Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-28
Weekly News Summary.

being heavily bordereu WIFI p"Vh'''''h WV"
weighing seven pounds has been found in Ian
caster, OLA new Hudson river steamer the
Saratoga to run this summer, VIII cost TWO nun
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars. line
Foundry church in Washington Is 50 named ne
cause the people used to worship In an old
,o,,dry before they built this edfce.. The
ApAches are ON the war path in Arizona, and have
killed more than twenty persons. The New
England glass company of Fast Cambridge, Mass,
which is to be wound up, was very prosperous
few years ago Companies started in the coal
regions have killed it,. The women's depart
ment of the Centennial exhibition had after the
show balance on hand Of two thousand one hun
dred and fifty-fve dollars and fifty cents The
local associations of Philadelphia had three thou
sand and nine dollars and thrty-four cents, and
sundry other balances made the whole seven thou
sand eight hundred dollars This the ladies Of
the executive committee have voted to Mrs
Gillespie During the year 1876 the United States
yielded four hundred and twenty million pounds
OF resin. It is said that the demand for ivory
in England causes the death Of fifty thousand
elephants annually In the twelve months end
ing 3lst of March, 1876, there were seven hun
bred and ninety-sx convictions for Illicit dist-
ing in Ireland to one in Scotland and eight in
England Connecticuts centennial commission
ers will use the balance of the appropriation for
the Philadelphia display toward representing the
state at the Paris Exposition. GOA big wild cat
sprang through the window Of locomotive ca
boose, as the train passing through forest
in Wisconsin, the other day, and the engineer
and fireman had a sharp struggle to kill the fero-
cious intruder......A monster orange, which
weighed three and half pounds and measured in
circumference twenty-four inches, was grown at
Riverside, San Bernardino county. The tree which
produced it is just four years old, and had a num-
Der Of other oranges besides this one, which were
but slightly smaller. The Indian teas which
were introduced from China comparatively few
years ago, are fast becoming an important ele-
ment OF national wealth, twenty-eght million
pounds being imported into England annually
... One hundred live cattle, two hundred and
fifty sheep and six hundred quarters OF beef were
shipped by the steamer Holland for London one
day last week. John West, employed in Holmes
saw-mill at Fort Wayne, Ind, fell across circu-
lar saw last Wednesday evening, and was cut in
two, piece of him falling on each side Of the
saw. The fish of Wallows Lake, in California
are blood red in color and very fat There are
only four lakes known in which this fish is found
-Payette in Idaho, lake in Maine one in Scot
land, and Wallows Lake. Sheep are dying off
rapidly in some parts of San Diego county, one of
the principal wool-growing districts Of California
Out Of two thousand FIVE hundred sheep on one
rancho, only eight hundred have been left alive
and number Of those are sick About ten
acres Of ground over the Diamond mines at Will
kesbarre, Penn, sunk eight or ten inches last
Sunday night, greatly TO the terror of those who
were living on it. IA law has just been passed
in Indiana requiring the doors of every theatre
church, college, school and other public buildings
to be made to swing outward within sixty days
under penalty of one thousand dollars. St
Louis had its biggest snow storm of the season
last Saturday, and there heavy falls through
out Missouri and Kansas. 1t takes sixteen
million trees to furnish lumber for this country
and one hundred and fifty thousand acres of land
are annually cleared for railroad ties Let us all
plant n tree Beecher says he met in Grnnell.
Iowa. Mr.. Grinnel the identical man to whom
Horace Greeley said, g." Go West young man"
Five steamers sailed for Europe last Satur-
day, all well freghted, and the passenger lists
show signs of n spring exodus eastward. One
carries eighty thousand dollars in specie and all
but one carry beef. In Dublin the gay season
is in Lent 1t eliminates in the ball at the castle
on st. Patrick Day....A little child in Cincin-
natl was killed by savage bulldog, and the
mother, who attempted rescue was badly bit
ten. 1t cost nearly seventy thousand dollars
last year to collect and print the returns asked
for by various members of the British Parliament
Orders have been given by the Russian gov
eminent to the manager of the Imperial Iron
Foundry at Tula to construct without delay forty
tlOusunl lar of
troops Great pecuniary distress prevails in
Belgium. Manufactures have stopped, workmen
are out of employment, trade is dull, and the
theatres are empty. Germany is an equal suf-
ferer "A plan for protecting safes is to in
close them in wire netting, so connected with a
battery and bell that the division of any portion
of the wire ruptures circuit and the bell gives
the alarm. "A remarkable fondness for canned
oysters having been noticed among the inmates
of the Albany Jail, one OF the keepers made an
examination and found that the cans supposed TO
contain oysters contained whiskey.. The aver
age salary OF school teachers in Italy is two hun
dled dollars year. The public would be saved
much expense in trying criminals if all thieves
would follow the example of Regis Lalend, a
Montreal dry goods clerk, lie carried strychnine
in his pocket and swallowed it when he was
caught stealing goods. Many fashionable wo-
men now wear sour milk as ornaments. That is
to say, Yankee in Mansfield, Conn, is making
a great quantity Of sour milk into an imitation OF
coral for jewery. The fluid is colored, run into
moulds and solidlfied by heat. E. William Bright
of Knox county, Tenn, heard noise in his smoke
house. lie armed himself with gun and fired
at the thief The shrek Of pain that followed had
a familiar sound. The thief was his SON. who was