Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-07-02
THE TIMES DIARY.
THE NEWS OF A WEEK CULLED, CON-
DENSED AND COMMENTED UPON.

department has the weather under his
control now. The change was made
from the war department July l. Now
If farmers don't get the weather they
want they must ask for it. Farmer
Jeremiah wiki do all he can to supply
them. The following order has been
issued from the war department.: By di-
rection of president, under the authority
conferred by section of the act congress
approved October l, 1890, entitled y" An
act to increase the efficiency and reduce
the expenses of the signal corps of the
army, and to transfer the weather SER
vice to the department of agriculture"
the following named officers were as
signed to duty with the weather bureau,
established by the act cited, to take effect
July |, 1891; Maj. Henry H. G; Dun
woode, signal corps; 1st Lieut.. William
A. Glassford, signal corps; 1st Lieut.. Jo-
seph E. Maxfield, signal corps; I'd Lieut..
John P. Finley, 10Th infantry. The Of
ficers named will report by letter to the
secretary of agriculture and to the chief
of the weather bureau, accordingly.
The sudden flooding of the lowest part
of the Colorado desert, about Salton, is
one the strangest phenomena ever wit
messed on this coast. Here is great is
land basin which at its lowest part is 270
feet below the sea level. 1t has an area
of 5000 square miles, and extends from
about 100 miles from the Colorado river
clear to Seven Palms on the Southern
Pacific railroad. Near Salton are extern
sive salt works where the product ex-
lists almost in its natural state. On Sat-
urday evening moisture was noticed all
over this salt deposit, and soon little
streams of water were seen trickling
along, coming, apparently, from the
south portion of the valley. These kept
increasing in volume and spread out,
joining each other, until by Sunday
morning there were II inches of water
covering the ground for several miles.
OF course as it came through the salt
earth it was regular brine.
The Farmers Review says harvesting
is progressing rapidly in all the winter
wheat states except Michigan and Wis
consin. The latest reports would indi-
cate the average yield to the acre, in the
various states where harvesting is suffi-
ciently PROGRESSED to obtain reliable esti-
mates, to be as follows: Illinois, II BUSH
lucky, 10 to 15; Missouri. 10; Kansas.
IS; Iowa, 10 to 20. The condition of
spring wheat is unchanged from the last
report except in Wisconsin. where there
is slight falling of. The condition OF
corn is reported fair to good in all states
except Kansas and part of Iowa, where
the outlook is not so favorable. Oats are
poor in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Ken
lucky, fair in Wisconsin, Iowa, Mime
sofa, and Dakotas and Michigan and
very promising in Missouri and Kansas.
A bronze statue of Henry Ward Bee
cher was unveiled in Brooklyn June "a.
The statue is the work of J. @. A. Ward.
The colossal bronze figure of the preach
er stands erect on the center of the
polished granite pedestal. The face is
toward the city hall. Beecher is re-
presented in one of his favorite out-of-
door attitudes, with bare head, his slouch
hat in his left hand, and his big, long
capped cloak thrown well back. The
pedestal is flanked by bronze fgures-on
the left of the statue by a boy and girl,
the former sitting and partly supporting
her, who is placing laurel wreath on
the pedestal. The figure on the left is
that of young negro woman placing
palm leaf at the feet of the statue. The
cost of the statue, including the pedestal,
was $50, 900 all of which was raised by
popular subscriptions.
The Russian Jews are dying of hunger
in many places and dozens of them con-
gregate in a single room for the sake of
the warmth. In the Jewish colony at
Rovnopol many people are dying of hun
ger, and hundreds have to huddle to-
gether, several families in ,ne room, for
the sake of the warmth. Some papers
contain advertisements Of children for
sale. The government is taking precau-
tions against expected revolts. Taxes
are collected with the usual regul larity,
and failure to pay is visited with severe
fiogging.
Charles Stewart Parnell married Mrs.
O'Shea at Mrs. O'Shea's house. Walsing-
ham Terrace, Brighton, June %. The
ceremony was strictly private, no friends
being present. In the minds of some
Irishmen. at least, this move has obliter-
ated the stain on Mr.. Parnell's character
and he is to run for parliament with
some chance Of success it is understood.
Whether that be true or not only the
elections can decide.
Gladstone's health. since his recent at
tack of influenza, has given much cause
for alarm, but Herbert Gladstone, speak
ing in London the other evening, said
that influenza first attacked his fathers
throat, and that on his recovery from
that attack exposure during an Grafton
brought on bronchial aft ction. He
was happy to say that his father was
improving rapidly and that thSre was no
danger.
Emperor Wi liam, while presiding at
a ministerial council June "a, announced
that he had devised scheme for lottery
by which he hoped to obtain 100000
marks, to be used in the work of COM
batting slavery in Africa. It is stated
also that the slave trade is practically
done away with forever. This is a con-
fident assertion and the world at large
will be inclined TO take it with grain of
salt.
Paris has been enjoying a strike of
butchers, bakers and grocers. Over
5000 went out the same dav. 1t is all
settled now and the city is once more on