The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-04

more conciliatory attitude toward the British
government.
REV. JAMES POWELL, ID, correspond
ing secretary of the American Missionary
Association died suddenly of apopexy last
week, aged forty-ive.
A SOCIALIST paper has published blood
thirsty circular, advising worldng-men to
destroy prominent railroad men by I" the
torch, the bomb and the bullet"
Mr.. GLADSTONE, just before leaving En-
gland, made speech at Dover claiming
that the next general election would surely
bring the liberals back into power.
MD BABcocK, inventor of the Babcocl1
fire-extinguisher died at the San Francisco
alms-house recently, aged seventy years. He
once received $4,000 per month in royalties.
THE Rail,coy Age of Chicago says the rail-
road building of 1887 in the United States
has exceeded that of any previous year. No
less than 1924 miles of new main line were
constructed.
RECORDER DAVENPORT at Kansas City,
Mo-, has declared the ordinance requiring
Sunday closing of saloons unconstitutional.
The temperance people will appeal to the
supreme court.
THE Reading railroad strike is practically
over, the passenger trainmen having unani-
mously revolted from the knights of Labor
and the places of strikers having been very
generally filed.
w. e. BARRETT, editor and publisher of
the Boston advertiser and Egening Record,
was married December 2Sth at Claremont,
n H.. to Miss Annie L., daughter of Her
bert Bailey of that town.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Herald from
Washington says that President Cleveland
denies the report that he intends sending
to congress a supplementary message de-
filming his position on the tariff question.
Al
snow-storm on record in that region is now
raging and that the weather is uuprece-
dentedy cold. Dispatches from Spain re-
port snow two feet deep and railways
blocked.
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT has been selected as
pastor of Plymouth church at the same
salary paid Mr.. Beecher No definite term
of service has been fixed and it is probable
he will remain permanently as Mr.. Beecher s
successor.
A STRONG movement is now developing
in Illinois to boom Robert Lincoln as a can
ddate for governor. 1t has already four
hundred enthusiastic advocates, while all
through central Illinois the idea is received
with satisfaction.
THE older and more experienced con
gressmen do not attach much present sig
niicance to the talk about postal tele-
graph and the eagerness of some senators
and representatives to get the government
into the telegraph business.
Mrs. JOHN JACOB AsToR left $4,000 each
to the Woman's Hospital, st. Luke's Hos
ptal Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, Children's Aid Society, Hampton Nor
NAL Institute at Hampton, Va, and the
Protestant Foreign Missionary Society.
DURING a performance at the theater at
Carthagena, Spain, n broker occupying a
stall committed suicide by exploding dy-
Mantle cartridge. The conclusion extin-
guished the lights and the audience fled
panic-stricken. Over 100 were injured.
MosT of the German rivers are frozen
over. Several of the Baltic ports, including
Konigsberg, are closed. The southern and
western rivers are covered with drifting ice.
Several deaths from the effects of exposure
are reported in various parts of Austria
CONGRESSMAN BROWNE (republicau) OF
Indiana is preparing tariff bill which, it is
said, will propose the repeal of the tobacco
tax and of the entire duty on sugar, salt
and lumber. 1t will reduce the duty on
some grades of wool, or probably place the
coarser grades on the free list
AN Ottawa dispatch says: Diphtheria and
| typhoid fever are prevailing to an alarming
extent in this section of the Dominion.
Every town and village has been visited by
either one or both of the epidemics and the
death-rate during the month just closed
from these causes is Unprecedented. Twenty
per cent of the deaths in Montreal last
week were from diphtheria."
SONORA AMAsTA RUBIo DE PAscADERA, @
notorious female bandit, was buried by the
side of her lover at San Antonio, Zacatecas
Mexico, recently. In her early womanhood
her intended husband was killed by federal
troops, and on his grave she swore to kill
| five men every year of her life. She more
than kept it. She continued a career OF
robbery for many years, which terrorized
the citizens of Senolas, Jaleze and Sonora
and enriched herself. The authorities and
troops were powerless to suppress her. She
bequeathed her fortune to charities, dying 8
natural death in obscurity.