The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-01-05
Domestic.

The benefits derived from the extension
of the rural free delivery OF mail matter
will, it is expected, be increased Is soon as
authority can be obtained from Congress on
the subject. At the request Of the House
postoffice committee FIRST assistant Post
master General Heath has in pre- paration an
amendment to the service ap, reputation
bill giving to carriers in rural districts au.
thOrity to receive cash and obta money
orders for patrons and to receipt for and de-
liver registered letters.
JOHN HKALKY died last week in hospi-
tai in New York from the effects OF wounds
inflicted by George Lincoln, designer.
Healey had been out Of work for some time.
Lincoln, who was married, befriended him
On Christmas day Lincoln entered the
home intoxicated and threatened to strike
his wife Healey pleaded for her. The
wife ran into another room and then
returned, hearing sounds OF struggle.
She found Healey covered with blood and
Lincoln gone to the hospital. The latter,
who was slightly stabbed, was arrested on
the way and brought to Healey's bedside.
Hesley positively denied that he had ever
implicate in any manner the man who had
befriended him.
PAULINE GENaEL, a comedy German girl.
was sent back to Germany last Wednesday
from the barge Office in New York. The
young woman recently eloped with Theo.
dore Greenwald from the city Of Hamburg,
where the two were employ ed In toy shop.
The girl 10 not yet out Of her teens, and her
parents objected to the match, so the young
folks took passage for New York on the
steamship Andalusi on December 4. One
night when the Andalusi was far out at sea
the young man lost his reason, and getting
in possession of revolver, he fired two
shots at Pauline, neither Of which took ef-
feet, and then turned the revolver on him
self with fatal effect. His body was buried
at sea, and the sorrowing young girl was
forced to return to her native shores and to
the home she deserted for her lover.
New ENaLAND's abandoned farms are to
be reclaimed. restocked and again oper-
ated on q plan that is primarily philan.
thropic and secondarily commercial. A
corporation has been formed, with the Sec
rotary OF the New York wool exchange at
its head, TO purchase arabic lands and
farm buildings in the states OF Massachu-
setts, Conn ecticut, New Hampshire and
Vermont, and to resell both on such terms
as to attract purchasers in large cities, and
to relieve the coDgested centers OF popula-
ton. The plan is endorsed by John Wanna
maker, Mrs. Ballington Booth, Nathaniel
8. Rose nan, manager OF the Hebrew charity
fund. aud William r. Sessions, secretary Of
the Observation-Disclosures board OF agricul-
ture.
DANGEROUS counterfeits OF 500 silver
certificates have been received at the United
States treasury. The chief engraver at the
bureau of engraving pronounced the coun-
tel felt very dangerous production. 1t
was engraved on steel and printed on two
pieces OF paper pasted together after col
ored silk fibre had been distributed between
them. The work, he said. was that OF a
very careful and excellent engraver, and
while there was no sppreciable difference
betw cen the genuine note aud the counter
felt TO the casual observer, under a glass
many slight differences were discovered.
These, however, were extremely difficult OF
description. In view OF the dangerous
character OF the counterfeit Secretary Gage
has stopped the issue and has called in the
500 0Co, 900 of outstanding 800 silver ceit
ficates.