The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

great A lime mandatory at Amsden
ships $4,000 barrels of lime year, and hauls
it by team to Cavendish a distance Of ten
miles. The survey is already being made,
and so far the route offers few obstacles.
The cost a mile is estimated at about S14,-
600. A large part of this sum can be raised
by subscription, and the companies inter-
ested will furnish the rest.
Domestic.
THE School of Ethics, which had been in
session at Plymouth, Mass, for six weeks,
closed last Wednesday,
FOURTEEN persons on board an excursion
barge near Cold Spring Harbor, l.. l., were
killed. last week Wednesday, by the falling
of timbers loosened by a violent gale.
THE question, whether Cinnamon can en-
ter this country to visit the Worlds Fair in
1893, is now being agtated. The attorney
general will be asked to decide the matter.
THE general sales-agents of the anthra-
cite coal companies met in New York last
| Thursday and ordered an advance in prices
of fifteen cents per ton, to take effect Sep
TENDER f.
Two Cinnamon who were taken from
Mott-street dives in New York, to the
Charity hospital, last week Monday, are,
after a careful examination by the doctors,
pronounced lepers.
A WEEK ago last Sunday night, five de-
bauchees of Lowell, Mass, stole a bottle of
be liquor, and drank it between them. Two
died, and the others were made seriously
sick.
A HEAVY shortage in winter apples is
predicted by the NeU England Homestead,
on the basis of 900 special reports from the
commercial orchard regions of the United
States and Canada, which it published last
week.
A PETITION, upon which appear the names
of large number of prominent citizens, is
being circulated in Melrose, Mass, request
ing Hon. William E. Barrett to accept
denomination as representative to the gen.
eral court.
MINISTER PHELPS has hopes of induc-
ing Baron Krupp to exhibit some of his
immense guns at the Worlds Fair. Baron
Krupp hesitates, for, he says, it will cost
him S25O000 to make an exhibit creditable
to his establishment
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD is giving aid
and encouragement to thousands of South
ern negroes, who are establishing large col
onies in California. 1t is expected that
$4,000 negroes will become residents of
that state within the next twelve months.
THE wheat harvest of Kansas, it is esti-
mated, will yield 20, 600 600 bushels, machine
measure. This is more than the most san
gune had predicted. The wheat is of ex-
cellent quality; and, with rain within two
weeks, the corn crop of the state will be the
biggest in its history.
The ninth general conference of Christian
workers at Mortified, Mass, closed its ten
days session last week Sunday evening.
The attendance has been the largest ever
known at one of these conferences Rev.
f. b. Meyer of London, Eng, was the prn-
cipal speaker, and his discourses, in the
form of Bible readings, were very popular.
Mrs. LEILA SAwTELLE, member of the
Massachusetts bar, and authoress, died at
Amherst, n. H., week ago Monday. She
took, inadvertently, it is thought, an over
dose of medicine Mrs. Sawtelle entered
the law-school of Boston University in
1873, and was graduated in June, 1881. She
was the first woman ever admitted to the
bar in Massachusetts, and is the author of
several books on law.
Foreign.
JOHN CALLAHAN, an employee of the Ham
ilton, Ont, Street Railway Company, has
been arrested for stealing $4,000 from the
company. He confesses his guilt.
A COMMITTEE has been formed in Paris to
secure the erection of a monument to
Robespierre. 1t will be placed in a church.
yard opposite the house in which he lived.
PRESIDENT CARNoTs chateau at Presle,
France, has been ransacked by burglars,
who got away with everything valuable the
house contained. The presidents mother
occupied the house.
THE twelfth conference of the Young
Mems Christian Association of all lands be-
gan its session in Amsterdam, Holland, last
Wednesday. Delegates are present from
nearly every country of the world.
The discomfort in China is still smolder-
ing. Reports of attacks on mission schools
are received from time to time. Owing to
these disturbances, the United States navy
department has ordered a number of war
vessels to the China coast.
THE car was greatly pleased by the APP
pearance of the French sailors and marines
whom he saw at Cronstadt and remarked,
Never could have believed that republic
can sailors, that republican soldiers, could
have such a bearing" He had believed,
apparently, that discipline was impossible
except under an autocratic government.
GENERAL BOOTH of the Salvation Army
is going from London to Australia, New
Zealand Ceylon, and finally to Goojerat,
which ought to be an excellent place for
military operations. 1t has a name already
in the military history of India. Rather
more than forty years ago British army
gained good battle there over the Sikhs,
and there was peace in the Punjaub. The
brass band was not to the front on that oc-
casion, and there were no speeches. Mr..
Booth is now going to open up Goojerat, as
he is Western Australia, to the Salvation
Army.