The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-22

PROFESSOR AUSTIN PHELPS, the eminent |
clergyman and teacher, the father OF Eliza |
beth Stuart Phelps, died at Bar Harbor
last week. He was seventy years OF age.
A. CH1LDs, acting superintendent of the
census has sent letter to Mayor Grant of
New York city, refusing to grant the may
or's demand for recount of the city by the
census authorities
a FEARFUL cyclone passed just west of
Maxton, n. c., last Thursday afternoon.
AT Hasty several houses were blown down,
and one person killed and several injured.
Its track was not wide
The damage by floods in West Virginia
will probably reach 100000. Report, of
great damage come from the valley of every
stream emptying Into the Ohio between
Steubenvile and Parkersburg.
THE reading of dime novels turned the
head of fourteen-year-old Presto Turpie and
he hanged himself at New York. With
boy named Duffy he had been talking over
the hero of the latest novel; who ended his
life with a rope,
THE r. G. Peters salt and lumber company
of Manistee, Mich, has assigned. 1t is the
greatest crash in that state for many years.
Mr.. Peters was the leading spirit in score
of big enterprises and was a baron in the
lumber and salt trade.
THE United States Express Company has
issued peremptory orders to all of its agents
not to receive money tickets or lists of
drawings from the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany or in any way to assist in the transac-
ton of lottery business.
FIFTEEN burglars and foot-pads were cap
tured by the Chicago police Saturday. This
band has for months terrorized late pedes-
trians, to say nothing of the daily and
nightly robberies and burglaries reported
to the police authorities.
ISAIAH S. EMERY, candidate for several
labor organizations for congress in the
Rochester, n. Y, district, committed sui
eide Sunday night by opening a vein. When
nominated he was discharged from his po-
sition with railroad company, and since
then he has been respondent.
ANTONIO SCAFFIDA, identified as one of
the assassins of Chief of Police Hennessy
of New Orleans, was probably fatally shot
by Young newspaper man named Thomas
Il. Duffy, Friday last The shooting oc-
Cured at the prison. More than fifty Ita-
ians have been arrested under suspicion of
being implicated in the assassination.
WAIT WARNER, Shaker at Enfield,
Conn, has been expelled from the village
by the elders for acts of disobedieuce, one
of which was taking and reading the Nelc
York sun, which had been sent him by
a Gentle friend. His brethren positively
refused to take him back, although the Sc
lectmen of the town had a long interview
with them,
FUNERAL services over the remains of
JuSlltt -nllltT were ltlu III Inc supreme
court room AT Washington, ID. c., Thursday
afternoon. The president and many other
prominent officials attended. Later in the
day the remains were taken to the Pennsyl-
Vana station and the family and few
intimate friends accompanied them to
Keokuk, la.
A. b. MULLETT, one of the best-known
architects of Washington, and for many
years supervising architect of the treasury
department, shot himself on Monday even
ing at his residence. He had been in poor
health for long time, suffering from rheu-
matism and other complaints, but it is
thought that financial trouble was the chief
cause of his act.
Two Pittsfield, Mass, hotels recently re-
fused TO receive Rev j. III. Hector OF San
Francisco, a colored prohibition orator, who
went there to address the prohbitionists of
the city, in company with his wife and little
boy and Mrs Bayard, also colored, of Bos.
ton. Mr.. Hector alleges that this refusal
was on account of their color, as other per-
sons We're subsequently accommodated.
GOvERNoR CAMPBELL sent a message to
the Ohio house, Monday, but the speaker re-
fused 10 recognize his private secretary, aud
an adjournment motion was rushed through
without having received the message. Gov
ernor Campbell looks upon the action of
the speaker as personal insult. The mes
sage suggested that "A nOn-partSan board of
Improvements for Cincinnati be appointed
by the mayor of that city, and an election
be held in April.
A WASHINGTON special says: " During the
year 1889 something like 10000 pounds of
prepared or smoking opium was Struggled
into the United States, and this government
thereby deprived of a revenue tax of 81 800
600. In the space of twenty months from
March, 1887, until December, 1889, there
were landed in British Columbia G,SlS
Cinnamon, four-ffths of whom were SNUG
gled into the United States" The Canadian
government has refused to allow twenty
one of these Cinnamon to return.
The department of state at Washington