The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-30
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

MRS JULIA WARD HOWE celebrated her
seventy fifth birthday last Sunday.
FARNHAM Posi-, G. A. R., of New York
has been reinstated, and is no longer an lin
dependent veteran association"
AN English syndicate has offered 81 OOO,-
600 for the Elgin National Watch Company's
plant. majority of the stockholders has
voted to sell.
KELLY and his army" are now in the
vicinity of Hannibal, Mo. Dissatisfaction
is rife among the men and the number is
now reduced TO about 700. 1t is freely pre-
dicted that they will disband either at St.
Louis or before reaching that point.
Four armed men held up the cashier of
the First National Bank of Longview,
Texas, last week, securing $4,000. A gen.
eral fight between the robbers and citizens
several wounded. Three of the robbers es-
capped with their booty and apparently I'M
hurt A posse is in pursuit.
ALL the mills in the vicinity Of st. Louis,
except FIVE, have shut down for want of
coal. These five have supplies of wood that
will last from four to ten days. Nearly all
the large factories in the city are nearing
the end of their supplies and the river
steamers are burning wood. Railroads
continue to confiscate all the coal in sight.
GOVERNOR WAITE, Colorados cranky ex-
ecutive, is again on the rampage. In an adj
dress delivered last week at Pueblo, he ad-
vocated the coinage of Mexican dollars to
be used as legal tender in Colorado, and ex-
pressed the hope that the ballot would soon
overthrow the domination of Wall street.
But" said he, il the ballot is not success
full, the man who will not bare his breast to
bullets is not a man" Adjutant General
Tarsney said that unless something was
done the blood spilled when Coxey's men
were dubbed in Washington would be the
first in new revolution.
THE Missouri Pacific passenger train from
the east narrowly escaped going through a
bridge near Pueblo, Colo, last Friday morn
ing. On the train was the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage of Brooklyn, who described the
escape. He was awakened by the jerking
of the sleeping car, and, looking out of the
window, found the car off the track in the
middle of the bridge, which was slowly
sinking beneath the weight of the train
Fortunately, the engine was powerful
enough to pull the cars up the incline but
no sooner had the last car gained the solid
ground than the structure sank into the
water. The high water had undermined
the foundation.
GOVERNOR FLOWER has vetoed the bill to
prevent the display of foreign flags on pub
lie buildings in that state. In his veto
message he says: 1t is questionable
sort OF patriotism which seeks the enact
ment of such bills as this 1t is un-
American in spirit and is opposed to the
liberal traditions and progressive aims of
the American people. 1t is based on sickly
sentimentality and should find no support
| among brOad-minded and sound. bodied
Americans. Let us not restrict the display
OF bunting on gala days. Let us hoist the
| flags of all nations but above all others, let
the stars and stripes float triumphant, and
thus, in our display of colors and emblems,
we shall best symbolic the varied, yet
homogeneous, character of our population"