Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-01-17
Weekly News Summary.

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the benefit of the poor Of Chicago.
An Iowa pensioner carries tweniy-seveu
rebel bullets in his body.
Hartford put up 236 new buildings dur
ing 1871, at cost Of s3,2s13OO.
Some people near Omaha didn't like Mr.
Thompson. So they borrowed him the other
evening, and took him out aud lost him.
Mrs. L. A. Pollard has recovered $1,000
in her suit against Jacob Lyon, at Washing
ton.
To show how little there is in name,
John Calvin (of Ohio gets fined so and laie
ed for profnne swearing.
"A daughter Of Mr. Gladstone is about
to marry German gentleman who was the
tutor Of Princess Louise, and the queen Is
said TO have been instrumental in bringing It
about.
n. G. reterates his intention Of never
declining an Office that has not been offered
him. lie takes warning by
The lovoiy Miss Baxter,
Who refused tho Captain before he aHod her.
"A Virginia auuiy' just gone dead at
the tender age Of us, all through tabacoo,
for she has cnowed aud smoked 100 years.
Another old smoker has just been cut oti' aged
80. Beware Of tho weed
In 1859 there was not a mile Of railroad
in Minnesota. Last summer there were fully
thirteen hundred miles. Now there are over
fifteen hundred, aud by next ial. there will be
over two thousand.
Rensselaer, Reynolds, the inventor Of
the Empire Loom, old proprietor Of the Em-
pre Loom Works died at his residence IN
Stockbridge, Columbia couoty N. Y Fridly
morning, at the ago Of 81 years
The whole Of the territory occupied by
German troops in France has been declared
in state Of siege Crimes against German
soldiers will be dealt with by German courts
martial.
Others are securing Berkshire county,
Massachusetts,. IN search Of the Windsor Locks
murdercrs, VINO il was thought were traced
Friday night to Pittsdeld. AT last accounts
they had not been arrested
"A Kentucky girl says that when she dies
she desires to have tobacco planted over her
grave, that the weed nourished by her dust
may be chewed by her bcreaycd lovers
| Quite morautic.'
The Governor Of Pennsylvania granted
sixty pardons to criminals during the year
ISL Good news for the dsrcputabe classes
there, but rather dscouragiug, we should
saw, for the courts and officers Of the law.
A man in New YORK who manufactures
artificial flowers aud feathers, has received a
$4,000 machine from France, which, it is
claimed, is so arranged as to turn out perfec.
flowers OF every kind, and do the work Of
500 girls
Denver, Colorado, has got It's street cars
running aud its watcr-works flowing The
latter are of the St. Louis pattern, aud pump
the water from the Platte river up TO a high
column from which il Cows to all parts Of the
town.
The postoliee department will soon IS
sue a circular to postmastcrs, requiring them
to receive mutilatcd currency IN payment for
postage stamps on the same terms that il il
received by the officers OF the treasury do.
partment.
President Grant has appointed four wo-
men since he has been ia the White House,
to the highest grade Of postofices with sala-
res Of $4,000 per anuum. In other grades
the appointment Of women already numbers
BY the hundred.
After proiractcd struggle of several
months, the Je,uits have beeu expelled from
Guatemala The exled fathers, eighty in
number, will probably 20 to Ecuador, as none
Of the other States IN the country will receive
them.
The coal strike in Pennsylvania is ended,
the basis proposed by President Gowan hav-
ing been accepted 10 an amioable spirit by
both sides. \ reduction Of eight aud three
quarters per cent on the contract price Of
last year has been agreed upon.
Robert Collyer would seem to have no
very high opinion Of bis own sermoniling
abilities for on the occasion OF the Chicago
fire, he saved only twenty Of his sermons, at
the same time rcssuing all bis chidrcn's play.
things.
AS looser Of himself says the Louis
vile journal, Dr. Livingstone is without
parallel in history. For our part, we can't
see the use in spending so much time and
money to find a man who can't be hired to
to stay found, aud who is never happy except
when he is lost.
Those who are dissatisfied with trial by
jury, as we have it, will be Interested in a
new kind now in operation 10 Sixony. The
jury is composed Of three lawyers and four
aymen. A majority verdict must have the
, vote Of at least one lawyer or It must have tho
voice Of five Of the seven.
In order to stimulate the public 10 the
prevention Of counterleiting, the Association
= Of Banks Of New England have offered spec
lal rewards for the arrest and conviction Of
D persons unlawiuly engaged in engraving
plates, stamping or changing notes or passing
counterfeit bills
A number Of Troy IN. " ladies', mar
D red and otherwise, have organized an anti
lodge society, which means that all their
e power and influence shall be thrown against
secret societies or clubs Of whatever kind that
keep the complementary half Of their race
G from their society.
Secretary Robson has impressed a west.
! ern college with his fitness for place at the
J head OF its faculty for on the strength of
his cadet order, expelling the hazers from
the naval academy, it invites him to the
presidency when he retires from his present
place.
Henry Ward Bcecher states that when
, he was settled in Indiana, where food was
plenty aud money scarce, he owed the New
York Observer 3 10 for that paper, and of.
iered to write six letters from the West TO
square the account. This proposal was de.
clined, aud he had to pay the cash
Judge Nelson Of the United States su.
preme court is so far conyalescent, that on
n New-year's day he was able to receive calls
from his friends at his residence at Coopers.
town, N. Y. lie appears nearly as well as
previous to his recent illness, but his physi.
elan has advised him not to resume his dutie,
+ on the bench this winter.
r. The following is the statute in the old
Saxon code referring to leap year: " Albeit.
a as eape yearre dolho oecurrc, the woman
G holdeth prerogative over the MEME in mat.
'ers oil courtshippe, love, aud matrimonie 50
y that when the lady proposeth it shall not be
lawful Tor the man to say her nae, but shall
e en'ertane her PROPOSAL in all guide courtesie.n
y The Mayor OF New Orleans and many