The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-20

bounded by st. Andrew, Franklin, Liberty
and Josephine streets, except one-the Ger
man Lutheran church
THE Union ex-prisoners of the Northwest
will hold their reunion in Libby Prison on
December TO-
A GREAT mass-meeting of Catholics was
held at Baltimore ON Sunday night in favor
OF high license.
THE democrats nominated Owen A. Gal
win for mayor OF Boston on Wednesday
evening of last week.
THE Brooklyn and Cincinnati base ball
clubs have been admitted to the National
League, making a membership of ten clubs
CALVIN S. BRIcE has formally announced
his candidacy for the United States senator
ship, to succeed Senator III. b. Payne Of
Ohio.
THE Catholic University at Washington
was dedicated on Wednesday of last week.
Bishop Glmour of Cleveland preached the
sermon.
THE snow blockade on the Denver & Fort
Worth road was broken last week Friday,
and the first mail train in eleven days ar
rived from Texas.
BY the will of the late John Crerar
50 900, is set apart for the erection and
maintenance Of a public library in the city
of Chicago, to be known as the John Crerar
library
THE numbering firms OF j. K Post & Co.
of Oswego, and James NOR & Co. OF AL
bany, n. Y, have assigned heavily. Two
hundred thousand dollars is involved in the
Post failure.
The following is the official count on cleo
ton for governor in Ohio Campbell, &c.,
424; Foraker, 36S ,5jl Campbell's plurality,
10,S73. Helwig, prohibition candidate for
governor, received 26,504.
COLONEL ALFRED RHETr, son of ex-
United States and confederate Senator II.
Barnwell Rhett, died at Charleston, S. c.,
last week, aged sixty years. He was in the
rebel army and was famous duelist.
THE Central Bureau Of Relief of Wash
ingtOn, an organization composed of colored
men, has issued an appeal to the country
for agitation that shall result in securing
for colored people political equality in fact.
The delegates to the Pan-American Con-
gress ended their trip through the United
States on Wednesday evening of last week,
when they returned to Washington. They
made the entire journey in the same cars,
with the same engineer.
The citizens of Louisa, KY, are indignant
at the dispatch of the postmaster to Post
master-general Wanamaker, saying that
they broke all the windows of the post
office. They have sent resolutions to the
postmaster-general saying it was an acct
dent.
IN an interview concerning the sale of
Sunol to Robert Bonner, Senator Stanford
said he was not at liberty to make known
the price, though it was more than was paid
for Maud S. and not so much "a Axtell
brought. He said that if all goes well in
training, Sunol will next year trot in 2W.
THE American Manufacturer states that
ninety per cent of the forge companies of
the country have formed "A combination for
mutual protection. Among the nine con-
Germs which have thus far identified them
selves with the new movement are the
Delaney Forge and Iron Company of Buff
falo, n. Y, and the Nashua Iron and Steel
Company of Nashua, N. H. The combina-
ton, it is claimed, is not of the nature of a
trust.
THE Association of American Agricul-
tural College and Experiment Stations
elected the following officers at the meeting
last week j. III. Smart of Purdue Univer-
sity, Indiana, president; M. e. Gates of
Rutgers College, New Jersey, vice-presi-
dent; Director, H. p. Ormsby of the Penn
sylvania State College Experiment Station,
secretary and treasurer; President III. e.
Alvord of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, chairman of the executive committee.
Foreign.
THE Queen of Portugal has given birth
to son.
canal on October %.
THOUSANDS of lives have been lost by the
overlooking of the river Van TIE in China.
The Hungarian government has obtained
control of 10000 taverns throughout the
country. This has been done by virtual
purchase. A large number of these build
ings are to be converted into public school
| houses
A DISPATCH from Rio Janeiro states that
a revolution has broken out there. Other
| dispatches assert that movement in favor
! of rem bliCan form of government has
recently been fomented and is the sole
cause of the uprising.
! On Wednesday morning of last week the
mill-dam at McClellan's flour-mill, a mile
west of Alton, Ontario broke, and the
water carried away six mill-dams and four
bridges, wrecked half dozen mills and
| several dwellings and did thousands of dol
lars worth of damage. The house of an
! old couple named Harris was carried away
! and both were drowned. The Canadian Pa
cfic railway bridge over the river was
! wrecked.