Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24
Weekly News Summary.

u'ih- H""iNNilN uiuuhi ahu lheaded that AZ nm
excuse for not bringing the suit himself
single field In Grimes county, Texas, contain.
thirteen thousand acres all under one fence with.
out cross-fence In Il; ten thousand acres arc in
cultivation. Nearly the entire field belones IN
one man, who rents it ont to tenants at two dol.
lars per acre. Among the decorations Of the
Confederate monument at Mobile, Ala on Me.
mortal Day, was pyramid Of flowers "from tho
officers Of the United States army, stationed a,
Mount Vernon barracks. In respect 10 the fallen
brave The Rev DIR. Furnace, Geo W. Blddle
ESQ Col John W forney, Colonel Thomas Fit.
gerald Henry G. Carey, Esq, and others. nd.
dressed meeting In Philadelphia, Friday e,enin,
Of last week in favor Of opening the Centennial
Exposition on Sundays. Is II becoming In
me9' asked she, as she paraded in the costume
Of one hundred years ago, before the man who ia
not her lord aud master, but is her husband
"le-, my dear, said he meekly. Don't Won
wish could dress this way all the timer" she
asked. no, my dear he answered, "bnt
wish yoa had lived when that was the style"
Some Of the honest farmers Of Western pennsyl.
yania have been discovered In the manufacture
Of wolf and FOX ears from colt hides, on which
they collected large bounties from the local treas
ury .Y A queer procession entered Dayton No
yada the other day live Cinnamon, each carry,
ing big stick Of cord wood on his shoulder
marched up the principal street, and white man
shotgun in hand, brought mp the rear following
the men 10 q calaboose The white man was the
watcher at the Dayton wood piles, and having
caught the Cinnamon stealing the choicest sticks
marched them before the authorities with the evil
dences Of their guilt In their possession Dis
ne stated at the Royal academy banquet, the
other day, that there We're now one hundred and
forty schools Of on in England with nearly thirty
thousand pupils loo. The British Indian govern.
mcnt spent twenty-five million dollars for grain
at the time Of the famine The British govern
mont has pardoncd an the feuinn prisoners
It - now stated that VIM. VI Tweed has been dl.
covered in Australia Mrs Ira Mead, Of Green.
wich, Conn, will bee one hundred and six year.
old should she live until the 9Th OF next August
a It Is thifty-siX year. since Fanny Hssler made
her hrst appearance Ia the nited States at the
Park Theatre New York She .ul lives 10 The
enjoyment of excellent health lea,enworth j.
| the home Of a woman who has been divorced
once. married three times md now cares for
mixed family OF thirteen children, none Of which
are her own Nina Dlckinsons four stage
dresses cost nine thousand dollar. iu cash n she
fails NJ an actress q viii take her about eighty.
seven wears. working ut two dollars per week. a.
