Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-04-28
Weekly News Summary.


NAL will be the people Of Lexington
TmR railroad war Is raging and ircights are nm
commonly low-and 80 are dividends
THrsE strikes involve a dead loss, and nothing
was ever permanently gained by them.
CAITAIs BoyroS, not Boynton, is the man who
crossed the English channel in his life-drcss
PiurI1Y soon we shall have centennals about
once month. Bunker Hill will be the next.
SAN FRANCISCO paid for San Jose Strawberries,
last month, at the rate Of two dollars pound.
KiNG KALAKAuA sayshe is coming to our Phila-
delphia centennial Can we not be spared this y
The mule spinners at Lowell show very clearly
that they name themselves after the right animal
osE Of the reporters lies dangerously M from
pneumonia contracted in the brooklyn courtroom
THE oldest inhabitants deny that they ever
knew or heard OF such weather In the latter part
OF April.
Mucn injury 10 the fruit buds is thought to have
been done by the late cold snap, all through the
country
An edition Of the Bible is TO he printed In Lon
don with all the proper names accented to show
their pronunciation.
Hills gold-hunters, he'll bring their hunting fever
to speedy termination.
TnE New Haven Paladi,on thinks 1t was rather
shabby not 10 have invited Gen Butler 10 cele-
brate at Concord or Lexington.
TnE women Of Boston have been appealed to by
the centennial committee Of Philadelphia and
they will be certain to respond
TIN book trade sale in New York proved one Of
the liyolicst In number Of years, Large invoices
OF books were sold at good prices
A MICRO who lately died Of hydrophobia in
Nashville believed, 70 the last that he had been
bewitched by fOrtune-tellng aunt.
wiNSrsumK COUNTY, Iowa has never known
such a smell as that caused by the recent burning
Of Ia only Iimburger cheese factory.
BY the operation Of the compulsory education
law in New York, a large increase Of attendance
at the public schools has been secured.
A BURGLAR in North Carolina was found upon
being shot 10y farmer into whose house he had
broken to be a woman in mans dress.
4 city contemporary observes that ,Iiune-
sola's gmsshoppor didn't swarm worth cent
compared with Boston babies in spring
PArI REVERE was a goldsmith, and also did
something at setting false teeth. His advertise
ment appeared in the Boston GdzeHe, In 1868
Two proprietors and one editor Of the Boston
Transcript have died since October little over
year ago. the wife Of one Of the propretors died.
Fun ten thousand people were turned away
from the Boston depots, on Monday OF last week,
who we're anxious to 60 to Concord aud Lexington.
KENTUCKY coroner has purchased silver
a.. b. a. q
show the highos; death rate at the close Of the
N.
Ma CoNwAi Is ~ lecture In Chicago on The
Devil" The people Of that city will turn out in
large numlcr. 10 hear what may be said about
their old friend
lr is justly estimated that more people got THEN
deaths Of cold at the centennial than got theiI
deaths Of cold lead a hundred years ago, at Con
cord aud Lexington,
GENERAL BurLI1, las virtually gained the ease
for tho two orphan girls, from whom a rich uncle
tried 10 wrest their homestead General Butler.
services were gra;uitous.
TUB locomotive Andrew Johnson" on the
Chattanooga railroad has painted on it huge
pair Of shears, with an accompanying inscription
"From tailor 70 President"
Mr.. GLADSTONE most ii,ly scut letter To IN,
Lexington and Concord centennial committee
and In a very different view from the eommuni
cation Of hundred years ago.
TnE plaster cast Of the statue Of Senator Sumner
arrived at New York, aud on opening the package
1t was found n have been badly broken on tn,
passage owing 70 insufficient care in putting it up
TlIE whole senior class OF Rensselaer, Polytech
- a.
subordination, and the annual commencement
next summer IL more than likely not to come on
Tm Pttsburg Mass mills have resumed work
after nearly five months Of enforced idlenes-
All that the striker will gain cannot compensat
them for their loss from 80 protacted term o
idleness
TEN natives Of lNtacales are on trial In the Cit,
Of Mexico, charged with buryng three men alive
leaving only their heads above ground, and dis
patching them with hatchets and knives aitcrpr
longed torture.
TIM REV WASHINGTON GLApDEN says that tn
religion Of the southern negroes has not the re
hottest relation to their conduct and that til
notion Of any incongruity between piety and thei
or adultery scarcely enters their heads
SAN FRANCISCO had a spelling match, in whic
the worst speller was To have the prize, which wa
copy Of Josh Billing book. Virtue was ON
Of the words given out, and the man who slellc
it Beechertilton was awarded the prize
TIM experiment Of ,ransiusng blood has ju,
been applied TO General Frank Blair who has "a
some time been Frustrated with paralysis at HI
home at St Louis Six ounces OF blood were il
jccted into his veins, and the result is said to
favorable
TIIFRE is a woman in Paris who goes about III
streets watching for man 10 tumble down Wit
apopleNy Then she rushes forward in great di
trcss, and goes with him and the i-ilice to the St
ton, takes care Of him, etc. and steps oat
sight before he RECEIVERS his senses when it is gel
orally found that his watch and ponenonna
have disappeared
FRIDAY night, at twelve o'clock, Daniel O Lear
OF Chicago, began, at the Philadelphia rink, wal
OF one hundred and fifteen miles, to be aeon
plshed in twenty-four hours. Great interest vi
manifested in the result, and Saturday night
eight minutes after eleven o'clock, he complete
a distance Of one hundred and sixteen miles-thl
beating his distance, with mile TO spare, in fift
two minutes less than the time set down This
the best time on record,
Tux Hon. Charles Hudson, in dedicatlng q
statute OF Hancock and Adams in Lexington,
Monday, slipped into n bad grammatical err
Richard II. Dana, Jr the orator of the da
noticed It, and leaning over towards a friend VIII
pered al have been studying Massachusetts h
tory very thoroughly, and for my life cannot s
whether British soldier was killed in Lexingt
ON the 1@h OF April, i775 or not but when
next centennial comes around ! will be ready
swear that Hudson murdered the Kings Engli
here to-day
wAnsFIKID. --Waitsield Grange, No. 20, vot
unanimously to spend the sth day Of May in s.
ting out trees--fruit trees, shade trees, and "
lows by the brook, shrubs and flowers In the G.
den, the door-yard, and on the home farm, by t
roadside or in the graveyard; and report to ga
other in the evening of the same day, at the res
lar meeting Of the grange. Let more do likewi