The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20

lNtpoTlS lIOln various ulStflcIS showed LllaJ
the order was in very fiourishng condi-
ton, and that many new members had been
admitted since the last session held last
January. The order has grown especially
in the eastern part of the state where large
accessions were reported. The treasurer
reported a balance of over $500 in the treas
ury, The session adjourned Thursday
afternoon, after one of the most successful
meetings ever held, to meet in White River
junction the second Wednesday in October
1887. Following are the officers elected:
G.. w. c. T., George II. Smalley, Lyndon
G. V. T., Mrs. o. A. Wiley, Sharon; G. s.,
G. ID. Edgerton, Northfeld; G.. r., Joseph
Barton, Burington G.. A., o. ID. Edgerton,
Mortified; G.. S. j. r., Mrs. L. G. Grandcy,
Newport; G.. Chap, Rev. Mr.. Bacon.
other Localities.
AN earthquake at Cape Breton is reported.
THE pork-packers' strike in Chicago is
virtually ended.
TERRIBLY destructive fires are raging in
the Indian Territory.
THE business part of Salisbury, Md, has
been destroyed by fire.
THE American Congregational Union
wants 500, 900 more year.
A REVIVAL of Fenian and anarchist out
RACES is expected in London.
PowDERLY has been reelected grand
master of the Knights of Labor.
SIR WILLIAM WHITE has accepted the
position of British minister to Turkey.
A GANG of fifty " toughs are breaking up
prohibition meetings in the Lebanon valley,
Penn.
THE election for legislators in the Prov
ince of Quebec has resulted in a liberal
victory
THERE are many cases of yellow fever at
occurred.
AT Jersey City, n j., the bursting of an
oil lamp in Ames & Co.. rolling mill caused
a 100000 fire.
THE small town of Oakland H., is almost
wiped out by fire. The loss is three hum
dred thousand dollars.
BEEcHER preached farewell sermon in
London Sunday night He received many
kind expressions from people.
Hon. A S. HEWITT accepts the Tam
many nomination for mayor of New York
provided the nominees shall be satisfactory
to him.
REV. JOHN FORSYTH, DID,, LID, the
celebrated theologian and professor, died
Sunday night in Newburg, n. Y, aged
seventy-fve.
SUNSET Cox, minister to Turkey, is so
confident that he will be elected to congress
that he will probably resign his present Of
nee III lew udyS.
THE mayor of Minneapolis has urged rail-
roads and striking switchmen to arbitrate.
The railroad officials reply that they have
nothing to arbitrate.
A LAKE propeller. the " Selah Chamber
lain" was sunk in Lake Michigan last week
by New York Central line steamer. Five
of the crew were lost.
THE storm of Thursday was particularly
severe at Buffalo, where some ten persons
persisted. The little town of Lehman, ILL.,.
was entirely demolished
The triennial session of the national Con-
gregational church council met in Chicago,
Thursday. There We're between four and
five hundred delegates present.
The Paris Temps refutes the statements
that France is seeking war. 1t says the
army represents the democracy, which errs
rather toward peace than toward war.
The potato crop of the eastern states and
provinces in the sections from which the
Boston and New York and tributary mark
cts derive their supply averages upon the
whole about as last year.
THE president goes TO Richmond Va,
Thursday, to attend the State agricultural
fair, and the following Wednesday will visit
New York to be present at the inaugural
ceremonies of the Bartholdi statue.
The director of the Catholic missions has
massacred in Tanhoa Tonquin also that
thirty villages in that district have been
burned and 90inhabitants are starving.
The great hurricane which has just passed
over England and Ireland was accompanied
by the heaviest rain-storms within memory
The storm was very furious on the Irish
coast. Many vessels and lives were lost
The funeral of Senator Austin f. Pike of
New Hampshire was largely attended at
Franklin October II. Senators Blair, Al
drich, Edmunds, Evarts, Jones of Arkansas,
Pugh and Sabn acted as a guard of honor.
JOSEPH r. HUNTING of North Hemp
stead, l.. l., lawyer with lucrative real
estate business in Brooklyn, is found to
have Hypothetical about $4,000 worth of
securities intrusted to him and used the
proceeds in speculation.
THE Episcopal convention in Chicago Sat
urday voted not to change the name to the
" Anglican " church. Southern delegates
favored the proposed change but eastern
delegates opposed it. The vote stood one
hundred twelve to one hundred eighty-fve.
Two engineers have been killed by strik-
ers at St. Paul, but no collision between the
strikers and the authorities has occurred.
The Northern Pacific officials have applied
for an injunction restraining 1877 strikers,
whose names were given, from interfering
with the trains of that road.
THE new policy of the Irish National
League was announced Monday at Wood
ford, county Galway. The tenants are adj
viSed to pay to trustees the reduced rents
which landlords refuse, and this fund is
to help evicted tenants. The scheme will
soon be tried and a serious conflict is eX-
pected
DETAILS of the great fire in Eastport show
that two hundred twenty-four buildings
were burned, and at least one hundred fam
lilies are homeless. Eight factories, two no.
tells and seventeen wharves were destroyed.
The loss is estimated at 100000. Destitu-
ton exists among the people and help is
needed.
ESTIMATES by persons who have been
over the scene of devastation at Sabine
Pass, Johnson's bayou and Taylors bayou,
place the death rate at upwards of two hun
dred fifty souls. Eighty-fve corpses have
been recovered and buried around Johnsons
bayou and fifty-four bodies thus far have
been buried at Sabine; siXty-six white and
colored persons are missing and at John
sons bayou sixty are missing.
THE internal revenue bureau is urging
Attorney-general Garland to give decision
on certain doubtful points in the oleomar-
garine law, so that rules may be laid down
for collectors before November lst Fears
are entertained lest the delay prevent the
enforcement of law. One question is
whether the tax is on both materials and
the product or only on the latter. Another
is whether the ten pound packages in wood
are obligatory. Some shippers vary from
one to sixty pounds and for export use tin.
ADvICEs state that cholera is still raging
fiercely in Corea. 1t has more than deci-