pay for the dresses alone ... lady. near white
hall, n - recently ran into q closet 10 escape
neighbor who walked into the house unceremon-
iousy Aner the ucghbor was gone, the lady
found "a her horror that the door IT the closet
was fast. the spring lock having snapped At
evening the husband found her ON the floor VI the
closet, inscusiblc Old Abe" the famous
/ Wisconsin war-oaglc IL going Ia the Centennial
/ exposition. and li. biography. written by chap
lain Barrett Of Slehoygan, will be- sold there. the
| proceeds 90 le devoted to "ouithological science
/ and art North Carolina widow, whose
/ husband WIS 90 confederate soldier and died dur
Ing the war in prison at ~ Mira. y s. has received
/ regularly every year. since the close Of the war
q fity dollar cheek from s j Stewart Why She
has never known. Katie Amber a little girl
| whom Queen Victoria spoke 20 when she visited
the london hospital iow weeks ago, because
she Thought she would get well IL the queen
would only 20 and speak 10 her, has been dis
charged from the Institution perfectly cured Of
her wounds serious burns Chemical analysis
Of she contents of cask Of carei, To recover the
value Of which wine dealer of san Francisco had
sued customer. showed the wine to contain
ether, that the colorng matter wa- myrteberry
juice and that the acid TASTE was produced By
snlphuric acid Jennie Marhsll, Of Napanee
Canada ser,ani-eih, recently started for Eng
land with the young man she had Just married
and when they arrived, he found to his astonish-
mcnt that her erraud was 10 take possession Of an
estate Of one million doars, and that she had fled
from England some time before. TO escape a mar
l.. Al. d
It is scarcely credible, yet Il is recorded fact
that Mrs Sarah Callum, eiehiy-one years Of age,
a resident Of Iowa Fails, the widow Of soldier
Of the war Of 1872, has recently discovered that
she l. entitled 10 a pension. She was married in
1910, and became a mother in 1911 and has lived
all this time in bhssfnl ignorance Of the fact that
the government was paying pensions 10 soldiers
90. One Of the spectators Of the unseiling OF the
Lincoln monument IN Washington the other day
was Louis CLARK. alias George Harris. who saw
the Negro luclo Tom whipped to death hy Tom
| Canaday, Of Garrett county, by. aud Immediately
aferward crossed on the ice and gave the partic.
ulan to Mrs Harriet Becyhef Stowe. upon which
she founded her story of " ncle Toms Cabin.
.... Lord SALISBURY announced at the British
and Foreign Bible Society annual meeting, that
| H. receipts hast year amounted 20 a million dol
lars ... There h ml office in Paris where articles
found are taken To bee restored 10 their owners
| They are duly registered by clerks, one Of whom
was lately heard tp call or " Three umbrellas
one watch, two rings, one pair OF boots, and five
babie-. Tie l.onlon school board has passed
a resolution 20 the effect that attendance Of schol-
ars at lessons ia swimming under a competent
instructor. fornot none than an hour week, may
be counted as school attendance o.. An excellent
quality Of tea is being grown in Jasper county,
Texas During the pat year six thousand
| eight hundred and sixty-h,e horses asses or
mules, We're delivered FOR consumption in Paris
| Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, of cOw-seizure
fame, has just published her translation Of the
Bible from original studies Pennsylvania has
two hundred and thirty Give beer breweries Wis
consin, two hundred and thirty-two; Ohio two
hundred and ten, New York, two hundred and
three California, two hundred and two, Illinois
one hundred and sNty-hve; and Michigan, one
hundred and forty-nine Patient TO doctors after
consultation Tell me the worst, gentlemen
am going to die g' we are divided on that
question, sir but there is a majority of that
you will live "....A young woman OF Cleveland
Ohio. objects to the new silver coins because the
Goddess Of Liberty il dressed just as she was
/ AAN''h f'"AN 49, anu AhAN ~ mummy N-N
fashioned. DR. Newman spoke IN a recent
sermon Of the sad funeral pr. cesson " which fol-
lowed Abel to the grave. An irreverent woman
in the audience nudged her companion and wills
perod 81 Not such large procession, but very
select none but the first families. The Mid
land railway OF England has cost about nifty
million pounds, and brings In - revenue OF 1--WE
million pounds year. Speaking OF a new
club with "home comforts" some one asks,
"Why not have a home with club comforts '..'
| Ex-senator Nyes son-iu-aw writes TO a friend IN
Nevada that old Gray Eagle is happy and IN
the bosom Of his family, but that he will drop
into his grave without reason again visiting him
ga British firm have completed for the Chinese
an iron gunboat, and supplied II with ten-inch
Nayasour gun which has such power that there ID
not an English man-of-war In the service that can
resist damage from It's shot. "A novel suspended
railway car for sick and wounded has been sue
eessfully tried by the Great Eastern railway oil
France. This will prove boon, as hardly any
movement is felt by the patient, even when trains
are stopped with extreme suddenness.. The IN
creasing demand for chignons, curls, wigs, etc,
promises to extend the trade In human hair over
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