Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-07-20
Weekly News Summary.

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at $3.50 paupcr
There are 100000 sheep on a Fort IT,.
jon, Call sheep ranch
"A flower farm near Burlington, n. j.
has ten acres Of roses in bloom.
"A boy in Quincy, H.. swan four mile.
for five dollars one day last week.
The total income Of the Govornmoo,
during the past year was Sl00,000,O0O.
Tho chief cook at the Union Hotel, Sara.
toga receives 81 500 for four months seryir.
-Tboma. Carlisle Is coming to thi. co1r.
try He will De The guest Of Henry Wor
Bccchcr.
Two hundred miles of pathway h,,.
been explored in the Mammoth Cave Of
Kentucky
"A run of ninety.lvc miles wa. made oil,
the Fort Wayne and Chicago road last wee,
in l05 minutes.
Mrs. Stowe attributes the premature d.
cay of teeth in America to the use Of cau.i.,
alkalics in bread
The Nnsus is to cost about six cent.
head for all the person. enrolled, or 81 826.
OuU Tor the whole
Only sixty thousand people attend
church in Boston, out of population 81.
two hundred thousand
Queen Isabella has signed her abdicaiio,
to the throne Of Spain, in favor of her ,or
the Prince Of Austria.
Seven thousand parcels of property has.
been sold in New York city within ys.
for non-payment Of taxes
The ten thousand taels given By the CHI.
ncsc Government to Mrs. Burlingame IS equiv
alent to about $4,000 currency.
Two millions of toothpcks and two
hundred thousand matches were used last .a
sou at the Union Hotel, Saratoga
A western farmer predicts that the .n
mcnse quantity Of wheat this year will brn.
-four down to four dollars per barrel
A New Hampshire woman told the cen.i.
enumcrator that her age was thir,y-ono year.
and said her oldest SON was twonty.sevcu.
The Chinese only pay their physicaa
when they are IN perfect health as soon Odd
they get sick the pay Of the doctor cease.
Only tweuty-one bears have been k..r
the past year in the township of Wesley
Maine Il was a bad year for bears io
The eating Of horse hc,h appear. TO b.
steadily on the increase 10 France llor
beef still bring. le.. than half the price 0fa
beef
--Penusy lyauia has seventeen year. OIL
boy who Is six feet eight inches tain. ani
fourteen year. old gil who weigh. io0
pounds.
The Hon. Geo. r. Mckee. a promjn.i
resident Of Kentucky. has been re.marrisl DO
his wife after being divorced from her twenty.
five years
With the present session Of Congrc. t
terms Of tgeuiy-three Senators will expire O
which twenty are Republicans aud thr
Democrats.
Mr. John r. Alexander, the great Dol.
nois cattle dealer, has a single patch a
corn Of $500 acres on his farm in Chan.
paign County
So many wedding parties are yi,itu,
Saratoga that it has been found necessary %
place bridal ear on the Rensselaer, aud Sar.
atoga Railroad
A young lady Of Boston troubled with
/ large ears, is reported TO have had a com
of inches trimmed from them all round by
ingenious surgeon.
Portland, Ne, claiu the champc
mean man, saying he insisted upon being adj
mittcd to a panorama at half price be,au-
he has but one eye
A Michigan farmer ubricatcd hi. t0a.
to vines with ratpoisou to KIN the bugs Dur.
ing the night hi- COWS broke in, ate the sine.
aud persisted miserably.
A shrowd observer once remarked O.. be-
sat in the gallery Of the United States Sen.
ate Here am, looking down upon sixty
candidates for the Presidency"
1850 am afraid, dear wife, that while
am gone, absence win conquer love" "Oh
never fear, dear husband the longer sou
stay away the better like YOU"
The llayorhil Garette says. Ty1,
to do business without advertising is like wink.
ing through a pair of green gogges-youmay
know that you are doing it, but nobody ea
does"
1t is thought that the early rains ths
present season, which have brought the poa.
to crop forward, will prevent the rot, whish
is apt to set in during the wet days in s,F
TENDER
"A man and his wife celebrated their
silver wedding recently and the week after
the husband applied for divorce as himself
and wife had quarreled over the presents they
had received
"A married couple at Fort Dodge, fnl'
ing the matrimonial knot irksome, mutually
agreed to secure a divorce, which was effect
ed by the woman conserving to beating be-
fore witnesses.
Ten years ago New York Journalist
invested from his scanty earnings S2iO
as many acres in Western township. f@
the same property, it is said, he has just been
offered s240,000.
"A Norwegian vessel which was given uI
for lost, and abandoned by the crew last o.
tober, after nine months tossing on the ocean
was discovered recently near the EnglI~
coast with its cargo in good condition
An eagle was recently shot near Auburn
n. y, which measured twelve feet from iIl
to tip Of his outspread wings. When dis
covered he was pcrched on a fence, ntenlly
watching small boy picking strawberre''
"A lady named Almira Mckee, residing
at Coboes, N. Y, while dressing for her we'd
ding on Wednesday evening, upset L keroscH'
lamp, setting her clothing on fire. She was
so badly burned that she died tho same night
AN Alabama negro was recently arrested
for the larceny Of a breastpin from person
who had won II in gift enterprise, but 'o,
court decided that an article thus acqalrsl
did not constitute property and could not Dc
stolen.
"A Kerosene lamp explosion occurred re-
Gently at Rocky Mount, n Y, setting fire 70
blanket, which was hastily thrown out oil
the window 1t turned out, however, that
baby was wrapped up in the blanket, and dl''
of the fall.