Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-09-05

hundred thousand dollars.
TwENTY days ago diphthera entered the Loomis
family at saltwater n. Y, and has since carried
off the wife and seven children
The Pennsylvania oil wells are estimated to
have yielded lightweight million barrels, worth
three hundred million dollars on the spot
TmE Pennsy lyana railway company has adopted
the excellent rule of requiring passengers to enter
cars at the rear door and leave at the front
THE September dividends payable in Boston ag-
gregate two million eight hundred and sixty-three
thousand seven hundred and twenty eight dollars.
TUE Worcester, Mass Agricultural Society is
to encourage a new branch Of agriculture by offer
ing three hundred dollars in premiums for brass
bands
NEW YoRK has dog and cat doctIess, who Wis
its these animals when sent for, at the rate OF
three dollars per visit charging extra when bones
are set
AFTER the battle of Pevna the body Of a IA
nous Circassian chieftain, Prince Rubaninski,
was found ON the field with a sabre of solid gold,
hilt aud blade.
or the money presented to the Pope by pill
grns during the jubilee one million eight hun
dred and forty thousand dollars was in gold; the
remainder in paper.
SEVENTEEN million feet of lumber have been
shipped from Ottawa to the United States since
August LIST; five hundred thousand more than for
the same period last year.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS is reported to possess
the very comfortable little fortune Of two million
eight hundred and forty-four thousand five hun
dred and forty-five dollars
THE sheriff of Clark county, o., took from II
strange woman, on Tuesday, of last week, achild
positively believed to be Charlie Ross. He will
he sent to Philadelphia at once.
FRANK Il. COTTON, Of Broolsline Mass, has be-
gun suit against the Eastern Railroad Company,
for fifty thousand dollars damages, for injuries
received at the Revere disaster, in 1871
ACCORDING to the fifth report of the local gov
eminent board in Ireland, the number of indoor
paupers relieved last year was II little over forty
three thousand smallest number ever registered.
Two spans Of the iron bridge across the Mis-
souri, river at Council Bluffs Iowa, were demol-
shed during n violent storm last Saturday morn
ing Each span was two hundred aud fifty feet
in length
A LARGE portion of the counties Of Washington,
Beaufort, Tyrrel, and Hyde, in North Carolina, is
now two feet under water. Nearly all the mills
and mill dams have been washed away by the
prevailing floods.
TmF state savings institution, in Chicago, has
failed with three million dollars liabilities and two
million seven hundred thousand dollars assets
1t was largely patronized by the poorer classes
The managers have fled
The losses by the Pttsburg riots to the railroad
companies, including freights destroyed, have been
finally figured down by railway officials in Phila-
delphia to two million five hundred thousand dol
lars And no insurance at that
THE voters of Connecticut. on the first Monday
in October, will pass upon two proposed consti-
tutonal amendments forbidding extra compensa-
ton for public officers of all kinds and also pro-
hibitng city or town aid for railroads.
The conductor of Chelsea ferry car in Boston
recently fonnd under II seat pocketbook CON
tanning five thousand dollars in notes and money,
and upon returning it to the owner received ex-
actly one dollar to encourage his honesty
CHARLES A. MINNIE, n colored boy was the
successful candidate in competitive examination
for West Point held recently in one of the New
York city districts Minnie's papers We're twenty
three per cent better than his nearest rivals
CiERMANy has sent to Nicaragua demand foI
an indemnity of thirty thousand dollars on ac-
count of an assault made ON the German Consul
If it IL not paid, and the flag sauted n squadron
with Krupp guns will be sent over to see about it
ONE Of Mr. Lncoln's warm and wealthy lady
admirers has paid Frank B. Carpenter twenty-five
thousand dollars for his painting Of " Signing the