Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-09
Weekly News Summary.

The valuation of property in England exclu-
live of London, was greater by two million eight
hundred and sixty-seven thousand pounds in 1875
han in 1875, Recruiting has been in progress
20 briSkly of late that nearly every regiment in
he English service is full When it is noon in
Jew York it is seven o'clock in the evening at
.onstantinOple and the fighting Is all over In
i"nmana for the day.. Two physicians in Des
.ones, Iowa. have applied for positions as sur
eon- in the Russian army IA trunk on a wagon
# the New York transfer comrany was robbed
he other day, while standing in the stable of fifty
hree Thousand dollars worth OF diamonds....
The Chicago Tribune and Times have each sent
nan to London, To establish special news bureau
Turing the war 49,. The West Point graduates
this year will number seyenty-seven, the largest
lass record, It is reported that the Stevens
attery has been purchased by the Russian gov
Tnment for one million dollars. Five muir
erers, four of them Molly Maguires will be hung
Pennsylvania June 2lst. Texas stockman
eceutly sold to parties in southwestern Kansas
orty thousand head Of cattle and two thousand
orses for one hundred aud forty thousand dol
lars in silver. A large number of applications
nave been made at both the Russian and Turkish
consulates in New York for enlistment as soldiers.
1t will carry four hundred and fifty thousand feet
Of lumber, and will be the first shipment thence
TO that country, Thirteen years ago negro
burglar shot man in house in Atlanta, Ga
rhe other day he wrote from Kentucky, inauirng
If the mar died of the wound and his letter has
ed to his arrest for the murder . Ir the English
convict prisons prisoner is only allowed to have
one letter written for him by the school-master to
hic d. Li,h; 1,
I wonderfully stimulatve effect in making them
learn to write. An Ohio man has the odd fancy
that the shape of clouds reveal to him God pleas
ure or displeasure His Imagination enables him
to see the outlines OF face every morning in a
cloud, and the expression of that face, he says,
shows him whether his conduct is meeting with
divine approval The Niagara water-power
property, on the American side of the Niagara
falls was sold at auction last week, 1t was bid
of at seventy-one thousand dollars. The At
lanta Constitution says there are men still
hiding in the mountains of the upper Georgia
counties who have never heard of the conclusion
of the war, and afraid to venture ont lest they
should be conscripted for service in the rebel
army, 1t is estimated that the peach crop this
year will be the largest that has ever been known,
and will reach about eighteen or twenty million
baskets. The experiment OF shipping them to
Europe will he tried again, Western Judge
recently sentenced man to Imprisonment for
life. Before removal from the court the prisoner
exclaimed that the judge was no gentleman. The
indignant jurist added two years to the sentence
A terrible hurricane swept over Pensacola,
Fla, last week, prostating over fifty houses,
causing loss of life, and njuring and manning
many citizens The victims are chiefly poor and
there is a call for outside aid q. Georgia paid last
year three million Ave hundred thousand dollars
for material to iertilize her lands and the average
product Of her cotton per acre is reported as "a
little less than two hundred and fifty per cent
... The Baron Rothschild, who is at the head of
the Vienna firm, is said by the papers of that city
to possess the annual income of thirty million
dollars, This is the small sum Of seventy-fiye
thousand dollars II day. The trade in human
hair at Marseilles last year amount d to ninety
two tons, and in France to hundred and
twenty-five tons, valued at nine hundred thou
sand dollars, One OF those rare occasions, a
diamond wedding, was celebrated at German
town, n, j., the other day, by Hiram Gulick and
wife, who are ninety-seven and ninety -four re-
spectively... Mary Nentress, wife of a Clayton
tAla,) planter, lit a pipe while riding with her
little boy the other day, when her clothes caught
fire and she was burned TO death, while her son
was badly burned in trying 10 save her.. The
last sewing-maclrine patent expired on the LIST OF
May, and the manufacture is now open To COM
petition. secretary sherman has directed Post
master James TO bury those who were killed, and
relieve the wounded, at the recent post-offlce acct
dent in New York city, at the public expense
new fish law has gone into effect in New Jersey,
forbddng the catching of fish by any contrivance
except hook and line. For each breach of this
law a fine of twenty dollars may be imposed. 60.
Funds are now being collected by the property
owners of New Orleans to test the legality of
twenty million dollars of the ctys Indebtedness
The cost OF the production of cotton in the
South is greatest in Mississippi and louisiana,
while 1t is least in Texas, South Carolina, and
Georgia. From December 18th, 1869 To March
Sist last the names of over two hundred thou
sand persons were placed ON the register of hab-
itual criminals In England and Wales A bill
has passed the Illinois legislature authorizing
railroad conductors TO stop trains and put on
everybody playing cards for money OF using OBJ
scene language. Miss Frances H. Willard, who
has been so successfully working IN Boston with
Moody and Sankey has been selected TO deliver
the baocAaureate address to the graduating class
at Lasell Seminary Auburndale, Mass, In June.
, The national debt Was reduced one million
three hundred aud fifteen thousand i've hundred
dollars during the month OF April