Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-02-20
Weekly News Summary.

IN n single county in Georgia seventy-five mad
dogs were recently killed
TnE Southern papers say tina, northern travel
has set in velier than ever
The Governor Of Missouri offers $40 o0 for n
sure remedy against hog cholera
DR. REYNOLDS, the Temperance lecturer calls
cider the devils kindling wood"
WHEELER sings hymns with the family Of Pres
ident Hayes every Sunday evening.
THK birthplace of the grasshopper is In the
Snake River valley, Rocky mountains
The Governor Of Kentucky sets a free lunch
daily while the legislature il in session
TnE oldest house in New England ia said Ia he
In Guilfotd, Conn. II was built in 1859
lr is feared that the atmosphere Of London will
soon damage the surface Of Ceopatra's Needle.
IT cost the Northampton Mass, bank $4,000
TO arrest aud convict the men who robbed IT, safe
JOHN Is GorGHs lectures have averaged him one
hundred and twenty-seven dollars each since 1860.
THE daily attendance at the Philadelphia per-
manent exhibition has been increasing during the
| last few weeks
ThE Texas pest Is killing cows and cattle in the
vicinity Of llopewell. n. j. One farmer lost six
cows there last week.
FoRrY-Two thonsand pounds in gold were with
drawn from the Bank Of England for America
on Friday u last week
The number OF Cinnamon who arrived at San
Francisco in January was only 22s, while 1872 re-
turned u their native land
The United States utilities in agriculture ten per
cent of ts area; Great Britain ffty-eight per
cent. and Holland, seventy
THE little Prince Victor Emanuel was go fond of
his grandfather that they afraid to tell him
the news Of the kings death.
fIFry-sIx convicts arrived at Dannemora n. W
prison last week from Sing Sing, which makes six
hundred and eighty-seven now confined there.
IT requires from eight to ten thousand artificial
eyes to supply the annual demand in New York
Glass eyes for horses are also in great request
ADIRONDACK guides bitterly complain that packs
ofhounds have been brought into the woods this
winter and are rapidly running down the deer
THE best pumpkn-pes and healthiest girls are
raised in the country. Any one can tell this is so
the minute he tastes Of one The pies Of course
THE popes wealth, altogether, is said to amount
to 100, 900, 900 lire 1874 600 900 gold, which is
mostly in the hands of the Rothschilds, at Paris
LONDON dispatch dated the 18th says the
coasting steamer c. NJ. Palmer sank in a collision
near Harwich, and fourteen persons were drowned.
SMALL rox is raging in an epidemic form at
Bremond Texas Nine.tenths of the inhabitants
have left the place and business houses are closed
IT is said that the Quebec government thinks Of
removing the seat of government to Three Rivers,
owing to the frequent riots which occur in Montreal
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ese, with their native skill and ingenuity, copy
very successfully many of the machines sent to
that country.
THE Kentucky house of representatives by vote
Of sxty-three to twenty-one, has passed bill
restoring the whpping-post as punishment for
certain ofenses.
Is Meriden. Conn, n German woman belongs
to the corps of laborers who ditch the street for
gas-pipe, and she handles the pick and shovel as
skilfully as the best Of them.
, A MASSACHUSETTS law provides for the impris-
onment of persons taking part in masked balls in
that state and no such entertainment has been
given in Boston for six years
THE official catalogue Of the Paris Exhibition is
tn he in twelve volumes, each to have as
many chapters there are nations represented in
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sNow-DRFT thirteen feet high and half
mile long il the best Michigan can do this year
Another winter things will be fixed to show up
something worth four-lne notice.
MORE than thousand persons were in Nash
vile, Tenn, last month looking for homes in the
famous farming country near by They were
from half the states in the Union
The Turk has an immense horror of amputa-
! ton, prefel1ing death. For a long while Osman
Pacha refused to allow the surgeons to dress or
even examine the wound IN his arm.
I WHEN President Lincoln taken down with
smallpox he wrote to Colfax that he might let
the army of ofllce-seekers approach. he had
now something that he could give them.
THE mania for iron-clad vessels seems to be on
the decline in Europe. While in 1876 eighteen
iron-clad men-of-war were launched for European
navies the number last year was only six
THE overseer of the poor at Geddes, n. y
erected building worth $500 for tramps to lodge in
free Of cost On the third nj yh they beat their ben
factor most to death, and burned the house.
Mr.. PHILIP c. GARRETT, an American residing
in Antwerp, Belgium, has offered prize of twelve
hundred francs for the best essay upon the means
of establishing international arbitration in re-
gard to war.
, EDWARD S. STOKES, jim Fisk smurderer hasn't
prospered in business since he left the state prison.
and is going IN st. Louis to manufacture a stone
layement, the patent OF which he bought of a
fellow-convict
A PARTISAN print represents the scene of sign
ing the armistce by a rolling table, which the
Russian is pushing toward Constantinople, and the
Turk is vainly endeavoring with pen in hand,
tn push back
IHE last attempt against the Moffett liquor
punch law in Virginia has failed the supreme
court deciding that it is constitutional and the
present estimate is that l. will net the state over
hall million year.
NUMBER of Whitehead OF fish torpedoes have
been shipped from England To tie Mediterranean
The test in the canal at Woolwch shows that each
one may be depended on to male straight run
of at least half 4 mile
INVESTIGATION into the opium-eating habits of
residents of the Shenandoah valley reveals the
fact that in the town Of Stanton one hundred
pounds of the drug are sold every week Many
young women are slaves of the habit
TIE Murphy movement has taken such root In
Whitehall that all the members of the Eve fire
companies and of one military company have
signed the pledge. Lquor-sellers tear up their
licenses before applaudng audiences.
PATTI is still singing under the management of
stakosch, who paid the hundred thousand francs
the price of her separation from her husband.
with the understanding that Patti should sing
fifty times for him under certain conditions.
soME unknown person has for several years
made contribution every six months to the gov
eminent conscience fund of coupon for s25 from
Pacific railroad bonds and his last instament
has Just been received at the treasurer's office
AT Battle Creek, Mich, an insane woman
endeavored TO make little colored girl white by
using scrubbug brush and strong lye on the
child's naked body. The neghbors rescued il
ony after it had been literally skinned and WAS In
terrible agony,
THE wind drove the water back in Lake Erie
last Thursday to such an extent that in Niagara
river below the Falls the depth was fifteen feet
less than the summer level Above the Falls
many rocks usually hidden from view rose black
and naked from the rapids.
Four Virginia gentlemen named Lewis, grand
nephews of George Washington propose to sell to
the government for si2, 600 a large number OF in