Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-24
Weekly News summary.

THE British corvette Iris being fitted out at Ply
mouth, Is the first steel-plated man-of-war built.
TnE Texas cattle fever has appeared in st. law
renee county, N. " and eleven animals have died.
TREVOR W. PARK has brought libel suit
against the New York Tribune for one hundred
thousand dollars
CANDIDATES for commissions in the British and
German armies will hereafter be required to know
the Russian language
THE famine will cost the Indian government
fifteen million pounds besides the loss Of revenue
and other indirect effects
WITHIN the last -four years three million three
hundred and twenty thousand bushels Of peanuts
have been harvested in the United States
The Grand Duke Nicholas COMMUNICATIVE Chief
oil the Russian forces in Bulgaria, il said To he
suffering from violent disease Of the liver
The American Print Works, at Fall River Mass
have stopped work. This step is taken on nc
count Of the limited demand for dark prints
IN MI Russia and NIL Turkey should come 10 en-
gage in the strife, there would be eighty-seven
million Russians fighting forty three million Turks
GRAssHorrEHs are considered good barnneters
in the West. After the sudden descent Of aswarm
to the earth, rain falls within half an hour.
LAND-LocKEDs salmon are running up the Songo
and Crooked rivers in Maine, and are so numer-
Gus in some places that they can be taken out
with the hands.
Four thousand bushels Of apples have been
shipped from Rouses Point ~ Montreal and other
places in Canada this season They bring seventy
five cents per bushel.
TWENTY years agoit required over five tons Of
coal TO make ton Of iron rails; now ton Of
~stsf rails may be produced from the ore with
~ THAT quantity OF coal
In the suit OF Mrs Phoebe Robertson rs. James
G. Bennett Of the New York Herald, for libel, the
jury render verdict against the defendant for
ten thousand dollars damages.
ANCIENT leather boots Of the thirteenth and
fourteenth century are frequently thrown mp in
the progress Of excavations made in London
They are very curious and clumsy affairs.
THE province Of Ceava, in Brazil, il suffering
from famine and appeals to the world at large for
help. England and Portugal have extended aid
and subscription has been opened in New York
A HANDSOME granite shaft il now being put up
by the people Of Pembroke, n. H., ON the spot
where Josie Langmad was murdered, and on it
is an Inscription relating the manner Of her death
An Illinois man who accidentally drawn into
some machinery the other day was saved from
death by his watch falling from his pocket and stop
ping the machinery by falling into the cog-whees
IT WAS feared that severe frost in Florida last
winter, had so injured the orange trees that they
would not bear well this fall These fears have
proved groundless; there will he larger crop
than ever before
A DISPATCH from Glasgow, Scotland dated the
22d says that an explosion has occurred in rol-
iery, near that city. Four hundred men were in
the mine at the time, and two hundred and thirty
two lives were lost.
A NEwsBoY on PENNSYLVANIA railroad il likely
soon to receive twenty-five thousand dollars the
amount of insurance upon the life Of his father,
the payment Of which had been resisted by the
insurance company.
IT now appears that White Bird and thirty
warriors escaped when Chief Joseph surrendered,
aud have joined Sitting Bull. That chief well
comes them If they wish to join him. but declines
to fight their battles for them.
| The body OF lady which arrived at Pittsfield
Mass, from Grafton, Ohio, on Monday Of last
week, was found tn be petrifed. 1t weighed two
hundred pounds, and the trunk and arms were in
perfect state Of petrifaction
MAN in Sunderland, England walked one
hundred and sixty-eight miles within forty-eight
hours on the nth and 18th of September 4 day
| or two after he died of heart disease caused by
| over exerton and excitement
KENTUCKY man who went to the Black Hills
wrote back to a local paper, saving: "Offer a
| premium at your coming fair for the biggest fool
in the country, and I'll try and get there in time,
and feel confident make way with it,
ONE Harvard student is paying his way through
| college by turning his room into "A stationery and
| book store, and another, graduate from Wes-
eyan University is meeting his expenses at the
law school by working in BARRIERS shop
The roof and great part of the wall of the
Cont House at Rockville, Ind, fell in the other
day, burying twenty persons, including Judge
Hanna and Il number of lawyers in the ruins No.
body was killed, but several were severely injured
A GENTLEMAN in Champaign, n Y, recently
lost twelve hogs in very strange manner They
were fed in the morning with beet and pumpkin
boiled together, and an hour afterwards were
found dead. 1t is supposed that the beet leave.
poisoned them.
SWEDISH Moody, young man oftwenty four
+. \. Skhosberg by name has been conducting a
series Of most successful revival meetings in Min.
nesota lie is said To be a speaker much like
Moody, simple, earnest and eloquent, of fine per
'onal appearance, and gifted singer ~ well.
ONE of the Harvard professors was attacked by
a student the other night, who strobe NJ to the
professor in horse car, gave him a stunning
\ \ Il. l..
and escaped before the bewildered professor
could raise the hat and see who his assailant was
TERRIBLE railway accident recently occurred
on n Russian railway in the valley of the Don
Seven ears containing nearly four hundred Alb
chasian prisoners on their way to Siberia wer,
completely destroyed and not single man OF
the Abchasians survived They were, as usual
chained together
| WENDELL PHILLIPS will only lecture this winter
within short distances of Boston lie says he
begins to feel the weight Of years (he Is sixty
that he has enough of this worlds goods. aud IL
now glad to leave the lecture field To younger ~.
pirants He pays taxes this year on two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
THE war correspondent of the London Ne,o,
says that Mt the battle near Kazelevo where the
Russians were defeated, y Russian officer. who
was observed CALAMITY endeavoring to rally the
men, was killed, and the body when subsequently,
discovered, proved to he that of a woman she
was buried where she fell"
THE New Haven, Conn, Journal reports a new
pest on apple trees, a bug that eats its way into
the fruit leaving only II small aperture Once in
side it leaves nothing but the seed cells and the
skin Of the apple which retains its form and