lief committee thus far.
pyiSts on n farm in
Ridgeland, ILL.,, where more than one hun
dred cattle are exposed to it.
SHEEP are only worth fifteen cents per
head in Fayette county, Alabama, and hogs
are drug at ten cents per head.
THE First National Bank of Portland has
discovered that w. f. Gould, its cashier, is
defauter to the extent of $4,000
FARMERS have lost $4,000 worth of hogs
by cholera in the vicinity of Tolone, ILL.,,
and the disease is rapidly spreading.
IT will cost 81 900 and take six thousand
books of gold leaf to gild the great dome of
the Notre Dame University, Indiana.
THE relief committee of the New York
Chamber of Commerce has received for the
aid of the Charleston sufferers S7l, SS3.S1.
A VIOLENT wind-storm near Newport,
n H., lifted a barn from its foundation,
broke it in two and uprooted numerous
trees.
JOHN HUMoEMER, keeper in the Cincin-
natl geological garden while cleaning the
bears cage was attacked by a grizzly and
killed
GEORGE GOULD, the son of the millionaire,
was married last week at his fathers sum
mer house near Irvington to Miss Edith
Kingdom, an actress.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has
made large contracts to ship barley from
San Francisco to New York via the Isthmus
| of Panama the Erie Canal and tho prpat
lakes.
THE Cincinnati price currents report of
the corn crop of the country shows an aggre-
gate estimate of LOST, 0000 600 bushels, or
350,000,000 less than the official returns for
last year
A BAND of $50 Warm Springs and Chirica-
hua Indians, bucks, squaws and papooseS
from the San Carlos reservation arrived at
Jacksonville, Florida Saturday, guarded by
two companies of troops.
THE corps of United States engineers who
| have been examining the shattered houses
in Charleston, S. c., have found that nine
| tenths of the brick buildings have been
built of faulty material and in an utterly
! unsafe manner.
MORE rioting has occurred in Belfast. A
man and woman were killed.
THE Earl of Dalkeith was accidentally
and fatally shot while stag-hunting Sat
urday.
A wATERsPoUT has nearly destroyed the
| Austrian town of Kaschan and neighboring
villages.
THE three emperors have, It's understood,
agreed upon a settlement of the Bulgarian
question.
CHOLERA is raging to an alarming extent
in Corea; 1900 deaths are reported in one
city alone.
AN lily planned uprising by revolutionsts
in Madrid Sunday evening was suppressed
by the troops.
l AN attempt to assassinate Roum lnan
Prime Minister Bratiano has excited the
people of Bucharest.
THE rumor is now abroad in Europe that
England contemplates a coup detm with
Egypt as the subject-matter.
DE GIERs, the Russian premier, is re-
ported to have promised Bismarck that
Russia will not occupy Bulgaria.
THE convention of philosophers and sci
entists at Berlin is attended by about 1000
delegates from all parts of the world, in
Guiding America.
SERIOUS outrages have been committed
upon American missionaries in China, in
retaliation for the treatment of the Chinese
in the United States.
THE Severn (England) tunnel was opened
September /. Its length is four miles and
a third, and it has cost the Great Western
rail ,.r., IL