Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-03
Weekly News Summary.

honor Oh inc ladies' Who voted BID. Two yong
ladies In debt-burdened church Of Chicago az
walking to school and back daily Tor a wear co,,
tibuting the money thereby saved to tho s,,i,
guishmont Of the debt The take of bnr,I.
robes in Montana this season will be tho ia,oo.,
for several years, and some dealers will shin e,,,
to ten thousand robes each The Russian Gov.
eminent has In contemplation q railroad thrnnoh
Central Asia over two thousand miles in lone,b
the estimated cost Of which Is two hundred
million dollars Belle Plain, Iowa. claims ,,,o
smallest woman in the world Maggie MINI,
She is eighteen years old, tweniy-sx incbe, bigh
and weighs thirty pounds Tom Thumb, \.
six inches taller. The latest addition Ia the
ronclad navy Of England the double-iurret shin
lnnexible, Is the most tremendous instrument ~
offensive or defensive warfare yet created
The Portland Press thinks at least five Thousand
drinking men have signed the pledge in Maine
during the past six months. Are there any drinl.
ers left in Worcester county, Some two hundred
signed the pledge at a recent Temperance meeting
Mt Ashburnham, Mass II Is actually olaimed
that the sale Of liquor at Manchester, ~ H., has
been entirely suspended, temporarily Mt least in
consequence Of the temperance movement
Fifteen pilgrims were drowned ON the Goth nit
while crossing the river Vienne, near Parsac
France. Mrs. Bcknap Is losing health. flesh
and beauty. Their carriage has been sold, and
she cannot walk out without attracting observation
and annoyancce b.. Judge Fullerton Of counsel
for Francis ID. Moulton In his suit against IIenr,
Ward Beecher. has decided 10 appeal from Judge
Dytman'- decision sustaining the demurrer oftbe
defendant. o.. The city National Bank Of Chicago
suspended Monday Of las. week, with eight hun
bred thousand dollars liabilities, and assets Of
about one hundred thousand dollars . The esti.
mated income Of the paruchial clergy u England
and Wales Is twenty three million dollars
shipment NJ twenty-five boxes Of Chinamen'.
bones was recently made at San Francisco for
China. .. Tie sheriff Of perqumans county. n
c., weighs four hundred and ten pounds When
a prisoner is refractory he sits down on him.
Glasses have been formed In Boston Tor the stud,
Of events "a hundred years ago The member.
mean 10 understand VIVA; things are being cele.
bra,ed. Mar.bal MaeAiahon has consented to
pardon those Communists condemned Tor their
political course who have exhibited good behavior
in the penal colonies. Warming MP 10 his sub.
icct and dcsirou- Of giving near as possible a
/ practical illustration Of hi- idea an English re-
y,alist slid down the lalusters Of bis pulpit to
show how easy 10 was tn backslide ....A eat at
a Detroit iro rescued her kittens by bayely enter.
ing The burning binding and dragging them out
and her reward is adoption By a wealthy old
woman. who will feed her on daniies during the
rest of her life 4 woman near Bolton, Eng.
land sold SOME impure mix fcom her farm. and
the result was q violent outbreak Of typhoid and
milk poisoning from which twenty people died
the woman who owned the farm among the mum.
Der The Protestant husband Of a Roman
! a.. Nl 4 d. A. ~ a.
Catholic cemetery, at Port schuyler y y There
was no Guibord rioiing The widow quietly
Withdrew from membership 10 her church. and re-
moved the bodies Of several relatives from the
cemetery The bin Of the Massachusetts lesis
lature to iesalizc Mr. rarons marriage with hi,
.tep-laugl;or has been defeated by the Gov
ernor, veto. ihe Empress Of Germany will ar
rive in England this week on visit 10 Queen
Victoria. Cincinnati is enjoying a series Of
walking matches by women. Only thirteen
million feet VI lumber have been cut ON fhe An
droscoggin this year. against taicc the amount
last yoar....A number Of Cinnamon have LEASED
twenty thousand acre. OF land Ia solano county
CAL aud will employ coohcs 10 work IT, Eng
l,h capitalists are said 10 have lost about Eve
hundred millions of dollars In twelve months in
Turkish, Egypt aud Peruvian securities.
Madame Gullandt French lady residing at
Rome, has presented portrait Of Washington,
wrought in mosaic. Ia the cts Of Philadelphia
... They think a good deal of their pigeons in
Cambridge. Mass A boy has just been sentenced
n eight years in a Beiomaiory for stealing four
Two year per pigeon A woman Of White
haven, Pa, while under mistaken idea Of the
privileges OF leap year beat her husbands head
in with poker She was fined ten dollars and
doesn't regard leap year as worth a cent The
London LdHrei deplores the spread Of morphia
disease in England and Germany. The disease
resulting from the Of opium bafle medical
skill The subscriptions 10 the fund for monu-
ment to Robert J.. lee amount 10 seven thousand
two hundred and forty mine dollars Judge
Davis is having l756 white oak trees set out
around his residence at Bloomington, lli, all on
account Of the Centennial. Old Uncle Ben
Greer, Marshal county Ky darkey who claims
TO be one hundred and thirteen years old and
has some documents TO hack It up, was recent,
married u young woman Of dfty-se,en.....
dith avenue New York. lady, ON visit b.
Europe, has left two poodles in charge Of a dog
doctress, for the keeping Of which she is to "a,
two hundred dollars yearly, and provide carriage
once month in which the pet. are 10 be aired
90. Washingtons false teeth are 90 he exhibited
At the Centennial in company and contrast with
the fines, dental work Of New York. Joseph 6
Deland a prominent resident Of Ann AIbor, Mich
has just died from the effects Of the bite Of mt
his hand and arm having swollen 10 an enormous
size Al the B.ack-hers have had their heads
shaved to give the redskins a. little s'alp ad,an-
tage As possible John Murray, Of Baltimore,
came Ia hi. death while cutting his toe-nails, the
other night his knife slipped and entered the
inner side Of hi thigh. severing the iemorl
artery, aud he BLEED Ia death