Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-10-18
Items 0f Interest.

dollars, mostly in Boston real estate.
sotouRNEn TRUrH Is to be seen at the Cen
tennial Exhibition daily, selling her book
THE reported purchase from Russia of territory
IN siberia by the United States is officially denied
THE United States IA 10 he visited by the Prince
Imperial Of Austria, who is about to make an ed
ucational tour in Europe and America
IN Northern New York the social events this
season are pumpkin-pie parties Zach guest brings
pie, and the host supplies the doctor
TIm Congregatonalists Of Vermont estimate the
value Of their church property at one million three
hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars
4 FEHRynoAr was swamped Saturday evening
In Naughall harbor Ireland, and fourteen persons
were drowned, being nearly all farmers and their
wives.
Is taking down houses in London about thirty
six feet of the ancient Roman wall, nine feet
thick and n solid semi-crcular hasti0n we're Ie-
vealcd
soME runans stained the Soldiers Monument
at fittsheld, Mass, with rotten eggs, and the
shan had to be chiseled down to eradicate the
marks
A MEETING was held recently to get MP a stock
company to establish permanent exhibition in
philadelphia, and to secure the main exhibition
building
As Albany woman sues her father to recover
| five Thousand dollars for lansing the death q her
quarrel
rHE Mount Washington railway company made
/ its last trip of the season, Wednesday morning.
| through ten inches Of snow on the summit Of the
mountain.
FALL RIVER print manufacturers feel sure that
better times have come, 10 stay Their profits
are good, ~ cotton has not yet advanced so much
as goods.
rEMrTRANcE reform club Of over one hun
dred members, including several Professors was
formed at the Dartmouth College church, Satur-
day night
\ COALITION Of American capitalists has taken
steps toward getting possession Of the Erie rail-
road at foreclosure sale under the fifth mort
gage bonds.
Form brothers in Hawkins county, Tenn. mar
ried four sisters, about thirty years ago, and now
have ffty-four children, the average family being
| thirteen and a half
| THE largest fish ever caught in Lake Ontario,
| was taken at Sacketts harbor, Monday in seine
| II was q sturgeon, nine feet long and weighing
| two hundred pounds.
| THE Irish citizens Of Richmond Va, are going
| 70 build monument 10 the late Ex-Governor
| Wise in recognition Of his manly stand against
| the know-nothing raid
| MONTREAL man gave dinner, the chief ar
| ticle Of which was the common puff ball or Ly-
| c0Defri0n giganfc'm. The interior substance was
pure white, and very palatable.
THE government has sued Frank Leslie, the
| publisher, to recover one hundred thousand dol
| lars in gold alleged to be due on paper passed
| through the custom-house at an undervauaton.
| GUSHING but ungrammatica editor SAYS:
| we have received n basket of fne grapes from
our friend -, for which he will please except our
| compliments, some Of which are nearly an inch in
| diameter
TuE grand chancellor Of Knights of Pythias Of
| Georgia, appeals 10 the members OF the order
throughout the United States, for assistance for
| the suffering members in savannah where the
need is great
THE citizens held a meeting at Montreal Satur-
day night, to take steps TO prevent the spread Of
smallpox, and passed resolution advocating
compulsory vaccination and the enforcement Of
the penal clauses Of the law.
ORroN. alias Sir Roger Tiehborne the famous
" claimant does not appear to have a very hand
time OF il in Dartmoor prison. lie runs sewing
machine for about five hours day, and Is said TO
be quite an adept at the work.
JupGE LSpEiAN Of Cincinnati, sentenced n
| little hoy To two years Imprisonment for stealing
"A newspaper from doorstep The lads mother
was thereby made insane and the magistrate is
the subject Of public Indignation.
THE first time Jerrold saw n celebrated song
writer the latter said to him: - Youngster have
you sufficient confidence in me to lend me
guineaY "Oh, yes said lerrod "Fye all the
confidence but haven't the guinea"
An uncommonly large unmber OF frst-cass
houses have been built in New York city this
season, on account Of the cheapness of labor ma
teral and land, and seven hundred and sixty mine
buildings are now in course OF erection.
