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

Two thousand acres of land were recently sold
in Alabama for cent an acre. Plans have
been perfected for the erection in Omaha of a
large college, by Catholics funds for the same
having been bequeathed by the late Edward
Creighton News has been received in Chicago
If the death of the famous lady lawyer of that
city, Miss Alta NJ. Hulett, which occurred in San
Diego CAL on Monday Of last week. E. Califor-
MIA newspapers allege that that state, and San
Francisco in particular, furnishes greater num-
her of cases of paralysis than any other similar
region in the country, if not in the world The
Rev DIR. John Cummings, of London, says that the
world and Europe especially, is at this moment
upon the eve of the greatest catastrophe which
has ever happened in the history Of mankind.
During the recent gales in the North sea, thirty
six vessels and smacks belonging to Yarmouth,
Lowestoft, Grimsby, Hull and Ramsgate, Eng
Land were lost and two hundred and fifteen men
and boys were drowned, leaving entirely desti-
tute eighty eight widows, one hundred and sixty
six children, and fifteen aged relatives. Mr..
James Irvine the great sheep farmer Of Los An
lelos county, California intends To kill thirty-nine
thousand sheep ON account of the drouth which
prevails in that region. lie owns, altogether,
forty-fve thousand sheep and one hundred and
seven thousand acres OF land. ...A missionary
in Picking, China, writes that on one Sabbath
during the week of prayer more than one hundred
native Christians sat down at the Lords Supper
in one of the chapels. He says that ten years
ago the Chinese converts in that city could have
been counted upon ones ten fingers, A chair
OF homoeol athy is to be established in the Iowa
State University during the summer. Here
after the students OF Williams College must stay
| ipdn of IN
day has just been prohibited by the faculty..
| French boarding-school for girls is mentioned
where prize is offered to the best mender of old
| clothing, in addition to those for general excel
lence in studies The state of Missouri offers
five cents apiece for rat scalps. Williamsburg.
| n Y, is killing all her Sptz dogs-four thousand
of them The Newfoundland seal fishery prom
ises we'll The steamer Greenland has come in
with twenty-seven thousand seals. Four barns
belonging to a Hartford mikman, together with
seyenty-fye tons of hay and thirty cows, were
burned Friday night. Secretary Schurz talks
to the army of applicants for office in three Ian
guages, English German and French, and still. he
| fails to make them happy. The Russian gov
| eminent orders that all locomotives and rolling
stock purchased by Russian railroads must hence
| forth be manufactured In Russia-whieh is an
| other heavy blow to German industry. There
are thirty-two veteran soldiers and sailors in the
Rensselaer,, n. Y county poor-house, The Buff
falo Commercial says that an effort will be made
next session to introduce steam generally on the
canals, the experiment last year having been very
| successful =. The Moffett bill to insure the col
lection OF the tax whisky by means of an in
strument something like the ear be-punch, passed
the Virginia legislature Friday. 1t will be put up
| in every bar-room. The tax on lager per drink is
| half a cent and on alcoholic liquors two and a
| half cents =. The temperance movement under
the lead of Mr.. Murphy of Maine has brought
over two thousand three hundred people, includ-
| ing some liquor sellers, to sign the pledge at
| Hornellsville Depot n Y, in four nights. Mrs
Robb, of Corpus Christi, annually fattens fifteen
| thousand beeyes for the market. The Cattle
| Queen of Texas is the title given her by for
| eign paper. SO. A bill before the New York Sem
| ate makes it u crime for anybody to deiace nat
ural scenery by painting advertisements upon it.
| .. The brig Harriet from Liverpool for st. john
| n. f., with valuable cargo OF British manufac-
tured goods has been lost with all but two of her
crew. The Cherokee and Creek Indians are
setting out thousands Of apple trees. Nine
vessels of the Long Island fishing fleet averaging
| in value about six thousand dollars each, well in
sured, and having sailed with over ninety men on
board, are missing, and supposed to be lost
with their crews, Minnesota, by very large
majorities ia both branches of the legislature, al
| lows women to practice law in all its courts....
| The Dr. Reynolds temperance reform work in
Michigan continues with surprising results. He
has organized forty clubs in fourteen weeks, hay
| ing a membership of thirty thousand The
| Missouri legislature has defeated the proposition
to establish the whippng-post for lack of the
| requisite twothirds vote, though it secured bare
| majority in the House Dark papers and sill
yer or gold ink are the latest notion in stationary
| 90, The Salt Lake Tribune estimates that since
the settlement of Utah over six hundred murders
| have been committed by the order of the Nor
mon priesthood Boston has begun to can and
| ship baked beans. "a method Of marbleizing
| the native pine has been discovered in Florida,
and factory is turning out nantels that can
| hardly be distinguished from the stone The
ministers of Nashville Tenn, and vicinity for
mally protest against the expense OF funerals
prescribed by custom, They insist that carriages
should be provided only for the family, and that
others caa walk or pay their own bills.
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| KATE FIELD seems at last to have got footing
on the London stage. Some OF the best critics in
the press speak most kindly of her acting