Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-02-26
Weekly News Summary.

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An epidemic Of destructive Gre still
RACES all over the country, from Maine to
California.
Smallpox is steadily and rapidly sub.
siding, as regards the city Of Boston and
its vicinity.
Sleeping cars have just been introduc.
ed between London and Liverpool, after the
Yankee plan.
The ice in the Hudson river at Al
bany is ten feet in thickness and rigid
enough.
"A Kentucky sportsman killed sixty
cedar birds at one shot. No discount on
the number.
Tho Canadian Pacific railway will be
only two thousand seven hundred miles
long.
The United States recognizes the re.
public Of Spain but it has never heard Of
Cuba.
"A San Francisco clergymon added
100000 to his salary, last year, by lucky
stock specuations.
1t is worthy Of note thal nearly all
the members of the Spanish government are
prominent abolitonisfs
An exemplary but imrccuuous church.
gocr 10 Houston, Texas, put his revolver
in the plate, last Sunday.
"A New York mikman goes to the
pcuiteutiary for one year for selling water
without license.
In 1862 Texas had but twenty-five
couyicts in her State Prison. In 1872 there
were nine hundred and forty-four SLOW
but progressive.
DIR Peters has just discovered another
Of the humorous family OF Asteroids, max
ing one hundred aud thirty Of these frag.
mentary planets now known to astronomers.
"A boy, twelve years Of age in Cam
hria county Penn, was attacked recently
by villa cat, anl, after spirited oouaici,
killed 10 with bis pockot-knii3
"A resolution 10 favor OF woman sur.
ffago pas.ed the House in the Maine Legis-
layurc, Tuesday By yea aud nay vote Of
90 20 $50.
Snow :. twenty fees deep 10 some por.
tious OF Utah. end soyelo"s,ides' are ouiie.
pliol Tho Pacific railroad has been
greatly blocked, bat Is once more opcn
Baltimore proposes to get rid Of a
street nuisance by imposing dueof sl0up.
on every person who by any cries, or 6y
vocal or Instrumental entertainments, shall
gather a crowd about him ia the streets.
The Sow York Assembly az Albany
is considering resolutions instrucling their
/ Representatives from that stare to favor
che expulsion from Congress Of all mem-
bers implicated iu the Dscred.t Moblier
Mrs Dlyll aod her daughter, The two
women for defending whom 'utnam was
KILLED by Foster, the ctrh0os murderer
have pstt.onel Gen. DIX f1r "a commu1.
ton.
New York ra-f-odee officials one uu-
easy about Che robderos of the letter boxes
/ NCt long since fourteen boxes were broken
+ open with jimmy all .oyera, hundred
letters ahstrac,e1 DO $50 successive even.
.ngs
"A quack doctor ia Hanover tod
German that bis wiies govt could be cured
by lpcrheat 20 De put her iu tic oyen-
! The woman Was taken cut tpllchalrtd
corpse, aad the Husband BIAS been Indicted
for " homicide by oareeencss
"A wonderful revival IS 10 proprcss 81,
/ Worthwhile New York Last Fnday Que
hundred aud fifty went forward for prayer
at one Of tho meetings. The religious cx-
orcIses are conducted by the Scottish evan
gelisi, Rev X. A Patterson
Indiana is to have Board Of Fish
I Commissioners, with eggs, aul fish ladders.
and all the piraphoruaiia Of dsh farming,
aud is Low ieiici.atiug herself upon the
: rre4Poct uf Fawvy bass aud delicious shad
10 place Of buffalo, catfish aud red horse
An Unprecedented mortality is pre-.
yailiug az Mauch Chunk, Pa, six funerals
often occurring ia one day The proya-
lence Of sickness is attributed to the char
acter Of the mountain winds, producing an
oppressive dampness, which has continued
tor months.
Without a dollar 10 the Florida treas
ury, tho bonded and floating debt OF the
State is Sj,slis2l As there are but
10000 voters 10 Florida, each voter, ae-
cording 10 this showing is "iu for" 1854 on
a general average The county aud NUM-.
cipal debts will probably run this average
up to $500.
Alter al ths usual remedies had failed
TO restore animation to man who had
been picked out of canal In Brussels.
they applied iron plates at white heat to
the upper parts OF the body near the vital
center which soon set the drowned man
sqlTming. lie has recovered from the
drowning, but complain. Of ihe burns.
Philadelphia has a " Last Man Broth.
erhood.' IL was organized eighteen years
ago startling with twenty-thlce members,
and they have met annually ever since, and
viii keep on doing 20 until none are left to
meet. The eighteen survivors recently
held their eighteenth festival. The guests
pay ten cents year to enable the last
man to enjoy his sorroBlu repast
-Polygamy has a new and powerful en-.
envy, according to a Salt Lake CITY CORES.
pondent With the coming Of the Gentle,
came Fashion, and while the chief items
IN the millinery bills Of the wives Of
Saint were formerly gingham aud calico,
they now look with longing eyes on those
loves Of bonnctsn made OF velvet and
lace and aspire to the full glory Of paniered
silks and popins These swell thircs"
cost lots Of money and as no power on
earth can stop the women in their pursuit
OF fashion, the much.marrcd Mormons be-
gin to look oghast. This is the true cor.
rectiye--esiabsh dozen government mil.
liners shops there at once.
They now have il that Anna DiaLiu-
son is about to wed young and distin.
guished metropolitan journalist.
LIEUT. sARrLE.-A week or two ago We
announced the sudden death, in New Mex.
leo, Of this gallant young officer, son of