Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-12-10
Weekly News summary.

into n new ui'J n"H'
-Du Chaillu is in Norway, examining
m for new book aud batch of lectures
Miss Pullman Davis was born in a
Pullman car going at the rate Of forty
nilesa hour, near st. Louis, the other day.
The scarcity Of money in the mining
regions of Missouri has led to quite ex-
lo5sye use of pig lead as currency.
Six tons of butter, all spanked, spiccd
and painted ready for the market, are
turned out daily, at San Francisco.
The Black Crook has put sl,557307
into the Treasury of Niblos Garden since
its first production in September, 1866
Gen. Fremont has cancer Of the stom.
ach, but has, until lately, kept the matter
secret. His physician says that he cannot
live year.
"A Kentuckan has just paid three hun.
dred dollars in costs for the luxury of law
suit over the possession Of an aged sheep
worth three dollars.
The Green Bay 4 Minnesota railway,
which is now two hundred and ten miles
long, and has cost s5000,000, is com.
pleted TO w mona, WIS
The remains Of President Harrison
are to be removed from North Bend O., to
the battlefield Of Tppecanoc, where a mon
ument to him will be erected.
The second volume Of Bcechcr's Life
of Christ will not appear until spring,
though a large part Of it is already 10 type,
and he is hard at work 90 the rest Of it.
"A child was smothered 10 Appomattox
county, Va, a few evenings ago by guests
at wedding, who threw their outer gar.
ments upon bed in which he was lying.
The widows Of Capt. Jack, recently
deceased have laid aside their garb Of
mourning and arrayed themselves 10 red
and orange flannel aud number niue cavalry
boots.
Thirteen trains, with 254 car loads Of
hogs, went into st. Louis on the St. Louis
Kansas city, and Northern railroad be.
tween three and seven O'Clock, last Satur.
day afternoon.
-"Twenty prominent gentlemen from
various parts of Ohio have arranged for a
grand ball, to celebrate the approaching
Inauguration Of Bill Allen as Governor Of
the Buckeye State.
AT the laying Of the corer stone Of
the new capitol Of Iowa, the other day, no
speeches were made except few remarks
by workman who got bis fingers pinched
and they were brief and to the point
Cleveland, O., was about completing
tunnel under Lake Erie, to conduct water
to the city, the other day, when a part of
the floor and then the roof Of the tunnel
caved in rendering six hundred feet Of it
useless A turnout will be made around
the bad spot
The Muscatiuc county la grangers
have formed company-capital stock
$4,000 TO engage in manufacturing and
traffic generally, and have already opened
slaugbteriug establishment Their cx-
ample will soon be followed in many other
Iowa counties
The Thanksgiving proclamation Of Gov
Lewis Of Alabama was at least odd for he
called on the people Of his State to observe
the 9th day of November instant as a day
Of humiliation, fasting and prayer to al.
mighty God, that He may avert the evils
that aiilict US
Mrs. Goddard. daughter Of Con.
gresham Ninton Of old whig times, has
written manual Of etiquette which is to
be recognized at Washington The first
code was written by John Quincy Adams,
when he was secretary Of state, and, slightly
amended, is stiil 10 force
Mrs Parmeuter is on trial at Toledo
o for polygamy, and four Of her husband.
are watching the proceeding with intense
interest Three of them have been living
for a long tune, within stones throw oil
one another" and the only wonder is that
they haven't thrown any stones.
Grand Rapids mich has no ambi.
ton to emulate Boston and Chicago in the
matter of great confagra,ions, and has Just
finished laying three miles of twelve-nch
water mains IN her principal streets, from
which water can be thrown to the tops OF
the highest buildings by simply opening
hydrants
The shaft that the Saratoga monument
association propose to raise on the SPOT
where drgoyncsurrendered, in 1872, will
be so feet square at the base and ten at the
summit and Zao ieet high' and VIII cos
soOo 'VVO. Congress is invited to head th'
subscription list with an appropriation o.
sZOVu Oo.
"A cable dispatch from London bring
the news Of the arrival at Plymouth OF tb'
oihcers and crew OF the Loeb Earn th'
ship which inflicted such terrible blow t.
the " Vile du llayre.' She was SO seri
ousy injured by the collision that she ha'
to be abandoned, aud her men were trans
icrred TO the British Queen.
Senator Morton IS quoted as sayinl
that he is opposed to imitation Of the cur
rency under any circumstances. He be
lieyes it is the wisest way to let the bust
ness Of the country adapt itself TO th
currency, aud that spectators who hav
made money out of the tluctuation Of go
need no pity if they do lose something a
gold declines,
The work of reducing the track O
the Grand Trunk railroad Of Canada fror
the broad to the narrow gauge, and subst
tuting steel for iron rails. is progressin
RAPIDLY. and 45O Locomotives adanted I