Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-10-26
Weekly News Summary.

winter.
Jefferson Davis is expected back soon
from Europe
Michigan university has abolished the
marking system.
Mrs II. B. Stove is preparing iave.
nile for Christmas.
tough has refused over 500 lecture ap.
plicaiions, this season.
Ripe second crop currants were picked
in Gradincr Me, last week.
Hartford has brick.kn capable of
burning million brick at time.
Connecticut makes l0,7l9,000,000 pins
per year That is q pointed statement
"A young mons Uuiycrsalist association
will be formed in New York this evening
To make a man drunkord give him a
wife who will scold him every time he comes
home.
An Indian woman has just been sem
fenced to three years in the penitcntiary for
horse stealing.
John Russell Young has been quite sick
and his physician says he must give up news
paper business.
Whom about TO throw a piece Of glass or
harp fragment Of iron into the street, think
Of the horses feet
Five hundred women Of Ou,aeame
county, Wis, have worked IN the fields as
aborers this season.
"A Western editor announces that he is
panied to hear that dear friend Of his has
Just gone to heaven.
The French won % Of San Francisco re-
mittcd to France. on Saturday, over $4,000
for sanitary purposes.
-Pumpkin-pie festivals are among the
latest social inventions down East, and are
said to be some pumpkins"
There Is 10 Columbus city Ind, a young
LADY, weighing about 22j pounds, who sings
Put Ne 10 My Little Bed
Canton, H., furnishes it. saloon.keepors
with o list of hahiual drunkards, to whom
they are forbidden to sell liquor.
Miss Frances Rutherford was recently
sworn in al. city physician at Grand Rapids,
Mich, by female notary public
DR. Kidlcr OF Lawrence, Mass, exhibits
one pear weighing . ounces, one / ounces
and several Of - aud u ounces.
A tournament, with a $500 horse as the
prize for the successful knight. !, one OF the
attraction. at a Danyiiic (Nu) fair.
"A nominating convention in the 2G;h
VIZ ae. LII 49, a.a'i;l,t ,','' ~
During the three years Of it, revival,
'u'''a" u.E'A''' 'V'' manu-
PIE, 90 w." "" ' ~. 1'''
~ 1e O'u ili'ny.s a ''nauao sun l Is-
ana '''iVV 'ol'g' o' 'ng e1',.ou ''t 20
were SOFA 90 ''' ''s o. 'u'''''''''' '''' week
- Eug' one Of the Slaiue-e twins has be-
come para'yzea on tne 'gl, s'de' ana mobiles
around WITH cru'eA ana Ohans assistance
IA strons-minled woman" at Sioux City,
Iowa. keeps a hotel, which she has dienihed
with the name OF ihe Noman.s Rights
Hotel
West Virginia claims the first snow of
the season an indefinite amount having fallen
at kingvood as the local journal says on
the 4th ins'.
--Gcn G. W Curtis Ice, now professor
IN the Virginia military institute wll prob
ably succeed his father IN the presidency OF
Washington college
In delereuee to the advice Of all powers,
the Pope. il is reported, will remain at Rome
Rome will have fourteen deputies IN the
Chamber Of Deputies.
The most extensive fle factory in the
world is Beaver Falls, in Pennsylvania, where
1000 dozen files made BY machinery, are
turned out every week.
"A man at Brownsville, Neb., has been
experimenting for the past FIVE years with
Cashmere goats aud has now about 200,
which are doing duoly.
The products Of the manufacturing in
dustries of Cincinnati the past year are SAID
to have aggregated sll9l4o,OeS, an increase
Of sI2 4o,o2' IN ten years,
New Haven boasts Of the largest specta-
Gle mandatory IN the world-that OF James
u. spencer ~ Co.. which turns out an aggfe-
gate Of 50OooO pairs each year
--"l see the villain in your face, said
Western Judge to an Irish prisoner May
il please Your worship replied the prisoner
that must be O personal rejection
w s Hu2ander, a boy Of seventeen,
living in Tioga county Pa, recently husked
twenty-five bushels Of corn in one day. Thir-
rs bushels per day is the ordinary average of
men.
The total shipments Of fruit for the sea-
son from Centraia, H., were strawberries,
G,G9 bushels; raspberries, $500 bushels
blackberries, 4340 bushels peaches, l3s,O2s
bushels.
A lady who visited an Oshkosh (Wis.)
hotel. and blew out the gas on going to bed,
when awakened by servant exclaimed -
Something's the matter with the air here in
Oshkosh r'
"A warning TO delinquents--A Milwau-
kee tobaceonst has placed in front Of his
store a blackboard on which he bulletins sun
dry small accounts that certain parties have
neglected to settle.