Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-30
Weekly News Summary,

Mn. Brrcmm carries $3.50 gold watch.
TnE musical festival at Munich, week before
last had chorus " Ave thousand voices
PmrsnunG woman was cured Of spcechess-
ness by the prayers Of priest Her husband is
now prowling around after the priest with a shot
gun.
fnoM west Of Buffalo we hear accounts Of many
apples, large and excellent aud superior grapes,
indicating particularly favorable season In that
region.
our, who has heretofore been Uniyersalist,
now thinks there are two things destined 10 I've
eternally lost--his umbrella, and the man who
stole H.
Az old maid is not without power 4 writer
observes that he has known one such to turn
steamboat excursion into an occasion Of gloom and
dependency.
TnE great want now Is some good plan by which
the savings Of the industrious hard working classes
shall inure to their good In providing them with
comfortable homes"
WHITE garment appears worse with slight
soling than do coored garments much soilcd So
little fault in good man attracts more attention
than great offence in bad man
FuLroN county, New York, has a maple tree
that has been tapped one hundred and sixty
years as shown in The records IT, trunk meas
urcs fourteen feet in circumference.
THr ghost Of eS-President Lincoln is said to
have appeared recently at a spiritual seanee in
Philadelphia He waved the American aag, and
by his side stood fne-looking negro.
srl,NGr effect Of good butter st. Adams has
not sent boy 10 college for ten years though
hardly another town in the state Of eight thous-
and people butcher could say as much
TIM mouoy-ordcr department Of the post-ofice
H. one Of the most useful and the extent n which
II ia employed is shown 10y the fact that last year
nearly $1,000 900 Of orders were issued
Thar British reioumcr who was in favor Of ere
nation and opposed 10 buying any now burying-
ground in his town, has been mobbod by twohun-
drod women, who proposed 10 " burn him"
BEcAusE poor Mr. Williams, Of Topeka, Kansas
wouldn't put on a mourning band on the occasion
Of his wiies death, his offended neghbors drag
god him through pond and shaved his head
" YF., Job suffered some, said nm Illinois d,a-
con- but he never knew what it was ~ have his
team run away ard KIN his wife right In the busy
season when hired girls want three dollars a
week"
"nInu was an old family fuel between them,
WIS what witness in a Chicago murder case said
TO the jury The judge asked her II she didn't
mean "feud, aud she asked him who was telling
the story
Az Englishman named Drinkwater-appropri
ate name-rcccnty performed the unparalleled
feat Of swimming under water q distance Of eighty
three yards being immersed in the water min
ute and seven seconds.
\ wALKIsG OK mco against time was a. near an
approximation to a horse trot as some Of the pnr-
tanicul farmers Of plymouth cared to venture on
Yoeman Ellsworth oi Halifax walked his yoke
around the half mile course IN G25.
REuuEss railruading seems unusually active
In producing collisions about this time let US
have the patent shoes the moment It is settled
that they are sure to keep the cans on the track,
and let nutiouary signals more abound
4 oENrLE,tNS Of a mechanical turn Of mind
took Oh the gas meter to repair It himself and
put il up again upside down AZ the end Of the
quarter it was proved with mathematical correct
ness that The gas company owed him $3.50
PULLMAN ears will newer fulHn their destiny
until the name Of tine coming station and it, dis
lance In miles shall be systematically aud mechan-
ically paradcd before the eyes Of their patrons.
and all need Of inteuocating the conductor be su-
pcrscded
4 GrSriIMAN undertook, for wager, 10 stand
for whole day on London Bridge with tray
full Of good sterling sovereigns, and would fail To
find customers Tor them at penny apiece and
he won the wager, all passers by thought he
was trying to cheat them with brass limitations
Tux trade in canned goods, which has hereto
fore increased from year to year, until II has be-
come one Of the leading industries Of the country
was greatly injured by the financial troubles u
last year aud as yet has not inlly recovered This
trade, which onl, came into prominence few years
before the war now gives employment TO thou
sands Of men and. instead Of being confined 10
one or two localities as 1t formerly was, It has ex-
tended itself throughout the states, 50 that
rr.-, Of the large cities nave then canning estalr
lishmenis
Tnr salt beds discovered on the Canadian
shores NJ lake Huron, several years since are
now turning out salt OF superior qualities, and in
such quantities that the western markets are be-
ing largely supplied with their product, because
Of rs superiority over our native salt These
beds are inexhausthe and the depth Of 1000
feet, 20 which the Goodrich company have sunk
their shaft. the purest rock salt is found. appar
entity forming What it is conioctured was once
the bed Of an ancient sea, the waters Of which
were c,apomtcd by intense beat Brine is also
obtained from this source Of fun strength aud in
any quantity