Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-01-05
Weekly News Summary,


lions. The total exports Of specie from N.s,
York since january list, 1875, are sixty.sevcn min
lion seven hundred and siSty-eight thousand ,nd
sixty-six dollars. The African gold coast 1. :,
be represented at the Centennial by the eon,rih,,
lions Of the native kings. ...A seven-ycar..ol1
colered boy for sport, drank up the pint Of wh,kev
which his father had laid in for Christmas. Satin.
day, and died ON Monday from the effects Of 4,
90. The California state senate has refused ana,
a long debate, to elect chaplain "a general
movement is in progress" the Meridian Miss
Mercury says, con the part Of the colored citizen.
Of that state to bring before Congress a scheme
for the colonization Of such Southern blacks as Al,
sire to cmigmto on some separate territory q,
reservation Bee. Nevada has a population Of INV
thousand four hundred and forty Utah bs.
one Gentle to five Mormons. Fifty Thousand
Hebrews carry on business In the United state.
....A new pocket compass invented in England
has the novelty Of pointing to the true, and not Ia
the magnetic north. ...A man died, recently in
the hospital at san Antonio Texas, whose BODY
was covered with large spots, and whose fiesh he.
came one mass Of putrd matter lie had all III.
symptoms Of the old-ume plague There ar.
five negro members Of Congress Three Of them
before the war were unacquainted with the alpba-
Of the conicdncy and the Union. of and ON
during the late unpleasantness. . The railway.
in India seem to run to bridges single English
arm has built no less than sixteen thousand iron
bridges for the Bombay, Baroda 4 Central India
and Indian railways The last one constructed aud
sent ont is 70 have an entire length Of nine thou
sand and siXty-eigbt feet In Indiana there ia a
small Swiss colony Of five members, whose com
bined weight is one thousand one hundred and
ify pounds. The mother Of this colony is the
most corpulent, yielding trine over three hun.
bred and thirty-eight pounds, while the youngest
daughter, girl in her seventeenth year, is sylpb
Of one hnndIed and eighty ayoirdupois II !.
not very likely this country will go short ON win.
soon. In California alone Amador county has
one million six hundred and eighty thousand Crane
vines III Dorado, one million four hundred and
ten thousand two hundred and fifty fye: h..
Angeles, four million two hundred and City thou.
sand Napa, three million one hundred and eight
thousand five hundred and ninety; Sacramento
two million one hundred and thirty-two thousand
nine hundred and seventy -fve, San Joaquin. one
million, Santa Clara one million two hundred
and thirteen thousand and eighty five, Sonoms
three million six hundred and three thousand three
hundred and cighty-fve and Tuolumns one mil
lion four hundred thousand ..A company of
Spanish military engineers will be sent, in fun
uniform 20 the Philadelphia exhibition, next wear
They will superutond the embarkatiou Of all iack.
| age. from Spain accompanying them across the
Atlantic, and will prepare the necessary fitting.
and decorations IN the spanish department Of the
exhibition huilding ... The once notorious col
ored lawyer Of Grcen,ile, Miss J. u werlcs.
walked aboard % boat living at the wharf. few
days ago. and accosied q couple Of cartmen with.
Did You ever see any one commit suicide 90
They both answered No" when he reioinod.
" Then watch me, and leapiug into the river.
was drowned before he could be reached vii.
liam 4. NJ Thompson Of Quartz Valley, Cal, re-
Gently started for his homo ia Iowa, which he left
| twenty-five years ago Daring all this time OIL.
! family consisting Of wife and nine children.
| heard nothing from blum ne IFS now seventy -four.
aud returns TO find bis home circle unbrokeu by
death, Dat enlarged by the addition Of nifty grand.
| children and three great grandchildren The
reign OF false hair IS over. and it l. aid tha,
| pari-iaus arc already arranging their own locks
| either in ptits or twisted curs around the head
or in artistic cGrs at the back OF the neck ...
| forty-se,cu hunters from the United States have
| been arrested a The instance % the Fish and Game
Protective Society for the counties Of Prescott aud
Russell. Ontario for killing deer out Of season ia
the vicinity OF Moose creek and have been fined
and their game confseated. OIL. General Mcclellan
and family have settled down ia Baltimore ..
