Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-11-14

FAMINE Is feared in siam, anu Ule N'nE "'S
forbidden the expectation of rice
TmAr portion OF Portland, New Brunswick re-
Gently burned is being rapidly rebuilt.
Sr. LAwRrNcE county, ~ Y, claims gold
mine Welding sixty dollars to a ton of earth
MrssRs MooDy and Sankey commence work in
Providence on the first Sunday in December.
;Irun grand jury has ignored the bill against
General Pierson, charged with murder during the
Pittsburgh riots in July last.
TUE Jersey City board Of education has closed
their colored school, and distributed the pupils
in the white schools Of that city.
A srx-sroRy tenement house in Mott street.
New York, contains ninety -nine families, number
ing in all nearly FIVE hundred persons.
CoNanrss will take a weeks recess for Thanks
giving with that exception the extra and reg
ular sessions will make close connection.
Tux Chinese wear two watches, as the English
did in the DAYS of Burke and Sheridan. Chinese
watches show twenty-iour hours on the dial.
SEVERAL hundred coal miners resumed work in
Braidwood Ill.,, on the Sth instant at the com
panys terms They have been idle seven months
A PITTSBURGH, Penn clergyman refuses to at
tend funerals on Sunday, unless the attending
physician certiies it not safe to delay inferno
PARTISAN houses are terribly infested with rats,
and the municipal authorities have been appealed
to for systematic and energetic measure OF rellei
AMAS in Texas was trying to drive stray
mig into its pen when he fell down, and the
animal attacked and bit him so severely that he
died in short time.
The Murphy temperance movement advances
with immense strides in Kentucky, and in some
of the towns of that state more than half the pop
ulation wear the blue ribbon.
Carl. SrRAHL was lynched by an Infatuated
mob mt Columbia ILL.,, on Saturday, for the muir
der of Henry Goetz and his wife, and the robbery
of their premises Of everything valuable.
The late General Forrest was person of nm
governable temper He once drew pistol on
tailor who had kept some of his garments so long
that they had been slightly eaten by moths
SENATOR MoRroN leaves wife and three sons,
the eldest of whom is sick in Alaska where he
went a. government agent lie leaves u very
modest property-probably not over S25,OOO.
GERMANY Austria, France and Italy have
adopted the forage biscuit for the use of cavalry
in the field This invention of compressed horse
food is due to Russian experiments in Bulgaria.
STANLEY is expected to arrive in London in
little less than two months He is now devoting
his time to caring for his health which has suf
fered terribly during his extraordinary journeys
The pianos and organs used in the public schools
of Boston, as well as those of many families, are
tuned by blind pupils from the Perkins Institute,
who are found to be capable of peculiar skill in
that occupation.
CONSIDERABLE attention is being paid in Mexico
to the production Of coffee, that industry having
been largely developed within the past six years
About six million pounds are now annually ex-
ported from Vera Cruz.
PROFESSOR j. L. TODD has critically examined
the petrified man which is said to have been
found in Colorado lie says that it is clumsy.
hewn out of stone, and that it is probably not
more than few years old.
SAN FRANCISCO has the first and the only end
less wire-rope street railways. The cars stop and
start easily, and more rapidly than horse-cars
In eastern cities the frost and snow of winter
would render them useless.
MONTREAL is not any more grateful to her de-
Tenders than some other cities on this continent.
The artillerymen who assisted to preserve order
during the arrangements demonstration have been
Obliged to sue the city for their pay
THIRTy-oNE miles from Colorado Springs, start
ing ont by the grand Uta pass road, is to be found
one of the greatest curiosites Of the continent
grove of mammoth trees in stone, the remains
Of some extinct forest of primeva times
The French wheat crop of this year is below
the average yield. Straw is plentiful, ears arc
many, but grain is small and scanty, especially in