Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-05-08
" eekly News Summary.

The long bridge at Washington is almost
completed.
Fourteen millions of dollars are invested
in daily newspapers in Paris.
--Terre Haute, Indiana, is getting to be
q Roman Catholic stronghold.
The new academy of fine arts on Broad
street, Philadelphia, will cost s350,O00.
The experiment of stocking the Schuyl-
kill with bass has proved an entire success.
The Dolly Warden eyebrows are got up
by muciage and sifted charcoal thereupon
disposed.
Derry Castle, Ireland, has been DESTROYED
by fire, Nothing is left standing but three
side walls.
Sixty thousand acres Of land in Florida
were recently purchased for one and hall
cents an acre.
The immediate construction of a grand
hotel on the site of the Lindall hotel ia St
Louis is reported.
One hundred trains every day now pas,
over the Union Pacific bridge between Coun
Gil Bluffs and Omaha.
st. Louis now extends for fourteen mile,
on the Mississippi River, and has an area Of
about iiity-two square miles.
The sehool-chidren of Washington pro
test against the passage of the bill to tax,
their play grounds for a railroad station.
The public schools in and about Charles
ton, South Carolina, are to be closed tbi,
week for want Of funds to pay the teachers
"A Philadelphia woman who was sc
indiscreet as to break her leg, but too modest
to have doctor set it, has died from NORTH
cation.
The Chicago water-works are to have ar
iron roof when completed, so that when the
city catches fire again they at least shall be
fre-proof
The average number Of visitors daily
during the past two weeks at the Executive
Mansion was fraction over Eve hundred BY
actual count
"A rogue has stolen Henry Ward Beech
er's valuable gray horse" and he offers a
reward of one hundred dollars for the cap.
ture OF the thief
Eight young ladies of New York have
been licensed by the State Medical Society 10
50 forth and look at the peoples tongues and
say Ha indeed !" at 81 visit.
The burning of the hotel at Dixyille
Notch, in Northern New Hampshire, is a
great misfortune to tourists. Few localities,
even in the Granite State, are more inviting
to the lover of picturesque scenery than is
Dixyille Notch.
There is a bill before the New York
Legislature TO reduce the salaries Of the
judges in that state, which are now extraya-
gantly high. For instance, judges of the
supreme court get 1900 year, and of the
superior court $4,000 year, which il a
good deal more than most Of them are worth.
The women Of Damascus, ILL.,, take part
ia the discussions Of the farmers club meetings.
A recent conundrum was; "Shal we dress Tor
comfort or for show 2" 1t was, of course de.
cided to dress for comfort, and then they all
went away, and at the next meeting each ap.
pesred with "three- decker" head dress and a
"Dolly Warden" suit.
The Russian government lately negotiated
railroad loan in London to the extent of
seventeen million pounds sterling, and on the
strength Of this loan orders we're placed with
the English mills for nearly 100000 tons Of
rails. 1t is this great demand from Russia
which has stimulated the advance in railroad
iron in England of late.
-OPium-eating has become quite common
in the United States, aud particularly 10 the
West. The legislature Of Kentucky, 10 order
TO check this practice, has just passed bill
that on the affidavit Of two respectable citi.
xens, any person who, through the excessive
use OF opium, arsenic, hasheesh, or any drug,
has become incompetent to manage himself or
bis estate, may be corfned in any asylum and
placed under guardianship, as in the case of
habitual drunkards or Iunstios.