Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-12-08
Weekly News Summary.

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A DOLL show is to be held in London, shortly.
in aid Of childrens hospital
TfE Central Pacific Railroad Company has ab.
sorbcd all the Oregon railroads in operation
ONr Of the Cincinnati breweres has received nm
order for ten thousand barrels Of lager beer, 10 be
used at the Centennial
TuE Russian government owns one hundred
and fory.eight salt works, which produce anu.
ally about four hundred thousand tons
SunvnoR-GrNmAL GAnpSrR, Of California
reports the area Of the state at one hundred mil
lion five hundred thousand acres.
Two trees in Dcnnisor, Texas, arc joined bv
horizontal limb and on that natural gaows five
men have been lynchod within ten years.
QUEEN VICTORIA has sent to the Brighton
Aquarium turtle from the Island Of Ascension
weighing over three hundred and eighty pounds.
DrnlNo Governor Kellogg administration. nine
criminals have been hanged in Louisiana, while
only five were executed in the fifteen previous
years.
ON an appeal 10 higher court, the Jews In
Switzerland are now allowed to butcher their
meat according to their own desire and the law OF
Moses
ON Democrat Mountain Colorado, L. path
known as the Bcecher trail. It runs along the
sharp and ragged edge Of many yawnna
precipce
UrwARns Of twenty thousand letters were posted
in England, last year, withoutany address, among
them one which contained ten thousand dollars In
bank notes.
LAST years stamp duty on patents for in,en-
A.. In,
seven hundred seventy -niue thousand seven hun.
drcd and twenty dollars
TIM champion pie bitter Of America la. been
discovered at Mohrsyille, Penn lie contracted TO-
eat an apple pie thirty inches IN circumference.
in ten bites, and actually dcyourod Il in eight
TnlnE are giantcsses in Minnesota, 10 seem.
newspaper Of that state, describing the burning
Of dwelling, mentions the rescue by way ola
window. Of thcscnani gih fifteen feet IN height
orr Of four hundred religious publications Zoo
the United States, the Methodist. claim fott,.
seven the Roman Catholics iorty-one, the Bai-
fists thirty five the lrcsbytouans twenty-nne
and the Jews nine
Cosmos field hands in Mississippi aic now
earning from one dollar and q half to three dol.
lars day picking cotton, steamboat laborcI.
sixty dollars per month, and skilled artisans pro-
| portionately higher prices.
JAMES W Bass, a lawyer Of Fond du lac. Wiz.
has obtained verdict for four thousand five hun
drcd dollars damages against the Northwestern
railway Tor injuries in being forcby elected nom
| the ladies car on one OF les trains
Tnr recent great fire in Dublin ia which Que
thousand eight hundred puucheous Of wh.skey
ran OIL in the street cutters, provided free ntoAi-
cation % thousands Of men and women. Three
/ men and two boys have died Of overwhelming ou
that occasion.
SIR JoHN BENNFrr having gi,cu q quantity 81
silver vatcles for prizes % those who have cons
tdbutcd most TO sprcada knowledge Of swimming
among the school children, the London sohoo.
Board have handed them to ihc SCHOOL,, Swim
ming Club for distribution
Tins season tie elements are having iull swing
around the circle storms and floods in France,
Switzerland and Italy, caused heavy damage.
last month lari. alone had one hundred ana
sixty chimneys blown down and SOME % hcr
streets damponed by tie Seine
Il II rAytoH. Who died recently in Chicago
willed half million dollars 20 establish. in tlat
city, "a charitable Institution that viii do the
most good and the leas, harm The trustee.
have not decided what 90 do with tlc money but
doubtless will found hospital.
a NrNurg Of persons were convicted at The
lambeth Police Court ia London, the other day
Of not sending their children 10 school, and fined
in sums ranging from one 10 three shinings, with
costs. one woman protested that her child had
not only been sent to school, but knew more
than ali the school board bot put together
r,.r.,., ,,...4 90, w. e., ,.-.ts.. f.i. ,.s..
fession. An old friend me, him on the street, one
day, and asked him how he was succeeding in
his business Flrstato, he replied "T,e
had one case We'll, aud what was that O.
&C. It was birth, said the doctor How did
sou succeed with that % "Wen the old woman
died and the child died. but think TN save tie
old man yet"
A LITTLE fellow Who was az neighbors house
about noon. the other day watched the prclara-
tons for dinner with great deal Of interest, but
when asked to stay and eat something, he
promptly refused Why yes, Johnnie you q
better stay said the lady "wiy can't you
Wei, cause, said the little fellow, ma said !
mustn't t, unless you ask me three times They
invited him twice more right OH
HENm LupDINGroN, a Gaiesburg Mich farmer
WAS bitten on the wrist hy a snake nineteen years
ago, this fall, and his arm swcllod up aud turned
spotted bat finally became apparently well.
Every fall since, however, about the same time in
the season that the snake bit him, his arm swel-
mp and becomes spotted paining him so that he is
about sick for two or three weoks-and the worst
Of it is that the pain and swelling grow worse
4 every year
THE Harvard catalogue Tor the ycap 1876
, shows the whole number Of students in the Uni
yersity to be one thousand two hundred and sew
enty-eight, against one thousand one hundred and
ninety-six last year, and one thousand one hun
dred and siXty-seyen the year before that The
law school has one hundred and sxty-one student.
this year, increase Of twenty over the last two
years. Ia the medical school, the number Of
Subdivisions hundred and ninety-two-r emain-
the same as last year.
THE Roman Catholics have started a revival ia
GAINESVILLE, Wis, where FIVE missionaries Of tn,
Seryte order are exhorting the people to repent
One Of the missionaries is from Belgium, one from
Switzerland one from Bavaria, one from Austria
and one from Italy They hold four service.
, daily-the first beginning at five O'Clock in the
morning, for the benefit Of the worl1ingmen.
Another is held at seven o'clock another AT nine
and general meeting at half past seven in the
, evening, Nhen one OF the missionaries delivers u
lecture. The services are attended By such multi
tudes that standing room can hardly be had.
) CELIA LOGAN writes from New York to the
. Hartford CourdRt. There is a lady in this city
who was once engaged to he married TO John
Wilkes Booth, hut broke of the match and re-
Quested the return of her letters, which he re-
fused. Her story goes that she never heard d.
rectly from him again until two years after his
reported DEATH when man called at her house at
dusk. She opened the door herself he handed
her sealed package and disappeared ON open
ing it, she discovered her own old loye-letiers to
Booth, and line Enthusiastically in his hand II
was return your lettors inside the letter
was a piece Of Cuban newspaper She firmly
believes that Booth still lives"
PATRICK TooLEY, laboror in New York, ON frl-
day night OF last week, poured can Of kerosene
oil over his wife, because she said he was hard to
. please, he having found fault with her working
She screamed and prayed to him not 10 set her on
fire, but, with yolley Of oaths, heperssted Inc
4 oil being poured over her head and getting mo
her eyes, saturated her dress, and he, in spite OIL
her struggles lit match and set heron fire her
screams were fearful, and soon the house was
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