Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-11-08
Weekly News Summary.

and sixty-one. Paris has devoured, during the
last half year seven hundred thousand kllo-
grammes Of horseflesh and forty-eight thousand
kilogammes OF mule or donkey meat New
Jersey contains ten thousand more women than
mcn.....1 The shipwrecks on the British coasts in
1874 and 1875 amounted 10 the unprecedented num-
Dor Of three thousand FIVE hundred and ninety
OF these four hundred and seyenty-two were total
losses, one thousand one hundred and seventy-two
serious calamities, and one thousand nine hun
drcd forty-six minor OF the thirty-one per-
sons condemned to death in France during 1915
but one had received good school education
only four could write, and the remaining twenty
six were illiteate.. The outlook for cheaper
tea Is good This plant was only introduced into
India forty years ago and already two thousand
acres arc covered with II on the slopes Of the
Neilgheny Hills. The yield Of the current year
has been over eighteen million pounds, valued at
ten million dollars. The Illinois Supreme Court
has decided that pupils cannot be compelled in
any public school TO study any branch not pre-
-crbed by the law which establishes the common
schools. The case came before the court ON ap-
peal from q lower cour, decision made In Winnie
hago county. The latter court granted damages
to the parents for the child's expulsion from
school because she refused to study bookkeeping
aud the Supreme Court affirmed the decision
Maryland farmer, recently dead, left two thou
sand three hundred dollars In gold and silver coin
concealed under his hearth-stone. New York
city consumes seventy million eggs annually.
principally supplied from Iowa, Minnesota, Wis
consin and Canada. The Maryland academy
ofscence at Baltimore reioces 10 a whales skelo-
ton, thirty-seyon feet long q. People who eat
half-raw beefsteak have rare opportunities Of
swallowing the tgRia He,mis, parasite that
makes Itself unpeasanty at home IN the human
stomach. The first thing Mr. Stokes did after
leaving the prison was 10 take drink, and John
y. Cough wants TO know II liberty is TO be en-
couraged Numerous herds Of bufTaloes seem In
be migrating eastward having been seen within
eighty miles Of the Red river, after ten years alb
sence. The Sioux Indians in Dakota find them
very abundant and travellers from the Northwest
report very large numbers farther east than ever
before The Wyoming papers want legislation TO
prevent their wanton determination smith
College, Northampton, Mass Is 50 crowded with
young ladies that the trustees have decided 10
erect more cottages to lodge them, The cor
respondent Of the London Tunes writes that ten
per cent. Of the Spanish recruits are either dead
or in hospital within a month Of their taking the
field in Cuba Some Of our most recent inyen-
tions were foreshadowod, If not actually accom-
plished, upward Of three hundred years ago
Latin military book published in Paris in 1875
contains Illustrations OF revolving gun. reyoly-
turrets for monitors, water beds for the wounded
divers supplied with air through tubes, and a da-
gram Of a diving bell. OF the fires in London
during the past fyeyears, four-iiths attacked I'M
insured property. Now that the plague is at an
end in Savannah, it is proposed to furnish the
overworked nurses and physicians free passes to
the Centennial. A negro witness In trial the
other day was asked what he was doing in a cor-
tain saloon at a certain time. He explained that
he had gone there 10 change his brefi" The
explanation was accepted ... Foreign visitors
concede tie superiority OF this country in two
ponts-oysters and Indian summer . The Buff
falo police census gives the city one hundred and
forty-three thousand five hundred and four inliab-
itants, almost ten thousand more than last year
THE number Of passengers carried on the New
York division Of the Pennsylvania railroad in
October was about four hundred thousand, or
nearly thirty thousand larger than in September
and the passengers one day, the 9th, numbered
hity-one thousand fse hundred and fourteen
receipts footing mp forty-nne thousand FIVE hun-
dred and siXty-two dollars, which L. without pre-
cedent. The New York board Of police will
prosecute a. Migrants all tramps that habtually
apply for staiion-house lodgings and the COM
missioners Of state charities are raising funds TO
build or hire clearinghouse for INDECENT and de
serving persons. The North Pacific coas; mar
row-gauge railroad northward from san Iran
cisco is finished seyenty-ive miles 10 Russian
river, aud already makes accessible large quanti-
ties Of farming and timber-land with delightful
scenery and climate and abundant hunting ...
The ship Era, recently sent to the Arctic regions
BY Philadelphia parties for cargo Of mica also
brought back specimens Of graphite which is
equal to that obtained from Ceylon and second
only. 10 the Siberian This latter contains ninety
six per cent Of carbon and four per cent Of iron,
is used for the finest artists pencils and is worth
one hundred and sixty dollars ton, The graph
tie found ia the United States is Of an inferior
quality. The British Admiralty have ordered
the immediate construction Of six steel eoryets to
serve as cruisers In the Pacific and Chinese
waters. Old mother wilson who has kept a
frnt stand in front Of the Academy Of Music, New
Orleans for many years, has returned to her
place from the Georgia fever districts. The has
voluntarily nursed yellow fever patients in every
epidemic since 1851. The popular movement
for the suppression Of tippling on Sunday in
Nashville, is having its effect The chief Of
police reported that for the first time in many
years drunken man was not seen on the streets
on the second Sunday after the Temperance folks
got to work. About two years ago the lIaytian
government borrowed about forty-four million
dollars in France, through the medium Of the
French General Credit Society. The coupons on
the bonds were at first regularly paid, hut this
year, as the government has beou changed by
revolution, the new administration objects to re-
hitting Tor them, and repudiates the debt alto
gether