Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-07-14
Weekly News Summary.

/ Enlistment NJ n college.
Tmr entire business portion Of Tularo City, Cali
| iornia was burned on Tuesday OF last week Loss
| 100000
BosroS has commenced in earnest the enforce.
mcnt Of It's license law, Alsrge number Of liquor
dealers have been brought up and fined.
ono maam," said jeweller to beautiful
lady, 81 don't trust anybody these days would
not even trust my feelings
Tnn sheriff sent out three hundred cards Of in
yitation to the hanging Of Costloy in Boston, last
week
GEx. BDwEtL says that raisin-making with
tive grapes is industry worth s50o,OOO annually
to California.
A SAN FRANcisco ordinance declares that any
three Califonians under tho age Of twenty-onc,
constitutes q riotous assomblagc
A MniIoNAmE Of Granville, Wis, has recently
made will, In which he leaves $4,000 10 any in
corporated town or village in Wisconsin that will
not tolerate q brass band
IT is limited that Bennett, Jr., will shortly re-
turn from Europe unwedded to any Of the numer-
ous princesscs who have yeamod Tor an alliance
with him,
1mR wellesley College for women, which Mr.
Henry T. Durant Of Boston, has founded and
built at a cost Of $500 900 will be formally opened
on September sth.
Bsnor CuMuSG Of tho Reformed Episcopal
Church says the new organization has from forty
to fiiy cergymen and more than thirty con-
gregations
ATLANTA, GFoHGIA, Is the first southern city in
which, since the war, the na;ional anniversary has
been celebrated by the white people and this year
is the first time II has been done there
CAnpnAL MANNNa received sum Of money,
amounting 10 nearly sae 800 recently from the
lay Catholics Of London, mostly peers as a token
Of satisfaction at biz recent promotion by tie Pope.
"Fon want OF water said an Italian, d" l. am
forced to drink water; il had water would
drink wine lie kcpta vineyard, and The drought
had killed his vines
| a BOOK agent took refuge under hay stack
during thunder storm, aud the lightning struck
him on the check glanced OF and killed a mule
two hundred yards away
SLw YORK cts seems 10 De iailn. behind The
tax commissioners report shows that the prop
orty Is fits three millions less m 1873 than il was
10 1s,l
ruEaE Is family at Clinton, Kentucky, WHO
believe in witches and under the delu,iou that
a couple Of Innocent maids are Ia the habit Of
transforming themselves into cit. and prourg
about the town
LAWYER E,Aus has. 70 is said, bought conf
handing site ou the bank % TIC Connecticut river,
overlooking the village Of Windsor and is TO
erect there fine house for rs iuture sumner
home
4coCSunaL,s fel oa iefry-boat at yieks
burg, and h, wife, whiting e,oiiy until bis head
showed above Che wates, shoatcl. "rhcro. durn
yer, lkuowd youddo Bs.yof mover &c; ont,
either"
rur occupants 81 six huniscl shauucs along
the lines OF New Iol, railroads make living hy
planting com and potatoes between The track and
tic fences. Il is said tlat niae hunlrcd acres arc
cultivated in this way
ELnEH sister (oondescendisly See Ethel.
you had better come and walk inmy shadow It
viii be cooler Tor YOU " Younger sister (who re-
'enis patronage &C. You are very good, Maid but
have shadow Of my own, thank your.
Az excited mother threw her baby, three
months old, out Of an upper story window at
| Philadelphia, the other DAY, the bailling having
taken fire, and somebody caught il on the hy be-
fore il had received any injury.
TIN preparations for grand high life wedding
IN SpHnheId Mass, were Suddenly suspended the
other day by The young gentcuan- announce
men, that he had beou married for nearly year,
so they think Of having christening instead
TIE Chicago Tribune tells OF a swarm Of grass
hoppcrs which, moving n the rate Of fifteen miles
an hour, occupied six hour In passing over iowa
| in Missouri, and was estimated % be from thirty
to seyeniy-fsc miles wide and a half a mile deep
| DuRiSc a Trial the judge called a witness No
one answered and an elderly man arose and sol.
EMMY said lie is gone" Where has he
gone p asked the judge, in no tender tone 81
don't know bat he is dead, W. The guarded
answer
rEsr was recently made Of the buoyant power
Of leaf Of the water-lily known a. the Victoria
Resia in the botanic garden at Client bricks
were heaped over is entire area and before it
was submerged in the water a weight Of seven
hundred and sxty-one pounds was noated
riE elergymen Of Louisville Ky, suggest that
states be hung In the church vestLulos, 50 that
young ladies on entering can register their names
This would be less expensive than providing seats
there tor the young men, and would also make
great deal OF waiting unnecessary
POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL cartiyated In
dianapolis. A correspondent says that his conn.,
plexion was As pure and fair as II the winds Of
heaven had never visited It too roughly" and
that " the clear blue eyes and ma,chloss teeth
were admirably set off by the siycry hair and
white moustachc and beard
srImTvAtlssl seems about played out a, Bos-
ton. The other night an audience attended a
seance in Paine Memorial Hall, and the commit.
tee appointed to see fair play pronounced the me-
dunn, " Prof" J. T. Bates, a fraud whereupon
the crowd smashed the cabinet aud pursued Bates
for some distance down the street
MucH damage is reported by tho rooen, storms
in Missouri, Miles Of track are under water and
it will be two or three days before travel is again
unobstructed. Hundreds Of hogs, cattle and
horses have been drowned, and the farmers have
sustained heavy losses by the ayages Of the flood.
which far surpasses even that Of 1874
uNprn the act Of July 18th, 1874, providing for
the resumption Of specie payments the treasury
department has disposed Of about ten millions Of
bonds known az live per cents, authorized BY the
act Of July lith, 1870, and with the proceeds has
purchased about nine millions in silver for the
purpose Of retiring fractional currency.
the paddle-wheels OF large steamer on the
st. Johns river In Florida stopped suddenly, few
nights ago, and then came crash after crash to
the woodwork panic followed, everybody
rolling out OF his bunk aud rushing for the deck.
and II was soon asceftained that big alligator
mad become entsngled in the revolving wheel.
Lr'DrESANT CoLoSn. FRED GRANT and Sem
ator Sherman nephew have opened their Office in
Washington as bankers and brokers. Mr.. Grant
VIII at once send in his resignation as lieutenant
colonel and aid-de-camp on General Sherdan's
sail' and as second lieutenant in the Fourth