Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-15
Weekly News Summary.

Weekly News Summary.
90 IIobokea'. first public school wa. opened
Monday
"A frcsbet caused $4,000 damage. a
Minnesota City, Mimi last week
Michigan University has admitted it,
alumni to a share in lbs government
Smallpox is reaching the suburbs Of New
York, and has appeared in Flushing.
Fred Douglass is talked Of as delegate
to Congress from the District Of Columbia
Duluth extra wheat, 10000 bushels oil
it, has reached Belfast, Ireland, and the con.
siguees call it perfect
The commerce Of Charleston $. C., /,
claimed to be in a healthier condition than at
any time since the war
Mrs. Henry Ward Beechcr is quite ill,
and has started quite suddenly for Florida, ac.
complnied by her daughter, Mrs Scoyilo and
others.
Very appreciatiye admirers in Rouse
vile, n. j., have given Gen Fitzpatrick
$4,000 horse and a 5000 dog.
Michigan is to have new state capitol
First appropriation $4,000, which is mode
rate on building expected to cost a million.
Mrs. Grady Of Staten Island, has lust
given birth to four boys Mother and chill
dren arc doing well, but the father is very
sick.
Several Western Democratic papers 10.
dorse the proposal to make Maj Con. Henry
W. Slocum of Now York the next Democratic
candidate for Vice Presidency.
Mark Twain has received already sl7,
GOO for his Innocents Abroad" 1t /.
said another book will soon make its ap
pearance more ccccntrically humorous thar
the last.
king Christian, Of Denmark, was reoelt
ly shot at He only noticed the attempt al
assassination by ordering the guilty mans re-
lease, at the same time dryly advising him {,
practice with his pistol if he intended to re
main in the business
Many an ex-congrcssmaus bosom heaye,
with sadness, in Washington, ON Saturday
There was a conviction in the minds of seyera
such that if they ever saw Washington agair
it would be at their own expense.
"A real prince occupied a New York pull
| pit, Sunday, in the person of Rev. Jacol
Won Brunn, son of the king Of the Bassa, a
tribe dwelling west Of Liberia His mission
in this country is to get colorol missionarci
sent to convert his people.
Congressman William Williams, Of New
York, and Congressman William Williams
Of Indiana, will be likely to suffer some in
convenience by mistakes in the delivery O
their letters during their soourn in Washing
ton
The observations taken on Mount Wash
ington during the past winter have establish
ed one important fact, that the periods Of in
tense cold are felt at the high altitude from
twelve to twenty-iour hours sooner than the,
are in the country below
Kate Field lcetured in her native city
st. Louis, few days ago The papers irroy
ercntly declare her certainly over twenty
FIVE and say that though she has an intel
lectual and animated couutenance, she is We
far from beautiful" Her lecture on Dicken
was considered funny"
Gen. Braxton Bragg has brought a sui
in the United States Circuit court Of louisian
against persons who live in France, for DO,
session Of his old Greenwood plantation, claim
ing $4,000 damages for the destruction o
property, and also for GS7 shares, each 70
500, Of stock in the Citizens Bank of Lou
isana.
or iorty-eight sisters Of charity teudn
the smallpox patients in the Bicetre hospita
at Paris, eleven died Of the hileous malad,
Volunteers from the sisterhood were Gale
for to fill their places and thrty-three Instant
responded. What is the heroism of the bat
ile-held compared with this?
The members of the ox-imperial Gmi
OF France are not on very harmonious terms
Nearly all ofthem are very bitter on the ex
Empress Eugene, whom they openly accuse o
being the prime cause Of all the misfortune
Of the second empire Eugene, on her part
has given orders that none of her husband
relations shall be admitted to her residence a
/ Chiselhurst.
-Rey DIR. Sanders Of Philadelphia, la
given lands aud buildings valued at 500, 00O
above certain membranes, for the purpose
Of hospital, to be under the direction Of tn
Presbyterian church. BY the terms of ia
gilt 1t is expressly provided that none shall b
excluded from the benefits of this institutio
by reason OF creed and color"
The Rothsohilds are said to have los
from $4,000 900 to S75, 0OO. 600 by the r,
suit of the Franco-German war. They a
believed at Grst that the French would be vi,
torious but two weeks after the Germans ha
crossed the Rhine, they saw their mistake
and made new investments which preyente
them from losing thrice as much as the
would have done had they not corrected thei
blunder in good season.
The press Of Salt Lake City is maxim
inquiries for Robert T. Burton who belong
thee and is unayoidably absent lie will i
warmly welcomed back on account Of seyer,
indictments for murder in which he is IN
principal. A suffering flock also await hit
with painful impotence, for Brother Burto
is bishop of the Mormon Church.
"A bill is now pending in the Michiga
Senate to appropriate $4,000 yearly for fy
years TO the establishment Of a homeopathi
medical college to be part of the state un
yersity. The location is to be at the plac
that will contribute most largely to its endow
ment and support, and will probably be An
Arbor, close beside the allopathic schoo
Then look for war.