Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-10-25
News Items.

.be TO dispute the fact Of real business revival
II appears everywhere and i'm nea,i,. sit t,
Of trade ''"''"'S
MRs JAYr NJ wuEiR President Polk. si.,.,
VINO died ut Columbia Tenn n few DAYS agn
children 7''H"
TIM value of the natural ana manufactured
products Qi Rhode Island for the year 1879 was
over iive hundred dollars for each man. woman
ana child in the state.
\ NoNrt proposal has Just been made 10 the
freted Of the Seine hv two enpineers. who mo
pose To surround oll public buildings with asphalt.
a. preseratise from fire
fIrnlNr i'm the Manchester lEnelandl mfr.
mary lhtoly gave twenty-five ounces of his blood
70 revive poor factory operative vino was sink
ing, exhausted lrom hemofhage
lnE Indians at Standing Rock signed the treaty
Ieliuqnl-fnng the Black Hills last Wednesday
ihr treaty was 20 Tar modified ~ not 10 insist on
their removal 10 the Indian territory
TrT first conviction in Virginia under the civil
rights bil has just been secured ut stanton.
where "a depoi-uaster has received sentence OF
four months imprisonment for eiecting colured
woman from the womou's waiting-room
Mas. luHn A.. HtNAfoRD, Universalist minis
ter Jersey ity, recently performed the marriage
ceremony ~ her daughters wedding This Il
perhaps, the first instance In the world In which
a lady has been married by her own mother
LN'nrs pawnbroker shop on Notre Dame
street. Montreal WAS entered by burglars sun
Of twenty thousand dollars were stolen No clue
has been obtained A. 10 the robbers or the booty
QUEEN VICTORIA lately sent three pounds to "A
/ little boy who had been run over in the streets
and "a writer SAYS that since this incident was
made public, the London cas-dryers have found
% impossible to get through the city for the crowd
I Of small boys waiting 10 be run over
Iuirf-runfr million human beings die annu-
ally, ninety thousand four hundred and ten Der
day, three thousand seven hundred and sixty
Y NDN at4
each second, and yet people. rs rule, act a.
though they were TO live here always.
~ Australian has taught canary bird tn sing
Home Sweet Home, by suspending it before
q looking glass near @ music box which performed
that melody Surprising the bird in the glass
/ was making the music the bird finally caught the
/ notes, and now MARBLES the whole tune
As agent representing several companies Of
/ English capitalists has written 10 the tennessee
l Bureau ~ Agriculture Statistics and Mines ask
ing whether or not there are three hundred thou
sand acres Of coal lands IN the state for sale and
/ u 20 To inform him at once, Shat his principals
can purchase.
Arun reading Governor Chamberlin'- proca-
nation b. rifle clubs, demanding the surrender Of
their arms the club at Rock Hill ; c procured
a box. placed in it an old horse-pstol a fiint-lock
rifle and army musket and shipped IL to the
Governor marked &C. q. D. The oxpre-sage
was eighteen dollar
san FRANCISCO sharper has been nlchinp
money FROM needy clerks by advertising situa-
tnn az eighty dollars per month, and directing
the applicant 10 "enclore a stamp" lie received
one hundred and fifty stamps in one day, and
how MANY on other days nobody knows He il
SET down rs the meaDe.t man N that CITY
SWITZERLAND is joining in the outcry At the
slackness Of trade and SAYS IT, peculiarly na-
tional industries are being stolen from H. Geneva
has no longer monopoly Of matchmaking as
this trade is being developed at Besancon: milk
condensng is being largely carried on in Eng
land, aod cheeses are made in and exported from
America.
GARBALDi says England has taken again
10 her path In the emancipation Of slaves, and
may God bless herr Mr. Spurgeon writes "If
! could speak thunderboli- aud glance ghtnings.
would exercise my fullest powers Of oratnry
against the monsters who have made Bulgaria
nandempnium, which IL somewhat energetic for
q clergyman
TIM German society for the Introduction Of ere
nation has paid fifteen thousand marks to the
town Of Gotta, for the erection Of a cremation
furnace. Strict police regulations have been pub
llshed for the examination Of bodies of cred for
burning, and no corpse is 10 he cremated unless
the deceased has expressed a wish to that effect
and bic relatives have declared their concurrence
The Parisans are going to get ahead Of us in
one thing IN their exposition Of 1873 They are 10
have the biggest balloon ever made. with which
io elevate people TO view the landscape Il l. u
he one hundred feet high, and will hold seven
hundred and ten thousand cubic feet Of gas II
will be secured by a three-inch cable one thou.
sand seven hundred and thirty feet long. and will
carry up forty or fifty persons at time
TIE richest woman in England in point Of real
estate is the Hon. Mrs Msyncll Ingram, who l.
returned at over forty thousand pounds year She
owns two grand country seats each with "A deer
park This lady Is the daughter Of Niscuunt Hall
fax, and childless widow Of Mr. Meynell Ingram
who left TO her his vast property, absolutely
Lady Burdett Coutts has an Income twice a. large
but very little land, being essentially n Londoner
and having always identified herself with the
great metropolis whence she derives her wealth
one person in three million seven hundred
eighty-three thousand six hundred was killed and
one in two hundred and eighty thousand injured
among the passengers on railway trains In Great
Britain during the year 1873 The total number
Of passenger journeys five hundred and
seven million. The number Of persons killed lin
Guiding railroad employees was one thousand
two hundred and ninety, and the number Of in
Jured xix thousand seven hundred and twenty-five
Two-uRns Of the willow for the manufacture
of willow ware in this country is imported from
Europe, at cost of five million dollars. The cu-
uyatiOn Of the willow il contemplated by some
Americans, they thinking that by cnltiyating SUI
perior grades OF the basket willow, they can
make a profit per acre of one hundred and fifty
dollars. 4 manufacturer asserts that full five
thousand articles are constructed from willow
shoots-chairs sofas and baskets being the most
common
TnE effects Of tobacco smoking. as described by
the Scientific american, are disooorng OF the
teeth by carbon excitement OF the saliyary glands
by the ammonia, headache and lassitude from the
carbOnic acid, disease of the heart from the car
bonc oxide nausea from the bitter extract, and
tainting Of the breath by the volatile empyreu-
matte substance The system may become used
TO these things, but is made liable 10 consumption.
nervous exhaustion, paralysis and other ailments.
10 sum up the evils Effects ON individuals
likewise affect communities, these in turn, inhu-
ence the nation. No person that smokes can
be in perfect health, aud an imperfect organism
-. Il T.
logical 10 conclude that, were smoking the prac-
tice OF every individual of nation, then that peo-
pie would degenerate into physically inferior
race"
THE exposure OF several spiritual performers
while peisonatng materialized forms does not
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