Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
Weekly News Summary.

law in Ohio. -. The Lake Shore road gave St.
Louis lady three thousand dollars for her daughter
who was killed at Ashtabula An uncle Of Miss
Dancer, who left thirty thousand dollars TO vari-
Gus charities in New York, will contest her will.
Forty young women have petitioned the leg
stature Of Michigan for permission to enter the
State Agricultural College. "a tramp in Hud-
son, N Y, begged a pair Of pantaloons. There
was gold ring in the pocket and he brought II
back to It's owner. . There has been an advance
Of freight rates from nearly all western points TO
New York or Boston. The New York custom
house authorities hold a million dollars worth Of
silks consigned to American importers. It is
charged that they have been invoiced at an under
valuation. The California crop reports indicate
fair yield in nearly all the lowand country and
| that watered by artificial means, although In the
| highland portions drought has been sorely felt.
The new Baldwin hotel in San Francisco has
ten thousand dollars worth Of marble clocks. ..
| zee. It costs three times as much money TO drag
sleeping-coach or drawing-room car AZ it does an
| ordinary passenger car. The biggest steer and
heifer in the country belong to Mr. Ayrault Of
Poughkeepse. These weigh three thousand six
hundred pounds and three thousand three hun
bred pounds respectively. The church question,
President Hayes said he left to Mrs. Hayes to
settle altogether 1t is thought she has fixed
definitely upon Foundry church." where they
went one Sunday, for the children were put nthe
Sunday-school there, that day Not only did the
President walk to church, but they Joined in the
singing" and the President put something in the
contribution box. Bouquets are now often sent
to Paris ladies in the shape of fans The flowers
thus serve double use. Senator Sherman has
little adopted daughter whom he took from
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80. The legislature of Indiana has passed bill
forbiddng the changing of text books in public
schools oftener than once in six years. In
Cambridge Mass school is a man ffty-seven
years old learning to read and forty years
old studying primary arithmetic. The Japanese
Minister in Washington is described as looking
not over twenty years old, and as about the size
Of an American boy Of fourteen. lie wears cream
coored trousers, scanned with gold, and black
coat with gold collar The money lost by de-
postors in savings banks in this country, accord
ing to Appieton's Journal, equals only one-fftieth
of the amount paid to deposors in interest by the
banks and is only one-hundredth of one per cent
1 Of the deposits =. The Minnesota Forestry As
ISOLATION has offered to furnish from three to five
= hundred thousand young forest trees and cuttings
, to those who have lost their crops, and now in
D danger of losing their timber claims for lack of
money to purchase. e.. The library of the city Of
j. Paris contains thirty-six thousand volumes and
y fifteen thousand plans or prints, all having rela-
n tons to the French capital. -. The Pennsylvania
It legislature appropriates seventeen thousand dol
Il lars for statues of Penn and Franklin to be placed
y in the national capitol. The London Times Is
y the richest paper and has the largest revenue Of
It any paper in the world. ... The Prince Of Wales
has decided to place his two eldest sons the
ship-of-war Britannia, in order that they may be
r. subject to naval discipline although not
= Sarily with the view to adopting the navy as a
il profession. Augustin Picard Of Rochester, n,
If T., who would have been one hundred and ten
~ years old on the 24th died on Monday. Nor
,r Bishop Lee, recently condemned to death for
, his part in the Mountain Meadow massacre, has
e given up all hope of reprieve, and says he will
IN die bravely. His wife, Rachel, however, declares
n that he shall not be executed by the officers She
H. will shed his blood herself. Abner lluntley,
I'd the one hundred and nine year old man who has
IT, just died at Cuba, n. " rode horseback almost
No to the last Though the Albany penitentiary
IN contains on average one thousand two hun
h. dred prisoners only one has escaped since the
le prison was built, thirty years ago.. The Colo
- RADIO potato beetle has been discovered alive al
n Bremen, on goods from New York Consequently
~ there is a big scare "A Philadelphia oleomar-
T. garine factory is said to turn out about one hun
n dred thousand pounds week. sending it to New
he York ostensbly for export. Dphthera is spread
mo ing like an epidemic in st. Petersburg. The
Al. London Bible Society has sent twenty thousand
l.. Bibles to the Russian Army of the South.
h, Stewards home for working women is nearly
Nd finished, and will be opened in short time
Rooms will be furnished for one dollar per weel