Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-05-19
Weekly News Summary.

joins c. BnEcSrSRlDGE is hopelessly III at Lex
ington, Kentucky.
oSE hundred Mormon converts are on their way
from Wales to New York
TnrRE are twelve Indian students In prury Col
loge, at Springfield, Missouri.
THE Massachusetts Assembly has appropriated
$4,000 to represent Massachusetts at the Ihila-
delphia centennial
Mr.. N. H. BisHoP, who sailed from Troy 10 the
Gulf Of Mexico in a canoe, has reached rhiladol-
phla on his return voyage.
BISMARCK has instructed the German consul at
Pcnzance 10 that the survivors OK the Schiller
are properly taken care Of.
A SARATOGA crocus put lis head out Of bud, the
other morning, and said You lilac everything
II You say this isn't spring"
TnE New York greaing MAJ says that the spring
bonnet Of this year more ridiculous than any that
has been in vogue since the days Of Mrs Noah
IL the trotting race at San Francisco, on Thurs
day Of last week, for purse OF twenty-five thou
sand dollars, Ellington was the winner in three
mile heats out Of FIVE.
THE members Of the Bunker Ilill Monument As
ISOLATION, 1t is reported contemplate presenting the
monument aud grounds 10 the city Of Boston after
the coming centennial celebration.
INTENSE heat prevailed on April 10th in the north
Of Scotland Eighty degrees were registered at
midday in the sun, and sixty-fve in the shade
Two deaths from sunAroke are reported.
THE board Of managers Of the Adams Express
Company have voted one thousand dollars In gold
70 George H. Price, who recently killed a robbcr in
his car, on the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne road
Tmr REv THOMAS BEeciiHl,, Of Elmira, ~ v,
opened dancing party with prayer the other
evening" after which he said. " Now, boys. form
on, and rl see YOU dance once, and then go home ="
"OIp Tho" owned by Mrs Susan Wilson, Of
East wilmot, y H., is wonderful horse. lie Is
known to be thirty years old, is perfectly sound,
has the appearance aud yigor Of colt, docs all the
work on good farm, and last fan trotted mile
ON track in three ior,y-six.
TIM women Of Colorado town got up suffrage
meeting the other dav no men being admitted
No business Of Importance was transacted how
ever, because some invisible miscreant let down a
live rat through the skyliglt, and, amid shHoss
and screams, the assemblago suddenly adjourned.
NATHANIEL EAroN celebrated his one hundredih
birthday at Sutton, y H., on the 4th Instant The
incident receives an additional and painful interest
from the fact that this centonanan has now passed
away hy nm attack Of pneumonia, induced by the
excitement and cvcrtion caused hy the birthday
celebration
IN Is estimated that the expenses Of the services
held hy Mcssrs, Moody aud SanSey, in London,
will amount 10 one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. 10 deiay these, only abou, eighty thou
sand dollars has been raised 1t is stated that
neither Of the preachers has received any pay for
his labors
TIM manufacture Of alligator leather has now
become an important branch Of industry The
skins come chiefly from Florida and louisiana
and the hunting and skiuning Of the animals are
extensively pursued About twenty thousand
skins are tanned every year They are manuiac-
turcd in the United States and exported to
England and France. The French, owing ia their
superior methods Of tanning are formidable COM
pettors.
MOST horrible crime was recently committed
by Vienna tailor, who had got into pccuniary
straits through dissipation. Having bolied his
wife out Of the house, be cniiced each Of his five
childron-the youngest about eight months old
into a dark room, and while at play with them.
hung them upon nails Then he hung himself
Al were found dead but the oldest child, who WAS
so tall that his feet touched, while he was sus-
pended from the nail, and bis life was barely
saved. Inc man had had twenty children, fifteen
of whom had previously died