Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-02
Weekly News summarI.

THF New York Senate has passed n bill pro-
hibit'ng poolselling. The fare from Chicago
TO New York is twenty-three dollars now.....A
Florida man has ordered pictures Of all the Presi-
dents and their wives to be painted by a lady ar
list He gives ten thousand dollars for the lot.
.. Leather In the New York market has adj
vanced eight 10 ten cents within a week, under
foreign shipments. They say now that Tweed
will save ifty-fve thousand dollars on the wreck
Of his finances. The town Of Dalton, Georgia.
has shipped this year two thousand opossum
skins one thousand muskrat and six hun
dred coon Strawberry short-cake has already
made Its appearance in Florida One strawberry
and a half to cake ia the latest quotations..
Seven million dollars were dug out Of the bowels
Of the earth In Colorado last year and It lie thought
that the yield this year will be thirty-Ave mil
lions. Cheap az labor, and especially female
labor is in Switzerland 1t Ia found it can be done
cheaper by American machinery, and WATERFOWL,
n. Y, has just shipped four hundred sewing
machines to that country. johnson G. Kim
ball, Of Dalton, N H., has been sentenced to
thirty years imprisonment for the murder OF his
Sife....A buet-proof passenger-car, weighing
liz thousand FIVE hundred pounds, has been built
1t York, Penn for the Spanish government, for
has returned To Panama, and reports that an in
ternatonal canal can be constructed through Co.
umbia,. One OF Mr. Moody's converts in Bos-
ton recently dsgorged twelve thousand dollars of
embezzlement funds in his possession. A Lon
don dispatch states that boiler in the Alexandria
Hour mills exploded, killing sixteen persons and
injuring many others. Salt Ia now imported in
large quantities from Esrope at low rates Ship
I.
sage The company that published the cata-
logues of the Centennial ion lost one hun
ired and thirty thousand dollars in the enter
rise, and have sued the commissioners for that
4um, basing the claim on a violation Of con-
tract. ... The half yearly report of the Grand
Trunk railroad shows gross decrease OF one hun
lred and thirty thousand pounds This Is attrib-
ted to the competition Of American lines for
traffic to the seaboard, loss OF local traffic and the
deficient harvest The state geologist OF Wis
onsin has just reported that the copper-bearing
ncks OF Lake Superior extend almost uninter-
uptedly across the state The directors OF the
London General Omnibus Company offer prize
Il one thousand pounds for the invention Of a
"heme for effectually recording OF checking the
receipts Of passengers fares. The competition
| for the making Of the colossal equestrian statue
4 Robert +, Lee il to be thrown open to the sculp-
tors of the world All proposals must be pre-
'ented by the first Monday in September "A
gray eagle measuring eight feet from tip TO tip,
| vas killed about five miles south OF Santa Rosa,
| California, recently. He and his mate are be-
| lieved to have carried of hundred lambs du-
| ring the last A Boston Methodist con-
| ,regaton closed their church rather than accept
new pastor that had been sent to them A
brother Of Thomas w. Piper, the Boston murderer,
has bad his name changed to Raymond, on ac-
| count of the family disgrace. A grapevine on
| W. G. Philips premises, near Stockton, Cal,
measures, at distance of one foot from the
ground, twenty-six inches in circumference. ...
law is likely to be passed by the Massachusetts
| Legislature establishing commission OF women
To inspect prisons and hospitals in that state. 1t
| Is to consist OF three women, appointed by the
| Governor, and have authority to examine pub
| lie institutions in which women are inmates.
Boston is To have a :" nervne hospital" for de-
Oilated and nervous persons who are not insane.
| This is to be the realization Of charity planned
by Seth Adams, who bequeathed five hundred
| thousand dollars to endow 1t. Mr. Moody wants
men to pay their debts before they give to the
Lord. William Mulcahey, Springfield poultry
raiser, has three chickens that were Matched in
three weeks by dove, which bird now attends
ihem. The New York canal commissioners an
nounce their determination to open the state
annals May 9th. =. The Bnghampton Republican
'ays that an old lady, just before her death, in
that city, took off and gave to her daughter =
.Sair Of earrings that she had worn eighty -one
ears without removing them, her father having
given them to her when she was six years OF age.
| "a mi d. of aaf ali nruod
Europe Saturday, from New York. The
ost Of burying the dead who were burned to
ieath in the Brooklyn theatre was about ten thou
stnd dollars, which the city has paid An exam
nation Of the bills makes it pretty plain that
hirty per cent. went to political leeches.. g. A
Pennsylvania has lately died Of lock jaw, caused,
is asserted, by his boot chatting his heel. e. A
Union Pacific train was snow bound at Granite
anon for twenty-four hours, on Wednesday Of
asst week. Hon. Caleb Gushing, Minister Plen-
notentiary to Spain, arrived at New York last
riday, by Havana steamer An Albany lad
vas given whiskey by some other boys, he crawled
stupidity absut the sidewalk bumping his head
| ION the pavement, aud finally died from the ef-
ects of the liquor. 1t is rumored that Spotted
Tail, the Sioux chief is to be raised to the dig
1ty of a Colonel in the army, and placed at the
read of a regiment OF indians. Several Indian
'aders in Canada have been similarly compli.
nented LAT mas meeting Of The people OF
he Black Hills. at Deadwood, d. T., Saturday, a
memorial to Congress was adopted urging the
ormaton Of a new territory, embracing the
Black Hills region, to be called Lincoln A res
'lution was adopted accrcditing j. b. Chaffee,
.ena,or from Colorado, as the representative to
rge the claims in the Senate. The New York
World says that Mr.. W II Vanderbilt on Mon
lay drew as his quarterly dividend on Hudson
River Railroad stock one million dollars. The
Whole two per cent. dividend was about one mil.
lion eight hundred thousand dollars, which shows
Mr.. Vanderbilt owns more than half the road
Its profits to him are consequently about foui
million dollars year.