Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-09-19
Weekly News Summary.
CANSrBALisM has become frequent incident
In Madras since the famine.

lHE hueslhnH nave u trhultlOn tnh nVNn"i WIN
reach his sixtieth birthday The present Gar lacks
but seven months Of being sixty years old
THE Grand Duke Nicholas allows no pfering
by the troops under his command. Any offender
detected is tried by court martial and shot.
THERE were forty-three thousand tickets sold
at the late New England fair, and the gross re-
ceipts were about twenty thousand dollars.
New YORK city has eighty-fve thousand drink
ing saloons, which absorb from the people an es-
timated sum of sixty million dollars annually
THE men at the Nesquchonng Lehigh Wilkes
barre coal company's in Pennsylvania, who have
been idle since July, resumed work last week.
THE Murphy temperance movement at Ron
dout, n. Y, still continues, and nearly six thou
sand signatures to the pledge have been obtained
IT is thought that the bills Pittsburg will have
to pay on account of the riots will foot up to two
million nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
THE advance OF freights from the West puts five
cents on every bag OF corn and ten cents on every
barrel Of -four. In the aggregate this is immense.
THE governments of the five western provinces
Of the Dominion have sgnifed their acceptance
Of the I'D of November as a day Of Thanksgiving.
SOME idiots in this country continue to send po-
tato bugs to friends in England through the mails,
at which our English cousins are justly indignant.
IT is stated that the hop crop OF the United
States this season will yield surplus for export,
variously estimated at from fifty to eighty thou
sand bales
THE many miles of snow sheds on the Central
Pacific railroad are to be provided with watchmen
and an alarm telegraph There is danger of a fire
a.
sELF-oPEsING envelope, with thread in the
edge Of the upper flap, by pulling which the en-
velope is quickly and neatly opened, is the new
est invention in stationary.
NASHVILLE paper publishes list OF eighty
criminals Of Tennessee now at large, and for
whose arrests rewards amounting to thirty thou
sand dollars have been offered.
THE population of Eeypt IL n confused mixture
of Copts, Jews, Arabs of different tribes, and
Turks. The peasantry are the poorest people In
the world in the most fertile OF countries.
In the island of Sardinia, long neglected by
modern civilization water and gas works were
recently introduced in several small towns, amid
an enthusiastic display of flags and fireworks.
WI VASpERpIIr's team-Sma Hopes and
Lady Mack-made mile on the Fleetwood track
last week, in two minutes and twenty sec
onds. 1t is the fastest time made by such team.
THIS years peach crop aggregates in value
three million four hundred ard twenty thousand
dollars of which the Maryland and Delaware grow
ers net one million nine hundred thousand dollars.
The Potter Journal says that the farmers in
that part of Pennsylvania have discovered that
the thrush will not only eat the potato bugs, but
Al. Al. A..
Tur anniversarv NJ tho capture of n cannon
from tho British fr;oata Nvmnh in 1914 was cole
brated at Rockport Mass on the Sth instant, and
the identical gun exhibited in front of the town hall
Tur sopbomore class of Dartmouth COLLAGE
have administered a finishing bIov IN the long-
declining custom nj hazing nv praciouslv allow.
In, tho Fosb,,ar fr,l libart in IN. mat,er NJ roll
hats and canes
J,cs WusoS n pegro NJ Mer;,veatber couptv
Caoro;, bas borgbt and maid for seven bprdred
acres If land since the war ue has raised this
year some seventv bales of cotton and t,vo tbou-
sand bnshels of corn
T,vvrn,s darah,.r ,,ho ,rorr;ed uao,rr;s in
1870 and whose wedding presents cost sxtv tbou.
s,nd dollars 10 roy ,,yinr in ohso,,,o rover,v
tho hr;dal nreso,ts and snor, bo,,,na al, heen
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hoon d,soororod Il, ,,os,ar,, No,,ad, ,n,i.ra
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aro tho ,nos, cor,rnon ,ol,ons
rnhNoh miner n'ins near h'cn'nonu' va
aonr in b,s min In Nav york .to,o in 1917 This
will n,u;f, tho oloi,,s 10 a ,ato,, rrocess no,y
mod ,hronohor, ,ha oorn,r,, ON uhioh rorol,,
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Cax,op Tho edition ia of exceadins rarity and
10 nrohab,v tho onlv co,v ~ ,bs earlv issna now
In tho Irni,od s,atas
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tho snelIing had hee, chanoed nina ,imes as FOL.
lows. Rawlings Rawlings RaI;ns RaIIins Rollins
Ratings. Rallinqs Rollinps. Rollins
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$3.50 T, e'''a WV ln.' so1s s'.,
noor voro hnrnod 70 doath ryocary q, ,yboo, a nd
several coal oil tanks were also burned
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STATE in 1880 and tho ho,,Io a, .n,,o,am
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"o' oiiiy i''i as feiieuies' ou' uo pos'''e h'''h
BUSINESS 'o"'o, "N'e" ""s "sAo'
W miner eo"'n''''ee !" continue :" ,'oi ie
i'e' 'u"u' kone'ous'S ono''' '"s''sn !" ."o ''n'
'eh '"ousahu uo'i"rs III accounts uue 'nenn "
'''no,S' winch a''oun's '''eS ""'e oeen io' ye'i
unao'e 10 coiiec' Inc s"oser'p''on was uee''ne'
WIN 'uahAs'
THE superintendent of the Royal foundry a
Woolwlch, England, has made report on the ex
Peruen's WIN 'ne pis guns Vi the l'aian "on
ei'"s' stating 'i'a' 'he heaN'eS' rnsnsn o'unano
"ou,u 'ai W p'eioe ''ie'r ai"or, "hiie inc on
nohu''a'on i''''"n piooe' oo"'u s"''''A'"i'
u"""so ""' 'e''ei !" eN's'e"'o
EGGS sell in Maine for a dollar and half
dozen In orderto give them this value the shell