Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-03-10
Weekly News Summary,

Matched IN lho5 y the principal curiosity.
An enterprising Oregon dentist adyertses
=" teeth in exchange for wheat pork, or potatoes"
TIrr seventeen year locusts are expected TO arise
from their sixteen years sleep In Connecticut this
spring
Asi, 400 100000 tract deed has just been put on
record in Denver Rich men have TO study arith-
metic out there
lIousEKEEriNo being dull, Mrs Fitzgerald, Of
San Antonio, Texas, has taken a contract to grade
ten miles OF railroad
IT is stated that Mr.. A. I. Stewart intends TO
build a large hotel at Newport, r. L. and that
work will be commenced next month
norni-KEErER In Baltimore and another In
Alexandria have closed their doors rather than in
cur the penalties Of the civil rights bill
A TnoY damsols valentine was the genuine
heart OF an OK or COW pierced by gold arrow set
with jewels
The st. Louis Democrat reports that new pet
tlcoat, made Of roam leather, simple and light has
been invented
THERE are estimated to he about fifty thousand
babies born every year in Paris Of which number
twenty thousand are put out TO nurse.
An the funeral Of lady at Windsor, Connect
cut, few days ago, her husband and two sons Of
fciatei as pall-bearers, by her request, others
assisting them.
lr has been colder Ia Sweden this winter than
In any other civilized country. In furudal the
thermometer marked sixty degrees below zero.
THE town Of Elgln, H. has been sued by a man
who claims that his health has been injured by a
leakage Of gas from the street mains.
BosroN proposes to celebrate the one hundfedth
anniversary Of the battle Of Bunker ll June ~
by grand parade Of the entire state militia.
consumptlye patient, upon whom the expert
mcnt Of TRANSMISSION Of blood was tried at Fall
River, Mass, last October, has died.
A ST. LorIs woman got $500 from dentist
who broke her jaw Her husband says lie isi
happy for two reasons The brute
SAMUEL w. AlLrS, Of Nevada, il believed TO be
the greatest hcrdsman in the word. Ills rancho
is eighty miles long, and he owns two hundred
and twenty five thousand head Of cattle
Tnf new Palace Hotel In san Francisco will re-,
quire tour thousand locks and iorty-eght thous-l
and keys, weighing docks and keys togetherll
seven tons and costing $50 900 in gold.
Tn church chandelier in Milan, Iowa, contain
ing thirteen lighted lamps lately fell during d.
vine service causing great fright, but doing no.
harm 70 anybody.
AZ old Colorado miner claims To have dscoy-
cred a silver mine that promises well as the
Ncwburyport mine in Massachusetts not ten miles
from Portland, Me
AMOS CLARK, Of Tennessee, upon his death bed,
expressed a wish that twelve Addlers should stand
around his grave and play Old Dog Tray" Tho
widow Clark saw 1t done.
RoHERr BONNER who presented the Yale navy
with check for 81 90 at Saratoga, last summer,
Is reported BY the New Haven Register to have
promised TO repeat the gift
While man was thawing out potatoes in Har-
Ian county, Nebraska the other day, a number OF
grasshoppers' eggs were Matched out from the
earth surrounding the potatoes.
Mn Ross father Of the kidnapped boy, threatens
10 sue II X shackleford, Of Atlanta, Ga, for
writing observation-disclosures novel called Char
lie Ross or Stolen from Home"
TRAVELLER In New Hampshire IN farmer by the
roadside"I suppose you enjoy these glorious
views which people come far TO look at -
"why, yes, but II I'd had the sortn Of these hills
I'd made en- little peakeder.'
rnE state department cannot demand the sur
render Of sarkcy, the escaped murderer, who is
now In Havana, a. no cxtndiuon treaty exists
with spain Siarkey l. under arrest in Havana,
Tor threat .'og the life Of a steamship captain.
TiK theological students at Andoyer, like the
juvenile amusement Of coasting in the streets and
the town officers forbid it, A few nights ago
there was quite serious conflict, ending in
twenty-one embryo clergymen being locked up.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the baltimore sun has
found in Florida, young girl named Neuralgia.
She was christened after a bottle Of patent medi-
cine which her mother esteemed Another family
had two sons called Soph and Hip, their full names
being sophocles and iIippocntes
FoErr walters a, the Palmer House, Chicago,
reyolted the other day because they were told to
get to their work half an hour earlier In the morn
ing and cat their meals before they waited on
the table
TmE Indiana legislature have resolved not to
build state capital, and a journal Of that state
suggests that in future the legislature should
hold IT, sessions in each city In turn throughout
the state.
Is Utah a condemned murderer is allowed by o
new law to choose between being hanged, shot Of
guilotned Philip shafer, the frst culprt given a
ehahct lof preference HAS ItAuf'A !" iAAh' =
choice, and will be hanged.
JOSHUA BAILEY, OF Cohoes Falls, y Y, prom
ised the bulk OF his fortune to Whichever Of hi'
nephews raised the largest family Of boys. w W
Bailey, Of wayerley, Iowa, raised five boys, and
got 81, 600 900 at the death Of his uncle.
MR. FRouDF, the historian has returned :,
England from Australia. When the ship came il
sight Of shore a man returning home with bas
containing two hundred ounces Of gold, threw thu
gold into the and then lcaped overheard him
self, and was barely rescued
Two Of the children Of the old negro who wa
the original Of Mrs stoves " Uncle Tom" ar
now living in indianapolis. One is " Uncle Nose
Magruder," in his one hundred and fourth year
and the other is a sister-the baby Of Mn
Stoves novel-now sixty-iiye years of age
TlrrnK are twelve thousand windmis in opera
ton in Holland each doing a six or ten-hors
power service through the twenty-four hours
These mills are kept up at an annual cost Of 81
600 600, and they perform all the service require
OF steam engines at one-twentieth the cost
A cLEnaYMAN in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, pull
lcly prayed "Oh, Lord, Thou knowest that N
hated wife is the one great obstacle in the way
revival in my church. wilt Thou, in Thy goot
ness, remove herr" The next day, the wife r,
moved herself to her fathers house, and now tn
petitioner is likely to be removed by his eongres'
ton.
A VERMONT schOolmaster says he never fe
unequal to any demand in the line of his profe
siou, excepting ON one OCCASION when farm'
brought his bouncing fifteen year-old daughter
the school, and, walking up to the masters desl
said "Ihat's nv Youngest cal and il ever yc