The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-03-27
DOMESTIC IN BRIEF.

VICE. PRESIDENT STEVENSON and family
will sp md the entire summer visiting the
principal cities OF Europe but will devote
most of tn, ir time to London and Paris.
THE Nebraska legislature has passed a
bill forbidding the sale Of cigarettes to any
person under twenty one years of age. The
bill as passed by the house absolutely pro-
hibited the manufacture or sale of cigar
cites, but was amended in the senate.
THE packing houses of Reid Brothers in
Armourdale, a suburb of Kansas City, were
burned last Sunday evening, involving a
loss OF 100000. From spectacular stand
point the fire was magnificent thing. The
packing house plant is located in the West
Bottoms. and thousands of people gathered
on the West Bluff at Kansss City to view il
FRANK STONE of San Francisco told G. p.
Huntington, president OF the Southern Pa.
cifc railroad plausible and pitiful story
and succeeded in getting pass from Mr..
Huntington. He then went before the
grand jury and gave evidence that caused
Mr.. Huntington to be indicted for violating
the interstate law. The San Franci, co pa
pers rightly characterize Stons as the mean
est man on the Pacific coast.
The Illinois legislature has again shown
its eccenuicity by considering bill, which
bids fair to become a law, to tax bachelors
and establish an "old maids home " VIII en-
the tax fund shall have reached $4,000
The bill defines bachelors as single men of
thirty two years or over, who have never
been married, and exempts men who have
reached sixty five, who are physically unfit
or who can prove to a board of unmarried
women over sixty years that they have pro-
posed marriage at least three times to mar
riageable females and been refused each
time.
THE war between St. Paul and Minneap-
oils goes merrily on. St. Paul has formally
made an offer to the legislature of Como
park as a suitable site for the state univer-
sity. This offer will be backed by bonus
OF 81 900 900 from the citizens OF st. Paul.
Como park contains 300 acres of land and
the property is worth $4,000 900. This &C.
ton is to be taken in retaliation for the &C.
ton of Minneapolis in offering Loring park
as site for the state capitol. An amusing
possibility of the whole fair is that the
legislature will accept both propositions
that to rtmove the state capitol from St.
Paul to M inneapolis and that to remove the
state university from Minneapolis to ST.
Paul,
A SCANDAL connected with the distribu
ton of seeds has recently been unearthed
at Washington. Secretary Morton some
weeks ago wrote to the purchasing agent OF
the seed division OF the department, inform E
ing him that members of congress had been
charged with disposing OF their seeds in
way other than was contemplated by law,
and instructing him to verif, these charges.
In less than a week the agent brought to
the secretary the written order Of a member
of the house for his entire quota of seeds,
which he proposed to sell to the depart
ments agent for S75. The purchase was di-
rected to be made, and the agent gave his
check, which was properly Endorsed by the
vender and the money withdrawn from the
bank. The department officials decline to
mention the name Of the congressman now,
or to locate him, but the assurance is given
whole transaction and
will appear in the secretary's next annual
report. The secretary is making an effort
to abolish the free distribution of seeds en-
rirely, for the reason that it has grown into
an evil that was never contemplated when
the original law was enacted.