The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-09-26
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A license fee of $500 a month is required
from each, and the money will be used to
pay off the city's bonded debt.
FIVE young girls from Alaska have been
placed in Christian families in West Swan
zey, n, II. They are said to be progresses
ing in appearance and quite intelligent
THE best agricultural exhibition ever
held in New Hampshire was that at Tilton
lately. There was an immense crowd upon
the grounds, and the net receipts exceeded
$1,000.
A TRAIN on the Concord road lately made
the fastest time ever made upon that road
running from Concord to Manchester,
eighteen miles, in eighteen and one-half
minutes.
THE society of the Army of the Cumber-
land held its nineteenth annual reunion at
Chicago last Wednesday. General Rose
Grams presided and one hundred and fifty
members were present.
THE opening of the national exposition at
Augusta, Ga. has been postponed from Oc-
tober 10 to November 8, and it is to close
December 10. The principal reasons given
for the change are the recent floods and the
yellow fever scare in the South.
THE recent arrival in St. Lons of the first
through Chicago Burlington & Quincy
trains over the Wabash tracks was signal
lied by the refusal of the brotherhood
engineers employed to house the Burling
ton engines and of the local Wabash wipers
to clean them.
A SUIT involving $4,000, 900, brought by
the Hooking Railroad Company against
Stevenson Burke and his associate eX-
directors of the company has been decided
in New York in favor of the defendants.
Judge Burke intends to bring suit against
the company for heavy damages.
The national assembly of general ticket
agents, in sem-annual session at Saratoga,
adopted uniform coupon tickets for all
roads and extended summer excursion
tickets from points in Florida to December
81, on account of the yellow fever embargo
which keeps the holders in Northern cities.
The supervisors of harrington, n. H.,
have been found guilty in the suit brought
against them by DR.. Daniels for illegal ex-
clusion from the polls. He had opened an
office in Rochester, returning to Darlington
once week and retaining his home at the
latter place. Last March the supervisors
struck his name from the checklist Hence
the suit.
The number of new cases of yellow fever
in Jacksonville, Florida, for the past week
has averaged over 100, and the death rate
about ten per cent. The total of cases up
to the oath was 1878: deaths 212 The
fever has appeared as far west as Jackson,
Miss. The entire South is in a state of
panic and the most rigid quarantine meas
ures have been taken,
AMONG the many prominent citizens of
New Hampshire who have lately passed
away are DR.. John L. Perley of Laconia,
50; Augustus Noyes, one of Westmore-
lands oldest citizens, SO; John S. Elliott of
Lisbon, the Oldest veteran of the rebellion
in the state 81; Dea. Joseph II. Ames of
Peterboro lifelong resident and under
taker, So Miss Orpha Danforth, a native Of
Jaffrey but since 1911 a native of Amherst
ROu tla lac
THESE officers of the senior class of
Dartmouth College have been elected
President, Milton s. Goodman of Lebanon,
N H.; vice-president, Henry Gauss of
Phnnicia; secretary, ID. b. Cox of Shrews-
bury, Mass; treasurer, Lewis j. Frnk of
Portland, Maine; sautatorian, Rufus E.
Donnell of Lewiston, Name valedictorian,
orator, Edward F. Abrams of Michigan
Marshal, Norman I. George of Fall River,
Mass
JAMES EDWARD BEDELL, real estate clerk
for Shipman, Barlow, Larocque & Choate,
has robbed the clients of his firm of S264,-
800, and perhaps more. Among the victims
was the Farmers Loan and Trust Company,
which was swindled out of S35 900: Charles
Delmonico's estate, $4,000. Bedel lived
in elegant style in Brooklyn, kept retnue
of liveried servants and Westminster
county farm with blooded stock. He played
600 in one place.
RAILROADS that followed the lead of the
pennsylvania in reducing the grain rate to
twenty cents have given notice of an adj
vance. The Baltimore & Ohio, Michigan
Central and Lake Shore roads raise to
twenty-five cents. The reason given is that
the demand for cars is largely in excess of
the supply, and even while the thrift rates
are maintained and it is next to impossible
to handle the business offered. The Penn
sylvania, however adheres to the low rates
The Grand Trunk road is to raise its rate
on dressed beef to thrty-fve cents an adj
vance of five cents hundred over the New
HOrk rates.
STAFFORD County, n. H., has lust hat
TWO probable MURDERS of which liquor was
the cause. AT Salmon Falls John Sarchtelt
came home partially intoxicated and sooI
after his wife was found to be dead. Sh,
was much bruised and her husband is il
Jail on charge of having beaten anC
stamped upon her. He denies his guilt
Charles III. Eastman, peaceable mechanic
OF Great Falls, spent most of an evening in
saloons, and having disappeared, his body
was found two days later in the river
There were marks of violence on the corpse
and certain dsreputable associates are sus
pected of having killed or stunned him ant
then thrown him into the river.
Foreign.
interior, is about to retire on account of i'll
health.
TwENTY-EIGHT persons have been drowned
by floods in the Tyrol, and many others ar
missing.
THE experiment of carrying all the Ger
man troops by rail from Senitz, maneu
vering center, to Berlin in one afternoon W a
tried last week.
In the recent cyclone in Cuba over / 90
1nGt nd h. III
lngs, shipping crops and other property
extends into the millions.
AT meeting of 800 miners held at ST
Etenne near Paris, a resolution favoring
general strike of all the employees of tn
Loire companies was adopted.
AT recent mass meeting held at 81
Johns, Newfoundland. last Wednesday
strong opposition to confederation with til
Dominion of Canada was expressed.
THE anniversary of Mexican independents
was celebrated the 18th. Six thousan
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