The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04
retrospective

The year 1872 Is gathered TO It's
fathers. "The past is gone, the future
yet unseen" AS the WATCHMAN, en-
larged and improved, begins another
twelvemonth, it extends to its readers
the compliments of the season, and
wishes them, N and all, a Happy New
Year.
The historians will set down the past
year as one Of the most memorable Of
the century. M my and important have
been its Observation-Disclosures which
have arrested the attention of the
whole civilized woodland yet, seer
now through Times ever.shadowiug
vista, they possess only a casual inter.
est for the average hurrying mortal.
Death has reaped his usual grim har-
vest in tie business, social, political and
artistic world. Among the b~est-known
of these historic dead may be men.
toned Tewfk Pa.ha, khedive of Egypt;
Prince Albert Victor, duke of Clarence
and Avondale, in London; Cardinal
Henry Edward Manning, in London;
Cardinal Giovanni Simeoni, an Italian
p%relate, in Rome; Justice Joseph P.
Bradley, United States supreme court,
in Washington; Sir Morell Mackenzie,
the famous English physician, in Lon
don; John Jay Knox, ex controller
United States treasury, in New York;
DIR. Noah Porter, x'president of Yale,
at New Haven; Walt Whitman, the
poet, at Camden, N. j.; Miss Amelia
b. Edwards, the famous Psychologist
and novelist, in London; William AS
tor, grandson of John Jacob Astor, In
Paris; General Wells of Burlington,
in New York; Emmons Blaine, in Chi,
cago; Cyrus W. Field, at Dobb's Ferry,
N. Y; George William Curtis, editor
of Harper'S Magazine; John G. Whit
tier, the poet, at Hampton Falls, N. H.;
p. S. Gilmore, the band leader, in St.
Louis; Ernest Renan, French philoso-
pher and author; Alfred Tennyson,
the poet; Caroline, wife of President
Harrison; Lieutenant Frederick G..
Schwatka, soldier and explorer, at Port
land, Ore; Rev. j. W. Scott, father
in-law of President Harrison, at the
White House; Jay Gould, at New York.
Among the greatest disasters was
the destruction of the Hotel Royal in
New York, and the loss of thirty lives;
explosion of fire damp in the Ander.
limo coal mine near Charleroi, Belgium,
with the loss Oh 200 lives; gas explo.
sion in a coal mine at R)slyn, Wash,
forty-four killed; cyclone, fire, and fifty
three deaths at Wellington, Kan; food
and fire at Titusville and Oil City, Pa,
1876 deaths; almost complete destruction
OF st. Johns, N. F., by fire, by which
Is 900 were rendered homeless, and a
property loss of $40 900 600; fire.damp
explosion in the Pdrkslip coal mine in
Wales, and 100 deaths; a $4,000 fire
-" y PN' oOhhSbuiJ "a loSo vi uiIJ lille
lions of dollars by the Western fresh
cts; and the cholera scouige, which
off some 300 900 victims in Rus
STA, Germany and Persia.
Vice and crime have maintained their
fearful ravages. Andrew j. Borden
and wife were murdered at Fall River,
Mass, and their daughter Lizzie is now
on trial for the crime. Edward Parker
Deacon, an American, killed Nj. Abeille
In France, for illicit relations with Mrs.
Deacon. Deeming, the horrible wife
murderer, was hanged in Australia;
Ravachol, the anarchist, was guillo
tined at Paris; and Oliver Curtis Perry,
the New York train robber, was given
forty-five years in prison.
Ofmarine disasters the more promi.
nent were the sinking of the steamer
Namchou in the China sea, and the
drowning of Ala passengers; two hun
dred fishermen lost in a gale off the
coast of Portugal. two hundred lives