Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-07-31
MeeklY NeMs summary.

the Canadians. ooo
The United States consumed aoV,VVV
pounds of opium during the last Twelve
month, half Of the entire amount exported.
"A " grand international billiard tourna-
mcnt is suggested as a side show Of the IA
tioual centennial celebration in Philadelphia.
49," Brick Pomeroys La Crosse Demo
Graf is dead, and the Chicago Post reports
that he is to join the New York Tritane's
editorial staff
odd John Harper never heard Of the
poet, LongIelow, but always supposed that
his horse was named long.iellow because
Of his unusual length
A number Of the colored walters at the
Ocean House, Long Branch, occupy fore
most rank among the students at the Howard
University in Washington.
"A process of wood carving by machin-
cry has been introduced in Paris by one NJ.
Laugtegne 1t is adapted to all kinds Of
wood the harder ana drier the better. The
wood is passed through rolls or matrix cyin |
ders, whereby any desired pattern is i'm.
pressed upon the surface with delicaey aud
effect that compare iayorably with the work
Of skilled caryers, and at a cost almost nomi
nal The process is rapid as ten superficial
feet Of finished work can be produced per Sec
nd.
The notorious Josephine McCarty Of
Albany, otherwise Mis-. DR.. Burleigh, who
shot a man and was tried and acquitted for it
in Utica, has begun the publication Of pa
per called the Woman's Truth-Teler. 1t de-
votes itself to the interests Of women of all
sorts and characters, aud it promises to " fear
lessy attack abnormal social growths boldly
probe hidden moral disease, and unspariugly
expose and follow cowardy treachery aud
sin.
-Greeley's advice to Gratz Brown after
the Yale college speech Go West.
Horse men say that Longleow will en-
tirely recover aud run again as brilliantly as
of yore.
1t is reported in London correspondent,
that Miss Nellie Grant is engaged to the ED
est son Of Scottish Earl.
Miss Anna news, who graduated from
Michigan University at the head Of class
Of eighty-six students, proposes to practic,
medicine in Newport
Miss Kellogg has been offered engage
ments at St. Petersburg, Paris and Florence
but she cant accept them, being under prom
Use to sing at home the next season.
The members of the New York Early
Closing Association are again amusing them
selves by smashing the plate glass window
of merchants who refuse to close their store
at dark
And still they come. Twenty-onc thou
sand emigrants, principally from Germany
England and Ireland, have been landed at th,
port Of New York since the first of the pre-
sent month.
The " last of the Mohcans" may sool
glory in the rights Of citizenship. The Con
necticut Senate has passed bill giving tn
Mohican Indians in that State the politca
rights which other citizens Of the State Gu
joy
"A singular fact appears 10 the recen
report of the auditor of the city of Boston
The population of that city is about 0Ho-lVurt
that of New York, but the valuation of he
property is fully one-half that of New York
This may be explained in part by the create
honesty of Boston assessors as compared wit
those of the metropolis in placing propert
~ sOhctnluB heaIer its aCtuai value Dui III
fact remains that the ratio OF wealth to popn
ia'i9n is considerably greater IN BUston thai
In New York. The real reason for this
partly the larger mass Of thriitless populatio
in the metropolis, and partly what might b
called the superior business conservation 0
Dos'uu' as eAn.O'eu ia ,ne hosepce oi u
speculative mana, auu III 'nr ohoioe oi sure
routes 70 "enc'. 'nan are ancc'ed Oh 'ne lev
eriSn isiano u "unna''an'
,.odn t Is estimated mat soothiug syrups XII
ioo'Voo cnnuren annual y "nlon must Dc
""9 mug Du' Soo'u'ug S's'.''ep' W ,'e "'o'n
eis "no put 'neir cniluren 10 sieep ny 'neil
'Se
chicago was Incorporated as cit.
March, a, 1887, aud held ITS hrst municipa
e,ee.on III "ay Vi 'ue sune year Inc ,oWl
u Eu'ougo was o'gau']eu august TO- 1000
" '"o e'eo''ou o' i've trustees "neh 'ner
were l"en'y-e'gn' voters III Tue place
Torpedo throwing in San Francisco /
the last exhibition of deviish revenge. Som
person unknown threw torpedo through tn
window into parlor which was filled wit
company, ana wrecked mouse, demolshe
uoots anu WINDOWS anu furniture ues'roye
was 'ne consequence
The new Paris opera house will COS
eight million The sculpture and paintin
alone Will cost two hundred and twenty thol
sand dollars, and the ornaments three hundre
aud sixty thousand dollars.
The President Of the Metropolitan G.,
Company of New York has sent check Il
nine hundred dollars to be distributed amor
the policemep who watched the pas works IA