Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-11
Weekly News Summary.


usually small this year
THE number OF cattle annually slaughtered in
this country IL 10000
Two inches Of snow fell at Camp stambaugh
Wyoming territory, Sunday
DpBrHERn IL raging in Sutton, P. O. Fonr
deaths have occurred in four days
TWENTY-FIVE colored people in Washington
claim to be over one hundred years old.
NEW YoRK has contributed over $1,000 for
the relief Of the yellow fever sufferers
NEW ORLEANS physicians say the yellow fever
this season isthe most malignant ever known.
THE total coinage Of the minis during August
was $500, 900, including S3,oOoOo0 Of standard
silver dollars.
THE Prince OF Wales has accepted an honorary
membership in the Boston Ancient and Honor
able Artillery
sixTY-FivE clerks Of both sexes, were dis
charged from the General Land Ofice In Wash
ington last Saturday.
BS order Of Governor Halliday, Of Virginia,
Washingtons will, now rapidly fading, is TO he
copied by photo-lithography.
PROPOSITIONS to give s25 piano for 800 in
money and $500 in advertising are beginning to
drop into our waste basket
FIFTY young Sioux are being educated TO useful
labor in the Virginia Agricultural Institute. They
learn fast. and are reasonably industrious.
wEsTMoRELAND is the smallest county in Vir-
ginia, but it was the birthplace of three Pres
idents-washington, Madison and Monroe.
MooDY's Sunday evening Bible readings Mt his
Mortified home are getting so popular that his
large house is usually filled to OVERLOOKING
THE Sun, after extensive inquiries, says that
the banks and great merchants Of New York will
take and pay out the trade-dollar at one hun
bred cents
RrsHoP McCosKREy, of Michigan, was deposed
from the ministry by the House Of Bishops Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church at the late meeting
in New York.
GENERAL LAFAYETTE once stopped over night
in Blddeford, Me-, and the people there are so
proud of it that they show eleven different houses
in which he slept.
LAST Wednesday party of seven men, mounted
and well armed, rode into the mining camp of
Caribou Idaho, and robbed the miners OF $4,000,
mostly in gold dust.
A NORTH CAROLINA editor declares that the
wears without paying for it, will pasture goat on
the grave of his grandfather"
THE London Times warns ladies against wear
ing green gloves. lest they be poisoned by the
.oloring matter Several cases Of poisoning have
recently occurred by their use.
THE rains in southern Texas, which commenced
more than six weeks ago, continue very heavy
The plantations in many counties are under water,
md cotton il fast rotting in the boil.
Ir ia said that nrairic dogs which live far away
from rivers or lakes obtain their water by digging
wells. some of which are two hundred feet deep
Each village has n well with a concealed opening
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man, shows tho evnendi,nros 81 ,bs goyernment
for the fiscal year 1878 were s236. o64, 32G. in
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