Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-12-29
Weekly News summary.

has ordered all the priests Of his diocese To ro,ns
dissolution to any members Of their concrega,,o,
who participate in round dances. A hnn,n.
Of Brainerd Mimi while out in tho woods 20
Gently discharged his gun just to clear ont uo
barrel and a fine buck, which, unknown 10 hin,
happened TO be In range, was shot through A..
heart Professor Swings new church. in mi
cago, is so popular that a number Of people stool
all night in front Of the place where the seats vo,a
to be sold, in order to get the first choice WHOM
the sale opened in the morning. ...A trayeilr,
salesman for a New York house got out Of fund.-
while away on his circuit, and sold his samples
The firm brought suit and recovered seventeen.
dollars damagca, the judge charging the Jury TIM,
the act was unauthorized Leading poultr,mor
Of the country have just put In request for 6vo
acres OF the Centennial grounds, and FIVE thousand
pens next year, at the exhibition for the dlsnlav
Of chickens ducks, turkeys, geese, pigeons ana
poultry products. The Montreal Witness. which
was prescribed by the Roman Catholic authorize.
Of that region has tlriyen by persecution. ia 70.
ceipts for the three months ending Noyembor
1878, being one hundred and forty per cent create,
than Tor the corresponding period Of 1874. AM
was going to give her a nice present, too" said
sweet child Of six years to the sister Of recon,
BRIDE but mamma said she thought we Ind done
about enough for her. "....J Jones OF Nevada Ia
knocking round the United States in an eleve,
thousand dollar railroad car, specially prepared
for himself and family Il Is ascertained TIM,
the ten million dollar bridge over the Mississipnl
and st. Louis will not pay interest on cost during
this generation. Mr. Bass the brewer. whose
alcs are drank all over the world lies dangerouslv
81 from bronchitis, at Burton-upon-Trent lie ia
a member Of Parliament, and aged seventy.slx
years . The dogs OF the pawncc Indians refused
to follow their masters TO the new reservation in
Indian Territory, so the old haunts are occunied
by legion Of bowling, starving creatures As
old Mr. -- heaved tho last scuttlc OF four tons n
coal into his cellar, he was heard TO remark, on
they had been boys instead Of girls, II wouldn',
have been thus. ono ton would last all winter
.-.. From one end Of tho Laramie Plains 10 the
other the track Of the Union Pacific railroad ba.
been raised the cuts have been widened. and fnv
miles Of fence built besides several miles Of snow
sheds Little interruption Of travel Is anticipated
this winicr.. Carlyle was, on December ltb
presented with a gold medal in commemora,ion
Of his oghuoth birthday An address, signed bv
The leading literary aud scientific men in England
accompanied the medal which shows on the OBJ
verse side the head of Carlyle, and the date "4th
dog on thc frontier of Dakota Territory. who
singly and alone, carries the mail over route Of
sixty miles, through an weathers, ~ straightasa
die and none dare modest him While Cali
iornia produces eight million gallons Of wine, the
home consumption does not amount to more than
one million and a half gallons In first hands tho
wines arc known to he absolutely pure, for which
reason they are extensively initiated by fiaudu.
D. y. I'd 81. ..f..ft =
lose their original yrtuo and flavor The M
naal Christmas sale Of lat stock belonging TO
Queen Victoria and fed upon the royal domosDc.
