Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-06-02
Weekly News Summary.


Ar Elmirl N. Y, on recent Sunday, eight
ladies ofiiciated pail bearers at the funeral Of
friend
SENATOR boutwell, has resumed the practice
Of his profession at his former rooms In Studio
Building Boston
TIM Baxter steam canal boat City Of Utica was
the first boat from New York arriving at Buffalo
this season. Time, FIVE days
TnE ships Alert and Discovery, comprising the
English Arctic expedition, sailed from Portsmouth
on Saturday, for the frozen regions
MRs. Bonn, known as the Fat Woman" Of
Barnum's show, died at her residence in nslti-
more, on Saturday, aged twenty-nine years
MELENDEz, who assassinated the ex-yice Prcsi-
dent Of salvador, some time ago, WAS executed on
the 20sb Of April. It took ,wenty-three shots To
kill him.
Az underground railway has been opened at
Coustantinople. It communicates with different
sections Of the city, and trains are run every five
minutes
The Nashville board OF education has adopted
scale Of salaries in accordance with the work
performed by each teacher, no distinction being
made on account Of sex
Mus joins PALMER, wife Of Steubenye
printer, has given birth 10 five children inside Of
sixteen months-which is pretty hard run on
Johns "slnal cap case.
THn,E seems to be no doubt tia, the death, on
Sunday, Of Isaac c. Jackson, uncle and bondsman
Of the missing Boston lawyer, was directly caused
by the misdeeds OF his nephew
THEY fed the snakes in the Garden OF Plants, at
Paris, on live rats until recently when a rat
killed a snake worth two thousand francs The
snakes now take their rats dead
" you want to see . man struggle TO do several
things at once Just watch him trying To put on his
overcoat and rubbers with his head bowed down
while the minister is pronouncins the henedicton.
TnE magnifcen, mansion Of Iegrand lockwood,
at NorwallS, which cost 81 250 900 has passed into
the hands OF the Michigan southern Railway
Company, they having forecosed their mortgage
on H.
A BArTIsr congregation in Brownsville, Tenn,
quarrecd about the control Of Its church one
faction got possession after bitter contest, and
on the same night the building set on fire and
destroyed
~ Mr. GARDENER, OF Ohio, hadn't been taken
out and tarred and feathered and rolled in the
snow, he never would have known how much his
wife loved him. She was three weeks scrapng
the tar OF.
THEY have justice Of the peace at Milwaukee
who acts on the principle that he has right to
divorce any couple that he has married. He re-
Gently granted an application to pair who had
been married but few days
UroS the death OF her husband the lady mar
ried his brother, and when friend saw the
portrait of the frst husband in the house, he said
SIS this member Of your family 1t is my
poor brother-in-law," she said.
In Lake Champlain large quantities OF fish are
captured by exploding torpedoes in the water,
stunning the fish so that they rise to the surface
Four hundred fish were thus taken at one blast
recently. Such fishermen ought to be arrested.
PEOPLE have been aocling to California at the
rate Of thousand a day ever since the frst Of
January; but the Golden State has no employ
ment for them, and is surprised by the extraordn-
airy influx, for which there is no apparent cause.
LINCOLN (Nebrasla) man, who transplanted
to his lawn quantity of "blue grass sod from
Kansas, last winter found on recent morning.
that his yard was swarming with grasshoppers,
Matched from eggs that had been concealed In the
dead grass.
THE Sound steamer, State Of New York, was
forced on the rocks off IIallets Point in endeayor-
ing to pass fleet Of mud scows, Friday A hole
was knocked In her side, and she soon after sunk
in thirty feet Of water The passengers were all
landed safely.
CARRUTH, the ylneland New Jersey editor, re-
marks In his yaledctory: 1.-TWO months constant
wrestle with bullet in our brain has convinced
us that we lack the capacity to develop lead
mine and publish an independent Vineland news
paper at the same time"
A REMARKABLE landslip has just occurred ut
Kongshutte, near Kattowtz, Bohemia. The
strata lying between the Krug and Erbreich coal
pit shafts fell in with tremendous crash on the
works beneath To the depth OF five hundred feet
beneath the surface and over an area OF ton acres
Fortunately no lives were lost, rs il was Sunday
and no one was in the mine
The viceroy of Egypt is about to astonish the
world again lie has resolved to build railroad
along the valley Of the Nile to the interior Of
Africa, and as he has plenty of money and thou
sands of seris at his command he WILL no doubt,
accomplish his purpose In q few years African
explorers will be able to travel in sleeping-cars
and to write magnificent descriptions Of places
which they will have passed through In the dark,
JOHN BouRoIER Virginia city miner, hada wife
and children in Canada son who was visiting
him was TO start for home early In the morning
and Bourcier, who had to work all night in a mine
told him to be at the shaft at certain houi
To say goodbye, and to receive a message foI
the wife. At the appointed time the son was
there, aud few minutes later the body OF the
father, manged to death by an explosion, wa
drawn up To the surface