Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-08-14
Weekly News Summary.

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pcuters has three thousand members.
III G dresses gorgoously nowadays, and
is happier than he will ever be again.
"A quiet effort is making in New York
to revive the Standard as a campaign paper
Minneapolis, MINI, wants a pneumatic
street railway, and has subscribed 100000
towards it,
Tho allopathic school Of doctors are the
only medical men allowed to practice on the
island Of Jamaica
Tho now French ambassador the Mar
quis de Noailcs has taken possession Of his
cottage at Newport.
Young ladies at Cape May complain that
the Filtration walk" there is too brilliantly
Illuminated at night.
"A Kansas billiard table is described as
having old boots for pockets and eight brok
en- hoe handles for cues.
The old racc-horse Lexington, aged %,
is reported as dangerously i'll and giving IN
dications Of bis approaching end
San Francisco has forty boundaries and
iron-working establishments, with capital iu-
vested to the amount af 81 ,4S4 SOC
joaquin Miller has presented Grace
Greenwood with pair Of earrings made Of
a rattlosnake's rattles, mounted with gold.
The fish in Oneida lake, n. Y, are dy-
ing by thousands from the bite Of little
white bug which attacks them under the
scales.
An Omaha paper advises the people not
to make such fuss about the shooting Of a
constable, as " there are forty candidates for
the ofice."
Sunday afternoon concerts Of sacred
music have been ordered to take place in
Central Park by the New York Board Of
Aldermen.
"A paper called the Meteor is Published
by the inmates Of the Alabama insane asylum,
and it is not so Eighty sheet as one would
imagine either.
-Ex Governor Seymour, who is Roscoe
Conkling's brother-n.law, was among the
guests who dined with General Grant, at
Utica, Tuesday.
Independence Hall in Philadelphia is be.
ing restored, by order Of the city government
TO as nearly as possible the condition in which
it was in l776
Calvin Goding, a Methodist Episcopal
deacon of Columbia, Miss, was struck dead
by the hand Of God, Withdrawing home a
bag Of corn which he had stolen from a neigh
Dor.
The Astor House in New York boasts Of
a boarder who registered his name on the
books Of the hotel the first day it was opened,
and has been there ever since, period of "a
years.
-O'Brien who gave the Tammany records
to the New York Times, is reported to have
said that Judge McCunn could have been
acquitted if he had been willing to spend
$4,000.
Tho health of New Orleans is said to be
remarkably good this summer, which fact is
attributed to the purifying agency Of heavy
rains, and better supply of fresh fruits aud
vegetables.
-Apastor in one ofthe Cincinnati churches
breaches against Lightning rods and insurance
companies. He,says the one is defying the
God of heaven, while the other is refusal to
trust Providence.
The birthday of John Morrissey's oldest
son occurred on Tuesday, and was duly cele.
brated at Saratoga, the festivities being pre-
sided over by Rev. DR.. Camp, who also made
"neat and telling" speech.
The steamers Vanderbilt, Connecticut
and Golden Gate, Of the bankrupt New York
and Troy line were sold at auction, Monday,
and it is understood will resume their old
route under a new management
The japanese government has taken
measures to establish a new post office, to
obtain loan of 100000 for the devel-
opment Of mineral resources, and TO abolish
the worship Of indecent images
-Oberlin students still sustain their repu.
tation as models of morality. OF the gradu-
ating class, numbering g. and the present
senior class, numbering SO, not one drinks,
smokes, plays cards or chews gum.
1t is said that since this century began,
more than three hundred islands of eastern
and southern Polynesia alone have been led
by the Gospel, as taken to them by mission
aries, to reuounce their heathenism.
"A southern editor promises to name a
baby each year after the person who shall
furnish the largest list Of subscribers for his
paper. His wife will be very likely to have
something to say about that contract.
The peach growers association of Della.
ware estimate the crop Of peaches in thai
state at 100000 baskets, which, although
only half the quantity grown last year, il
enough finer to fully make up the deficiency
"A father in Chicago was so much over
come by the death of his only child, aged i
months, that on Sunday he visited Lakeyiev
cemetery and while there shot himself, fallinl
across the grave Of his idol lie cannot re
cover.
The officers of the coast survey and til,
naval observatory are engaged in series o
very exact observations to determine the pre-
else difference Of latitude and longitude be
tween Greenwich and Washington. Tn,
cable is being used in these calculations.
Mrs. Louisa Atkins who has recent,
obtained her diploma after five years study a
Zurich university, has been elected residen
medical officer Of the Birmingham and Mid
land hospital for women, which is tho first in
stance in England Of woman being choser
to such position.
--"Send us wives" is the cry from Wash
ington Territory. Here now Is a fine oppor
tunity for people who have any commodit,
which they wish to get rid Of We think fol
our OWE part, however, that it would be bet
ter to send out the raw material and let them
make their own wives.
Honor among thieves receives rev
illustration in the fact that an Albany cer.
gyman has at three different times had val.
liable watch returned to him after it was
stolen. The watch bears an inscription Of
the fact that it is present, including Of
course the owners name.
DR. Howard has been solicited by over
20 different lecture agencies to tell the tale
OF his sufierings under their auspices, and il
would not be surprising if the fact that the
tyrants heel has been upon his native Amer
lean neck were the means Of putting some
ten, fifteen or twenty thousand dollars in the
doctors pocket.
Chicago amuses itself this warm wealth.
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