Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-09-18
Weekly News Summary.

THE entrance receipts OF the Paris Exposition
up TO the lth amounted TO 7,412, 900 francs
NoBiiSG, who recently attempted the assassin
alton Of Emperor William died last week
CLrorArRAs needle has been raised into posi-
ton ON .he Thames embankmeut at London.
WENDELL PHLLfrs is too inirm to travel this
season, and will lecture but few times near home
THE chocolate mandatory of Walter Baker &
Co, Milton, Mass, was damaged by fire last week
10 the extent Of $4,000
SwARMs Of venomous flies have made their APP
pearance in Mexico which have caused the death
Of whole 6ocks Of sheep.
THE rice plantations around the city of savan-
nah, Ga, have been damaged by gales and rain
to the amount Of $3.50 600
THE publishers of the Springfield Republican
are hereafter to issue Sunday edition The first
number appeared on the 18th,
OVER six hundred bodies have been recovered
from the steamer Princess Alice, which was sunk
in the Thames the Sd instant
LORD DuffEniN will remain in Canada To meet
the Marquis Of Iorne and Princess Louisie Great
preparations for the event are in progress.
Ex-sEcRErARY b II. BRsrow has formed u
there from his Kentucky home in October
THE AMERICAS BOARD, which was ssi 900 he
hind in It's receipts the last Of August, closes its
financial year with deficit Of only 81, J5s.
TWENTY-FIVE tons of silver ore, valued at $500
OOO were sent from the sub-treasnry TO the phila-
delphia mint Wednesday, to be coined into dollars.
THE first trial under the New Hampshire tramp
law occurred at Nashua on the 9TH. when a va
grant was sentenced to fourteen months in the
state prison.
Mr. MooDy raised nearly one hundred dollars
for the yellow fever sufferers at his afternoon
services last Sunday in the Mortified Conpreoa
tional church.
p,o,,ssou co,,,,., -, e.. ,-,...,.-., n
partment at Washington is successfully experi-
menting with corn stalks and sorghum in the
manufacture of sugar
Tur npmbar ~ er,i,,ra,,s arri.;n,, In Noa. Vol.
from Januarv IN ser,on,ho, ,,os =, ooo nm ~,
crease Of 5000 over the arrivals during the cor
responding period last year.
TunrrrS ladies have roceived tho docoro,ior
NJ tho Rod c,,ss rocort,,. as,.,lihol h., ,,,o ~,
neror nj pnssia II, honer -, ,or,,oos ,o,,o.o, a.,
sick and wounded in the Russian army.
Mn Br-cK of Neridep Gam bas nodo ~ ar
teen grains Of gold and silvor a rarfoo, s,oo,, m,
CINE. which will RIM twentv mirntas With tho
steam generated from, ,broo dro,s % ,r,,or
A NITRO otycrp,xr no,,v,ro no,. coo,o
Penn containing seven,v nounds 81 n;,ro ,,vcor'
inc and one hundred nopnds of dynoni,o ~
nloded SATURDAY. tearing ~ rieces ,lreo MOI,
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st. Adams peope 50 badly he imnersonot;n,,
Charlie Ross two wears ago has heen sent IN tho
reform school during his minority for stealing
Own twort, r,uos - ,,,o rn,,.,, ...,..,
and ,oa ooo .,,,na,,,ros 80 ,,o .a,oi a,'-.,''"
pledge. are the results which Iobn " Drov ot
Concord n. H. reports after eight months If
work in Iowa.
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uaa,a aa''a, .,' '' Icing que ""nureu
',,,ia ~ ,,''.',. ',o.' O"'"'p" anu '"-
bonses and ,irher so,oroi ,,o,.,,,. a,.7
seriously injured
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the next Congress
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T., ~ -, o", mimi '"'''er Is
!. ,,.a, u,,'' q, ue9'''"'o '''''s'''neeS
go e" ,od 1'''eo' So''S "so leaving
h' 1900 ''''' '''' grave Is ''''rNe'
-, ~ my -'io ooNeS VI sugar were
't". :" -'e" io'N '"sl "eeN' oh t"e ground
no. '''' S'.'"''.'"' was uei'iuueu oi uuties
''''s0 ''''o'.'' o'ei"' assiS''h' govern
"'e"' "''s'''S "'' Implicated
liE storm oil last week did great damage at
nv '""'' anu '"e oieeA running throush
""' "'Vue" "e PrnoiPai
ooo ."7 P'Vf'''S ~ .''o ""i"'n'o Vi 9ioo-
'''' CIV '''u i''''
"hNEhAL JOSEPH T. JOHNSTON though sixty
nine years on ana bearing upon his body the
MARKS o' e'e'en wounds Is as sprlghty as man
81 anu i''ilous
''''I', 60. s''' anu se''"ins' ana lie
p"
The hrst weeping willow IN England is said to
nave been planted by Alexander Pope. lie re-
ceived present OF figs from Turkey, and ob>arv-
ing twiS IN the basket ready To mud, planted IT.
From ms stock all the millions IN England and
''"'''''' "'s {" ~ nave 'p'""s'
lHE famine III lhdia mas been severe blow TO
Its material prosperity Trade OF all kinds Ian
cuisines Inc people nave been Impoverished by
tue hish prices Oh ioou' while the great mortality
among the Hiporins poor mas resulted IN enormous
"re"s Oh i''hu REMAINING uhc"i''V"eu'
a LONDON dispatch states that frghtful
colliery explosion occurred on the 18th at the ABB
er'"rhe mihe near Newport Monmouthshire
ihree huhureu ana SeNehty-ohe men were IN the
PIT only e'ghty oil who'n were rescued Fourteen
horses were also Killed. Inc canse oil the explo-
sion cannot be surmIsed.
FIVE tramps recklessly resolved to capture
Kenton, Ohio, recently, They marched into the
village furnishing clubs, terrified few women,
and began to pillage II store Their triumph was
short, however. The villagers gathered in force,
stripped then' dipped them into barre OF tar
roieu them III S'id ana drove them out oil town
The survey for the contemplated Profile and
Franconia Notch narrow gauge railroad is in pro-
gress and will soon be completed. The grade from
Bethlehem station to Echo lake is ascertained to
be seven hundred and sixty feet the highest
grade being on the last three miles approaching
Echo lake, which is maximum of one hundred
and sixteen feet to the mile.
A SINGULAR looking and irregular shaped flint
rock weighing about TWENTY-FIVE bounds. having
the appearance of a molten mass under intense
heat, was picked up on Ladies' Island, below
Reanfort = q nv soma rnlored narsons ra,on,t,,