Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-08-10
" eekly News Summary.


| a world.
l 81 Gen. Burnside and family have sailed
| III Europe.
Negro troops guard the Texan frontier
/ afanst Indians.
IA -Pero IIyacinthc protests against the in
| nlibility dogma.
Il Napoleon is 62 years old and King
| William Of Prussia 70.
L "A youth of So won the champion belt
Al recent dance in Georgia.
\ China claims to have had life nsur.
l aDcc companies 5000 years ago
Il Constantinople is about to establish a
81 department on q modern basis.
4 Illinois is the largest wheat growing
shtc in the country, Iowa ranking next
II A ladies sanitary commission in aid of
n ~ Prussian army has been organized in
Cicogo.
a The City Of Boston owns nnety-seven
pianos, valued at $4,000 They are in the
mlic schools.
Gideon j Tucker, ex-Surrogato Of New
York, has become an editor Of Brick Ponce
o. Democrat.
"A Philadelphia woman was recently
inflicted as " common scol, and, wonder
% to relate pleaded guilty.
The yacht race in New York, for the
Quccn's cup, came of on Monday. The
ptcht Magie won the race.
Tho cost Of running a steamer a round
TIN between this country and Europe is said
% be $4,000 in greuhaeks.
Not long ago somebody started a news
wrer called The Eye Of Mississippi"
D. eye is now closed in death
Montgomery Blair is itching for Con-
To Who ever know Blair who didn't
hayc the itch for some office?
Tor the $4,000 children attending Boston
public schools, nearly ono-balf are supplied
Will books at the expense Of the city.
On gatc.post in front Of a farm house
ce West is a sign reading -" No life insur-
ancc or sewing machines wanted here"
Over a hundred persons have been
shuck dead in the streets Of New York dur
ing the past two wccks--al by the heat
Fisk has prohibited the sale Of the
T,bpHc on his craft on account Of a recent
ever article on his management Of Erie.
-Captain-G Del,odas asks for H..
o. reinlorcemonts for Cuba, which does not
Do as if the revolution were entirely dead
The Oriental Powder Mill, near
Gorham Me, exploded on Tuesday Two
workmcn were injured-atllly it is thought.
The Ioosac Tunnels central shaft, begun
ayeral years ago has just reached the grade
md tunnelling has commenced each way
hreirom.
Mr. Croaker, vice president Of the Cen
e. Pacific railroad has just built, at Sacra-
ncnto, Che haudsomest private residence in
California.
Atmospheric brakes, by which q train
o. be stopped almost instantly, are now in
operation on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
clicago railroad.
The paper felt factory of Crane Broth
o., at Westhed Mass, was burned Thurs
d. morning with IFS contents Loss $780,
o. insured for $4,000
Near Huntsville, Michigan, a 300 lbs
BIZ visited geutlemans pigpen aud car
o. off a 225 lbs porker. The bear was
alerwards caught and killed.
"A floating match for a bathing suit is
81 which lay on his back in the water for
tfroe hours and forty minutes.
In Syracuse the other day citizen con-
Sed one Of Charles Dickens mourners with
D. remark that he left a mighty smart
dhughtcr-that Anna Dickinson"
Since Queen Victoria took her place on
D. English throne thirty-three years ago,
Every throne in Europe. from the least
unto the greatest, has changed occupants.
The wealth represented by the guests at
the Grand Union hotel, Saratoga, where \,
4. Stewart and August Belmont are stop
ping, is estimated at nearly $500 100000
or san Francsco's 10000 inhabitants,
10000 ornearly quarter, are Germans, and
The city has % German breweries, which
produce annually 100000 barrels Of beer
The peanut crop Of Virginia, this year,
/ estimated az 100000 bushels, while Ten
hossee raises 100000 bushels, and Georgia
bad the Carolinas from 10000 to 1884, 900
No business for the present is being
transacted at the Executive Mansion. Gen.
2Dcnt left Monday for Harrisburg, to meet
fhe President and accompany him to St. Louis.
or G22 murders committed in New
lork during the thirteen years ending with
ID Sos, the perpetrators Of l55, or one quarter
kof the whole number, have never been discov-
sered
Prince Leopold, the cause Of all this row,
cares much more for science, history and met
Aaphysics than for the Spanish crown and will
return to his studies, thankful that he is out
of it.
A young lady in Brooklyn, ~ Y, has
4received as a wedding present fan made in
Paris at cost of $4,000 in gold. 1t is of
Tortoise she'll, studded with tiny solitaire dia-
monds.
The English government arc busy re-
moving all the cannon and shot from the for
tifcations at Quebec, and shipping them to
England One shipload has already been
dispatched.
The act for the erection of a city hall
in San Francisco provides that all contracts
shall be upon the express condition that no
Chinaman shall be employed in any capacity
Y by the contractor.
A citizen of Poughkeepsie has bequeath-
ed $50 600 to endow a Professorship of Natu-
raj History in Vassar College, and 1000 to
purchase for that institution collection of
North American birds.
Judge Bedford has refused to discharge
the Grand Jury, expecting that on any day
their services may be needed to indict the
murderer of Mr. Nathan. The rewards now
reach the large sum of $4,000
Royal Packard of North Brookfeld,
. Massachusetts, a man over seventy years of
age, is on his way to Australia to teach the
A Australians the art Of making cheese in fac
tories, as practiced in New England.
"A woman of thirty-6ye has been found
4 by census-taker at Hartford Conn, who has
\ a family oftweye children, all alive and in
good health. This is, indeed, an evidence