Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-07-10
" eekly News Summary.

Statistics show Cincinnati to be the health.
lest Of the large cities.
"A son Of Gen. Sherman has sailed for
Europe, to join his father.
Several Of the boats on the Eric Canal
are owned aud run by women.
"A Detroit manufacturing establishment
throws in warm dinners daily to its en-.
ploycs.
-" Smallpox here" and rooms to rent
are two announcements on one door Of De-
troit house.
DR. Mary Walker is urging the Washing.
ton authorities to furnish the policemen with
umbrellas during the hot term.
Fifty tons Of barley have been sold at
San Francisco for two cents pound if Grant
is elected if Greeley, nothing
Baltimore is getting alarmed about the
spread Of smallpox. aud the board Of health
has provided SO places for public vaccua.
ton.
The official statistics credit California
with % ,63l farms, Of an average size Of 49,
acres, aud "a rura population Of about goo.
600
The carpot-baggers have drained the
South Carolina treasury so dry that the quar-
autine will have 10 be raised soou for want oil
funds to keep it up.
"A great copaagration has again swept
over Con,tantinople. Its cxtsnt is not d-f-
nitely known, but dispatches announce the
destruction OF 1000 houses
-Chicagos Fourth Of July balloon ascen-
sion came very near ending 10 the drowning
Of the aesonaui, bis balloon having collapsed
aud let him into the lake.
From 10000 to 10000 francs worth Of
snails on an average are sold annuallyin Paris
for food They pay no tax on entering the
city, aud are cheaper than oysters.
The latest estimates for the East river
bridge, which is to unite New York aud Brook
Ign, loot up s90OO,0O0. What it will cost
when built is, however, another thing.
A signal service station is soon to be cs-
tablished at the summit Of Pixies peak H..
GOO feet above the sea level, aud more than
twice the altitude Of Mt Washington.
"A Minnesota sheriff kindly allowed
convict TO step outside the peuitentiary a mo-
mont to kiss his wife and the family tie proved
80 strong that he has not yet returned.
just one hundred years ago Newport
bad greater foreign aud domestic trade than
New York. Now Newport only affords an
arena for the display Of Now York's wealth
aud fashion.
IL medium in London was caught up
by spirits, carried half mile, aud taken
through wall into q diuing-ruom. She says
she eau hardly credit what happened. Neither
can any one else.
The Presbyterian says the General As.
sembly made an authoritative aud binding
decision, that preaching, cxhorting aud lead.
ing 10 prayer, IN piomiscuous meetings, are
forbidden TO women.
AT the geyser springs 10 Sonoma county,
Cal, amau oau catch trout 100 Sulphur creek.
and turning round cook it in an adjoining
spring, wiilront rising from his seat, or taking
the fsn from the hook
George Wilkes has bet $4,000 with
Tom Murphy that Grant wiIl not be the next
president also $1,000 with Hugh Hastur-
on the same terms, aud $1,000 that the repub. |
lcans don't carry North Carolina next month.
--."Stingles- bees are the latest Invention
Of an Ohio aplarian, who has at last produced I
a superior bee whose foot is not more warm
than that OF the common horseHy. Hone, /
thieves will be glad to learn where these bees /.
are at work.
Statistics prove that there are more peo- !
pie die Of consumption in Delaware than 10 |
any other State in the Union, ia proportion
TO population. The deaths from this disease
are more prevalent in the States on the sea-
coast aud less in those States in the interior
Of the continent
"A geographical correspondent Of the |
Heratf, who is sailing in canoe from the
source Of the Mississippi to the Gulf, claims to
have discovered lake (which be calls the
Dolly Vardeu) flowing into the ltasca, which, |
in that case, eau no longer be regarded as the
source Of the Father Of Waters
Fourteen years ago an lndanau left bis
ladyloye for the land Of gold, Daring all
these years the faithful par have each written |
aud received two letters every week, til
week or two ago when the swain returned to .
claim his bride. They have pile of 29l2
loye-letter, to begin housekeeping with.
The attempt Of California 10 acclimatize
the Cashmere goat promises success, the AMI /
nal attaining larger size and yielding n
fuer fleece than in lis native India. There
are estimated to be 10000 Cashmeres ia the
state, aud the fleece according to grade, is
worth from % cents up to 81 % per pound /
--Apropos Of the need Of plainne.s in writ
ing good story is tod OF Lord Little,on. |
When the last reform bill was before the House
OF Lords the noble lord offered an amendment
that no one should be allowed the franchise
who could not write hsname in legiLle hand. |
It was tee duty Of the clerk at the table to
read the amendment aloud to the House, but
so badly had his lordship written it, that for
the life Of him the clerk couldn't make it
out.