Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-08-17
Weekly News Summary.

tan Association.
Virginia has restored the whipping ms,
in its state pcnitentiary.
IA Toledo (O) woman has made s9o
600 in the lumber business.
bethlehem, Pa, is protected apon.,
fires by hand engine built in 1928
Phiadclphia's 30 silk factories cmpor
800 operatives and Sl,b0O,000 capital.
Figs are so plenty in California tina, 4,
does not pay to gather and send them to mar
ket.
Mrs. Adcly McKoon is an ndeponlo,,
candidate for Congress from a California d,
trict.
Virginia employs It's prison convict, IN
the construction Of the Chesapeake and Obio
railroad
President Grant proposes to make
weeks visit to Lake George, in his return
from st. Louis.
The gold shipments from Denver. Nm.
season. are larger than at any previous rcr.
Cd in lbs history.
The TrBuac was so unkind, the otbs.
day, as to speak of Susan B. Anthony d.
our old friend
Tennessee could pay all her debt. ami
have 100000 in hand if some one woud,i
ly give her S4jO0O,OO0.
Sampson, Of North Adams, is coin, b.
send for fifty more Chinese. The Cr.pn.
will be upon thee, Sampson.
The price of the French goods is adyap..
ing. No one can tell what Lyons SIN
robe will cost in two months
The actual force, rank aud Glc. of b.
United States army is - 1913. The numb..
will soon be reduced to 10000.
"A Paris agricultural journal says hs,
Europe has not suffered from so severe
drought as the present one for 200 years.
Brick Pomeroy promptly reads Mon.
gomery Blair out of the Democratic par,
for suggesting Chase as the next president
A Tennessee editor announces himself
personally morally pecuniarily and phys.
caly responsible for all the contents Of bis
paper
Milwaukee lumber merchants have haj
to form an association for protection against
carpenters, who order lumber and fail to ray
for it.
Musical instruments, which are largely
manufactured in Germany, have already al.
vaneed over thirty per cent, on account of
the war.
"A Cincinnati wag produced startling
commotion in a beer garden in that city. ihe
other evening by bribing the band to play
the Marsciaisc.
Chicago Germans project o grand il.-.
/ by which they hope to raise 100000 dr
the relief of the sick and wounded of %,
Prns.ian army
I An old woman, who died recently 81
Brooklyn, had lived for many year, ina single
room with no companions but dog. two cots
and a Spanish hen
Ole Bull Is to be married "a, bis bone
in Norway, on the 18th. to a daughter OF
Thorpe, of Madison, Wis who is uow v'h
her mother ia Europe
Weston, the pedestrian humbug. h.
given up his European trip, and now propose
to walk 400 miles in FIVE days, az Nsr
York, sometime in the fall.
Edward Naltbic, ~ years old Of Hart.
ford, Conn, shot himself on Tuesday Low
spirits caused by failing in an examination
for West Point was the cause.
Gov Bross, Of the Chicago Trilns
who has twice accompanied Coiax iu be-
across.the.continent trips will soon make
tour to the Rocky Mountains
The labor reform party of New Yors
proposes to hold State convention at Syrl.
cuse, about the middle of September. for the
nomination Of an independent ticket
During the month Of June COOS through
e passengers passed over the Central Pacific
railroad, Of whom 2,57j were bound Cor the
7 Fast and 3,i33 for the Pacific coast
"A swarm Of bees entered the Or,hol1
j. church at Gloucester on Sunday a0crnn.
y seriously annoying many Of the congregation
and causing considerable commoton
Charles Arms. Of South Deordeld Mass,
adyertises for thirty girls to work on pocket
= books There are plenty Of girls at all Oh.
/ watering-Plaees at work on pocket-books
/ Napoleon has printing Office at hi.
q headquarters, which has force Of eight SON.
y postors and two pressmen, and to be ready
for all contingencies has o font Of German
+. type
C "A cannon has been experimental with at
}. Reading, Pa having powder chambers along
d the bore to increase the velocity Of the ball
. 1t is claimed that it will throw a ball Zen
o miles.
e The returns from the towns in New
{ Hampshire thus far Indicate gains in The
S manufacturing towns, and loss in the rur
8 towns, and loss in the State from lSGO Of
4; 10000
u u "A Philadelphia family on returning from
- a European trip was presented with an onor'
y nous bill for gas, which it proved they bal
= left burning all oyer the house, in the hurry
:, Of departure
!. The English sparrows, which were inn
}. ported into Brookln a couple years ago, B,
' abate the worm nuisance, have been complete
# ly successful, and hardly worm has been .eol
! on the trees this season
Z Washington Irishmen, with unusual CON
If mon sense resolved, the other evening, not @
a favor any Of the eontending nations of Eu
Al rope, until their old enemy, England sha
s. become involved in the war"
1t The drouth in Europe is creating an to-
d creased demand for American hay 29,6l,
ID bales having been exported from New YoH
J. thus far this year against ls,343 during th
e corresponding period of 1863
d About a mile and half of snow shed
on the Central Pacific railroad, between Sum
Is NIT and Finckc was destroyed by fire on tb,
s. night Of the 9th. Loss, $4,000,
# SO prevalent is the habit of borrowing
) money in Chicago, that the Michigan Contra
J. railroad keeps two large signs in its depot
d reading as follows "CAUTIoN TO PASSENGERS
Is do not lend your money to strangers,
Is MILDLY Morgan, the woman cattle.mar
j. ket reporter Of the New York TimeS repre-
y septs that paper at the Buffalo races thi
II week and a local paper is so kind as to sa,