Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-16
Weekly News Summary.


bushels, against 1877 900, 600 in 1877.
THE finest -four in Germany is now said to be
made with glass mlllstones.
Ara s,eeple.chase Saturday at Montreal, DR..
Morcott Of Ottawa, was thrown from his horse
and killed.
FIVE noble and wealthy English girls are about
to take the veil, all having considerable fortunes
in their own rights.
During the first six months Of the current year
S15, 900 600 worth OF cattle, sheep and swine were
imported to England
SUPPOSE the women of this country would re-
fuse TO work over eight hours day, what would
man do for his supper2
One thousand teams are engaged In freghtng
from the end Of the Utah and Northern railroad
into Idaho and Montana.
THE Canadian ministry resigned Friday and
sirJohn A. Macdonald has been intrusted with the
formation Of cabinet
MEMBERS of General sherman's family deny In
toto the recent gossip of serious disagreement
between the General and his wife
MooDY preached to four thousand peoplte a
Philadelphia last week Monday evening, on his
way to his winter residence in Baltimore
DURING the quarter ending September Both 49,
1853 immigrants arrived at New York, which Is
., 100 more than for the same period Of 1877.
JOHN B. GoUGH delivered the opening lecture
of his course in England to an enormous audience
in Surgeons Tabernacle on Tuesday Septem-
Der oath
New ORLEANS has forty-fve thousand persons
deprived OF the means OF support by the loss OF
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Ar Long Point, Texas, the colored people put
bells upon the necks OF their children to keep
them from getting lost in the high weeds that
surround the town.
CHINAMEN are making from forty to eighty
dollars per dav in the Idaho mines and the white
inhabitants of that region are preparing to give
them the grand bounce.
THE town of Monticello in Iowa. was damaged
to the amount of fifty thousand dollars by a tor
nado on the evening of the 9th No lives lost,
but many persons injured.
In response to the proclamation OF Governor
Nichols, of Louisiana, Wednesday was generally
observed as day OF fasting and prayer at New
Orleans and elsewhere in louisiana
The Passaic, n. j., rong-mill was nearly de-
stroyed by fire on Saturday night. The loss will
reach $50 900, and four hundred and fifty work.
men are thrown out of employment.
PROVIDENCE swnder cooy sold house to
which he had no claim and received 81. 100 for
the forged title. The owner first learned OF the
sale when the supposed purchaser ordered him
10 move out.
GENERAL SKoBELEFF has openly declared in
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European powers that the Gar will keep 100 900
men in Bulgaria and 5000 in Roumelia, despite
the Berlin treaty.
SOME idea OF the extent of travel in the White
Mountain region the past season be gained
from the fact that the Summit House register on
Mount Washington contains more than eleven
thousand signatures.
The second sturgeon ever captured in the neigh
borhood OF Port Jervs, n. Y, has Just been shot
in the Neversink river, an afluent OF the Della
ware 1t weighed one hundred and fifty pounds,
and measured seven feet in length.
AT French Camp, Stockton, California, sheep
shearing match was lately held, the purse being
5000 The contest was to see who could shear
one hundred Spanish merinoes in the shortest time
1t took the winner from sun to sun to do it.
THE canning factory at Boothbay, Me- is now
running to its full capacity on Holsters. About
thirty fishermen are employed, besides two
smacks for bringing Holsters from a distance.
Theyput up abouttwo thousand cans day.
A FISHERMAN at Kingston, Illinois, saw a coffin
float down the river. The tide took it toward the
shore, and he pulled it in. Holes had been bored
in the top, and inside he found a live baby, about
two months old, with nursing bottle half full
of milk.
EDWARD WARD whipped his wife so outrage
ously in Charlevoix, Mich, that his neighbors
tarred and feathered him but the wife removed
the tar and feathers from him, bourd up his
wounds and accompanied him in his migration
from the county.
THE little mining city of Calumet, Houghton
county, Michigan with population of three
thousand two hundred, has contributed 81 ,667. 80
of yellow fever relief money-undoubtedly the
largest donation in proportion to population yet
made by any Northern city.
BELL punches for use in liquor saloons were not
distributed throughout Virginia until late in the
fiscal year, yet the returns indicate an annual
revenue of S3i5, 1888 1t is said that under more
perfect statute and stringent enforcement OF the
law the bell punch ought to net the state OF vir-
glnia 81, 900, 900 year.
A CENSUS Of the town OF Greenyille, Miss fur
nishes a sad chronicle of the awful r,vages OF the
yellow fever. The figures show originally a pop
ulation of $50, OF whom 260 are dead, 10 sick
and 657 convaescent, leaving 323 who are yet to
be attacked unless the reign OF the scourge shall
be cut short by frost.
IT is estimated that the contributions from the
North in aid OF the yellow fever sufferers has
already reached fully Sl,0O000O 1t is a magnh-
cent sum to be gathered in small donations from a
generous people, and 1t ought to be bond OF