Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-10-04
Weekly News Summary.


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Weekly News Summary.
A MAN was killed in Georgia Tor stealing
licking mule. Tho mule was the executioner
A licensed dfoyer at Breutford, England. WIN
while driving bull along the road several week.
ago, struck cat with a thick stick, was ordered
10 be sent to prison, with hard labor, for a month
without option Of fine. The Boston school
committee has voted salary Of one thousand dol.
lars 70 James Robinson aged ninety-Hve YEAR, and
an old teacher The old gentleman is dependent
on this money and Is left 70 believe that he ia still
liable TO be called on to teach arithmetic and
bookkeeping. %. The assertion Is made that there
are two thousand deserted farms In New Hami.
shire, or seven per cent Of the whole number.
Many have been acquired 10y moneyed institutions
through foreclosure. Several ways Of seiun,
them on long credit have been devised combined
with the introduction Of new industries that
would make payments easy by the purchaser.
co.. John Waldemire, of Rochester married after
sixty years OF single life lie had rigid ideas of
economy, ar shown in sending his wife with three
cents TO get meat for dinner, and five cents for
wine All the time his bank account was large
Ms Waldemire bore with his penuriousness for
three months and then parted with him; whore.
upon he hanged himself "a Boston tea firm
have adopted the idea Of giving to every one who
purchases anything at their establishment Gun
Of fine coffee with rich cream. Another Boston
firm probably impressed with the lberality Of
the irstnamed firm, and DESTROYS Of emulatlnp
their example, pay their shop girls three dollar,
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week ior. Ice water, Captain Bates and hi,
wife formerly Miss Anna Swan, the giants.
whose marriage in london attracted much at.
tcntion several years ago have retired from show
life and built sitting residence near Rochester
y Y. lie is seven and half feet high, she l. an
inch taller and each weighs over four hundred
pounds. The rooms Of their house are eighteen
feet high and the doors twelve feet Their bed
stead il ten feet long and all the furniture pro-
portionately large. MIR. L. Kosster, a Chicago
refner publishes statement as 10 the adultem.
ton Of sugar. lie says that most consumers
judge Of sugar by its appearance, rather than hy
is intrinsic value, buying what Is known a.
d" coffee crust in preference 10 the raw West
India, which has more saccharine matter IN
whitening sugar sulphur and like reagents are
used, and then other chemicals are applied to
oblitemte the traces Of the first Much Of the
sugar Is injurious 1t seems to be a well-es-
tiblIshed fact that the last three or four years
have witnessed return of the Jewst to Palestine
from every quarter of the globe The number
going from Russia is entirely unprecedented
The Hebrew population OF Jerusalem is more than
double what it was ten years ago, and the move
mcnt is goin. on rapidly Most Of the city prop
erty :. now ia the hands OF Jews, who have gone
there from other countries, and in a few years
time they will probably be the owners Of the
| whole city,. The Tannus water, which is now
largely drank at court and In aristocratic circles
| In England, contains about one hundred grains Of
carbonate u lime and twenty grains Of common
salt per gallon, thus being about five times A.
| hard water rs the typical hard water Of Great
/ Britain. Professor Wanllyn thinks that fashion
/ able physicians should not fail 10 observe and
| study the effects OF Tannus water While it Il
said that the hard water Of Kent, containing
large percentage Of lime, is very wholesome for
young persons and the straight legs OF Keutish
children attributed TO its use, il is considered
doubtful whether hard water j. desirable for
those more advanced in years 1t has been said
that it tends IN produce goitre. Sergeant
taken out his first naturalization papers at Bridge
port Conn. Dcadwood city jury "honor-
ably acquitted murderer who killed a man
whom he mistook for the one that he intended !,
kill. The cost Of lager beer is computed by tn,
Chicago Tribune at one dollar and eighty cent,
a key for which the brewer gets two dollars and
fifty cents, and the retailer about seven dollars
six Italian peanut venders, who piled theii
vocation at New Haven, have accumulated com.
pontences and returned to Italy 10 spend tn,
remainder Of their days in idleness and ease
sojoumer Truth is in Chicago, where she meets
disappointment In not being received with public
honor She wishes to visit the Philadelphia TX
hihtion but has not money enough. ga Nevada
man, being commanded by a robber IN throw up
his hands, oheyed promptly, and concealed hi.
money ia them. The iobher searched his cloth
ing but not his hands, and 70 got no booty. .
Mons Colombor a merchant Of Paris, recently
deceased, has left thirty thousand francs toa lady
Of Rouen for having, twenty years ago refused
to marry him, through which, says the will,
OF was enabled to live independently and happily
as bachelor California wine is better than
the average European wine, SO the san Franeisc,
Chronicle claims and that paper also says
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honorable eNceptions-are putting foreign labels
upon California wine The Geographical Con.
ference, conyolSed by the King Of the Belgians,
has begun It's session at BRUSSELS, delegates from
nearly all the European states being present.
The King, in his opening discourse, dwelt upon
the desnbility Of periecting an acquaintance
with the African continent. lie urged that scien
tifc stations should be established upon the con-
fines Of unexmored territories, and that all civil
lied countries should unite in the expense.
Tie japanese mission that lately visited Corea,
report the HOUSES Of the poorer classes as being
but six or seven feet high. Salt fish, tobacco, and
straw sandals are the chief staples of local trade
the houses devoted to government purposes are
Of brick and Of mean construction. The walls OF
the town are composed Of brick earth and stones,
and the highways are wretohed. 1heinhabitants
wear undyed clothing aud long sleeve is a mark
Of superior rank The hats are broad brimmed,
and tied under the chin with cord Of ribbon
Etiquette requires that they should be kept on
the head during sautations, The hair is worn
long, and fastened on the topof the head by pins
The dress Of the women resembles that Of Euro
peans, but the members Of the mission did not sec
any They are jealousy guarded from view The
soil is generally poor and an old tree Is rarely
seen. All trees reaching suitable size are cn'
for irowood. The only mines worked are those
OF iron, but others Of copper gold and silver exist
The horses are exceedingly small, and the mau
articles OF expectation are the skins Of cattl'
and pigs.
Vermont at the Centennial.
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