Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-02-04
Weekly News summary.

New York Tombs awaiting trial. And yet
Gotham is not wholly happy.
New Orleans has been having weather
that, according to the PicayiHe leads to
the cultivation Of ornamental profanity
-" Emergency hotels are talked Of for
the Philadelphia Centennial. They will
doubtless, be good things to emerge from.
st Louis is sure that she is metrop.
oils now. The Common Council appropri-
atod sll7,s00 at a single sitting, the other
day.
Tho sweetness Of Boston has been
partly accounted for by the fact that she
imported 1875, 100000 pounds Of sugar last
year.
old Prob. continues to give a SUM
mary Of the weather reports Of each week.
There is nothing very summary in this kind
Of weather
The Independent Changers, society
which opposes the farmers oranges, will
meet to perfect organization at Albany, n.
Y, February Il.
The Cincinnati Times says that at the
wedding of Victorias boy and Alexander's
daughter, the brides presents were elegant
aud reckershay.
"A Miss Ruby has married in Mary.
land Mr.. Jet. 81 Look out for the trinkets,"
observes contemporary, which is a neat
thing neatly said.
-Whitelaw Reid the Tribune manager,
is keeping house with his two young nieces
and wards, as a near neighbor to DIR. llol-
land on Park avenue, New York
1t is suggested that Dr. Livingstone
has given out false report of his death to
avoid another call from Stanley, having
heard that the latter was 10 Ashantee
A fine old gentleman, Thomas Dan.
forth, of Boston Highlands, aged ninety
years, gave birthday party on the 2Olh,
and entertained the company by playing old
marches and other ancient tunes on the fiddle.
A correspondent Of the Worcester
Press says that three men in the Legislature
have used up half the time in talk, which
costs the State $40 minute. Can this
be SC?
do Lewis says that everybody who
uses tobacco loses his buoyant spirits, and
becomes moody and peevish. The doctor
must have very limited acquaintance with
tobacco.using people.
The safe Of old Trinity Church, 10 New
York, has been put to most proiane uses
Some stolen jewelry was found in it on Sat
urday, where it was placed for saie.keepinl
with vessels of the communion service.
The Worcester Press has an abiding
faith that DR.. Livingstone is, to-day, max
ing tracks in the sands Of Central Africa
in company with party of enthusiast,
cannibals, in search of sufficient snals t,
make a square meal.
-Twenty-one years ago, young ladl
from Portland, Maine, deposited sl75 il
the Lowell Institution for Earnings ant
then went away and forgot it. When sh,
remembered it, the other day, she foun,
that $3.50 was awaiting her call, aud she 4
happy.
Madame Dita Fry, the widow of Capt
Fry Of the Virginius, has arrived in Pari
with her two children, one Of whom attained
her ninth year on the very day her fathei
was shot, Madame Fry is from Louisiana
and goes to France to visit relatives living
there.
Several managers, among them NJ
Strakoseh, have taken charge of the opera
houses of St. Petersburg Moscow, aud O.
some in Paris, In sort Of musical part
nership, the chief object of the combination
being to break down the high scale Of price
now demanded by stars"
Yankee inventors of patent medicine
are not the only ones TO deface nature witt
advertisements Of their nostrums. The for
eigners have caught the infection, aud tn
very peaks of the Alps are being daube
with the mammoth-lettered advertisement
Of Partisan shop.keepers.
Somebody has started GU its round
again this good story of the way Jude
Grier set aside the unjust verdict Of jur
against an unpopular man, with the remark
Enter the verdict, Mr.. Clerk. Eute
also, Set aside by the court want
to be understood that it takes thirteen me
to steal mans farm in this court
The Siamese twins left large fan
lilies, Eng's wife having had eleven Chi
dren, seven Of whom are now Twin
Changs wife had ten children, nine of who
are living, two of them, boy and a gil
being deaf mutes. The latter was recent
married at Raleigh, n. G., to her tutor, all
deaf mute, at the deaf and dumb asylu
in that city.
The mania for stock speculation
raging like pestilence on the Pacific Goa:
Everything in the shape Of mining stoc
has advanced enormously, owing chiefly
the indications of new bodies Of one.in SC
eral of the old mines. 1t is no unusu
thing for stock to be selling for me
nominal price, one day, aud by some corn
run up TO hundreds, the next
Katie Smith, st. Louis girl, is I
latest American operate debutante in Ital
Her first appearance was as Gilda in ri
oletto," at the town Of Ivrea, where,
though perfect stranger, and with host
influences working against her, she inspir
the heartiest enthusiasm among the crit,
but unsteady appreciative Italian auden
Now that she has sustained the crucial t,
Of critical Italian judgment, Miss smi
will shortly return home TO win the me
dearly priced American laurels.
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