Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-30
Weekly Ncws Summary.

ara two ears of corn growing upon " ut the dis
,once of thirty odd feet from the ground goo. They
boost Of q man in Pennsylvania, who in eleven
,eats has devoured more than twenty thousand
eoos sometimes eating a. many as twenty-five
dav.... Wild Bill" who was lately killed in a
western saloon Is said 10 have caused the violent
death Of at least two hundred human beings ....
rx.Goycrnor William b. Washburn Of Massachu-
.etts refuses 20 permit Sunday train over his
road-ovcn 10 obigc a camp-meetng .. Miss
Emily schomberg, the Philadelphia belle, is about
10 be married It Is said that she has been asked
in marriage one hundred times .. d" II YOU crook
,our finger at me will kin you, said Fau to
Graham, at Klrkyille, Missouri. Graham crooked
his finger, and farrkept his promise. A colored
waiter advertisos for a situation ia hotel or
restaurant Ills prc-emnont charm is stated 10 be
his ability 10 "fold napkins in three hundred
different ways, in the perfect image Of every kind
Of bird The prevalence Of opum-smoking in
Virginia City, Nevada Is appalling In one Of
the fashionable dous one hundred aud fifty whites
Of both sexes held high carnival, fortnight ago.
the majority Of them belonging 10 the bcst classes
Ut tue town. The New York merchants antici-
pate good fall trade Buyers are numerous and
prices iirm The Atlantic mills at Lawrence.
Mass, will start up September 18Th, giving em-
r1ymont 10 tWo hundred operatives .. Anangry
bull tackled freight train ON the Virginia Mid
land railroad the other day, with disastrous con-
sequcnccs-to the bull. .,. A great many rats Of
large size have been seen ia the main Expedition
building, and It Is supposed that they were inn
ported with English and Norwegian goods 90.
The crckcts have oveuun Bull Run valley. In
Nevada The people conceived the plan of driv-
Ing them into the stream aud then capturing
them by means OF stminer bags, and ia single
drive secured seyenty-fye bags fun or two
hundred and twenty Eve bushels . Before the
Prince Of Wales set out for India hc was placed
u q conservatory heated up 10 Indian temperature
to test bis powers Of endurance Ills EoyalIish-
ness tainted away but was more successful ON
the experiment being repeated ... London has
five thousand miles of gas mains aud upwards Of
Gity-fom thousand lamps .. The town Of Warren.
Mass. is hundred years old, bui IRE engine
was never used in it until last week o.. Boston
Oorhott the soldier who shot wilkes Booth the
assassin Of Lincoln, is now halter IN Cleveland
Ohio. Wild Alaskan wheat is being propa-
gated in Oregon, whore 30 grows lnNuriantly. and
produces very superior grain .. The city authori-
ties Of Boston have given notice that only one cow
Tor every three Thousand feet Of land can be kept
ia that city The decrease Of the whaling n-
tercst Il marked New London Conn. which
thirty years ago had one hundred whaler-, now
has sixteen Graveyard SociabIes. are tie
most popular entertainments at Cairo, Michigan
The funds go 70 the improvement Of the village
cemetery The Naia Rgiaer reckons the grape
crop Of California this season ct twenty per cent
o Ia
crop was reekoncd az eight millions Of gallons
this year il viii equal ten millions Willie
Dunlap boy oi thirteen, from Colorado. was
found asleep n thmshng machine n keolalk
having run away from home. made a trip 10 the
Centennial, and got So hr back again without
penny in Dis pocket Repeated experiment has
proved that 10 choolroons lighted by aindows
nu both sides the children suIermoru or less from
injured vision. and important has the subject
been considered n Germany that law bits lately
been passed forhdding such windows TO schools
... Amoug the unique ARTICLES in Che Centennial
arc The German porcelain stoves, varying in
height from four 10 twelve feet, beautifully dec
GRATED with choice designs They are thought to
be preferable to iron, since they yield mild
warmth and never .c1rch iho air. The first
railway has at last been opened ia China Il H.
