The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-21

insurance company was foregone have as
yet leaked out, but the incident has been
the occasion of much speculation Wash
ingtOn Paper.
THE New York Herdld says Narrowing
tales of the avariciousness of farmers are
told by snow-bound travellers who happened
to be thrown upon their tender mercies."
This was in New Jersey. But a stalled
train on the Boston & Albany road had
165 passengers who were fed by the country
folks and who refused to take pay for their
bounty. The passengers on train at Say
brook junction, Conn, were fed by the
farmers without charge to the former.
AT Ithaca, n. Y, horse ran away and
dashed through the door of a house in
which a family were sitting at breakfast.
The horse cleared the table in fine shape,
turned the cook-stove bottom side up and
plunged through chamber door upon the
sick bed of thirteen-year-old girl, very ill
with scarlet fever. Crawling between the
prancng legs of the thoroughly frenzied
animal, the girl managed to reach the street
in her night-dress unframed. She was
quickly blanketed and removed to the house
of neighbor. The interior of the house
looked as though it had been visited by
cyclone.
THE body Of the late Emperor William
lay in state in the cathedral in Berlin from
Saturday, March 10, until Friday, and was
viewed by hundreds of thousands of people
from all parts of the empire. The funeral
occurred on Friday. The thoroughfares were
filed with people. The procession was
most imposing. Emperor Frederick was
not present, the weather being too severe,
and Bismarck and Moltke were detained by
illness. Representatives of royal families of
England, Russia, Austria, Italy and other
countries attended the ceremonies. The mill
tary display was magnificent though somber.
Inter den Linden presented an extraordi-
nary spectacle-like the gloom of night at
midday. Everything was black-houses,
pillars, flags. The silence of the great
throng was unbroken. Every one remained
uncovered until the coffin had passed.
From a window of the salon overlooking
the park the emperor watched the process
sion. A peculiar effect was produced by
the silence of the funeral procession, which
was due to the strewing of pine branches
along the road. The remains were depos-
tied in the mausoleum at Charlotteburg.
A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred at
Blackshear, Georgia, on Saturday, caused
by broken rail under the baggage-car.
The baggage-car got off the track about a
quarter of a mile before it reached the
bridge at Hurricane river, the car mounted
the track and the train passed safely over
the bridge. Immediately on the other side
of the bridge is trestle several hundred
feet in length and when the baggage-car
struck the trestle-work it gave way. The
entire train, with the exception of the en-
CINE, dropped through, and with the excep-
| ton of one car was completely wrecked.
Twenty-three persons were killed and
thrty-five injured-a number dangerously.
Among the killed are w. A. Martin of the
Union News Company of Bridgeport, Ohio;
G. A. Fulton, master of transportation on
the Brunswick railway; f, p Thompson of
New York f. NJ. Smith, Pullman con-
ductor; Mrs. W. A. Shaw and daughter OF
Jacksonville, Fla, and j. II. Hurlbut OF
Philadelphia. Among the injured are j. A
Thomson, editor, of Jacksonville; George
Gould (son of Jay Could and wife; Samuel
Ames and wife of Providence, r. l.. e. p
Wilbur, president of the Lehigh Valley
railroad, and his two sons, and G.. f. But
! terfield of New York Fire broke out in the
baggage-car, but the flames were imme
! diately eXtinguished.