Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-03-20
Weekly News Summary.


Danville, Indiana.
1t is estimated that the cost of the Itch.
borne trial will be 100000.
"A. r. Stewart will build 100 houses at
cost Of 100000 at Garden City, l.. l.,
this spring.
Tho privilege Of selling newspapers on
the Kentucky Central Railroad for 1872 has
been sold for sl400.
"A. T. Stewart subscribed $4,000 on Tues.
day toward Rev. George H. llepworth's new
church at New York.
The value Of the steamers and barges en-
ployed on our Western rivers exceeds twenty.
three millions of dollars.
"A Cincinnati editor discovered after a
recent skirmsh that his antagonist had lunch.
ed of his ear during the ARRAY.
The BARRIERS Of Tennessee will hold a
State convention in Nashville on the 22d in.
slant, to organize an association.
Bologna sausage doesn't sell we'll in a
certain Indiana county, because somebody
has Just told what they do with bad beef
Storey of the Chicago Times says that
his paper has made more money in three
months since the fire than in any one year pre-
vious.
Dan Rice Of circus fame has met with
financial troubles, and the sheriff Of Erie
county, Pa adyertises his personal property
for sale.
The proprietors Of projected coffin
factory in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, hope to
begin operations in season to supply the
spring trade.
The Louisville workhouse contains fifty
women convicted Of being common scods.
Vermont has long since given up the task Of
trying to suppress this vice.
"A cheerful givcr put the following note
in a pair Of pantaloons sent to tbs Michigan
sufferers There, take en- last pair I've
got don't get burned out again"
A man dropped bis pocket.book in the
street at Magnolia, Iowa, recently, and vio-
lent gust Of wind whisked away all but $50
Of the $500 which the wallet contained.
-Glyn, member Of the House Of Commons
for Shaitesbury, arose to speak the other
night for the first time in fifteen years. No
wonder there were cheers from all sides"
There was a meeting Of a farmers club
in Wilton, N H., last week. 23l farmers
dined at one hotel and not a single glass of
liquor was called for, and only FIVE cigars
we're sold
"A pair Of horses that have for some
time been the pride Of Jackson. Mich, have
been purchased for the use Of the Emperor Of
japan. Horse men considered then the finest
pair Of horses in the West
The maximum money value of human
| life, as determined by an act Of the Ohio
legislature, is 10000, that being the largest
sum which can be- demanded from railway
company for killing anybody
The Charestown Republican reports
that a boat, in which large party Of colored
men were crossing the Ashley, on Saturday
afternoon last, swamped when mid-stream,
and at6ltecn ofthose on board we're drowned.
The speech of the English solicitor.gen.
eral, Sir John Duke Coleridge, in opening for
the defence in the Tichborne trial, is described
as being twenty days long and six hours
wide
"A happy pair made choice Of the 29th
Of February as their marriage day, and we're
reminded by the officiating clergyman that
their Silver Wedding could be celebrated in
just one hundred years.
Prince Henry sou Of "Our Fritz" who
won such credit in the late war, has been ap.
prenticed to a Berlin book binder His father
was compositor, aud his grandfather, the
emperor, was glazier.
Gov, Washburu Of Wisconsin has lately
visited the burnt district Of that state, and
finds very little suffering. There is some relief
money still on hand, but il will all be required
to buy agricultural implements with.
Three Kentuckians who tried to torture
a supposed negro incendiary into making
confession have been made to pay heavy
fine for their fun The darkey was sensible
enough to sue them for damages
-Four hundred aud ninety.two convicts in
the Ohio penitentiary have demonstrated
against a relaxation Of the temperance laws
Of that State, They say they owe their pres.
ent misfortune to the use Of intoxicating
drinks
The Delaware and Hudson canal com.
/ pany, with the assistance Of towns along the
route, will commence to build a railroad, this
spring, from Whitehall through TO Rouse's
Point and Montreal, on the west side Of Lake
Cbamplain.
"A Washington journalist says that the
members Of the japanese embassy wear gloves
two sizes too large and boots two sizes too
small, and that they walk up four fights of
stairs at the Arlington in order to ride down
in the elevator.
Druggists throughout the county state
that the use Of opium is rapidly increasing
among their patrons, and the fact that l25,-
600 pounds Of this narcotic were imported
into this country last year, proves that they
speak the truth.
The tanning Of human skin in the French
revolution, at Nendon, a pretty well estab-
lished fact and so treated by CARLYLE, is
confirmed by the recent sale at Paris Of
copy Of the French constitution. bound in
such material
The people Of the burnt district in Wis.
consin continue to discover victims of the aw-
iul fire Of last autumn. In cleaning out his
well recently man in Peshtigo found the
body Of a carpenter who had been at work for
him when the fire came.
Perhaps the saddest feature Of the re-
cent election in New Hampshire is the Ger.
tainty that several hundred able bodied edi.
tors IN various parts Of the country will now
feel bound to print Ecetious items about
Straws showing which way the wind blows.
They have already begun.
Richmond high life is agitated by an c.
lopement by youth Of II and girl of 20.
The young husband has no business and no
fortune, and probably never earned V in his
life. There is more shame than romance in the
case as almost always happens.
One of the basest libes which capital
and monopoly have yet ventured upon is the
statement that the labor reform candidate is the
most corpulent member of the supreme court
IN point Of fact, Justice Davis only weighs
go pounds, while Justice Clifford weighs
There has been new departure of the
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