Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-25
Weekly News Summary.

their reservation in Kansas and occasionally turn
penny by selling bows, arrows and Indian no
tions to the whites
IT ls noticeable fact at all the summer resorts,
that the visitors are not spending money Us in
DAYS gone by There is vast cutting down in
the list Of extras
MAINE papers say that this wear has been real
bonanza to the fishermen the salmon fishery Of
the Penobscot having brought large sums of
money to that section.
OUR Mrs General sherman is not to get the
Golden Rose after all That will 60 to Madame
MacMahon whose husband is in better position to
serve the Pope than Mrs. Sherman's is.
Mn MoopY, in recent letter, says; "My idea
is that life is short, and the work to he done
great, aud the workers so few, that our time can
he better spent than in controversy"
Or the old English Abolitionists with whom
William Lloyd Garrison was identified forty years
ago only two remain to greet him on his present
visit to England-Edmnnd Surge and Stafford
Allen
SMITH, son-in-law Of Horace Greeley, has named
his infant son II Greeley" leaving the Smith"
off. He says he doesn't propose to have the
tail wag the dog"
FOUR black boys in Mobile, Of less than ten
years, kissed four white girls Of the same age,
whom they met in the street The oldest Of
these awful black boys has been sent to Jail for
nine months for his oifense.
THE Pennsylvania papers say that the corn crop
never looked more promising Mt this season 1t
is not only strong and vigorous in stalk, but has
that dark green, luxurant appearance which gem
orally betokens an abundant yield.
DISTINGUISHED Japanese traveller in this
country writes home The chief education Of
young men here is rowing. The people have
large lighthouses called colleges, and the prin-
cipa Of these are Yale and Harvard
Is pond at Maturin, Venezuela, there is said
to be an anaconda thirty-six feet long and three
feet in diameter The managers of the London
geological Gardens have offered reward OF two
thousand five hundred dollars for his capture.
TUE first of series of suits against striking
silk weavers at Paterson, for damages in not full
filling their contracts to furnish warp, tried
last week, and a verdict rendered for the plain
tffs Twenty-six eases more are to be tried.
FOURTH of July celebration in mid-ocean,
with such orators Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr.,
Thomas G. Shearman and Rev. William Bartlett
Of indianapolis, and such music as Strakosch
could furnish is among the recorded novelties
Of 1871
THE New Jersey peach crop this year is esti-
mated at eighteen million baskets; add to this
the product OF Delaware aud Maryland, and there
will be at least seventy five million baskets per-
haps the heaviest yield ever known An attempt
to ship the fruit to Europe will again be made.
Mr.. HASKELL, OF the Boston Heniid, did very
graceful deed of charity before his departure for
Europe, in opening his beautiful house and ground
at Auburndae, with instructions to a Boston in
sttution to send five poor children and their
mothers there each week for "a weeks enjoyment
THE Panama railroad, in the stock of which
there was such panic few months ago-Jay
Could driving the stock down to seventy and put
ing Trenor W. Park into temporary einhanass-
ment-is going along all the same and declares
Tor August its usual three per cent quarterly |
dividend
MR GLIDER of Scribners Monthiy says that
all the claims thus far put forth to the authorship
of the SAKE Holm stories are spurious and that
the true author or authoress or authors has not
yet been mentioned. And further, that he has
reason to believe that the authorship will be dis
closed before long
THE miners of Pennsylvania Michigan and |
Wisconsin are said to be organizing new secret
order, called the " Iron Hearts," to take the
place of the Molly Magures" The oath binds
the members to obey all orders at the peril o
life to defend the interests of the order never to
reveal its secrets and to succor brother members
THE customary slow process of smelling iron
ore, taking ordinarily twelve hours, has been i'm
proved upon by Belgian mining engineer of Cam
ada, who by his new method lately turned out
fifteen hundred pounds of an entirely purified and
splendid gray coloTed cast iron from the crude
ore in fifteen minutes and notwithstanding the
rapidty of the process, the kiln was left in bet
ter condition than before the operation.
A MAN named Miller fell from a cherry tree at
Syracuse Saturday, disocating his neck Phys-
clans were called, who found the man alive and
conscious, able to see and hear bnt not to speak
They pulled his head and neck into the natural
position, and while it was held there he conversed
with ease. He died Sunday morning, paralysis in
the right side preceding his death. The case il
without precedent in the medical records
LooKlSG-glasses superior TO those backed with
mercury to give them rejecting power are made
in st. Louis, 4 solution containing nitrate of
silver, copper and some other ingredients, Is
foated over the glass and when the solution set
ties and dries-a matter of few minutes-the
work is complete, Cearness Of reflection and an
ability to stand greater degree of heat are two
points of superiority over the old style OF glasses
In is said that application for employment was
made at the government printing office in Wash
ington, last week. by "A lady who had been raised
in aiiuence, was an excellent musician, and had
mastered several languages Superintendent Def
rees told the lady that he had no work in his Of
flee BETTING one of her attainments, when with
tears In her eyes she said that she was willing to
do any mental service, even II it were scrubbng
the iioors so that she might earn an honest living
STRANGE Us it may seem, the emancipation of
wolves in that country. The serfs used to act as
their masters drivers in the great wolf hunts
which formed a national pastime; but since their
liberation the wolf hunt has gradually become I'M
popular, and consequently the wolves are having
better time of it, Thus NJ lazarewski, in
pamphlet published by the Russian ministerial
printing office, estimates the number of wolves in
European Russia alone at not less than two hun
dred thousand, and shows that while the average
annual loss Of human lives in the years lSi0-5l
was only one hundred and twenty-five the num-
her Of victims in 1915 was no less than one hun
dred and sixty-One The loss in domestic animals
is valued at about twelve million five hundred
thousand dollars annually, and that in wild an.
finals at about forty-two million dollars
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