The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

10 ID. Hatch and Edward Lyman of Bur-
lington and n. w. Fisk of Isle La Motto.
The directors subsequently organized by
electing these officers: Herbert Brainerd,
president; ID. ID. Ranlett, treasurer; e. G.
Smith, secretary. The company is in
prosperous condition.
IT is stated that the Perry boy who was
arrested for stealing hen and sent to the
reform school belongs to a family consisting
of the widowed mother, the boy, aged thir-
teen, and young child. 1t is said that
when he was arrested he had not sufficient
clothing to cover his nakedness and that
the family had nothing to eat and but little
fuel. He was arraigned before Justice
Brush, who is also overseer of the poor. 1t
is said on reliable authority that the princi-
pal reason why he was sent to Vergennes
was that the town would avoid providing
for his support Cambridge Cor. Free Press.
THE new bridge across White river, the
scene of the Hartford accident, was put to
a crucial test Sunday, which resulted salts
factorily. Twelve locomotives, extending
the entire length of the bridge, representing
a combined weight of four hundred eighty
tons, were run on it and stopped, causing
no appreciable depression. Next three
heavier moguls, weighing two hundred
sixty tons, were joined and run across at
different rates of speed, the quickest cross
ing being in twelve seconds and the highest
speed forty miles an hour. The greatest de-
preston was on the one hundred fifty feet
span, nine-sixteenths of an inch on the
fifty feet spans it was one-fourth of an inch.
The bridge is of iron, riveted lattice, with
modern safeguards, was built by the YER
mont Construction Company of st. Adams
and cost about $4,000.
THE Vermont copper mines were bid off
at auction on the 18th by F. NJ f. Casin of
New York for $4,000. Two thousand dol
lars were put up as forfeit Casn was man
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1882. The property includes 1,20O acres of
land, an extensive sulphuret of copper mine,
capable of producing 100000 pounds of
copper per acre. AT one time it was the
second mine in productiveness in the United
States. There are twenty-four smelling
furnaces in the building, which is 700 feet
long, a concentration mill, sixty-eght
dweling-houses, store, saw-mll, twenty
other buildings, a two hundred fifty horse
power hosting engine, four smaller engines
and an immense amount of machinery, tools,
etc. In 1880 100000 were offered for the
property 1t then employed 700 hands
Casin proposes to start mining as soon as
the water is pumped out of the mine There
is great rejoicing at Ely and West Fairlee.
In General.
THERE will be no carnival in Montreal.
SPEAKER CARLISLE is sick with congestive
chils.
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Texas.
MEXICO has negotiated loan of $50, 900 900
in Berlin.
THE population of Paris is said to, be on
the decline. -
COLORADO and Montana are suffering from
excessive cold
seven children.
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of the war party.
MORE earthquake shocks in South Caro-
lima and Georgia.
FIRE destroyed $4,000 worth of property
at Sioux City, Iowa.
Miss ADrNE DREW, the young actress,
died at Philadelphia.
LOUISIANA democrats nominated F. T.
Nichols for governor.
AT Chippewa Falls, Wis, Sunday night,
it was 6Oo below zero.
KENTUCKY reelected Senator Beck and
Iowa Senator Wilson.
EIGHT persons were killed in panic in a
church in South Tyrol.
ONE HUNDRED emigrants have started
from France for Dakota.
FRIENDS of the executed anarchists talk
of cremating their bodies.
Ex-PREsIDENT GREW has experienced a
second stroke of apoplexy.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany is better,
as is also the crown prince.
REV. ALFRED S. PATTON, editor and owner
of the Baptist Weekly, is dead.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH has fixed the salary OF
Rev. Lyman Abbott at $1,000.
THE president has appointed General
Bragg to be minister to Mexico.
JAMES G.. BLAINE has arrived at Venice
where he will remain some time.
THE number of deaths from smallpox in
Havana during December was 374.
GOVERNOR GRAY is the Indiana demo-
cratic candidate for vice-president.
MAssACREs of Christians are reported
from the province of Tukien, China.
A BIG fire has occurred at Detroit. Three
firemen were roasted. Loss $4,000.
REV. MR.. STURGEON refuses to reconsider
his resignation from the Baptist Union.
THE rumors of socialist designs upon the
life of the crown prince are unfounded.
INDIANAPOLIS has had great fire in the
business part of the city, Loss 100000.
V. B. HORTON, ex-member of congress,
died at Pomeroy, Ohio, aged eighty-tive.
The office of the EUening star at Kansas
City was burned Monday. Loss $4,000.
THE bodies of fourteen women have been
dug out of the snow near Fiume, Austria.
A PAPER-MILL at Manchester, Conn, val.
ued at $4,000, was burned Sunday night.
GRAVE fears are felt that the illness of the
German emperor may not result favorably.
GENERAL indications in the leading cont
mental capitals favor the maintenance OF
peace.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has reduced his
surplus by pedestrianism and frequent
drives.
Two young men We're killed and several
others injured by a coasting accident a.
Oswego.
THOMAS W. NIcHoL, private secretary o
the late President Garfield is at the poin
of death.
GRANDMA" GARFIELD is growing weaker
and it is thought that she can live but 8
few days.
IT is now announced that Russia will bt
satisfied with provisional government il
Bulgaria.
THEODORE Houston, well-known rail
road man, committed suicide in New Yorl