Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-04-17
Weekly News Summary.

TO be used In translating the Bible into the
japanese language.
Abby Sage Richardson has returned to
Chicago, and is teaching elocution aud carry
Jog on circulating library
Charles Reade thinks there is no doubt
that the Tichborne claimant is Arthur Orion,
and says so with his usual assurance and
emphasis.
Montreal proposes to take 100000
stock in the Northern colonization railroad to
Aymer. The people vote on it for ten days
about May |.
st. Louis is subscribing for the erection
Of four gigantic wooden propellers OF 5000
tons each, capable of carrying 10000 bushels
of grain in bulk
Atkins, Little Lock justice Of the
peace, advertises to perform the marriage
ceremony the first time for % cents, and
aftcrward for 10 cents.
Subscription lists have been opened at
Columbia, s. c., for a monument TO William
Gilmore Simms. Wade Hampton is one Of
the committee for raising funds.
A colored waiter of Milwaukee hotel,
who is careful of bis reputation, has sued a
paper for libel in charging him with having
been memberof the Georgia Legislature.
r. S Fergus of Brooklyn, formerly
captain in the 18th United States infantry
regiment starts for Egypt soon, and will be
the 23l American officer to enter the khe-
dives army.
People who have been SO green as to send
subscription money to William u. Gump at
Neu York for Our Own Fireside" and fab
u.ous premiums Of chromos, etc, will never
hear from IL again.
Bismarck is bcsougbi by $4,000 women
Of Alsace and Lorraine, not to draft their
husbands or sons into the army. He won't
be apt to be more merciiul to the conquered
than to the native Germans.
During the past year, one sister Of Olive
Logan, Alice, has become insane, and two
others, Eliza aud Kate, have died. Alice
became Insane on the day Of an unfortunate
marriage with the actor Albert Aiken.
The Warwickshire farm laborers, now
on the strike, receive - shiiiugs week, and
Canon Griddestone calls upon them to take
it and be satisfied that they are not as the
poor Deyoushremen who get but eight
The women telegraphers at Baien have
been discharged because taey neglected to
send dispatches about matters Of state and
business, until they had finished sending each
other glowing accounts Of parties and dresses,
and bits Of gossip.
The medical faculty of Moscow, Russia,
resolved to admit them TO the educational
course and lectures of the university. and to
the privilege of following all the abors of the
medico-chirurgical academy.
Col. j. w. Forney, Jr, has retired from
all connection with the Washington Sunday
Morning Chronicle, in order to return to his
old position Of managing editor Of the Pills.
delphia Press Mr. D. c. Foruey is now sole
proprietor Of the Sunday Chronicle.
The steamer Kafraira is taking $4,000
bushels, Of oystetsof the Va, coast to plant 10
France Charnsy the former Of the enterprise,
has tested the biyalves from Massachusetts, to
California, aud thinks that those Of the lower
Chesapeake are best suited to his purpose
The new Masonic temple at Troy was
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on
Tuesday The building cost S94, 400. all of
which has been provided for and paid by sub
scription to the capital stock and individual
contributions by the members Of the fratern.
i;y.
The Prussians are terrifying Metz with
enormous cannons of steel and are eularging
Strasburg 30 that, instead Of 10000, il can
contain 100000. They are also making
canal parallel with the Rhine, and an enor-
nous basin for ships coming from the North
sea
The Grand Union hotel at Saratoga
Springs, with all the furniture and equipments,
was sold at auction at New York on Wednes-
day to A. 7. Stewart for $500 The
sale was ordered by the United States district
court by the assignee IN bankruptcy of Leland
Brothers.
DR. Turner, the founder OF the New
York state inebriate asylum at Binghampton.
has promised Gov. Hoffman that he will
raise by subscription 100000 to pay the
bonds now due, and will give $4,000, proyid-
ed Drs Ray, Butler and Nichols be appoint
ed as commissioners to re-organize the insti.
tuition
An euterprising Leavenworth firm are
proposing TO send an excursion steamer I'D
the Yellowstone river the present season 10
give people 4 chance to inspect the new " ma.
tional park" Tae boat will start the last
part of May, and it is thought that it can as
cend the Yellowstone at least $50 miles from
its junction with the Missouri.
One may lie outdoors almost every day
of the yearin this southern California, and /
have seen, on my journey, dozens Of person,
deeply gone IN consumption when they came
here, who had been restored to health by resi-
dence in some one Of the southern counties.
or in sheltered spots like San Rafael, north
even OF San Francisco. - Charles Nordhoffl
Several of the Los Angeles (CalD riot.
ers aud murderers Of Chinese have had their
trials aud sentences. Two were sentenced to
six years, three to five, one to three and ons
to two. All stoutly declared their innocence
aud one may get OF on the plea Of insanity
One was q aud one % years old.
John Quinn, the last of the Fenian pris.
oners captured at Ridgeway in June, 1866,
reached Buffalo, last week, from the Kings.
ton penltentlary, where he has been confined
Tor over five years. Quinn has had severe
experience, having at one time received 432
lashes for knocking down a domineeripp
guard.
A member of the japanese embassy Mt
Washington, has received letter from Yeddo
stating that the system Of prosecuting Chris.
tlans In that country has Of late grown into
dlsiavor, the mikado and his councillors bay.
ing determined that all persons shall be per
mitted to worship in accordance with the
dictates of their own consciences.
The New Brunswick aud Nova Scotia
s.hipyards are especially active this spripr.
a rlse OF twenty per cent. in the cost of build.
ing iron vessels on the Clyde has created a
demand for wooden ships, and 3s,340 tons of
wooden ships are now on the stocks or under
contract at st. John, and as many will proba.
oily be built there in the course Of the present
year.
"A convention of all persons interested in
narrow gauge railroads will be held at 81