The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-10-17
corn crop 10 6no OOO. 900 bush els; wheat 400, :
DOC, 600 or S8 600 600 less than last year.

600 900 or S8 600 600 less than last year.
LAST year the Florida orange crop was esti-
mated at 50COO 600 oranges. This year just
double the quantity Of fruit is expected.
THIRTY Irishmen who have inst begun work
on the International railroad in Florida are the
first white lahorers ever employed in construct
ing roads In the state.
TIVE United States supreme court has fixed
the first Monday that court Is in session after
Christmas HOLIDAYS for hearing the argument
In the legal tender cases.
Mrs A M. BOSTON, colored, has sued Mrs.
Powell colorpd, mother NJ the presidents pti
vate messenger, for $40 0O0 damages, for al
legged r. foctions on the plaintiffs character.
AT Port Jervis, he who has fancy for II,
may at low water. stand on a rock In the river
with one foot in New York the other in Penn
sylvauia and touch with his hand New jersey
SEVERAL prominent voung men have been
arrested at Roseda'e Kan, for compelling a
negro Starrett H,rver. to swear to remove his
children from the public school thare, and for
assaultug Frank Halsinger, the chief school
director.
THREE dredgos and pile-drivers, with large
number NJ workmen. have arrived at ,ndwich,
Mass. and work will be at once commenced
upon tho Cape Cod ship canal Within three
| weeks 800 men will be laboripg on the line OF
the canal.
| AT Morehead MINI. October 9, while four
teen laborers we're sleeping In the lower story
! Of granary Norihrnff's farm. the floor
above fell under the weight of IA 600 bushels
Of oats. and four OF the men were killed by
snffocation.
THE now postal orders are already being
raised" The fgnres are punched ont fer the
large sum. and the rieces pasted into the noe.
from which the small fignres had been punched
| by the postmaster. Sine better system OF
protection must he devised.
| Tuu no., oh n GOurp
ont the probable rednctions in the revenue for
| the wear under the operation nj the new reve-
| nue. laws. and they find that II the rate FOR the
| quarter ia maintained for the year the falling
off in the revenue will be abont $50, 100000.
THE Oreaonian says that Mrs. Miller. the
mother of Jo"qnin Miller. was married at Port
land on the Al. greatly To the disgust ri the
rest Of the family. The bride Is about sixty,
and the groom, named Allison, IL barely
twentv-two, and was once in her employ as a
farm hand.
In Boston. the marriage. the 18th. OF John F.
Andrew. son OF the war governor. and Misc
Harriet Thaver. daughter of the late Nathaniel
mayer. was the social event 1T the season.
The whole DISPLAY cost thousands OF dollars
me cOmpanv n-esent was ut conrsa. brilliant
and fashionable The cernmonv was performed
by the Rev. Dr.. Ph'ins Brooks.
THE telegram wire between Jarome park and
| New York CITY tanned Saturday and false
rpsHtS III me rHfea we've sent, nNOn WHICH
| nools were paid in the six eight pool-rooms
before the fraud was discovered At Pitts.
hrrgh. Pa. Prira & Co. NJ that city Maid ont
81 bNO IN these false renorts. and at Baltimore
several hnrdred dollars were paid ont.
JOIN DU Bots of On Rois. C'earfold county,
Pa. IL said 10 Re worth S14 nm ON Six Hmm
dred men ara employed IN his lnmher mills
one thonsard get the 'imher from the woods
and elk hnndrpd are mining coal for him. HI
offers IN erect conrt honse and rnb'ic hnild
irps ~ q new county Ia made NJ rarts ut Clear
field Elk, and Jefferson counties, and called
On B lis
AN earthquake occnr-ed at San Francisco or
the night of October 9th, the heaviest evneri
enced since the great me nj 1858. Buildings
eroaned. roofs cracked. and many rerson'
WISHED half nrdressed from houses and hotels
The fact that It was within dar 1t the ami
! versary NJ the earthquake NJ 1853 increased
the fears of the reorla Earthquakes are re
ported dnring the night and morning from sav
eral rlares along the coast. The weather wa
oppressive.
At Lancaster. Penn. last Wednesday. Tx
2 Bnzzard. a notorious character. got ont ut hi
cell at the county prison. and locked In tn
onlv two watchmen on dnty. He then released
q eleven companions. the worst criminals in tn
! Jail After he'ring themselves tn food AM
putting the telephone ont of order. they left
= aking thu KEYS The gang armed themse've
with shot enns. revolvers and knives hefor
a leaving The men who ESCAPED were aervin
n terms of fonr tn nineteen wears The shor
: term men refused tn Join them. Bnzzard an
his hrother belonged tn the Welsh Monn'ai
a gang and were serving long terms for burglary
!. WHEN a cyclone strnck Arcadia. Wis. rf
= Gently. the air Yves 70 charged with electric't'
that lights conld not he made to burn. tn
!. people rushed 10 the cellars In DARKNESS In O'
v der tn avoid danger The outward atmospher
was NJ a reddsh.grpen color. with strong sn
= phuric odor The deafening roar Of the to'
y nado was indescrihab'e. Barns and outbuilf
h ngs we're lifted from their foundations an
A torn IN fragments. Trees, brick and ston
q filled the air and In some instances were drive
% through the sides ~ bindings. Some orchard
- were DESTROYED and many horses and cattl
. killed. State Senator Comstock's sorghum
y mill was wrecked. All the injured person
v will probably recover.