The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-31
Summary of News.
Vermont.

HENRY A. PAGE O1 lJdnNllle expects 10
turn six thousand bushels of apples into
cider this fall.
THE Orange County Teachers Institute
will be held at Wells River October 81 and
November ! and ..
Two trains had a collision at Ludlow sta
ton on Friday. Both engines were smashed
but no one injured.
THE Fairbanks scale company is making
extended experiments to determine the
practicability OF substituting oil for coal as
fuel.
THE pulp manufacture is becoming one of
the foremost industries in the western part
of the state Mills there are unable TO keep
up with their orders.
MELVILLE EDWARDS an employee in a
soapstone quaray in Chester, fell, Monday,
thirty-two feet, striking his head on rock
His injuries are probably fatal.
ONLY few days after its sale by w. II.
Fletcher to George Ide, the Fletcher block
in Lyndonville caught fire and a disastrous
confagration was barely arrested.
WHILE Oscar Simpson was digging a
trench at the Fairbanks scale works the
embankment caved in and he was buried
nearly out of sight. No serious results.
THE dead body of Caroline NJ Farnsworth
has been found on the railway track at Ban
croft, Mich She left Fairfax, Vt, on the
Nth. 1t is supposed she fell from the train.
IT is said that the recently discharged
Central Vermont conductors want to
know, you know" so are going to st. AL
bans to ascertain the reason for their dis
charge.
THE burglary at West Rutland last week
Wednesday night is the third within a
month. II. H. Brown & Co.'s store was en-
tered and goods and money amounting to
S35 taken.
THE treasury department has decided
that maple sugar is dutiable If it is not
abOyp No ~ nutpb standard in color IL iS
rated according to the polariscopic test; If
above, then by the Dutch standard.
LAST week Tuesday evening Mrs. George
S. Shaw of st. Johnsbury fell down stairs,
receiving dislocations of an arm, two fingers
and some bad cuts on her forehead. She
has been blind for many years, but this was
her first accident.
COLONEL THAD. NJ. CHAPMAN of Middle
bury has lately purchased in Canada Is fine
pedigreed Shropshire sheep from imported
stock. The two rams weigh 225 pounds
each and over, and the sixteen ewes from
160 to $50 pounds each.
AT the annual meeting of the Vermont
State Agricultural Society, George W.
Hooker was reelected president as were
most of the old officers. The financial ex-
hibit at the last fair shows. receipts, S10-
1888: expenditures, $S,137.0S.
FoRTY-FIvE years ago last week Tuesday
snow fell in this section to the depth of
foot, and bare ground was not again seen till
next spring. Farmers had no opportunity
to dig potatoes in the fall, but they were
dug the next spring in a sound condition.
The state agricultural experiment sta
ton has just issued its first annual report.
1t gives large amount of information on
agriculture, horticulture, live stock and al
lied subjects New light is thrown upon
the crops of the state, insects injurious to
vegetation, and the study of milk and its
products,
AT the meeting of the commissioned Of
kcers of Patriarchs Militant in Rutland last
Friday n. f. Puffer of Bennington was
elected Northumberland, and A. l.. Bragg
of St. Johnsbury and l.. G. Grant OF Bur
lington majors. There is more or less talk
of organizing cantons in Bradford, Mont
pelier and Bellows Falls.
THE Vermont grand division of the Sons
of Temperance held its forty -first land so,
it appears, its members feel that it has not
outlived its usefulness) annual session at
Bellows Falls last Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The chief officer of the national body
was present throughout the session. j. o.
Spring was elected G. w. P.-whatever
that may be-and it was resolved to hold
the next annual meeting at Greensboro
Bend.
In General.
Heavy forest fires are doing great damage
in Santa Cruz, Alameda, and San joaquin
counties, California.
A BRONZE statue of Horace Greeley, to
cost $1,000, is to be placed in City Hall
park New York city.
THE usual winter carnival is to be held at
Montreal after all. 1t will open February
and continue six days.
THE New York Herald has been sued by
various parties for libel. The damages
claimed amount to Sl,lOO,OOO.
THE English GOLFERS who lately threat
ened a strike have been paciied by an adj
vance of ten per cent in their wages.
AFTER a few days abatement of yellow
fever at Enterprise Florida, it has again
broken out with more virulence than ever.
The consumption of "ryen indian" is in
creasing at rapid rate in consequence of
the late advance in the price Of wheat flour,
1t is reported that the number of lunatics
is alarmingly increasing in England. The
cause is attributed to the rush and hurry of
modern life.
THE Rome, WATERFOWL & Ogden sburgh
railway is following the example set by the
Central Vermont, and has discharged eleven
of its conductors.
THERE has been fresh outbreak of the
feud between the Ferry and Wagner fami.
lies in Arkansas, and several outrages and
murders are reported.
An alarming strike is progressing among
the English golfers. In Yorkshire 900
strikers have gone out. The coal owners
refuse to make concessions.
AN epidemic of suicide has broken out in
Paris. 1t will be a wonder if, with the
present protracted season of dull weather
it does not become contagious.
ALL the switchmen and laborers on the
Denver and Rio Grande Railway at Pueblo
Colorado, have struck and the freight bust
ness is seriously interfered with
THE republican national committee has
already paid out $1,000 of the $50, 600 de
posted for the purpose of procuring tn,
conviction of ballot-box violators.
Two thousand people from Paris attended
monarchist meeting at Tours last Satur
day. The meeting was followed by
banquet, attended by five hundred.
INSPECTOR MOUNTAIN of the Boston pc
lice. arrested and on trial for completely il
larceny of Old Colony railway tickets, ha
suddenly departed for parts unknown.
THE scarcity and high price of jute, use,
in baling cotton in the South has excitet
the spirit of invention, and pine straw, o
pine needles, is now used for the purpose.
IT appears that railway men OF ever.
grade are about to amalgamate the variou
int for IN