Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-10


inches across its wings, as it was trying to carry
off a calf a fortnight ago.
THE treasury department gets silver bull
lion at ffty-two pence an ounce, making the in
trnsic value Of the silver dollar when coined
lightweight cents in gold
The Fall River print works have suspended
The mill contained 1860 spindles and employed
one hundred and seyenty-fye hands. Liabilities
$1,000; nominal assets S700,OOO.
IT caused some surprise at Bucyrus, o., when
one of three burglars recently arrested was dis
covered to be young woman Of seventeen, who
has worn male attire for FIVE years
ALBERT MELIEN who recently died at Dallas
Texas, cut off his left hand in 1864, while prisoner
OF the Union troops at vicksburg, rather than
work on the Notifications under negro guard.
MAINE folks are paying great attention to the
production of beet sugar Atleast two thousand
of the farmers cutivatng beets for this new
business, which the state aids by bounty
RUSSIA and Turkey have arrived at an under
standing in regard to the return Of the Turkish
prisoners of war, and several steamers have been
despatched to take them to Constantinope.
THE hot weather has made the potato bugs and
currant worms very lively There is hot war
fare going against these pests in various local
tiles, and in some cases the pests are ahead
LARGE quantities of coarse straw wrapping
paper are shipped from New York to Cuba and
Europe to be used in the manufacture of cigars
It is there saturated with tobacco Juice and passes
for leaf tobacco y
DIR. JAMES Cook AVER the celebrated patent
medicine millionaire, died in private asylum at
Winchester Mass, on the I'd. lie made for
tune estimated all the way from three to twenty
millions of dollars
THE Memphis Araidache notices the interesting
and significant fact that Of all the bankrupts who
have lately filed their applications in the United
States Clerks office in that city none ever adver-
tised their business.
| The signal service officer on Mount Washing
ton reports that swarms of bugs with the peculiar
odor of bed bugs infested the summit on the 29th
and 30th of June. Potato bugs have also been
| found on the summit.
MIR. BLoDGEr, missionary of the American
Board in China, estimates the number of deaths
from famine in the single province Of Shans at
five millions, and adds that the death rate cannot
lessen for months to come.
THREE men entered the receiver-general's office
In Toronto, Ont, on Friday of last week, and en-
gagged the teller in conversation, while a confed-
crate slipped into the vault and stole $4,000.
Thorc is no clue To the rugues
THE national woman suffrage association will
celebrate the Goth anniversary of the Daugura-
ton Of the movement at Rochester, n Y. the
18th Nearly all the prominent advocates of wo-
man suffrage have promised to attend.
JAMES FINN Anthony Berge, John Fellows and
l.,
for the robbery OF Thomas Buckley, treasurer Of
the Troy Hosiery Mills, of 5000, on a street car
in that city the LIST inst Six hundred dollars
were recovered.
THE manly labor reformer Of Ohio has pub
lished and scattered among the farmers circu-
lar as follows: Sir: You are requested not to
use in taking your hay or grain crop OFF, a reaper
or mower, under pain of having them and barns
destroyed by fire.
rARrY OF tourists on Mount Washington last
week found the wind blowing eighty-four miles
an hour, and heavy storm in progress
One had his ears frozen, and another two fingers
frost-bten, while at the foot of the mountain the
weather WAS exceedingly warm.
THE sixty-third anniversary OF the hattie of
Waterloo, recently celebrated witnesses forty
three survivors in England who held commissions
In the engagement, Of whom twenty-five are
drawing full or half pay, while eighteen have al.
together retired from service .I
on the ith a woman named RYAN aged eighty
escaped from the county poor-house at Dewitt
vile, N. Y; she soupht refuee AT a farm-bouss
and while trying the doors and windows she was
shot through the head by the farmer, who took
her for burglar. She cannot live
KANSAS claims to be the banner state for grain
this year good Judges estimating that il win send
fullv az 600 600 bushels Of wheat tn marke, or
about fifty per cent above the largest Weld here
tofore in any one state California having had the
honor so far, with crop of 20 900 600 bushels
The friend of a young man who was buried at
INDIANAPOLIS some time ago, thinking that his
grave had been disturbed, opened il and found
the BODY gone. He went to Ann Arbor, Mich
and found in the pickle vat of the medical col.
leee there a body which he recognized as that Of
his friend
THE Syracuse fast express from Portland via
the White Mountains was delayed four hours By
the engine climbing rail near woodsyille, n
H. on the 9Th Had the engine gone two feet
further the whole train would have gone down
thirty feet into the river. No one hurt and
no damage.
In u rr,rosoa 10 orao, In cs,,,r., pa. s,.,,.
OF William Cullen Bryant to be placed near that
OF Mazzni the unwilling of which was the indi-
rect cause of MIR. Bryants death. Mayor Ely il
asked to become the treasurer OF the necessary
find, and to receive subscriptions OF Ave cents
and upwards
In was not believed that the Paris exhibition of
1873 ,onId he a financial snccass vet the goverp.
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"i."' N'', -, ',a,I.' ~ ~ N 90
out OF hhaheiA ulheul'y' Inc costs Oh buildings
and maintenance is estimated at about 50 000, 600,
and a revenue of nearly 81 900 O0O is already asL
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S"reu' i"e a''enu"noe mas eAeeeueu eApeo'anohs
The Boston wool market the past week has
sho,yn mara o,,ir, thon % an, ,,n,a s,noa loo,
800 ''' '''"" "s my s''ue s''N' 's''
January, the total sales reaching $40 200 pounds
The market has been very much depressed for
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