Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-08-26
Meekly News summary.

-lhc new way 10 fish, IN CaliiOrnia, - b.
exploding giant-powdcr under the water.
Boston Corbctt, the man who shot j
Wilkes Booth, is keeping a hat store in phila
dephia.
Ida Greeley is spending the summer in tn,
Sacred Heart" convent, at Manhattanvillc
New York.
A Britsher has figured it out that Their,
will be NJ total eclipse Of the sun visible il
London until July 81 1881.
A Cuban lady at Saratoga wears neck
lace Of American twenty-dollar gold pieces
valued at five hundred dollars.
England is having a very dry season, and
sparks from the locomotives arc burning Tho
hedges and the standing grain.
"A bullet has just been taken from the palm
Of veteran Of Waterloo, where 1t had been
imbeddcd nearly fny.nine years
-Governor Dix is credited with frequently
spending an hour and half, before breakfast,
with the Latin aud Greek authors
George Sand is seventy years old, and i.
said to have earned six hundred thousand dol
lars by her pen since she began 10 write.
A man in Chester county, Pennsylvania
has been fined one dollar and costs for allowing
the oSc eyed dai-ics on his farm to 60 to seed.
Vice President Wilson seems 10 be in as
good health as usual and shows in his appear
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49, Napc NAY The other DAY, a large New
i'in'iAnl dot' belonging TO sQIourner there
, wv ''"'0' VI Po'p''7e'' anu
"a n'y 900 HUDSON y. y, while digging Tor
h-A-"orns' a day or two ago unearthed bis
grandfather jack knife which bad lain IN the
er'inA over e'gh'y years
- 'aif ares'eFs congress Mt which no less
tn'n u.''e hundied " professors IRON Ger
''''1 A"''f'' ana America were present, was
recently h''u NJ dresden.
y stroke OF lightning killed the horse on
which o. man was riding, in Colorado, few
uny' 's'' without even so much as scorching
''e pA''''''"s Of The man
Mrs Ross, the mother Of Charlie Ross, the
stolen Philadelphia boy, is now subject to ht-
OF violent hysteria. She insists upon q suit Of
clean clothes Icing laid out, every day, 10
await the arrival OF her little boy
"A young man, eighteen years old six feet
ten inches 10 hight, three feet and half across
tho shoulders AMI Weighing four hundred and
ninety pounds. recently attracted great atteu.
ton in st. Paul, Alinn., where he was on a
visit 20 bis friends.
A prisoner csraped from the Huntsville
tAlatamnl penitentary, few days ago, by
socreting himself 10 sale which had been
brought out Of the furniture shop for ship
mcnt After the safe was delivered at the depot q,
he opened the door and departed unobserved
49," We nre all too ant 10 forge, 80 .avs the
So,rfaf8r. q" the extraordinary number nj bop.e.
holds in which economy Of A more or less
pinchiug kind il daily necessity borne with.
out complaining and yet borne as the ever.
present drawback to the pleasantness Of life. g"
-philadelphia propo.es 10 raise slo0 600
FIR a memorial IN Josenb u,nlin.on sn,hor If
Hail. Columbia % il was orisinallv written
for a no,r yoyny singer =. hc,.s, IN Tho s,,o,no,
Of l7os. when there was pro-pect Of WARMTH
France and the song became instantly popular.
A Kansas man. while at,emptin0 10 vhin
n small MN Cor Worrying tbe chickens 70.
coptIv was bit nv IL an Tho foo. ne,, a.. in
stem The wound being sligbt no ,.id B,,ls
o,tention IN il lint II .oon begsn 10 oorrode
turning perfectly black and AT Las, accounts
tine flesh lind bcen eaten ent;relv away from
the foot, leaving the bone bare.
In Breekenrids, county Kv ian loc,li,v
called Hollis Ten Acres in which M animal
ciu live. owing q, tho rank mi,sm, Wbus
,ttennt,ng IN clear il a sbo,t Tina since tho
owner and his son were nearly overcome and
Iad 90 i,.i.t A calf turned into tho nlace
.dicI .,op after There +. M odor in tho AT.
ma.phera 10 Indicate the deadly miasma
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tYt..el. c,vlided few DAVIS ,,o he crio
nI, .,b.,t whose ,,iG, no hod nnhli.b.t a.,
,H..,.i,o itcm rbc ossailo,, ,s.d sn.L.
,,,.., and b;. ll,,g. conld 10 heard ,vv, llo.ks
.a,.... and drew t,getber an Immense crowd
p.neof whom. however wonld os.i., edi,o-
a.. tt.,r yr,po,b;,. were with tho ,,,,o, ma,
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J,n,b.rr went IN ,be sobool-bonse Win cnd.
,sl anal .h.,,.g,, and tilled tho school master
Ansr bemurder il was discovered that no wa.
innocent and nj last accounts the neo,le rers
n.-o,tening IN lynch both Tho woman and how
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hidden by advice Of his physicians From Lon
don he will 90 TO Geneva. where he will remain
for A year at least.
Will sover.l lod;os n p..Lt,,a Y.
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