Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-05-28
" eekly News Summary.

OtaIy mcihDcI VI Tue hcWiy-OfBanlAcu con-
versation club in London.
The New York TriJuneS new build.
ing is to be the largest and most imposing
newspaper office in the world
The Dominion Of Canada is going to
try new election law, with the property
qualification as its distinguishing feature.
Oliver Charlck, one Of the new 20.
lc1 commissioners, has sued the New
York Eueaing Post Tor libel, claiming s10,-
600 damages.
The Rhode Island strike has failed
The strikers, after losing much money and
time, 60 TO work again at the old terms.
poorer but wiser
The post Office savings banks Of Eng
land have been success in that country
The plan was introduced by Mr.. Gladstone,
twelve years ago.
-lntertal revenue receipts for the year
will probably exceed the estimates by 3d..
100000 or 100000. They were ex.
pocted to reach. sll0,0y0,000.
-Four hundred and twenty.eight bodies
in all have been recovered from the wreck
Of the Atlantic, leaving about one hundred
and eighteen yet unaccounted for.
Judge Walden, whom Mr.. Chase made
his literary executor, expects to have his
first volume ready for the press in about
three months.
"A Dubuque tla.) woman found long
lost brother, recently, by reading over the
certificates Of remarkable cures in quack
Doctors almanac. Go get one, everybody.
Senator Fentou revived old memories.
the other day, by ride on a raft down the
Allegheny river, whore he was lumber.
man twenty years ago.
The number Of person, killed 10 the
streets Of London during the past five years
by vehicles aud horses has been 533 maim-
ed or injured, 1894
The Baltimore and Potomac railroad
tunnel at Baltimore has just becn complei-
ed. It is 1850 feet long, and only second
TO ihc lloosac tunnel in the United States.
Tho brewers aud masters Of York state
represent a vested capital Of over $780,.
600 600. aud give steady employment 20
about 10000 men trained 70 tho business
According to Methodist statistics, the
increase Of their denomination in the Uni.
ted States for twenty years has been fifty
Per cent. greater than the increase oil
population.
--Rubinstein gave his 2i5th and last
concert Ia America, at New York, Thursday
evening, aud sailed for Europe, Friday,
with wel-dlled purse that nobody will
begruige him.
Bismarck is great consumer Of lager
beer, introducing it into his dwelling house
in small kegs, which are on tap at all
hours Of the day ard night, and on all &C.
casions.
We knew The fool would turn up some.
where who would put his postal card 10 a
stamped envelope aud mail it that way
Coyington, Ky. responsible for him, and
he thinks the cards are great conve.
nioncc.
Severe frosis in the south Of Franc,
have put this years champagne crop into
chancory, but New jersey cider-applc.
never gave brighter promise than now, SC
the average consumer will suffer no priva
tions.
A Paris correspondent writes that
Maurice Strakosch has made an engage.
ment with Nine Nilsson to sing in the Uni.
ted States next fall aud winter, and has se
cured Capoul and other popular artists L
appear with her.
AS if to put to shame their less iber
al brethren Of Vienna, the hotel proprie
tors Of Chicago have agreed to make n,
change in their rates Of charge during tn,
days Of the musical jubilee, preparation
for which are now being made on q CRANE
scale.
Tho French nursery maid is fast dis
placing Bridget in that capacity in New
York, and with her neat dress, white cap
pretty face and pretty black eyes, forms
fitting escort to the groups Of neatly dress
cd children met with on the fashionable av
enues every fne afternoon.
Here's a nice arrangement: 4 Trol
minisieraud Que 10 Cortland have for a yea
or two excited comment by the frequency
Of their exchanges. The mystery has re
Gently been explained by the marriage o
the Troy minister to a Cortland lady, an,
that Of the Cortland one to a lady in Troy
The building for the Interstate indus
trial exposition, to be held at Chicago il
October, will cost s250,000, which sun
has been raised. 1t will be built Of glas
and iron, with domes at either end 90 fee
10 diameter and 100 feet high. and and
grand central dome 100 feet high aud G.
feet in diameter.
Mr. Chase was the last Of his line
Although he had six or seven brothers, non
of them had male issue, and all died belor
the chief Justice. And, as he died leayin
no son, it follows that the line and name 0
Chase. SO far as his fathers immediat
branch Of the family is concerned, becam
extinct with his death.
So long ago as 1859, when Capt. Iia
was in Cincinnati, he was dreaming {
Arctic expeditions, and wishing to test h
power Of enduring cold, he camped out O
p high hill, in midwinter. The people
the vicinity thought him crazy, and OF
timorous individual sent bullet throug
his tent, one night, to brighten him AVA
and the plan succeeded.
The Matrimonial Neics, publishe
fortnightly in Chicago is hourishing fnel.
1t is devoted to the promotion of marriae
by facilitating the interchange of ideas an
sentiments between the sexes. Its matr
monially inclined advertisers are most
them old enough, anybody would think,
to know how make their contracts withoI
newspaper help, the average being SOM
where in the forties.
"A superstition prevails among eertal
brutal and ignorant people that certai
birds may be made to sing more sweetly |
putting out their eyes. A professor Of tn
cruel art, who boasted that be had sometim
'done 40 10 day Z" was recently punlsht
by fine aud Imprisonment, in London, Il
thus treating chafhnch which, instead
singing better, did not sing at all, but W
put to death by humane person to end i
agonies,
In order to exclude negroes from the
entertainments, Vicksburg showmen ha'
hit upon the expedient of issuing cards
invitation, soliciting the holdsr's compar
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