Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-05-15
Weekly News Summary.

Coliseum bad velocity of forty.six miles
an hour
There are now seven candidates for the
Republican nomination for UUhed States Seu-
stor 10 New Hampshire.
When a Street in Milwaukee becomes in.
tested with vicious dogs the public.s piriied
c,lzeus ut once erect IA sausage factory near
by.
Two million dollars worth of elephants
aud other insects which 20 to make up me-.
nagerie are walking around in the States this
year.
The Northern Pacific railroad has com d.
petcd sufi ;ieut track to entite it TO nearly
100000 acres Of lands granted to it by
Congress.
One million four hundred and twenty
thousand dollars in double eagles were coined
at the United States mint 10 San Francisco,
in April.
The eastern Unitarians have raised fund
Of s9I 900 for their brethren in Chicago, one.
hdf Of which goes to Robert CoIlyer's church
Of the Unity.
One thousand people, one-twelith of the
whole population 10 Lawrence, Kansas, have
heen converted, during one Of the most sue.
cessiul revivals ever known.
The Missouri Democrat suggests that there
is an omen in the fact that the first preaching
Governor Brown heard after bis return from
Cincinnati was funeral sermon.
In Lyon county, Kentucky, there is a
railroad cut a hai.mie long uni thirty odd
feet deep, excavated almost its entire length
through iron ore Of superior quality.
AT a spiritual seanoe the other night the
ghostly visitor was asked what was the most
popular amusement in the spirit land Read
Ing obituary notices" was the answer.
"A Washington paper says Some Of
our young men on the avenue don't look as
though they were made by the hand of Proyi.
dence." Did anybody ever accuse Providence
of this.
The carpet-bag started from St. John,
" b., ON trip to San Francisco overland,
on the lth inst, has returned, making the
roun trip in nineteen days aud twelve hours,
the best time on recor'i,
The family of WIN. NJ. Tweed are pre-.
pairing TO make au extended tour in Europe,
bat it is not certain that the Buss IL going
with them. lie should he compelled to make
an extended -ujouru at Slug Sng.
Alexander Taylor fr IS years New
York biuker, is about TO become resident
piriner of the Loudon firm Of Clews, llahicht
Il Co.. and was rendered brilliant reception
by large number Of his associates, Wednes
day evening
"A medical college for the education Of
women has lust beeu chartered by the New
York l. legislature and several women of wealth
have agreed to furnish the college with build.
Jugs, aud contributed to its future usefulness
by liberal funds
--ilelmbold, Of Buchu fame, who failed 10
shoot himself some time since and afierward
failed in business, has finally pegged out e"
His store and its contents we're sold at auc-
ton last week. for $4,000. The iGngs ="
cost him 100000.
With total population Of fifteen hun.
drel thousand, Iowa does not posses city
containing FIFTY thousand inhabitluts. The
largest Of her cities, Davenport, mas scarcely
half that number and but one other exceeds
twenty thousand.
The Chicago Post inform. Mr.. Greeley
that the eyes of every merino sheep in Amer
lea are Oh him and that every pig of iron in
our factories calls to him in metallic squeak
to stand firm to his principles, and do justice
though the tariff fall.
The Chicago Times (Democrat) has the
cruelty to say that the nomination Of Horace
Greeley will cause people to smile, and that,
although the Cincinnati ticket will have TO
attend great deal Of abuse, il cannot afford
TO be laughed at.
1t is proposed to give an Australian
Railroad Company land grant Of 1903 1875
square miles, or tract af country four times
larger than the whole of Great Britain and
ireland, for the construction of narrow
gsuse railway two thousand miles in length,
across that continent.
The strawberry season is at its hight in
California, and the receipts at San Francisco
on a single day lately, Apri 80, we're 90 500
pounds, and the price l2b cents a pound
Cherries had sso made their appearance, and
gooseberres were plenty.
"A scientific survey Of Siberia is about to
be made by officers ofthe Imperial Geological
Society Of St. Petersburg. The work is to
begin in June, aud is expected TO he completed
in the course of two years. Two surveys will
sions, to check one another.
Ian. Voorhees, telegraphs that the Dsmo.
cratic National Convention will meet rs usui.
and nominate ticket, AMI until then no man
has right to cInimit the party as to its tu-
tnre action. the Liberal movement is said 10
have ~ strength whatever ia Washington,
b)th parties heart ly regulating it,
A Professions beggar. 4 years of age,
was recently arrested IN Lansiuhurg. Pa. who
candidly acknowledged thar he had never done
days work in his life lie boosted how
ever, of having obtained much valuable in.
formation regarding the station houses and
jais Of every country he had visited.
ID ihaqle, Ia. has Just discovered that
of $50 000 worth Of municipal debts bought
up hy the city, some years since, for SIS, 900
Sl2 500 worth of coupons that were included
In the judgment have been thrown upon the
market again and with accrued interest re.
present claim of So $50 against the lity.
"A Telegram has been received in London
from Bombay announcing the safety Of Dr.
Livingstone. The steamer Any which
carried the English Livingstone Search Expedi.
ton to Z,nzihar, had arrived at Bombay from
that place with the intelligence that the great
traveller was safe with the American. Stu nley
"A Chicago paper. the editor of which
speaks by the card, says that "a man who ha,
spent his whole time laboriously solving Chi
nese puzzles by the time he reaches middle
age can be set down in the streets of Boston
with reasonable expectation that he may b,
able to walk three blocks without going crazy
or dying Of despair"
The Adams street water-tank in Chcag,
is waterless. Now, a water.tank without wa
ter is not ordinary a useful institution but il
Chicago nothing works according to ordinary
laws. SO that the tub. gigantic, rotund, fire
proof and wel-lighted has been converted in
to public library, with $4,000 volumes, anC
seats for 100 readers. Great is Chicago O