The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-16

noted i'll all, buCkWheat alone excepted,
The average for potatoes is 0l.S, for tobacco,
S74. The condition of corn is twenty-one
points higher than in September of last
year and has been exceeded only three
times in the past ten years. State averages
are generally higher. The condition of
wheat is very high. The general average
has only been exceeded slightly twice since
1879, in 1889 and 1884.
Miss VERA AVA, an English woman sup
posed to be worth over million dollars,
who has been carrying on a crusade against
the "slums" of Chicago, was found at
Cincinnati in dazed condition on Friday
of last week. She tells queer story. She
is a Catholic, and Archbishop Feehan OBJ
jected to her method of working and ordered
her to a nunnery. She refused to go, and
she was then ordered before council on
Wednesday of last week. While at the
council she refused to sign paper, and she
was then chloroformed, she says, after which
she was unconscious until she reached Gin
cinnati.-lt is stated on good authority that
the woman is none other than Diss Debar,
and that she had gotten up the scheme of a
crusade against the slums in order to re-
plenish her purse through the contributions
of rich men and women.
Foreign.
A GENERAL election will be held in Chill
on October is, and the new president will
take his office on December 2G.
CHARLES LANE of New York recently fell
over precipice of $50 feet in Switzerland
and his body was found horribly mangled.
BY the collision of Italian and Greek
steamers off the coast of Greece, last week,
about one hundred persons were drowned.
The Italian steamer, the " Taormina," sunk
soon after the collision.
THE trades union congress at Newcastle,
Eng, last week, voted in favor of compul-
sorry eight-hour labor day, except where a
majority of organized members of any trade
protest against it by a ballot.
THE report of the committee on the Bale
de Chaleurs railway scandal finds that of
the $3.50 600 appropriated by the govern
ment of the Province of Quebec for the rail-
way, $4,000 was misapplied, and that
among those who profited by the transac-
ton was NJ. MERCER, premier of the
province.
A DISPATCH to the Ne1C York Herald says
that millions of dollars of property and
many lives were lost by great earthquake
in San Salvador on last week Wednesday.
While the shock lasted the earth rose and
fell in great waves, and strong men were
unable to keep their feet. The people of
the towns who escaped camped in the open
country.
MEssRs. CARY AND COLE, members of the
Bowdoin College expedition, have per-
formed the hitherto unchronicled feat of ex-
table lands of Labrador. They started out
with two companions in boats on July 26.
Their provisions gave out and they suffered
many hardshps before getting back to their
vessel on September l..
A JEWISH colonization association has
been organized at London with capital
of two million pounds for the purpose of
promoting vast emigration of Jews from
Europe and Asia to other parts of the world
a n fol liGli in mud
South America and elsewhere for farming,
commercial and other purposes Baron
Hirsch is the principal promoter of the
scheme.
OC. SwANzoN, formerly of Sweden, but
long resident of Canada, interviewed the
government at Ottawa, Ontario, last week,
about scheme to promote the emigration
of Scandinavians from the New England
states to the Eastern provinces. Mr.. Swan
zon proposed to travel through the states
and by efforts, not yet made public, to en-
deavor to take to Canada all of the indus
trious and desirable people here.
THE department of state at Washington
has received a telegraphic despatch from
the minister at Pekin reporting that riot
has occurred at Ichang on the Yank-Tse-
Kiang river in the province of Hoa- pc, and
that an establishment of American mission
aries there has been destroyed. The United
States government has sent the Charles
ton from San Francisco, and the Petrol y
is to start from New York, to protect the
missionaries.
A DETACHMENT of blue jackets and ma
rines from British ironclad, accompanied
by battery of light field pieces and several
Calling guns, landed Sunday morning at
Signi, on the island of Mitylen, formally
occupying that place in the name of the
queen of England. There is good harbor
at Signi and it is supposed that the British
intend to fortify the island and make it a
coaling station and rendezvous for the
British Mediterranean fleet. Signi is sixty
miles from the mouth of the Dardanelles.
The London papers say the act can be re-
garded in no other light than as an act of
war.