Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-06-26
Weekly News Summary.

An artesiau well 10 California spouts
speckled trout.
--Whitclaw Reid began to scribble on
Xenia, Ohio, paper.
Fifth avenue New York, is to be paved
with square stone blocks.
The new Chicago buildings Of the news.
papers will be splendid structures.
Three per cent. of the negro vote con.
stitutes the balance Of power in Alabama.
The ladies of Paris, Kentucky, are form
ing an anti.speak .evil-oi.your.neighbor soc-
ety.
Finding Livingstone was small job
compared with finding out the truth about the
treaty.
brigham Young, having quarrellcd with
his forty.nine mothers.in.law, will not marry
any more wives.
Winnie Ream is going to try literature
for variety by publishing book Of travel,
sketches and poems
The most efTectual way to prevent hy-
drophobia is to vaccinate all the dogs with
doube.barreled shotgun.
The Sutro tunnel, which will pierce the
Comstock lode in Nevada has reached
length of nearly 5000 feet.
Senator Sumner will remain in Wash
ington for some weeks, revising the edition OF
his works which is now publishing.
They nov know where De- Livingstone is
and he is not in UjVi. This is the first
time he wasn't at Ujiji in ten years.
Chicago papers cali upon the city gov
eminent for ant-6rework legislation. lest the
city suffer the fate Of Portland in 1866
"A young man in Louisville, Kentucky,
answered matrimonial advertisement, and
became the accepted sutton of his own sister.
Tom Scott has given $50 600 to Wilson
college at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, an
institution for the education Of young women.
In Petersburg the temperature is iudi-
Gated by its effect upon paper collars. 1t IS
now reported at three paper collars heat.
Senator Thurman has been very III at
his residence 10 Washington since the adjourn
ment of Congress, and is still confined to his
room.
Lake Ontario was agitated by a subma-
rine earthquake on Thursday, repeatedly
raising and falling two feet aud turning up
dead fish.
Senator Brownlow has not been in
better health in six years than now. He has
good appetite, sleeps well and promises to
live many years yet.
"A comparison Of the death rates Of sew
entecn of the largest cities 10 the world for
1870, shows Montreal to be the most and
Bombay the least fatal.
Senator Amcs feels 50 sure Of Mr. Will
sons election to the vice presidency that he
has bespoke his seat in the Senate chamber
after the 4th of March.
-Pere Hyaeinthe is about to marry the
only daughter Of Count Won Edal, Bavarian
nobeman Of considerable wealth, whose ac-
quaintance he made in Rome,
Romeo was a sei.made elephant. lie
came to this country without dollar in bis
trunk, took Greeley's advice, went West, and
died last Friday worth $4,000.
Bishop McQuaid Of Rochester, ~ Y,
has issued decree from the cathedral in that
city, that twelve hacks shall be henceiorth
the maximum number for a funeral.
The San Francisco Bulletin says the
extent to which black mail is levied in that
city, under one form or another, if thoroughly
exposed, would astonish the public.
The damage resulting from the eruption Of
Mount Vesuvius amounts to about E2sOOO,
10 meet which subscriptions have been given
which, it is believed, will amount to 100000.
Mr. Beecher says that as soon as we have
got politics settled business reformed, human
nature elevated, he is determined to form
society for the reformation Of botanical
names.
AN Ohio farmer has imported steam
wagon from Engand Il hauls heavy loads
through fields and woods and over ordinary
roads with great facility, and is very easily
managed.
Chicago papers deplore the fact that
most Of the new buildings now being erected
there are baptized in the blood Of some Of the
workmen. lardiya day passes without some
fatal accident
William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Til.
ton and Lucretia Mott made addresses at the
funeral on Monday of Mrs Mary A. W.
johnson, wife Of Oliver johnson Of the New
York Tribune.
A 4" Women's Pacific Publishing com.
pany" has been started in San Francisco, with
capital Of SIS 600 Officers, superintend.
ents, business agents, stockholders, printers,
are all women.
Quite member Of prominent persons
design visiting the Yellowstone Park region,
this summer among them several senators,
Assistant Secretary Cowan of the interior
department, and Ben Wade.
The captain Of Massachusetts, whaler
on recent voyage took from a sperm whale
which he captured in the South Pacific, an
iron belonging to the ship Catawba OF Nam
tucket, which was lost some twenty years ago.
The bills passed by Congress which re-
ceived neither the Presidents assent nor veto,
and which therefore failed to become laws,
we're OF much less consequence than usual
after session, consisting merely Of two pri-
vate bills.
The poet Tennyson is a member of the
committee which is collecting books and works
of art to help the mayor aud townspeople of
Strasburg in replacing their magnificent Ii.
b1rary which was burned during the Franco
Prussian war
-" The Zenith City Of the Unsalted Sea-"
as Duluth complacently calls itself has final
y found something it couldn't do. 1t want.
ed to decorate but being only two years old
had unwittingly neglected to provide itself
with soldiers graves.
They are evidently getting ready for an
nexation in Canada. mob 10 Norfolk
county recently tore down mans house over
his head, AMI then defended themselves with
the gleetu assertion, " that's the way they do
things in the States !"
General Hawley estimates that the dis.
trlbution of 100 acres Of the public lands to
every Union solder-as recommended by the
recent Indiana democratic convention -wouId
involve the giving away of over $4,000
square miles of territory, five times the area
of New York State
notwithstanding the immense iron mines
OF our country and the facilities for working
them, the production is far below the demand.
1t requires fully one-half of all the Ameri.