Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-03-26
cekly News Summary.

San Franciscos 'cho0ls were run az an
expense of s67l 900, last year.
California taxes rate from 3 to 4 per
cent. on the value Of the property.
- Charlotte Cushman got $4,000 for
her two weeks performance IN Washing
ton.
New Brunswick spent $50 600 in aid
OF immigration, last year, aud obtained
800 foreign settlers.
They don't allow Any one to locate"
in the new colony Of skiddy, Kansas, who
uses tobacco iu any form.
Kansas farmers say it will take ~.
900 bushels Of their corn to pay for the
recent entertainment given the Nebraska
Legislature.
WIN. II. West, chief clerk Of the
Treasury Department, died in Washington
Monday night. He has served in the de-
partment since 1887.
Alexander II Stephens may have sold
out his interest in the Atlanta (Ga,) Sun.
as reported, but he still continues to be its
chief political writer.
Twenty thousand Birmingham women
have informed the English House Of Com.
mons of their belief in the right Of a man
to marry bis deceased wiics sister.
The Oregon miitias bill for their 63
days services against the Modocs amounts
to $4,000. Aud the state papers say all
the soldiers did was TO get licked.
"A clerk 10 the indianapolis post-ofico
is in the last stages Of drouth occasioned by
his galauiry 10 volunteering to lick postage
stamps for all the girls who put in letters.
"A mistake has been made 10 calculat-
ing the sum required to pay the police Of
New York, aud. as the appropriation is ex-
hausted, the officers will get no more until
May.
4 "A Memphis skeptic proposes to test
the spiritual mediums by Offering a prize
Of 500 to any one who will answer cor
rectly number Of written questions lock-
ed up in a safe.
Not a single author eau be found in Fog.
/ land who is willing to become a tcnau, ia
the house provided for the poor Of their
fraternity by Dickens, Lemon, Forster aud
Lord Lyttou.
The king Of Greece has presented
service Of plate to H. I. Tuckermao, the
author, in token Of his appreciation OF the
latters recently published work on The
Greeks OF To-day.
"A New Yorker wants the ladies to 70
back to the ancient Greek sandal as hand
somer, more comfortable and less likely TO
} injure the foot than the modern high-heeled
shoes.
. Somebody has discovered that the
Postmaster General has made contract for
postal cards so cheap that they cannot be
furnished according to Specifications without
loss TO the contractor
The case Of the Rochester Inspector
7 Of election, indicted for receiving the votes
j. Of Susan Is. Anthony and thirteen other
o women, has been postponed until the May
term Of the United States District Court.
"A St. Paul jury has brought in YER.
dict that a husband aud his wife have each
suffered cruel and inhuman treatment at
i the hands Of the other, and that consequent
d y each Is entitled 10 divorce.
l. Carl Schurz praises Bismarck's open
d ness, candor, aud general mauuer, aud says
y, the walls 10 the great statesmans Office IN
= Berlin are hung aud the tables are covered
10 with meerschaum pipes. 1t is evidently a
t. puff.
IN notwithstanding the immense crop oil
Do wheat raised in California, the splendid
az fruit crops, the amount Of wine mauuiac-
- tured, aud the amount OF gold mined th'
~ cry is that California is experiencing very
We hard times
We The entire sophomore class were sus
eli pended from Dartmouth college, Thursday
We tor dsorderly conduct in the chapel, where
~ upon the members Of the class bred a bi,
:. team aud took a sleigh ride, evidently re-
" gardipg the affair rs good joke.
70 The present coal famine in EnganC
W. has led to the discovery that chalk Gun b,
be used for fuel. Chalk aud coal, il alternate
,e. layers, in an open CRATE, give nearly al
cd much heat as pure coal, at little mor'
- than half the expense.
- Joe Smith, the leader Of the anti
~ polygamy Mormons. and son Of the found
10 er, is reported TO have recently purchase,
co the first Mormon temple at Kirkland, q.
or aud it is supposed that the Mormons nov
,se living in Illinois intend to return to ihei
- early settlement.
= Serious trouble is feared 10 New YofI
because Of the employment Of Italian Ia
borers on the boulevards, at less wages thai
"a was paid to the liish laborers, whom The
ny replace. The Irish are up in arms abou
81. ~ aud strong force Of police is kept j
70 the vicinity
:, An Indiana woman is angry beceus
p her husband took her very best sheet t
I'VE hang himself, when there was an old clothe
lar line 10 the cellar which was good en0ug
,ht for the purpose. She says be always wa
pe. eItravagant, and too lazy to 20 into th
,ev cellar for anything.
~, AT the instigation Of the dissatisfe
- English directors, the management of III
w. famous Emma silver mine in Utah is bein
Use reyolutionized to see il the former yield {
not SIS per share, each month, cannot again b
no attained, and the price Of the stock brough
-. up to the standard Of its palmy days.
The "straw bailr business is carried I
81 great length in Chicago. Shabby, ger
10 teel fellows, who boast enough to buy
icy drink, loaf around the courts and help swes
sly each other into the possession Of from s. 0
, y 600 TO ss0,O00-on such representation
= they are accepted as bondsmen for thieve
aud rascals Of all kinds, aud the worst 4,
wv lows in the business can get bail.
n'S A Vermont farmer sent TO an orpha
err asylum for boy L at was smart, acliy
po- brave, tractable, prompt, industrious, eesl
the pious, intelligent, good looking. reserve
nd ~