Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-04
Weekly News Summary.


cheese adopted as an army ration
TnE number Of commercial travellers in the
United States is estimated at sixty thousand.
SENATOR BLAINE will make three speeches in
North Carolina and two in virginia during the
campaign
QUEEN VICTORIA has sent $4,000 to Quebec
with which to build the Kent Gate to the
memory Of her father.
SHAM battle at the Grand Army encampment
in Deckertown, n j., lately, was witnessed by
thirty thousand people.
DUNNO the first series Of bull fights Mt Madrid
this year, ninety bulls and one hundred and forty
three horses were killed
A roRSApo in Grundv county. H.. on the oath
nit DESTROYED several buildings, killing one man
and seriously iniuring another,
A MAN died in Cincinnati last week Of yellow
fever, caught from handling rags sent from South.
ern cities to Northern paper mills.
OBERrrN College took A new departure this year,
by comforting the degree of A. NJ. upon nine
ladies, graduates Of lis literary course.
So manv cou,,erfei, ouo and ,,,o do,iar no.
mnon notes are in circulation that the govern
ment is having new dies and plates prepared
A wrnntSa in bis ninatv.third vear ia tho nm.
comnon evner,o,c -, t,doo uiui,r, rhonas %
jacksonville, ILL.,, the bride being seyenty-fve.
BESSIE TURNER appeared In the character Of
Julie" maid at the first production Of "a
Celebrated Case in Brooklyn the other evening.
DESTROY the reapers, burn the sewing ma.
chimes tear up railroads. go back to hand printing
presses; then "pool your receipts and be happy
ST Louis Times
Tn, bo,r. NJ william "a moron brotbar y, Simon
Cameron. are contesting his will. lie has lately
died leaving 81, 400, 600 to one daughter and only
SGO, 900 to another
p,x,sAs are raised spccessfullv in sou,bern
California and I, ia mot rniiloiv tho, v;,hir ,ha
next five years the home market will be supplied
almost wholly from this source
liz ravine over q 9oo from tho Peabody fnnd
IN aid North Carolina schools Dr se,rs tbeaoont
| a,nc,uoa. ,bo, tho ,roo,oo ~ ,ho t,nd has %
| Gently fallen off forty per cent
| F,orp dust il pnsafe and eve, tho dor,es,io
,ruit-can explodes A sodns IN W woman has
had her wrist and arm seriously cut nv a can
| which brrs, as sbe ,vas 6ui,g II
MANY Dr,x a widow in Missour, n,rdered ber
Zoe, children tho other day he cn,,in, ,beir ,hroat.
She said she was IN Moor IN give them food She
,vas arrested and il believed N Inc insane
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As curious liquidation of an old bill as any
Is that Oh the young man oil oheIOyVlle' lnd''
VINO mas hau'ed wood 10 pay Dr. kooons Tor
attending MS mo'her "heh he was porn twenty
years "go'
NEARLY the whole population OF Steubenville,
ONO, were out thursday night oil last week.
se'lcn'ns LOT .'i"ls' WIZ nau outraged woman
elShty years ola ana then cut her head partly on
Win d ha'che'
MINNESOTA paper says the rush for land this
''''' p'',i'see 1t Nv. 49," qua, VI aSs
NV
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OisrArohhS from 'ne Sou'h report mat Dr'
r.rirer,in, ,y;th ;,o ,,a,ar II ,ho 49,
If moribupd fever patients This NAV reyoIn.
tionize the treatment
r,n,,,,s =, ,ho ,.,o,.,,,. -, s,.. ~ -
go A. - orc
wide tires on loaded wagons in the city. and thew
will test in the courts the right of the common
council to pass such law
Mps F,xxv w,suxorox F,xcu ,ho oroa.
grand niece NJ WASHINGTON and snn,,osod ~ no
hi. nearast Twin, ral,,;vs ia Loen;n,, ioard;n,-
house in Washington, and has recently had her
furniture attached for rent
Cuo,r,, IA ra,,i,,, n, Fra,iohs brr, d n and
il il very fatal Fifteen deaths were renorted Ias,
week II commenced with children and ia still
r,,st deadly with them I'm, bo. o,,ocled odn,,s
aud men and women are dying.
The Minneapolis Mimi Touring mills are
rapidly rising from the wreck of their explosion
on the I'd Of May, and already but few traces OF
the ruin can be seen Many of them have their
repairs far advanced toward completion.
The Cleveland Leader saws of Robert Lincoln
who has Just refused nomination to Congress,
that one of these days, however, the people of
Illinois will nominate him for Governor in such
way that he will be compelled to accept
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motives consume all their own smoke and there
are no dirt and cinders to fly into the car windows
The cars are so well lighted that the passengers read
their newspapers the same as on surface railways
r,,,. sa.
,'''" maj eng 'ne
mates that Kearneyism has cost San Francisco
more than SO OOO. 900 in a single wear. by the
decline Of property values and the withdrawal
of capital
MAN Rromlev On, s,.nds io,bor.e eroo,oa
over two wears aq, bnilt If nonIar and Rain ~
cuead logs which CON ro,, ha .oon r,.;,,,, ~,
green as II green tree, sprouts having been thrown
out from the logs both inside and out and making