Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-11-15
Weekly News Summary.

Saturday has been adopted again by the
ultra-iashionablos as reception night
According to Grace Greenwood, "Col-
orado catarrhs, like Colorado cabbares are
monsters of their kind
Fred Grant will be the companion Of
Gen Sherman and Commodore Alden during
their European tour Mrs. Bancroft Davis
will also be a passenger by courtesy on their
vessel the Wabash
Thomas Gerry was lately fearfully, if
not fatally burned at a St. Louis fire, by hav.
ing pail petroleum thrown over him by
mistake for water as he was ascending a
burning staircase. The "non-explosiye" is a
dr,adiully innocent looking liquid.
New Workers arc introducing kind Of
entertainment very much like the old fashion.
ed country cuttings and appe-parngs. The
ladies meet early at the house Of one Of their
number and sew until evening, when the gen.
tIemen arrive and all make merry.
"A Leayenworth, ks editor urges en-.
listment into a State regiment for killing In
dians, by stating that the service will last for
three or four months only, aud will be a source
Of health, pleasure and profit to all who en-
list
Rev. Robert Colyer Of Chicago has an
invitation from the faculty and students Of
Cornell university to make a frst-class horse
shoe for them with his own hands, and in con.
sideration Of the work Of art they will give
$4,000 to the city.
DR. Mary G. Putnam, daughter of the
New York publisher, and an hon.
ored graduate Of the medical universities of
Paris, has come home and located in New
York as a practicing physician. She is the
most promising Of the women doctors.
The Philadelphia North American and
United States Gazette, completed, on Mon
day, the one hundredth year Of its existence
and the eighty-seventh of its continuous daily
publication, it being the oldest daily news
paper on the American continent.
"A sign of the time One of the dramat.
ic censors Of Paris recently condemned play
because it made threats at the emperor
" But" argued the author the emperor is
dethroned." He may come back" was
the censor's reply, and his judgment had to
stand.
Minister Catacazy has tecgraphcd to
Senator Cole of California, that Duke Alexis
will visit San Francisco about the middle Of
this month, If that is so, even should he
arrive in New York at once, the Gotham
bellies will not have time to display their
changes.
"A plucky Chicago man who ordered
lot of sugar and syrups in New York, Just
after the fire, promising to have his store re-
built by the time they arrived, has kept his
word, and few days since telegraphed to his
friends " We enter a new store to.mor.
row, made since the fire, and resume payment
in full and at maturity
When all the works of construction and
repairs shall be finished, the German navy
will comprse-seyen iron-clads, with total
of II guns and 1900 horse power screw
steamers--one vessel of the line, five cor
vettes, seven dispatch boats, - gun-boats, one
transport 2SS guns. Sailing YES.
training brig, three other briggs
three irigates, and a ship used as a barrack,
with l67 cannons--in all 532 guns.
"A letter from Richmond, Va, says that
city Is growing more rapidly than for years
Large numbers of buildings are in course of
erection, nearly all the tobacco factories are at
work, the -four trade with South America is
rapidly INCREASING, and the trade with New York
is immense, the steamers having more freight
than they can carry. All of the manufacturing
in the city are in full blast, and
new ones are springing up every day. Many
articles formerly bought at the North are now
at Richmond, and sold as cheaply
as they can be obtained in New York.