Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-07-01
Meekly News Summary.

Joseph Wilson, ex Commissioner Of the
General Land Office, died recently in Washing
ton, aged sixty eight years.
A sidewalk gave way under praying band
Of Snn Francisco Indies, preciptating them
into the mud, eight feet below.
Peru is ropidly extending her railroad sys
ten, and by the end Of this year expects TO
have six hundred and forty.nine miles com
rlo,ed.
A girl 10 Hudson, Wis, has gone crazy
from seeing the spirit Of a young woman to
whom she was icndcrly attached, and who died
three years ago.
1t is said that human being has seven
millions Of pores through which perspiration
and exhausted PARTICLES Of the system escape.
We arc pore creatures.
The Wisconsin ccrgymon are hereafter to
be denied the privilege Of kissing the bride,
and consequently the marriage lees have jumped
from so cents to $500.
-Thoophie Gautor was once presented
with a fine Angora cat. " lie will ruin me,
said Gautior " he is 80 beautiful that I can
only feed him on white nice"
Tho grange in Indiana numbers one hun
drcd thousand members, and in the year past
has saved as is claimed, : 600 600 to them in
tie purchase Of goods and implements
"A German professor has found hay fever
to be a parasite that gets into the nose, and he
drives him out sure with douche baths Of a
neutral solution Of suphate Of quinine.
Anna Dickinson is writing the story Of
her life, and dozens Of young fellows in various
parts Of the country are earnestly beseoching
her to say nothing "about that engagement -
The skeletons Of three men and two women,
supposed to have been white, almost buried
under rocks, are the objects Of interest in a
newly discovered cave near Rush lake, Utah.
Three children Of Mrs. Cook, Of Blount
county, Alabama, were drowned in well re-
Gently Mrs. Cook became crazy, and few
days aRerwarl drowned herself in the same
we'll
Miss Iayina Goodcll has been admitted to
practice law in the courts Of Wisconsin, the
first instance in that State Of woman's elgibil
ity to the profession Of the law being recog
nized.
The farmers in portions Of Minnesota are
afflicted with a bean-raising MANIA and one
infatuated agrculturist in Winnebago town
ship has planted 1000 acres with them, this
season.
The total number Of deaths that have oc-
CURED in India, from starvation, is only TWEEN
ty-two. The British Indian government is sup
porting between three million and four million
Of people.
OF one hundred and eighty two boys in the
Connecticut State Reform School, the annual
report of the Superintendent makes the inter
esting statement that one hundred and eighty
are liars
At the last regular meeting Of the Phila
delpha radical club, Mary E. Tillotson anC
Olivia +. Shepherd, Vineand rcformcrs, dis
played the beauty Of pantaloons upon thei
own persons.
The proposed duty on jute will raise tn
price Of black hair, and if the additional COS
diANt7 NtAN hiAiNiN OiA VI Aht hal hNh tht IA
DIES may have to fall back on the light, fantasti
tow for head covering.
by decree of the Council of Unterwald
in Switzerland, adolescent smokers and snui
takers, under eighteen years, will be suhjccte
to fine when caught in &" fragrant delight,
as Mrs. Malaprop would say.
"A Chicago paper published mammot
sheet Thursday, consisting Of ffty-four pages
The delinquent tax list filed nearly all Of then
and constituted one Of the " phattest adyei
tisements We have seen lately.
A Maine painter walked three miles t
paint bearsc the other day under stpull
ton that his pay should be free ride when
the course Of nature it became necessary (,
him to employ such conveyance.
About four hundred government employ,
will be discharged July lst, receiving tV
month pay. Two hundred 60 from the Prin
ing Bureau, and one hundred from the civ
employees Of the War Department
The season at Newport promises to
much duller than usual great many house
which the habitue has not before seen vaca
at this stage, are adorned with placards beG
ing the words, q" to let, furnished"
Gladstone recently told some colliery N
plainly that if any workman chooses to wo
for nothing in the face of thousand 9th
men, he has as good right to do so as t
thousand have to say what they will work for
The citizens Of Evansville, Illinois, are
gotiating for the timber of a log cabin, all
which was hewed by Abraham Lincoln, in
der to make it into canes to be sold to procl
funds to erect n monument in honor Of
mother
Victoria Woodruff is giving her lectu
in San Francisco and Tenne Cla1in iscondu
ing correspondence with the mistress Of
house of ill.iamc, and tells her she (r {
does not pretend to be any better than her c
respondent.
A young fellow living near Bowling Gre
Mo, got into tight place the other day
marrying a girl not yet thirteen years 0
The girls father and brothers tarred q
ieathered him and then rode him on a rail
of the county.
The boarding-out system is successful
Oxford, England. Something like third
the undergraduates are 10 no college at all,
live in lodgings which are licensed and
owners Of which make regular reports of
hours that are kept
The princess de la Tour d'Auyorgne, W
is erecting a convent on the mount Of Olive,
which she has purchased and presented 10
Catholics-will remain in Jerusalem Sc,
years longer. Her sole companions in the c
tage where she lives are dog and cat.
A female grocery keeper in Xenia,
fairly silenced the crusaders, by saying
was poor and no person cared for me- Iw
into business where made money, and no,
receive attention and favor You ask me
give up the respect Of society when money
enable me to keep IT,"
Two st. Louis women applied for positi
as conductors Of street-cars, and the manaR
gratfed them. The superintendent, howe,
withdrew their appointment, on account of
promiscuousnoss Of the company with vii
they would have 10 deal, and their theor,
inability to manage mule.
"A Lexington (Ky.) paper tells how
guised thieves broke into the house of vic
lady near there and demanded money ,
money was given, when they wanted someth