was held at the Prince Consors Shaw Farm,
Windsor Park the other day There was a large
attendance Of buyers. The sale consisted Of
fonytro worry ino shor;horn and pouod Scotch
oxen aud hoier, which realized from thirty
pounds to ffty-ihroo pounds. four hundred due
ueihcrsheep pc southdowns fetching from three
pounds and eleven shillngs to five pounds and
four shilling. thc Chcyiois from two pounds and
nineteen shiliuss o. three pounds and seven sbi-
lngs and mmbs from two pounds and nineteen
shillngs to five pounds two shilings and .x
pence. and fifty bacon hogs and porkou the
white Prince Cousors breed bringing FROM four
teen pounds and five shillinsr to fifteen pounds
and the bacon hogs from five pounds TO fifteen
| pound. and five shilliugs Iowa has eight thou
sand oisht hundred and siaty-fse Quakers-iour
tholsand four hundred and sixty-6yc males and
/ four thousand four hundred females The cur
rent estimate Of tie cotton crop Of 1886 il four
million one hundred thousand bales A West
ern man says that figures won't lie unless they
happen 10 be on a gas meter -Four members Of
the Nashville Medical Association spoke, at the
late meeting in favor Of the revival Of bleeding in
the treatment Of diseases Yale College having
Withdrawn from the Rowing Association Of Ameri-
can Colleges has challenged Harvard to row
fourm.le race in cght-oared boats, with cox
SWANS. time and place to be hereafter fixed Ac-
eepted.. Two English ladies have resolved to
enter the legal profession. They are named Rich.
ardson and Orme and they have taken chambers
in Chancery Lane, London The latter lady ao
| quilted herself remarkably well at the Ladies
College, at Cambridge TOO. The Spiritualists are
hkoly to have n martyr Leymare editor o.
Paris newspaper devoted 10 that faith, was sen
fenced 10 Imprisonment Tor year for swindling
the public with spirit photographs Two COM
panions in the fraud. convicted simultaneously,
have been parloned; but they were the photo
grapherani the medium, while Teymarie's greater
offence was that u using his Journal 10 endorse
the pictures as genuine. The authorities refuse
therefore 70 pardon the editor, and he will proba
bly, die in prison, bis health il very bad. "A
Boston brick mason. who went South in search Of
fortune, writes home, that in two months tray-
cling through Florida Georgia and South Caro-
lima, he has not found employment, even for his
| board. In Charleston, there are over twenty-five
young New England men who are living on char
ty..... ono Incident Of the Philadelphia banquet,
a week ago, has but inst leaked out gigantic
structure OF ico-croam, representing General Wash
ngton, which had been placed just in front Of the
Presidents seat thawed out on the side toward
him, till at last it fell with crash, covering him
with fragments OF partly concealed cream. The
apex Of the structure iell into the Presidents hat
which WAS ON the floor at his side, and it required
the rubbing Of half a dozen colored walters and
dozen OF napkins, 10 remove the traces OF this
slump. Daniel Decker has Just obtained yer.
dict, at Milford Penn, Of five thousand six hun
drod and seyenty-two dollars, against the Erie
Railway Company, for the burning OF his hotel, at
Shohola March 9th, 1872 from sparks OF a loco
motive. The company will doubtless carry the
case to the supreme court. There is a remarka-
bic people in China, known as the nameless
sect They profess ian old religion" which
prevails more or less all over China but especially
in the province Of Shangtuus. Disliked and per-
secuted by the civil authorities, they have for a
long time endeayored to keep their beliefs and
practices secret Their religion is said to have
come from the West whence also they expect
deliycrer They do not worship idols At the
close Of their religious services they have meal,
Of which bread and wine form the greater part.
1t IS thought that they may be the remnant OF the
native churches planted centuries ago in China by
HISTORIAN missionaries, who are said TO have
preached the gospel for nearly thousand years
through southern and Middle Asia with marvellous
energy and success, and to have eKerted power
full influence in China for upward Of six hundred
years, from the seventh to the thirteenth century
"a French chemist asserts that salt alone an
swers all purposes for packing pork, provided all
animal heat has left it before sailing No salt
petrc should be used, as it induces scuryy. The
brine should be as strong as possible, and cold
water is capable OF dlssolylng more salt than hot
water, A resident of Corbeil, in France, named
r., presented himself, recently at the house OF
VI. Barthe in Auteuil, who had formerly been
furniture dealer, and asked him II he remembered
having bought at an auction sale, in 1861, desk
Of which R. gave apartieular description, add
Ing that if the desk still remained in NJ. Barthe's
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