Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-28
Weekly News summary.

GENERAL 6RANr and wife were the guests OF
he Emperor Of Austria on the 10Th and 2lst insts
NOTED Thames oarsrnan drinks quart Of
milk day, and to this he ascribes his good health
ENGLISH town councils calling new streets
md squares Cyprus In commemoration Of the
recent acquisition.
The sight of n snake In her path so frightened
|, Herkimer county (N. W woman that her glossy
black hair turned white
ISAAC BRowN, an octogenarau OF Jefferson
county, Ala has ploughed the same field for
sixty-two successive years.
A WOMAN Of Boston has given $4,000 to Ober-
lin College, which was the first to give girls a
chance for higher education.
ANNA DICKINSON il about to settle down In
Philadelphia, and the brothery lovers don't know
whether to feel honOred or not
one OF the largest audiences ever assembled in
Leipsc attended Gilmore's farewell concert at the
Schutzenhaus on Wednesday last
FIVE prisoners escaped from jail at Poughkeep-
sic, N Y, Friday afternoon, by melting solder
that fastened iron bars in window
THE effort to establish Il yce-regal residence in
Montreal for the Marquis Of Lorne is meeting
with much favor. 1t will cost $4,000.
FIVE thousand persons were present at the peace
congress in Paris Monday. Resolutions were
passed savoring Of international arbitration.
GERMAN and Austrian law forbids the sale Of
dead fish. The fish are brought from the sea and
rivers in tanks, and are killed after being sold
THE Thomas orchestra in New York is about TO
disband, as Mr.. Thomas has accepted the director
ship OF Cncinnatis new Conservatory of Music.
After five hours and when he seemed dead, he
snapped off finger that was stuck in his mouth.
The United States steamships Congress- Sabine
and Kansas are found ON inspection TO be worth
less, and have been recommended to be broken up.
The birth rate of the thirty millions of the Ma
dras Presidency has decreased to less than one
nalf OF what it was before the famine in
India began.
The Springfield Republican says the next Pres
dent of Vassar College should be a woman. Ger
tainly if woman with the right qualifications
can be found.
| The new Pennsylvania tramp law, under which
tramps are sentenced to thirty days hard labor
IN the chain gang, breaking stone in the street,
works effectively.
| Mis- MARY a. LAPsLEY, Of New Albany, Ind,
has left the bulk Of her estate, estimated nearly
100000 to the Foreign Missionary Society OF the
| Presbyterian church.
ARTIFICIAL flowers are now sold in sets " of
four punches One little bunch is for the hair,
one for the belt, another for the throat aud still
| another to hang from the chatelaine.
A LAD bathing near Marseilles recently was
nearly drowned by large cuttle-fsh, which ias-
tened itself to his limbs But for the aid of
| fisherman he would have lost his life.
Dir. l. l. HAYES, the Arctic explorer, is confer
ring with James Gordon Bennett at Newport, and
rumor has it that we shall soon hear OF another
Polar expedition, under private auspices.
RARus trotted three successive one-mile heats
At tue Charter Oak Park course Friday, in . 10,
2.l3A, 2,l3i respectively. Edwin Forrest also
trotted two one-mile heats in 2.l4i and ZIG.
The ammonia of the commercial fertilizers
manufactured in the suburbs of Augusta, Ga, has
completely driven out the chills aud fever and
other malaria that used to infest that locality.
| DENNIS KEARNEY arrived at Cincinnati Friday
evening from st. Louis, and addressed about one
thousand persons at Fountain square, His speech
@as merely repetition of that delivered in 9th er
cities.
|
oil region in Southern Russia ON the shores Of
the Caspian sea, and an order was received in
New York the other day for machinery Tor the
purpose.
COLORADO boasts real living glacier, ON the
celebrated Wind River Peak. 1t was recently
visited by party of travellers, and is supposed
to be the first living glacier discovered in this
country.
Henry O'NElL well-known telegrapher, was
, found dead in a hotel at Long Branch Thursday
night OF last week, having accidentally fallen on
u wash-boWl in his chamber, which broke and cut
his throat
An active volcano has put in an appearance in
humboldt county, Cal and is throwing up stones
aud fire. This Is in harmony with the period
zeal earthquake shocks experienced on the Pa
" cItc coast.
The salmon catch in British Columbia this
season exceeds that Of any other. They are sold
along the banks Of the Fraser River AZ one cent
each. Indians catch them and Cinnamon clean
and can them
The fever is reported as spreading among thost
Aho fled To the country from NeksDurg, while il
Nicksburg the scenes are perfectly shocking. The
eyer is rapidly spreading. Four physicians art
down with the disease.
No tabernacle will be erected for Moody til,
A evangelist at Baltimore where he is going live
T. Out lie will hold meetings during the winte
months IN the churches and public halls, probabl,
. as many as thee each week.
u If people would for Il couple of years drown al
i The kittens they lind OF the male sex they would
mitigate great nuisance-still more, ii they woult
5 drown all but kitten OF every litter. We hav,
% millions too many cats III this country.
II WHILE Henry Ward Beecher awaiting
re train at treeborn, Mimi, gentleman got his au
n tograph, with this sensible advice 10 the wheat
growers Of that section: Too many eggs in on,
Jasket; farmers should raise something besides
e wheat"
d FIVE Italian ragpickers had narrow escap,
l. from death at Bridgeport They went To sleep OF
II a track in the railroad yard, and would have beei
II crushed by switch engine as it came dashinl
II along had it not jumped the rails just before i
u reached them.
&c COLORADO College has received a very line anC
powerful telescope, one that was used in observ
ing the total eclipse vi the sun. 1t was secured
to the college through the influence OF gentle
man from brooklyn, y. Y, "a member OF Rev
~ DR.. Storrs church
GERMAN immigration is setting in with
II stronger current than ever The July arrivals a
New York numbered twelve thousand six hun
70 dred and fifty, three thousand and fifty NOR
90 than in the same month last year, most OF then
IL peasants bringing money to buy farms at the West
s The greater part of the immigration into Texas
during the last three or four years has been from
" the Northwestern states. People from Wisconsin
u. -. a.