Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-12-27
Weekly News Summary.

Tn New York papers say that the bridal outfit
for Miss May. the .domceo Of james iordnn Bennett
has been appraised by Custom House examiner.
nj tblrty.six thousand francs, which " equivalent
to about seven thousand two hundred dollar.
In gold The outfit comprises over forty article.
Of wear, chief among which is the weddng-dress,
which Is Of white satin. The customs duties are
four thousand two hundred dollars. II is thought
the brooklyn theatrewi not he rebuilt, as 1t was
q losing speculation FROM the iirst Fire Marshal
Ready H. Of the opinion that three hundred and
ffty persons lost their lives Subscriptions for
the sufferer come in slowly in New York, and
the receipts from charitable performances A"
have been contemplate IAN exchange saws
The season " the year has arrived when q man
can take ten cent skcin Of yarn IN the min
ister's donation and exchange it Tor two dollar
supper Four clergymen who OBLIGATED ut ~.
cent hgh-iie wedding In New York were paid
two hundred and fifty dollars each, in gold. CO.,.
The testimonial to Spiritualst Andrew Jackson
Davis, Of Orange, y. j., nets seven thousand four
hundred dollars. given by the faithful an over the
country, six hundred dollars coming from Eng
land" old Probs is pretty correct, after all
Eghty-oight and three-tenths per cent Of his pre-
r.
and next year he hopes TO make il ninotv.....
bronchitis caused ifty-two thousand and twenty
two deaths In England In 1874 There are two
hundred aud ioriy-seyon conyict- ia the Connec-
ticnt State Prison. The annual death-rate In
Iondsn averages eighteen per ono thousand, In
Edinburgh twelve, in Glasgow twenty-one In
Dublin nineteen. d.. The bridges built within the
last ten years IN the United States are estimated
u have cost one hundred and FITS million dollars
Captain ketcham, Of SayVille, l.. /, in six
weeks fishing with one not, caught one million
three hundred and thnty-sx thousand fish.
Clifford, y. II has voted TO exempt from taxa.
ton Tor term Of ten years all property Invested
In the interest Of Manufacture . 4 moth. which
hutterod into the gas and then dropped into some
loose Iowdcr caused the recent rarthdgo-shop
explosion In bridgeport Conn. An English
man writes 10 Liverpool paper that one ounce Of
cream oftartar dissolved in a pint of water drank
at intervals when cold Is a certain cure for small
pox... This year thity-sx thousand head Of
beef atte have been driven from Oregon and
Washington toward the Pacific railroad, the
greater part destined for san Francisco . The
legislative committee Of Maine appointed 10 codiiy
and amend the savings bank laws Of that state
will recommeud limiting the semiannu diy-
dend' % two and onc-half per cent instead Of
three ns now authorized. d.. At the sale on Tues
day O last week Of Washington library in PliiIa-
dephh the volumes averaged about eight dollars
each, md the sum realized for the lot WAS one
thousahd nine hundred and thirty-,hrce dollars
....I n gun up your chimney when 1t IL on
FIRE, aud the flames will be instantly eNtuguished
... hree Thousand people are employed in the
manufacture Of fans In two Villages near Paris
....luciu- q C. Lamar. the Mississippi states
man h. said to be an ndmirer Of Whittier. anti
slayeJ poems Mr. GFattan the adyeuturous
Englihwoman Who assembled Mont Blanc on the
3ist O last January, has married the Swiss guide
who accompanied her Russia l. well said 10
bea safe Of eighty million peasants, who cannot
lose anything by war even u their villages should
be destroyed, for they do do not own any
thing The sentimental Norwich Buncfbt says
on.f few days more of leap year remain. and
we slall be- glad when ID b. over This having %
reIec gir after gfi is cruel strain upon q sonsi-
tive nan "... The haTque Understood Of Liver
pool sas wrecked Thursday Of last week, Oh
the English coast and seventeen persons we're
drowusd. "a great famine prevails in Madras
India The American military officers employed
by tie khedNe of Egypt are not to be employed
another year...-.A cla mine explosion near
NewIpr, England, Monday last killed seventeen
persons and injured many others "A railroad
collision near Chillon, in Brussels, last Monday
killed eight and injured fifteen persons 90 Tie
Grand Duke Alexis Is en- route 20 the United
states with the Russian fleet which is coming
hither for safety IN ease Of war with Turkey
The Russian loan was decided success, and the