Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-10-18
Weekly News Summary.

Servants in livery are fast increasing
10 this country, which argues that winners
by sholdy are likewise coming TO the sur
face.
The largest flour mill in the world IS one
which Gen. W. b Thomas Of Philadelphia is
now running aud grnds 1900 barrels Of bread
timber every day.
Over hoo claims against the United
States government from injured Britons are
to be presented to the commission that sits in
Washington for the adjudication Of the mixed
claims on both sides.
"A Missouri husband whose wife has ap-
piled for divorce, writes protest to the
Judge, in which he says. this dam thing call
deyoce has in my opinion, parted many man
and his wife"
The Emperor William has distributed 49,
600 iron crosses among his countrymen. II
all who bear the cross can wear the crown, al
most anybody can sleep with king in little
while
Sir William Armstrong Of England,
the inventor Of the celebrated Armstrong
gun, is ono Of the most obstinate Of the great
manufacturers in the matter Of the recent
strikes on the Tyne.
-Blonlin is coming back to dance in all
over the thunder. of Niagara, and has mad,
his last appearance at the crystal palace
London, excursions bringing an oyerwhelm
ing crowd to get the benefit Of his farewell
The photography of the Flemish Language
has lately been modified by a royal decree, am
in consequence a printer demands Of the kim
10000 francs as indemnity, on the ground tina
the decree prevents his selling bis stock O
dictionaries.
Another wedding, "trooly great, is on tn
taps for New York, next week, betweena 81
100000 beauty Of an ancient Knickcrbocko
family and a French marquis. Marquises ar
getting 50 common now that our nice girl
should look higher
/, 1t is said that when Brigham Young wa
asked, the other day, which son he had at We
Point, the conundrum so staggered him I'd;
he was obliged to refer to the family record I
solve it. "Do they miss me at home is nc
much sung in that family.
> -Douai, France, has Just sold its guillo
inc A large crowd was present at the sir
gular auction, and the instrument Of tcrrC
. was knocked down to a captain in the natioi
3 al guards, for the London museum, the knit
bringing 9s Cd. and the woodwork 24s.
Mark Brumagin, President of the Ne
York stock company that owns the Maripo
estate in California, formerly the property
j ohm G. Fremont, agrees to sell it, free Of a
j incumbrance, to New York capitalists f
sl5,00O,000.
r. A German general at Bonn, whose mil
tary discipline had been somewhat interler,
! with by the levity Of the late war, recent
= drew his troops together and thus addressC
them " Now my children, we can on
moro get seriously to work The pastime
war is at an end and drill must 20 on reg
larry as heretofore
IS People do not wear mourning as long
they used to, as physicians consider the wea
ing Of Grape wells or collars very injurious
the skin. One year is the time decreed
Grape and bombazine mourning, and s
months for silk and Grape, after which tin
lavender and gray are worn indefinitely al
considered as half or second mourning.
The President has Just issued a Procl
i. nation ordering the inhabitants Of nine cou
. ties in South Carolina to disband their K
Klux organizations and turn over to t
T. s. Marshal all their arms, uniforms a
DISCUSSES, used by them in carrying out
+. unlawful purposes in which the organzati
r is engaged.