The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-29

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New Hampshire sent paper on Duty in
Camp" and Surgeon Rutherford read
another on The Importance of Organiza-
ton, Ambulance Corps and Suggestions on
Cuisine in Camp" Lieutenant Leary ofsthe
Fourth Artillery sent paper on artillery
practice. The Barlow Grays gave dinner
to the officers and guests in the armory.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Harrington,
McGettrich, Gibbs, Captain Reed, General
Greenleaf and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Fuller,
and music was furnished by DR.. Sheerars
glee club Colonel Stranahan gave pleasant
reception to Governor Ormsbee and staff, to
which the officers and large company were
invited. The school closed Thursday. The
morning session was devoted to instruction
in guard duty. Lieutenant Hoyt exemplifed
the manual of the sword. Governor Orms-
bee was present and made an address to the
officers. A vote showed that the officers
were largely in favor of new uniforms of
blue. The next annual muster will prob
ably be held either at Newport or Essex,
the former being the choice of most of the
officers. 1t is probable that the legislature
will be asked to change the time for holding
the muster to an earlier date, perhaps in
June.
In General
EMPEROR WILLIAM is feeble.
MANITOBA Indians are starving
SWITZERLAND will remain neutral
AN increase in Irish immigration is ex-
pected.
TURKEY complains of persecution by the
Greeks.
THERE was a S25OOOO fire at Buffalo
Sunday.
PARLIAMENT will consider the evils of
pugilism.
A COMET is reported from the southern
hemisphere.
PROFESSOR w. r. BROOKS of Madison
University is dead.
SECRETARY WHITNEY aspires to be gov
ernor of New York.
The Wilsonvile, Conn, mills were
burned. Loss $4,000.
LORD LONDONDERRY will resign the lord
lieutenancy of Ireland
The London Standard thinks Russia will
get a fresh rebuff or war.
FIRE insurance rates in Montreal are in
creased over twenty per cent.
THE snow-storms in England and France
are of extraordinary violence.
SERIOUS floods in western Massachusetts,
were caused by the recent thaw.
Two Illinois farmers have expended
81, $50 in lawsuits over pig worth 49,
MONEY contributions are needed for the
cyclone sufferers at Mount Vernon, Ill.
HEAVY snow-storms continue throughout
Europe, causing general stoppage of traffic
BY an explosion of dynamite at Duluth,
Mimi, eighteen men were injured, eight
fatally.
SIXTEEN passengers were injured by an
accident on the Canadian Pacific last
Thursday.
BY the explosion of ferry boat at South
Vallejo, CAL, thirty or forty persons lost
their lives.
Four women were killed and sixteen
n he m in of
synagogue.
RoUMANIA has been notified that Austria
will consider Russian invasion of Roumania
cdSuS beW.
A BILL to pay pensions of $50 per year to
ex-confederate soldiers passed the Mssis-
sippi senate.
KNOXVILLE CoLoRED COLLEGE. Tenn, has
been closed on account of an epidemic of
typhoid fever.
FRED L. AMEs has bought the fremont
House, Boston, of j. Montgomery Sears for
about 100000.
Hon. OLIVER PILLsBURY, insurance COM
missioner of New Hampshire, died at Con-
cord last week.
ENGLAND is liable to have a brush with
Venezuela over reported encroachments in
the latter country.
THE New Hampshire Conference Semin-
airy at Tilton has closed for four weeks on
account of scarlet fever.
MAJOR SAUNDERsoN declares that the
men of Ulster will never submit to be regned
over by the nationalists.
IT is asserted that there were AZ, 900 deaths
from smallpox on the island of Cuba be-
tween May and January.
In the house of commons Lord Salisbury's
foreign policy was attacked by Labouchere
and defended by Gladstone.
JOHN c.. New of Indiana says Senator
Harrison is the choice of the republicans of
the Hoosier state for president.
WINTER wheat, where not covered by
snow, has been damaged by freezing. Other
sections show favorable condition
DAIRY COMMISSIONER BROWN of New
York reports that he has well-nigh banished
imitation cheese and butter from his state
WESTERN capitalists are planning to
bridge Behring's strait and run a railroad
from Minnesota to Pekin, ten days jour
ney.
steam engine manufacturer, died at Provi-
dence, r. L., last week, of paralysis of the
heart.
TURKEY is ready to tell Prince Ferdinand
that he is no longer wanted in Bulgaria as
soon as the other powers request her so
to do.
A WISCONSIN paper says; "There are
tnlrty tOWnS Oh 6O pOpuldllOn ana under In
northern Wisconsin where no religious
services are held"
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL declares the
chances of home-rule being carried to be
microscopical. He thinks the present parlia-
ment likely to last until 1893.
THE French Transatlantic Steamship
Company has furnished its large fleet with
complete apparatus for " dropping oil on
the waves " during bad weather.
w. w. CoRCoRAN, the Washington mill
ionaire who founded the Corcoran art gal
lery and Louise Home for Aged and INDECENT
Women, died February "A, aged eighty-nine
years.
THE trial of Stain and Cromwell, charged
with the murder of Cashier Barron, is in
progress at Bangor, Maine. The defense
are trying to prove that Barron committed
suicide.
THE st. Petersburg correspondent of the
| London Post says Russia is trying to secure
the neutrality of England, believing that
England holds the key of the situation with
| her navy.
A FAMILY of nine persons at Bakouguana,
Hungary, have been fatally poisoned by
eating the flesh of poisoned sheep which
the burgomaster had left exposed as bait
| for wolves.
A sTRANCE story pomas from Tolado of