Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-05-11
Weekly News Summary.

-One town IN Connecticut makes three clocks a
minute ,--Mssouri's Oldest school girl is aged 1O7
and ebony coored. Nevada claims To have n
brook trout over four feet long "A Wisconsin
farmer sues for divorce on the ground that his
wife can't chop the amount Of wood that she
boosted about previous to marriage--A Chinese
cigar maker Of San Francisco, has gone to tho
insane asylum through trying to keep the run
of internal revenue DECISIONS regarding cigar
stamps jewelry is very fashionable, and
will be generally worn in the summer with mus
lin and other light dresses. james Lewis, a
compositor in a London printing Office, has fall.
en- into n chancery estate of fifteen million
Wendell Phillips says that when the devil pours
out one dollar let Christianity pour out two
The number Of corsots imported into the United
States in 1865 was about one million dozen.-n
is proposed TO make a new American coin of the
value Of 20 ccnts.-lhc Mormons are buying
large quantities Of arms and ammunition The
Baptist May anniversaries are to be held in Phi
adelphia this year.-A boy in Baltimore went 10
take look at the children killcdby their mother.
in that city, and il SO affected him that he wen,
right home and hung himsclf-While DR.. Mary
Walker was lecturing atolya sapient youth cried
out, " Are sou the Mary that had little
lamb % " Mo-" was the ready reply, "but
your mother had little iackass "a rosy
checked damsel in Lansingburg, n Y, daily
leads a sleck-looking COW from house TO house.
and supplies her customers with milk drawn fresh
and sweet and pure.-A mge to learn to cook has
sprung up among the fashionable ladies Of Mil
waukee-A Hudson markctman nailed the fol-
lowing notice under the awning Of his market
" All loalcrs viii please stand here" Il was
succcss.--A Salt Lake boy, shooting at a eat the
other day sent a bullet in among mans wives
in a house near by, using up two or three. But
he killed the cat.-The street passenger cars in
Philadelphia, employed by seventeen dilercn.
companies, number Gss, with l79 miles Of tracks
Last year they carried 5000 900 passengers
Nine persons killed and twelve injured by acct
dents. The receipts from passengers amounted to
80 500 900 "A dwarf two feet in height perfect
| ly proportional, 20 years Of age, aud weighing
30 pounds is one Of the curiosites of lndia.--A
terrible gale and food on the river Platte, on the
9Th and 10th of March destroyed $500, 900 worth
Of property az Bucnos Ayrcs, and 100 600 sheep
in the country di-tricts-A young lady Of Bur
lington, Iowa. went to church and forgot her wa
terfall leaving it in the window, and when she
returned She found little blue bird sitting in il
on two eggs.-Liyerpool is excited over the birth
of o litter Of tigers in a menageric there, such an
! event having occurred but once before in Eng
land.-A 81 Louis woman thinks herself entitled
TO a divorce because her husband orders nice din
ncrs from a restaurant, and eats them alone, let
ting her browse for herself on crackers and her
ring Rev j NJ Woodman Of Chico, Cali
iorna believes that next year there will be a
/ famine, coming after seven years Of plenty, aud
| Is building large gmnarie7 so as 10 store up
| the abundant harvest of the coming season
| One OF the gentlcr sex says that the heaven Of
/ the str1ng-mindcd woman Is where buttons
grow in their proper places, and men cease from
bothering, and needles are az rest The Mana..
sos (Nirgina), G0-dfe is a paper Of Southern
pr0cliyities, al except one column which supports
| Gu.nt.-W Wendell Phillips exhorts colored men 10
| honor, especially, four names Lincoln, Grant.
Garrison and John Brown.-C Collector Bailey,
deialcation is officially ascertanod to he $50 coo
and bis sureties have been notified to make good
the amount.-A shcaf Of peirided oats, four
feet long and weighing eighty pounds, has been
taken from the ground sixty feet below the sur.
face in Nevada county, Californa.-New wooden
mills arr being put up in many parts Of Califor.
mia and large increase in the home manufactures
OF home woods is looked for within the next five
years.-Napoleon and Olivier both play the VIC
| lin and will appear at an amateur concert Kan
ss College has among ts students eight intellect
ual red men, who are fast learning how to play
! flrsss mob. g.. .. l..
editor calls on some inventive genius TO invent
new way for carrying bricks. lie had Just
split a new hat.--ln some portions of Califor-
MIA the grain crop will not pay for harvesting
A fire in the Wisconsin State Prison, Monday.
caused $4,000 damage.-Scnator Revels made
an address at Baltimore on Sunday at the fu-
neral Of George +, llackett for many year.
an influential colored citizen of that CITY,.
Rents in New York city are so per cent. cheaper
than last year.-Brick Pomeroy aspircs to Nor.
risey' seat in Congress John Morri-ey is going
to resign bis seat in Congress lie don't care
| TO be "a Congressman if he has got to attend to
his dutes.-There is great nlnrm in the Indian
country and war is anticipated Napoleon III
was sixty-two years old on the 10Th Of April
New Hampshire boast, q man who has voted sew.
enty-nlne times at annual elections-not all in
one year, however Russia has signed the Bur.
ing'me treaty, and agreed TO a fair settlement Of
the frontier question: Sarah jeff the Oldest per
son in New Jersey died in Elizabeth, Tuesday.
in her lOjth year.-Thus FAR 100 witnesses have
been examined in the Mcfarland case.-Goose
races are a Sacramento Sunday sport-The Com.
mlttee on the Oneida disaster find the officers Of
the Bomtay responsible PHILADELPHIA was Wis.
tied by most destructive hail storm on Sunday
last breaking, it is estimated million lights Of
glass and nearly running the fruit trees, which
were Just in blossom The hail stones Law in
heaps Tor hours, some Of them being five or six
inches in circumference. Several accidents are
reported owing to horses becoming unmanagnbe.
At one funeral in the lower part of the city, the
horses attached to the hearso ran away, throwing
the colin into the street and smashing the yehi-
Gle. \ man was killed while driving hearse to
funeral by runaway horse colliding with the
horse he was driving, which knocked him from
his seat under the wheels of the hoarse The
Republican Senators have contributed five dollars
each Tor the purchase of present for the young
son oil the ice-Presdent-Ien thousand four
hundred and four emgrants arrived in New York
city last week.-The President expects to make
brief visit to Missouri before going to Long
Branch to spend the summer.--A party of one
hundred and fifty Senators and Representatives,
accompanied by many ladies, took pleasure trip
to Hamilton, Va, sunday.--A daughter of tho
colored caterer Downing at Washington, is to be
married to Frenchman, next week, sin the
highest style of the art. dispatches from Mr.
hrskine, the British minister to Athens, directly
charge the Greek officials with influencing the
brigands to murder their captiyes-The photo.
graph business annually consumes 900 900 eggs
IN this country, and 100000 in Europe, the
whites being used for albumenizing the paper
The jewish rite orbids the sexes sitting together