Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-07-03
Weekly News Summary.

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"A man at Hanover, ILL.,, lost so 600 trout,
worth $4,000, by severe thunderstorm the
other day.
Benson j. Losing, the artist author, re-
ceived the degree of l. l.. d, Tuesday, from
Michigan university.
--Seveniy.niuo deaths from smallpox in
Buffalo in May. Many Of the Germans there
don't believe in vaccination
The Chicago city council lately passed
an ordinance against quack medicine posters,
and the mayor is determined to enforce it.
-Beechcr thinks the jubilee will do more
to harmonic existing difficulties than anything
likely to be achieved by the Geneva court OF
arbitration.
Subscriptions are being made at New
York to assist "Admiral O'Keefe," the smart
nevs-boy who lately passed "A successful exam.
nation for a cadelsbip at Annapolis.
Forty deaths have already occurred from
the Grand Trunk disaster, and but two
Of the injured can survive. This will make
sixiy-ihree deaths by this terrible calamity.
Some Hudson N. " merchants were
lately induced by a sharper to pay 1925 for
eight pounds Of brass, surprising they were
buying gold stolen at the Chicago FIRE. Good
enough for them.
The Copenhagen papers all as Of one
accord come to the defense Of brother-in-law
Cramer. the United States minister there and
say that the scandal about him 10 the Amer
lean papers is false
Tho French society for the protection Of
animals have voted a medal to poor woman
of Paris who, during the horrors Of the siege
kept twenty stray dogs safe from the butchers
although offered no less than 200 francs
apiece for them
And now comes a woman, "Olivia, Of
the Philadelphia Press, aud says awe know
whereof we speak, and therefore declare upon
the faith Of an honest pen that the Catacazy
trouble was the mschieyous work Of women
An administration editor in Omaha /.
making it lively for his Grceleyized democrat
ic rival by reprin,ing from the lattcrs files
choice extracts in which he alludes to his
candidate as " veteran rascal" putty faced
BLACKBOARD" "unmitigated ialsider," etc.
The prince of Wales, during bis late
visit to Paris, paid visit to Miss Harriet
Lane, now Mrs Johnston, Of Baltimore the
ueico of the late ex-President Buchanan, who
did the honors Of the White House during his
ERIN Of office, when the prince called there
The first canoe cruise Of any consequence
yet made by American canoes was sailed by
two Of the New York canoe clubs dimiuutiye
yachts last week The voyage extended along
the south shore Of Long Island and the beha-
vior Of the canoes in gale proved them
excellent sea-boats.
The Burmese embassy which recently
landed in England brought costly presents,
among which was a magnificent bracelet 10
Queen Victoria, the gold OF which weighs
seven pounds She can't wear it on all
occasions, but it will do when she wants to
lay heavy hand on somebody.
While railroad brakeman stopped Of
his train on the Hudson River railroad to do |
a little counting, the house where his love
lived was quarantined for smallpox, and be
was still prisoner at last accounts. As he
and she had both been vacciuated this was
tolcraby agreeable to the situation.
Here is sound advice from a thoughtful |
man Put not your faith in him who pre-.
diets bot season he keeps ice nor in him
who predicts a cold oue--he keeps a clothing
store nor yet in him who declares wet one
he has umbrellas nor a dry one he sells |
beer nor he who says Greeley will be elected |
he is insane.
England has invented n new intoxicaut, /
consisting Of mixture Of naptha and ether. |
the effects of which its users claim to be high /
ly agreeable No check can be placed upon [
its consumption, except by a special act OF
parliament, because 1t does not come under
exciseabe spirits. and its growing use is view
ed with considerable alarm.
"A woman named Bearlshor living near
Dayton, o., while carrying in an armiul OF
wood the other day, was bitten on the leg by |
what she supposed to have been rattIesnake
After drinking large draught Of pure alcohol
in lieu Of whisky, and nearly dying Of fright, |
it was discovered that her assaiant was
piece Of barrel hoop. She recovered.
Rev. George Rodgers, of Dorsetshre, |
England, well-known clergyman, sails for
New York in July, for the purpose Of select
ing a spot in the far West, wherein to found
a large English colony, the members of which |
will sail for the United States in the fall |
English papers say that the example is likely |
to prove contagious il favorable news is receiy-
ed Of the success Of this experiment.
The district attorney of New York made
the startling Ascension at the recent trial of a
dealer in obscene literature, that "the young
ladies' semiuaries in this city and its viciuit, |
are actually flooded with books and pictures
of the most indecent kind, surreptitously in
troduced- sometimes hidden in bouquets OF
flowers, sometimes in parcels of nuts aud candy
by such men as the prisoner at the bar"
The cup that cheers but does not nebri.
ate, according to DR. Arlidge, an English ply
stefan, is Just as poisonous as the cup which
both cheers and inebrates. The doctor is
quoted as declaring that tea-tippling is not a
whit less dangerous to health than dram-drink.
ing in fact, in his own awful language. tea
drinking is las distinctly sensual, extravigant
aud pernicious as beer-drinking or gin-swiIl-
ing"
A gambler died the other day in Belgium
Of broken heart. He was formerly black.
smith, but went one day to the gambling re-
sort Of Spa with some money he had encono-
mized, won an immense fortune, and kept it,
For many years he was cited as almost the
only man who, having made such sudden
fortune at cards did not return and lose it in
the same manner. At last, however, he
did lose it aud could not endure his humilia-
ton.
-Monsgnor Carl, Roman Catholic
bishop, has been driving thriving trade
lately at Florence, Italy, in casting out devils.
A short time since he took Giueli, an epileptic
mechanic, tied him up in chapel and kept
him without food for SO hours, when, being
too near death to have anything as vigorous
as a fit, he was discharged as cured. Unable
to appreciate the kindness of his benefactor
he had him arrested, aud an irreligious judge
sentenced the bishop to six months imprison-
ment.
The United States Hayden Yellowstone,
exploring party left Ogden, Utah, on the 24th,
10 two divisions, for the unexplored regions IL
the north. Ooe party under Prof L. W. Hay