Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-07-28
Intensely hot weather ard an entire alb

Intensely hot weather ard an entire abb
sence of rain since the first of July has
changed the aspect of the crops OF Georgia
very much. and threatens their cntiro des-
truction. Up to July the cotton prospect
was most excellent, but now the cotton IS
beginning to droop and in some instances
die. In some counties the planters,
alarmed at the prospect, are holding pray
er-meetin@s for rain, and unless 1t comes
soon the cotton and corn crops are sure to
be seriously injured.
The Newport ELprtss noticing the arrival
of those Harvard pedestrians ut that place
says the students ''walked two hundred and
thirty-two miles in the whole, having
commenced their pcregrinations at Green
field. Mass, on the Connecticut river, on
the Goth of June. They were red faced
set of fellows on arrival, and one man IN
stinctivelv thought of his pocket book as
he first saw them rounding the point in the
road"
When the Tweed ring discovered that
Mr. Tilden and his coadlu;ors meant
business. it was found convenient to have
4 ''burylary'' in the controllers Office in
volving the disappearance of damaging
documentary evidence. Now that Mr..
Tilden is cornering the canal ring, it i
rumored that important records have
disappeared from the offices of the division
and resident engineers for the eastern
division Report adds that they relate to
contracts awarded to Mr.. DeniSon who
refused to show the commissioner hi, books
and was jailed for that contempt.
LOWER RATES FOR WHEAT.-D~patche>
from Chicago report the wheat market,
Tuesday, rs Irregular, with lower prices,
sales having been made rs low Is 81, 16
per bllshel. The decline had resulted in
greater activity in that market, and il will
stimulate foreign shipments. which Were
rise. Corn was also heavy. the price hay
ing fallen off to Il II cents per bushcl At
Chicago, owing in some degree 10 the large
receipts at that point.
The North Troy Pdtt}iuha Savs Ar
engagements are fat being completed for
the LAYING of the rails on the road from
Sorel to Drummon,lville, thereby connect
inc the Southeastern with the ST. Lawrence
River. Hon. A. Is. Foster. Nj. Ray
mond, the President of the P.t>~ump>ic
and Dodge, Of the Boston, Concord and
Montreal, were over the line last week To-
ascertain the probable amount Of traffic
the line would furnish railway Their
is no doubt hat that track LAYING will be
commenced at once
4 review of the d"in@s of the Connect
cut Legislature, just adjourned, shows that
the constitutional amendment providing
for fail and biennial State elections and
winter sessions of the Legislature received |
its final legislative sanction and will he |
voted on by the people in November |
Other constitutional amendments received |
initial action, and steps We're taken looking
TO ultimate re,listricting of the State. 80 ;.s
to give the cities more than the two repre-
sentatives which thcy now have in COM
mon with many Of the smaller towns
Mary +. Seelvc, Il missionary. who died /
recently at Calcutta, India. was II niece Of
both Professor Julius H. Setlye Of Amherst
and President l.. Clark SccIve of Smith |
College at Northampton. She bore the
title of NJ. D., having taken Il medical |
course ut the Boston and PHILADELPHIA
Medical Colleges
Norman Taylor of Woodstock. Vt. ran /
twenty miles II Glen Mitchell (>lratoraD. |
on Friday. in two hours. twenty minutes
and fourteen seconds, and thereby won
bet that H. could do The Dis ,n..,. in>iI. of /
two hours and half
TrERlrLE EXPLOSION IN IuwA.-A
Shocking accident occurred a, Iowa Civ.
on the night of the I'D. Ono ofihe cooking
tanks in Close x sons paper mill cNplod-
ed. causing the explosion of four others.
and utterly destroying 4 large quantity of !
stock. the engine. and more than half The
mill: six men We're Killed. The bodies
ot three We're blown five hundred feel
across the street and over the houses. The
bodies of two others We're buried in In.
ruins Another, Scutchman named Wi
tr Linton, who WIS in the cut->traw
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