Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-04-24
" eehly News Summary.


has 672 inmates.
A system Of storm signals is to be estab.
lishcd in the West Indies.
Long John Wentworth has climbed upon
the Liberal Republican platform.
Hay is $3.50 ton at Georgetown, Colo
RADIO, because Of the long and severe winter.
Good chance for promotion in the MeHi.
can army about thirty generals are used up
monthly.
" Assault with intent to commit scroiua
is what they call compulsory vaccination in
Chicago.
The national Sunday.school association
at its recent session at ludiluapolis had 800
delegates.
Wisconsin hops are troubled by vermin,
and quite hop panic is prevailing through
out the state.
Mrs. OLcary talks Of selling her kicking
COW aud running for the presidency on the
woman suffrage ticket.
Milwaukee has new academy Of music,
which is claimed to be the finest place OF
amusement west Of New York.
JEFF Davis is reported to be writing
yindication Of His administration as Presi-
dent of the Confederate States.
The Appletons bid $4,000 for advance
sheets of Forster's " Dickens but the Lip
pincotis went $4,000 better and obtained it.
Cincinnati hotel.keepers are congratulate
ing themselves over the probability that the
coming convention viii remain in session three
days
"A bill recently passed by the California
Legislature provides that religion shall be
neither taught nor practiccd in the public
schools"
The salary OF the Canadian Viceroy is
$4,000 year with two or three rent-iree
palatial residences and the office is usually
held for Eve years,
The ship-yards 10 the vicinity Of Phila-
delpha are uncommouly busy, this spring
and have already 70 vessels Of various de-
=, scrip,ions under way
\ -Parasol handles are made quite long thi,
season, so as to enable a gentleman to be able
to discover his lady friends under these fash
ionabe hidngplaces
= A Dutchmau, complaining Of bad neigh.
d. boas, says his pigs aud his hens come home
< with their ears split and that the last time
). two cf the hens came home missing.
: The Profile House, at the Frauconia
Notch. New Hampshire has been enlarged
is and will accommodate 600 hoarders this sum
{. mer. Its dining hall is l32 feet long.
l. II is reported that Henry c. Bowen
e settled up MS difference with Titou by the
payment Of $1,000 in addition to the public
acknowledgement Of harmony between them.
u A Minnesota horse thief having proved
" himself innocent, has been voted $1,000 by
= the legislature TO retrieve his reputation. lnno-
l. cent horse thieves should make a note Of this.
Rev II C. Day has been pastor Of the
Schenectady Baptist cnurch for % years, aud,
though still an '0ld bachelor, his church cele-
!, brated what they called his silver wedding
- last week.
The officers Of the war department will,
ne this year, take observations from several
A hundred stations on Lake Superior to settle
nj the question whether the great lakes have IT,
ms dial movements.
While Mr. Motley was our diplomatic
representative at the court Of st. James he
paid more for the rent of his housein London
than the entire amout Of his compensation from
hn the government
Nj. S Toyama has resigned his position
Ks as secretary Of the japanese legation, with
Il the intention OF fitting himself for literary
I'd and Journalistic career. lie will soon enter
n Michigan university.
in Mr. Locke has been DESTROYS Of discon.
zee tinuing the Petroleum Nasty letters for the
d. past two years, but his associates in business
III have refused to permit it, regarding them as
he part Of theirstock in trade.
The English ant.tobacconists are shock
60 ed at the conduct Of Prof Newman, who,
an having been deputcd to try smoking aud de.
"a tail its horrible effects thinks he will try an.
70 other pipeful, befre deciding.
m --Tesuoske Tomita, recently appointed
err japanese consular agent at New Y ork is but
i'm % years of age, aud has during the past
rs three or four years completed very thor.
IN. ough business education at Newark.
nd Judge David Davis is 20 la-ge that the
is chair he occupies in the Supreme Court ofthe
an United States had to be made especially for
ly him This chair will probably last as long
nd as heremains in the service Of the country.
dy The twin curse Of Chicago are landlords
and mikmen. The former are driving the
lar. renting population out Of town the latter are
driving the resident population to chalk,
as Two Louisiana ladies are claiming to be
me the widow ola deceased legislator The house
IN, IF representatives voted full pay and mileage
e" TO his wife, and the courts are trying to fad
" out to which woman he was really married
- 1t is reported that Mr. Locke has been
DESTROYS Of disseminating the Petroleum Y
" Nasty letters for the past two years, but his
Nv associates III business have refused to permit
~. Wv II, regarding them as a part Of their stock
'ne in trade
,J. Within period of fourteen months two
an. societies Of iron workers in England paid out
r. for the support OF men on strike the enormous
70, "um Of s32S3000. Half Of this amount
r., would have amply stocked an immense
sed cooperative manuiactory,
nre The judges in the supreme court of the
w. District OF Columbia, in revising the new coda
OF laws for the District have ordered the
in word "male, in connection with admissions to
be the bar, TO be stricken out, thus opening the
way for women to practice in the local courts.
he There is pungent retort and a sugges.
ne tive truth in Senator Mortons remark tina,
m, there will be many more oilice.seekers at the
'p oo Cincinnati Convention than ofice.holders al
I'd. Philadelphia.
So "
nj The Civil service bill introduced by Mr..
m. Willard, which provided that no member Of
zee Congress should recommend any person for
ID appointment to any federal Office, was yir.
le, 'ually killed last week, by the passage of a
ee vote IN the House to recommit the same 10
ed the committee which reported it. The vote
in stood 81 to 70. Both Mr.. Willard and
rec Judge Poland voted against recOmmittal ;
nMes Mr. Smith was absent.
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