Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-12-13
Weekly News SUMMARY.


n Is said that the District Of Columbia con-
tains seven thousand more women than men...
Cough H. canceling some Of his lecture engage
ments on account Of III health Four thousand
demands for space have already been addressed
10 the officials Of the Universal Exhibition Of
1873 by manufacturers and tradesmon Of all
nationalties.. James Webster Smith, the col
ored cadet who was 50 severely hazed at the West
Point military academy, year or two ago has
just died at Columbia : Co.. The manager Of
Chicago theatre has fallen heir 10 an estate Of
one million seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in California. . The receding tide Of Cen
tennial travel traffic has left the Philadelphia
street car companies with three thousand idle
horses on their hands. Mr.. John d. lee, the
Mountain Meadows murderer, will be hung in
less than sixty days. The population Of Peru
is decreasing being less than three millions.
The decrease Is attributed 10 earthquakes, dis
eases, civil war and bandy-especaly the lat
ter. o. The frighttul havoc OF the late cyclone
by which quarter Of a million lives were lost, is
not the only adiction of unhappy India. The
cholera Is again raging with terrible violence. and
the crops falling for want Of rain, another fam
inc is impending People will be cautious about
going to theatres with Inadequate exits for a
while now, but in six months they will forget all
about the terrible affair in Brooklyn. Sena-
tor Burnside now wears a gray chinchila worsted
skull-cap while in the Senate chamber e. Ex-
Speaker Blaine says he feels like cat in strange
garret in the Senate It is estimated that fifty
million feet Of lumber more will I've got out on
the St John River and tributaries this winter
than last . The scientists have discovered an
insect which measures only one fye-hundredth
Of an inch In length. The small poN continues
TO rage among the Icelanders and the Indians at
Grimi. There have been over one hundred cases
and twenty-five deaths "A hint OF how the
first inhabitants Of this country reached its shores
may be gathered from the fact that forty-one
Japanese vessels have been stranded on the west
ern coast Of America since 1851 The crews still
remained upon twenty-nine of them. .Caliior-
mia has twenty-three thousand farms and forty
seven thousand farmers. The sugar crop of
Louisiana this year is two hundred thousand
hogsheads Potatoes are selling in Bangor,
Maine, at from seventy to seventy-ive cents
bushel 90. Ten thousand persons draw pay from
the city treasury Of New York "A mammoth
cotton factory will soon be started in Atlanta,
Georgia Both Russia and Turkey are still pro-
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five thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars
and eighty-two cents. A terrible gale prevailed
in Great Britain on Saturday and Sunday of last
week, causing many disasters. There were one
thousand five hundred aud seventy-four deaths
by yellow fever at savannah during the coDtinu-
ance Of the scourge pump Of three thousand
two hundred horsepower has recently been placed
in metal establishment in Pennsy lvania A