The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19
ing been repealed, is still on the statute books


600 into the United States treasury to quit
their condolences
THE New York Herald uses 800 Edison
lamps, san 49, Commercial Advertiser, SO,
Mail and Express 40 and Truth 10.
WITHIN three years the number of saw-mills
In Arkansas has increased from three hundred
and nineteen to over one thousand two hundred.
THE camels introduced iuto Arizona some
six years ago have 80 increased In numbers as
to become troublesome and 1t Is proposed to
hunt them.
THE returns for one week from one hundred
Of the small money order offices show that
forty.two per cent of the money order service
was in postal notes.
SINCE the civil service law became operative
the necessity for the continuance OF bureaus
for appointments IL doubted. Their abolish
ment will save over $40, 600 annually.
EIGHTY packages of silk lace, valued at
| $4,000, were seized by revenue officers at New
York, Tuesday 1t is claimed they were
smuggled by employees OF the steamship City
of Berlin.
KATE CLAxroN. the actress, while at lunch
with her husband in the dining-room of the
Continental hotel, Philadelphia, Wednesday,
was robbed of a satchel containing jewelry val
ued at $3.50.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has issued proclama-
ton that the worlds industrial and cotton CEN
tennial exposition will be opened the first Mon
/
tinuing until May 81, 1885.
THE Rev. Mark Hopkins, D., for over
thirty years president of the American board
of foreign missions, will, at the annual meet
! ing OF the board at Detroit October 2, decline
reelection to that position.
SINCE the death of Tom Thumb, General Abe
! Sawyer Of Kew West, Fla, claims to be the
smallest dwarf in the world, being thirty-two
inches high, nineteen years OF age, and weigh
ing only thirty seven pounds.
SPECIAL Customs Agent Bracket of New
York, reports one hundred and ninety-one
seizures and twenty-seven suits for violations
of the customs laws last year. Over $3.50, 900
in goods and penalties were recovered
PRESIDENT MCCosH In behalf of the college
OF New Jersey, has warned the members OF the
sophomore class that hazing will not be per-
mitted, and states that it is as unpopular with
most of the students as with the faculty.
THE superintendent of the revenue marine
service, at Wilmington N c., reports that the
hurricane on the 10th and 18th inst. was the
worst ever known in that vicinity There was
much damage to buildings and shipping.
THE farmers of northern Dakota have ceased
in their rejoicngs over their enormous wheat
harvest, in view Of the problem as to where to
store the grain, the elevators and barns being
entirely inadequate to the size of the crop
THE first comptroller Of the treasury reports
money In circulation az follows; Total paper
=
512 Assuming the population to be 80 600, 600,
the distribution per capita would be $50 20.
THE Chicago Ne,cS publishes letters from
physicians in answer to a circular asking their
opinions as to the probability Of a cholera cpl
demic. Most of them anticipate more or less
| cholera next year and urge the necessity of a
thorough observance of sanitary precautions.
THE population of Rugby, Thomas Hughes
colony in Tennessee, is now about $50. The
colonists engage most proftably In the raising
Of garden produce, as the season for fruits and
vegetables is three weeks earlier than it Is
around Cincinnati, the principal market The
climate is very healthful.
THERE is a baseless scafe about the corn
crop. Seven-tenths of the whole crop is grown
within regions only lightly touched by the re.
cent frosts. The chief damage Is confined to
the states of New York, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota, which in 1880 yielded only six
per cent of the whole crop.
A PORTION of the Amoskeag mills has been
shut down at Manchester, N H., till the river
rises or the engines, now being put in, are
ready to run, which will be in about four
weeks. From $500 to 1000 operatives are
temporarily idle. The other mills will run
nearly If not quite on full time.
RUFUS HATCH was feeced out Of IS Sunday
by a drummer in hotel at Rockford, H.. who
was doing the three card monte trick Rufus
thought he knew which box the button was
under. He says it Is the first time he was ever
caught In another mans game, and he had to
come to his old home to get taken in.
THE Chinese minister recently celebrated the
event OF his little daughters reaching the age
of four weeks, according to Chinese custom,
nv dinner served In American style. Miss Mi
Ju is the first Chinese child born in Washing
ton, and receives the name Mi, which means
America, as compliment to this government.
THE oil business in Bradford, Penn, booms
as it never doomed before. The actual sales
| ~, IL fNrt
days were "a 622, 900 barrels, the heaviest sales
for that period in the history OF any oil ex-
change. The sales at the Producers exchange
for the same time were nearly 1900, 900 bar
rels There is great excitement.
THE Kershaw Is. CO. Gazette says there can
be no doubt that South Carolina is in better
condition, as far as general prosperity and ac-
emulation Of capital is concerned than she
was before the war. The wealth Of the state
il not now confined to a few, but is shared by
the masses. The people are more progressive
and energetic than before the war.
THE funeral of the late Hugh J. Hastings of
the Commercial Advertiser took place In New
York Friday. The pall-bearers were President
Arthur, Secretary Folger, Hon. Roscoe Conk-
ling, William H. Vanderbilt, Hugh j. Jewett,
Jaw Could Samuel Sloan General Thomas, T..
Eckert, Jenkins Van Setback, william G. Weed
Of Albany, N. Y, Isaac England, j. Nelson
Tappan and John Hoey.
quarter of an hour, prevailed Sunday last
about eleven clock in the forenoon, at Ben
netts, in the Adirondacks, about ten miles
above North Creek. A Saratogan was there
at the time and says that quite large amount
of the CONCEALED vapor fell. A snow storm on
the 9th day of September in this latitude is
quite as rare as a similar phenomenon in August
Pittsburgh jury gave verdict against q
} railroad company for the amount OF money
stolen from passenger in sleeping car
Since the defendant" the judge charged
"sold ticket for two dollars In addition tc
, the regular rates of passage. offered the facil
tiles of sleeping as An inducement to pay thu
extra money, 1t bound itself to protect its pa
irons while they were asleep and for the time
: being helpless"
: A NEW lock for mail pouches will go into us'
r simultaneously with the new two-cent lette
9 postage stamp on October l. Fifty Thousand
keys have been sent out to postmasters an(
: other persons authorized to have them. They
: were sent in separate registered envelopes, ant
1 every one of them reached its destination
| Two hundred thousand of the new locks hav'
| been distributed. They are Of corrugated
STEEL and are lighter and are said to be stronge
4 than those now in use.
THE peach-growing centre Is gradually NOV
t ing south. A few yeers ago there were grea
1 orchards in New Jersey. Then Delawar
: was the chief producer Now Maryland ant
Y Virginia are coming to the front. The larges
. peach farms are in Maryland. The Round Tol
r farm has 1875 900 peach trees On the estate Q
| Colonial Watkins thara are 100 600 A DeaCl