Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-09-13
Weekly News SUMMARY.

ritr largest sea turtle ever seen on The North
ern coast has just been caught in the Vineyard
Sound, near Woods Hole. It weighs nine hun
dred pounds ... 4 London woman with babe In
her arms provoked her husband so much that he
SHE'D u knife ut her It killed the baby, entering
two inches deep into the head The jury acquitted
the father By rendering a verdict Of Accidental
death, h" and severely rcprmanded the mother for
having aggravated her husband. Mrs Richards,
m English woman thirty-tour years old, amuses
herself in England by walking one thousand miles
in one thousand hours. She walks two miles from
q quarter before TIL quarter past two, and 10 on
each successive two hours taking rest In the in
ieryas She does her mile in ten minutes, and
although she has for nearly two months been
walking In this way, she does not display the
slightest symtoms Of distress. o.. An important
provision has been inserted in the new English
poor law. Hitherto destitute families who were
driven into the Union through sheer starvation
we're torn from each other the father going 10
one wing ofthe workhouse, the mother to another
while the children were mostly sent to a third
place for schooling The government boards are
now authorized at their discretion to allow FAINT
lies 10 live together. In Peabodys model build
ing IS, London, the death rate is only twelve an.
nually in every one thousand, while the parish
rate is twenty-iour and one-halL...S H. Nc
Ready Is q temperance martyr nj Brighton, Mass
Rum sellers caught him distributing tracts
wrapped blanket around him, carried him off
In a wagon, and whipped him. The Tyangeli-
cal Union In Scotland il composed Of eghty-throe
churches that do not admit liquor dealers 10 mem
bership The one huDdred-ton gun manufactured
by Sir William Armstrong for the Italian govern
ment throws proiectile weighing two thousand
pounds A Paris letter says False hair will
be a drug in the market when frost comes. Short
curls and natural hair will be all the fashion
The peach packing business is now at IT, hight at
Baltimore. It commences about the 10th Of
August, and closes about the 1st Of October
Ten thousand women and girls have learned to
swim at the free baths New York city, this sea-
son. . Several men have been arrested at St
llyacinthe, Ont, on suspicion Of having caused
the late conaagmtion there by setting FIRE to their
premises TO obtain the insurance The British
government has made strong representations to
Turkey, through her Ambassador, that II the war
continues the Turks must be prepared to see
Russia openly giving support to seryia Three
children were drowned in the river at st. Hyacin-
the, Ont, during the progress Of the fire on sun
day Of last week The sufferers by the fire are
being supplied with bread, provisions and other
necessarios from Montreal IA butcher named
Eyarts is about dying at Braniord, Conn. Of
hydrophobia which has lain concealed in his sys-
TEN since 1860, when he was bitten by mad dog
600. John T. Alexander the Illinois cattle king.
who died recently at jacksonville had his life in
sured for seventy-hye thousand dollars lie was
sXty-tiye years Of age The hop harvest H.