Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-11
Weekly News Summary.

and placed II small box, which he carried, on th'
floor stepped upon it, and reaching over the rail
ing grabbed three thousand dollars and fled.
President seelye, of Amherst College, has be
slowed all Of his salary while a Representative II
Congress from Massachusetts, upon the town
Amherst to be expended in laying sidewalks
throughout the village. Father hyacinth IL t'
take his wife and baby to Paris, and begin preach
ing there on the 18th instant. san Francisco
has thirty milonaires who talk oil forming an rs
socation for the purpose OF devising form O
will that cannot be contested. An English hrn
has contracted for twenty thousand tonsof Ameri
can iron. Frederick 1ahrbush, aged one hun
dred and eleven years, died in New York last
Wednesday Sixteen children were burned tt
death in school-house at the Norwegian village
Of Eengso The Texas cattle drive for the
coming season is estimated at quarter OF mil
lion head . Spotted Tail and Crazy Horse, will
their warriors, are coming In to accept terms OF
peace. Sitting Bull still holds out Louisville
XIV, has been having great revival, both among
blacks and whites One hundred and thirty-onI
persons were baptized in the river Sunday, Apr
1st, by one OF the negro preachers Mr.. T. II
Bartlett now in Paris has finished the clay mode
of the bronze catamount for the Catamount Iav
ern monument, at Fay's tavern, bennington.
Out at Cedar Falls, Ia, a Baptist minister has
been found guilty of ." an attempt to gain reputa
ton as minister by means unworthy of Chris
tian," because he wrote his own putfs for the
paper. . There are sixty-one national banks III
Boston, with a capital of ifty-four millions, that
this month pay in dividends one million six hun
dred and thirty eight thousand dollars. That Is
decline Of twenty-five per cent in two years
Only two Of them pay six per cent, three hVe,
and one four and half. Nova Scotia lar-
mer, passing bad piece Of road, upset his load
OF potatoes Angrily he declared he would make
the road commissioner pay roundly for the dam
age Referring to the list, he found that he was
the commissioner for that district, and he con
cluded to overlook the neglect Of the roads. Gee.
Farmers in Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, and Ne
brlslSa are fearful of renewed grasshopper raw
ages this spring, the heavy SHOWS and frosts OF
the winter having proved insufficient to prevent
the Matching of the grasshopper eggs. a new
bridge across the BIazos river, near Courtney,
Texas, upon which ten men were ut work, fell IN
recently killing three men outright and fatally
injuring all the rest. The famous black horse
that carried Sheridan ON his famous ride from
Winchester ten miles away" was ridden in the
Chicago St Patrck's day procession by Colonel
Terrence The horse is still in fine condition and
and makes a snowy parade charger. a book
that will be interesting is the memoirs OF Jeifer-
son Davis, which the Appetons will publish
another year. Major Wathall, formerly Of the
Mobile Rcqister is preparing it with the assist
ance Of the subject himself. Last week Deacon
A1frad nv nf Wast RnxV1oiu Me shot and
killed by his son, boy of thirteen, who was
angry at q reproof his father had just given him
for disturbing prayer-meetng The savings
banks of Massachusetts,, representing seven hum
bred and thrty-nne thousand two hundred and
eghty-six depositors, with deposits amounting to
two hundred and fOrty-three million three hun
bred and forty thousand six hundred and forty-two
dollars have not suffered any considerable losses
during the past year, and the amount due deposit
tors is five million four hundred and ninety
thousand six hundred and seventy mine dollars
more than was due on the previous year. At
last accounts, Baldwins magnificent new hotel
at San Francisco had thirty guests. The expenses
are something like five hundred dollars Il day. 90.
Charlie Ross, and the Bender family, have been
heard from again, and probably with about equal
NHdhNtS VI tHt SuIll'r'u lhNHAiAN plpNllE W Ut
correct The lost child is supposed to be in San
Francisco, and the Kansas murderers, or person,
resembling them, were found in Arkansas. A
bill has been passed by the Legislature of Tenn
essee to reduce the salary OF the Governor from
four thousand dollars to three thousand dollars
Supreme Court Judges from four thousand dol
lars TO three thousand dollars; Judges of inferio
courts and all special Judges from two THOUSAND
five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars. ..
There are now eight large vessels in Mobile b.
loading with timber for Europe, and four other.
have just cleared. They take on an averag,
wood to the value of ten thousand dollars.
Trials have been made in Rome OF q solution o.
chloride of calcium rs Il substitute for water ii
having dust in the Streets and the results are sal,
to have been highly satisfactory. The dampnes,
communicated to the road remains for a whol,
week The road remains damp without being
muddy, presenting hard surface, on whicl
neither the wind nor the passing of pedestrian
or horses has any effect. A "mad stone" sup
posed To prevent hydrophobia, is being used N
Robert Peterson, who was bitten in several place
by abid dog The mode is to make incsion
over the scars that the wounds left and apply TN
stone, which clings awhile and then drops of
Several physicians are watching the test, and vii
report the result for the Information of their pro
feSsion. man bitten by the same dog that hi
Peterson has died. All Moon, San Francisco
Chinaman being M trial for MURDER was told b,
his lawyer that the best defence would be al
abb. The prisoner said that he could arrang
readily for Witnesses and he did. Three OF hi
countrymen swore that, at the time of the mur
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that he was asleep at home, and Others wou
have sworn that he was in other places had no
the lawyer interposed,