Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-10-03
Weekly News Summary.

THE German governments laying underground
cables between the principal cities
AN international congress for the advancement
OF good morals Is to meet in Geneva
ONE hundred and forty deaths from yellow
fever occurred at Vera Cruz in August
A HARrFoRD mosquito sings merrily since
woman broke her arm in trying to kill him
A saving Of seventy thousand dollars will he
effected in the Internal Revenue service this year
Coon news comes from the Indian famine re-
gion. Rain has prevailed in every Madras district
Two infants were killed by being stamped and
rolled on by shouting women in negro camp
meeting at Lancaster Ga
EMBRoDERIEs Of many colors will be the rage
this winter. They will be worked on cloth and
cashmeres as well ms silk
THE Paris Exposition of 1873 is to cost eight
million dollars. The original calculation wa
about seven million dollars.
TIM last days Of Senator Bogy, Of Missouri,
were clouded by the loss Of almost his entire for
tune by the failure Of a state bank.
TnE English commission for helping the Turk
ish sufferers has received one thousand FIVE hun
dred pounds from the Iothschds.
TRAIN on the Illinois Central was thrown from
the track Wednesday morning of last week,
killing seven passengers and I'M uring others.
A CONVICT was put into stocks, in Willis Texas
Ills cries for mercy, Take me down, lam dying"
were not needed and he died under the torture.
THE pilot who caused the recent terrible steam
boat collision on the Volga river is to be sent u
Siberia for life Lives lost hundred and eighty
AS attempt was recently made to kdnap Com
mod-re Mutt, the dwarf, from sleeping car in
Nebraska while he was enroute to San Francisco.
a BANQUET was given in honor of General Grant
by the Mayor and corporation of Sheffield last
week Thursday night, and the proceedings were
very enthusiastic.
IT is asserted that many of the barrels Of flour
shipped from Boston to Maine contain demijohns
Of whiskey and that it is to carry the liquor that
the shipments are made
Mr. MOODY is said to be showing the results of
oyerwork lie has been obliged to forego solid
study during the past summer, and has suffered
from some trouble in the head
The finest crop Of raisns ever produced in Cali
fornia is promised this fall. The grapes are not
growing large as in previous years, owing to
dryness but their quality is better
A KENTUCKY farmer poisoned some water
melons to kill thieves and then sold them by mis-
take to his customers. Several persons taken
sick, and one died The farmer fled.
THE International Association for the explora-
ton of Eastern Central Africa, of which the King
Of the Belgians is President, is about to dispatch
I its first exploring eXpedtion-four men.
The curtain mandatory of Phillips 4 Warren,
I Buffalo, N Y, was burned on Thursday evening
Of last week. causing loss Of fifteen thousand
q dollars. The worlImen barely escaped
MAJoR-GENERAL PEARSON, who commanded
the troops at Pittsburg, Penn, during the riot
and was arrested on Il charge Of MURDER
D leased last week on ten thousand dollars bail.
Mrs VAN AUKEN is under arrest 1T West Mon
roe n. Y, charged with numbering her husband,
chopping the body into several pieces and bury
y, ing the pieces in different places in swamp.
THERE is a woman in Eureka, Cal, who dozen
q years ago married in dress costing two thou
sand dollars Now she takes in washing to sup
port drunken husband and three pairs of twins.
/ There five born sisters in a Canadian con-
]. vent, all Of them protested nuns, and they have
y contributed their combined fortunes, amounting
Is to five hundred thousand dollars, to the treasury
}, Of the nunnery.
3 THREE trunks containing ten thousand dollars
l. worth of securities deposited in the safe of the
; Cambrdgeport, Mass, National Bank, have mystic
rously disappeared and there is not the slightest
S. clue to the thieves.
A Mas. ST. CLAIR and her two children were
poisoned on last week Sunday night, in Cleveland
L. Ohio, by eating toadstools for mushrooms The
two children died that evening, and the mother i:
" not expected to recover.
THERE is almost II panic in Chicago growing
10 out of the savlngsbank failures 1t is feared that
r. the end has notyet been reached. Vigorous meth
r. DDS are imperatvely demanded in all such cases
N Chicago or elsewhere
THE father of tall Howard family living il
u Kentucky is six feet four inches in height the
y mother is six feet one inch hesXeen sons range
I'd from six feet three to six feet eleven and the tel
daughters average six feet two.
ny AWmKEsBARRE Penn. dispatch says the back
>" bone OF the strike IN the wyoming region is broken
u and there is much rejoicing at work being re
VI Sumed. Several thousand made joyful parad
on Wednesday OF last week
81 ELEPHANTS are employed in the timber ward
~ Of BuTmah to handle the heavy logs of teak wood
the Burmese not having machinery for the pnr
=, pose. The sagacious animals use their vas
:, strength with remarkable skill.
/, HAwTHoRNE's old home in Salem, where h,
"a began his literary work, has been turned into
"A dirty and noisy tenement, but the blurred win
dow pane on when lie scratched MS autograph
has been removed as curiosity.
Two reue Haute policemen arrested a woman
who was walking in the street at night, in he
IL night clothes They supposed she was drunk
~ but she really the wife of a wealthy citizen
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