Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-06-13
Weekly News Summary.

Tn holders of centennial stock will get back
about thirty per cent of their original investment
-. Passenger rates from Chicago to Philadelphia
have been lowered to fourteen dollars, and to
Baltimore to thirteen dollars and fifty cents -.
1t is stated that three million four hundred thou
sand copies of the Moody and Sankey Gospel
Hymns - have been sold Horace Greeley has
a grandson who is named after him. Texas
which had population Of only eight hundred and
eighteen thousand in 1870, now claims two mil
lions The immigration has certainly been i'm
mense Lydia sherman, the poisoner, who es-
capped from the Connecticut state prison week
ago, has been arrested and will be returned. ....
The extent of the national savings bank business
in ENGLAND is shown in the fact that in fifteen
wears the deposits have amounted to five hundred
md eighty-fye million dollars 1t is stated that
vegetables from Long Island, Westchester county
and New Jersey contain Paris green, which the
farmers sprinkle upon the tops to kill the insects
which prey upon them. The remains of thir-
teen officers who fell with Custer to be buried
ut I.eavenworth, Kansas with funeral honors from
the whole city, on the 23d. -. There are one
thousand six hundred and sixty-one convicts in
the Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet, larger
number than ever before, and the cry is Still
consisting of a mill and fifteen houses, was swept
nut OF existence by forest fire Thursday of last
week. The would-be despoilers of Lincoln's
omb at Springfield Ill have been found guilty,
md sentenced To a year each in the penitentiary
... The Philadelphia Ledger expresses the opn-
ION that the price of coal is now at its lowest point
for this year and that the coal trade in all its de-
parments is at present AT its greatest depression
...An express train in Russia, carrying six mil
| ion Of roubles not only failed the other day to
reach its destination, but has altogether dsap-
neared, without leaving the slightest traces af-
tording clue as to what has become of it,.
| The University of oxford in England has offered
| ex-President Grant the honorary degree Of ID c.
| H. doctor of Civil Laws Ex-Governor Cham
| ,eraiu has sold his house in Charleston to the
| brother of Governor Hampton. The first in
,tallment-one hundred and fifty thousand dol
ars-of the four hundred thousand dollars sweeny
restores TO the city has been paid over; fifty thou
-and more is 10 be paid in thirty days, and the
| remaining two hundred thousand dollars in five
months. The present West Point class has fall
EN- upon evil days First of all there is no money
| nay them and, second, the prospects of OBJ
| aiming commissions are rather blue, On July
ID there will be two hundred aud ninety -nine
new money order offices established, and in Oc-
| tober about one hundred and sixty more Two
new oil wells yielding together nearly two thou
sand barrels per day, have been struck in the
Bullion district of Pennsylvania The New
| York life insurance companies last year issued
| policies to the amount OF one hundred and nine
teen million dollars, while the po cies termin-
ited by surrender and lapse amounted to one hun
bred and twenty five million dollars, aud by death
to about fifteen million dollars. %. There are ten
members Of the firm Harper & Brothers, a. now
constituted, being made up of brothers and cous-
ins. It, publishing business is the largest in the
world The annual manufacturing business is
said to be upwards Of five million dollars, with
full thrty-three per cent. of profit. The New
a catch of four hundred and twelve thousand
seals Two criminals in the Ohio penitentiary
have confessed that they murdered Mary Murray
at Pontiac, Mich, in 1862 and that Wiley Morris
who was convicted and hung for the crime, was
| innocent Morris died protesting his innocence
Judge Blatchiord decides that the mails can
not be legally used to carry lottery circulars,
Several thousand baskets of Strawberries Were
thrown overheard saturday night, in New York
because they couldn't be sold at any price They
| went during the utN AZ lfolh TWO to three cent?
per basket, though they were exceedingly fh'
berries. Seven steamers sailed for Europe sat
urday with full cargoes of American breadstuff,
and provisions, an important item being fou
thousand four hundred boxes of butter in one o
the new refrigontors, the first shipment of tn,
sort yet made. -. The government still owns one
fifth of all the lands in Alabama. e. The crol
prospects in Nebraska are very gratifying, an'
the grasshoppers are not threatening. ....A New
Jersey Jury has decided that an incompetent den
fist, who kills a man with chloroiorm, Is no
guilty of manslanghter.. The PENNSYLVANIA
railroad is to start an additional first train To run
from Chicago To New York in twenty six, and one
fourth hours MIR. Anasa Stone, of Cleveland
Ohio has just invested in land and buildings SOM
! forty thousand dollars 10 provide comfortable
and pleasant Home for Old Women, IN tina
ordered the police 10 kill all unmuzzed dogs
His own pet was the hrst one brought in