Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-04
Weekly News summary.


Victoria, Mt Windsor on Tuesday Of last week
TnrRE are two women In the Kansas state
prison under sentence to be hung for the murder
Of husbands
A prrTsBuHd paper observes that there is not
| an unmarried woman in that cit, who remembers
the last seventeen-year locusts
CAPTAIN CRAPo and wife, who started across
the ocean in a small boat from New Bedford, have
been sighted rs late as June Goth
Mr. BEEcHER has considerably reduced his
salary editor of the Christian Union from ten
| thousand to five thousand dollars
The Methodist ministers have Joined in con-
denning Mayor Prince Of Boston, for refusing to
prohibit wine at the banquet to the President
PRIVATE information from Paris IL to the effect
that the great Exposition will necessarily be post
poned, owing to the Eastern war and the political
crises ut home
| THE Grand Trunk Railway shops in Montreal
have been shut down " for month The sus-
pension adopted in preference to dischargng
some Of the hands
THE commencement at Vassar last week was
largely attended The yaedictory was by Laura
Johnson wylie of Pennsylvania, The graduating
class numbers forty-fve.
is district Of Northamptonshire, England
school board has decided to give glass Of beerto
each Of the elder pupils who at the end Of the day
is at the head of his class
THE Brooklyn health board has ordered the
prosecution otthirtyseven ministers among whom
are Mr.. Beecher and Mr. Tamage for failing to
make returns Of marriages
THE New Hampshire state prison contains one
| hundred an aixtN fpn,ipts nd he on pf
the year just closed exceed the expenditures by
over eight thousand dollars
PARTY of riotous young men, belonging to
the wealthiest families Of Pittsburgh, have been
sent to the work-house for ninety days They are
denied the alternatives of paying fines
THF model town in the state of New York is
Alfred 1t has two thousand inhabitants has
never had single glass of liquor sold within its
limits, and never pauper to support
FROST and McKevey the temperance apostles,
have just closed very successful series of tenn
perance meetings at Meriden, Conn, having re-
ceiyed one thousand signatures to the pledge.
A TwESTy-FouR pound turtle, recently cap
I tured at Norwalk, Conn, was strong enough to
move about from place to place while bearing
its back man weighing two hundred pounds,
j CHARLES TAYLOR coored lawyer from Bos-
ton, has been admitted to practice in the United
States courts in Maryland. This is the first in
! stance of the admission Of a colored man to the
+ bar in that state
DIR J. c. AVER. with fortune estimated at
. fifteen million dollars il doomed tn spend his
" time in an Eastern insane asylum. Counsel ON
both sides have agreed to his retention there for
an indefinite period
, The Centennial hoard of finance has made the
. last navment of the government centennial annro
priation and has received a RECENT in fn for one
million five hundred Thousand dollars from the
;, Secretary of the Treasury.
Fr,ps Of serious tronble on the 10Th Of ,Julv are
entertained at Montreal The Irish upons nnm.
herring abont two tbousand five hundred members
e advertise n speoial meeting The Oraneemen are
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