Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-10-11
Items Of Interest.

IMPRISONMENT with hard labor for a month
is what a drover in England had to undergo
for striking a cat in the road, and he was
not allowed the option Of a fine either
Tue peasants in the neighborhood of
Batak are said to be starving. The Turkish
government demands the payment Of tthes
on the harvest and forbids any threshiug
until the tthes are paid
ON the goth ult at Johnannisberg tun
Of wine Of the vintage Of 1861 was sold to
the cx-Sultan Of Turkey for ifty-six thou
sand ilorins, which is at the rate of eighty
francs (say fifteen dollars a bottle.
II is asserted that Russia has ordered
her railways leading to Turkey and Rouma-
MIA to place sixteen trains daily at her dis
posa, and request TO the same effect has
been made TO the Roumanan railways.
The latest sensation in Paris is a veloci-
pede wedding, some twenty couples going TO
one on double yelocipedes. They went to
the Bots de Boulogne headed by mounted
fiddler, and, after enjoying themselves filed
away to restaurant and wheeled home at
night, the leader replacing his fiddle by
lamp
President ORroN says Chicago is the
second telegraphic city in the Union and
does as much business in that line as Phila-
delphia and Boston put together. lie or
serves that it is rapidly attracting TO itself
the largest houses ia the country, and pre-
diets that it will soon become the second
American city.
LORD JonN RussrGi has written Eml
Derby letter, advising the recall of Sir
Henry Elliott, the British ambassador at
Consiantinople, with the understanding that
England will resume diplomatic relations a>
Turkey has meted out condign punishment
to all who have been guilty Of atrocities ir
Bulgaria and Seryia.
\ GENTLEMAN who returned from New
York Wednesday of last week, met there one
of the largest dry goods dealers in the CITY
Who told him that in his judgment the div
goods houses Of that city had sold more goods
in the last month than they ever sold before
in one month, and at reasonable paying
prices The outlook for the future he con-
,idered very hopeful
4 YouNG Quaker has been sentenced in
two months imprisonment at Marseilles. fui
refusing 10 JOIN the army of reserve. IL
declared that it was opposed to his religions
principles 10 tear arms, and replied 10 thu
President Of the Court Martial, who asked
whether he would not seize a weapon If his
father was threatened with murder, that be-
would not even then offer violence, but all
low " Gods will to be done"
rnE antagonistic feeling between Roman
Catholics and protestants is nowhere more
intense than in Montreal. Even the small
poX hospital has separate dead houses. \
trained dog is generally locked in each at
night to defend the bodies against rats and
recently the Protestant friends Of dead pa
tient- the dog belonging to the Protestant
dead-house being absent, refused to allow
the Catholic dog TO guard the body.
Ar London inquest on the death of
cab driver. who had fallen through trap
door ia his stable, the remarkable inteli.
pelce Of a horse was described The beast
was heard paving and neighing, and man
offered 10 water and oats but it continued
it, strange actions, endeayoring to attract
attention To the door. The man compre-
heuded ct last, and discovered the body.
Tim Pennsylvania road moved half a mil
lion pa. seugers in the last half of Septein-
Der, between New York and Philadelphia.
and ii j, an undoubted fact that for some
days it was impossible TO handle freight be-
tween the same points. The passage of one
hundred and fifteen passenger trains a day
many ct them in several sections, only left
room for the transportation Of the cattle and
great food products which were consumed
iu such au exigency OF multitude.
TIM Rev j. b. NJ Genin, a CathoR.
priest who has for ten years been mission.
AIRY with the Sioux, writes to the Boston
Paoi about Sitting Bull, whom he represent,
as "a quiet sober, kind man, but courageous
and always ready to sacrifice his life for the
sake of his tribe and family" Father Genm
defes any body to prove that Sitting Bull
D. I & a 80 1.
declares that the killing of Custer was not
a massacre, but an incident of honorable
warfare.
Mns. HIRAM PoWERs, widow of the sculp-
tor, is visiting at the home Of her brother-in-
law, Mr.. Drury at Avondale, Ohio. She
has told a reporter 81 the Cincinnati EnguiJ,r
that she intends to go back to Italy in No
yember, as her children were born there,
her property is there, the recollections OF
her husband are clustered there, and that is
her home. She prefers Italy TO America
because there is less there TO vex one in
business point Of view. She has six chill
dren living none of whom has ever visited
this country.
TnE result OF the explosion at Hallett's
Reef has been even greater than the most
sanguine anticipated. This rocky, ragged
point, projecting outward into the channel
through which the tides ran with the veloc-
ity Of a race-cOurse, produced currents that
sucked passing vessels to its deadly arms
So thoroughly was it mined and so COM
pletely has it been shattered, that even now,
before the debris has been removed, an iron.
clad can float in safety where before shallow
currents flowed like rive-rapid, and the
pilot can bring his vessel within fifty feet Of
the point without hazard,
MIR WILLIAM NJ. EvARrs owns a very
handsome farm in Vermont, which is famous
for its pork and beans. The other day, Mr..
Evarts sent some particularly fine cured
pork, and also a copy OF his centennial ora
ton, to Mr.. Bancroft at Newport. The his
torian, who is fonder of eating other people
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