Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-11-22
News summary.

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lightning than upright rods
TIM wine crop Of France this year Is unusually
large, being third larger than the vines prom
ised at the outset Of the season
On. 5. J. JANIS has grown black tea at his
place five miles from Thomasyille TIA, which
compares favorhly with the best imported from
China.
TnE Tan,ir Boy Sentinel, Lake Superior,
announces hedrovning Of a young man named
o'Nel from breaking through the ice, on the 18Th
OF October last
The population Of Peru is decreasing being
less than three millions. The decrease IL attrib
uted 70 earthquakes, diseases civil war and
brandy, especially the latter
TuERE il a prospect Of a direct trade sprnging
mp between the councils Of Soyeregns Of Industry
in Massachusetts,, composed Of mechanics and
operatives and those in Maine, composed largely
Of farmers
THE slave trade still hourshes among the
Mussulmans Of Salonica, and one hundred ne
crosses lately transported there from the African
coast were sold at an average OF about one hun
bred and fifty dollars each.
SPADES are trumps again in Paris The shovel
away rubbish to charm the eyes Of visitors TO the
great exhibition Of 1878, which the French hope
will eclipse all its predecessors.
CAPTAIN BEpFoRp PIN, NJ. p told his con-
sttuents in England the other day that one sailor
only in each Of Englands twenty-five thousand
vessels was an Englishman, and that the foreign
crews in the next war would navigate the ships IN
their own ports
NOTWITHSTANDING large meat importations
from the United States, the London butchers
keep up their prices so high that the Globe
advises cooperation, and that families should
Jointly market through delegate, who would re-
ceiye a small commission.
An English sect OF moralists, calling themselves
the Christodelphans" have of cred one hundred
pounds to any one who will prove from Scripture
that man Is possessed Of an immortal soul The
Rev, Walter Brstcombe, a Wesleyan minister,
has accepted the challenge
The fellows Of the College Of Physicians, Of
Dublin, have admitted Miss Edith Pechency 10
examination for diploma, and have thus thrown
open the portals Of the medical profession to all
corners Of both sexes. The Queens University is
expected to soon follow suit
The English in India are complaining bitterly
that at a time when the public works are stopped
for want of money, and the government fears the
loss Of tenth Of It's revenue from the decline In
silver two and half million dollars to be spent
10 the ceremonial at Delhi In honor Of Queen Vic
tora's assuming the title Of Empress.
THERE is said to be paper church actually eX-
isting near Berlin, which can contain nearly one
thousand persons. It is circular within, octago-
| II ...I.. IN
within. the roof, ceiling the Corinthlan capitals.
are all papier mache, rendered waterproof by
saturating In yitrol, lme-water whey, and white
Of eggs.
AL the states which have so far named 3
| Thanksgiving Day have selected the 90th instant
and that will doubtless be the day throughout the
country. A brief season of soclality after the
trials Of politics will do good, and the clergy
men will be furnished frst-rate theme for their
Thanksgiving discourses in the present anomalous
condition Of the country
| The figures of the Massachusetts, state census
| Justify the theory that the foreign-born popula-
lation Of that state is more prolific than the
tive The average number Of children OF the ma
tive mothers is three and fity-two one-hundredths,
while Of the foreignborn it is four and ninety-onc
one-hundredths, The rule is probably general, in
| New England at least, II not in the country.
The interment of Mile. Deescluze, sister OF
| Charles Delescluze, the last of the ministers OF
war under the commune, took place in Paris, Oc-
tober 3lst Over three thousand persons attended.
headed by Gambetta, Katsner, and other promi-
nent Republicans The lady in her will desiredto
be buried in the trench where her brother was In
TERED, and ordered that priest should ofiicate.
Two VERY old female prisons in Paris are
to be destroyed, the prison of Saint Lazale, used
ms a royal receiving tomb In the middle ages,
monastery from the thirteenth century and II
prison for women since 1911, and the prison of
the Pelagie founded by Nine de Beauharnais for
repentant women, and afterward used for I'M
goyernabe daughters intractable wives and other
vicious women.
BREWER in Denmark by the name Of Jacobsen
| has set apart the sum Of one million crowns tabout
three hundred thousand dollars, one-half of the
interest Of which is to be applied In continuing
the chemieo-physiologica laboratory established
By him in connection with his brewery. The
other half is intended to promote the study OF
the natural sciences mathematics philosophy.
history, and languages
The fall OF Juggernaut is being widely proph-
esied among the liindoos. The falling ola stone
last year from the tower Of the temple Of Pooree
produced powerful sensation. The impression
il widely spread that it betokened the end Of
Juggernaut, his temple, and worship. Those
who have examined the temple say that 1t must
soon fall, the walls being already interlaced with
the hbres and branches Of trees, which in course
Of time must cause the whole structure to collapse
The London Ladies' Educational Association
which opened It's ninth session Of morning lectures
October 23d, had an attendance last year Of three
hundred and ninety four ladies. The college has
been cautiously trying the experiment of mixed
classes, and the lectures on Jurisprudence, Ro-