Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-08
Weekly News Summary.

In the Black Hills greenbacls are worth eleven
dollars more on the hundred than gold dust
The Georgia constitutional convention has voted
NV great majority. not to abolish the death
penalty.
BANK Of England notes are made from pure
white linen cuttings only, never from rags that
have been worn.
or eight hundred and eleven railroads in the
country, only one hundred and ninety-sx earned
dividends last year.
A MAN in Chambersburg, III, has been sued
for destroying property by splitting tobacco juice
on the floor Of a church.
THE latest figuring places the tax upon every
man, woman and child in Pittsburg on account of
the riots at forty dollars each.
GREAT BRITAIN derives revenue Of two hun
bred and sxty-seven thousand one hundred and
seventy-four pounds from the dog tax.
BOX factory was burned Mt Cincinnati, on
Friday, and six of the working girls persisted in
the flames Three others will probably die
RoBERr RArKEs, founder of the Sunday-schoo
system in England is to have bronze statue. 1t
will be erected in his native city Gloucester
Tnr Washington officials are a little startled to
their little bills for the transportation of troops
THE canal at Augusta, Ga, is now navigable by
boats propelled by steam, and there is every evil
dence that the old system of canal boat propulsion
is at an end
Ar the doorway of a New York barber shop is
parrot which has been taught to say: walk
in; your turn next to any one standing near
the entrance
A SAW eftv.fonr feet long and eight inches
wide intended for use on big trees in California,
has just been turned out at the Beaver Falls
steel works.
Tur governor Of Pennsylvania has discharged
Comnanv l. sixteenth regiment for cowardice and
characterization in the late riots. 1t was madeup
principally of foreigners,
THE Iiberan immigration Society of South
Carolina PROPOSES to purchase vessel for fifty
thousand dollars, large enough to carry five hun
bred passengers at time.
Two girls who work in the laundry of the Rose
Standish House, bingham, have succeeded in
tanning two seals by feeding them so that they
come regularly up to the wharf to be fed
THE grateful DR. Deems who carried the senior
Vanderbilt as far as human aid could do it, is
lie complains of ga dearth of material"
c,r.r rr,ti,rdos oro Assembling ot tbe Thou.
sand Island Park to witness the opennp of the
TEMPERANCE camp meeting Speakers from differ
ent parts of the States and Canada are arriving
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,.,, ho,.o o,,n,,od .hor,so1,os 10 bosnital purses
Gov +ho .rnr ia a gray drass with n red cross
upon the breast of it, n short black cloak, and
white hood
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rost. In ,ho Tinted states which cannot be sued
nv an individual
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chief Oh the russian army mas '"rheo se'er"l
nails oi ms palace ilto workroohs' where larse
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THE Honore block in Chicago, built by Fred
Grants father-in-law, has just been sold at auc-
ton to forelose mortgage. 1t brought four hun
eirhty-six dollars and was bid in by the mort
papees The price was sixty-three thousand dol
lars less than the mortgage
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