The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-23

November 2, 1888; lowest temperature, 14o,
on November 30, 1891 average date " fist
killing frost In auth mn, Septem Der q aver
age date OF last killing frost in spring, May
16. Precipitation (ran and melted snow)-
Average for the month, 2 "a inches; average
number OF days with 01 Of an inch or
more, 10; greatest monthly precipitation,
1882 inches, in 1887 andI1888; least monthly
precipitation, 1893 inches, in 1893; greatest
amount Of precipitation recorded in any
twenty four consecutive hours, 100 inches,
on November 1913, 1890; greatest amount
of snowfall recorded in any twenty-four con-
secutive hours (record extending to winter
of 1878 only, "a inches, on November 10,
of clear days, 4; partly cloudy days, 9; cloudy
days II. Wind-The prevailing winds have
been from the south; highest velocity, 81
miles, from the south, on November IS, 1892,
A SPECIAL meeting of the city council was
held last Friday evening. George K. Mills
was given permission to lay drain across
College street opposite his new residence.
Daniel McCarty was given permission to
run meat cart; w. III. Farrar to occupy
part of the sidewalk in front of his store on
Main street with fruit stand; George l..
Blanchard to put in drain in front of the
the store of George l.. Nichols in Blanch-
ard block; Dayton p. Clarke, to connect
with the main sewer; the Montpelier Beef
Company to slate the roof of their store
house in depot square; S. b. Sibley to put
on an addition to his meat market on upper
Elm street, and e X. Skinner to put We
randa on his store on State street. The
council voted to lay an inch water pipe to the
residences OF Frank e Grout and George
ID. Butler, they to pay one quarter of the
expense. Permission was given w. II.
Lombard to connect with the Berlin water
pipe opposite Green Mount Cemetery, he to
put in the pipe at his own expense. A. G.
Brown was granted permit to erect a tel
ephone pole at the head of State street. The
petition Of Arthur p. Johonnott for an ex
tension of the plank walk on Charles street
was referred to the committee on streets
and sidewalks. 1t was voted that the city
bear the expense of laying sewer to the
Hsaton hospital. An adverse report was
made on the petition for sidewalk from
the head Of fremont street to Ridge street
Adjourned.
A SENSATIONAL dispatch from Montpelier
to the Free Press, on Saturday of last week
proclaimed that W. L. Draper of this city
was dying of tuberculosis, contracted by
drinking the milk of his own COW. The
dispatch averred further that the COW had
been killed and found to be badly diseased;
that sister COW owned by &. j. Gleason,
Esq, had also been shown TO be tubercu.
lous and had been killed. The dispatch
announced that DR.. Kemp, Mr.. Draper's
physician, was treating his patient for ty-
pho d fever and consistently wound up its
category of calamities by stating that the
victim was delirious, was livery low" and
exhibited every indication of "blood poison
ingl" tuberculosis blazed through the
scare headlines, but by what mysterious
transformation it became at the end of the
dispatch case of blood poisoning is known
only to the doctors on the Free Press staff.
AT the time, neither the Draper nor the
Gleason COW had been killed. The latter
still lives, but the former was butchered
Tue sday aftern BON. DR.. Kemp advises us
that Mr.. Diapers case is plainly one of
typhoid fever and that the pa tent is doing
very well. The dispatch to the Free Press,
like great deal of the news that appears
in its columns, was exceedingly sensa-
tional, and was rendered tenfold more
startling by the accomplished headline art
list. There are reports of cases of tubercu-
losis among some of the cows in this vicin-
ity, but the real facts are not yet sufficiently
known to warrant any statement respecting
the existence of the disease, except in the
case of the Draper COW. DR.. Wakefield had
applied the tuberculin test and the ami
NAL had reacted decisively. He killed her
yesterday afternoon and the autopsy
showed that she was honeycombed with
tuberculosis. Her right lung was mass of
tubercles and the left was in similar con-
dition, small part OF this organ being the
animals only means of respiration. Exten-
sive LESSONS were found on the intestines.
Masses of tubercles adhered to the ribs, and
several large lunches were found in the
liver which were illed with fluid and
broken-down tissue. The Emphatic glands
aud udder also showed traces of the disease.
In short the animals internal organs were
wreck and a mass of corruption. The doctor
had quite an audience and again scored one
against the doubters, and confirmed the
convictions of others. The COW was grade
Durham Her sanitary surroundings have
been all right, no fault at all in that direc-
ton. COW in Mr.. g. j. Gleason's herd,
from which the Draper COW came, has been
tested and responds to the test. A similar
result follows test of Hon. b. f. Fifelds
cow. The latter animal has been pastured
with the Gleason cow, we are told. The
existence of the disease in Mr.. Gleasons
herd is traceable to Hostein COW brought
by Mr.. Gleason from Massachusetts some
time ago.