Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-11-04

nlE British national debt will be reduced by
f2,3l5,2i5 this year
II sweden all alcoholic liquors are taxed nc.
oording to their alcoholic strength
IT takes fifty thousand cabs To transfer the
London population from place to place
FIVE millions aud a half per week is said to be
the combined receipts Of the English railways
TIM New York Mail thinks II October keeps IN
its good behavior until saturday, it will go out IN
a blaze Of glory.
TIM vintage this year in California is placed at
forty million gallons, against four million in 1873
and two million In 1872
J. G SHEPHERD, Of West Hartford Conn, has
raised three thousand bushels OF fruit this year
from three hundred trees.
BrnLiNGIoS, Iowa, has a base ball club called
the Pretty Pets. They part their hair in the mid
die and WELD the bat In yellow gloves
IHE new elevator Of the Wabash company in
Toledo the largest In the world holds one million
two hundred thousand bushels Of grain
ir is said that the water-pipes in New Britain,
Conn, are SO full Of eels that householders now
use them as a handy and economical article for
breakfast
HEgeneal convention Of the Episcopal church.
by an almost unanimous vote, has set its face
against rtuasm. Il could do nothing less. ns n
Protestant church
THERE Is a postmaster in Illinois who draws
salary OF ~ per annum His object In seckina
and raise family.
A PENNY loaf Of bread, baked in 1901 when
wheat was q guinea bushel was recently exhib-
tied in England the owner believing it to be the
oldest bread in the world
FORMER, who in her day had been the mother
one hundred and twenty-seven pigs-sixteen the
greatest number at one time-was killed in Row
alton, W., aged six years
potato weighing four pounds (early rose) has
been raised by Louis Hansen, Of East Prairie,
Minnesota. The distance round ii the nearest
way was twenty-five inches
IIoNEY is being sent from San Francisco ,o the
Atlantic by the carload one hundred and ffty
tons having already been shipped east by the PA
cific railroad this fall season.
LApY's parasol, which was accidentally
dropped into the Niagara river, made the grand
unharmcd in the Cave of the Winds
SPEAKING Of the profits Of cattle grazing. an
Indiana journal tells Of man in Lafayette, in
that state, who has Just sold for $50 600 a herd
OF Texas cattle that he gave $4,000 for last fall
The Boston Neirs considers that Mr.. Beecher
can take up that mortgage IL the lecture season
holds ont well at one thousand dollars a night.
inns is what reputation and very extraordinary
advertising do for a man
TlIE Rev. Phillips Brooks has refused A salary
OF $4,000 year from Philadelphia, said to be
the highest salary ever offered to an Episcopal
Clergyman in this country, and one Of sl5 100
from New York lie loves Boston.
\ ruiAL Newport lR l. spritualist has re-
moved the body of his father from the sepucher
where IL had rested for thrty-iive years, in res
ponse To a communication from the departed, who
complained that the grave was damp.
SQrAsHEs three of them weighing one hundred
and fifteen and a half pounds, one hundred and
thirtyseyen, and one hundred and thirty-nine and
a half pounds, respectively have been raised this
year by James Arnold OF olmstead county, Min
nesota.
.b., II
from Chicago, says 90 / was advised that II |
went TO New York should be like horse drift
ing down from carriage steed to an amnibus
lade Just as soon as the New York folks found
didn suit, they would jerk me out, throw me
one side, and let me go to the dogs"
AT Wisbeach, England on October Is, the
iour hundredth anniversary Of the introduction Of
printing INTO England was commemorated by
dinner at the Workingnens Institute Around
the room were arranged machinery and types IL
nstatng various stages of the art Of printing, and
some interesting manuscripts were also exhibited
MAN in fitclihurg, Mass developed a fine
strategic talent the other day. He was paying
hack fare, when he dropped three bank bills, aud
the wind took them and whisked them swiftly
away After unavailing search for an hour, a
bright idea struck him. lie folded q piece OF
paper and dropped it where the bills FELL followed
s flight, and where it rested there he foundlalso
his money.
A yOUNG man by the name of W. A. Chase. of
Augusta, Me, who accidentally shot himself
while hunting, Friday, was accompanied by a pet
dog, which, after the death of his master, stood
guard over his body until saturday afternoon.
hoWling most piteously. The faithful animal
then returned home, and, with evident design,
succeeded in inducing some one to follow him TO
the spot where the fatality occurred.
rnE Amherst agricultural college authorities
have started To find out how much growing
squash would raise II i had a fair chance. They
boxed II up so that all the pressure OF its growth
would be upward, and upon it they have added
weights from time 10 time, until now II Is lifting
two thousand five hundred pounds and calls for
more. The last contribution to Its burden was an
anvil weighing one hun red and thirty-seyen
pounds
ONE Of the most sad things connected with the
sealing trade IL the indiscriIninate slaughter of
the seals, old and young for ii is at the breeding
season, when they land 10 breed and foster their
young, that they are attacked and although the
large male seals are considered the best, as yield
ing most blubher, neither the clapmatches nor the
cubs are spared; and thus, like killing the goose
that laid the golden egg, the seals are being grad
ualy extermnated, and that not from necessity
or profit, but from sheer wantonness and cruelty.
1nR Salt Lake Herald says that the first in
stance OF cremation known 10 have occurred in
Utah was at Beaver, a few days since This
spirit of Beaver Head, the sub-Indian chief, took
flight to the abode OF the Great Spirit, and his
dnsly band. who were left behind, surrounded
the body with the effects Of the dead chief-his
blankets and trinkets-then heaped on pile OF
wood and set fire 10 the collection Those who
witnessed the spectacle say the burning was
complete success, for when the fire got fairly
started On the corpse Of the old brave, II soon yap
ofized it.
THE Hartford Times says that New England
was formerly exempt from fever and ague, but
" since the war this troublesome disorder has
isted, nearly every year 10 some extent along the
Connecticut coast, between the Connecticut river
and New York, and now il has crept into the mid
die region of the state 1t has existed at New
Haven for some time and during the last month
it has prevailed seriously at Portland, Middlesex
county-the seat of the freestone quarries. At
one time there were said TO be no fewer than five
hundred cases OF feverand ague In that town. We
hear of a few cases Of it, too, in Hartford
Ir is estimated that the people who have fallen
victims to the famine In Asia Minor, number over
one hundred aud fifty thousand. AS an instance
Of the terrible devastation among the cattle and
ooks, il Is stated that In village, out Of more
than one thousand and six hundred sheep and
goats, Just one sheep and one goat remain, and
of one hundred cows two remain In another,
from flock OF one thousand and two hundred
sheep and goats, eight are reported; and from
another flock In the same village, numbering
eight hundred OF which seven hundred are mo-
hair goats, the same number, eight, is reported
IN the lady Washington mine, near Virginia
City, a blast was arranged and the fuse lighted.
Two miners got into the bucket to be hoisted two
enough TO give ample time under ordinary circunl-
stances In this instance however, the ascent
WIS delayed by some disarrangement of the
machinery, and the men were suspended in awful
danger with no means of ayerting il. They laid
themselves in the bottom OF the bucket and
awaited in terror the explosion. T" 1t seemed like
an hour" said one OF them, but was really about
five minutes When the blast did explode the
bucket was lifted several feet by tho rush OF air
and as it fell back with a violent shock shower
OF shattered rock mined on the covering miners.
They were hauled up at length, insensible, with
cuts and bruises, but they viii recover.