Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-02-24
Weekly NeMs Summary.

THE turf feels the hard times You eau buy 9
very fair 81 500 trot,er now for $500.
SmtofN steak is quoted at eleven cents pound
in Milwaukee Such steak is rare here.
II is stated that the Dutch Cremation Society
now numbers about one thousand members.
The story is told that a hog in Dunoith has q
wooden leg In Vermont such things are very
common.
BosroN trader has improved on the chrome
business by giving box Of chocolate to every
customer.
Ir is said that not single graduate Of the
Kansas Agricultural College has become farmer
since 1861
COMMENCEMENT informs us that the town Of
Tilton, New Hampshire, also wants to have IL.
name changed.
TnE James river is frozen over at Richmond, 50
as to prevent the arrival or departure Of vessels
very rare occurrence
Is New Yorl, the police stations arc crowded
these cold nights with wretchcs who have no
other resource from freezing
THERE is more ice in Long Island Sound than
has been known before for a lifetime And tho
Sound 8. not alone in This respect
Miss BurroN, Of Lcwisburgh Pa, skated
thirty-two miles on the ice in three hours and
thrty-fiye minutes the other day,
A JUDGMENT creditor Of the state Of Virginia
has undertaken TO levy execution on the state H.
brary and the furniture Of the governors residence.
TnE San Francisco Bulctp charges that tho
mining excitement has been famed by the ncws-
papers, some Of which have been well paid Tor
doing the work.
THnnE is feyerish activity In the Cincinnati
whiskey trade, owing TO tho prospect Of an add
tonal tax, and the dstilleres are being run 10
their utmost capacity
Tnr Pacific Mail directors have approved the
action Of Rufus Hatch in ordering the institution
Of suits against those parties alleged 10 have re-
ceiyed subsidy brbe.
Az estate at Woolwich England leased to the
crown for nine hundred aud ninety-nino years,
has just been surrendered TO the representatives
Of the lessons, the lease having expired.
A NArloNN temperance convention is to be
held at Chicago in luly next in the proceedings
Of which representatives. Of womcns temperance
unions and crusade clubs will participate.
Two tons Of testimony taken thus FAR, says the
New Haven Rcqiste,,-Moul-ton aud Triton To
the weight Of the proceedings one Of the counsel
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We are told that Americans are the greatest
consumers OF paper IN the world using per an
mum seventeen pounds per mead ms must be
exclusive Of ladies busilesi which are not used
per mead
Is thereccnt snow storm iavoritc breeding eve
oil 'he 'he'iol class belonging To Mr. Elliot, Of
hindhope In England was imprisoned in the
sno" Tor month Notwithstanding Tins long im-
prisonment the owe when recovered was alive.
and ls no" doing well
So many applications for divorce have been
made to the ldahoe Legislature, that Mr. Pad
dock has introduced a bill dyorcing an the mar
ried people ia the Territory. and placing them IN
"ati gao G"ia "air'noHiaw. This he says, viii
save time ard Those who wish can be remarked
s rurlnsN from ST. Petersburg rays that
forty-dyo par shes OF enc Roman Catholic Bishop
tic Of Sicdietl Poland, containing fifty thousand
inhabitants. ith the whole Of their clergy. have
joined the Ot5ek Orthodox church The public
reception was presided over by the Archbishop Of
Warsaw
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