The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-30

made violent assault on the member from
Atlanta.
THE Bureau of Statistics reports that the
exports for last month exceeded those of
August, 1890, by more than S1S,000OO0 in
value. The gain was principally in wheat
and wheat flour.
| AN experiment in an.malting was made
at Corpus Christi on Saturday. Four twenty
| one-pound bombs were fred from NOR
tars, and the explosion was repeated twice.
Rain followed each volley.
TAMMANY braves dedicated the monument
| to the Forty-second New York infantry on
| Thursday Of last week. General Daniel
| Sickles gave the Grafton and presented the
monument to the Gettysburg Battlefield AS
ISOLATION.
Mrs. HARMON, a woman of loose charac-
ter living at Mentor, Ind, was tied to
| post last week Friday night, and whipped
to death by party of thirty men. She
was found at the post, almost naked, the
next morning.
SOME months ago ten negroes at Laurens,
) 5. g., plotted to murder another negro, and
the plan was carried out Last week the ten
were convicted of the murder, new trial
refused, and the date Of the execution fixed
| for October %.
! JUDGE IsLAR of the South Carolina SUI
preme court, has decided that the marriage
contract is indissoluble by any human sci
euce;" and the divorce obtained, no matter
| WHtIt CduuOJ I've TtHdTueu rs legal SbpdTd-
ton in South Carolina.
CAPTAIN JOHN LIGHTFooT, one of the five
men who organized the Grand Army of the
Republic at Decatur, ILL.,, in 1866, died at
Bloomingdale, Ill, on Wednesday of last
week. He was seventy-seven years of age,
and a native of Kentucky.
A SON of General Segel of New York, who
was sentenced to prison for six years for
| forgery, has been pardoned by President
Harrison on the ground of the extreme ill
ness of the prisoner and the fact that his
! term expires in December.
A BAD railroad wreck occurred on the
Pittsburg & Western railroad on Thursday
of last week, freight train running into
work train and killing nine men and injur-
ing twenty. The injured suffered intensely
from steam and boiling water.
The secretary of state of Florida refuses
to attest the commission of ex-Congress-
man Davidson, appointed by the governor
| to succeed Senator Call. The secretary
says no one but Call shall be senator The
supreme court has been appealed to.
JAMES HALEY, a New York boxer, died of
| blood poisoning on last week Wednesday.
The poisoning was the result of a blow he
struck an unknown man who insulted his
wife. Haleys hand came in contact with
the strangers teeth and was badly lacerated.
A WISCONSIN farmer had a strange feeling
| in his stomach, and when he had taken an
emetic a full-grown dead mouse was dis
| covered The man had been in the habit
of taking maps in his barn and thinks that
while sleeping the mouse ran down his
throat.
AT an Italian festival at Newark, N. j.,
on Thursday evening of last week, bomb
exploded and at least eleven persons were
killed and some thirty injured. The in
jured were principally children, who were
horribly mangled, some losing legs, some
eyes, etc.
o1,o 6 L.,
| democratic state committees in Ohio have
arranged for joint debate between Major
Mckinley and Governor Campbell, which
will take place at Ada, October 8. Gov
ernor Campbell has the opening and the
closing of the debate.
In a quarrel Saturday over the division
! line between two farms in Sibey county,
Mimi, James O'Neill killed Michael Col
Inns, fatally wounded his two sons and was
stabbed himself. O'Neill had been for
hidden on the Collins premises, but went
there to get water from well.
CLARENCE w. MAKEPEAcE and wife of
| Avon, Mass, had quarrel on Friday of
last week The husband threw lamp at
the wife, and the latter retaliated by shoot
ing him in the face with a shotgun. She
says she thought it was unloaded, and that
she merely meant to brighten him.
The gas went out in negro revival meet
ing at Jacksonville, Fla. last week Wednes-
day of judgment had come A rush was
made for the doUrs and windows, and one
girl was killed, three persons fatally in
! Jured, and many more or less injured.
A LARGE amount of grapes were seized by
the New York Board of Health, last week,
on which had been sprinkled solution of
sulphate of copper. An investigation dis
closed the fact that nearly all the grapes
seized came from Ulster county, New York,
where he worms are causing great devasta-
| ton. The solution is used to destroy these
worms.
The recent hot weather has been espe-
cially noticeable in the West, where the
thermometer has ranged from 100 to 106 de-
grees in the shade AT Eau Claire, Wis,
1t was hotter than it had been for thirty
years, and in Detroit business was sus-
pended for three hours one day. Prairie
fires, also have abounded in Minnesota
and the Dakotas
THE supreme court of Massachusetts has
handed down a decision to the effect that
an engagement to deliver freight means
that the carrier must unload it, The case
in question was one in which the agent of
| railroad company refused to unload two
horses, and told the owner to go into the
car and get them himself. He declined and
brought suit to settle the matter.
REV. HOWARD MAcQUEARY, the Episcopal
clergyman of Ohio, who is under suspen-
sion for heresy, has given up the fight and
withdrawn from the church. He has writ
ten letter to his bishop giving as his reason
! for Withdrawing that he cannot conscien-
tiously remain in the church and hold his
present views. He has accepted the pas
tolate of Unversalist church at Saginaw,
! Mich.
THE half-dozen butter merchants arrested
under the new oleomargarine law in Bos-
ton, last week, will contest the constitutions
ality of the law, contending that the recent
decision of the United States Supreme
| Court, which held that state cannot inter.
fere with original packages imported from
another state, applies here. The law pro-
hibits the sale of oleomargarine which has
been colored so as to resemble butter.
AN attempt was made TO assassinate Judge
William II. Fox of Taunton, Mass, on
Monday morning of last week. Will
! lam F. Woodward had been heavily
fined by Judge Fox for an assault on a
neighbor, and in revenge he hired man
for 500 to go 70 the judges door, call him
out and shoot him. The officers were in
formed of the affair, and the hired assassin
| fired two shots in the air, after which he
ran, according to the plan, to carriage in