Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-17
Weekly News Summary.

Juice on the floor Of church in Chambersburg, Ill
THE Dartmouth College navy has been dis
banded and boating wholly given up because o
the heavy expense.
An explosion occurred in coal mine in Eng
land on Thursday Of last week, by which forty
miners lost their lives.
EXCAVATIONS for the tunnel under the channel
between France and England have already been
begun on the French side.
SIXTEEN hundred sheep were sold lately in Sar
Bernardino, California, for four hundred dollars
or twenty-five cents a head.
A NORTH CAROLINA girl pierced her ears in
order to get pair of earrings, and got instead
four-and-a-half-pound tumor
LAND around Norfolk, Va, is in great de
mand. with prices one-third higher than befor,
the war, and constantly rising.
Four little girls in Robson county IN. c. died
lately Of diphtheria so near together that they
were all buried at the same time.
RED RIVER land that has been in cultivation one
hundred years produces ears Of corn eighteen
inches long and ten in circumference.
MAcKEREr, equal in flavor and weight to those
OF the Atlantic coast, are caught in large numbers
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FIRM oil underwriters IN san Francisco caters
10 the desire oil ts poor patrons oy hirng 10 'he'n
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NEBRASKA Judge deciued 10 give morse
thiet one more chance TO REFORM AS the leilow
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THERE is an abundance oil wheat ana barley re-
naming In bulgaria Every hamlet Is crowded
WIN immense s'acNs Oh gram WINE very large
crop oil ihdian corn Is awaiting the husoahdhah'
lhE railroads cehter'hg IN Worcester MASS q,
are all doihg the pese ireight business IN several
years MOST oil inc goods are consigned 10 ne"
iork Joooers' ana are intended ior southern 'faue
A CONVENTION of bee-keepers is to be held in
New YORK TINS week. mere are said 10 De loo'ooo
oithem IN TINS country lhey own 'o'oo'o"'ooo
oees' anu ooe'h ''oVV'ooo pouhus Vi money yearly
PROFESSOR LEWIS SWIFT, of Rochester, says
that six comets have been discovered this year,
and that two faint ones are now visible with the
teiescope' one In the evening, the other IN 'he
morning sky
THIRTY thousand people are engaged in the oys-
ter trade of Baltimore, and more than seven hum
dred schooners and pongies form Its chesapeake
oyster heet' some experts VIII open twenty-five
gallons day
LAST week an old man in Cleveland Tenn }
named John Carpenter killed his sleeping daugh-
ter, and his little granddaughter, aged eight
years, and then shot himself lie was seventy
three years oil age
AMONG the novelties of the coming Paris Exhibit
ton will be youth of fourteen, with feet shaped
precisely IKE MS hands. lie can use them ior
the same purpose, ana pays upon the piano with
oo'h lahus ana iee''
Mr.. DANIEL WARD, of Stickleyville Wa has
just died at the age of one hundred and ten. He
was wealthy farmer, ana he himseh super'h-
'enueu ms business uuiihs part vi every u"y up
10 ''e t''"e OIL MS dea'h'
slNrEEN milk dealers were fined from 50 to
so each, in New York last week. for having sold
adui'erated mix one dealer was hned sioo Tor
he oo"sn' MS MIX On Long isiahu
ur to and including Monday evening of last
week, the number OF signers TO the Murphy tenn
perahce piedge IN rort JEWS N J'' had reached
Law MANY OIL THESE nave oeeh haru urihkers'
ana 'hey are now 'he haruest WORKERS.
A STRANGE phenomenon recently occurred on a
farm in Port Jervis n j. plot of GROUND
about thirty feet in diameter suddenly disap
Peaieo from .he surface Oh neiu leaving Il hoi'
III the ground upward oil nifty feet deep
A NEGRO preacher in Houston county, Ga
beat his little girl to death with horse whip, be
cause she could not find key, and carried tn,
body off into the woods and buried it, lie was ar
rested In the pulpit ana VIII propaoly be hung
Two persons high in social life at Salt Lake
Utah, were married the other day without an,
ceremony whatever, the parties merely agreein,
to live as husband and wife, each reserving tn
right to withdraw from the contract at any time
THE fact that Mr.. Spotted Tail and his Siou,
companions went to sleep in a Washington churc
and slumbered profoundly until after the contrj
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ou'ioh ooA was passed. Is uakeh as incoh'ro'er'
ible evidence of their capacity for high civilization
Np,y t,sb botcbi,o, as,a llishr,an+ In ply,,onth
w ia no.r,v enishad ana Eoo ono CaI,,orni
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Salmon eggs are 10 DE received ior hatchlhg' ID
next May 10000 land-locxed salmon and seyera
Thousand brool front will be ready for dstrihntior
The United Staps Supreme Court has decide
that life insurance companies are not liable /