The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-21
Domestic.

THE secretary of the treasury estimates
that So, 875 638 will be required to carry on
that department for the next fiscal year.
The five silver states-Colorado. Nevada,
Idaho, Montana and Utah-have popula-
ton of S87 ,408, which is less than half the
population of New York City.
THE state of Arkansas is slow coach.
Official returns of the state election have
just appeared They show democratic
plurality, in 81 out of 60 countless of SO 900,
against AS, 900 in 1894.
The United States Cotton Company of
Central Falls, R. l., and the Salmon Falls,
n. H., Manufacturing Company have made
an average reduction of eight per cent in
the wages of their operatives.
In Spaulding county, Georgia, a negro
lately committed felonious assault upon a
young woman. He was caught, and, while
in the sheritf's charge, was hanged and shot
to death by mob. This placard was at
tached to his body: "Thus we defend our
women from outrage"
THE board of election commissioners of
Massachusetts has decided that the demo-
pop convention held in Faneuil Hall, Bos-
ton, was the legal one. So George Fred
Williams will be compelled, willy-nilly, to
run as candid ate for governor of Massa-
chusetts on that ticket.
THE state department at Washington has
had positive and practical assurances that
in case the American minister at CONSTANT
nople deems it advisable to have a vessel
convenient at call, no opposition will be
made by Turkey to the passage of the
Bancroft" through the Dardanelles.
COLONEL ALBERT CLARKE, the we'll
known Vermonter, now of Wellesley, Mass e,
declines to run as an Independent candi-
date for congress, though strongly impor-
tuned to do so, on the ground that the
proper place to wash political linen is the
convention hall and not before the gaze OF
an mpertinent public.
The slaughter of game in the Maine
woods has been so great since the opening
OF the season that many are deeply con-
cerned over the possible determination of
the deer. moose and caribou. The extent
OF che slaughter can be imagined when IL is
said that the average nu nber OF carcasses
that pass through Bangor daily is forty
deer. 1t is estimated that not fewer than
6 600 deer have been and will be killed
there this season.
On Friday, October Is, 1916, ether was adj
mnistered as an anesthetic by DR.. w. L. G.
Morton, Boston dentist. On Friday, Oc-
tOber Is, 1886, the Massachusetts, General
Hospital commemorated the fiftieth ami
versary of his discovery-a discovery which
has alleviated pain in the case OF millions
and has produced revolution in surgery
and dentistry. Physicians were present
from all over the country, and Europe was
represented by DR.. Cabot Fox of London,
The occasion was honored by the presence
OF distinguished guests and graced by that
OF beautiful women. The exercises were
preceded by reception in the old amphi'
theater, which had been restored to the ap-
pearance it had in 1876 Addresses were
made by President Dalton, Dr. Robert Il.
Davis (who was present as student when
ether was first administered), Lord Playfair,
Professor Welch and others. Though DIR,
Morton endured obloquy and encountered
opposition, the occasion furnished new tes-
timony that true merit usually finds recog-
milton.
The following, which has never before
been made public, is an edict made to the
Catholic church in 1899 by a convocation Of
bishops and archbshops called by cardinal
Satoll as the representative OF the Pope:
I'VE strictly forbid any one, whether
bishop or priest, and this is the express pro-
hibitiDn Of the sovereign pontiff, through
the Sacred Congregation, either by act or
threat, to exclude from the sacramento