The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-06

tered more supreme words than any writer
of our century, and possibly of almost any
other. He was, above all things a man.
And above genius, above all the snow
capped peaks of intelligence, above all of
art, rises the true man-greater than all.
He was true man, and he walked among
his felow-men as SUCH"
ALMY the New Hampshire murderer is
still in prison under sentence of death, but
he Is something of a white elephant. Almy
was not tried by jury. He pleaded guilty
to an indictment charging him with murder,
and the court in accordance with the law
of the state which declares that I" il any
person shall plead guilty to an indictment
for murder, the court having coguizance of
the offense shall determine the degree"
adjudged him to be guilty of murder in the
first degree and sentenced him to be hanged.
There is little doubt that the sentence was
illegal, for Almy was not present when the
court fixed the degree of his guilt and de-
termined his punishment. Almy, though
confessed murderer, may not be hanged
unless he shall be resentenced. But it is
questioned whether he may be legally re-
sentenced, and if he may not be resentenced
he is entitled to go at large. Senator Chand-
Ter of the Concord Monitor is now urging
that Almy be taken into court at once and
be again sentenced to be hanged He pre-
diets that il this is not speedily done the SUI
preme court of the United States will set
Almy free.
FOretRn.
VEsUvIUs is getting ready for an erup-
ton.
DEFINING, the perpetrator Of the murders
in Rainfall, London, will plead insanity.
Of course. Dispatches from Melbourne
show that Deeming probably committed a
murder in South Africa.
AT the last Philharmonic concert in Ber-
lin DR.. Won Bulow, the conductor, spoke of
" the true hero, the bright day-star of Ger
e M
Bismarck" His remarks were received with
a storm of Kisses and cheers.
The Scotland Yard authorities received
word from Paris, last week Wednesday,
that the forty anarchists expelled from
France were nearly all making for London.
The English authorities have determined
on a system of registration for foreign resi-.
dents. That country and Switzerland are
the only safe refugees in Europe for the red
shutters.
COUNT FERDINAND DE LEssEPs, the great
French engineer, is charged by the courts
of France with swindling and breach of
trust. The alleged swindle occurred in the
deal through which De Lesseps and the
other trustees of the Universal Interoceanic
Panama Canal Company obtained control
of the Panama Railroad Company, more
than ten years ago.
The revolution in Venezuela has assumed
large proportions. A battle was fought
near Caracas between President Palacios
troops and the insurgents under General
Joaquin orespo, and lasted three hours.
The rebels were defeated. Volunteers are
said to be f1ocking from all directions to the
aid of the insurgents. Palacio is very I'M
popular, and but for fear of his severity
there would probably be an uprising in
Caracas at once.
THE presence of balloons over the forts
and encampments in Poland is becoming
n.a1 fr... Ill.
causing much Indignation among army Of
icers, who are unable to prevent military
secrets from becoming known to the Ger
man officers, who are taking observations
from height that places them beyond the
reach of bullets. The impression grows
stronger daily that the Germans have at
last solved the problem of aerial navigation.
The balloons that have appeared over vari-
GUS places in Poland are under perfect con-
troll. Some of the balloons that appeared
were fitted with electric search-lights.
MANDALAY, the capital of Burmah, India,
was burned last week. The Burmese CAPT.
tai is literally swept out of existence, and
the Royal Palace, which witnessed Thebaws
slaughter of his royal hundred, and which,
since the deposition of that monster, has
been the headquarters of British admins
tration at Mandalay, is destroyed, with all
its relics of when Burmah was an empire.
The palace was of wood and, along with
was surrounded by a wooden stockade,
making the royal abode a separate city.
In one of these buildings the female rela-
tives of Thebaw were strangled, while the
princes were put to death in the courtyard.
Late dispatches say that scores of lives have
been lost, but that on account of the con-
fusion no accurate computation of the num-
Der is possible. There was a great fire at
Bangoon on the following night. The English
residents believe that both fires were in
cendiary.
ANOTHER explosion of dynamite affrighted
Paris last week Tuesday. This time it
was the building of the Credit Lyonnaise,
one of the largeet banking institutions of
the city. The impression took hold of Paris
that the city was on the verge of a reign of
terror. Two persons suspected were ar
rested. AT house on the Boulevard
Magenta man was seen throwing a
lighted object into corridor A spectator
quickly stamped out with his foot what
turned out to be burning fuse, and dis
covered tube of eight oentimetres in length
with long fuse, which had Just been
lighted. Ravachol, the notorious leader of
the anarchists, was arrested on Wednesday
in cafe. When he and the officers grap-
pied fearful oaths Kissed through his teeth
He tried to bite the hands that held him,
and showed almost superhuman strength.
Later it was discovered that Ravachol was
desperate criminal who had committed
one OF more muruerS A search OF his
lodgings has brought to light quantity of
material for the manufacture of bombs.
The alarm in Paris is deepened by the mys-
terry surrounding the organization, methods
and purposes of the authors of the explo-
sions, as there is diversity of social posi-
ton characterizng the occupants Of the
houses singled out for attack. At what
class of society are the attacks directed?
Says the Ne,O York Sun 1t cannot be dis
puted that the facts warrant feeling of ex-
IRENE uneasiness, if not of trepidation.
They seem to show that the avowed enc
mics OF society, as it is at present consti-
| tuted, include chemists and skilled labor
atory workmen, and thus have at their dis
| posal some of the most dangerous explo-
sives known to science. 1t is surmised that
one Of the bombs used was charged with
melinite and it is considered almost certain
that another contained picrate, which has
eight or ten times the shattering force OF
dynamite. Who can say that the anarchists
may not have succeeded in making still
more formidable compounds whose formu.
las are not unknown to chemists, but which
have not hitherto been manufactured, owing
to the difficulty of assuring safety to the
process? The facts also seem to Justify the
inference that the authors of these outrages