Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-08-03
Weekly News Summary.

-Onc.sixth of the people Of Minnesota
are Scandinavians
California produces 100000 pounds of
quicksilver annually.
"A man at Dennis Lake, Florida, is the
father Of sixty children.
Milwaukee has had a trial Of female bar
bers. The trial is over
In Virginia the oak is dying out and
giving place to the poplar
Secretary Fish announces that he shall
not retire from the cabinet
The cholera is making sad havoc with
the swine Of Southern Illinois
Forty thousand women are employed as
outdoor aborcrs in England.
-Pickpockets and state-room robbers do
much abound on the Troy boats.
Tho census is to cost about six cents a
head for each individual enrolled.
The richest gold mine in California
Welded AN income Of S2l0,O00, last year
"A landlady in New York refuses to kill
bed-bugs, because it is cruelty to animals
According to Gladstone the wealth of
England Increases $4,000 ,000, 600 every year.
Mark Twain has already received from
his publishers $4,000 for his " lunocents
abroad"
Anna Dickinson Will deliver an address
on the occasion Of the annual State Fair in
Kansas
The prospect for freedom in Cuba is so
good that slaves are selling for less than half
their value.
Anna Dickinson and Olive Logan talk Of
going to London together and iecturing on al
ternate evenings
A French paper asserts that seven per
cent Of lunatcs are made so by the employ
mcnt Of hair dyes
The moon Is now nearer the earth than
it has been for 20 years, or will be again in
100 years to come.
More divorces hryo been granted in New
Jersey since the war than in all the previous
history Of the state.
Nicholas Longworth once purchased the
business portion Of the city Of Cincinnati for
the Value Of horse
"A Virginia postmistress has been re-
moved, in consequence ofhaviug become " dis
qualified by marriage.
The relief fund for sufferers by the fall.
ing Of the Richmond court house, some months
ago, has reached $4,000.
Bonner has refused $4,000 for Dexter
aud a like sum for Pocahontas The latter
is said TO have made DIS in harness.
Miss Phelps, whose success began with
"Gatcs Ajar,' is reported to bemaking more
money thanany other American writer.
Stockings are going out of fashion for
ladies street wear in Paris, and bare feet and
sandals are to be generally introduced.
The French Republicans Of San Francisco
Cal, have subscribed $4,000, to be divided
equally between the wounded French and Prus-
slams
They are boring away, night and day
in Terre llaute, Ind at a depth Of lO3j
feet, in blue limestone, in the hope Of striking
salt well.
"A Pennsylvania graveyard fence has
been made by the advertisers brush to say
" Use Jones bottled ale if you would keeE
out Of here"
Potter Palmer, the Chicago ten million
are, aud Bertha Honore, were married ia
that city, Friday evening, aud left for New
York and Europe.
"A woman % years old unable to read
or write, and worth 100000, is living OF
81 week in a tenement house in the stt
Ward New York
Some ingenious bipcd has machine t,
make a man rise early in the morning. A
young Benedict says six months baby cal
beat it all to death.
An explosion of gas in the Silycrdal,
coal mipe in Statiordshiro England on til,
18th, killed nineteen men out Of thirty theI
working in that mine.
Business is very dull at Omaha and tn,
city council proposes to give bonus of $50,
600 to an establishment for the manufacture o.
agricultural implements.
The offer Of Mr. Barnum to Brigham
Young, of 100000 to exhibit himself il
New York. is understood to include th
prophet and his entire family.
"A Western paper describes a letter o
H. Greeleys as looking as if somebod..
had smashed a bottle Of lux on it aud trie'
to wipe it off with curry-comb."
Miss Watson, of Newportsville, Buck
county, Pa, recently cut, with a span ofhorse
and a reaper twenty-five acres Of wheat an
forty ofgrass, She is only sixteen.
Rev. DR.. f. D. G. Prime one of tn
editors Of the New York O5serrer, has jus
got home from trip around the world, whic
has taken him just year to make
Miss Lucy Forest an American girl, ha
been graduated in medicine at the College d
France, which gives her the right to practic
as a physician in any part of France
There is a lady in Lyuchburg, Va, VIII
says she has made pair Of stockings last FL
teen years by merely knitting feet to theI
every winter and legs every other winter
Fisk said last week that they would cal
ry passengers to Chicago for two cents
head and feed them on the way, before the
get through with the war with NaI
derbit.
-Thirty.seven Democrats put themselyC
on record in the House of Representative
Monday, as denying the validity of the lat
and 18th amendments. Several Other
lodged.
Edwin Forrest, at the age Of GA, ha
Just concluded an eight months session,
which he has travelled over 5000 miles, play
ed in so towns, and averaged five perform
ances a week
An Iowa clerk discovered the incompa
Utility of smoking and weighing out powdC
at the same time, by an explosion which mad
him soar over the fence into neighborin
cabbage garden.
"A lawyer called on a Kentucky cditC
and told him he must retract some uncompl
mentary words or fight. There was no r.
traction, and when the lawyer left the ofiC
his ewes were black and his nose bloody.
AT the law school commencement
rh;oo,,o n cov ,veeks since n woman and