Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-07
Weekly News Summary.

A STORY comes from Rochester that down East,
recently, a man took hog to fat on shares, and
the very next day the beast was killed and fair
half promptly delivered to the owner Wag-
ner the sleeping-car man, is having made In
Troy some experimental new seeping-cars. They
weigh nineteen tons against twenty-four to thirty
four tons-the weight of those now used. An
American vessel will sail from Philadelphia in
day or two Tor Italy, taking home the Italian ex-
hibits at the Centennial The same ship will
take three hundred bales of American prints with
n view to opening a trade between our manufac-
turers and Italy. The man Wintermute, who
murdered General McCook in Dakota, some years
ago, died of consumption ut his fathers house III
New York state the other day. The Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and Washington railroad sub
scrbed for thirty thousand dollars of the Cen
tennial stock, and sold it for twelve thousand
dollars The great tubular bridge Of Montreal
Is one foot shorter in winter than In the summer;
but IL was made to give and take that much, so II
is all right General A, ]. Pleasonton, origina-
tor and strenuous advocate of the theory that blue
glass nterposed between the sun and anything
that grows, has wonderfully stimulating effect
says that he has Just had new proof that he is
right He fell from his carriage In Philadelphia
where he lives, and severely injured his shoulder
and side Physicians gave him no relief, but he
was cured by taking sun baths under blue glass
&C.. Two women and man are under arrest in
Philadelphia, They comprise the Charity Relief
Association They hired house, put out sign,
collected money from benevolent persons, and
pocketed the proceeds They are said to have
operated in the same manner in other cities. ....
According TO the London AImV and Nary gazette
recruiting has been so brisk, owing to general de-
preston in all trades that no fewer than thirty
thousand young men enlisted last year. nurse
dozed by the fire in Shelby, Ky, and II baby fell
off her lap and WAS burned to death. Twenty
snow storms to come Stock cattle sell for three
dollars per head in Texas Governor Kemper
saws the annual value Of all the oyster fisheries
Of Virginia is twenty million dollars There
were three hundred and twenty-eight persons
killed and one thousand and ninety-seven in
iured by railroad accidents in this country last
year 1t is estimated that in Chicago nearly
eight thousand children have been carried away
by scarlet fever and diphtheria within three
months ...A Michigan farmer has held on to
eight hundred pounds Of wool since 1863, expect
ing to get two dollars "A pound. lie says he can
stand it as long as the monopolies can. g.. As an
example of Nanderbilts economy in little things,
it is recalled that few years ago he caused the
bright plates all his locomotives to be painted
black in order to save furnishing. Near Ep
inal France, three youngsters recently bought
two quart bottles of brandy Mt Il fair and drank
the whole within an hour. They soon became ill.,
sensible, and the youngest thirteen years old
died on being taken home; another, aged sixteen
died within few hours, and the third, aged |
seventeen, recovered and attended the funeral of
his two comrades The body of man who |
went to California to regain his health, was re-
Gently shipped in a metallic coffin for his former
home. An express messenger was confident that |
he heard sounds from the coffin, but his associ- |
ates ridicued the idea. When the coffin arrived !
at its destination in Chicago, and was opened, !
unmistakabe proofs of the terrible truth were |
discovered The hands were clenched, the lips |
bitten and the mouth filled with bloody froth,
The man had been alive and it was his moaning |
that had been heard but not recognized The
epizoot is rampant in London. Little girls are
employed as pages in the Kansas legislature. &c.
In 1875, taking the whole country, one business
man in every sixty-nine failed. &c" Within the
memory of the oldest nhabitant Paris has not
had so mild winter as this Many of the
table with a Chinaman. O., The royal family of
England cost the people of that country about
three and half millions per annum The King
OF Italy receives nearly three millions year, and
the thirty-six soyeregns receive about sixty
millions of dollars per annum. Fat hogs sell
in San Antonio Texas, at five cents pound. ...
The toy trade in Paris during the holidays
amounted to nearly five hundred thousand dol
lars. . The late George Dawson said he hated
theology and botany, but loved religion and
flowers. The editor of Turkish Journal in
Constantinope has been whipped to death for tell
ing the truth. The sale of Bibles in Chicago
for the last three months has been three times
greater than it was year ago. A sad story of
the tines One thousand cashiers and book
keepers answered New York advertisement the
other day. Dero Chambers the child wonder
of Barren county, Ky, is dead. He was six years
old and weighed over two hundred pounds, and
younger child of the same parents shows SINH
lar abnormal growth. The chemists have lately
been testing the ground coffees which are for
sale in most grocery stores and report that with
out exception the various brands are adulterated
with chiccory to the extent of from thirty-two to
thrty-nine per cent No wonder New York
lawyers grow rich. Among the items of bill |
charged to hotel company for legal services
by a lawyer were one thousand dollars for draw
ing lease twenty thousand dollars for defend
ing foreclosure suit, fifteen thousand dollars for
drawing mortgages and bonds and twenty thou
sand dollars for general counsel fee. Other items
bring the amount up to sixty thousand dollars.
Payment of the bill was refused, and the matter
is in court.