Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
NOVEMBER ID, 1878.


THE recent storm on the lakes was the most Sc
we're in sixteen years Many lives were lost.
STUDENTS of the University of California are
promptly indicted by the grand jury for hazng.
THERE are 80, 25S post-oiices in the Union, 9l3
having been added in the of the present year
RUSSIA has announced her intention Of faith
fully carrying ont the terms of the Berlin treaty
The iron works at Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
employing six thousand men, are now in full OPP
Grafton.
DEAN STANLEY having witnessed an American
election sailed for home in the Bosnia Wednes-
day Of last week
BAKERY of Albany, N. Y, sends four thou
sand six hundred cans of cakes to Bombay, India,
the first Of every month
A BYRON, Genessee, county, N. Y, apiarist, has
taken two hundred and six pounds of honey from
one hive during the past summer
A SARDINIAN mare has lately made five hun
dred and eighty miles in ten days, on wager.
We regret to learn that the rider still lives,
THE expectation of American pork has made the
keeping of pigs Improbable in England, and even
the Irish farmers are giving up the attempt
THE closing of public houses in Ireland on Sun
day, except in the five largest towns took effect
October 18th Agitation for this has been active
for years.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON is now living at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. She spends
her days in writing play and her evenings at
the theatre.
Don CARLOS has names enough to make him
round-shouldered They are Charles Marie Jean
+.
Raphael, of Boni.
GENERAL SHERMAN discredits the story of Gen.
eral Miles cruelty to the Bannocks and expresses
much qualification with the seasons campaign
against the Indians
A WOMAN in Clifton Park, n Y, was in one
day separated by divorce from two husbands, one
of the suits being decided against her there and
the other in California.
DURING his stay in Canada Lord Dufferin gave
more than five hundred gold, silver and bronze
medals to various societies, religious institutions,
and educational establishments.
GREENE county, N. Y, has won distinction by
filming George Trumpbour seventy-fve dollars and
giving him sixty days in the county Jail for point
ing pistol at another person
THE Duke OF Sutherland has presented one hun
dred and twenty tradesmen his estate near
Stoke-upon-Tweed each with mich COW and
sufficient pasture land to feed it.
THE Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren is doing good work in New York city by
turning public attention to the shocking cruelties
practised upon children by drunken parents
In five days last week, one hundred and seventy
tons of tomatoes were received by fruit-preserv-
ing company at Lockport. The establishment ex-
poets to can seventy thousand barrels of tomatoes
this year.
PosTMisrREss in Oswego county, n Y, who
had fear of burglars, placed her postage stamps
in the parlor stove This fall the hired girl built
a fire in that stove, and nqy the postmistress is
pettioning the department to stand the loss
A SWARM of bees took possession of the chin
ney of a Middleton Conn. Methodist church dur
ing the summer, and when fire was kindled in
the stove on a recent Sunday the floor of the
church basement literally flowed with honey.
GRANITE company in Maine has quarried a
piece OF granite said to be the largest ever turned
out in the United States. 1t is sixty-five feet
long, ten feet square, and weighs eleven thousand
and twenty-one tons. 1t will form part OF mon
ument in Ohio which will cost $4,000
The King Of Holland in justification of his mar
rage says: thine will equalize u.s. To-day
when am sixty and my betrothed twenty, am.
of course three times old as she is; in twenty
years, however, when we shall be respectively
eighty and forty, shall only be twice as old;
and il we live long enough, we shall be very
good match
The village Of Kollmar near Gluckstadt, in Hol-
stein, which is situated in district reputed for
its healthiness, has just witnessed the diamond
wedding or the seventy fifth marriage anniversary
of two of its fourteen hundred parishoners. Two
more diamond weddings are impending and the
last fourteen years have seen ten such celebra-
tons there.
TWELVE years ago Deacon Benson, OF Fort
Wayne. Ind, man then forty-eight years old.
was worth S5O0,O00 He specuated, lost money,
became passenger conductor, then a saloon
keeper, then street car driver then pauper;
last week he died in the hospital and was buried
in the Potters Field.
The Medical Record describes a new cure for
consumption. The points are, first to clear the
lungs by deep, forcible breathing; second, to es
tablish perfect digestion by eating good we'll
cooked food; third to promote healing of the
tubercles by eating salts of lime; fourth to take
plenty of outdoor exercise and sleep in apart
ments with the windows open, summer and winter.
THE prevailing hats and bonnets in Paris are
quite study for an entomologist. Swarms of
bees and other insects settling on some of the
hats Arrows and lizards are giving way To small
ornaments of holly leaves, with pearls for berries
Owls heads of various sizes, some very large and
gilded caterpilars are largely used to confine
bows on hats and bonhets
THE Montreal papers report that the mysterious
lights which have been noticed on the lower St
Lawrence river, and on the Gulf for a century
have been unusually brilliant this year. Blueand