Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-06-01
Weekly News Summary.

on toast are said to be deicous.--The potato
bug is committing great ravages in Indiana
The public debt is being reduced at tbo
rate of half million day.--Ncw Orlcaps
yainly tries to keep cool in white pants and
no yests.-An average of 10000 cigars
week are made in the Illinois State prison
Strawberries from the Southern markets aro
retailed in Albany at 81 a quart.--Thc dec.
grafton of rebel soldiers graves was yerv
general throughout the South.--'rho Init.
9eadent says that Queen Victoria is utterly
opposed TO female suilrage-Ohio is to have
State Temperance Convention to make
political nominations.-A new ocean cable
between Wales and the cost of Rhode Island
will be laid next year.--lt is said the names
of the writer's in the atlantic will hereafter
be attached to their articlcs.-Tho liquor
which docs its work most thoroughly in Ten.
nessee is distilled from sweet potatoes-AE
ter service Of eleven years, Senator Sauls
bury introduced his first bill to the Senate
last wcek.-Over 100000 persons have
died of smallpox in Russia since the begin.
ming Of the century homeopathic ladie,
Of Boston have been holding a fair to fit IN
a homeopathic hospital there-Chicago is to
have q new hotel covering an acre and half
of ground, and TO cost u million dollars, An
Alameda Cal, man is trying to make 300
eggs into spring chickens by the aid Of
kerosene Chicago has three hundred
billiard tables. and spends annually over half
million dollars on the gamc.--'lhe latest
wrinkle is an umbrella in the handle Of which
is inserted a small tube to be filled with per.
fumery.-A negro named Whipper has been
appointed brigadier-general Of militia for the
Charleston Is. c. District.--Miss Lewis
the American sculptress at Rome, was born
in a wigwam, her mother being an Indian
and her father a negro.-A boy at Watcrhu.
ry Ct, split his companions head open with
a Ratchet, because the latter would not give
him bit Of candy.-It is said that the
Know Nothing movement is being revived 10
Washington, with the omission Of the tenet
against Catholism.-At Jacksonville, Ind.
they have a new order of inidcls called
Chrstadelphians, who believe in the total
annihilaton Of soul and body after death
The song Tramp, tramp, tramp was CON-
posed by q prisoner confined in the Iowa
penitentiary, and was first written on the
walls of his cell with arcoal.---Brown.
low has to be brought to the Senate by
! attvhueh'si MS Nolou u suno' ""u ne VOTES
by proxy senuing n's No'o 20 'u' eclo'a'y
by a page. Yet he is in his scat every day
President Grants proclamation against the
Fenians gives great satisfaction in England
AT a trial Of moving machines, the Eng.
ish mowers were pronounced superior to the
American machines -Four Englishmen have
been captured by briglnds near Gibralter,
ana 'he spanish uo'erhDen, mas '''u'u or
uers Tor ln '.l uellSorAuoo'- nc Vueoe' uie
caused s'oVVuV Gam "a ~, 1e''ruouys ure
mas oocurreu AT ~, LOUIS iNe h,PN0"e4h
once ana other buildings ncing destroyed
me hePHDtica" loss was lpV'VuV MI J..
I. Weston completed ms TASK OF walking 10y
miles IN = minutes less imam the - hours
,ime at the skating RINK 10 ne" J. orr, CD
wednesday last Inc yleid OF gram IN VIZ
gon VIII be much larger tnan was anticipated
mere were fourteen hundred Sheep destroyed
by dogs m nYe counties 10 Maine last year.
-shipping dried blaekberres TO California
becoming great business 10 peorg'a.-tn
land has made further grant M ana OF 'he
expedition searching Tor Dr. LWngsione--
An lowan lately lost ms apparel IN a DIS
cussion with a She wolf as to the propre'y Of
his retaining her two cubs, lie has them yet
--Commissioner Deano decides that when
dealers IN TOBACCO carry on business IN Two OF
more separate establishments tax must be pald
TOT each me Wool crop OF california thh
year. VIII amount TO about twenty mlllon oil
pounds, making It the second Wool-groWng
STATE oil the Union, --ueoTge II. freneh, a car-
pe'-oagsef' located az W iiming'on' ~ Co em-
pioys III gardening zoo hands and mas az
ready sent north this season to'ooo quart oil
stra"perrles' ana thousands OF bushels OF green
peas lie mas lu'ouo peach trees III bearing
IN a recent occasion al a principal theale
IN Onlcago' lhe Wno'e audience excepting Two
men, went OUT between the acH 10 "Ae
urihA'-Oi bsignam iouus '"o''y-"'u'
wives II Is sara iha' one i' 1''1' one I'd"
away anu one Us a 'nau'a' "o,,'"s % N"o"I
I OF u'o oil men, "hefe or "'A' '"'y are am
Ie reniA'ule' i've VITA ''e P'oI"e.'- ne
mho'o hu'NDo' ~ 'e.''u' ol"H'1 i'lol0 ~ we"
u'sHro i 9S' %, "l',n one,al' are 'e'e-
'"u S''u' ar e''" giN o'I''S WIZ
~" Nv iiV'i''i'" 'o' anu ioOA'
D,y i',o'So, nun an i-uz''sn l"lNeF 'a,.Y
PlaeaIuou ''c i1.lo"lns announcement ~ hA'
.''is''e sale 0' 'FG s'ogN' oouP fsng no. 'e
'nan l4V'ouV mead ana an unlimited rlgni Of
ulu' nl'pS " Oo' m 10 u'aPose o,'-7'osn nH'
l'ugs says 'ua' Inc non anu ine lamh may
possibly suh,llHu Jay uoWh III tA's Wora io'
gelher Ior III mlnnlis' nut when the non
knms 70 GIT up the lamb VIII be missing. -
Hereafter any person sending or accepting
cha.enge IN MISSISSIPPI or second carrying
ehhionge, or any person going out OF the
o'a'e TO hght a d1el' wall be forever dlsiran,
cnised,-A pair OF runaway horses overturned
seven nlVes oil bees IN ILLINOIS last week ana
tne enraged bees s'ung them to death.-Jel
laws has oeGn chosen yeslryman OF the
ohurch oil ~ Lazarus at Memphis. inc rec
TOR Is the rev John l. Wheat who lost two