Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-12
Weekly News summary.

by luuilt WNiIlilAi tsFs 0penttff MhSN " nfhl-
ging over a cat which is twonty-ninc years and
three months old Sixteen ccntenarians died in
Massachusetts, last year, eleven Of whom were
born in Ireland The animal tobacco crop Of
the United States IS about three hundred million
pounds, worth to the producers at least forty mil
lion dollars A woman Of Omaha, one hundred
years Of age, has had her grave clothes on hand
for fifteen years, and has had them washed and
ironed once each year, party Of Denver men
with more time than money are going to walk TO
the Centennial Exhibition They expect 10 do the
distance within ninety days...Up TO the 18th
ult, New Orleans had received one million two
hundred and four thousand five hundred and
forty-two bales Of cotton Of the present crop, an
Increase Of three hundred and twenty thousand
three hundred and eighteen bales over the receipts
for the same time last year .Twenty-slx per-
sons in Santa Clara county, Cal, own together
over one million acres Of the best farming land,
and one hundred and twenty-five persons through.
out the state control six million five hundred thou
sand acres IA strange man recently died in
Vienna. lie conducted an eating house, waiting
personally upon his customers aud yet he col
lectod library Of twenty-one thousand volumes
many Of them editions Of rare value. The
grangers Of the United States have over eighteen
million dollars invested ia their various enter
prisos A "anchero near Santa lie owns
eighty thousand head Of cattle, which he pas
lures on sixteen thousand adjoining sections Of
land. One hundred vaqueros and one hun
bred boys take care Of them. 90 The ship IIma-
laya the largest in the British navy, has been
sent to Bombay 10 bring home the numerous
horses, tigers, and elephants presented TO tho
Prince Of Wales during his recent tour...A
French surgeon, noticing that the foot and mouth
disease does not attack cattle affected with cow
pox, yaccinated twenty-five oxen, aud not one Of
them had the disease though living with animals
largely infected with it,. The ten million dollars
In silver bullion which Flood & q Brion intend 10
exhibit at the Centennial would make a solid
block ten feet long, ten feet thick, and eight and
one-tenth feet high, containing eight hundred
aud ten cubic feet, and would weigh nearly
two hundred and ninety-four and one-haf tons
"a Cincinnati veterinary surgeon has fitted
wind-broken horse with a silver throat An in
cision was made In the windpipe a silver tube in
serted, and now the animal brcathes easily and
seems to suffer no Inconvenience Between the
years Of 1865 and 1874, one hundred and eighty
three thousand six hundred and ffty-nine men
enlisted in the regular army OF these ninety
seven thousand and siXty-six were born Ia the
United States, thirty-eight thousand six hundred
and forty-nine in Ireland twenty-three thousand
one hundred and twenty-seyen in Germany, nine
thousand and tlirty-seyen In England, four thou
sand seven hundred and three in Canada, two
thousand four hundred and hfty-six in Scotland,
one thousand FIVE hundred and ninety-three In
France, one thousand five hundred and silty-two
in Sweden, seven hundred and nineteen in Den
mark, five hundred and eishty-one IN Austria FIVE
in Africa three in Arabia, and seventy-iye at sea
The los Angeles lCall Herald says that, at
the present rate, in four years there viii be one
million stands Of bees in that and the two adjoin-
ing counties, producing annually one hundred
million pounds OF honey, which are mora yalua-
bic than the sugar and moasses crop Of louisiana
Texas and Florida combined....A fox at Reese
river had always eiudod the hounds the scent in
yariably being lost near a hut In the woods used
for storing furs. one day when the hunters were
resting their horses near this hat after hard rum
the oldest hound in the pack entered the door aud
tried to jump up on the wall. This attracted at
teution, aud il was discovered that the old fox
hanging by the tail 70 a nail In the wall keep
ing very quiet aud looking very much like the
other pelts hanging on the wall. It was evident
that hi. was thu way ia which he had heretofore
escaped. . Florida has three thousand white men
who have not voted since the downfall Of the CON
federacy. The gross value Of London Il set down
at twenty weight million ninety-si1 thousand eight
hundred and twelve pounds aud the ratablc value
at twenty-three million one hundred and fifty
four thousand six hundred and thirty-nine pounds
90. That pillow made on the Daniel Webster
farm at Franklin, H.. under Daniels superyi-
sion and partly by Daniel himself Is to be sent to
the Centennial The Coroncrs' reports show
that three hundred children are suffocated in bed
each year In the central district Of Middlesex,
England and that most Of these suifocations occur
on Sunday mornag There are sixty-two thou
sand five hundred and fity-two churches in the
United States with sittngs for eleven million
three hundred and nlnety-fye thousand five hun
dred and ioTty-two people, the Methodists being
the strongest denomination The total value Of
church property is placed at three hundred and
forty -nine million six hundred and nineteen thou
sand seven hundred and eighty dollars. D.. 4
company known as the Jennings Estate Asso-
citation " was incorporated by the Virginia Senate
on the 25th nit The obiec; is 10 secure untold
riches lef, bya Mr.. Jennings In England century
ago.. Five hundred thousand grape vines are 10
be planted in one single county Of California this
spring Two Boston women have expended
seven hundred dollars in money, a year Of time,
and nearly all their oye-sight, in embroidering a
flag for the Centennial show There are one
million dollars worth Of shoe pegs made yearly in
the United States, most Of them in Massachusetts,,
requiring one thousand cubic feet Of white birch
co.. Although two hundred and ten thousand per-
sous have been admitted since last Easter TO the
London Tower free Of charge, not single article
in the great national collection has been lost or
damaged. An English agent representing a
capital OF fifteen million dollars is in Charlotte,
n G., considering the eNpcdicncy Of establish
iug smelling furnace for the treatment Of sui
phurets and refractory ores. An old tombstone
in the burying ground at West Lynn Mass has
this inscription: God took the good, too good to
stay aud left the bad, too bad to take away. q"
Rather rough on the mourners. The Queen Of
England's paintings which will be exhibited at
the Centennial will be guarded constantly by a
squad Of policemen The pictures have been
heavily insured in eight different English com
panles.. "A girl employed in paper mill at
Westield, Mass. suffered a severe attack Of lock-
jaw last week, in which the jaws were set for
nearly two hours. The doctor said the trouble
was the result Of an inyeterate habi, Of chewing
gum. Rabbits have so increased In Kentucky
that hunting them down has become an absolute
necessity The present crop OF sugar in Cuba is
one million boxes and is worth thirty million dol
lars less than last years crop, Two hundred
and thirty thousand cubic feet Of the best pine are
used in making the twenty billion matches which
the United States annually produce. The
American Express Company talks Of arniing all It's
employees with pistols, which they will wear in
plain sight, because the law forbds the carrying
Of concealed weapons. Booth, the Chicago
oysterman, is planting oysters in San Francisco
BAY, and about three carloads of young oysters
are daily sent over the Union Pacific railroad for
that purpose San Francisco has increased her
population to two hundred and seventy thousand.
..,Four thousand men at work ON the canal
basin at Montreal having struck for dollar a
day, the contractors paid them off. dollar per
day from May LIT is offered those who remain.
Four thousand head OF cattle have died in Utah
this winter on account of the deep SHOWS which
prevented their getting to the grass. The chill
dren OF school age in England and Wales, that is
from three to thrteen number five million three
hundred and seyenty-four thousand three hundred
and one, or twenty-three per cent OF the whole
nonnIafion Tho arnonnt eNpandpd uDon urinary