Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-29
Weekly News Summary.

to have been raised without the Use of Paris green"
A FAIR is to be held next December in Boston
to aid in the preservation of the Old South Church.
BoABDs of arbitration to avert duels and settle
affairs Of honor are becoming popular in Georgia
IT is stated that the Lake Shore road has paid
three hundred thousand dollars on account of the
Ashtabua disaster.
The New York papers have report that J. G.
Bennett is engaged to marry young French lady
of aristocratc family
TmE Methodist clergymen of Philadelphia de-
nounce the managers of the permanent exhibition
for opening on Sundays
MAN in Iowa is said to have been poisoned
by eating cabbage which grew near potato field
where Paris green had been scattered.
"LAwYER," the so-called main chief of the Nez
Perez Indians, has a brother in Oregon who is a
regularly ordained Presbyterian minister.
A FARM hand for harvesting is paid in central
Italy seven cents day, and considers himself
lucky man to find employment at that rate.
IT is said that twenty per cent of the one hun
dred and fifty thousand working people of Phil
adelpha are almost in IA condition of pauperism.
A DISPATCH from Ann Arbor announces the
finding of new planet by Professor Watson, ofthe
Michigan University on the night of August Sth.
THE Pittsburg people have presented one thou
sand dollars to the family of Lieutenant j. Dor
sey Ash, who was murdered by the strikers in
that city.
IT is now stated that Whttier's great ambition
at present is To buy the old family homestead
now occupied by an Irish aborer, but he is too
poor to do
The police of Little Rock, Arkansas, are to be
furnished with light scaling ladders, the better tn
facilitate the detection of gambling in second
stories of buildings.
THE St. Paul Press says the immense crops in
Minnesota have produced an extraordinary de-
mand for land and hundreds Of people will open
new farms next year.
ONE thousand bushels of blackberries have been
picked from the Moosic mountains, near Scranton,
Penn. this season. The strikes have added
largely to the army of pckers.
LORD DuFFERrN his wife and daughter, when
visiting lockwood Manitoba, were drawn in a
Red river cart by thirty oxen, under a triumpha
arch built up OF sheaves OF wheat
The Shakers at Enfield, N H. have lost foui
girls lately by marriage, and are trying to pre-
vent further defamation by having one of tn,
husbands prosecuted for abduction.
THE woman's rights society of Paris has beer
dissolved by order of MacMahon's government
and ordered to cease holding meetings The gov
eminent considered it a nest of radcalism.
The REV. HENRY WARD BEEoHER, having
safely escaped from hay fever and got into tn
mountains, is delivering series of morning ser
mons to the guests of the hotel where he i
stopping
THE Georgia convention has decided to leav
the location of the capitol to the people. 1t ais
provided that the homestead il not to exceed on
thousand six hundred dollars either of personalt
or realty.
THE Sioux delegation, including Spotted Tai
Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull who ma
sacred Custer, and head men Of Crazy Horse
band, are expected at Washington about the 25t
OF September
; The Germanizing of Alsace and Lorraine
! steadily and remorselessy proceeding, The late
\ edict changes the names Of ninety villages, su
e stituting German FORMS which are alone to
used in the future
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