Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-04-19
eekly News Summary.

Weekly News Summary.
-GreeIey, COL is to build bridge 30
feet long over the Cache la Poudre.
-" Victoria Woodruff" is the title Of
new brand of Pittsburg whisky.
Now York has 10000 Frenchmeu, To-.
coo Italians and 5000 Spanish
The Metbodists have opened Allegheny
college at Meadyille Penn, to women.
George Sands husband-hs name was
Dudevant-died last month in France, and
was rs years old.
The Republican party is having bad
luck, Andrew johnson has decided to come
back to it,
Long Branch has 500 carpenters at work,
and proposes to give a cottage to Bishop Simp-
SON. the eloquent Methodist
Mark Twain has sold out of the Buffalo
Express, gone to Elmira, n Y. to live, and
threatens to stop writing
Richard Wagner, the composer, is quite
poor His income, like his music is of
the future.
More than 80 musicians, German, Dutch,
Italian and French, all refugees from Paris,
are harboring in London
A western sophomore says tits no time
to be writing Latin essays who Billiards are
only ten cents a game.
camilla l rso has Just spent the price OF
good estate IN buying the Guarnerius violin,
a remarkable Cremona.
bug catching Is distlet industry in the
irui' growing region around Golden Ill., and
smart catchers can make 50 day.
"A wider breadth Of homestead lands was
taken up in Kansas, last year, than in any
other other state the number OF acres being 641,-
Io7'
Napoleon ILl's civil list owes s,000,-
GOO francs to the Partisan merchants, and the
shrewd old fellow has sent his creditors word
that he would pay all their claims
Emperor William weeps when new vie
tory comes to Germany. Daniel Drew when
he gets caught in a Wall street corner. They
are too old for high joy aud keen pain.
cigarettes for ladies', la Iabauoise, are
the thing at fashionable dinners in New York.
They come in with the coffee on silver salv-
ers.
-Jobnson's orrau factory in West6eId
Mass, was destroyed by fire on Thursday
night, together with three organs nearly finish.
ed. Loss 100000 insured for $4,000.
Petty criminals in Liberty. Ga are mt
in chain gang and set to work on the streets
This is their enlightened substitute for the
whippingpost recently abolished there.
John Page. of Batter county, XIV, was
so affected by the news that Congress had
granted him a pension for his services in the
war of 1872, that he died in a few hours at.
ter hearing Of it.
A whisky bottle, left doubtless by some
ancient pioneer who never returned to
" smile" again was found bedded in the
heart Of poplar tree in Bullitt county, Ky,
recently.
Mr.. Grinnell refused the Berlin mission
because the pay wasn't sufficient, and took the
naval Office at New York Now he has got
nothing and it has cost him a good deal of
money.
The editor eff the 81. Louis Rem,Lljcan
in the bill for suppression Of the Ku-Kux
murders Of the South, hears in it the
stealthy steps Of tyranny" and draws his head
under the bed clothes.
The citizens of Saratoga have determined
to do away with gambling drunkenness and
prostitution In their midst, this next season,
and have appointed a committee to carry out
the scheme. Woe to John Morrisseys 1" IT,
ger"
Queen Victoria visits Prince Albert's
tomb every day at Windsor. plaees n basket
of fresh flowers near 1t. reads a chapter in
the Bible, kncels down and offers up prayer
that she may meet him in the world to come.
Joe Howard. of the New York Star. Is
patronizing Greeley Asa newspaper the
Tribune is reliable as a friend, it is too par.
tial as an opponent, too bitter; but as n
whole, it is a credit not only to the oitv. but
70 'no nation anu 'he age
a Journalist with statistical turn has
found out that the London newspapers have
contained IN the last three years not less than
IT'S obituaries OF DIR. Livingstone, the Afri.
can explorer, any one Of which is good enough
for man really dead.
There is something diabolieallv suooes.
tive in this resolution, adopted at a recent
New Mexico gathering: Resolved. that bv