Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-02-02
Weekly News Summary.

Tnr English volunteer force now consists NJ
two hundred and thirty-eight thousand two hun.
drcd and sixty-onc rank and file, Of whom one
hundred and sixty-cieht thousand seven hundred
are efficient o.. The London Lancet says that Tho
habit Of secret drunkenness is becoming very com.
mon among the boys at the English public schools
FOR city Of over one hundred thousand in.
habitants, Milwaukee certainly has right to con.
graduate itself that there was not single case on
the criminal calender Of the municipal court for tho
January term General George W. Cole, who
made himself widely known by killing l.. II. His
cock, in Albany, in 1861, is dead After his nc.
quittal he enlisted In the army, serving until a
year ago, when he began practice as physician
in New Mexico The insanity which the Jury
decided was the cause Of his crime never showed
itself aiterward one thousand nine hundred
and nine horse races were run In England last
year, against one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three in the preceding year. B.. II Is said
that Fall River lost one hundred thousand dollar.
through the protmcted strike Of mill operatives
last fall. and that the heavy failure Of Easton &
Milne, private bankers, was caused BY their inf
bility TO negotiate Fall River paper through the
enormous depreciation Of mill stock and real es-
tate precipitated by labor disputes. The nominal
share capital Of the forty-two mills In Fall River
Is fifteen hundred thousand, much OF which has
shrunk in value fifty cents ON the dollar o.. OF
the thirty-cight thousand persons employed in
matchmaking, in Switzerland one-third are wo-
men. Tho new Senator from Iowa first won
distinction by wearing red flannel shirt ut a
dinner party. The creditors Of Boston bank.
rupt, hesitate about accepting twenty-five cents
on the dollar on the fimsy pretext that the bank.
rupt went 10 the meeting Of creditors behind u
stylish pair Of horses and driver in livery.
wedding party was assembled in wealthy Ger
mans house in Wikesbarre, Pa, TO witness his
daughters marriage to German. Just before
the time for the ceremony she slipped out Joined
a young lrishman, and went with him to an al.
dermau who married them. The report Of the
Rhode Island State Auditor shows that In a popu.
lation Of about two hundred aud fifty thousand
there are one hundred and one thousand six hun.
drcd and tllirty-Gyc deposi,ors in savings bank.
The assets in the savings banks are Hfty-throe
million two hundred and seventy-two thousand
seven hundred and thlrty-one dollars, and were
increased about three millions IN 1874 ... French
lady Of title fell M and called doctor who cured
her The man OF medicine requested to be per.
mitted to print on HE card " Physician n her
grace, Impossible, said the latter E" have
% hysican-n-ordinary." We'll We will get
over that difficulty" replied the doctor 81 will
put on my card, Physician to her grace when she
is ill '" "A Young husband in Little Falls, "
r. planned To scare his wife, with whom he had
qurrelled lie went into the wood-shed, fired on
a gun, arranged himself on the ground As a bogus
corpse, and waited Tor her TO come out aud faint
at sight Of him She didn't come however, and
ho was compelled to sneak into the house and
hear her SAY, didn't scare worth a cent. did
r.. Daring the year 1873 the employees AMI
apparatus Of the National l.feboat Association Of
Great Britain saved seven hundred and twenty
i've lives and twenty-nine vessels. With more
zeal than prudence, Miss Mary Meek OF Bona
parte, Iowa, assisted in raid ona liquor saloon
aud is now being tried for burglary . The pro.
duction OF pig iien in the United States, In 1875
was about two million one hundred thousand
tons net falling oil Of six hundred thousand
tons rs compared with the previous year OIL. A.
the Smith sisters Of Glastonbury have again re-
fused 10 pay their taxes constablcs are prowling
around the farm 10 see If there Is anything left
worth Selling B.. OF the one hundred and seven
teen women now studying at the Michigan Uni
/ ,ersity, four have chosen law fortysoyen modi-
cine, and fity-siN literature aud science, In
stead Of issuing ruinous amount Of bonds 10 pay
Tor the new court house, the authorities Of Ham
| ilton county, Iowa, have given the contractor.
uue thousand three hundred and sixty acres Of
land In full settlement The New York From.
y,' says that the four pastors Of the churches in
| Camden, Oneida county, have united In a card 10
the public, urging them To discounteuance Sunday
funerals They object u them for four reasons
| That they oyertaK ministers mar or dispAce the
regular church service; break in upon the Bible
schools, and seculanze the sabbath Epson
comfy, Ga, claims the champion Centennialist
He is negro named Charles Dubignon. {. one
hundred and twenty-five years old risky and Wig
orous- He was captured In Africa by Spanish
slave traders about a century ago, and was taken
to Spain, where he lived in slavery for many
years. There ARE FIVE counties In Georgia in
which there is not hired man. widow has
just died in Rome and left quarter Of a million
dollars in cash TO the Pope. A girl, one Of y
bridal party Of tourists, was recently blown OIL the
highest clih Of the Giants Causeway in Ireland
and Of course instantly killed 4 steamer has
been chartered to sail from Genoa on June l. with
Italian exhibitors and visitors to the Centennial,
and every berth and inch Of available space for
freight have already been engaged Another one
is to be chartered. Prof Mosler, Of Germany,
Is now treating phthi-ic, or pulmonary consump-
ton, by making hole through the wall Of the
chest and drawing OF the pus with a syringe and
aitcrward washing out the ulcers with weak car
bilic acid 90 a Massachusetts cooperative enter
prise has for an aim the occupation Of Spartan
burg, :. C., By thrifty folks from the oyercrowded
manufacturing towns Of New England The plan
provides for cotton aud lumber mills aud recruits
are numerous. A Chicago insane woman re-
solved, as religions sacrifice to siarye her five
children To death. She locked them in a room,
and for three days gave them nothing to eat or
drink Cold added 10 the suffering of hunger,
aud they were In a pitiabe condition when found
There has been no snow yet at Duluth since
the winter set ina pansy bloomed 10 the
yard Of the Crawford house at White Mountain
notch last month";. The female shoe operatives
IN Lynn, Mass, have organized protective as
ISOLATION called The Daughters Of St Crispin. f"
900 Croquet is rapidly giving way 10 roller slsat-
ing lin London, and the ladies newspapers are pub
fishing concise rules to promote gracefuness Of
movement aud proficiency in the sport