Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-04-13
Weekly News Summary.


a full jury has been obtained in the Mcfarland
case. and the prosecution opens to-day, Thurs
lay.)-Grceey will give the annual address be-
fore the great st. Louis fair in October The
Onion Pacific has Just sold i00Oacres of land west
of Columbus county, Neb., for $3.50 per acre.
The Livingston manor of 9ooo acre. in Iugh-
kan-ie, S. y, Is being sid in parcels the pres
emit tenants generally being the purcha-ers.--Iu-
doa has less jews than New York city Only ten
northern men have seats in the Florida legi,a-
The woods around pittsburg for a few days
past have swarmed with millions Of passenger
pigeons. calling b. mind tine l1cks of 80 years ago
that used 10 darken the sun ia their flight and
break down the trees when at roost.-In the boat
race between the Oxford aud Cambridge crews
(Eugnnd) Wednesday, the latter won by one
length.-Ihe growing wheat in Virginia presents
promising appearance The legal rate Of inter-
cs, ia California ha. been raised from to 10 per
cent-lt is stated that cock-hghtng is at present
quite the mgc ia Washington leaves OF the
coffee plant ave now proposed as substitute for
/ tel.- Ninoty-two of the Canadian I1uaycs have
returned TO Montreal from Rome. after an absence
/ Of two years.-Nrs sally Carrier OF Warner. n.
| H.. was burned todeatho n Monday, by her clothes
taking fire from the stove "A Minnesota couple,
who have been married eleven years, have y
children-nne pairs of twins and ono quartctte
"A boy, tenyear- oid, was frightened to death at
| Westboro, Mass. sunday, by another boy. wear
/ ing a ma~k-A man in Harlem, a. v, found
q valuable diamond PIN with money, notes and
other property. worth in all So 900, while work
/ ing in an old hotel A Californian. blown up on a
steamer values the scar it lciton his face at Sl0.-
600, and a court has allowed the bill.-rhe Gin
cinnad school board by the new election, will
stand 26lor the Bible in schoolsand - againstit-
The telegnms sent in England for one week num-
bered ll7 DOG a Peruvian railway reaches an alti-
tudeo lj,09jiee How is that for high during
the discussion pending the selection Of "a Jury ior
! the trul Of Mcfarland in New York the counsel
| for the prisoner said that he should show there
bad been @ long conspiracy to destroy Mcfarland
and the developments would appal the public
/ The Agricultural College at Hanover has been
presented with pillow made by Daniel Webster
and used on his NarshGeld estate It is about
thirteen feet long and weighs a little less than a
ton.-A gil killed herself by " jumping the rope '
POO times at Pitt-burg, recently The gathering
Of sumac Tor coloring and tanning purposes i.
/ likely TO become profitable business.-The higl
price of living at New York is driving home the
Southerners who have been residing ihere.--A
/ gentleman Of tie name OF Cobb. ia New York, i,
10 Doe married carly ia May to Miss Webb We
have had wood tin, crystal, silver aud golden
weddings, bat this is the first cobweb wedding ON
record.-rhe remains Of Hon. Arson Burnrame
will probably arrive in New York within twelve
days.--Emigrants can 60 from New York to
san Francisco for si0-Ihrce million bushels Of
wheat are in the elevators at Milwaukee. 1t is
rumored that Napoleon had a long iainting fit
Thursday evening, after attending a review 49,
/ The estimated number Of members Of the Masonic
order in the United States and British America
is i6s ,i5j.-ln some parts Of Kan.a, water is
selling at thirty cents per barrel, there being a
drought-Senator Wilson says there is not one
fifth the drinking in Congress that there was four
teen years ago.-Ihe Boston shoe trade is ten per
cent better than last season.--The number Of
commercial travellers in the United States is esti-
mated at A. ,0OO.-lIon. Pierre Soule was men
tai imbece for the last ten years Of his life
Eight dogs in Georgia town died suddenly the
other day from eating loaf Of bread which the
cook had just baked for the family Michigan
woman has recovered from saloon keeper all the
money spent for rum by her husband for six years.
the law not recognizing liquor as property.
ing the late severely cold weather in Iown TWO
children were preserved from freezing 10 death by
a pig, which cawled upon their bed. and reclin-
ing across them kept them warm