Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-03
Weekly News Summary.

FRANCE has paid Germany all but 49, 2S6, $50 Of
the 81, O5i ,0l2, sl4 war indemnity
SCALES that will give the weight Of grain Of
dust are used in the Philadelphia mint
Ir is proposed To construct switchback rail
way from Chattanooga to the summit Of Look
out mountain.
SouTn CAROLINA now has $500 spindles and
1,i00 looms in operation, divided among ten pros
porous factories
THE Portland O,cgonian says the beating Of the
ocean waves in the last great storm could be heard
distance Of forty miles.
The British army in India is composed of i46,-
900 infantry % 600 cavalry 5000 engineers, 1900
artillery, and 400 field pieces
CHILD in Brooklyn was strangled Sunday,
by tobacco smoke playfuly pufed into his face
by his father, aud shortly died
Tue Spanish government has promulgated
decree Of general amnesty to all Cubans at any
time engaged in the instruction,
To the close Of March one million silver dollars
had been coined The Philadelphia mint will
turn out l.750,OOO dollars In April
The people Of searsport Me- were surprised
and amused at n spelling bee by a tall tramp
spelling down the entire assembly
SAYS the Philadelphia Times: An act to re-
peal the present session Of Congress would do
good deal to revive the spring trade"
TrREr enterprsing Assumption Ia) men have
killed nine thousand alligators the past year, and
sold the hides for seventy-dve cents apiece
A WOMAN caught the high French heels of her
shoes in railroad track in Meriden, Mimi, and
was held fast while a train cut off her legs
RUSSIAN intolerance does not prevent the free
circulation of the Bible among the Russian troops,
who have bought many copies Mt Adrianople
ONE million two hundred thousand dollars is
the called for in Congress for the transporta-
ton Of troops during the July labor riots las, year
AMoNG the attractions of Atlanta, Ga, are the
breastworks around the city thrown up during
the late war which are in a good state of pres
ervation.
Az explosion occurred last Thursday in the
Opedal colliery North Stafordshire, England
Thirty persons were in the pit, all of whom
persisted
THE will of Samuel Wood, of New York, who
died worth three million dollars, which provides
for the establishment Of musical college, is to be
contested
WEST VIRGINIA has already lost 100000
through defaulting sheriffs an amount which
does not ihcIude what they owe 10 the counties
aud districts
PENNSYLVANIA justice vi the peace who some
time ago lost both of his legs by railroad ac-
cident Is accused OF running away with his young
female cousin.
QUEEN VICTORIA has sent the crown diamonds
To the french Exposition hoh-fNor diamond
Is IN the caSket' ana the total value Is iory-two
| millions of francs
luminous W MANS
IN farls they are circulating cartoon which
depicts John Bull sitting on the tip end of the
Cars boot, the Gar eXclaiming, " Have touched
""H p'''''" '"'e'e''N yet
hoorli Tor the sale oil Bibles Is to be erected
opposite the main entrance to the Paris EXPOSE
ton where visitors VIII be supplied with the
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INSIDE o' twenty-five years all oil the hVe 'nhnon
acres Oh the Tree lahd III iowa, with the exception
OF two million acres, have been taken up and CON
'oi'eu 'ii'o '''''"S anu N''''ees'
As the Chinese have no alphabet, the telegraph
has proven worthless; but the telephone has been
adopted by the authorities aud hve hundred miles
nave heen spoken over readily
. LAST years labor riots cost the country some
thing over five million dollars in property de-
|
and the arrangement OF business
The smallest post-oflce in the United States
has been Discontinued 1t was situated at Texas,
4 Lyconng county, Penn and its receipts for the
past year we're only tilty-four cents.
A WOMAN has Just died at Grimisuat, Swtzer-
land, at the reputed age of one hundred and four
teen years, leaving two daughters, aged respec-
lively eighty-siX and eighty-two years.
GOVERNOR CONNER and the legislative council
Of Maine have accepted proposition to pay
capitalist bounty of one cent per pound on all
sugar made from beets raised in the state.
THE internal revenue receipts in March were
over 81, 200. 600 less than in the corresponding
month last wear and for the past eight months
So 800. 900 less than the same time in 1877.
I SIX steamers left for Europe Saturday. all
heavily laden with American produce. including
over two hundred Thousand bushels of grain and
one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE head of cattle
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l.,,rre that ba irta,ded IN ,,, 70 London 20 40
liver thirty lectures in June after which he would
20 to some country where the English language is
not spoken
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derers oriental, s,ffooo.od Ia, ,,rni,, CON-, ta,at
kind If Gas into ,beir COLI an ,ho, Tho axao,;o,
, may he seen by nobody. and REVEALING scaffod
exhibitions prevented
T,r ;n,en,or, ~ ,ba real ,rd nor.on,i r.o,
a,,y of tho Frie railway com,i,od o,,er tu,o ,o,u,
labor fills twepty large volnmes and cost oyer
one hundred tbousand dollars The binding alone
! cost twelve d,llar. - vol,me
Fpw,pp Wurrtrr rbo died in Nasbna vi
worth eleven tbousand dollars was nnahle IN take
his money with him hnt he ca,ne A. near !, a. ho
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