Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-23

lHh ihlAdelphh HeW says the Centennial VIII
close three million dollars in debt Rev Henry
Ward Beecher will spend a week in Canada lee
turing commencing at Montreal September 2ist
ga woman jumped of London Bridge to COM
nit suicide, and landed safely on the deck Of
passing steamboat The family tree Of a Texas
family shows a branch on which several members
have been hanged for horse stealing o.. The
tobacco crop in the Connecticut valley Is Of fine
quality and heavy growth and is being rapidly
harvested. It is affirmed that there is hardly
city In the South which is not Increasing In popu-
lation aud wealth, Notwithstanding the hard
times The Lewiston tMe) journal says that
carefully prepared reports Of the situation of cot
ton mills show that about one million one hundred
thousand spndles have been stopped for various
causes In New England Tho Emperor Of China
has forbidden the emigration OF his subjects 20
Spanish colonies, because the coolies in Cuba arc
treated no better than slaves. OF the eighty
deaths from violence registered in London the
first week in August, twenty-five we're cases Of
drowning, and eight were referred 10 snnstroke
600. Connecticut produced seven hundred and six
new inventions last year, or one ~ seven hundred
and -iXty-iour inhabitants. Massachusetts, stood
next In the number Of patents. Arkansas is at
the iootof the list Ex-Governor Sprague Is work.
ing bard in hts Providence mills to redeem bis for
tunes and pay the firm debts due next February
/ Whom the dams were overfowed, recently, be
went 10 work among his lab0rers and ~ one OF
them Colorado potato bugs have been washed
ashore mt Milestone and other places in Connect
cut in such numbers Of late as b poison she air
The captain Of New London vessel SAYS that
they came ON board in such swarns while at sea
that they had 10 close the matches The first
bale OF new Alabama cotton was received in
Montgomery on Saturday last Iowa iuries
hold, very sensiby, that in case a marriage en-
gagement Is broken, the parties must return all
presents or their worth in money Mr. Moody,
the evangelist, has just moved into o new house,
I which he has completed at a cost Ok ten thousand
dollars, at the place where he was born, in North
field Mass Sojourner Truth Is not dead. az
reported but is alive and well at Battle Creek,
Michigan a marriage bell composed u wheat
heads ready for the harvest is the proper thing,
10 hons, Tor a golden wedding Blondu does
not like the idea Of being outdono by a woman,
and so will soon 60 10 Niagara Fails and endcayor
to surpass the ieats Of spelterini upon ,ho tight
rope Miss Catherine Beecher. the only menu
Der q the Beecher family who has never been
married, WAS betrothed in youth 10 Professor
Porter who persisted in the wreck OF the Albion
She has ever since remained constant 10 his mem
Dry. Mrs. Abraham lincoln Is now staying
among the mountains Of Colorado Henry A.
Wise is very IN at Richmond Women clerks
have proved 80 efficient in the freight offices OF
the London and Northwestern railroad at Biz
mingham that the directors have decided % in
troduce them in other large centres Of traffic "a
they do the work quite as well better, and re-
ceye much less pay. Gras-hoppers are again
reported b. be devastating the western borders Of
Minnesota These pests have also begun to de.
stroy vegetation in Western Iowa. Hundreds Of
settlers have lost all their crops "A Womans
National University has been established IN Wash
ington " to afford 10 women thorough kBowl-
edge Of science, divinity, medicine and law, both
in theory and in practice. ... The assessment Of
the city Of Boston Tor 1876 IL more than fory-fyc
millions Of dollars less than il last year. The
decrease in the valuation Of real estate alone j.
nearly thirty three millions Chicago Young men
have organized a club, with a one hundred and
thirty thousand dollar club house The entrance
fee r. two dollars. and yearly dues sixty dollars
The membership now two hundred and sixteen,
is limited u three hundred aud iity Tie
times are hard and Secretaries Whpple and
Strictly, ~ the American Missionary Association
have cut down their salaries from three thousand
five hundred dollars 70 three thousand dollar
- Mr Beechers attorney has secured twenty
days delay before putting ia answer in the suit Of
Mr Noulton for malicious prosecution Japan
wishes the next worlds fair 90 be held 10 Toxic.
3 in 1855 Contracts for buildings OF the kind re-
quirod have already been given out. Mrs W.
g H. r. Iced dalghtern-aw of the late General
0 Il T. Lee, is the haudsomest lady Ia Virginia
, General William + Lee. eldest son Of Robert f.
, lee, turned his sword into ploughshare after
the war and Is a substantial farmer in Fairfax
county. -.,. \ London law compels organ-grindor-
10 cease playing whenever told 10 do so by a resi-
: dent Of the disturbed neighborhood To guard
1 against fire in Westminster Abbey there is an
3, order forbddng the Use any lights but lanterns
and Of any matches except those which strike on
the box only The priest at the Roman Catho
lie church at Cambrdgeport, Mass, forbade Tho
2 use Of fans during his services His congrega.
+ ton dsobeyed the order, aud two men wer,
" elected A lawsuit is the result
> An Iowa editor, rising with the centen
NAL tide, exclaims: There may be the
child born, now living in Iowa, who will live
to see a population OF twenty millions within
y our borders" There is too much buncOmb,