Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-30
Weekly News Summary.


Minnesota, has written home that he is confident
that man will freeze sooner ON the prairies or
Minnesota, with the mercury at the same point
than in Maine-A man was killed and devoured
by wolves recently, while working in Lumbar
camp in Sanilac county, Mich.--Tho Texas Loo.
stature refuses to elect Il chaplain, and exclude,
all reporters.-Seyeral young ladies have present
ed themselves at the Michigan Agricultural Col.
lege for admission The only requisite will n.
the ability to pass the examination.--A Chc,,,
gambler has invented now " tool i" Il consist.
Of q small mirror set in finger ring which. ma,
on the little finger Of the right hand, enable, tbo
dealer to sec every card given to his opponent
German woman living in Chicago has had finn,
husbands within period Of eighteen months
The first ran away the second hanged himself tho
third shot himself and the fourth was drowned
Whose turn next2-A contemporary pites the
" ycrdancy Of people " who think that .o,,
in Congress is passport to good society "a
fashionable clergyman in Chicago warns The sin.
ners Of hi. congregation, that IL they don't ~.
pent they will go e. the place Of eternal une,.i
ness. A Bloomington Qll.,) boy who fund n.
dead body of his brother, his iellow-soldicr .,
the battlefield Of Getty sburg, and buried il ip,
grave dug with his own hands, was surpris,I,
few days ago by the sudden rclppcarince of tina,
brother alive and we'll, at their home Dead n.,
tell no tales, and 50 he is bound to believe bi.
brother when he assures him he must have buried
some other boys brother-lt is said there ar.
now greater calls by southern planters upon e,m.
mission merchants for advances than have t,.,
made since the wur and even before the ,yar
Senator Fcnton skaters one of the fonde,t nome.
Of the American people By denying that he viii
/ be candidate for presidency in 1872 l-Fnr
lions were sold by auction in Cincinnati recently
| for $500. They were brought - this coupt,.
/ from England where they cost Sl7 900. -rb.
Nashville Union says five of the journlls publish.
ed la that state get the outer pages Of their r,.
pens printed in some city outside Of Tenpe,.es
| probably Chicago. These publishers get the u,.
per they use, with one side printed delivered al,
| their respective Offices at about what the ,,bito
| paper would cost them Shirley Dare. " a lady
correspondent Washington. says that Mr. sum.
ner 80 sits in the Senate casting watchful gane,,
up at the gallery, where every woman imagine,
at one time other that she is the object of .ero.
tiny. 10 me the Look seems searching for fac,
that never appears lis the negro too law L,
work? Four years ago the Washington Freedmen.
Savings Bank was taking in les, than $1,000
day in deposits the past year it has averaged over
$4,000 day 10 March, 1860. il had $50.
2s3 in itsyaults in March, ls7O, 5 $50 COG. OF
the 20 cashiers at its various branches, 10 are c.l
ored meu.-1wo Missouri postmasters have been
sent toprisln ten years for tampering with letter.
The Rhode Island Senate has passed prohibi.
tory liquor and State constabulAry bin. pot II
Sales Of Virginia land, to northern settler. an,
very brisk this spring Jayco1kinq." a., ap.
piled g. the National debt. is "a term used by We.t
ern papers opposed to Mr. Bjutwells policy
Fast Day in Massachusetts,, April An ine,.
hsustible bed Of coal has been struc. near leayen
WORTH Ks. much u the gratiGntion Of manur,.
turers-Iwelye thousand packages OF tea reached
3 Chicago on Tueslay, 30 days from Yokohama r.
The sales Of pianos 10 This country in 1863 amount
ed t, over 3 600 600 The Sleinways s,d ,otbs
value Of : ,2Oj 900, the Chickering's Of B,st5,
coming next and the Knibcs Of Baltimore third
Over 81 900 negroes have passed through Chat.
tan1oga from the Atlantic States 10 the sugaraDI
! cotton plantations Of the Southwest To get g,,i
wages-A stige Tor Helena, Tenn broke down
On tho night Of the 18Th, and seven Of the t..
passengers iroze tydeath, (all Chinamen 49,
stephen 5 PhiIbro1k Of amworth. \. H.. one
hundred years old next April. has voted for =
years lie voted for George Washington f,,
President for his second term. and at every pres.
Dental election since.-A Jerseyman lost an axe
over twenty year, ago, which he ha. lust found
under his bed. Ills life hasn't been made unbnp.
: py by house cleaning A h1rFid rumor come.
from Boston, that Gilmore is 10 Guido him-elranI
get up another jubilee as much greater than IN,
other as that was greater than any previous won
der Of the world.-A California farmer peis n.
much for five dozen eggs as a Minnesota farmer
does Tor five bushels Of wheat-Thc Government
OF the United States has definitely succeeded i'm
r treating with Columbia for the Darien cnterpri..
Mr.. 4. I. Stewart has reduced the rents ut.,r
u all Of his city property The reduction is from
10 20 30 per oent-rhoma, y. Carr was executed
at st. Cairsyille Ohio, Thursday, for the murder
; Of Miss Louisa Fox, his aflianccd over wear ,s,,
lie boosted Of having perpetrated fourteen c,lt.
oooded murders and of having attempted five 9th
ers.-At the seventh annual commencement Of
the New York Medical College for Women. Thurs.
day, the degree of NJ D. was conferred up,n five
young women, one Of them a negross The new
postage stamp will be issued on the LIST of Anil
Mess better than the old, they couldn't come
out more appropriately than on All-Fool's Day
During the sixty-seyen days beginning the 1T Of
January 1870 the amount of gold shpped from
: San Francisco was 50 1873. OOO.-A man in New
. York has been fined in the sum Of 800 for keen.
$ ing vicious dog Several children of the neigh.
e borhood had been bitten by the ierocious beast.
President Smith, of Dartmouth COLLEGE. i. e..
I pected home from Jamaica next week. Ills health
is nearly restored The collector of statistics Of
births IN the town of Pawtucket, r. l., has found
an American woman who has given birth to
twenty-one children.-The PROJECT of cutting
canal through the lsthmus Of Darien. and con.
Meeting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Is beliey
] ed in England to he Of doubtful utility. The
. London Times questions whether the practical
Z value Of the work will be sufficient to cover the
. cost.-Sir Clinton Murdoon has sailed from Eng.
+ land Tor New York for the purpose of making ex.
'enslVe arrangements for the landing of emigr,nts
tins years Accounts from the principal morris Of
Ireland show that emigration to the United States
r has reopened this season with great yieor.-The
Liverpool people have reached the conclusion that
e the steamer city Of Boston has been SINK by
I collision with an iceberg Gold quotations for
E wv F"'0 WIN H"'o uNethgeu ABOUT liza .-Iefe
G llyacinthe remains in Paris, living quietly with
his sister, but working hard and watching with
r care the various events at Rome and elsewhere
4 bearing upon the polity of the Roman Church -
Methodist minister in the Sardinia district Ohm.
had the parents Of child presenit for baptism moi
long since. On being told that the child's name
' was I" lallandighsm,", he refused to baptzo il,
with the remark that he 'could not giyean child
g the name of traitor. The Rhode Island legis.
d latare has just abolished Imprisonment for debt
2 There are three glasses of liquor drank in New
u York city TO one loaf OF bread that is eaten.-A
s man IN Michigan snapped his horse for wife
+ An o'u oaenelor acquaintance said he d bet there