Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-09-14
TIE NEMA IN nnHnF.


CROPS
There was a frost throughout the count.
ry Monday morning which did great damage
to corn and other crops. 1t was general
throughout the Northwest. Crops on the
lowlands suffered the most The frost was
severe throughout southern Minnesota, north
ern Iowa and eastern Nebraska. A Huron
Oak despatch says: "The frost was light
and did but little damage in this section.
Two-thirds of the corn crop is matured while
the greater part of what remains is uninjur-
ed" A st. Paul despatch says that what lit.
tie corn there is along the Manitoba railroad
has been pretty nearly all frost.btten, and in
many places the crop has been killed out
right Along the Omaha road where the
greater part of the corn of that section Of the
is grown, the weather was not quite 80 cold,
but still the frost was heavy and serious dam
ago was done In northern Wisconsin ice
formed on standing water Some corn will
be saved but the crop in general is backward
and will prove nearly total loss. The frost
in that state was general and severe. A Mil
waukee despatch says There was n heavy
frost in this county last night, and corn on
the lowlands was killed. Buckwheat also
suffered, and the whole cucumber industry
was ruined. The loss in this enterprise alone,
which is a specially with many farmers, is
placed at $50, 600.
Iut ItpOTlh lEOul lOWh hIt tOulltllIB, uul
it is thought that the damage to corn in that
state will not be heavy. A Burlington dus-
patch says that no damage was done in that
section. In the vicinity of Des Moines to-
matoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkins suffer
| ed. Lowlaud corn is considerably damaged
at Muscatine. The greatest damage was done
at Mason City. Garden vegetables were hurt
| in Michigan, but corn was not seriously dam
| aged Only meager dispatches have been re-
! ceved at St. Louis, but from them it is thought
that the Missouri crops were not hurt much.
| Corn was nipped in Nebraska and northern
Illinois, and the frosts were felt in Indiana
and Ohio. Farmers in the vicinity Of Jack.
son, Mich, say that the corn crop is ruined
and that potatoes are much damaged. Some
/ localities report that none of the crops will
ripen. Grapes have been killed and beans
nearly 30. The garden vegetables and late
crops will amount to very little. Ice formed
two nights.
1t is reported from Kentucky that all the
tobacco on low ground and creek bottoms is
ruined, and vegetables everywhere are injur.
ed. A Lockport IN. Y. despatch says that
the loss in that vicinity will reach from s lO0,-
600 to $500, 600 The crop Of tomatoes is al
most entirely ruined Wheat, oats and vege-
tables were damaged in Ontario. Through
out New England and New York the frost
was general and severe. The Farmers Re
view of Chicago estimates the damage to corn
throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern
and northeastern Iowa, northern Illinois and
! Indiana aud the entire state of Michigan at
- per cent of the estimated crop. In Kan
sas Nebraska, southern and western Iowa,
southern Illinois and Indiana and all other
portions of the corn-producing country, it
says no material injury is reported.
John Wanamaker has given the Philadel
phia Young Mems Christian Association SjO,-
900 to pay of its floating debt and the balance
of SljO,p 900 was contributed by other parties
The widow of e. President Polk compet-
ed her sOth year last Tuesday and many prom
inent citizens of Nashville paid their respects
to her.
A collision on the Long Island railway at
Hunters Point n Y. last Sunday, caused the
death of two men and wounded eight others
A fire at NIillor's Falls, Mass, last Satur-
day evening, destroyed property valued at up
ward Of Sli,l0o.
During a rehearsal Of "Othcllo" at Col
ville's It'll street theatre in New York Mon
day, temporary bridge on the stage fell,
preciptating . or - persons distance of 10
feet and severely injuriug seven supernume-
raries.
We shall hereafter read of champion stair
climbers. On Tuesday Chicago man ascend
tu n lllkul VI ~ hltBh bOO llulbb III lcbb Alhl
10 hours on a wager-travelling nine miles of
stairs in the operation.
The steamer Nevada, of the Guion line,
brought G-1 Mormon immigrants to New York
last Saturday en- route to Utah and Idaho. OF
these 2G2 were British, mostly English, from
London, Liverpool, Manchester, aud other
towns, LOG Germans and Swiss, and PSI Scan
dinavians. from Denmark and Sweden. They
were in the main good class of immigrants
with money enough to pay their way One
woman was met on landing by brother an
sister, and induced to renounce Mormonism
and go to Philadelphia with them
There is now direct communication by
telegraph between New York and lilo Janeiro,
Brazil, and congratulations were exchanged,
Monday, between the New York Coffee Ex-
change and the Commercial Association of
Rio.
hate Cotton, negress poisoned whole
family at Cairo, ILL.,, Tuesday, with poisoned
coffee, because All Miller, one of the family,
would not marry her. One person has already
died and the rest are very sick.
The New Hampshire veterans are holding
their annual encampment at Wers this week,
The gathering on Wednesday was a brilliant
one with Gov. Hale aud other distinguished
guests.
The estate of Daniel Wordsworth of Hart
ford, Conn, held in trust since 1915 and
amounting to S7sG 600, has just been distrib
uted to the heirs, among whom are Genera
Alfred II. Terry and Rose Terry Cooke.
The wind blew at the rate of Va miles an
hour on Tuesday at smithville, n. c., and foi
six hours the average velocity was 20 miles al
hour
Hugh j. Hastings, proprietor Of the New
York Commercial Advertiser, died at Mon
mouth Beach, N, j., Wednesday evening.
The murder of Rose Amber at Stratiord
Conn, remains enveloped in mystery. A ne
gro and a half crazy man (who has gone t.
Philadelphia) are among the suspected par
ties.
The latest reports from the Java earth
quakes state that the number of natives killeC
at Bantam, Batavia and Lawpong is estimated
at 30, 900. The number of Europeans lost i
unknown. The garrison and the Dutch resi-
dent at Telokbetong were saved. Terrlbl,
distress prevails in Telokbetong as it is unap
proachable by sea, owing to the bay beint
filled with banks Of pumioe stone.
Twenty. three houses were burned in thu
village of Deep Greek, Va, on the canal o
the Dismal Swamp, 10 miles below Norfolk
Sunday by an organized band of incendia
ries. The loss will exceed S7j, 600, and tn,
people are homeless and in distress.
There was a riot in Canton, China, las
week, in which the houses of foreigners wer
looted The warke attitude of France wa
at the bottom of the difficulty. The news o
} the riot caused great sensation in Paris
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Vermont Crops.
The Boston journal of Tuesday has a sum
mary of Vermont crop reports in which tn
following estimate ia made of the total prod