Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-16
Weekly News Summary.

The Moscow Gazette says that there are forty
thousand men out of employment in Moscow. zee.
Orders have been received by the Russian fleet at
San Francisco to get ready to sail on a moments
notice. .Ex-President Grant, on his arrival In
London will havea special audience with Queen
Victoria and be the guest of Mr.. Disrae and Other
eminent men. Ex-Governor Seymour says that
there is more nutritious food in an acre Of water
well stocked with fish than in the best wheat
growing farm in the state . One of the most re-
spectacle physicians of Boston, once worth one
hundred thousand dollars, and who has devoted
his time and money to deeds of charity, now oc
cupies cell in the Charles street Jail, having
been imprisoned for debt OF one hundred dol.
lars =. Princess Beatrice, youngest and ninth
child of Queen Victoria, celebrated her twentieth
birthday recently. Professor Thomas, Of the
national grasshopper commission, is of the opinion
that the grasshopper pest has about run its course
The widow OF the late James Fisk, Jr is said
to be engaged to n well-known pianist and singer
Of Boston, President Hayes owns three thou
sand acres of mineral land in Virginia Certain
ladies in Rhode Island are taking steps to estab-
lsh home for prisoners whose terms have ex-
pred . Massachusetts farmers are talking of
cultivating the sugar beet and uniting In q sugar
mandatory on a cooperative plan managed like
cheese factories. Only five conclaves for the
election of popes have been held during the cen
tury. go The Empress Dowager of Japan has con-
tributed fifty thousand dollars toward founding
school for young mobiles in Toxic. 81. An Indus
trial College for negroes is to be established IN
Richmond, Va, the intention being to teach trades
Of various kinds. In the porgie oil factories in
Maine, last year, five hundred and eighteen thou
sand barrels Of fish produced one million six hun
dred and eighteen thousand gallons OF oil and six
teen thousand tons of scrap, valued at seven hun
dred and sixteen thousand three hundred dollars
80. The City Council of Newpo t, r. l., has re-
fused to appropriate the usual sum Of none,
granted for the decoration of soldiers graves OF
May S1St... During the past winter it is est |
mated that in Western Texas one million bison.
have been killed for their hides and the carcasse,
left to rot on the ground. .. Notwithstandnl |
the late frosts in the Napa Valley, California, th
largest yield of grapes ever raised in the vale |
will it is said be gathered this season. China
men are to be imported into Havana by stool
company recently organized to supply the plant.
ers with laborers The capital is fixed at tw,
million dollars, half Of which is subscribed 81.
New Jersey firm has lost one hundred thousant
dollars in experiments to find ont how to dy, |
plush for silk hats The best that can be pro
duced in America turns brown under the hoi
iron. Hence the high price of silk hats.,..h
cargo OF tea has just come through from Sal
Francisco to New York in nine days and eghteei
hours-the fastest time on record =. The Steven,
battery at Hoboken, n j., will be afoat in sixt,
days, and the price to be paid by Russia will be
one million seven hundred thousand dollars, it i,
said