Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-01-19
Weekly News Summary.


ty-one years old one vote, each man Of forty.tw,
years two votes, and each man sixty-tlree year
old three yotes.....h fellow iu Dbirisvine. Cali
forna, had a mother who dsliked the girl whom
he had engaged to marry. Said the mother, " n
give you the brndle steers and the mule II vol
don't marry her" lilo took the brntes in prefer
ence to tho girl "A San Francisco saloon keeper
grateful for business prosperity, gave to each nat
ron a bottle Of whlskoy. LOWS Losoo finished hi,
bottle went home drunk, mud whipped his wifi,
to death, inhicting nearly two hundred great and
small wounds. The Judge at a court in Maine
recently sentenced culrtlt to twenty-five yean
in the state prison This fact was communicated
to the prisoners mother, who was struck at In,
magnitude Of the sentence "What did they dc
that for?' she exclaimed. Twenty-Five years
Why, he won't be contented there three weeks -
600 Prairie du Chen has an aresian well seven
hundred and seventeen feet deep which throws I'M
thirty thousand barrels Of water day. When
the Gulkwar Of Baroda, India, received the Prince
Of Wales, he had on his person Jewels valued
at s2O0OO sterling Emma Hosington. Of
Springfield, Mass, has received Bible forhayinr
attended Sunday-sehool for nine years without
one miss. Sir Daniel Gooch manager Of the
Great Western Railway, hopes to be able to run
trains at the rate Of seventy miles nm hour soon
1t is expected that the revenue Of France this
year will eSceed one hundred million pounds ster-
ling, and nearly four million pounds IN excess Of
the estimates. Il il asserted that Prof David
Swing has been offered the edltorship of the
Independent, and that he expressed his prefer
ence for his new church o.. Walter Folger. at the
age Of ninety, climbs into the tower OF the town
clock at Nantucket with apparent ease, and reeu-
lates the machinery as perfectly a. in his younger
days. o.. Many O man who would roll up his eve.
In terrorat the idea Of stealing nickel will swoop
down on silk umbrella worth ten dollars. and
march on With his lips moving peacefully as II in
pnycr....A scientific college, built at a cost Of
five hundred thousand dollar. with an epdow-
ment Of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
has been given 10 the city Of Birmingham. Eng
land, by oirJosiah Mason. These represent some
Of the profits Of The steel pen manuiactory.....
Atlanta, Ga, affords an example worthy Of imita-
ton to other cities, both North and South. Dur.
ing the past year the city debt has been reduced
over dity thousand dollars and all bills paid upon
presentation II is impossible 10 Increase the
floating Debt ~ the charter makes the city
fathers personally liable for any balance against
the city on expense account at the end OF the
Sear.....A medium was very badly treated In
Houston, Texas, recently. He wanted 10 have
his hands tied whoreupon the county taller
stepped on the platform and proposed to slip
pair OF handouts on his wrists The professor de-
clined the bracelets. and the audience voted to
ride him ON rail Finally they agreed to let
him 60 If he would return the money The re-
ceipts one hundred and forty-six dollars were
dissorged, and a motion wa. carried unanimously
10 give The amount 10 an orphan asylum The
Ohio Senate has declared unanimously against
any division Of the school fund in the interest Of
any particular religious sect o.. The tariff Of
frst-class freight from Boston to Chicago has been
advanced by all the lines from thirty 10 seventy
five cents per hundred, the Grand Trunk being
party ~ the new consolidation The Alissis-
sippi lower House has PASSED a resolution expung
ing from The record a resolution endorsing Gen
Sheridan. The society FOR tie suppression Of
vice. which was organized, about four years ago.
