Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-10-25
Items OF Interest.

A PmLApnLrnA icveller has been detected
substituting imitation diamonds for real ones left
with him for setting
DrmNG It's one hundred aud forty years Of ca
istence, the Presbyterian church at Cranberry
N. j., has had but six ministers.
SIX prisoners set FIRE 10 and burned the Rich
inond Texas jail, few days ago. They were
| all nearly suifocated when taken out
IS the Milan Hospital, where two thousand
-four hundred beds are placed in long, narrow
but lofty galleries, the rate Of mortality is en-
;remely low.
A TRAINED horse In an English circus attacked
| the man who was directing ts performance, shak-
ing him as a cat would monse, and then threw
him out of the ring
TIM late Queen Dowager Josephine, Of Sweden,
left fortune Of one million one hundred and
twenty thousand pounds fhe Princess of Wales
is one Of her principal heirs.
FIVE students In the naval academy at An
napolis have been dismissed for refusing to tell
who Of the students were engaged in recent
hazng outrage in the institution
THE fall in the price Of diamonds in London has
caused stagnaton and panic in the south Africa
fields Hundreds Of miners have departed, and
TIM Roman Catholic mission Dolores" was
founded on the site Of San Francisco hundred
years ago October sth, and the Centennial was
celebrated in that city with high ceremony.
TnF sheriff Of Santa Clara county, California,
had twenty. eight applications from persons ont Of
work for the Job Of lashlng colored man in the
Jail, sentenced to be whipped for beating his wife.
4 LETTER from the Adrondacks says that deer
this autumn are more abundant than for many
previous years, but that they keep away from the
lakes, finding more secnrity in the second-efowth
TIMBER
LITTER from the Adirondaoks says that deer
this autumn are more abundant than for many
previous years, but that they keep away from the
lakes, finding more security in the second-growth
timber.
JEWISH silver shekels have lately been found
near jerusalem belonging to the time Of Simon
Maccabeus, b. c. IA On one side they have the
cup OF mama, and on the other the budding rod
Of Aaron.
Ina Philadelphia court, man shouted TO
witness, why don't you keep your eyes on the
gentleman while youare answering his questions
and was promptly sentenced by the Judge to ten
days in prison
THE deer in the San Jacnto river section are
uylng rap'u'y WIN some strange ui7eaHe. iney
live but a short time after they are attacked and
the fat about the heart turns to bright golden
yellow after death.
THE Centennial managers have appointed the
26ih instant as Ohio day at the Centennial 1t Il
understood that Governor Hayes has accepted an
invitation to be present and will hold a reception
at the Ohio headquarterg
RICH man in Anaheim, Cal, threatened 10
have poor man elected from house because
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TIiE wool clip OF the country IN 1919 was nearly
two hundred million pounds, whereas In 1850 II
was only sixty-hve millions In 1919 the country
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DROVE oil thirty thousand horned cattle was
recently driven from Texas to Kansas by seven
; hundred drivers. The outfit alone cost fifty
housand dollars, and the herd brought three
nuhuieo ana twenty 'no"s"ha ooi'a's'
CHARLES Woif was fatally injured, Friday
evening last In Brooklyn, while parading with
his company Of boys In blue, by being struck In
the back by a heavy rock during an assault by
persons alleged 10 be democratic roughs.
FOUR English race-horses, which had been
winning money on the comment ana were Vained
at one thousand h'e hundred dollars eaeh' were
Killed on their return to England by the severity
oi the channel passage only one horse survived
, TEXAs newspaper AYERS that man who de-
hberately strangled his infant at the christening
/ was acquitted by jury, because ne proved thnt
2 the deed was committed whie ne was crazed oy
the sudden discovery that MS chud resemoied Ills
mother-in-law'
CONNECTICUT farmers, says the New Haven
Journal are felicitating themselves on having
saved tens OF thousands oil dollars by the two
thousand eight hundred dollar appropriation To
the State agricultural station through Its expo
: sures OF fraudulent fertilizers,
/, A WATCH has been presented to Nine MacMs-
hon 80 small that powerful magnifying glass il
l needed to tell the hour The duke Of Aumaie
e has ordered set of these microscopic time-pieces
for shirt and wrist studs which will he ready In
time for the exhibition OF 1873
y ANAS Mt Fairyiew. XIV. with a craving for
:, ljouor after selling everything Of value where
: with to buy the stimuant took his few month";
, old child and traded it over the bar for drink Of
). whiskey. The child was afteward redeemed by
the mother on paying for the liquor.
JUDGE HENDERSON. of Lebanon county, Pa, at
n late session of the court of quarter sessions Ia
sued nm order forhidding the admission of boys
. into the court.room during the trial of cases. He
= based the order upon the demoralizing effects o,
# the narration OF crime upon the young
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