Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-04-06
eekly News Summary.

\ Dung men in New YORK OF the Augustus AdOl-
phus school part their hair in the middle and
wear bracelets on their arms.-1'hc number of
Mormons who practice poygamy is said not to OK
reed two thousand.-Tho biggest shoes for women
made in the Philadelphia market 90 to Utah the
smallest arc ordered from Havana 1t is proposed
that on the centennial anniversary Of throwing
the tea overheard, Boston should give grand tea
,orty, and invite all native born Bostonians to
come and participate. Catherine Brown (color-
ed) has recovered s 800 from the Washington
alexandria and Georgetown railroad for being
.Iected from their cars, several years ago-NIaine
certainly ought to vote Mrs Beisey Reynolds,
widow, of Burnham a rich husband or q pension
her four sons, two sonsin-law and one grandson
sent to the war and were all killed, and she was
lplt with 81 orphan grandchildren 20 care for, and
only one lame son to help her-Ihe Massachu-
BETS House Of Representatives last week by two
birds vote, passed to be enwossed bill to allow
husbands and wives TO be witnesses for or against
bach other, both in civil and criminal suits.--lhc
hrmers in different parts of the State Of Illinois
Blink the wheat has been badly winter-killed by
Be- frequent thawings and ireezngs The nurse
f-men in Illinois say that the cold weather which
eatcd the limbs and bodies Of the trees with ice
bill cause a heavy crop of fruit this year. They
sny the ice will kill the bark lice and the eggs OF
De apple curculo.--On the Keuneboc, (Me)
Ever alone, the past winter, S3,0O0000 have
been invested in the ice husincss--ln period Of
Eighteen days the Portland pension agent paid
tyenty-six hundred pensioners by separate checks,
De aggregate amount approximating SlG0 OO0.-
e.. a.. ala
moving machine, at lloosic Falls y. T., was de-
stroyed by fire on the Goth inst. The loss is up-
wards Of SiO0 600 insured for s2ij,O00 in
nearly fifty different companies. Four thousand
Completed machines were not injured New
Bindings are already bcgun.-lhe contractors Of
DC 40 last miles Of the Midland (N. W railroad
have engaged 900 nborer. in China. contracting
% pay them 5 10 a month and ratious, twentysix
days 10 constitute month, md twelve hours
day-rhere are upwards Of 10000 more white
male than females in Iowa Education is COM
posory in the Russian army. The instruction is
carried on by officers of the regiment There b.
oue county in Pennsylvania which has not granted
slcense to sell liquor for nineteen years It is
Potter county, and two-thirds OF the voters are
noy Republcans.-A terrible con1agration has
oceurred in Compear Indiana Over 2oO houses,
an % 900 bales of cotton were destroyed. The
los is about 81 900 ,OOO.-Ihe cruelty OF Chica-
70 man in forbdding his vile : joining bale.
troupe has enabled her to get a divorce and
another protector. are thirty murleresses
in the Michigan penltentiary, many of whom are
1id to be positively beautiful u pwards OF
@,OoO natives persisted from cholera at Zanzibar
Aha, in the space OF si1 wee&s.--A hearty
yopth OF 30 IN Maine wears mourning Tor his
mi wiie.--A woman in Hudson, \ y, has been
Hre'ted $50 times "A Washington dispatch says
that General Ames is engaged To General Butler
dAu ghtcr, and .hat General shcnck Is about 70
MARI young lady.-A steamboat, with s5l
BAL Of cotton, was burned on the Red River,
Nonday-lhere were 1871 persons on the Oity of
Beton.-Ten inches OF snow fell in Maine on.
Saturday Maine poulierers stuff chicken 5 crops
witt musket balls.-Ihere are 1900 varieties OF
roses.-lt cost Connecticut schoo-ma am s 1870
soln0ck out pupil seye with her rulcr.-Iwelye
merl were frozen to death in North Western
Iowa, a few days ago -Christenng robes for in-
huis often cost as high as five hundred dollars,
acc sometimes they are imported at still higher
cost In some French cities there are wine shops
fn women only, and the drunkenness among
wor kingwcmeu is sid to be on the Increase
Nerly all Of the fashionable spring bonnets have
acs to fall over the back hair and the ribbon
sssings are tied in bow under IT, The lace
strings often clasped by lace roset.e in front
--Ihere is woman in Bergen, y. y, who has
bscr asleep for more than year until a fortnight
ago, when she awoke; and them after talking
awhile, she dropped asleep again, and has 50 re-
mzined since The llolyoke (Nlass) paper mills
werr burned, Monday Loss, two hundred and
ffy thousand dolars.-Twcnty- Americans
have been enshycd IN chihuahua, Mexico
Tire hundred Iowa merchants have resolved TO
asenoihing but silver for ' change in ail their
tsanactions Of business "A Jerseyman. in reply
soa charge that women can do no fighting in time
otwar, says his wife does nothing else.--A color
at~oman shielded in Pennsy lyania being tired
q liie, after trying it only Io2 years.--W Women
prisoners in Iowa have all the rights Of men.
They are set to breaking stone A new military
dane for parties requires the use of only one leg
lis popular.-A Maine man is prospecting in
South Carolina fora large tract OF marsh land
where he can 60 into the raising OF frogs on
arg scale for the northern market-Chcag0 has
anprmal school, which, reckoning the interest of
tie money invested and the current expenses,
easts $40, 3s per year. or s67s iorcyery graduate.
The school takes nonresident pupils for $50 per
year so that, while Chicago pays SOS for her
scholars, Milwaukee can have the same privileges
ors3O per scholar.-Massoehuse has paid the
interest on her debt all through the war in coin,
buying the gold, whatever the premium, and has
never rendered a greenback to holder of her
bond She is the only State that has pursued
thiseoursc, President Grant pays taxes on $780,
900, and Gen Sherman on $23j 900 worth Of
property in the county OF st. l.ouis.--Freight- to
ualifornia by ship around Cape Horn are very