Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-18
WeekII News SnmmarY.

'"S'N"E HuVnps are manufactured at an average
COST OF one cent hundred, In the year 1876
'he seeds received in Chicago, principally clover
anu llhothy, were valued ut more than four mill
non dollars The New York Medical Journal
ciains that bruises do much better when treated
win not than cold water. Corn in Georgia il
SAID TO be as nigh as mans head. e.. The past
ing OF printed slips on the back Of a postal card
obliges the recipient to pay additional postage
'"'ln chicago about five million dollars worth OF
leather is produced annually, furnishing employ
ment to about two thousand five hundred work
men The sale OF hides last year amounted TO
eight million dollars IL is proposed to use the
steamship Great Eastern for carrying cattle from
this country to England. Mr.. Rose, the Eng
lishman who fell into the hands of the Sician
banditti, and had to pay twenty-five thousand
dollars to get away from them, IL now telling his
story In London society. The bandits promised
him the freedom of their country hereafter; his
big ransom money purchased him ife-ticket
..A novelty in animal food IL q soft fine meal
made from hay. The king Of Hollands pet
contribution to the Paris exhibition is to be forty
thousand tulips. Princeton college has an ex-
thinning board at Louisville Kentucky, and will
get fifteen students this yearto pay for it,. An
other great European tunnel will be finished jan
nary lst 1873, through the Pyrenees, connecting
France with Spain. Gudn, the great French
marine painter VINO illustrated the naval history
u france IN sixty-three large paintings in the
| palace OF Versailles under order Of Louis Phil
| ppe, Is going blind. lie is seventy-fve years old
IN SAD letter To a friend on his misfortune, he
'sks Tor secretary to write from his dictation,
ma Immediately adds Alas! cannot dictate
my paintings France is learning lesson OF
England, ana proposes to import American beef
| On large scale-only 1t Is the south American
article that she VIII draw upon at first. joint
STOCK company with an immense capital have con-
trol OF patent reirigeating process and II II
WORKS well they are to build factory near
| buehoS Ayres and do big business, employing
'peci"i Hne OF steamers 10 transact It.. During
tue TWO terms oil PRESIDENT Grants administra-
| 'lon the Puplic deot was reduced four hundred
ana thlrty-slx million, six hundred and eighty
TWO thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars.
| mrs Johh u preen mas given nifty thousand
| uollars 10 the Home Tor orphan children OF sea-
| men, NJ new brighton staten Island Inc
| rresueht oil the ONO rat Men Association has
Just died His name was John Templeton and
| ne Is asserted 10 nave weighed hve hundred and
| I'VE pouhus. Ills wlier VINO survives MN, weighs
oh'y ninety pounds. Inc legislature OF NJ iDne-
sofa mas passed Dill authorizing women to prac-
ice law IN all the courts OF the state The gem
eial raltoau time convention met at Cleveland
iast week. ana resolved to make no material
| chahUes III the tlhe tables ior the summer.
| Inc heaior lahiliy, arrested AT fort smith, Ark,
on suspicion oil being the Bender family, have
oeeh discharged parties from Kansas failing to
| 'uehtiIy them LIT Is sad that European capi-
| ~'hss nave neSotlateu successfully WIN the
rIoru" ihu coihnliss'ohers lOr elght mlliloh uol-
| "rs worth Oh orange lahus' lhey Intend 10
oring INTO inc state TWO or three thousand hardy
FARMERS from Ehslanui Germany, france ana
| lthiy''' 'otra"DerreS are retaining at thlrty-hVe
cents pound In San Francisco, and the lndica-
lions are oil the heaviest yield this summer ever
known IN the state The san Jose tCal.) Her.
| u'u tells now man put three highwaymen TO
| night lie was stopped by them IN Il dark bridge,
Out RAISING MS nmorela 10 MS shoulder ne snapped
the spring on the hahdle' ana the ROBBERS, mis-
taxing the SOUND Tor the cooking oil gun, took
10 ther heels' Inc failures Tor the hrst quar-
'er Vi 1911 were TWO thousahu elght hundred ana
SIN for the hrst quarter oil 1871, the circular
III pun % SHOWS that they are TWO thou-
'ahu eight hundred ana siNty-hlhe' But the ia
Utilities are less thah last year. line New Eng
ana Methodist Conference adopted resolution
expressive oil gratitude To President Hayes and
'ady Tor oahishlhs hquor from their pubic ana
'rlvate receptions About three million ians
we're shipped from japan III lo'2' almost all OF
'hlch came 10 TINS country .'.lhe population
II Maine has decreased sixteen thousand since
tile census IN 1916. Inc FALLING oil Is largely due
% emigration To the West Another delegation
II Japanese students from the Imperial College
now on its way u this country and Europe, to
pend several years in the study OF law or of the
riences In the event OF the European war the
Land oil Perim' tnated at the gate OF the Red
sea- and commanding the seaway from the Medi-
efranean to the lnliah Ocean, VIII become a
econd Gibraltar. England hr't took possession
u the Island IN 1913 abandoned 1t Two years
'ter, aud re-occnpied 1t III 1891 much to the cha
';rin OF the French The dog FISH which Cap
ain Boyton encountered while crossing the Straits
Il Messina was br'vely engaged by the famous
swimmer, who gave ferocious animal prompt
md telling cash in the head with the long knife
re carries in his grdle The fish turned and fled,
mt not without giving its antagonist heavy
blow with its tail, which bruised one Of the Cap
t,in's shoulders. For walking ON the grass aud
smoking in the squares of Philadelphia they
charge five dollars. The tariff is affixed to the
trees .on the 9th OF March Tor the first time,
u Japanese lawyer appeared to conduct case in
the United States Commissioned Court at fo-
kohama. Virginia liquor dealers have raised a
fund to resist the introduction OF the gong punches
provided for under the new whlskey law, just en-
acted in that state The superintendent OF pub
lie instruction OF Iowa has declared that male
teachers in the public schools must not be under
nineteen years OF age and females teachers seven
teen years General sherman Will shortly re-
move his family from Washington TO St Louis.
He will from time to time visit the capital and re-
main there as long as official duties require his
presence. Philadelphia claims to be the greatest
of American industrial centres, to have seventeen
thousand inhabitants, and only seventy-three mil
lion dollars worth Of debt According to the
Transcript, common ground sparrow was re-
Gently seen TO yanquish six English sparrows in
a contest in the Boston Public Garden, and to end
the fight by taking one Of the invaders by the
wing and shaking him, as Il terrier would a rat.
The new jury law OF Florida provides that
when in any case, civil or criminal, knowledge
Of reading, writing, and arithmetic is necessary
to enable juror to understand the evidence to
be offered, he may be challenged If he does not
possess such qualifications. The rapid extern