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

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the peculiar quality Of mineral spring,
which it recently discovered, proceeds from
the drainage Of tannery.
"A drunken man in Cincinnati lcaped
from the suspension bridge into the Ohio
river, distance Of 81 feet, the other day,
and was rescued uninjured.
The three most popular lecturers in the
country judging from the number Of appl-
cations they receive, are Cough, Anna Dick.
inson and Wendell Philips.
Lord Clarendon provided in his will that
all his personal effects, aud the Clarendon art
collection should descend to his heirs, not
following the Dickens plan.
The London stockholders in the Erie
railroad are reported to have made brilliant
offers to Gen Sickles, TO return to this coun-
try and fight Fisk and Could
.-Brazils cotton crop, this season, is Of
fine quality, and will amount to fully 500.
600 bags, which is a larger amount than was
ever before raised in one year.
An lndianian, who recently finished
term Of % years in Jail, on his return to his
former residence, found il occupied by his
grandson and great-grandchldren.
- lht ' IA0lANuA VIII lNlilAlN AT laNNN
Branch until October, and no cabinet meet
ing will be held at present unless events Of
great importance shall demand it,
Nine women teachers in Pontiac (Nlich.)
schools have been married during the last
year. There were seventy applications for a
vacancy which recently occurred.
Philadelphia rojoiccs over the discovery
that it has thus far this year, consumed 5000
more beeves, and ll70o0 moro sheep, than
in the corresponding period Of 1860.
"A ST. Louis oystcrdealer who commcnc-
ed business fifteen years ago, by the purchase.
on credit. Of two cans Of oysters, recently
died, leaving fortune Of 100000.
The Chicago Times says il is a tolerably
safe thing, when one meets a Wisconsin man
nowadays, to ask him who the other candi-
dates are in his congressional district.
DR. Dixi Crosby has resigned his pro-
fcssorship in Dartmouth college, 70 devote
all his time to his medical practice in Han
over, where he will continue TO reside.
Abingdon church in Gloucester county,
Va, was built about the year 1850 with brick
imported from England, and is the oldest
church edidce now standing in the country.
j. B. Stenhouso and his wife Of Salt
Lake City, were attacked in the street the
other night and terribly outraged because
they are apostates from the Mormon church.
The population Of London exceeds that
Of Scotland, is four times that Of Now York
and is larger than the combined populations
of Paris, Berlin, Vienna and st. Peters
burg.
Mitchell county, Indiana, is excited over
war for the county scat, and, on q recent
night 30 men, with | | teams, moved an the
county records and books from Mitchell to
Usage.
j. CLANCY Jones Of Dover, Delaware, /.
prominent candidate for Senator to succeed
salisbury, whose term expires next March
provided the Republicans do not carry the
State, this fall
Machinery has recently been invented in
England which weaves from the hair Of cats
and rabbits, a sort Of velvet tissue, distin-
guishable from silk, but not inferior in fine
ness and beauty
The New York Tribnae's dispatch Of
Wednesday, concerning the battle Of Grave.
lotte, cost for teegraghing alone, s2,2oO il
gold, beside the cost Of special courier from
the battle field.
An Albany IN. " ice company, which
started, last year, with capital Of $4,000
has made $4,000 already this season, and
has enough stock on hand to bring its total
receipts up to $4,000.
Jacob NJ Howard the present incum-
bent, William A. Howard, aud Thomas w
Ferry, at present Representative from the
State, are the prominent candidates for Uni.
81 g4o4.e eors4f,r from Miehfrau
The mayor Of Wisconsin town. OF
leaving for visit to the Fast, issued proc
lamation appointing a regent and requlr
ing the same iilial reverence for the latte
that had always been shown to himself
"A fatal disease is spreading amongcattl
near Toronto, Canada. II first attacks th
hoofs, and then gradually extends to ever!
part Of the animal, generally with fatal cficc
no remedy having yet been discovered.
Mcclellan has an income Of nearl!
$4,000, derived from his salary as superln
tendent Of the Stevens battery, and his con
nection with the New York docks commits
sion and various railroads in the country.
On the day after the French oocupatio
of Saarbruck was announced at Paris, no les
than fourteen cuterprising persons applied Z
lnG minister Ni AllN lhA'AiNtf W. wv "llN'''
ment Of project Of the newly acquired pos
session.
-Ignatius Dounely, Of whom the countr
thought itself well rid, after his oyerwhelmin
defeat in 1865, again aspiros to congressiona
honors, and has entered the field for the Re
publican nomination in the St. Paul (Niun
district.
The London Times, which has refuse
to receive subscriptions, during the last ha
century or more, announces that after the Il
of October it will receive subscribers VIII
may desire to get their paper through tn
post-oiice.
Capt. Wayne Reid has for months bee
confined to New York hospital, first iror
the effects of a gun shot wound received
the Mexican war, the bullet having ney'
been extracted, and aiterward by severe a
tack of dysentery
An Atlanta stove dealer offers 81
stove to the young lady between thirteen an
eighteen years of age, who shall during Il
Georgia State Fair best illustrate her know
edge Of the use of such articles, by cookr
a dinner for six persons on the fair grounds
~ Clarence Cook, Paris correspondent {
the New York Tribune, was attacked on Il
Boulevard, the other day, as a Prusslan sp
and would have met with rough treatmen
had not popular restaurant keeper, wi
happened to know him, come to his prote
ton
--Detroits new city hall is to have in
tower clock, with faces which are TO be i'll
minated at night by gas, and machinery co
nected with the clock will be so arranged
to light the gas at dusk, and turn it off