Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-05-29
Weekly News Summary.

ON account of extortonate prices, eighty guests
left one Paris hotel in single day.
The general conference of the Methodist church,
South, has resolved in favor OF educating the
colored people
AMONG Mr. Moody's converts at Hartford was
japanese Prince, who has been but short time
in this country.
IT is estimated that 400 900 acres of new ground
in northern Minnesota will be put under cultiva-
ton this season.
EVERY workman on the Paris Exposition build
ing has received a present of Bible in the
French language.
ANOTHER foolhardy man is to attempt to cross
the Atlantic ocean in a dory. lie is Asa W. An
drews, of Beverly, Mass.
Mus FOLDS and two children were burned to
death Saturday, in Merriweather county, Ga, by
the explosion of kerosene lamp
IN the Gasconade river Missouri the fish are
dying by thousands, from eating the worms that
drop from the overhanging maple trees.
JOIN SToEvER, a respected citizen Of Myers
town, Penn, confessed on his death bed, lately,
that he had been concerned in four murders.
MINERAL polST, Wisconsin, visited by a
tornado on the 23d instant and several buildings
were demolished Four persons were killed.
A PARIS preacher told two American women to
stop tanning or leave the church. and the whole
gregaton scowled at them they passed out
The first new wheat of the season arrived at ST.
Louis on Monday of last week, from Dallas, Texas.
1t is graded No, t. and sold at auction for %
THOMAS NELSON has recovered verdict of ST.
800 against the New York. New Haven and Hart
ford railroad for injuries received ina sleepng-car
A GREAT flood has recently occurred in Doug
lass and El Paso counties, Colorado, doing much
damage to property and causing loss of four lives
COMMUNISTS numbering sixty men, armed with
muskets and bayonets Of the old pattern
drilling at Silver Leaf Grove, near Ogden avenue
Chicago, Sunday afternoon.
EDWARD KiSG in one of his interesting letters
from Paris says it is universally admitted that
the agricultural exhibit of the United States will
be the finest in the whole exhibition.
| To make and sell intoxicating liquors as n bev-
erage is declared II Masonic offence by the grand
lodge of Michigan worthy Of suspension ex-
pulsion If persisted in after due admoniton.
| TORNADO struck a settlement three miles
from harrington, a Chicago H., suburb, on the
I'D instant, and did considerable damage to prop
erty woman and two children were killed.
THE House bill defining eight hours as days
work, and providing that those working ten hours
in government employ shall receive a day and u
| quarter $ pay, will doubtless fail in the Senate.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor, in
session the past week at Nashville elected j. Ii.
Cummings of Boston, Supreme Dictator, and
lectod Boston as the place of the next meeting.
THF fire among the buildings Of the sublime
porte at Constantinople last Wednesday, proves
| tn have been the work Of an incendiary. one
and half million dollars deposited there was lost.
Guild in London, Ontario, apparently died
on Monday of last week; but while the funeral ar
Engagements were proceeding tie supposed corpse
awoke and began " speak The child is doing well.
THE largest gold brick ever made, fifteen by
six inches on top and three and one-half inches
thick, was cast at Helena, Montana, the other day.
1t weighs almost 1880 ounces, and is worth the
small fortune of S5i, Ago 81,
TIIr declaration against war which has been
circulated for some time past in England has re-
ceived over 10000 signatures of persons of all
ranks and every shade of politics, and 10000
additional names are coming In daily,
THE woman's Hotel planned and erected by
the late A. T. Stewart, has been open seven
months and though fitted for a thousand guests,
has had less than one hundred, and il now about
to he converted into an ordinary hotel.
CLosE limitations of silver dollars are made of
block tin, bis,nnth, and pulyerlz glass. An i'm
mense number Of these bogus coins are in circua-
| ton in the West They initiate exactly the true
color and ring, and are about right in weight
ADIRONDACK MURRAY has surprised his large
Boston congregation by announcing that he will
take a vacation until September, 1s19-fifteen
months. lie will spend the time in travel. lie
will insist on having an edifce to preach in, cost
ing S2OO, 600, ON his return.
IS'Panola county, Texas, a few days ago, two
negro children one an infant and the other about
two years old, were killed and partially eaten by
a SOW. A young girl left in charge Of them went
| to playing in the yard, when the hog entered the
house and attacked the children.
MR EDISON, the inventor of the phonogaph,
was asked not long ago II he could invent ma
| chine 10 talk hole through a board In char
acteristic way he said it might possibly be done
Thinking the matter over, he subsequently in
vented motor which can be driven by the voice
and by no other power
TIN condition of striking Winers in Illinois is
depomble; fifteen hundred are ON the verge OF
starvation in Dutch Hollow, and at Rails Station
hundreds OF men, women and children walk the
streets begging for bread The miners are des-
perate, and II compromise is not effected Sc
rious trouble il anticipated.
PRussIAS Poland is ianatically Catholic, and
consequently intensely hostile to the Emperor
William. Al obornik, village in that country,
tie Lutheran Iarson Illuminated his house on the
Emperors recent birthday, wherenpon voey of
bullets was sent through his study window. The
culprits were arrested and taken 10 prison, amid
| the lamentations of "a ~ nlathizing crowd.