Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10
Weekly News Summary.

1ox,ruAx Rtcr. of Lowell. Mass oue of the
killed. Mt Asbtabula. tool, ont "A four thousond
dollar nolicv on his lifc inst before he started on
his trim. Twenty wears ago the product of wool
In California did not exceed two hundred thou
sand pounds year. This wear it will not fall far
short of fifty millions of greatly snperor quality
49,, The one hundredth anniversary of the battle
of Princeton was duly celebrated Wednesday Of
last week. by a sham hattie speeches etc. The
Indiana insurance commissioners estimate that
outside companies have fifty million dollars at
loan nj nine and ten per cent. in that state.
Two man In pahvlon Conn. one day last week
sbo, and hocood tvo hundred and twenty.seyeu
wild ducks ali broadbills. from An opening in the
loo osr sampvams Point. Six thousand per-
sons perished in the flood in Silesia in 1918.
The Crimean war cost England twenty-five thou
sand men and one billion dollars in gold. ....
Fourteen whales have been killed off Pigeon
Point California, this season. The value of
petroleum exported from Philadelphia in Noyem-
Der was one million three hundred and fifty-fve
thousand dollars. . Italy produces thrty-three
million gallons of olive oil, annually and France
some seven million gallons. d. Elk County. Pa.
uses forty thousand cords of hemloclS bark an
nually. and turns out three hundred thousand
sides Of sole leather. The PHILADELPHIA Le,iger
thinks that the remainder of the Geneva awar,'
should be returned to England. Large ouan-
titles of marble for building purposes are being
shpped to San Francisco. The names of one
hundred and thirty-two Young women have been
entered as students of the Faculty of Medicine at
st. Petersburg. In Germany the usual nav to
women engaged in manufacture Is from one dol
lar and n quarter to two dollars ner week Some
receive as high as six dollars The rebuilding
of the Tujleres and its transformation into n mu-
seum have been decided npon nv the French pov
eminent. The prospects for the Paris Exposi-
ton of 1878 are looked upon rs gloomy in pres
ence OF the existing European complications. 90.
A drove Of two thousand three hundred hogs have
been driven from Ilano and Mason counties into
johnson county. Texas, to be fattened on corn Mt
fifteen cents n bushel. San Francisco has
shipped several carroes of wheat To Australia and
New Zealand this season. Australia has here
tofore been n very considerable grain exporter
80. Ole Bull has pitched upon residence at Leila
non Maine: his mother-n-law lives in Wisconsin
-. Missouri has a constitutional provision for
bidding members Of the legislature accepting rail
road free passes .. OF the sugar crop the New
Orleans Times saws: a. The prospect is from pres
ent indications, remarkably fine, not only for a
good yield, but for good quality good price and
economy in taking off the crop. The Weld of
molasses will not be so great but the quality will
be better than usual" E. Silver has recently
been discovered in Elk county. Kansas provi-
dence, H. l., received ninety-nine thousand dol
lars for liquor licenses last year Early grain
is reported to be looking well along the Pacific
Coast. There are thirteen miles of grogshops
in New York, according to the Tribune. Panes
of glass sponged with alcohol will not IL is said
become encrusted with ice 49, A seizure of TWENTY
five thousand Struggled cigars was made last
week by customs officers in New York West
ern Massachusetts farmers to considerable num-
Der talk of settling in North Carolina After
the 23d of this month the Cunard steaners will
sail from BOSTON only once n fortnigbt Opeep
Victoria was. ON New Years dav. unclaimed
"Empress of India throughout that vast country
The second trial of .Josenh Iapope for the
murder of Josie Langmaid. has been assigned for
the Both of February of twelve fatal accidents
ON the Providence and Worcester railroad last
wear. ten were caused bv walking on the track
Lieutenant. Governor Sisson Of Rhode Island
raised two thousand five hundred bushols of corn
ON thirty-fiye acres the mast season Forty c.r.
loads of annles COLLECTED from ope bprdred and
seyen farms in the vicinity Of Northboro Mass
have been Skinned for the English markets
In the woods in some uortions Of Rocl; Island and
Massachusetts the snow il renorted IN he tyeptv
inches deem on the level A water famipe is
threatened in Hartford Conn. Unless there il a
thaw the present month. the situation will he So
rious.. e. A. Woodward. of the Tweed RING has
been released on his own recornizance. He has
surrendered one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, and will be witness in the ring suit On
account of the hard times several of the New
York churches are uniting down their cboirs and