Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-24
Weekly News Summary.

rice and sugar being immense. The Chicag
tribune says there is large amount Of the cor
of the crop of 1876 in the country which farmer
are anxious to sell and ship. Poughkeepsi
papers say that the Vanderbilt asylum for worn
out and disabled railroad employees is to be erccto
on the commodores farm at Low Point, twely
miles below that city, -. The state Of Maine pay
five dollars bounty for every bear killed within
its limits. Last year five hundred and forty-nn
were killed, costing the state two thousand sever
hundred and forty five dollars. Mr.. Turner
United States minister to Liberia, says that hi
residence there has confirmed him in the convic
ton that the American negro can live In NJ
country half so well as In the United States D..
The Travellers Insurance Company loses thus fai
fifty-three thousand dollars by the Ashtabula dis
aster. There were one hundred and thirty
bales of cotton on hand in Galveston on the LIST Of
the month The corn crop Of the South is ten
millions of bushels in excess OF last year. Texas
has the railroad mania. The state il being grid
ironed with railroads 10. Southern farmers are
finding out that their soil is adapted to the growth
Of grain. The amount Of suffering among the
poor OF Southern cities this winter is unprece-
denied Ten thousand eggs of California salmon
were placed in the Etowah river, Georgia, the
other day. The county seats Of fifty Texas
counties are located only on the maps, and wild
Indians whoop and howl on the hills where the
court-houses ought to stand The Young Mems
Christian Association of Raleigh has, during the
extreme cold weather of the past month, given
out to the poor in that city one hundred and
twenty cords Of wood and about seventy five IA
tons. During the heavy rain storm, last week,
fall of small live snakes was noticed in the
southern part of Tennessee, thousands of which
were to be seen next day They are from foot
to foot and half in length Cornell Uniyer-
sity has fifty women students The new title
OF the British Queen is to be rendered in India as
Kaisar-i-Ilind. The Rothschilds have COM
Portable little fortune of three billions four hun
dred thousand million dollars, and are still maxi
ing money. The city debt of Baltimore is thirty
three thousand two hundred and forty-three dol
lars and twenty-five cents which is an increase
OF considerable sum during the last year
.... At the close OF Moody's revival service
at Chicago, sixty-seven thousand dollars was con-
tributed to pay of the debt of the Young Mems
Christian Association continue meetings and pay
past expenditures. The annual report Of the
inebriate asylum at Binghampton, n. Y, states
that from May list, 1867, to December 3ist, 1876,
two thousand and sixty-ive patients treated
More than one-half of these were permanently
cured. The chase Englands national sport,
engages the energies, almost daily of thirty thou
sand men, twenty thousand hounds and one hum
bred thousand horses and costs three million five
hundred thousand dollars n year. The suffer- |
ing among the St Louis poor is greater, this win |
ter, than ever before, and the Provident Assoca-
tion feeds over one thousand families daily.
The largest swing bridge in England has Just been |
finished at Newcastle. 1t is five hundred and |
thirty feet long, and the center pier weighs one |
thousand five hundred tons .. The Portuguese |
government has given one hundred thousand dol |
lars in aid Of the great Central Africa explora-
ton and the expedition will start Mt once. . The |
government received from tobacco last year thirty
nine million seven hundred and ninety five thou
sand three hundred aud thirty mine dollars and
twenty-one cents Special seats for deaf people
are to be reserved at the Moody ahd Sankey meet
ings in Boston. Two hundred and thiIty-two
full and nine partial cargoes of breadstuffs valued
at thirteen million seven hundred and seventy
thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars.
were shipped from San Francisco by sail, and
nearly all to ports in Europe between July LIST
and December Both, 1876. . There arrived at
Jersey City, Tuesday of last week, C ,r contain
ing three million dollars in twenty-doar gold
pieces. Fourteen iron safes contained the treasure
and the guard consisted of eight clerks, eight Sc
lected men, anda cavalry captain. The inquest
ON the Brooklyn theatre disaster is to be re-
opened, new evidence having been discovered.
French woman has bequeathed seventeen thou
sand dollars to Marseilles for horse and dog
hospital. -. Over twenty-one million feet of lum
Der were shipped from Ottawa Canada, to the
United States, last year Wisconsin has one
thousand eight hundred and eleven miles of rail
roads. Maine produced two million five hun
bred thousand bushels of potatoes this year.
Two men in Toledo were killed by the bursting
)f beer cask. 1t is said that half of Bostons
hive hundred thousand million dollars of prop
erty is mortgaged.. In November last Phila-
ieiphla shipped eight hundred and sixty thousand
dollars worth Of breadstuffs to foreign ports
The entire coffee crop is nine hundred million
pounds, of which the United States consumes one
third, 1t is calculated that the gold product of
Montana since tie opening of the mines in 1861
has been one hundred and ten million dollars
THE exports from Philadelphia to Great
Britain and Ireland amounted in November to
over two and aquarter millions. IA Utah wooden
mill exchanges cloth for wool, and the consumer
$ saved the profit that would otherwise be paid
% middlemen., Her Majesty the Queen of
Portugal has taken the initiative in the organza.
non OF committee for the relief of the sufferers
rom the recent Hoods. IA candle box placed on
pole set where two roads cross, and two miles
rom human habitaton, constitutes the post
'ffice of West Belknap, Clay county, Texas.
-ockport, N. Y, papers tell of an experiment to