The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
Saturday. and the engineer and fireman

REV. THOMAS II. THAYER, D.D., leading
Unversalist clergyman of Boston, died Fri
day, aged seventy-three
THE flood at Fall River did $4,000 dam
age; near Norwich, Conn, $4,000; and at
Taunton, Mass, 100000.
SEVERAL of George @. Cannon's wives
have been required by the Salt Lake authori-
ties to give bail in $4,000 each.
AMONG the pall-bearers at General Han
cocks funeral were Generals Sheridan and
Schofeld and Secretary Bayard.
THE Mormons expect to complete their
great temple in Salt Lake City in about two
years. Its cost will be $300O,000.
JOHN b. GoUGH had stroke of apoplexy
Monday evening, while lecturing in Phila-
delphia His condition is serious.
THE hard winter has destroyed hundreds
of quail in Kansas. Whole coveys have been
found under the hedges frozen to death.
STEPHEN A. WALKER, formerly of Ver-
mont, has been nominated as successor to
District Attorney Dorsheimer at New York
A STRIKE of 5000 operatives in the Amos
keag mills at Manchester occurred Monday
morning owing to differences about wages
THE democrats of the fifth Wisconsin con-
gressonal district have nominated Thomas
r.. Hudd to succeed the late Joseph Rankin
in congress-
MANY thousands of dollars damage has
Brockton, Attleboro and other places in
Massachusetts.
TwENTY-FoUR valuable hunting horses
were burned to death in the club stable of
the Meadowbrook Hunt at East Meadow,
n. Y, last week.
AN aerolite weighing seven pounds, which
fell during a severe hail-storm few years
ago, has been presented to the state ge-
ologist of New York.
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leaving his family without means, sub
scription fund has been started in New
York in aid of his widow.
TWENTY years ago herds of thousands of
buffaloes roamed unmolested over the plains
of Kansas. Now they are bred for sale, and
calves bring over $50 each.
THE Buffalo On " Express reports that
at Fredonia, which is only forty miles from
Buffalo, natural gas has been used for light
ing for siXty-five years past.
The Masonic hall, public library and a
dozen other buildings in Princeton, Ind,
were destroyed by fire recently, the prop
erty loss reaching 100000.
The funeral of General Hancock took
place on Saturday, with large attendance
of distinguished persons, and the interment
occurred at Norristown, Penn.
IT lis asserted in Atlanta, Ca, that base
ball brought into that city last year about
SDU,UtU AT Une ledSU l0lS includes
purchases from arnica to zephyr.
The steamer Cambridge of the Boston g.
Bangor Steamship Company struck on Old
Mans Ledge off George Island, Maine, last
week. The passengers and crew were saved
AT st. Paul the ice palace has become a
mass of snow from which the turrets are
crumbling, and the statues and arches on
the streets are fading away literally. The
toboggan slides are useless.
A HERMIT in Franklin county, n. Y, who
called himself Pierre Grevy, and is sup
posed to have been the great uncle of Presi-
dent Grevy of France, was found dead in
his hut last week. He was 81 years old.
Two shareholders at Waco, Texas, who had
over thousand dollars booty, were over
taken on the train by two officers, who did
not suspect them but the robbers mstoolS
the officers for highwaymen and surrendered
their spoils voluntarily
FULLY 5000 people, headed by brass bands,
marched to the depot at Hastings, Mich, to
witness the simultaneous arrival of delayed
trains recently. Twenty-nine passenger
trains pulled into the Union depot inside of
thirty minutes. The blockade had lasted
ten days.
A LIVERY stable was burned at st. Louis on
Wednesday night. The employees directed
their efforts to save the sixty-five horses,
and had taken out seven, when two police
men, thinking them thieves dubbed them
into insensibility, and the remaining fifty
eight persisted in the flames.
THERE is now living on the Piedmont
road near Charleston, West Virginia, an old
colored woman named Clara Brown, who is
perhaps the oldest person in West Virginia.
OF course she well remembers seeing Cen
eral Washington. 1t was in Richmond that
she met the father of his country She says
he entered the kitchen of the hotel where
she was and spoke kindly to the cooks.
She says she is 100 years of age
LATER reports of the floods in the Rox-
bury district, Boston, state that 300 acres
were entirely submerged; 5000 people were
either driven away or compelled to occupy
the upper floors of their dwellings, and the
damage to property will reach fully 81 000,-
600. The floods are now rapidly abating
Railway traffic in the vicinity of Boston
was nearly suspended. No lives were lost
More than fifty important towns in Massa-
chusetts have suffered from the floods, and
the property losses in Rhode Island are
estimated at Sl,00O,000. Relief funds have
been started for the homeless families.
Two passenger trains on the Boston &
Lowell road-the night express from Roston
and a train from Lowell-collided in at
tempting to pass crossing at Woburn juno
ton, Friday evening. A tramp, who was
son, of Lancaster bank notoriety, had a COM
pound fracture of the left leg, which rendered
its amputation necessary Engineer Ham
mond, Firemen Dudley, G. G. Spencer lex
press messenger), A. M. Wells baggage mas
ter) and several others were more or less
severely injured. A dense fog prevailed,
and the express train was running about
twenty-five miles an hour, while the other
train was running slowly. The signals were
set for the express train but the engineer of
the other train either disregarded them or
did not see them on account of the fog.
IT is said that the Queen of Spain will
shortly abdicate
PARNELL predicts an early triumph of
the national cause in Ireland.
GREECE has informed the Porte that she
has no intention of attacking Turkey.
STRIKING operatives at Lancaster England,
INDUCED in considerable rioting Friday.
TURKEY and Bulgaria have both concluded
to forego their demand on Servia for indem-
nifty.
THE king of Servia has summoned the en-
tire army to enter the field, fully equipped
for war.
THE parliamentary contest in Galway,
Ireland, resulted in the election of Mr..
O'Shea by 1,042 majority.
THE Cummings House at st. George, On
tario, was burned Saturday; loss 100000.
| Two guests persisted in the flames.
| 1T is reported that the Servan king has
resolved to sign a treaty of peace with Bull
garia regardless of the Greek remonstrance.
A MOTION of lack of confidence in the
chamber of deputies by vote of 301 to 1888