10 suppress tie circulation Of immoral publica-
tons, has done good work No less than TWEEN.
ty-ono tons Of material employed ia iilcgimate
business Of the character referred to have been
destroyed one hundred and sixty different works
OF mereuicious kind have been suppressed
five thousand negatives for prohibited photo
graphs and five hundred steel plates used for
nearly three hundred persons dealing in these
articles have been punished. o.. The general pas
sengcr agents Of four trunk lines and the principal
Western railways, ct conference in Philad elphia,
relative TO railway rates of fare during the Cen
teunial Exhibition, decided 10 discontinue at once
and permanently all arrangements with the So
called Tourist Agencies Senator oglesty,
OF Illinois, had his infant son baptized, the other
#r., . ID .f. A..
river Jordan, twenty years ago. The saddest
story yet OF the rayagos Of diphtheria comes from
Newark, y. j., where one family by the name Of
Bauer has lost eight children by the disease, and
the neither X now sici, Blltimore's oldest is
Mrs Elizabeth Reuter-, who was born in Luxem-
burg, Europe, and was one hundred and nine on
Christmas morning, but is still able 70 get about
and supcrintend the Homework Camilla Urso
has violin more than two hundred years old,
valued at two thousand eight hundred dollars
and another, made about 1870, worth one thou
sand eight hundred dollars She uses both at her
concerts changing with the style Of music she is
20 play. The British royal arsenal at Woolwicb
has been amusing itself with experiments with
fying-machine Two were built in accordance
with the plans Of a Jealous inventor, and one at
aiueda hight Of three hundred feet being held
with a rope kteWise But hy the darnod
thing wouldn Re-. Orange culture IN Georgia
las been tried with success aud the fruit is said
to rival that Of florida 1t is estimated that
about twelve thousand dollars worth Of dried fish
are monthly sent from san Francisco 10 China by
the Chinese ga bin has been introduced into
the legislature Of Mississippi TO make education
compulsory Throughout, the state san Fran
cisco owns nine hundred aud ninety-iiye vessels,
with tonnage of one hundred and seventy-two
thousand two hundred and ninoty-eght tons Of
which number eight hundred and four, Of eighty
six thousand seven hundred and thirteen tons,
were built ON the Pacific coast.....A father in
Bradford county, Pa, ninety years OF age,
" boxed - his sons ears severely for abusing his
wife, The boy is abou, sixty years Of age.
Street cars Of a heavy, unwcldy kind are run in
Constantinople, Zach car Is preceded by hall
naked Turk, who shouts or blows horn to warn
people to get out OF the way. man in Ottawa,
Canada having horse that he found useless,
drove it into the bush ON n cold night, chopped
the hoots OF the poor animal in order 10 get the
Shoes and then left il to its fate The London
Court Circular says that a funeral card recently
sent out to friends the occasion Of the death of
an individual near Oxford, bore the following in
scripton The Lord hath need OF him. "... In
the state OF New York there are expended an
nually moro than one hundred and six million
dollars by consumers Of liquor, two-thirds of
all wages paid to lAborers nagriouture aud manu-
faetnre, and twice as much as the receipts Of all
the railroads Of the state 1t is charged that the
meanest man In Indiana is Dr. Peters, of Decatur.
He spent considerable money at church fair buy
ins votes for handsome cane to be given TO the
most popular doctor, and, falling to win the
prize has sued the church for his money!.
Among the three amendments to the state con-
stitution adopted by the Minnesota legislature is
one authorizing the legislature to confer upon
women the right to vote at elections for school
officers, aud to declare them eligible to hold pub
lie school Offices. Bears are very plenty in the
Adirondack region, this winter, and four APP
Peared In broad daylight at North Creek, the
other day. On Sunday three weeks ago, large
black bear entered the church at that place just
after the minister had commenced his sermon,
and walked leisurely up the passage-way until he
reached nearly the middle OF the church. The
women jumped upon the top Of the seats and
screamed at the hight OF their voices all was con
fused, and the services came to a standstill,
Bruin raised himself upon his launches and
calmly surveyed the scene, and seemingly salts
fled with scrutiny, deliberately walked out. lie