Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-12-20
Weekly News Summary.

New York ON the 4th cost six thnnsand dollars
There Is n corner In refined petroleum oil and
II has risen seven cents gallon since last week
.... Enough cider has been made In Sandsfeld.
Mass, this season to give every man, woman and
child In the town two barrels. An English
court has just decided that q railway company il
bound 10 supply hrst-class carriage free from
tobacco smoke, II passenger demands it,.
Cardinal Simeon ON Thursday Of last week. took
the oath Of allegiance to the Pope and assumed
the office Of secretary Of state In place Of Cardinal
Antonelli, deceased. one of the discoveries
made by the latest Arctic explorers is that She
length Of the polar night is one hundred and fort,
two days. There Is 10 be u fresh exodus from
Russia Of Mennonitcs, fifty thousand Of whom
desire 10 either settle In Brazil or the United
States. b.. For killing Jesse " White at North
Yarmouth, Maine year ago, the Grand Trunk
railroad Is ordered to pay five thousand dollars
by the United States Court. John Donahne, Of
Boston, who was sentenced 10 state prison for
fifteen years for rape, four years ago, was par
doned Monday Of last week, because he wasn't
guilty After fooling around for a whole week
to open big safe, a Dubuque merchant discoy.
cred that it hadn't been locked any Of the time.
him. The loss Of the American express com
lany 10y the burning Of the safes near Buffalo. \.
T. the other day, proves not to be over ten thou.
sand dllars. 1.-The crew u oxford Tnitcrsity
England follows the example Of Cambridge in
declining the challenges Of the Yale and Cornell
clubs y. row four-oared race ON the Thames
next Aognst Russia shows that she means
business by ordering twenty million cartridges in
this wuntry. She has also recently prepared
eghtlfour military hospitals y-th accommoda-
tons u over fifty thousand men . Yellow fever
cost slsannah the lives Of almost one thousand
persos at it, recent visit to that city. A clergy
man 0 Indiana assembled the pulpit the other
SUNDAY and said No man can serve the Lord
while be has the jumping toothache therefore
dismis the congregation. ... Seven Cinnamon
are partners In business in san Francisco.
creditor finding il hard work 10 collect a debt.
leau'd that the money was in the safe, the safe
had even different locks, each PARTNER had one
key, md they had to be unanimous before the
money could be got at Ohio is blessed with
twenJ-four colleges containing five thousand two
hundrd and eghty-three students Partisan
ladie' wear rding-habits to match the color Of
their horses. Mrs Secretary fish is wearing
her lot years bonnet, bandeaux and alL....St
Louisans think they pay eight hundred thousand
dollat annually for the water in their milk.
The ron mines Of Wyoming are proving even
richie than the gold mines The poodle fri1 is
10 beretired from active service on the brow Of
beauy James Gordon Benefits marriage en-
gagenent is on again, and for good. this
time Bayard Tay lor says there are more than
two nundred artists IN New York cty..A Wis
consn man set fire To two thousand i've hun
dret dollar wheat stack, and failed even then to
kill he prairie chickens he shot at Mrs Helm
bold has at lat been divorced from the crazy
Bucn, and he celebrated the event by a banquet
at II lmonco's. Churches at Troy y give
puzf 70 the young men who bring the greatest
number Of women to the church socables ....A
crovn-glass lens twenty eight inches In diameter
and weighing one hundred and eleven pounds ha.
just been flushed at Paris for the Vienna reirac-
tor London tadesmeu are rejoicing in the
prospect Of good season, for the Queen is going
To i've at Buckingham palace and give entertain
meats a Californian millionaire spent forty
thoasand dollars on pictures ON recent visit to
Nev York. The late Baron James de Roths-
chill founded aud supported for several years
hosatal in one Of the poorest quarters of Paris,
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