Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-19
Weekly News Summary,


LIGHTNING struck some oil tanks at Bear c,o.t.
Station, Penn, on the 18th instant and do,,,..,
over one hundred thousand dollars ,vo,,i, :, ,,
5000 Moodys farewell meeting at the Unnodro,.,
will be held tomorrow April 20th M o..
vessel Of the season went down the st. Iayrenaa
last Week The river has been clear Of led -.
several days, and navigation seward is omen
Icary, tho Chicago pedestrian. has co,,,i.,.,
the feat Of walking five hundred miles in ono N.Y.
dred and thrty-nine hours and thirtv.,,,o ,,',.
utos.,..A Boston letter says ct has hooa,,.
known that since his arrest, some myster,o,,, ~.
son has been taking up winsow's papor ="
society mas been formed in London to promote tho
colonization and improvement Of the IIolv Lana
More than a thousand Germans have already omi.
grated, and formed six settlements ono ~ ,i,i.,.
Is at Jerusalem The volcanoes in the Sand.
witch Islands are reported In a state Of ernntio,'
90. Mrs Harriet Beocher Stowe made ono No.,
sand three hundred dollars from her ORANGE yro,o
in Florida, last year. Six hundred hard d,nl.
ers Of keene n. H., have signed the pledge nrd
the club numbers over thirteen hundred I,
may interest the ladies 10 learn that the wailir,
skirt is Of the usual shape, trimmed with A snglc
wide founce, or with two narrower ones ma
snow In the Crawford Notch Is ten feet above tbo
level Of the roof Of the railroad cars Thoro
were eight hundred and forty-two thousand ana
soyenty-eight quntas Of fish landed at Ione
wharf Portsmouth, In the three months endin,
April ist....No United States senator was evor
yet chosen President but this is centennial wear
and novelties are in order The Pal lf1H Gu
zenes Dublin special says it Is pretty certain that
the emigration from Ireland for 1870 will be the
smallest since 1851 It was only iny-ono thon.
sand four hundred and sixty-two last year
Secretary Brstow announces that he will not leave
the cabinet ....A. T. Stewards real estate in New,
York city is valued by the assessors at six mil.
lions, and is doubtless worth ten. The prc.i.
dent has signed the joint resolution making the
anniversary Of lincoln's death, on the 1lth Of
/ April lcgnl holiday in the Distric, Of Columbia
The Congressional committee on printing have
received responsible bids for the public printingat
| iour hundred thousand dollars year loss than
| the present cost Of the government printing office
....O Out Of seven hundred and nineteen babies re-
ceiyod at the Gray-nun hospital at Montreal. last
/ year only lightweight survived Gen Diaz
and the rcyoluuoni-ts are now in full possession
Of Northern Mexico and are now heading for
Monterey Sir Edward Thornton. the British
minister at Washington, has been appointed ly
the British government commissioner 10 reprosent
his government at the Centennial Cant John
Oliver an English sailor who served under Nelson
at Trafalgar, died at Liverpool recently at the
age Of one hundred and two years General
sabert Oglcsby, who commanded division Of
General jacksons army at the battle Of New or.
leans, Is still living In Texas, over one hundred
yoars old Mn. d d Merrill. Of Anamos, Ia
has been appointed 60. and accented. the uo.itiop
Of CHAPLAIN and teacher al the Anamosa nenlier.
tiary- the first instance Of the kind ON ,e,ord
Tho philadelphia council sonslbiy rejects "a
propo,ition Il, re,oir the old lndcnepdence hell 80,
that il miubf I've ring on the Fourtb of Ipl, con.
cludiuo that .he holl ,,opid bo r,ore irter,.,i,,
In tbc ra,,,io 81, i,s ,roe,,, i,i,.,ri. o,r5i,i,r
prc.ttcrt p..5. "a ,i., ,,,.,,ifi. 90 po.,, B.. ,t.
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nh. fam, ana ,,h,.o ,or,, to ,,,s t.,Ii,l ls.
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decision Of mo s,mmi..oror. hin have ,bc eGeel
- ,i,..,,., am a.. .,i...,- So. m. IN
Creole, mansion In nm. ~. a., ,l,o,,,.,,,, \
\ vbicl, ,,,s n,,,,..r,,,,l .,,.a ,,,.s,i.t,, an,
was beins, remained and ,.Gttcd f,r cl,,,i Sn,i,,
and vifc va to,oli, dc.,,,,o,, ~, A., a., 81
day cyeri,o r s,o,.,,, ,,,t,,.inoi =, N.
lat the da1y b,lt ~ roodin, AT ieo., an, linz.
Of Creek beside. h,bituai attention % cerma,
and Frc,ch Ii,or,t,r. I-,,,a,l. ~ 800,
, thousand collicrs am IN, , s,rii,e In So,b Vol
shire ENGLAND against n 6fteon ror cent r.du,
ton Of WAGES The nincr., ,,nion agrcol IN n 70
! dnction Of ton nor cont INIT tl,e master insist
e upon fifteen The trunk line railroads TO Ia
West have fallen ont again. and a general war O
e passenger and freight rates has begun Passen
ger tickets from Chicago TO New York are ru
b down two dollars 10 begin with Mr. Stewar
inherited his business talent from his mother VIII
, followed him % New York. opened a furtitur
store. and carried ON the business for many year
with marked success sixty years ago. the Sar
/ anao river. which flows out of the North wood
into Lake CHAMPAIGN. was nayigable for sloop. 10
, some distance. Now lisa small stream. hardi,
navigable for r1w-boat.. cxcept during the sprin.
ireshets A Washington letter SAYS. b" NJ,
daughter lives in little cottage on the estate
I Mr. SartoHs, said Mrs Grant, and goes over q
the large house for her meal. So she has an a.,
: pleasures and none Of the cares II housekeeping
900 The inst completed census Of Philadelphia,
gives the population Of that city as eight hundrc,
and seventeen thousand four hundred and forty
eight ...A Liverpool firm recently divided tw,
hundred thousand dollars among their employee
who had been with them five years and more
The corn crop Of Kansas last year was eghty-on,
before Tine wheat IRON was .ixteen million hush
els, seven million more than in ls1i. The las
fish story comes from ancient Nantucket where