Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-06-19
Weekly News Summary.

ley.
The average cost OF building mile of
railroad is sf4,225 in this country.
The post.oiIice at Martinsvlle, Ind, tray
els about the village on wheels.
A Florida Judge, the other day, fined a
lawyer $40 for laughing at him.
-" Old Probabilities is getting the wealth.
er ready for camp-meeting season.
Samuel A. Way, a well known Boston
Banker and operator, died last week
The last of the old river feet Of steam.
ers, which used to be the pride Of Mobile, has
been broken up.
Mrs Woodruff, ia letter Of three col.
umns, accepts the nomination of the Apollo
Hall Convention.
AT Ellsworth station, on the Kansas Pa
ciGc Railway 20,7OO head of Texas cattle
arrived 10 one day.
New York dogs will be decorated with
muzzles after next week until after the by.
drophobic season is over.
The new French minister to Rome has
Informed the Pope that he must expect moth
ing from France.
Wesley Smith Syracuse collegian, has
double voice The effect Of his singing is
said to be wonderful.
The Board of Aldermen in Virginia
City, Nevada, adjourned twice in one evening
for beer and Refreshments.
80" Blasting Powder" is the name Of
campaign paper published in North Carolina.
An incendary sheet, doubtless.
Minneapolis, MINI, having had 5000
feet Of water mains frozen the past winter,
will relay them eight feet deep.
1t is singular that the price of gas in
Washington is to be reduced Immediately at.
ter the adjournment Of Congress.
Chicago has been entertaining ex-Lord
Mayor Dokin of London, who collected and
forwarded $500, 600 after the fire.
Insects rob American farmers Of $500.
100000 every year. This will not be so
when Mr. Greeley becomes President.
Senator Wilson's temperance principles
are outraged by the sign 10 front Of a Broad
way bar.room " Try our Natick Cobblers."
AT Binghamtou, n Y, on Decoration
day monument was unveiled and dedicated
to the memory Of the late Daniel 5. Dickin-
son.
Capt Dowinr, an old man who has
spent the last fifteen years in trying to get
Congress to pass claim for sl5000,000,
died in Washington, the other day, without
cent
The editor Of Democratic paper in In.
diana died recently. His widow assumed the
editorial chair, and like sensible, patriotic
woman, came out uncompromisingly for
Grant
An Arkansas man had the invitations to
his tin wedding printed on square sheets Of
the metal, which were duly enclosed in en-
velopes.
The " Rogues March has been foisted
upon the innocent public Of Davenport, Iowa,
under the title Of the Greeley and Brown
Polonaise."
Professor Alpheus B. Crosby will pro-
nounce an eulogy at Hanover, n. II, June
&C. on the late ex-President Nathan Lord, Of
Dartmouth College.
The ladies Of the South Carolina Mouu.
ment Association have purchased a site for a
> monument to the Confederate dead Of Column
bia, paying $500 therefor
"A number of women in San Francisco
!
fishing Company" with capital Of sos 600,
all contributed by themselves.
--Wilard's Hotel at Washington has been
leased at the rate Of $4,000 the first year,
$4,000 the second, $4,000 the third, aud
100000 the fourth year ard thereafter,
! "A gentleman in Pike county, Indiana,
who died recently, left large property to be
divided among the widows living within eight
miles of his resident, s,--- ..dows included.
Probably the greatest financial fraud 10
the commercial world is the Spanish Bank at
I Havana Its bills are irredeemable, and yet
every Havana merchant is obliged to receive
them at par!
$ The Herald did not print any account Of
its own Of Mr.. Benefits funeral, but pub
( lished, from advanced proof sheets, the re-
t ports Of the Tribune, Times, World, San,
aud Journal Of Commerce.
r -" Mrs Mifhu," said visitor. Emma
o has your features, but think she mas got
. her fathers hair" "Oh, now | see" said
r the dear little Emma, its because have
fathers hair that he has to wear a wig"
"A statue of Elias Howe, Jr., is proposed
for Central Park. by several eminent New
Workers, to be paid for in one dollar e,a,ri-
buttons from ladies who are conyersant with
, the benefits derived from sewing machines"
The Orthodox Quakers. who are now
holding their annual meeting in New York,
-. have been discussing woman's rights, but as
they could come to no conclusion thereon, they
referred the matter 10 the next quarterly meet
ing.
Under recent act of the Ohio Legisla-
ture three commissioners have Just been ap-
pointed to classify and adjust claims for prop
erty lost or destroyed during the raid of Nor.
p, gan through Ohio in 1868, by militia Of
= Ohio.
). baron Rothschild has Just purchased a
splendid estate in England comprising nearly
. 4OO0 acres, with deer parks and noble man
! sion, which up to the time Of Charles III.
was royal property. The price paid was near
s1,000000.
"A woman writes to the New York Tri-
, hume to say that really women clnuot stand
y up 10 horse-cars and ferry -boats unless, she
hints men will stop admiring small and pretty
feet and allow them to wear broad-soled
low-heeIed shoes.
: This is the way the Nation puts the
Methodlstbook concern controversy "When
the Methodist church found DR.. Lanahan en-.
gagged in its behalf in a tussle with Satan, it
took part with Satan and permitted the doc
tors arrest for dsorderly conduct"
Seth Green has just put 10000 young
shad in Lake Champlain. They were put in
at the inlet Of the lake, near WHITEHALL and
It is expected that most Of them will work
their way down to the St Lawrence, thence
to the ocean, and go again into the rivers.
The proposed bridge over the Hudson
river at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, is stupen-
dous undertaking. Il will be composed of
live spans of 500 feet each, and will be 100
feet in hight This bridge will connect New
England with the coal fields of Pennsylvania,
BY the building of only nine miles of railroad.