Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-12-03
Weekly NeMs Summary.

Quebec has put on ten ieet OF snow.
John Surratt is teaching writing in a
Maryland village.
-Lent's circus has gone to join the in
Vulnerable caravan.
"A subscription has been started at St.
Louis for the family Of Capt. Fry.
st. Adams is three millions better off
for the dairy business every year.
There is a mild movement to establish
homeopathic hospital at Philadelphia.
-Four ladies' are spoken of as candi-
dates for the clerkshp of the Iowa Legis-
lature.
The Kasier has been advised by his
physicians to let State affairs run themselves
for awhile.
Gov. Powers, Of Mississippi, will test the
legality Of the recent election there by an
appeal to the courts
The New York apothccaries have agreed
to close early in the evening This will
obviatc the necessity Of sitting up all
night.
The new Boston post-ofice will cost
between three and four millions, exclusive
of theste. The cost was originally limited
to sl,500O00.
Tiffany q Co., the New York jewel.
ers, discovered last week that one of their
statesmen had stolen large amount of goods
from them.
Havana exported 534 200 600 cigars
last year, the United States taking the
largest number, not to mention those Of do
nestle manufacture.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has ordered the rations of the Comanche
Indians stopped if they do not comply with
the demand for the murderers and raiders
OF their hand.
The Supreme Court Of California de-
cldes that tax on a mortgage of land, or
the money secured thereby, and the taxation
Of land, is double taxation, and is therefore
unconstitutional.
About seventy-fye millions postal cards
have gone into use. These have taken the
place OF huge amounts of note paper and
envelopes, and "the trade" in those articles
begins to groan.
The labor unions of New York city
embrace one hundred and twenty-five or.
CARNATIONS, and the membership aggregates
5000. That is a strong force, even in
New York city
The two Georgia ladies who recently
became heirs to immense estates in France
have had their credulity imposed upon A
London barrister has had the Kindness to
write over and tell them so.
An Alabama postmaster, a confessed
defauter, allows his clerk to swelter 10 Mo-
bile Jail under a charge Of the crime, while
he attends to business 10 the Legislature, to
which he has just been elected
The average rate of slaughter among
the miners in Great Britain is one human
being to every 100, 100 tons of coal exca.
waited, or JOBS lives during the year. Amer
lea improves upon that, and kills man for
every $500 tons.
"A new prima donna lately made her
debut at San Francisco. She is the daug.
ter OF Sious chief, and is said to surpass
Parpa Rosa in volume and equality Of
voice. She can hardly surpass her 10 70.
tundity Of person.
&c. I. Brooks, late president of the
Merchants National Bank, of Petersburg,
Va, charged with the embezzlement of the
funds Of that institution, will be sent to the
April term of the United States Circuit
Court for trial. Bail, $4,000.
The round house of the Central Pa.
ciic railroad company in Rocklin, Placer
County, Cal, was burned last week. Nine
locomotives and about the same number OF
cars were destroyed. The town narrowly
escaped destruction also.
The Arrapahoes and Cheyennes, who
are stopping at the Grand Central hotel in
New York, are much pleased with their &c.
commodations. They give war dances on
the top floor every night, and quite astonish
the other guests with their native humor.
During the twelve months ending with
October, the value Of wheat which left
San Francisco, mainly for England, was,
in round numbers twenty millions Of dollars,
quite equal to, If not exceeding, the value
Of gold mined in the State 10 the same pc.
riod of time
Cincinnati only claims "the finest sus.
pension bridge, the finest work house, the
grandest fountain and esplanade, the most
magnificent hospital, the most complete.
ornate and extensive library edi6ce. the
most beautiful suburbs and cemetery, and
the best staton-house, in the country"