Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-07
Weekly News Summary.

the debt for July of s2OG, 3Odg7.
THE United States is represented in Rome by
seventeen sculptors and eighteen painters
OLD wEATHERwIsE now sends chill down the
public back by predicting .ong cold winter.
SEPTEMBER 18th is the date selected for the
Massachusetts Republican state convention at
Worcester.
On Friday there were one hundred and eighty
patents taken out at Washington. These bring the
government 5000.
THE robe in which General Washington was
christened is among the relics recently deposited
in the Patent Office.
FIVE children at one birth came to family in
salesyille, Ohio, last week -Four OF the infants
are boys, the rest girl
GOOD medical authority cautions people that
dirty dishcoths constitute very prolific source
of disease in hot weather
THE harvest fields Of Wisconsin, Iowa and I'LL
nois are dotted with women laborers, most Of
whom are Poles and swedes.
The New York Aquarium has lately received a
lot Of electric ees from South America Each eel
IL able to knock horse over
| THE American Board of Commissioners for For
eign Missions has received thus far $50, 7g7 for
the extinguishing of last years debt
AT Henry, Ill.,, the other night, the Darnley
elevator was struck by lightning and burned, with
10000 bushels Of grain Loss $4,000
| IT is said that the reciprocity treaty with the
Sandwich Islands has more than doubled our ex-
ports to and imports from that country.
LAST year the Brighton (Mch.) annual school
meeting voted the Bible out of the schools, but
the people have recently ordered it back
| MARINE monster weighing one thousand
| pounds and resembling an immense black turtle,
was captured near Squan Beach, n j.. last week.
THE mysterious gift Of $4,000 to Andover
Theological Seminary proves to have come from
Henry Winkley Of Philadelphia, retired bust
ness man.
THE total liabilities of the Boston Betting Com
pany which recently failed through the dishou-
esty of the treasurer, Tappan, are reported to be
| 1868, $50; assets s35l, 600
NEW YORK epicures are startled by the discovery
that parties on Barren island curing tongues Of
dead animals brought there by offal contractors,
and sending them to the city markets
"YoU IL have to excuse it, General for lost
my right arm when was with you on the march
to the sea, said an old fellow, reaching his left
hand up to General Sherman at Newark.
CAPTAIN BoGARDUs was victorious Monday in
his great pigeon-shooting match with Captain
Shelley in London, killing eighty-four out of one
hundred birds to his opponents sixty-four.
LORD BEAcoNsFlELD has selected the Marquis
of Lorne to succeed Lord Dufferin as Governor
general of Canada. The Times announces Of
fcially that the Marquis of Lorne has accepted
BANDS of robbers are going through central
Pennsylvania, breaking into houses and gagging
the inmates, who, under the fear of death, are
ordered to give up their money aud valuabes
THE new British frigate, the Iris, steel vessel
of four thousand tons burden, steamed twenty
one miles an hour on her recent trial trip. This
makes her by all odds the fastest frigate aHoat
UP to Sunday night there had been in New
Orleans two hundred and ffty-three cases of yell
low fever, and seventy-one deaths. Monday there
were twenty eight new cases and twelve deaths.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT at the request of
the United States, has formally invited the for
eign powers to the international Monetary Con-
gress, which begins at Paris on the 10th instant
AT a three days trial of harry esters and binders,
Just closed at Middleburgh, Holland, the first
prize was awarded to Walter A. Wood and the
second to Cyrus II. Mccormick, both Americans.
The Marietta Georgia) Field says that since the
close of the civil war nearly half million pounds
Of bullets have been gathered from the battle
field near that town. One man has shipped
"a 900 pounds.
SEVERE hail storm in Carver Rice and Dakota
counties, MINI, last week, did much damage to
crops In Carver county, h, stones four and
five inches in circumference covered the ground
two or three inches deep.
, TERRIFIC thunder, lightning and hail storm
, passed over Toronto, Sunday. The pellets of ice,
large as wanuts, fell in large quantities. doing
great damage to fruit trees and garden plants
The damage to grass was quite serious.
The English government has released the Fe-
MAN prisoner, Robert Burke who was sentenced to
fifteen years imprisonment for the attempted muir
der of Constable Talbot in Dublin, and the release
I Of other fenian prisoners is expected shortly.
SoJoURNER TRUTH the old colored woman who
is somewhere about one hundred years old-old
a enough to have been long a slave in York state
e two or three generations ago-is still vigorous
e enough to travel and give an occasional lecture
LETTER just received from Frederick Bent,
cornet sooist of Gilmores band, states that it has
: disbanded through utter failure. In England
and Ireland Gilmore did fairly but in France and
Germany nothing but hard luck was encountered
ACTIVE opposition to the billiard saloon is con-
tinued in Oberlin, Ohio. committee of women
took seats in every evening until the proprietor
: excluded them, and now two are constantly on
u duty on the sidewalk, dssuading young men from
entering.
An active enemy of the potato bug has been
found in Massachusetts in a new kind of beetle,
about the size of the ady-bug,' that fastens it.
, self upon the potato bug kills it with little
spear in its head, and Immediately hunts around
for another.
ONE of Krupp's new guns is twenty-nine feet
long and weighs ia 600 pounds The shells for
This monster weigh /. 1h5 nounds and two hundred
and ffty-three pounds of powder are required for
a charge To manage the gun easily eighteen
men required.
FROM the time of the first attempt on Emperor
williams life up to date there have been three
: hundred and eighty-seven persons condemned in
- GERMANY for insults to the sovereign, and their
. sentences aggregate six hundred and slxty-six
Z years OF imprisonment.
, WIscoNsIN's offer of $4,000 for successful
steam road wagon has produced one which has