Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-26
Weekly News Summary.

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MoRE postal cards are now used by the United
States than by any other nation.
THERE are 5000 convcts in New York state
prisons OF these 1900 are in Auburn.
OVER 10000 persons are more or less affected
by the strike OF cotton operatives in England.
In 1889 the Catholics were one sixty fifth Of the
people OF this country. Now they are one-sixth.
The estimated value OF the works OF art con-
trbuted TO the Paris international Exhibition by
England is 81, 10000
5. ANGLER CHAcE, the Fall River embezzler,
has plead guilty and been sentenced TO twelve
years in the state prison
DR. LEMoYNE, Of Pennsylvania, the owner Of
the cremation furnace has given $4,000 TO a
colored school in Tennessee
THE Moffett bel-punch takes the fancy Of st.
Louis, a committee Of its city council reporting
decidedly in favor Of its adoption.
MADRID dispatch dated the oath instant an.
nounced that Queen Mercedes ofSpain was dying
and had received the last sacraments
A JACKSONVILLE (1l.) farmer named Sawyer
plowed up pot the other day containing $4,000
in gold eagles and half-eagles coined in 1906
ONE OF the West Point graduates this summer
is John c. Whitaker, colored youth from South
Carolina who stands forty-sx in class OF sixty-six.
A DIVER who went down to the wreck Of the
Grosser Kurfurst, is Of the opinion that the ship
has broken into two parts. He saw nothing Of
any bodies
FIFry-oNE metals are known to exist, thirty OF
which have beeen discovered within the present
century. Four hundred years ago but seven
were known.
A PLAcARD in the window Of patent medicine
man in Paris reads as follows; 1.-THE public arc
requested not to mistake this shop for that OF
another quack just opposite"
AN Allegheny county IN " wife recovered
six hundred and fifty dollars from the dealer who
sold her husband the liquor which enabled an
Erie train to amputate his leg
THE work Of missionaries has been extremely
successful of late in some parts Of India, and in
Tinnevelly alone eighteen thousand natives are
now under instruction for baptism.
NORTH CAROLINA contains one thousand and
twenty-five distilleres, the largest number OF any
state in the Union. Kentucky comes next with
seven hundred and fifty-four dstilleries.
PRAIRIE Do CHEN, Wis, is proud OF It's mag
nfcent artesan we'll nine hundred and sixty feet
deep and flowing one million gallons a day, from
which the city receives its water supply.
PROCESS for making artificial honeycomb has
been invented and accepted by bees that have
tried it. This leaves the bees free to gather honey
all the day without wasting time on wax.
| THE June returns to the Department Of Agri-
culture indicate ar increase OF fully three per cent
in the area planted with cotton, while the season
is earlier than last by an average Of ten days.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has issued the
sixteth call for the redemption of 80 bonds Of
1865 The call is for five millions-two and a half
millions coupon and two and half registered.
TREASURY Department experts estimate that
counterfeit gold and silver coin to the amount of
So. 900 is in circulation in this country, and
this sum is believed to be constantly increasing
LIGHTNING struck one of the needles with which
young woman was knitting at Montreal the
other day, knocking it out of her hand, but
doing her no other damage than to thoroughly
Brighten her.
IT is said that the Russians have fifty-two thou
sand four hundred and twenty-six sick in the
| Balkan peninsula, and Of the recruits raised in
1877 for the Armenian campaign, twenty-five per
cent are dead
SECRETARY McCRARy will soon issue an order
to the army, citing the section OF the army bill
which prohibits the army being used as a posse
con,itdtus in any Of The states and directing its
future enforcement.
THE Yosemite stages TO offer another at
traction To tourists, in passage twelve feet wide
by ten high that is To be cut for them through a
stump Of one of the Tuolnmne big trees thirty
three feet in diameter.
one hundred and thirty men and fifty women
have thus far been arrested in the Paris EXPOSE
ton for pocket-pcking, and a large gang from
| London have also been arrested at Calais and
Bouogne on their way to Paris.
CHARLIE Ross father, who has spent all his
property in the vain search for his lost boy, has
been appointed by Governor Hartrlnft master
warden of the port Of Philadelphia, with a salary
of twenty-five hundred dollars.
Miss BELLE MITCHELL, Of Bono, Lawrence
county, Ind, the Goddess Of Liberty that headed
the procession to greet Senator Morton at Orleans,
has just died OF consumption induced by the cold
she then caught from being so thinly clad.
THE long railroad bridge over the Scotch Tay
was opened May 3ist, having been building since
1871. The stream is two miles wide, and the
bridge is eighty eight feet high, with eighty -ive
spans of from sixty-seven to two hundred and
forty-five feet
ANOTHER attempt to render the North Pole So
ciable and bring it within the domain OF the inter-
viewer. The good ship Eothen sailed last week
for the Arctic seas. The primary object Of the
voyage is the recovery of the relics OF the Frank
lin expedition.
An interesting relic OF the Revolution has just
been discovered in an iron mill near Philadelphia
1t is the anvil used in l77s at Valley Forge for
shoeing the horses of the Continental army, and
was resurrected from pile of stable ceanings
soon after the war.
Two hundred and fifty tramps took possession
OF Chicago & Alton freight train near East St.
Louis, recently and while the conductor went for
police assistance they put revolyers to the engi.
neers head and made him move off with the
train in their hands
The Pope presided the other day over the Com
mission Of Christian Archaeology, being the first
time in one hundred and twenty years that the
Pope has filled the chair at meeting Of savants
and he ordered the excavation Of the Catacombs
of St. Petronilla at his own expense.
DR. MOTION, the resurrectonist, and j. Q.
MARSHALL, Janltor OF the ONO Meuica Oplese,
have been indicted for being connected with the
robbery OF Mr.. Harrison's and young Devine's
graves at North Bend, Ohio. The relatives OF the
deceased will institute suit against the faculty OF
the college for $4,000 damages In each case,
INTEMPERAscE il said to be the great curse OF
Texas, while excessive use OF tobacco IL another
offensive feature OF life there. Snuff dipping is
universal among the women in many localities,
and even the children are addicted to the disgust
ing and degrading habit. In the country, women
can be seen INDUCING in the practice at church.
The Bannock Indians who are causing so much
trouble are not a numerous tribe, the highest es-
innate OF the number OF braves being six hun
dred They scattered over Idaho and Western
Utah, and are pursuing the same strategy the
Nez Perces year ago, by seeking refuge In the
lava beds after their raids the white settlements
lr is announced that Sir Joseph whitworth has
invented armorplating impenetrabe to any mis-
siles now employed This armor Is composed OF
inid-compressed steel, and IL built up in hexag-
onal sections, each Of which il composed Of y
series OF concentric rings, around central circu-
lar disc. The experiments with it are said TO have
been wonderfully successful
A SINGULAR case Of death from lock-jaw re-