Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-31

In the last three months the Russians have lost
sixty-four thousand two hundred men, and the
Turks forty thousand men.
THE Congregational Association of California
recently in session at Sacramento, passed strong
resolutions against Chinese immigration
THE Minnesota wheat crop Of this year is esti-
mated at no less than forty million bushels, not
withstanding the ravages Of grasshoppers.
TEXAS bids fair to be the greatest among the
grain-growing states, the yield to the acre in
wheat being much larger than in California
MIR. Moopy, when he was resting from his
winters work ut Mortified, rested thus he
preached three times on Sunday, and took place
in the Bible class at noon.
THE number of miners killed in che anthracite
coal regions of Pennsylvania in 1876 was two hun
dred and twenty-eight, and four hundred and
sixty-two were wounded.
TnE demand is great for postal cards at the
New York post-ofice this fall. The sales average
seventy-five thousand per day, and on some days
reach one hundred thousand
Two thousand American business firms are
awaiting the official recognition Of the Paris Exhi-
biton Of 1878, by Congress, before arranging for
the exhibition Of their goods.
SOME new publicprecision clocks are to be fitted
up in Paris which will give the time ny electricity
There are many Of these clocks in Brussels, and
and in other great cities of the continent.
on all the rivers in Maine a larger logging bust
ness will be done this season than for many
years. On the Penobscot and kennebec twice ny
many men VIII enter INC "o"'S ~ '''' 'e''
THE corporators OF the seminary oil Notre Dame
Montreal, must be important characters as they
are said to be valued individually at their weight
in gold. Their immense properly Is not taxed
SHAKER community in Kentucky has been
almost broken mp. First Young couple eloped,
next an elderly PAIR went the same way ana Will
in month nine more marriages nave occurred
Some boys in Pittsfeld, Mass, loaded an old
gun barrel with powder on sunday last ana u.s.
charged it. The weapon burst killing two OF
them and tearing OIL one oil the hanus o' thiru'
THE British Board of Trades returns show that
England's trade still declines, the imports for Sep
TENDER having declined one-hiteenth ana the ex-
ports one-thirtleth from those Oh the SAME honth
last year
NUMBER of leading merchants and manufac-
turers recently held meeting in New York, and
formed an association for the purpose OF securing
the representation OF American exhibitors at the
Paris Exposition
Mr. ISAAC SMITH, a farmer in the vicinity OF
Montreal. recently found Canada thistle with a
we-formed potato on the root. It is supposed
that the thistle was underneath, and forced It's
way through the potato.
THE PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company has bought
out the Empire Transportation Company, at Pha-
delphia, paying in round numbers, four million
six hundred thousand dollars Tor It's merchan-
disc cars and equipment
REMARKABLE religious revivals are in progress
in the northeastern counties of Pennsylvania
under the direction of Mrs j. +. Irvine new
evangelist, who is said to possess superior orator.
ical power and magnetism.
PROFESSOR SEEIYE, of Amherst has proposed
the establishment of college exchange" where
the faculty and students may meet and exchange
opinions upon live questions 1t is proposed to
hold meetings once week
THE Massachusetts, Convention of Women's
Christian temperance Unions. Just closed in Wor-
cester protested against the use of alcoholic
liouor in cooking or in the communion service,
and recommended more work in Sunday schools
in behalf of total abstinence.
THE teephone has been successfully introduced
In the poice department in Albany in place of the
telegram No battery is used. The current is
generated by an electromagnetic revolving across
the poles of permanent magnet.
Ir has become very common for ladies of the
Russian nobility in the large cities of the empire
to offer their diamonds to the public treasury,
forms Of slain officers and soldiers.
LAST week fifty carcasses of beef fifty of sheen.
eighty-,ne hogs and two hogsheads of oysters
were shipped from this country to france 1t is
believed that this is the opening of a trade fully
as large IA that built up with England
A CHINESE company sent Chin III Chong to San
Francisco as an agent. selecting him because he
had been in America long enough tn learn the
business WAYS of the country. He has proved hi,
Knowledge ON that subject by abscondnp with five
thousand dollars of the concerns money.
r,,,. p,u,so,,,io po.o., .ons ,ha. ,ho ov,u,
,,'a pas,rao,,, rv,,i,;,,S, ora d,s,,o,,,,an,
have all lost money, and a large number Of then
have EXPRESSED an intention of removing their ex
hibits before the commencement of winter.
ea,,,,,a ro,..,o,., ,,o,,... or. ,,,at.;u, ,,a
go ,,,o aa,,,a =, o,,.,,,i,,,' o,noooiod ,yaa,,on
,,hoh ,no,,ai,, l., s,a,o ,ooI,oI,,ou If Which
,,,g,,,, ,as,,l, Il, h,ood
slaa ,'',J -. ,,,a, ,is,ra,a. vontno,,
r,,, ,,.,n,o,,, 1a.. ,anrt.o,,r,n, ,ntorost !
,hia
-, F'!''1,,'. A., -
.,'.. ,.., - 1,1 po,a,n, f., ,,n, ,or,,
,,.,a -, 80 49,, ..,a-7..,-, ,'a,.a No., q,
-, ...,,
A"i'oh"S Vi le~eAs Vi '"'e anu no'o' ''''''
I,on, India Tho, cnnsist ~ Tiers, claws richl
docnra,od win yirgin ,,old roo claws with IN
- ,,,,a,,,a. ,or,, orosoou, and .or
- III "a ai.,,a ,,ro ,sod a, oar,ino
o""H '"on'"s aso ~, oP""'"' VI o''e'i' '''''s
III "ruer 70 eAP'"'h " MS "uu'ehoe ''e N"i"''"i
oil the pulse III certain diseases, ca"seu Tue io'u'
room 70 pe p'"ceu III 'eies.aPn'o eo,'''''i'e'''o
,'. =, ,,,, ,'a,
.I,a NO., d. ,,,ro ,vhi,,i,od H., ,,i,,,,,in %
,,,,h, ~ III,
VI NOS 49, W"
How aud where prairie dogs in their village
far away from rivers get water was not four
o,. ,,p,il raeo,ti, ,,ho, NJ u uaroar a from
o"' 'N'' - -
iersman oil experience learned by oDserNatloh th
the dogs dig their own wells. Each village HI
one with a concealed opening lie knows Of OIL
t,,o hundred feet deen with a circnlar nath
Ii -. 4. .i'..
s1'''o'Se 'e"'i"s uo"" ~ ''o ""'oi'
A MARVELLOUS escape from death by ightnir