Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-14
Weekly News Summary.

M unknown man deliberately walked into the
rapids ut Niagara last week, and was swept over
the falls. Australia imported rabbits TO keep
down the weeds. She is now importing weasels
to keep down the rabbits Samuel Whitman,
Of the Colder Vale Iron Works. Wakefield Eng
land, has suspended Liabilities four hundred
thousand pounds. ...A good many robberies oo-
CURED in private houses at Washington while the
Inauguration ceremonies were In progress. The
London Times says that the United States funds
are now almost the only Legitimate object Of in
vestment in the foreign market. According |
to an official statement Of the Servian War Min
ister the Servans lost eight thousand killed and |
twenty thousand wounded during the late war.
Another shpload Of about one hundred me- |
chanics sailed from New York for Australia on |
Saturday of last week Many Of them were ac-
companied by their families. Nelson's flagship, |
the Victory, is still preserved in Portsmouth har
Dor, England, and is one hundred and eleven |
years old. Patriotic John Bull won't allow her
TO be broken up She ia the oldest craft he owns
The sea serpent interviewed some Cinnamon
near San Diego, Cal, last month"; and gave them
bad scare. They say he is one hundred and
sixty feet long. ...A convention OF Edinburgh
physicians has been called to consider the blue
glass cure....A Bourbon county (Ky.) man has
found in the heart ofan oak tree piece of Buffalo
skin, which, Judging from the age of the tree,
must have been deposited there one hundred and
fifty years ago. "A sparrow hawk has been seen
to sit for several days in position on the vane
Of the MOrvian church at Bethlehem, Pa, and 1t
is apparent that it is dead and frozen to the vane,
having alghted there during recent severe ice
storm. Hon. Carl SEIZURE has lost his wife
father and mother within about year.. The
Duke of Cleveland has been robbed of jewels
among which was n necklace worth fifteen thou
| sand dollars. Neal Dow told Maine audience
the other night that if he could have his way he
would make selling glass Of cider punishable
with hanging on the first olfense.. Over one
| and half million dozen eggs were shipped from
| Nashville during the month Of February. 90. out
OF hfty-tive samples Of so-callsd wine sent from
Hamburg to England, twenty-four proved to be
no wine at all. The condition of the British
coal trade grows worse. The oldest man in the
trade cannot remember time so bad. Tax is
paid in Great Britain on million and a quarter
of dogs, being licensed dog to every twenty-five
| inhabitants. Messrs. Moody and Sanley have
| decided not to accept the invitation to hold re-
| viva services in Hartford, Conn. They say that
| II they hold services anywhere in Connecticut, it
| Will be Mt New Haven Judge Hilton isreported
as declaring that the avalanche of letters from the
Stewart heirs is beginning now to decrease. " !
don't receive over fifty day now, and those are
mostly modest in their demands -. Miss NJ j.
llolbrook whose flower panels were among the
best ut the exhibition of the Woman's Art Asso-
citation, has turned her hand to sculpture, and has
just completed a bust in marble of William Gull
len Bryant. In New York an aged stationer
named Joseph L. Lewis died the other day, leay-
ing his entire property, amounting to upwards of
a million dollars, for the purpose of helping pay
off the public debt. Unfortunately for tax
payers, such cases of patriotism are rare. "A
panic in New York church Thursday night
caused the death of six women and one boy. 1t
seems as if few more lessons of this kind ought
to he sufficient to teach people not to lose their
wits in times of peril, thereby increasing their
danger tenfod Sacramento Cal. was aroused,
few nights ago by loud explosion that shook
the whole city. The carbonic acid gas in sewer
had blown up street for more than half mile,
sadly shaking the houses in the neighborhood,
killing one man and injuring several. The
blue glass treatment is ridculed by the Medicd
and Surgical journal as " silly mania. ... The
Austrian army is gradually to exchange its vel
known white uniform for blue. The Nationa
Butter and Egg Association met in annual session
, at Chicago Monday. 1t is stated that the sus
pension bridge at Niagara Falls has been con
demned as unsafe. -, The indiana legislature la,
, defeated a bill intending TO allow husband ant
wife to testify against each other The New
Jersey Senate has passed bill making six pc
cent the legal interest of the state except upoi
special contracts. The proportion of Roman
, Catholics tn PrOtestants in Ireland j. nearly tire
and a half to one 81. The Galveston Common
( Council passed an ordinance ordering the closin.
, of saloons Mt midnight. Then four of their mum
Der went TO a saloon and drank and played bll
p lizards until morning TO-. The Howard Association
Of Great Britain says that the common jas in tn
United States with very few exceptions, are il
a worse condition than were those OF Englan
before the days of Howard....A railroad PAM
broke out at the beginning of the year in Switzel
land, and the shares of the two principal lines fe
about one-half This with the decline of til
= watch trade makes the Swiss feel poor. At
recent auction in Paris, the dagger worn by ilenr
". at his marriage, in 1917 was knocked dow
at twelve thousand francs, or nearly two thol
. sand four hundred dollars. .. Elder Evans, til
leader of the Lebanon Shakers has started
n s'"Nol"u oh " ne" pam ihe graves are !"
o twenty feet apart, with tree planted over eacl
A, so that in time there will be u handsome grow.
A 1.-THE quack doctors Of Massachusetts ha,
+ petitioned the legislature to permit them to pra
A tice without diplomas, Clairvoyants are tn
movers in this, and in their address they argu
I that their g. natural gifts " more than compensat
. for lack of medical training. Nearly ever
prominent lottery-dealer in New York city wa
A arrested, Friday, on warrants obtained by specii
Agent Comstock The military academy an
q post at West Point has been made separate mil
tary department and General Schoheld appointe
commander. William Rock employed by Jal
n anese merchants TO remove their exhibits frol
q the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia, has bee
h arrested, charged with stealing fifteen thousan
n fans, and about nine thousand dollars worth
thn nod. ,..nrn fund L.. Lii. hnl.n