Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
Weekly News Summary.

THE Murphy movement has captured Paris,
the capital of Bourbon county, Kentucky.
TIE famine in Madras, according to official
statements, cost S42, 500 600, and that in Bombay
nearly 100000.
THERE are about 10000 dogs in the state Of
Georgia, and it takes 10000 sheepa year to give
them their thanksgiving
CAVE has been discovered near wytheville
Va, which is said to rival the Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky in extent and beauty
HUNDRED thousand pounds worth of Amer
ian eagles were withdrawn from the bank of
England for New York on Friday
THE number of assertions from the British army
was last year l,75l. as a result of which l,746
soldiers were committed "a hard labor.
The level of the Mediterranean Sea has fallen
four inches since the opening of the Suez canal and
serious changes on its shores are feared
BY the joint action of vice-President Wheeler
md Speaker Randall the sale Of liquors has been
prohibited in the national capitol building,
A MAN in Ohio il having "a house blown out Of
solid rock, the material being cut away 90 as to
leave the walls, roof and floor all of one piece
THE people Of Sheffield, England are convinced
~
keep pace with America in the hardware line
\ TRAMP, after receiving n meal from a widow
in Newmarket Junction, y, H., asked for money,
md, being refused shot her He WAS arrested
lNpIAN outrages are reported in Dacota Three
ranchmen near Spcarfed were recently. killed by
them, aud they are attacking and capturing wagon
freight trains.
AtruorGu the English are in the appregate
the wealthest people in the world one person in
every thirty-three of the population of England
and Wales is pauper.
A NEW YORK court has decided that wedding
presents are the propertv not of the husband and
wife, but of the wife alone
THERE were 1900 words in the Presidents
message II was sent from Washington tn New
| York in fortv.fve minutes
Tur farners in scotland have suffered severe
loss this wear by had weather and their apqreeate
revenue will fall short of that received in good
wears by about s4O.OoO,Ooo.
THREE men, indicted for tarring and featheriug
| woman of doubtful character at Waterford
Penn have been sentenced to the penitentiary for
| a term Of from one to five years
CONFIDENTIAL clerk of the Rothschilds, in
ployers of over S3GO,OOO The money had been
| nearly all lost in stock specuatons
IA, tho canal svs,am adontad in F,,vnt nv tho
Khedive, 100000 acres have been reclaimed from
the desert during the last fifteen years and 300
| 900 more are in course of reclamation.
Tux steamer Mizpah. from Seville for Lei,h.
| collided ON the 9Th with An unknown vessel off
| 3eachy Head Both vessels sank. So far only
one man is known to have been saved.
Tur amount of the fund for the relief of the
| widows bereft nv the Custer fight il sl4 66s-of
which s.. 476 WAS distributed 10 the widows of
officers. 81 772 TO those of enlisted men.
A PoNcA Indian on horseback was chasing cow
ON Spring river bottoms, Kansas, and, when going
F, at high rate of speed, his head caught in the
! forked limb of a tree, killing him instantly
,,vno f po,,,aase ar,a,enr. hsya sta.,ad an,
FINN Lisbon IN exnore Central Africa in stan
eys tracks aud to negotiate, il possible treaties
| Of commerce with the natives along the route
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DISPATCH from Coquimbo Chill, says the
| Pacific Steam Navigation Jumiany's steamshin
| Ataeonla has been lost The crew numbered forty
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eighteen persons were saved.
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Az op'''''1 So, e''''1An jumping evenly
| 'lght bars OF SOLID silver each one hundred and