Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-10-07
Weekly News Summary,

dred and ninety-eght conycts
Tnr Denver Nc,rs proclaims that Colorado is the
hope Of the nation. Wen, so she is
A HUNDRED and scyenty-one thousand Of the
silent majority" tenant Greenwood.
hoy has just died from dose Of ink out
West An ink-west determined the fact
TnE working women Of London are about to
establish trade protection societies for their own
benefit
NorwuusrA NDING the great crowd Of visitors
and the high prices at Samtoga, this summer, the
great hotels lost money.
" competition is the life Of business. the plat
forms--poitical, rhetorical and musica-promse
to be very lively about these days.
ASp now it is said General Custar did not sec
any gold in the Black liIs-to speak o. Better
stay At home and ave your scalps.
TIN University race, at Saratoga cost the Yale
navy S2,J05, including Si,D for the barge and
pair-oar, and the freshman race cost s2,O75
FIFTEEN thousand Of the poor children Of rhn-
adephia have been given free excursion this
season, at an average cost Of thiriy-six cents
TnunE are five thousand nine hundred and
seventy -fourinmates Of the several charitable aud
correctional institutions nj Blaclxvolrs Island
TIN United states secret service detectives had
the bump o. sccrctiyeness big One Of them man
aged to absorb $4,000 Of the peoples money last
year.
4 MAN in the southwestern Missouri has dsoo,-
cred that the rock fence oB his farm is made Of
zine ore, and neighbor finds himself with a
chimney of the same material
HAMMmpm,r, Norway, is the most northerly
town in the world. It has population Of two
thousand five hundred and ffiy-sevcn The syn
sets November 18th, and rises january 2sth
THE Empress Of Germany has called a womans
convention, aud several kings are mentioned a.
having promised 10 attend They probably want
10 see what mischief the women will be up TO-
or the eleven thousand one hundred and ninety
six Quakcr- ia Indiana, one thousand and foHy-fyo
use tobacco, forty-nine sell it, and three persons
entitled to membership sell intoxicating liquors
In less than fifty years since the world began
h. build itself railroads, and now It has tlirty-two
thousand geographical miles Of them, equal To
construction Of two miles day since the beginning
Az intelligent mechanic in a city in the Empire
state shows a certificate Of his fitness TO be a
teacher, given him ia Arkansas, signed by three
school commissioners each Of whom made his
mark
TIN German government has bought pond In
New Jersey for the purpose Of raising lceches,
trout and salmon, the latter two to be sent to
Prussia to stock the rivers, and the former for
medicinal purposes
Bisnor HAIR. one u the Indian peace commits
sioner-. says the condition Of the Indian Tribes II
the northwest is very greatly improved, and that
there is no reason to apprehend any trouble, even
I from the hostile Sioux.
a CNcrNNAu man, having lot bis situation
last summer. his wife took some money she had
secretly saved and started grocery storc. She
succeeded at once, and now employs her husband
as clerk at good wages.
| A NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Sprituaii-t has re-
moved the body of his father irom a grave where
/ it has rested for thirty years IN response 10 a
/ communication from the old gentleman spirl,
that he had been lying ia The water an these
| years.
/ II looks a. though in the secret service bureau,
tine government had been setting rogue. to catch
r,gues and had itself been their victim One u
Il, detectives, employed Ia work up the district
safe robbery, turn. ont to have been himself en-.
gagged init
site stmsburp, on the Rhine, where artificial wine
is made into which grape never cniers. IN the
valley of the Rhine aud the pala,inatc there are
hundreds Of similar manufactures where this imi-
tation wine is made
TnE city Of Rome contains two hundred and
forty-cight thousand three hundred and seven in
habtants, who occupy eleven thousand nine hun
drod and fifty apartments or houses There Is
room for more, eight hundred and ninety
apartments are standing vacant
AN obseryant but not very rich old lady always
| bought her tea by the quarter Of pound because
she thus got what she termed the "tum Of the
scale four times in every pound OF tea, instead
Of once. as would have been the case II She had
/ purchased an undi, lded pound
TINS H. the way the people who live on the coast
Of Maine describe their weather
! Ap6l, june. aud No,sGiei
! rion January ugto May,
Al he nst have nus -oas
AMI q ans of thcn had two and thirty
J lhti n D. just as vet aud tNigt a. dirty.
! SINGULAR death occurred in Buter county,
/ Ohio, a few days ago Two men had engaged in
a fight the week before and one bit the others
| eyebrows nearly oil. A day or two after the
wounded man complained Of feeling sick an
over, grew rapidly worse and almost immedi-
| ately after drinking a elias. Of WATER fell dad
/ After death his body turned velloy- and biack
s,ots appeored ON yarious portions of il
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