almost toy affair five miles ia length-to be ten
when completed with gauge Of two feet and
six inches, an engine Of thirty hundred weight,
aud speed Of fifteen miles an hour. The total
value of the Centennial buildings and their con
teuts is estimated at the neat ttle sum Of one
hundred and four million doIlars. d.. The amount
Of deposits in the Swings banks Of Massachusetts
Is two hundred and thiriy-nlne million eight han
o.. a.
slSty-three dollars in New York. three hundred
and nineteen million two hundred aud sixty thou-
said two hundred and two dollars There O.
40 agony Of suspense among treasury clerks. rs
four hundred lave To- De discharged. The
American Bible Society published last year eight
hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and
seventy copies Of the Bible, which makes the
total number issued by the society since ts estab
ii-hmeut thirty-three million one hundred and
twenty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty
SIX The Washington monument will stand
four hundred and eighty-hye feet in the air, five
feet kher tmn the boosted pyramid Of Cheops
.n Egypt All but three of the walters at the
Profile House ia tho White Mountains are stu
dents from Harvard. Dartmouth, Williams or
Amherst colleges, while ia the kitchen there are
girls from various normal schools and -eninaries.
There have been upward Of thiity-two thou
sand deserlions from the army during the pa-t SIX
years. Two Cohoes New York factory girls,
sixteen and twenty years old, have been asleep
for ten days and nobody can tell what ails them
Food is forced into their stomachs by artificial
means. ... The san Francisco gungers, who have
taken hand In the attempt to control the grain
market estimate the surplus OF wheat, this sea
son, az six hundred thousand tons By ac-
tusl count Philadelphia has one hundred and
twenty-five thousand rooms 20 let TO Centen-
NAL visitors. The indian agents have received
positive orders from the commissioners forbddna
lhem supplying the sayages with arms or ammu-
niuou. Two miners were murdered by tho
Molly Maguires at Port Richmond, Pa, on Mon
day afternoon Of last week The school Of
Chinese youths, from Connecticut, numbering one
hundred and thirteen boys, have gone to the Cen.
tennla There are already six hundred and fifty
entries Of neat cattle for the livestock exhibition
and over one thousand Of sheep and swine En-
tries Of American horses are coming in very
slowly, and it is feared this part Of the exhibition
will be comparative failure Nine railroads
are in process Of construction in Texas Thu
mint in san Francisco coined in July four million
six hundred and six thousand dollars, the mos
ever done in month. ,.. Georgia has forty cotton
mills in successful operation, running fun time
aud paying handsome dividends, Seventy ca
loads Of machinery, for the cotton mill now build
ing at Atlanta Ca, were received there las
week. a prize Of five hundred dollars Is oiIere'
by the Georgia State Agricultural Society for
preventive or cure OF hog cholera, and anothe
OF two hundred dollars for chicken cholera. =
grand tournament is being arranged by tn
young men Of Richmond, Va, to be held Mt TN
fair grounds next month, for the benefit of th
lee monument fund. Joseph pitman, the las
survivor Of Napoleons custodians at St Helena
has died IN England Ia his ninety third year, hay
lug been peusioner for full fifty years. d
physician adyerises in the Merden, Conn, news
papers that he has no power over his appetite 70
alcohol, and that he will prosecute anybody VIII
sells him any. London Is now supplied wit
Marseilles butter" It is produced at a larg
steariue candle factory at Mtrselles, equals 1
appearance the finest Epphg or Dorset and keep
well. The remarkable brd-trsck slab uneoyere
at Turner'S Falls, Mass, measures one hundre
and eighteen feet square, and contains eight larg
tracks going in one direction, and nine inanothe
The slab will be taken TO Yale college this week
WOopBt ny We are called upon 10 announc
the death Of Alender Blake which occurred o
the 10Th. The funeral services were attended b
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