Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-16
Weekly News Summary.


InIRE were iifty-six hundred suicides in France
in lSI7-nearly all men
LAST summers strikers cos, the state 81 Ohio
seventy thousand dollar
BEEcHEH received one hundred and fty calls
in eight hours, New Years bay.
REFINED sugars are said to he cheaper now
than ever before in this country.
THH Colorado mines produced 81 s79432 worth
Of gold and silver ore the past year
The silver n en- are showing palpable signs Of
weakening by asking for a compromise.
SUCH is the hydrophobia scare in London that
the police are capturing 200 dogs per day
THERE are seventy thousand Sunday-schools in
the United States with six million scholars.
NEW SouTH WALES raised twenty-nine thou
sand pounds for the East Indian famine find
THE Earl Of Ro-eberry is to marry Miss Hannah
Rothschild. Her yearly income il million dollars.
THE life-saving service shows n saving Of ,lGl
lives during the past year. and Of property worth
sl,7l3a7
KANSAS farmers estimate corn at fifteen cents
bushel, at which price it lisa cheaper fuel than
coal OF wood
CHICAGO hotels are doing better than ever be-
fore, while the large of San Francisco are not
paying EXPENSES
THE Skaneateles On. Y Iron Works, which are
said to have originally cost $1,000 were recently
purchased for $500
\ srEAMrR which sailed from Boston a few
days ago took out a shipment Of robins for ac-
climatization in England.
IT is said that all but 800 of tile population OF
$500 in Cortland, y. Y, have signed the pledge,
and the liquor business is ruined.
AsIX-YE,R-oLp boy plunged into the river at
Rorh' ster Mimi, the other day and saved his
three-year-old sister from drowning.
An Alabama man l. close listed that he will
not advertise in the papers, but ties his card to a
pigs tail and turns the grunter loose,
DURING the late cold snap there was differ
ence of ninety degrees between the weather in
Jacksonville, Fla and Waterville, Ne
ONE-rHIRD of the animals in the Central Park
menagerie, New York. belong to p T. Barnum,
who supports them ut his own expense
ONE member Of the Maine Legislature says he
is a farmer, ship-builder and lumberman An
other is a fisherman, farmer and painter
" IN is an i'll wiud' etc An American manu-
fac,urer of artificial limbs has received an order
for one Russian ley and one Turkish arm
~ the Syracuse stone-cracking yard a tramp
has to work six hours for two slices Of bread, II
small piece of bologna aud a cup of water.
FIVE Molly Magnires = Horton fully, Mcclure,
Keh0e and Donnelly-were sentenced to death ioI
murder in Philadelphia, on the It'll instant.
THERE we're 1850. 02g tons of coal taken from
the Cumberland mines in Pennsylvania in 1877.
decrease OF 1i2 80 tons as compared with 1876.
A DISPATCH from London states that Corporal
Chambers, the only remaining military Fenan
prisoner, was released on Monday Of last week
MoRr than fifty kinds of petrifed nuts have
been found near Colorado Springs, Col, Many Of
! them belong tn n class now found in the tropics
The Boston board Of health pronounces dph-
iberia disease dangerous to the public health
and orders physicians to report cases a. they do
those of smallpox.
AMERICAN rifles are now in the hands OF half
the armies in the world. The only great powers
not directly employing American arms are France
Germany and England
EX-SENATOR SIMON CAMERoS has engaged Gen
eral b. +. Butler counsel to defend him in the
suit of the widow Oliver against him for breach
of promise Of marriage.
Miss JENNIE COLLINS, Of Boston, is getting M
fair the proceeds of which will constitute fund
for giving dinners to working girls who are out
of employment this winter.
THERE is M abatement Of r,vages by the famine
in the northern provinces OF China Vast dis
tricts are completely depopulated and there l. NO
possible hope of relief this year.
HESuy WAnn Rrrcur,, has aslsed IN have hi.
salary reduced from twenty to fifteen thousand
dollars for the present year. ON account of the
falling off in the revenues Of Plymouth church
DrRtxc n heavy northeast yale in tb. yic;ni,v -,
Rocl;land Me. ON the night of the 1o,b. the
steamer ulysse, broke from her moorings and
went ashore, becoming total wreck Loss,
about S20,OOO.
Tur steamer Outario ON her recent trim IN Enp-
land encountered such had weather that of ,oDs
nead of live stock on board, 800 were washed
overheard or injured so that the poor animals had
u be destroyed
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r,n,mer,iai Tr,yeller., ,ssoci.,i,r ,,.. ho,J a,
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