Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-04-07
Weekly News Summary.

TnE Illinois legislature has refused to pass the
bill appropriating 600 to finish the Douglass
monument.
The first spring lamb Of the season was served
up In one OF the Boston hotels, Sunday. The car
cases cost SIG each.
Jusr because a frantic horse ran away ON Bea-
con street with a lady named Tilton, the Globe
says the name seems l-omened.
Mn W. !. STORY, editor Of the Chicago Time,
has been sent to jail for contempt Of court In crit-
cising the action OF the grand jury.
A SPELLING match between fifty Harvard boys
and fifty Boston girls, is to he held this week 4
whole bunch Of matches may result
CARDINAL MASNINa is to take his title FROM the
church OF st. Gregory Mt Rome, aud Il he should
ever be Pope he will be Gregory XVII
THF New York Herald thinks the true course H.
when an Indian is caught who has undoubtedly
| killed another indian to give him new gun and
| five dollars.
THnn are twenty-four miiiuu ,iS hundred
and sixty-one thousand bricks in the neg Palace
hotel in San Francisco, and over fifty thousand
barrels Of mortar Yet the price Of board will be
only three dollars per day
| CASE Of mistaken identity resulted ia the ar
rust ~ Aoltht Oh the NAH-tll COUNTY UltlnNfl Nl
the Kansas Legislature, by a detective who had
been tracking him for year as the father Of the
murderous Bender family
WOLF scalps are received IN pas meut Of taxes
in Missouri, at the rate Of 1--WE dollars a scalp
The legislative committee appointed tie other day
to burn the scalps accumulated in the last two
years, destroyed about 5000 worth
Tur boys tricled the girls in a spelling match
at Providence The agreement was that the
words should be selected from the city newsIa-
pers Of the day Of the match, and the boys Sc
cured the publication of a scientific article full Ut
unfamiliar terms.
\ rTERAnr club in Bangor had a spelling
match, the other evening and the unfortunate
gentleman who misspelled the first word was the
venerable and learned e1-iudse and oA-,'o,oruor
the Hon Edward Kent The word that thpped
him up was synonym
Tue ore from the Newburypon Miss silver
mines increases in richness a. the shafts are sunk
an assay last week yielding at the rate Of
5000 a ton Six hundred feet Of land on the
Boyn,on lode were sold last week toa Springfield
company, for siGoOn
4 brilliant achievement oi Chicago robbers
was the theft iee days ago, Of a loaded freight
var Atbth u NtbNiA- AAaAl 'Nt Nt AlltlN iHAifltN
the train and detached the cu, and when some
time after a man WAS sent back with al engine a.
look after it, the robbers were found u be- unload
Ing the freight
A DISPATCH nom Memphis says that Thursday
last Iouis A. Middleton editor Of the West Point
Miss Times WAS shot and killed by u t. Dove
editor Of the West Puin, CHiien, for Publishing au
offensive article. love demanded d retmction
and on being refused be .ho, Middleton four time.
aud then made hi- escape
A Missouri farmer. after a long calculation.
presents the following facts concerning dogs Ia
thity-two counties ten thousand ain hundred
and two sheep have been killed by dogs lie es-
Inmates tie number OF dogs IN these thiriy-two
counties "a be four hundred and iNty-iwo thou-
sand that hog viii thrive on the food necessary
10 support An able-bodicd dog. and at the end Of a
year weigh two hundred pounds therefore If the
food for these four hundred and sixty-two thotl-
sand dogs went to the hogs 1t would make ninety
two million pounds of pork. worth az six cents "a
pound, 81 so 0O0-nearly twice the value Of al
the school-houses in the state and more than
twice the amount used by the state. fnr -'honl
? purposes
SoNE simple folks in West B'si-tau. Macs
have just been done in very contemplate
way Two well-dfessed scamls found ont the
deaf people in town and then proposed a. cure
= them for from fifty 10 one hundred dollars each,
according to their extremity. asking Of coune,
advance payment Some paid from ten 10
twenty dollars down, and were ornamcnied with
a wire conirvance which came over ihe top Of
y the head and down behind the ears. and which
{ they were 10 wear four hours a day iog eish;
/ weeks, as IL would keep up current Of electricity
that would ultimately restore tie functions Of
hearing entirely. The swindlers, Of course, are
gone but some Of the dupes still wearing their
I foolish head gear.
d THE guardian Of the asbrrge Of Mont Chasseral
+ in the Canton Of Bene, Switzerland, was recently
t buried beneath snowdriit with his establish
4 ment and goats, to q depth Of thirty feet fhTe,
powerful fellows we're sent from Mods to look a.
ter the fate Of the guardian. They cleared away
b the snow until they reached the chimney, when
s they heard the imprisoned guardian singing cheer
2. ily. "You are not dead, then o. cried out one Of
a the visitors " No; what are you doing aboy,
there q 1--WE wanted 10 see Il you were stl
alive" Ny goats and are perfectly well
" Must open passage for you o. " As yog
like, but don't want anything The result o.
l. the conference was that set 10 work 10 cleal
passage through the snow, and som liberated
the prisoner who accompanied his friends dow
r to Mods
. Is New Orleans the other night, the Rev Geo
Harper looked out Of his window upon startling
e scene young man was passing Two other
sprang out from doorway, drew long, slitterin.
knives, and fell upon him with savage thrust-
The clergyman turned his head away to avoi,
a seeing the flow Of blood aud when he looked agar
= I IL 4 taA nd ma.
= tilted, he hurriedly dressed himself and nan to
/ police station, and there between spasmodc Fl
forts to catch his breath, he described what h
had seen. thorough search Of the neighbof
hood was made, but nothing was discovered, tn
clergymans story was reported in the next morn
ings papers, and before night the occurrence wa
e explained. The students at New Orleans Law
school get practical instruction by trials Of suppos
itions cases, and the mimic murder was intende,
to be used in that way.
ONE Of the most conscientious sherins ON recon-
N has turned up in Iowa. railroad was to be sol'
y at sherifs sale and friendly agreement wa
n made by which this model official was to receive
s. $40 in payment for his part in the Transaction
which required two hours perhaps, of his yalua
ID BILE time But after the sale he happened to lool
ct at the statute which fixed his fees when he foun,
G, 10 his horror that he had been tansgressing tn
Il laws Of the state which declared that he SHOULD
re receive other fees than those legally assignee
n him So he refused the liberal sum offered him
T. and said he would take nothing but his Lawful
or fees, which in this instance, itseems amounted b
TO 600. The railroad men endeayored 10 hol
o, him to his original bargain, but he was too con
ne scien,ious to violate the laws he appointed L
IL uphold and, the case going to the courts, his in
TO tegrity was rewarded by verdict in his favor
D THERE is enough of heroism and nerve In tn
~ :, way Tennessee locomotive engineer met hi
!" death to temper with sympathy the judgmen
= which his ioohardness deserves He was EN-
ployed on the Georgia and East Tennessee railroad
!" and was cautiously working his way over tn
track with passenger train, just after the reeen
= floods had subsidized. lie reached sweetwate
= Creek, over which temporary bridge had bee
thrown to replace the one washed away by tn
swollen waters II seemed insecure, and be feare