Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-01-28
Weekly News summary.

st. Paul, MINI, counts up the names
in her new directory aud triumphantly an.
nounces population Of 3i,5O6.
The latest Kansas rumor is that the
Pomeroy-York $1,000 are counterieits
aud the question is. has somebody tempered
with the PACKAGE
The recent attempt Of some ardent
followers Of Victoria Woodruff to establish
q free.love community at Wellington, O.,
has proved a woful failure.
--Floridas state debt foots up sl,G20,-
500; and last year is the FIRST since recon.
struction that the revenue Of the state has
exceeded its expenditures.
-Stalwart women, who are paid thirty
cents day for their services, play an i'm
portant part 10 the transportation service
of the British army in Ashantoeland
The Grand Trunk railway of Canada,
insures its employees against accidents the
company paying half the rates and the men
the rest, in stated monthly contributions.
The hotel keepers of Chicago talk Of
organizing a dead.beat mutual protection
society The city is much infested with
this class of swindlers, this winter, and
many hotel bill has been evaded.
st. Paul aspires to be the greatest local
wheat market in Minnesota, thereby adding,
as a sanguinc St. Paul paper promises its
merchants, one thousand-iod to the retail
trade Of the city within a tweycmonth.
Local freights on the railways Of Wis
consn are so high that farmers aud business
men find it cheaper to drag their produce
and goods to Milwaukee in wagons dis.
lance of thirty and even fifty miles.
-Sojourner Truth, the old colored wo-
man who used to be so prominent in pre-.
emancipation days, still lives, and proposes
to visit the president in March and lay be.
fore him her plans for the Improvement Of
the negro race.
During the cold snap Of last week an
nbuman wretch in Stafford, N. Y, turned
his wife, by whom he had had fifteen chill
dren, out of doors in her under clothing late
at night, and next morning she was found
stiff and stark, frozen to death.
- The Douglas monument association
asks the Illinois Legislature for $4,000 to
complete that long-neglected commemora-
tive shaft at Chicago. The proposed mon
ument is to be one hundred feet high
with the little giant" surmounting it in
bronze
The employers of Great Britain have
entered into federation to resist strikes
and aggression on the part of the laboring
classes and now the trades-unions, never
hitherto consolidated, talk of uniting in
order to combat this overwhelming power
arrayed against them.
The withdrawal Of the free railway
passes from the members of the Wisconsin
legislature has had sautary effect upon
the Friday adjournment habit; aud now,
instead Of running home, each week, the
virtuous legislators grimly stick to business
from Monday morn to Saturday eve, q
thing which has not happened before for
years.
The jewely business in Chicago is in 0
very unsatisfactory condition. lmmedia.
tsly preceding the panic, confident Of q
lively winters trade, the dealers laid in
heavy stocks and, now, since money hai
become tight" and buyers of trinket
scarce, several well.known houses hav,
failed, while others are on the verge o
bankruptcy.
London has MANIA just at present
for Sunday lectures on science, aud Johl
Flske, the young Harvard philosopher, ha
been holding forth for several Sundays il
succession at Moncure Conway's chapel il
Finsbury square to interested audiences
The lectures were preceded by hymns Sc
lected from the poetry of Emerson an
Longfellow, and lessons from St. Paul an
Mohammed.
- An English member Of Parliamen
thinks that most beneficial result Of votin
by ballot will be to put an end to canvass
ing, and canvassng, he adds, makes it ne
cessary to kiss babies. He draws pa
thetic picture of his own woes in this way
and closes it by saying; | attribute til
fact of my having had measles three time
to my having had to kiss so many babies i
my canvass.
The cranberry-growers' association {
New Jersey have expressed box of choic
cranberries to Queen Victoria, with som
approved Jersey receipts for cooking thel
neatly folded on top. 1--WE have Ion
wondered" says the Philadelphia Bullet,
"how We should ever be able to repa
England for what she has given us in law
and literature but the problem now az
proaches solution. New jersey, n retur
for Blackstone and Shakespeare ofFei
canberries aud recipe for tarts."
Chicago has at last got through h,
rebuilding mania. Specializing on the pro
poets for this year, the Tribune says :
Laborers are leaving here. The extra mi
terial accumulated with reference to the ei
traordinary demand of 1872 is exhauste
There will BIO neither a surplus of lab,
nor material to draw from during the con
ing season. The classes Of buildings d
sired by the business Of the city are con
pleted. There may possibly be somewhi
of reaction, and there will probably
less building than in an ordinary season
One Of Charles Summers reminiscent
Of Dansel Webster is that when he W,
quite young man he and the godlike ha
been employed as counsel for the common
wealth, aud had been awarded $1,000 eac
for their legal services. Webster collectt
Summers bill in spite Of the latter's r
monstrance; but Sumner was unable
collect the $1,000 Of Webster during iii
or Of the estate after his death. Webst
never learned to distinguish between b
own and his friends money until he ha
borrowedit. Then he was sure ii had a. wa,
belonged to him.
AN unusual occurrence for thu San
wich island latitude was a snow.storr
which fell in December at Hawaii. II
tops Of Mauna Loa aud Mauna Kea we
completely covered with snow, early in Il
morning which began to melt as soon
the sun rose and scattered the white ma
ties from the ridges, the snow which lay
the valleys remaining there for days. !
the same time that these mountains we
covered with snow, the fires of the ty
craters Of Kilauea and Mokuaweoweo burn,
brightly, and the glare, as reflected on Il
oyerhanging clouds, afforded brilliant sigh
There was no post-mortem examin
ton Of the bodies Of Chang and Eng. II
medical men arrived after the death
both twins, and when they proposed to e
anime the bodies, the family objected at
no examination was made IL annea