Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-31
Dried apricots are likely to be proni
nent article OF export from California

Dried apricots are likely to be promi-
nent article Of export from California.
Next TO Texas Wyoming Is probably the
greatest stock growing region in the United
States. 1t is said that about 200, 900 cattle
are now feeding on the plains the estimated
value Of which is about $50, 900, 900.
Investigation makes it probable that
little well in a hollow and a big cesspool on
the hill above were the causes Of at least
three deaths al Little Bears Head. Rye
Beach New Hampshire
Texas will soon be well schooled state
The school fund will reach 81 400, 600. and
the organization OF schools is rapidly pro.
crossing Ninety-fou schools have been or.
ganized in one county during the past year
Colorado Is also coming to the front ~ d
wheat-producing state. The Central City
Register Call says The San Juan country
viii produce 30, 900 bushels Of wheat this
season. The northern counties Of the state
VIII produce ., 100000"
The quality Of hops this year is said to
be very inferior. The weather III Central New
York has been unfavorable to the growing
crops and great injury has been done by YER
min.
By the will of the late Edward Clark Of
New York, whose estate is worth $50 900 900.
the sum CT $50, 900 Is bequeathed to Williams
College, four grandsons of the deceased are
bequeathed $3.50, 900 each, while more distant
relatives receive sums ranging from SO, 900
to $50, 600.
The second annual state festival Of the
New Hampshire Patrons Of Husbandry was
held at Wiers beginning Tuesday and ending
too day.
The Floridians are preparing for next
winters visitors. ST. Augustine proposes TO
outrival Jacksonville by building the largest
hotel in the state
Capt John Hall prominent citizen of
New Brunswick, N. j., and contractor on
the Pennsylvania railroad, has Rbsconded ow-
ing $4,000.
Half million dollars worth of property
was burned at Williamsport Pa, Monday
night.
"A scaffold on the king Of Bavaria's new
palace, ct Lake Chem. fell last Friday, killing
% workmen and hurting II.
Three OF the family OF William Ludder
have died at Winsted, MINI, of eating cheese
prepared in brass kettle, and the rest are
not expected to recover.
Ore from the Davis mine has been pro
nounced by English experts TO be the purest
and best pyrites ever discovered English
consumers are negotiating for this ore, and
are DESTROYS Of making contracts for delivery,
beginning next May.
Five persons lost their lives by the burn.
ing Of tenement house in Boston last Sunday
morning The fire originated in a drunken
row. and three men have been arrested.
-Four persons were drowned at Wells
Beach Ne, while bathing last Thursday.
AT Charter Oak Park, Hartford, last Fri
day, VIM. Roekafeller's double team Cleora
and Independence trotted mile in 2.lG5.
Euif hac haaV bv4
phenson against Thomas Murphy, ex collector
Of the port Of New York, for the recovery of
an alleged fraudulent draft upon Hugh Hast
ings, editor Of the Commercial Advertiser.
The cities OF the United States are get.
ting into debt, They owe over $500, OOO, 900
more now than they did ten years ago
The mortality returns for England in
1881 record ninety-one persons who died at
100 years old and upward. OF these aged
persons sixty-six were women.
Lieut. Switzerland of the seth regiment
is the largest man in the British service. He
is eight feet four inches high and weighs
about 3G4 pounds
"A mob tried to lynch Miller Mclean,
negro charged with raping white lirl in
Wayne county Miss, Thursday night but
the sheriff refused TO surrender his prisoner.
The crowd then opened fire on the two and
shot both dead. The negro's body was rid
died with bullets.
-Caspar Gross, who was recently killed
by train in Illinois, belonged to a family
singularly unfortunate in unnatural deaths
His eldest brother froze 70 death in Napole-
one retreat from Moscow in 1872, one was
drowned in the Rhine, one was gorsd to
death by bull, one dropped dead in grave
yard while attending the funeral of neigh
Dor, and a sister was run over by horses aud
killed