Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-25
Weekly News Summary.

first time in seventeen years
MRS. STEWART and Judge Hilton will make do
nations to over eighty charitable institutions.
THERE is colored woman in Newport, X. l.,
once slave, who has acquired the mastery Of six
languages.
JoHS KEHoE, the leader Of the Pennsylvania
Molly Maguires, hanged at Pottsville on
Wednesday Of last week.
FEATHER cloak made Of $3.50 feathers Of
the quail, prairie chicken and wild duck Is for
sale in st. Louis at $500.
THE president Of the Philadelphia Coal Company
has been arrested, charged with embezzling sS2,-
900 Of the companys funds
STEPS are taken to impeach Judge Humphreys
of the District Of Columbia Supreme Court, on the
charge Of habitual drunkenness.
SIX soldiers insane from the exposure Of from
tier life, passed through Omaha the 18th, bound
for the army asylum at Washington
BUFFALO BILL has made, it is reported, about
$4,000 on the stage most Of which he has in
vested in cattle having in all G200 head.
ANTHONY J. THOMAS, Of New York, has bought
the Illinois and st. Louis bridge for ten millions
paying $4,000 in gold to bind the bargain.
NEARLY three thousand slaves have been eman-
cpated in Cuba during the past thirty days by
planters who were engaged in the late rebellion
PATRICK RoURKE and his family Of five chill
dren, living in Cohoes, n. Y, were consumed in
the burning Of their home on the night of the 18th
THE late storm ragged with terrible effect in
portions OF Pennsylvania Along the banks OF
the Susquehanna for fifty miles the destruction
of property is enormous
now paid the penalty for the anarchy and blood
| shed they created from 1862 up to 1875. Three
| more are under sentence Of death
john S. MORTON and s. p. Kuhn, the embezzl-
| ing president and treasurer OF the Market Street
Railway Company of Philadelphia, have been SEN
fenced to state prison for ten years
GEORGIA has hit upon new financial idea-the
issue OF four Der cent bonds, in denominations as
low as five dollars and the same size as FIVE
| dollar bill It is believed they will circulate as
| currency.
| WILLIAM APPLEMAN, who on the night of No.
vember oath attempted to wreck the fast st. Louis
express near Shohoa, the New York, Lake
| Erie and Western railroad, has been sentenced
to ten years imprisonment.
The Bryant commemoration meeting will be
held at the New York Academy Of Music Monday
| evening, December Both A discourse on the life.
character and writings of William Cullen Bryant
| will be delivered by George William Curtis.
An Erie express train had narrow escape
during the recent food passed over bridge
across the Cohocton river in safety, although it
was so undermined at the time that it sank foot
under the trains weight and went down soon after.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has issued n cir
cular to collectors of ports that they are author
lied to cause the inspection Of cattle proposed to
be shipped to Great Britain, and give the shipper
a certificate that the cattle shipped are free from
disease.
| r,r,, caso of sonpamhn,isn, ,yas that NJ
Warren Waite n prominent citizen Of Toledo.
Ohio. who left his bed. proceeded to the third
story of his residence climbed ont ON the roof
and fell IN the pround over forty feet. receiving
fatal injuries
THE citizens relief committee of Memphis
have wound nm their affairs bv distributing the
cash ON hand. 81 253. among the DOOR white
orphan asvlums and setting aside 81 2Os in county
warrants for the colored asylum II il shall be
organized.
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surveys NJ the second bpndred miIes IN yellow
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