The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-21


Davis, Burlington; Rev. Austin Hazen,
Richmond; Rev. William S, Hazen, North |
field; Rev. j. w. Bemis, Mortified; Rev.
G. r.. Seymore, Bennington; Rev. V. NJ
Hardy, West Randoph Hon. ID. M. Camp,
Newport. The report Of the agent and
treasurer, Rev. l.. ii. Elliot, showed that Of
the II 1919 families visited 9S3, or about one
in twelve, were found without Bibles in the
house; 344 families were found who could
neither read nor write. Only forty and
one-haf per cent OF the population of those
towns visited attended the Protestant
church and only twenty-three and one-half
per cent were connected with any Sunday
school. In those towns twenty-three and
one-half per cent were Roman Catholic.
Two thousand one hundred and eighty
Bibles and Testaments were sold in the
canvass and 1856 destitute families presented
with Bibles by the society. Caledonia was
found to be the banner county in the state;
sixty-three per cent of the population at
tend church and thirty-seven per cent
attend Sunday-school.
Domestic.
THE wife of Allen G. Thurman died on
Saturday.
A COLONY of fifty families of Russian Jews
is to be established in Minnesota.
MANY Cinnamon are crossing the line
from Mexico into Texas. Fifteen have been
arrested in the past week
A SOLDIERS and sailors monument was
dedicated at Utica, N. Y, on last week
Tuesday. General Joseph r. Hawley was
the orator.
RAIN and snow in North Dakota and
Minnesota last week, destroyed it is esti-
mated, between 100000 and 100000
bushels of wheat.
PRESCOTT METcALF, one of the Oldest,
wealthiest and most prominent men in
northern Pennsylvania, died in Erie on
last week Wednesday.
A TEMPLATE mandatory is about to be
started in San Francisco. but the proprietor,
instead of getting his tin from Wales, will
import it from Australia.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has refused to issue
an order allowing government employees,
whose regular leave of absence has all been
used up, to go home to vote without loss
of pay.
Ex-Governor HALE of New Hampshire
died in Brooklyn, n. Y, on last week Fri
day, of Bright's disease, followed by a COM
plication of disorders. He was buried at
Keene, n. III.
THREE weeks ago son of Mr.. Mills of
Colebrook n. H., sucked beech-nut into
his windpipe. He could not cough it up,
lost strength rapidly, and died on last week
Wednesday.
Mrs. ANN A. DODGE, an inmate of the
poorhouse at Butte, Montana, and eighty
years of age, received notice last week that
she is the heir to an estate in England
worth $S,000000.
ALL the saleswomen and cash girls in
John Wanamaker's store are obliged to
wear black. This is a new rule, and the
employees consider it an encroachment on
their personal liberty.
A CORONER in Idaho has examined the
body, supposed to be that of Robert Ray
Hamilton, and he decides that it is that of
Hamilton without question, and that death
was caused by drowning.
MRS AMELIA GREGORY, wife of we'll
known Middletown, n. Y, farmer, was
beaten to death with a club on last week
Wednesday by some unknown person, dur
ing the absence of her husband.
BERNARD SAvILLE, who swindled ex-
Senator Fair of California out of $500 on
the stength of a forged letter Of introduction
from ex-Secretary of State Bayard has
been sentenced to three years imprison-
ment.
THE eighty annual meeting of the
American Board of Foreign Missions was
held at Pittstield, Mass, last week. The
boards receipts for this year have been
S69o,92l, against S465,372 the previous
twelve months.
Four men have been arrested for COM
plicity in the burning of the records in the
court house at Washington, Ind. Two have
pleaded guilty, and they testify that they
were hired to do the job by the auditor,
James y. LaVelle,
II is estimated by the statistcian of the
agricultural department that the average
oat crop this year is twenty-nine and three
tenths bushels to the acre, so that the whole
crop will be 75S, 100000 bushels, the largest
oat crop on record.
THE Grand Army of the Republic intends
to erect in Washington a monument to
General Grant, and the money is being
raised by popular subscription among the
Grand Army posts of the country. 1t is es-
tmated that the sum of $4,000 will be re-
CURED
SECRETARY RUsK proposes to have every
locomotive in the country made a travelling
weather prophet. His little flags are to be
displayed on every train, and the farmers
whose barns are within sight of track will
have their weather forecasts as regularly as
any city newspaper reader.
IT is stated that the Granite Cutters
National Union, the Marble Cutters
National Union, the Journeymen Free Stone
Cutters National Union, and the Journey
men Stone Cutters Association of North
America haze decided to work in harmony
with each other in the future.
THE quantity of maple sugar made in this
country during the past season has been
carefully estimated to be in the neighbor-
hood of 100000 pounds. 1t is said that
Canada can produce as much as the entire
United States, as there seasons are longer
and the weather more favorable.
THE body of John Whalen, murdered by
William Coy in August, was found buried in
the woods near Washington Mass, on
Tuesday of last week. A dog was the
means of the discovery. Whalen and Coy s
wife were about to elope when Coy MUIR
dered the man while he was asleep.
NEARLY one hundred delegates to the
Woman's Christian Union State Conven-
ton were poisoned at Bradford, Penn, last
week, by something they ate or drank at a
dinner rendered the delegates by the
Mexican county organization. All the ply.
sicians in town were kept busy attending
the sick
The assistant treasurer at Boston, who
recently refused to give gold coin in ex
change for 81 900 in treasury notes, wheI
requested to do so, has been Informed
that his action is not approved by the
treasury department, as such notes are
there held to be properly redeemable il
either gold or silver coin.
TEN thousand dollars worth of dresses
and ball and party costumes were seizet
by the customs officers on the arrival of tn,
steamer +" La Bretagne " at New York, las
week. They were the creations of Worth
Felix and other Partisan dressmakers a