Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-04-26
Weekly News summary.

As enormous loss Of all kinds Of live stock ia
Oregon during the past winter is reported An
unknown philanthropi.t Ia Manchester. England.
has given five hundred uonsaud dollars for art
gallery The inhabitants ~ Greeley. Colorado.
have secured q thirty thousand dollar school
house los contributing ten dollars apece.....A
bullion yield Of tv enty-one million one hundred
and MY thousand dollars J. promised from the
Utah mines this year more than half Of
which will bo silver. According 10 de-
cisiou of the supreme Court Of Nebraska
railroad companies are Liable Tor damages re-
sultIng from praires being set on fire hy engines
90. Madame Bonsparte Elizabeth Pittereonl, Of
Baltimore WAS attacked last week with fainting
spells, and is now lying in a dangerous condition
She !. upward Of ninety years Of age. 100. A con
science-stricken citizen OF Albany T. Thurs
day, enriched the conscience fund Of the treasury
six hundred and twenty two dollars The col
ored people Of Richmond, Manchester and Peters
burg, Va. last week, celebrated with parade
their enancp patton and the adoption Of the i4th
and ljlh amendments The centennial mana
gers still figure the total outlay Of the exhibition
at eight million five hundred thousand dollars,
and the receipts already received or pledged at
seven millions and hope the one million FIVE
hundred dollars deficit will be met with the adj
mission fees The fine inflicted upon the King
Of pahomey, in consequence Of the outrages re-
Gently committed within his territory upon British
subjects is five hundred puncheons OF palm OIL
valued at six thousand pounds The fine is 10 be
paid hy the 1T Of June ...A shipment Of one
hundred pairs Of prairie chickens, ten pains Of
Wild turkeys, aud ten pairs Of Wild geese is soon
to be sent from san Francisco 10 New Zealand for
the purpose Of introducing there the hitherto I'M
known birds The prairie chickens and turkeys
We're caught in Iowa "A French statistician
says that Tie ordinary man, hny years old, has
slept six thousand DAYS, worked six thousand five
hundred days walked three hundred days played
four thousand days, eaten one thousand five hnn-
drcd days. aud been sick ite hundred days lie
has eaten seventeen thousand pounds Of bread,
sixteen thousand pounds OF meat four thousand
six hundred pounds of esetables, eggs and fish
and drank seven thousand gallons Of liquid,
Ole Ball played q Swedish air uu the violin from
the top Of Cheols pyramid recently Speaker
Kerr has decided not 10 be candidate for reelec-
ton to Congress on account Of his poor health.
Senator sherman hats written 70 explain that
he is not almost but altogether, Hayes man,
lie believes tho Governor is the coming man,
The Supreme Court Of Missouri has decided tia,
the promissory note Of married woman is a
charge upon her estate without containing any
express words to that effect 700. Florida land has
more than trebled ia value within the last two
years. From an agricultural point Of view the
most Of it Is worthless. 90. The life Of A. T. Stew
art is to be written by Gen james Grant Wilson,
author ola life Of Fizgreen Ilalleck, and well
known u the reading public as a literary man.
..,. ON Good Friday some young rascal put ink in
the receptacles for holy water in the Cathedral,
Montreal, with the most startling effect so far as
the pous worshippes were concerned The
potato-bug has already made sad havoc among
the early crop OF potatoes on Long Island
farmer has had about two thousand dollars worth
Of early sprouts destroyed while others have also
suffered greatly In blowing mp the ground,
bushels Of the insects are found. ....A dozen
Turks from Jerusalem have arrived in Philadel-
phia They will have a bazaar in the exhibition,
and will sell bits OF the " true cross to crednlous
Christians Great restitution is reported along
the coast in Gaspe, Canada Fast and II is feared
many will die Of hunger one woman died at
Pierce, last week, from starvation, and several
families are starving The horses are dying, and
many farmers are killing of their whole stock
&C.. The propretors Of the Missouri state lottery
have brought suit against the St. Louis police
commissioners, asking one hundred thousand dol
lars damages for breaking up their business by
raids o." Old Abe, the Wisconsin eagle that
went through the war will be taken from his
present home at Madison to the Centennial
Troy has Tom Thumb. His name is Henry
Johnson lie is eight years old, two feet nine
inches high and weighs twenty-five pounds
Bob Toombs is credited with having taken the
oath Of allegiance at Washington, the other day,
so that he might plead case in the supreme
court One of the ladies in waiting on the queen
OF Greece Is to be married, and her trousseau,
which has been ordered in Paris, is to cost TWO
hundred thousand dollars There are ten thou
sand three hundred and thity-six American eN-
hibitors enrolled for the Centennial. Fat men,
and people with tight boots will be grained TO
learn that there are only thirty-eight miles oil
walking required to obtain full view OF the Cen
tennial. The national dobt was reduced ioui
millions two hundred and sixty thousand three
hundred aud slxty-sx dollars and ninety-two
cents during the month OF March Charles
town, 5, c., Is now shipping North over one thou-
sand quarts Of strawberries daily aud by May
will be shipping thirty thousand to forty thousahu
quarts day. The Massachusetts, Society ioi
Promoting Agriculture Is to offer three thousand
dollars IN prizos TO he awarded In 1887 for the Des'
groves of trees planted in the spring OF 1871
The collections at the Moody and Sankey meet
ings in New York last week, amounted to one
hundred and sixty thousand dollars. 'eatiin
gallery of portraits Of Indians are to be exhibited
at the Centennial, in Memorial hall. The shad-
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