Madame Borgese, the wife Of the brazilian Min.
ister AZ Washington, has introduced SUNDAY even.
ing receptions. Clinton county, New York.
challenges the United States to produce a match
for Rosanna Wctherwax, aged one hundred ana
eight, who now resides in the town Of Peru, and Is
remarkably bright and active. The royalty Oh
the sale Of Moody and Sankey's hymn-books IN
England, between January and June last year,
| amounted TO no less than five thousand six hun
dred and siNty-seycn pounds-in greenbacISs thirty
thousand dollars. The money has been sent b
the treasurer Of the bnilding fund for Mr. Mosdys
church. ia Chicago. The Christmas dinner
given 20 the New York news-boys aud girl. b.,
James Gordon Bennett was a. successful as i de
served to be Before the dinner was over, tickets
were distributed from two bags one for the bays
and one for the girls The bags contained a lsrse
number of blanks and about twenty tickets, the
lucky drawers u which were, II boys, given an
order Tor suit of clothes II girls, an order Tor
shawl The bill Of fare consisted Of turkey, po-
iaioes, cake. oranges aud coffee, which were dealt
ont unsfaringly w.. Tweed bail on the seven in
d.ctmeuts found against him in New York, for
felony have been forfeited There was ter.
rifle hurricane in the PHILIPPINE Islands. last
month, destroying three thousand eight hundred
dwellings and two hundred and fifty lives The
! London Chamber Of Commerce has adopted roso
lution- Tor the removal Of reciprocal trade rela-
! tpns with the United States The marriage Of
Protestant gin 10 a Catholic was the cause Of a
serious riot at Bannspool, Ireland, on Tuesday Of
last week IN which number Of persons were
killed, and several badly wounded General
Judson Fitzpatrick writes long letter, in which
be vigorously defends General sherman against
the unjust criticisms 10 which he has been sub.
jected through the publication OF his memoirs ...
The disconiented native tribes in Liberia recently
made an attack on the sottlers, but were repulsed
The fact that President Roberts is not Of pure AZ
riean blood is the main cause Of the troubles in
the republic negro boy was driven bare
footed, on a cold day, from the house Of farmer
for whom he worked, in North George, NY. The
| boys feet were 50 badly frozen that they had to
be amputated. An old woman living near Old
| Fort n. c. has, with the a sstance Of a large
dog captured two or three escaped conyicts, de
li'eIed them TO the officers and received the re-
ward offered for their capture tramp in
Troy, \. y, went To the police station, and de-
cared that he was a fugitive from Justice having
murdered man in New Orleans Investigation
showed that he had lied, in the hope Of being sent
| 10 New Orleans where his family lived "a
book agent called ON a farmer, the other day, and
was told that the farmer was too busy 10 talk
with him But, said tho agent, Your farm
| work is all done You have nothing to occupy
/ your time" Yes | have, too" retorted the
farmer " I've got 10 plant my foot and raise a
book agent" Aud he did lie raised him about
| four feet
| CEN1riN or Invention. II Undoubtedly the
great Machinery Hall will be the GROWING point
Of American triumph in the coming Centennial.
| While the latter half Of the century which our
Union has been in existence proved vastly more
productive Of valuable inventions than the fifty
years previous America can point with pride to
the large number Of remarkable labor-saying ma
chimes with which her inventors have blessed the
world. The telegraph the rotary printing press,
the sewing machine and other leading articles OF
universal use have been widely landed; hat there
are innumeEbe articles, the result OF American
| ingenuity, each Of which is worthy descriptive
article Of greater length than newspaper limits
usually allow To protect the teeming brain that
evolves with patient thought and thorough test