The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-12

in the South and elsewhere there will be an
equal amount short, so that the entire crop
promises to be about the same as last year.
TIE rage for cattle-raising is on the decline
in Texas, and ranches are not half as much in
demand as they were six months ago Old
ranchmen who have sold out during the last
two years made a good thing OF 1t. Little fel-
lows who started in with fifty head and were
going to be cattle king" in a few years are
selling out without regard to cost, and Texas
beef is cheaper
THE Savannah Echo, a newspaper edited by
coored men, makes the astounding charge that
within the last six months nearly two hundred
innocent, law-abiding, peaceful colored people
residing in the interior Of Georgia have been
murdered, shot, whipped and driven from their
homes by vigilance committees and ku-klux,
and that the leading journals instead OF de-
nounciDg these outrages, keep perfectly quiet.
The jury returned a verdict of acquittal in
the Frank James case. Public sentiment in
Kansas City strongly condemns the verdict in
the James trial. The governor has declined to
| comment on the verdict. Indictments are still
| pending against James for the murder of West
| fall and Sheets and the Blue Cut robbery, but
| the action of the courts cannot be foreshad-
| owed. There are rumors that the jury was
| fixed"
In 1873 Benjamin L. Bates OF Boston made
conditional contract to give Bates college OF
| Lewiston, Maine, 100000, provided 100000
more was raised within five years. His heirs
| asserted that the condition was not fulfilled.
The trustees of the college brought suit to Sc
| cure the amount The full vote OF the bench
| Of the state supreme court sustains the verdict
| of the lower court, which decided against the
| college.
AN interview with Henry Ward Beecher was
| published at San Francisco Thursday, in which
de denouuces the treatment of the Chinese ON
| the Pacific coast The New York pastor Is al
| ready so unpopular there on account OF his pro-
Chinese utterances that the audiences attend
| ing his lectures in San Francisco have been
very light, and 1t is believed that the falling off
in attendance will be so great on account of
| Thursdays interview that Plymouth church of
that city, which has promised to pay Beecher
So, 400 for his lectures, will be heavy loser.
AN estimate, which seems to have been made
with considerable pains, says that the number
of melons raised in Georgia this season was not
far from 6, 500, 600. About ,200, 900 were eaten
in Georgia, made into syrup, opened for the
seeds, or left on the vines. Three acres of
land produce two carloads. There are about
], 200 melons in carload The cost OF raising
a carload is not far from S14, and that of gath
ering and loading is S15 The average net
profit is about S45 to the carload. The total
profit on the Georgia crop this season was
nearly quarter of a million dollars.
ONE of the fastest railroad rides on record
occurred recently on the Northern Pacific road,
on a track which crosses the main range of the
track a party in a construction train heard that
a runaway train was coming down upon them.
The brakes were loosed and the two trains
rushed down the mountain at the rate of mile
minute. Sharp curves and edges of cliffs were
passed at terrific speed. The ladies scream ed
with fright and all passengers were greatly
alarmed, but fortunately both trains kept the
track and reached the valley below in safety
NEW telegraph company in which a mum.
Der of Philadelphia capitalists are interested,
has been formed and will build a line from
Boston to Washington. The right of way for
} the greater part of the line has already been
obtained, and work will soon begin in New
Jersey, through the principal towns OF which
state the line will pass. Manager Pennock OF
the American Rapid companys office, has
been made superintendent of construction, and
will resign from the American Rapid October
/, when, he says, the American Rapid will pass
under the control Of the Bankers and Mer
chants company.
AT the burning of the Long Beach hotel a
Hunters Point, women rushed from their room
J and made for the stairway, leaving behinc
clothing and vauabes. Men threw thei
trunks down stairs knocking holes in the walls
The Marquis of Montabel ran ont of the hote
in his night dress. followed by members of hi
family in scant attire. They left 10 their room
4 diamonds and jewelry valued at S75, 900
Large chunks of fire fell on the roofs of thu
hotels and other buildings, burning holes il
them. The musical instruments and mus
were totally consumed. as were the bathing pa
d vilion and laundry. The cause of the fire /
. unknown. The loss is 100000
r NEVER before, within the memory of tina
= famous oldest inhabtant, was so much build
ing going on in New York and Brooklyn.
a recent count here showed that buildings enoug
: are going up to make homes for 10, ia fam
lies or so, S74 persons, Many of these are i'm
q mense and costly " French fiat " houses
accommodating from twenty or thirty to on
hundred and fifty families each. They rang
from seven to fifteen stories high, and on NOR
q than one of them the outlay counts up anon
j the millions. In Brooklyn 1888 buildings, NOR
than six for each working day, were complete
r last year, at a cost of more than So 500, 00t
Q In the first six months Of this year 1165 wer
finished in the same months last year 800.