, Fifty thousand elephants are killed every year
20 furnish the ivory worked up in England alone
| Inc nt-t lNoFN comes from LlnLlDaf, tine silver
gray from regions south of the equator and the
favorite ornamental material from Siam
THE society for the prevention OF cruelty to
children in New York is doing good work. Du-
ring the last thre6 months it has investigated
nearly three hundred cases. and sent over one
hundred children 10 institutions or homes
THERE is considerable commerce in toads
between France and England. A toad of good
size and in fair condition will fetch about twenty
five cents in the London market, and a dozen OF
/ IA re- fiNa rlsa ar
gardeners employ them 10 keep down insects
THIs Is what they call farming in Georgia
Many country people are selling their eggs and
, butter To buy their bacon and using the bacon tn
feed the hands who make the cotton, which Is
mortgaged to pay for the fertilizers used in max
ing it,
: TnF ancient kingdom Of Poland IL now for all
purposes are integral part OF the Russian Empire,
the last remaining yestige ofits semautonomical
l character having been swept away through the
recent abolition Of the office Of secretary Of state
for Poland
g THERE is little Of nature left in Niagara except
r the water the surroundings being almost wholly
, composed Of elevators, bridges and other money
. making devices stone and iron observatory,
at the foot Of the American fall Is to soon dlsfgure
l the place
= ELLA DREW. OF Boston Highlands, who swan
+ from her row-boat and rescued child last August
L has Just received by mail handsome Maltese
cross with the date on one side and ITO the heroi,
. young lady on the other. She has never learned
d who 1t was she saved.
y THEacute and quick-wtted Rev. Lemuel Haynes
G Of Vermont well known years ago throughout
New England, was once sauciy accosted by al
n mpudent trfer with the question, Mr. Haynes
- how old do you suppose the devil sT' "You mus
: keep your own family record" was the immedi
y ate response.
e TmE eight men who attempted TO rob the North
field Bank in Minnesota, a fortnight ago, ganes
80 fifty cents by their venture. They lost in thei
/, fight property worth one thousand six hnndre'
- dollars, three have been killed, three are prison
ers, and two are being savagely hurted througl
u the woods OF Nebraska,
u THE new tunnel being built under the Thamei
a il intended chiefly for the use OF about eigll
Is thousand workman who have to cross that point
II and who are often detained by the fog that stop
=, the boats II will be an iron tube nine feet II
u dlmoater lighted with gus, thoroughly ventilated
70 and only for pedestrians
10 GovEBNoR KENpER, in reply To an invitation
10 name a Virginia day by proclamation, ha
m written letter declining, his chief reasons ben
an the INABILITY Of the people Ia respond in appro
No pirate manner on account Of poverty, and that
20 Is not customary In Virginia to use official proca
10 nations for such purposes
TnE machinery Of mill mt Spring Valley, Pa.
ID nearly ceased working, few days ago, and tn
N miller went to the water-gate, and inserting hi
ar arm In the race pulled out, to his horror, one q
> his children, three years old. IL was 10 all al
pearances dead, hut was resuscitated and h nov
et as well as II nothing had happened.
DC CONSIDERABLE gold dust has been brought on
IL Of the Black Hills. The Placer mines near Dead
wood would seem now to be the most profitable
,y a Western despatch stating that three men ha
\, lust arrived from that place ut Cheyenne bringin
lu with them three hundred and sixty thousand do
IL lars in gold dust, obtained since April last.
lg T. A. WOODWARD, late partner Of William NJ
IN Tweed and for whom u large reward has bee
A. offered In New York, was arrested at Chicago
IL. "wednesday, at the Palmer House, where he WI,
!" registered as A Wallace Liverpool. lie was dis
= guised but was recognized by New Yorker an,
ar pointed out the police and locked upa the cen
I'll tral station
m OSE of the wildcats in Barnum's great shoy
lr got loose the other day and tried his claws on tn
10 face OF the gentle hippopotamus. The beast, no
nsensbe 10 the attack Of his suiall enemy, opeue,
u, his huge mouth aud took him in. But the keepe
pr saw the movement just in time to catch the ca
rs by the hind leg and save him from a worse fat
IN than Jonall's.
" TnE total value Of gold produced In the United
IA States from its first discovery In California 4
1875 was one billion three hundred and thirty
two million aud seven hundred thousand dollars
Y and OF silver two hundred and sixty-one million
III four hundred and fifty thousand dollars maxim,
p, one billion five hundred and ninety-four millioI
is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
" IN the Colorado election, giving the democrat,
3 all they claim, the Republican majority will b,
q one thousand three hundred and four the stat.
tieLet The official returns already In show tha