Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-01-26
Weekly News Summary.

and Is already conlerring with the lawyers who
arc conducting the Tweed lawsuits D.. Ex-Sena-
tor Henderson, Of Missouri, who at frs, conducted
the suits against the members OF the st. Louis
yhiskey ring, demands It is said, thirty thousand
dollars for his services The youngest noble
man IN England is the Marquis Camden, who Is
four years Of age. Princess Frederick daugh-
ter Of the ex-Kng Of Hanover, is said to be the
most beautiful princess In Europe. She is the de-
voted companion Of her blind father The pub
LEGATION Of Charles Summers works has come 20
.tandstin, the fund left by him for completing the
edition having been expended Several volumes
remain to be edited and printed. MIR John +
Courtney, the noted oarsman Of Union Springs, n
Y, has invented rowing machine by which the
rover Is enabled to 90 through a thorough course
Of training, timing himself and telling the number
Of pounds pulled, with exactness During his
sermon, on Sunday morning DR.. John Hall Of
New York, said 10 his congregation, 81 hate to
have this church called mine hate u see II, In
tho newspapers, called Dr.. Halls church It is
not mine, II il yours and your childrens-or
rather Il Is Chrsts the Lords. The temper
aneo reform movement Is exciting great interest
and enthusiasm In Maine. Large meetings are
everywhere being held, while the liquor law il
being vigorously enforced AZ saco a druggist.
fora single case Of liquor selling was sentenced
To sixty days IN the county jail, and to pay fine
and costs The state grange Of Indiana have
passed resolutions demanding the repeal Of the
special resumption act and that treasury notes
shall be receivable for custom house dues and be
convertible into threc-slxty-hve nteres, bearing
bonds. Augustus schell, chairman Of the ma
tonal democratic executive committee has called
meeting Of that committee Ia Washington, on
February 22d, to name the time and place for
holding the next national democratic convention.
...A Missouri murderer has been sentenced to
uIncty-niue years In tho peniteniiary OIL. The
mild weather, aud the golden reports from the
Black llin. have started up expeditions ihither
with a vengeance 4 party Of forty men left
Omaha, Nebraska, Sunday aud another Of thirty
five have followed since Reports from the up
per Missouri country represent that the Sioux
chief Sitting But" is preparing for tho war
path. and that he threatens destruction 10 the
frontier settlements The commanders at the up
river posts are ready at the first warning to pur-
sue him to bis winter quarters, and either capture
or Kill him aud his entire band, should he make
tho attempt TO carry ont his threats. The
crowds at the Moody aud Sankey meetings, in
Philadelphia, enabled the pickpockets to reap
harvest. The strikes among the Lynn Mass
shoemakers are ended, and tho men are all at
work. having secured from the manufacturers the
terms they demanded. The cash receipts Of the
Palace Hotel San Francisco, one day last week,
amounted b twenty-five thousand eight hundred
and sixty three dollars This is the largest sum
ever received In any one day by any hotel in the
world for legitimate patronage. Three cen
tcnnaraDs died In New Hampshire last year one
Of them was one hundred and five years, one
month aud nineteen days old-Mrs Anna Coss Of
amherst b.. The Virginia State Senate still sticks
20 its determination not to appropriate any thing
fDr the representation Of tho state at the Centen-
Mail bin appophatug only five thousand dol
ar. was defeated by 4 vote Of nineteen TO seven
teen. The English victims Of the Emma mine
sviudle &C meeting in London have resolved
with only seven dissenting voices 10 prosecute the
'ender- and all Others connected with the issuing
Of amy prospectus Of Emma mine stock, or offer
Boz. Il ior sale. Rumor has it that liz John
Porter is TO be appointed superintendent Of the
Now York police, at a salary Of ten thousand dol
lars per annum Jefferson Davis has been de
ieatod Ia salt brought at Ncksburg Miss, for
the recovery u seventy thousand dollars from his
brothers estate There were three concerts In
boston, lat sunday evening Of them pro-
fessedly sacred land large audiences were present
at each Of them. 90. 1t j. run0rcd IN New York
that Mrs Moultou will bring a libel suit against
Henry Ward Beecher, Tor language uttered
against her at last Fridays pnyeI-msetng. ...
Ono hundred and ninety cases Of child murder oc-
CURED In London during the last year, and forty
five persons connected with them have been ap-
pretended. The tonnage employed in the whale
fishery OF the United states is thirty GIT thou
sand eight hundred and eighty-three, and the
number OF vessels one hundred and siSty-nins
against six hundred and sixty ighi vessels with
tonnage OF two hundred and eight thousand
three hundred and thirty in 1854. The
Chinese in this country are already outgrowing
their supersttions The body Of one who died re-
Gently In North Adams Mass was not sent home
ior burial. monster diamond, weighing three
hundred earts, has been found at Old De Beers
Cape Town. An old digger By the name Of Phil
lil= recently found superb stone at De Tots
Pan which weighed one hundred and three carats
DE immediately sold It for three thousand five
hundred and fifty pounds. California. wine
product in 1875 stated at eight millions Of gal
Ions The supply is greater than the demand
Ihe makers have, in convention, decided that
tNo-lhirds Of it might be prodtably made into
....A Clinaman ia California, whose life was in
sufod Tor a large amount, WAS seriously hurt by
falling from a wagon There was some doubt Of
h.. ever getting better, and at length one Of his
friends wrote TO the insurance company: Char
Icy bali dead Ike half money Alexander
IL stephens is better, aud able to it up, but he
doesn't expect 10 get well himself II is be-
coming Customary, now, 10 issue invitations TO
wedding receptions with a card enclosed No
wedding presents received Nalandigham's
grave, at Dayton, Ohio, is unmarked even by
maidstone, though a small cedar grows at its foot
and another at It's head. \ convicted murderer
at Oshkosh, Wis, asked for a new trial, GU the
ground that the jury which found him guilty
acted under the influence Of liquor, but the judge
denied the motion. The body OF ex-confedeate
General J. L. Magruder has been removed from
Houston, Texas, to Galveston At the next cleo
lion in Texas, boxes will be placed at the polls,
for the convenience Of those who desire to con-
luhnte money for a memorial. Tie Dominion
Board OF Trade at it, session. last week, discussed
among other matters, the Caughnawaga canal
project and a resolution was adopted that the
canal be constructed on the same scale as the st.
lawrence canal provided assurance is given that
the Whitehall canal will be enlarged TO the same
size, aud Canada vessels allowed To navigate the
American canals to New York ON the same terms
as vessels OF the United States The sale OF ar
ueles from the dead letter office has been in
progress for the past few days, There has been
considerable number In attendance each day. The
articles are about nine thousand in number, and
as each article has to be sold separately the sale
will occupy considerable time. The list COM
prses almost every article that is capable of be-
Ing sent by mail, aud it covers sixty pages
EloPEMESr ENTRAoRDISARY.-Ihe social circle
Of Montreal has been shaken rs never before by
an clopement in high life The parties to the
affair are Mr.. I. II Bridges twenty three years
DID, son Of MIR, c. J, Bridges, formerly managing
director Of the Grand Trunk Railway, Of Canada,
aud now Commissioner OF Government Railways,
and AIr. Nina Mckenzie, aged twenty -four wife
OF Hugh Mckenzie, NJ. r., OF Montreal, large
slp-owner, and connected by her marriage with
several noble Scotch families Mrs Mckenzie is
Tie niece Of Sir Hugh Allan, of Montreal. The
eopemeut, it is understood, was the result of a
passion that appears mutual between Bridges and
the euing wife. Bridges, who is a civil engineer
Wy profession is a stalwart, handsome young fell
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