Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-11-28

THE council ut the Vatican decides that no
power can veto the conclave's selection Of a sue
cessor to the Pope.
EIaHTEEN thousand men are now engaged in
the express business, and the capital invested
amounts to s3o,0oo,OoO.
THERE are over 1900 convicts in the penitenti-
airy at Joliet ILL.,, and the number is increasing at
the rate OF 100 month.
CHARLES BARrH made treasury Of his bed in
Boscobel, Wis. and after his death securities for
$4,000 were found In It,
THE Christian church OF Tennessee, held its
first meeting for consultation since the war, in
Nashville a few days ago.
AT Ferrol, in Spain, a priest has refused to
allow a man who had let house to a Protestant
minister TO act A. Godfather
GARRY BENSON an Albany boy, eighteen years
old, has saved over half a score of persons from
drowning in the Hudson river
A PHILADELPHIA boy has obtained a verdict of
$500 against his employers for the loss Of his
hand in an unprotected cog-whee
THE weavers Of two Of the largest mills in Old
ham, England, numbering 1900 have struck
against reduction in their wages.
STOCK company, with a capital Of a million
dollars, il being formed to prosecute the search
for gold in Ulster county, New York
WOMEN are coming to the front as pedestrians.
Miss lie Franc has just walked fifty miles in
twelve hours, in North Adams, Mass.
MACHINERY is being made in New Orleans to be
used in manufacturing hats from the fibre of pal
metto leaves at Orange Park, Florida.
SrxTy-FIvE families from Pennsylvania and
New Jersey have just settled upon 900 acres of
agricultural land in Navarro county, Texas.
DOUBLE postal cards, aifording facilities for
reply, in vogue in several countries OF Europe,
and have been found of immense convenience.
THE President orders that hereafter previous
bravery Of officers of the army shall not prevent
the full measure OF punishment for drunkenness.
TwENTY-NINE women were advertised in a re-
cent issue ofa Chicago paperas about to preach and
conduct religious services the following Sunday.
A COMPLEMENTARY ticket issued on the oc-
casion of a lecture in New York city last week
said: =" Rev p. S. Henson, d. d., of Philadelphia,
will lecture ON Fools. Admit one
ENGLAND has become so fond of American ap-
pies that it is estimated she can take an average
OF from 1900 to 1900 barrels week for the
whole market year OF nine months
AN exchange says; "There are probably not
less than 93i7 columns Of papal obituaries in type
in the United States. Does the good man compre-
bend how expensive his obstnacy s?'
TWELVE hundred Arrapahoe Indians have been
removed from the Red Cloud agency to their win
ter quarters at Fort Caspar, in Wyoming Territory.
The country is full of buffalo, elk and deer.
A Doc ,al ia a, haJ
as she about to retire, and was Mortified to see
large tarantula resting quietly in the place where
she was about to stow herself for the night.
FARMER in New Jersey recently fired at a
party of thieves who robbed his house and set fire
to it, killing one of the villains outright and
wounding another so that he died soon after
A RUSSIAN official report says that the Russian
losses at the capture of Kars were . 700 men,
while the Turks lost 5000 killed and wounded,
10000 prisoners, 300 cannon and many flags.
CURIOUS fact connected with the election in
Mississippi is that w. II. Sims was elected lieu
tenant-governor by 100000 majority, while on
the same day the people voted to abolish the office
An ignorant coored girl at Norwich was caught
trying to cut off her hand with a large knife last
week. She had literally read the Scripture: II
thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it of. f."
A SPECIAL Mexican agent has arrived in New
York, who promises that the Diaz government will
soon put down all lawlessness the Texas border,
and desires to encourage commercial relations.
Two large pieces of rock fell from the Canadian
curve of the Horseshoe Fall at Niagara few
days ago. making considerable change in the
appearance of the rock at that point The shock
was like an earthquake
THE prisoners in the GAINESVILLE, Wis, Jail run n
paper of their own Their last issue contains ur.
gent appeals to the county board to clean out the
rats which are becoming so numerous that jail
life ceases to be pleasure.
GRUB Of a boring species was found in a four
foot lath the other day, in Berlin, Conn, that
must have been in the wood for thirteen years a,
least. 1t had eaten almost the whole length OF
the lath, leaving only shell.
The Irish Grand Lodge OF Freemasons has re
solved not to recognize the Grand Orient Of Franc,
as Masonic institution, because Of the latter
elimination from its constitution OF belief in Goo
and the immortality OF the human soul.
A CINCINNATI pork Spectator recently lost al
his money in business. He went home at night
spent the evening writing farewell letters to hi
pected nothing, and then took fatal dose OF vitro
THERE is man living near Whitney's Point
New York, who il sixty-two years old has bee
all over the world and passed through the Mex
lean war and the rebellion, but has never seen tn
corpse OF relative nor been present at
wedding.
BuCKy DosSELLy, notorious Molly Mcguire
was convicted OF murder In the first degree a
Pottsville, Penn. on Saturday last. He mar
ifested no emotion on hearing the verdict, and o
returning to jail said, g guess the squealers ar
satisfied"
THE second canonization OF an American sail
occurred at the Ursuline chapel at Quebec La
week She was known M Marie de Incarnation
saint was Saint Rosa Of Lima, native OF th
hemisphere.
THE timber used in the Comstock mines, NJ
vada, costs $1,000 day; the frewood, mostl
consumed by the steam engines 6,OOO candl,
burned in the mines, 1000; the quicksilver los
So 900; and the Ice needed to cool the water (,
drinking in the hot lower levels, 81, 600 a day.
The Governor of Guatemala has recently co
coded 10 two Americans large tract OF arab
land mt nominal price, on condition that tn,
shall cultivate 1t In the highest style OF America
agricultural art, In order TO give to the natives
model for the better industrial development
that country.
OWING To the prevalence Of scarlet fever at We
lesley College the authorities have temponri
suspended the school. A part OF the young ladi
have gone 10 their homes or to the houses OF the
friends; the remainder will be provided for By h
trustees. About thirty persons are under tre,
ment for the disease.
The colored Baptist church in Lexington, Va
has been rent In twain by discussion OF the ii
ologie, question: " Il it right for member
good standing to go To n circus2' The minisi
said 1t was wrong, and, this view being sustain
by the majority Of his hearers, fifty members
the church were dropped from the roll
YOUNG lady and gentleman recently went
clergyman's house in IIagerstown, Md, to
married. On standing up for the ceremony
bride began To weep and tear her clothing. S
had suddenly become insane, but from what cat
Is not known, rs the contemplated marriage "
desired byher She died on the following day
The st. Paul Pioneer-P Press says that never
fore has there been such demand for land AZ
now seen In Minnesota and Dakota Hundreds
thousands OF acres have been taken up within
past few months, and graft ying feature OF ,
rush is that the seekers after land mostly far