Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-08-31
Weekly News summary.

Utah. "
Alaska is excited over reported gold d.
coyerios.
The Philadelphia navy yard now cm
ploys l,j00 men. ~
Illinois is about to hold an anti. Mason,
mass convention.
Tho Texas cattle disease is raging in fl.
vicinity Of Nashville.
"A son Of Lord Brougham has recent.
been declared bankrupt
The potato bug is making great ray,o,.
in southwestern Indiana.
Farmers in Southern Kansas intend =.
plant cotton, next season.
MARX Twain has engaged to have a Dov
book ready by next March.
Kentucky expects to raise j5 600 bo,.
heads Of tobacco this year.
Six Methodist missionaries for Chin.
were ordained at Chicago, last week.
The Sandwich Islands oxpond s97 $500 f.,
educational purposes the present year.
Wisconsin women work in thefelds ana
earn from two to three dollarsper day.
San Francisco has as many liquor saloon.
as Cincinnati with only half its population
The FIRST newspaper in Central Asia b,
just been established at Tashkend, in Turk.
tam
"A gay Lothario in Canada, at The Az.
Of lOG, has just elopod with another man.
wife.
The loss to the German commerce throne.
the French blockade amounts to 81 .0OOOO6
day
An English firm has received an or.,
for 10000 nose-bags for the horses 10 "a.
French army,
"A sister Of Senator Conkline has ps
been appointed inspectress in the New Yo-.
custom-house
Mrs. Edwin Booth, whose life was r
Gently despair1d Of, is now couyalesceut 4.
Long Branch.
Frederick Douglas has lcl the leci1,
field to become editor Of the New Era 4.
Washington.
Chesapeake college, Virginia, has been
purchased by the government as home e,
disabled soldiers.
Nearly all the strikes in this couatr
and the disturbances oceasioned thereby ar
led by Foreigners.
"A French army is forming at Lyons. b
be composed Of men who have served. ltVl
be 10000 strong.
ten Sherman goes TO Dcs Nome, a.
on Saturday, and thence on tour throaa
the Indian country.
Tho printers strike in San Fraa.s
has bad the effect Of placing some twenty-five
women at the case
"A San Francisco woman has just Do.
lished ful and complete history Of
American rebellion
New York thieves stole four boa s,.
strc,or., the other day, from a Brazilian ys
sci lying in East river
Chicago aldermen propose to ral fo
races, for the benefit Of orphan asyIum' a1l
homes for the frienilcss.
Vice Admiral Porter has received O.,
expected appointment Of Admiral in pIH
Of the lamented FarTagut.
Prussia has $50 associations for the la.
| provement Of the soil by drainage, irugaui
and the building Of dikes
The German population Of Paris e.
ceeis that Of any city in Germany, exert
Berlin, Vienna and Hamburg
Only half dozen members Of the Hos
Of Lords waited to hear the queens speea
at the close Of the last session.
Two carrier-pgeons recently flew if.a
Pesth Hungary, to Cologne, Germany, d.
tancf Of 700 miles, in eight hours.
During the past year, 50 men have to'
killed, FIX wounded, and 800 head Of cattle
driven of, in one county Of Arizona.
"A divorced woman in Indiana, who =
old and in poor health, is supported by lf
former husband aud his present wife.
The venerable widow of the late Gov ,a
Wright died at her residence in 81, l.awrens
county Gu Monday last, aged sirty'tir
Philadelphia had another frcmlns rio
Monday night aud is beginning to wake O,
to the necessity Of a paid fire department.
New York 5 River Counties are suferi,
/ greatly from fires in the woods. They hob
such fires last spring, on the grand est scale
"A train Of Prisslan reinforcement. a.
rived az the front, the other day, marked. 30
each car, " Goods, by express, to Paris
There are over fifty miles of bitches, i1
irigating purposes, within a space Of One
miles square around Los Angeles, Caliioraa
-Musketocs are so thick at Atlantic city
New Jersey, that people have to wear strait
ers over their nostrils to prevent inhalrs
them
"A Detroit German recently became crail
over the European war, and, armed with
seythe. began doing sentinel duty on il'
streets
The owners Of the Clay county lInl
coal mines have decided to hire new men
place Of the strikers, and teach them TO v'h
the mines
The prisoners in the st. Joseph No.
jail struck, last week, and refused to DO anl
more work, until they were given more iA
better food.
-" Long John Wentworth and llora
White Of the Tribune contest the reuom.ai'
4 uon oil Representative n. Is. Juuu I'D "
Chicago district. rso.. .
"A mile and half Of tables are BEN!
erected for the soldiers reunion at Des Nome
Ia, next Wednesday.
Jenny Lind and Florence Nightns"
are amoug the London committee for The Z.
lief Of the sick and wounded in the huToP''
war
Rice from Carolina, the first Of the ~
son, was received at New York on Iue'ul{
almost three weeks in advance Of the u'1'
time. ara.u,
"A New Orleans court has decided lDI
calling a man small potatoes " doesn't =.
der it legal to knock him down with Wl'
melon.
Fall River Is troubled with riots ,r.
grow out Of the strike of workmen Nv
militia have been called out, and order r's~