Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-05-22
Weekly News Summary.

common in England.
THERE has been an earthquake in Venezuela by
which six hundred persons were killed
MILITARY preparations are reported at sew
eral points in Canada in view of Fenian raids.
DIR. Do LEWIS is reported to be very i'll with
congestion of the brain and partial paralysis of
the left side.
THE crop reports for the Province of Quebec
indicate favorable season. notwithstanding some
damage by the recent frosts.
WASHINGTON correspondent writes: Straw
berries, four boxes for a quarterl" is the street
cry to-day, and they are fresh, sweet berries
IT is estimated that 10000 people have emf
grated from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Il
linois to Kansas, taking with them 100000
ON Monday of last week a farmer named Mel
oche, residing near Montreal was burned to death
while trying to save his cattle His barn. stables
and stock were burned.
COLONEL FoRNEY says that there are over
thousand millions of dollars held in the private
banks of England, drawing not more than one per
cent interest, held simply for safety.
LADY in Texas saw an advertisement in a
New York paper of an opium cure. She sent for
it, took 1t, and died in commissions in less than an
hour. The New York physician has been arrested
WATERS, the young Harvard senior who re-
Gently died in the Worcester insane asylum, is said
to have killed himself by studying nineteen hours
stretch, without cessation for eating sleep
The Republican majority of the Senate commit
tee on elections will soon report that Butler, of
South Carolina is not entitled to his seat, but that
it belongs to Mr. d. T. Corbin, the Republican
contestant.
THE New York legislature adjourned on Wednes-
day after long and not very profitable session,
beginning January 1st This is the last session to
be held in the old state house. which has been oc-
cupied seventy years.
The powder mill of Miller & Brother at Sun
neytown, Penn. blew up Tuesday of last week,
and William Swartley, twenty years OF age son
Of the foreman, is said to have been blown three
hundred feet and not killed.
THE first bar OF steel ever made at the South
was rolled out last week at the Tennessee Steel
and Iron Company's mill at Chattanooga, the
quality being first grade and the bar being equal
in appearance to the finest ever produced.
THE average daily wages earned by ZOE, 200
workngmen, as shown by the last census of one
hundred cities of America was only ninety-seven
cents, and each had an average of only one hun
dred and eighty days employment year.
THE national convention of the Ancient Order
of Hibernans is in session at Boston with one
hundred and twenty-five delegates. The order
exists in twenty-seven states and has member
ship Of four hundred and sixty Thousand.
PARIS was so crowded with strangers on the
morning of the opening of the Exhibition that
English ladies coming in the early trains could
not find carriages to convey them to their apart
ments, and werG Obliged to sit all day on their
trunks at the depots.
SIXTY men and women of San Francisco have
gone into the mountains, under the direction OF
bio Lewis, to live in tents for four months They
will eat plain food, take plenty Of exercise, move
from place to place, and return home they hope,
in improved health.
MORE than one thousand persons started for
Europe on the steamers leaving New York last
Thursday and the rush is likely to continue for
two or three months longer. European hotels and
shop-keepers will reap rich harvest, which will
suggest anything but hard times at home.
A RUDEnvestgator went to spiritual seance in
Memphis with squirt gun in his pocket filled
with bright red dye, and when materalized -
form appeared at the aperture OF the cabinet he
shot the liquid with sklful aim. The medium was
afterward revealed with his face stained red
THE cold snap OF last week extended over large
portion Of the country, frost or freezing weather
being reported from as far south as Richmond,
Va, and from Minnesota to Maine Early crops
were damaged in the eastern New England states
and corn and potatoes were pretty generally nipped
both east and west. 1t IL not believed that much