The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-05

into effect August 1, making eight hours
days work.
Hon. JOEL B. ERHARDT has resigned as
collector of the port of New York. He will
go into business.
The National Society of the Daughters of
the Revolution has been formed with Mrs.
Benjamin Harrison as president.
THE Rev. Mr.. Vaughan of Washington is
out with plan to issue $4,000 100000 in
hfty-year bonds to pension ex-slaves.
AN orange tree only four inches high at
Yuba City, Cal, has borne a perfectly
formed orange about the size OF a currant.
SENATOR CoLoU1TT of Georgia. and his
daughters, will make an extended tour
through the West and to the Pacific coast
this fall.
AT the Maryland democratic state con.
ventlon last week, DIR. Frank T. Shaw of
Carroll county was nominated candidate for
governor.
Postmaster ENERAL WANAMAKER is try
ing to arrange for a fast fortnightly mail
service between San Francisco and Australia
by way of New Zealand.
A GIGANTIC boa. constrictor, which es.
| capped from Forepaugh's show, is living in a
sewer at Burlington, Iowa. A reward of
| 500 has been offered for the capture Of the
snake.
AN enterprising coroner in California fined
| the corpse $50 for carrying concealed weap-
ons confscated the pistols from the de-
ceased's pocket and took fee of S25 out of
the S75 found on the remains.
A LIFE-sIzE equestrian bronze statue of
the late General p. II. Sheridan, as he APP
peared on the occasion of his famous ride to
| Winchester, is to be presented to the city of
Chicago by G. I. Yerkes. 1t is to be erected
in Union Park.
Mrs. JOHN A. LOGAN tells a Washington
interviewer that it seems to her that Ameri-
cans now abroad evince far more intelligent
patriotism, and less tOadyism, than did
their fellow-countrymen who made foreign
tours few years ago.
WHILE Congressman Jerry Simpson has
| been toling on the alliance stump in
! Georgia, his wife has been cooking for a
gang of threshers who are clearing up a
| observation-disclosures lot of wheat owned by him
near Medicine Lodge, Kan.
NOTWITHSTANDING the vigilance of the
San Francisco customs officials it has been
learned that eight hundred stand of arms
and three million rounds of fixed ammuni-
ton, concealed in bales OF hay, have been
sent to the Gillian insurgents.
In the early elections of Oklahoma, the
rival candidates stood in wagons placed
some distance apart, and their adherents
gathered around them and were counted.
The elected man took Office at once, and his
edicts were as implicitly obeyed as an act
| of congress.
JUSTICE FIELD of the United States SUI
preme court counts as his lost opportunity
to gain great wealth, his refusal, forty odd
| years ago, to buy sand lot opposite the
Palace Hotel in San Francisco for $500.
That lot, divided in two, has since been sold
for S1,000,OO0.
SAMUEL SANDS, one of the oldest citizens
of Baltimore, Maryland, passed away July
2S, in the ninety-second year of his age.
For a number of years it has been conceded
hot NIr Sands Nxaa tho ol1aSt liN-inr priutar
He put into type, fresh from the author $
hands, the " Star Spangled Banner" when
an office. boy, in 1914, and was also pub
Usher of the american Farmer, the first ag-
ricultural paper started in this country,
Foreign.
GENERAL BOOTH of the Salvation Army is
on his way to Africa.
THERE are about 1900 arrests each year
in Paris, and of those arrests thirty-five are
assassins.
THE motion of Sir Henry Parker, in favor
of granting the right of suffrage to women
in New South Wales, has been rejected by
a vote of 81 to "a by the legislative assembly
THE Russian government has made large
purchases of corn, and is storing the grain
for future supply. The rise in the prices
for corn in Germany, it is alleged, is partly
due to wholesale buying of this cereal by
the Russian authorities.
The Foreign Committee of the Columbian
Fair Commission ended its stay in England
last week Tuesday with luncheon at the
Savoy Hotel, where the Americans enter
tanned the British Commissioners and others
previous to departing for the continent.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN and John Dillon, the
two Irish members of parliament who have
been undergoing sentence of six months
imprisonment for melting the tenants o.
the Smith-Barry estate at Tipperary to re-
sist payment of rents, were released from
Galway Jail, Ireland, last Thursday.