The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-30


REV. w. q. SpERRy of the First Congre-
gational church in Manchester, N. H., has
received call to the presidency Of Olivet
College in Michigan, and will probably ac-
cept
On Friday "The Breakers" Cornelius
Vanderbilt's palatial residence at Newport,
II. L. was destroyed by fire The fire was
discovered about A. 30 p. NJ. The loss is
$780, 900.
THREE men and two women, umbrella
members, were burned to death in atobacco
barn near Middletown, Conn, last Satur-
day night. They were drunk and set fire
to the hay.
II. NJ. NELL, a well-known cotton statisti-
clan, says that reports from almost the en-
tire cotton area indicate that the shortage
in the cotton crop is so great as to amount
to real calamity.
NEGROES down in Georgia quit work, last
Friday, convinced that the world would
wind up its affairs that night. Many of
them were disappointed when Saturday
dawned and they had to goto work.
ANOTHER editor has lost his life by not
drawing his iron quicker. Charles Pratt of
Jacksonville, Fla, editor of the Leader,
was killed last Friday at Gainesville by S
Strangfellow, in gambling dispute
THE venerable DIR. John Scott, father of
the late Mrs Harrison, is lying dangerously
i'll in Washington. DR.. Scott is nearly
ninety-three years of age and his illness
causes gravest apprehensions on the part OF
his friends.
THE discovery has just been made that
the wheat crop of Minnesota and the
Dakotas is many millions of bushels above
all previous estimates. Grain men now
figure that they have 100 ,OO0,0 600 to 3O,OO0,-
600 bushels.
ONLY two out of fifty miners who started
for the mountains east of Snohomish, Wash
survived. The party was hemmed in by
flood and freshet, and, unable TO obtain food
died one by one from exhaustion and
want of food.
JAMES CoRBETT, champion pugulist, has
promised his father that he will abandon
pugilism after he has had one more fight
Gentleman Jim hopes for better fortune
at his farewell! appearance than befel
Slugger John"
A TRAIN on the Northern Pacific railroad
was held up, Friday night, near Hot
Springs, Wash, by three masked robbers
and the passengers in the sleeper were re-
lieved of their valuabes. The ladies in the
car were not molested.
j. X. BATCHELDER, prominent citizen of
Gambia, n. H, was burned to death on
Friday by the explosion of "A kerosene
lamp he was native of Raymond UNI
married, building contractor, and had re-
sided in Gambia forty years.
FRANCIS MURPHY seems to have aroused
much opposition among the churches i'll
southern Ohio, where he is now working, by
making the Kelley cure an adjunct of his
temperance movement They do not think
the bichoride of gold remedy in harmony
with gospel methods.
GOVERNOR FLOWER of New York has par
doned banker George II. Pell, who was
serving a sentence of seven and one.half
years in Sing Sing prison for the larceny of
securities from the LenoX Hill bank in New
York city. Pell's term would not have eX-
PRED until May, 1895
TELEGRAMs received at Memphis, Tenn,
state that Cashier Martin of the Webster
bank at Europa, Miss, went to The vault on
Thanksgiving day and helped himself to
money and securieties ranging from $4,000
to $4,000, and skipped. He is supposed o
be hiding in Memphis.
ROBERT BARBOUR, president of the Bar
bour Flax Spindle Company Of Paterson,
n. j., is dead. He was born in Ireland in
1924 He came to this country in 1864 and
established an extensive American indus
try. He left a fortune estimated at from
100000 to S10000,000.
THE trial of Sylvester Crtchlow, on
charge of murder in connection with the
Homestead riots, last summer, ended last
Wednesday at Pittsburgh in verdict of not
guilty. He has yet to be tried on charge
of riotous conduct, but has been released
from custody, giving bail for his appear
ance.
A METEOR of great brilliancy passed over
Kenosha, Wis, at four o'clock last Wednes-
day morning. its course being toward the
northeast. 1t exploded soon after passing
the zenith and report like distant can
non was made. About one minute later a
trail of light was visible for at least five
minutes.
AN eastern Maine town boasts of
prophet. Something is going to happen
soon" he said in a solemn and most i'm
pressive manner, the other day, speaking as
one who had pierced the veil of the future
and seen dreadful things-and just then
the corner grocer's boy upset whole bar
rel of cranberries.
AT Staad's lumber camp, near Marsh
field, Wis, last week Wednesday, a fire
broke ont, burning the lodging house.
Five of the eight occupants were burned to
death. The men were asleep when the fire
broke out, and the flames had made such
progress as TO make escape almost impos-
sible for any of them.
ACCORDING to reports from various obser-
vatories, seven comets are now visible in
the heavens. Nearly all the astronomers
agree that the Holmes comet, now so widely
talked of, cannot be identified with that of
Bella Professor Newton of Yale believes
the Holmes comet is new one and that it
has never before been observed.
The Carnegie company has issued in
structions to heads of departments to en-
ploy no man who will not sign an agree
ment pledging himself to resign from all
labor organizations and TO submit to the
rules and regulations of the company.
Wages have been reduced at Beaver Falls,
Pa, and there is more uneasiness and ex-
element.
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS in gold
was Withdrawn by the Fourth National
Bank at New York, last week, from the sub
treasury. While officials of the bank re-
fuse to state whether the specie is intended
for shipment to Europe or not, the consen-
sus of opinion is that the gold will be ex.
ported this week. The bank in securing
the gold simply acted for one of its custom
ers.
A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated in the
seventh congressional district to divide Kan
sas into two states, each of which shall
have an area of 200 miles square. 1t is pro-
posed to bring the question up in the legis-
lature, which convenes in January. The
plan is to divide the state by line running
north and south on the western boundary
of Jewell county, and requests congress to
concur in the action.
The negroes around Memphis, Tenn,
were wild with excitement last Monday