Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-02-28
Weekly News Summary.


Ir il reported that Captain Mitchell, an engineer
in the Khedive's service, and fifty soldiers OF m
exploring expedition in Abyssinia have been
massacrej Scarlet fever Is raging in Chicago
not only in the low and filthy parts Of the city,
hut in the clean and wholesome sections.
column Of vapor steadily rises from the centre OF
vast swamp in Florida and nobody has ever
been able to get near enough to the phenomenon
to find out the nature of it..All the Russian
nunneries have received orders to prepare to send
delegations Of nurses to the Pruth. John Be
mis-, who stole three thousand six hundred dollars
from an express company in Syracuse in Novem-
ber has been captured at Santa Fe New Mexico.
49,. The Central Pacific Railway Company pro-
pose to plant eight hundred thousand eucalyptus
trees by the side Of their tracks, as n means Of
increasing the humidity of the climate The
cabinet makers are busy. Secretary Morrill, Is
slowly recovering London has nine hundred
professional brokers' The day Victoria became
Empress fifteen thousand and lightweight pris-
oners were liberated...... Fifteen Protestant
churches have been established in Brazil since
1859 Virginia proposes to keep her highways
in repair by sentencing her criminals to use the
shovel and pick. An exchange, speaking OF
ire-escapes, says the oldest one on record is the
fond husband who lies abed in the morning.
Chinese immigration has fallen off at san Fran
cisco very rapidly, the departures exceeding the
arrivals during December by over six hundred.
...A Washington dispatch states that the special
Nicaaguan Commission has abandoned all hope
of successful contamination of the interoceanic
canal treaty, and will leave that city in few
days. The dory Centennial, that was sailed
over to Ireland last summer has come home by
steamer. A Scotch boy at a university appeared
one day in policeman hat. He had served at
night duty in order to be at college during the
day. Americans are learning to like oat meal
and milk for breakfast The mush is not good
unless cooked on the same morning when 1t is
eaten. The supply Of fruit in the New York
nrice of both foreign and domestic fruit is low.
Oranges are sold at wholesale for one dollar and
thirty cents n box. containing eight hundred
ORANGES Annles In barrels are growing dearer.
Ills believed that the ten per cent law in Ten
nessee will be repealed by the present legislature
ga Californian proposes to sail to Liverpool,
by the way of Cane Horn. in a boat only twenty
feet long If il asserted in San Francisco that
n new censns Of that city will show that it has "A
nonulation of three hundred Thousand . All the
state militia of Vermont will participate in a re-
production of the battle of Remington in August
next A new Methodist church in Boston is to
be the largest belonging to that denomination in
America. and will seat five thousand persons
The Connecticut Senate has passed bill proyid-
ing that criminals from another state can be re-
turned without a requisiton from the governor
of the state The Chinese in San Francisco have
boupht land for permanent burial ground. which
indicates that they intend to give up returning
their dead to China The early thaw has stopped
logging business throughout the Wisconsin piner-
les. and no more work will be done this winter
Comparatively few logs are cut, which the lum-
Der men think will insure higher prices and better
work next winter
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CoRlNTH-A spelling school was held Mt the
Academy Hall on Monday evening, February 18th.
Ned Hastings and Kate Hale chose sides and
thirty or more were chosen on each side After
spelling around two or three times, y. NJ Carpen-
ter pronouncing, they took recess. At half
past eight about forty persons resumed their
former places and prepare to spell dorm, Mrs,
Helen Carpenter teacher in Cookesville district,
pronouncing. The first shots were harmless, and
none fell (unless some of the very young spelers)
until nearly all the class had spelled once, when
u. +. Aiken stumbled over nuisance, and fell to
rise no more; A. NJ. Carpenter attempted little
raalery, but failed; Joshua Knight did not pro-
nounce the vowels of d'preSs, either separately or
together, and so found comfortable seat beside
Mac" Louise Avery got choked with biscuit,
and Elmer kiniston was lost in an ocean, about
that time Homer Kinney started in pursuit of
cedSl, but was soon tired out Albert Keyes be-
ME Post had such bad spell with her nerreS that
she, too, was compelled to sit down; Ella Kinney
decided she should never try to be Czdrind, and
Nette Wilson thought of all monks, De,Uis was
most disagreeable; Efiie Avery interested herself
for time in that queerest of animals, the pidty-
puS, while Fannie Eaton tried to make a large
monkey of a ma,niosct; Hattie Heath made too
short circuit, while DR.. Corwin very quietly
turned himself out of the synagogue, Mrs Cor
win attempted to spell cltitneru, as authorized
by Webster but it was not right according to the
speller used, and so she was seated; Ned Hastings
found no pdndced for his trials Hiram 1hurher
secuted the idea of being a Baoi,l,ist, and Ed
Sargent thought he never heard of a Parse Car
,n,,h and Ida Kir,ey was srre T,oosjo was
Gree,, IN her Al ten o'clocl, several had with.
drawn from tho co,test-among tbe number were
Hiram carleton Mrs T. q SARGENT and Mrs +