Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-01-08
Weekly News Summary.

Nevada gets about $4,000 year
from gambling licenses.
Strawberries large and luscious are
plenty in the San Francisco markets.
An Illinois paper reports the Their
mometer thirty degrees below Cairo"
The Hartford Screw Company "turn
out" $4,000 screws daily.
Haste makes waste when sharpening
a soft lead pencil in hurry.
"A club Of fifteen families in Pittsburg
pay doctor s25 each per year to doctor
them at wholesale.
You are snubbed in New York if you
haven't a tortoisc-shell belt with silver
buckle.
"A company has been formed to work
up the immense timber resources Of lower
Virginia.
The sparrows in the New York parks
are dying for want of the food that lies
buried in the snow.
Cincinnati street-car conductors Of a
religions turn Of mind distribute tracts
among their passengers.
"A man who went to Idaho because he
thought the climate proof against ague has
had the idea shaken out of him.
The jaior at Cincinnati takes the pris-
oners out to saw wood and yet stcrnly
warns them not to "cut sticks
"A Ypsilanti, Mich, firm has manufac.
tured 20 600 base ball clubs during the last
year.
Beer to the amount Of 1880 barrels
was manufactured at Buffalo, during No
vember
Quaker missionaries are at work 10
Mexico, trying 10 induce the rival leaders
to become friends.
"A plucky woman named Kate Hoyt,
captured a full grown wolf in Wayne
county, Ind a few days since.
"A potato starch factory is being built
at Manchester, Ia, that will use up one
thousand bushels Of potatoes per day.
"A black bear undertook to hug Mrs.
Mason Of Wisconsin, to death, but she
jabbed the tip Of I'm umbrella into his eyes,
and he seeded.
England has built steel steamboat,
ninety feet long and drawing only twelve
inches Of water, for Que Of the rivers Of
Brazil.
A Tiiusyile oil prince has papsred his
house with 1914 bonds, which are reliey-
cd by handsome border of ten dollar
grecnbacks.
-Wiscon,in clergymen claim and cIer-
else the right TO sit down and deliver their
sermons. Il looks about as odd as a wo.
man sitting down to wash dishes.
The city taxes Of Fond du Lac, Wis,
for this year, amount to 100000, aud the
entire population is only about eight thou.
sand.
An Omaha doctor, who tried to work
a steer under the saddle, now writes to the
local papers that be is unable to practice,
owing to sickness in bis own family.
"A complete official history Of the pro-
ceedings under the treaty Of Washington is
now being printed. 1t will comprise three
bulky volumes.
Because colored children were permit
ted to attend the school, some rufians of
Maplewood, Kan, set fire to the school.
house a few nights since. 1t was totally
destroyed.
--Brassey, the great English railway
contractor, built, during his life, 67s0 miles
of railwayin England, Ireland and Scotland,
in Fronce, Germany, Russia, Italy, Canada
India and the Argentine Republic.
Over seven thousand kangaroo hides
have been worked up into fine boots for
the young men Of san Francisco. Tboy
are said to excel the patent feathers as a
dress boot for hops
An applicant for a pair of boots at
one Of our shoe stores was asked what num-
Der he wore, aud replied, as soon as be
could recover from his surprise: "Why,
two, Of course 70
"A rural writes as follows to the De-
troit chief police II walloped my boy
last Thursday, aud he jumped the house.
think he is in Detroit; if so, wallop him
again and charge it to me-
The following veiitsble bad spells"
are copied from valuable book of records
"Oeupie," "sxecept, ""2-ishen." This last
combination is supposed to stand for "tui-
ton"
"A sharp legal warfare is being waged
against gamblers aud lottery dealers in
Philadelphia, and hopes are entertained
that the city will eventually be cleared OF
the whole tribe.
1t is estimated that four hundred yards
of tulle went up the aisle on six brides
maids at a fashionable wedding in New
York recently. Their other clothes were
beyond human computation.
"A daughter of the Khcdive is short
ly to be married Some Of the items OF
the wedding outfit, which is being made in
Paris, are Point d Alencon flowers at $500
yard, and $780, 900 worth Of other aces.
The Jewish persecution in Roumanis
has taken on a novel phase. The authori-
ties of the capital city of Jasay have for
hidden the slaughtering Of cattle by Jews,
and thus deprived them of meat, for no
jew las orthodoxy is understood in Rou.
mania) will eat the flesh of animals not
Filled according to precepts of his religion,
code.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman of Derby, Conn,
who was convicted of the murder of her
husband last April, and who has been con.
fined in the New Haven Jail ever since
waiting a movement for new trial, has
made to Mr. Webster, her lawyer, a full
confession Of her deeds, and complete his
tory of her life. Her confession goes be.
You'd acknowledging the poisoning of Mr.
Sherman, and extends far back in her his.
tory. After her sentence next week, which
will be State Prison for life, Mr.. Webster
will publish the whole history, which il
said to be the most startling and thrilling
tale of crime ever written. Mrs. Sherman
since the confession states that she is much
happier woman than she has ever been.
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