The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18

Ierry, fnllanuer y. Wetmore, Joseph M.
Chaplin, Aaron II. Baker, Oscar II. Bur
dick, Edward f. jackson. Reissue bel
d. Smith, William II. Edmunds, Daniel
Collins, Julius I. Austin. Additional
Gilbert Leyhee.
The will of Ex-Governor j. Gregory Smith
leaves to his wife the homestead and fur
nishings, the Bellevue farm and 100000;
at the death of Mrs. Smith the residue goes
to the eldest daughter, Annie. To the Peo-
pies Trust Company, in trust for town
library, is left $4,000; First Congregational
society, $1,000; for soldiers monument in
st. Adams, $1,000. All the rest, in equal
shares, to the five surviving children.
THE piano makers of the country have
adopted a uniform musical pitch. The
standard adopted is that A which gives 435
double vibrations in a second of time, at
$50 Fahrenheit The important action thus
reached is one in which Colonel Levi X
Fuller of Brattleboro- who, William Stein
way says, knows more about musical pitch
than any other man in America-has borne
very prominent part. Colonel Fuller, as
secretary of the committee appointed by the
Piano Manufacturers Association to inves-
tigate the question of uniform pitch, has
prosecuted his researches with vigor and
ability. He went abroad last summer and
collected at his own expense vast amount
of valuable information.
Domestic.
EVANGELIST D." SAM" SMALL was seriously
injured at Atlanta, Ga, last week Wednes
day by Tom Miner, a saloon-keeper whom
he had criticised.
A. M. SHERWOOD attacked Judge John
Kelshaw, who was trying his case at Paso
Robes, California, and the Judge shot him
dead. Objection overruled.
THE latest sensation in the alleged drown
ing in Wyoming of Robert Ray Hamilton,
the brilliant young New Yorker, is that he
was murdered. By whom? Not stated.
New HAMPSHIRE is suffering seriously
from drouth. The Vale mills at Nashua
have had to shut down, and the Merrimac
river at Manchester is the lowest in its
history.
II has just come to light that John
O'Donald, a wealthy and well-known farmer
of Hampton, n. Y, was swindled out of
$4,000, last summer. by couple of "gold
brick " sharpers.
DR.. CHARLES A. BARNES of Mechanics
vile, n. Y, was arrested at Binghamtop,
last Wednesday, for abducting the child of
one of his numerous wives, three of whom
are living and three dead.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has been granted
the exclusive right to archaeological explora-
tions in Honduras for ten years, with per-
mission to take away onehalf of all the OBJ
jects found during the excavations.
DIR. CHARLES w. PALMER, prominent
and respected citizen and politica ian of Wis
and post-office at Raymond Center. He is
said to be a victim of the opium habit
THREE life convicts escaped from the peni-
Tertiary at Waupun, ILL.,. last Wednesday,
through a tunnel dug under the buildings
1t must have taken years to dig the tunnel
as 1t passed through several walls of stone.
A WATER famine existed in Tennessee
last week, the most serious state of affairs
existing in and around Nashville. People
begged for water and tramped miles to get
it, Hucksters retailed the precious fluid at
ten cents per gallon. No washing was done,
and the accumulated filth bred disease.
RIOT has been reigning in Tennessee and
the rebellion of the miners has damaged the |
standing of eastern Tennessee |
millions of dollars. The miners who recently |
relt ased the convicts have notified Gov |
ernor Buchanan that if he sends the con- |
victs back they will be butchered. The |
question is, Will the governor rebuild the |
stockades?
THE trial of Frank c. Almy, the Hanover
murderer, began at Plymouth, N. H., yes
terday. He is to be tried as Amy although |
the fact that he is George H. Abbott has |
been proved beyond question. - 1t has |
later been reported that the trial has been |
postponed; that he will not be tried till
later date, or unless he elects to plead guilty |
gree. Almy last Monday retracted his plea |
of not guilty, and pleaded guilty to murder,
The court will determine the degree.
Foreign.
A GRAND stand at bull.fght near Naples
last week Monday, and 800 peo-
Pile went down with it, one hundred being
injured, a score fatally.
MONDAY of last week was the ffteth an
niversary of the birth of Albert Edward,
Prince of Wales. Members of the dramatic
profession presented to him a gold cigar
box weighing 100 ounces.
THE special correspondent of the United
Press reports from China that the United
States cruiser "Charleston " has left for
Honolulu, and that the commander has
been instructed to seize the Hawaiian
Islands should certain eventualities occur.
A HEAVY gale devastated the south coasts
Of England and Ireland last week Tuesday
and Wednesday. A French schooner was
wrecked at Hythe. on the English channel,
and the captain his wife, and son, persisted.
The iron ship Benvenue went ashore at
SYNDICATE, and attempts to save the crew
were futile. The Paramount was sunk
off Lowestoft in Suffolk, and all hands ex-
cept two sailors were drowned. Fishing
'macks, life-saving boats, and small crafts
Of every description were lost and scores of
seamen were drowned. Many casualties
inland are reported, and the storm did
much damage in France.
DISPATCHES to the Neao York Herald from
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country is tending toward great civil war.
The chief of the great secret society of the
Aalao Hui has been arrested and ordered
The whole province of Human
s in state of siege and open revolt. The
halao Hui is the most powerful of the
organizations. 1t is non-reli.
sious and largely military, has existed for
fifty years, and has attained great power
among the Human men engaged on the i'm
oerial side in the Tapping rebellion. The
<alao Hui has grown and fiourished owing
% the timidity and corruption of the magis-
rates and local officials.
RELIABLE dispatches from Brazil, last
week, reported the revolt against Dictator
Fonseca as spreading. A band of insur-
gents captured Santa Anna, on the river
Sine, and took a number of prisoners
1t is expected that the revolutionists will
ltrive to gain possession of Yugaraon,
Santa Victoria, and Porto Allegro, which
'emain true TO the dictator, before the
arrival of the gunboats which Fonseca
las sent out. A spirit of discomfort has Of
EN- manifested itself among the some 5000
Brazilian soldiers in Rio Grande do Sui,
Who form nearly half the government forces.