The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21

CeptanCe would DE NlOlauOn OF tne con-
tract-labor law.
A MAN in Monroe county, Ohio, drove to
town the other day for the first time since
last fall and heard that Harrison had been
elected president. He doesn't take a paper
and il was news to him.
THE summit of Mount Washington was
covered with snow to the depth of an inch
and half one day last week. The guests
INDUCED in lively game of -balling.
The thermometer stood at 1872.
BLoNDIN, the well-known rope-walker,
has wagered $4,000 that he can walk
cable from the top of the Eiffel Tower to
the central dome of the exhibition build
ing, Paris, in less than five minutes.
THE spreading of rails on the Butler
branch of the Western Pennsylvania Rail
way Friday afternoon of last week wrecked
a passenger train. Three persons were
killed and about twenty-five wounded.
THE West Virginia election investigation
which has been in progress four months, is
nearly ended, and has failed to show any
frauds. COTS majority has been cut down
from one hundred ten to fifty, with two
counties to hear from,
A BOY who was bitten by wolf in the
San Dias Mountains, New Mexico, few
days ago died in great agony last week.
The scene about the lads bed was heart
rending. He acted like n wolf and though
small, it took several men to hold him down.
CATHERINE MULIG committed suicide in
Philadelphia, Friday, in peculiarly deter
mined manner. She placed a wash-tub
under the hydrant in her yard, put her
head in the tub aud then turned on the
water, holding her head there until she was
drowned.
WILLIAM CABLE of Hartford lost his arm
under car wheel and did not know it until
! policeman asked the cause of the accident.
! The mans nerves were perfectly numb,
and he did not feel the pain. He was
walking on the track whistling and rapidly
bleeding to death without knowing it,.
THE original cold Black joe" died
! Thursday at Mount Holly, n. j., in little
cabin on the outskirts of the town, where he
had lived for years. His name was Joseph
| Queen, and, according to a record in an old
family Bible which he always kept in his
possession, he was born in Virginia in HI
The bronze monument of Robert K. Lee
at Richmond, Va, will be unveiled in No
vember next The pedestal is being built
| of New England granite, to the profound
disgust of General Jubal Early and numer-
| Gus other lost cause " irreconCilables, who
think it pollution to bring any Yankee thing
upon the alleged sacred soil of the Old
Dominion.
| j. j. O'REILLY the representative in Pitts
burg of the English brewery buying synd-
cate, says that the capital stock of this syn.
dictate is 500 OO0,O 600 or more and that the
syndicate will not make purchases of less
than 100000. Furthermore, none but
old and established industries will be pur-
chased. Forty million dollars have already
been invested in America.
PROFESSOR w. X. PERRY made dis
astrous balloon ascension at Mount Holly,
n. c., recently. At an elevation of seven
hundred feet seam in the gas-bag burst
and the gas escaped. The fall to the ground
! took only about ten seconds, but was for
! tnnqtalV " no y
shoulder was dislocated, his side and back
| injured, and one rib broken. His injuries
are not considered fatal.
THE trial of the persons accused of the
murder of DIR. Cronin will commence in
Chicago, August 26. There will be two hun
dred witnesses for the state summoned,
and the trial is likely to last over eight
weeks. State Attorney Longnecker is in
possession of large quantity of extremely
sensational evidence never yet even limited
at in the press which, it is said, will shake
to the center the Clan-na-G Gael throughout
the country.
On Wednesday of last week United States
Supreme Justice Field met eX. Judge Terry
in the restaurant of the railway station at
Lathrop, Cal Terry, to revenge an i'm
aginary wrong, rose from his chair and de-
liberately slapped Justice Field on the face.
Deputy Marshal Nagle, who was in the COM
pany of Chief Justice Field, shot Terry
In 1857 Judge Terry became chief justice
He was opposed to the vigilance committee
of 1886, and stabbed one of the members OF
the committee who had attempted to arrest
a friend of his. Terry was held by the
Nigilantes, but was afterward released
He killed Senator Broderick in 1859, as a
result of political differences, Terry belong.
ing to what was known as the chivary y
wing of the democratic party
A MOST remarkable religious craze per.
vadeS the negroes near Ressemer, Alabama
For some time past an old negro named
Tobias jackson has been proclaiming him.
self as Daniel the prophet and doing all
kinds of singular things. Recently he per.
suaded three young negro men that they
were representatives of Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego, the three children of faith
who entered the fiery furnace of Nebuchad-
nezzar He proclaimed that a furnace
where iron is melted and cast into all kinds
offorms was the furnace of Nebuchadnezzar
and that they could enter it and pass
through without the smell of fire. The
three negroes, calling themselves the three
children of Israel, under the influence OF
their new prophet, deliberately entered the
gate of the cupola of the furnace and
rushed headlong before they could be
stopped into the white heat of the melting
iron. When they failed to come out, Jack
son the prophet proclaimed that he saw
them rising in the air with the smoke of the
they would revisit the earth again on Sun
day. Unfortunately the cremated worthies
failed to materialize according to schedule.
Foreign.
A SPLENDID vintage is anticipated in boil
France and Germany this season.
SENIOR SARDINIA, who was recently kid
mapped by bandtt in Cuba, has been re
leased on the payment of ransom of $40,
600 in gold.
STEVENS, the lOng-distance bicycist whC
was sent TO Africa TO find Stanley is return
ing to Zanzibar, having failed to accomplish
anything whatever.
THE second anniversary of Prince Ferdi
nand's ascending the throne OF Bulgaria wa
observed last week Wednesday with appro
pirate festivities Four thousand troop
were reviewed. banquets were held, and il
the evening Sofia was illuminated.
THE senate court found General Bou
LANCER guilty of conspiracy and of embez
cling public funds and refused to ALLOW
that there were eXtenuating circumstances
The court sentenced General Boslanger
Count Dillon and Henri Rochfort to be de
ported to fortified place
FLORENCE MAVERICK, the condemned
muir leresS, is in an extremely depressed