Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-20
Items Of Interest.

NINE Princeton students have been rustcated
for blowing the midnight horn.
The small pox is spreading in Toront and
threatens to become epidemic.
MoScAsI, who recently attempted to assassin
ate the young King Of Spain, has been senenced
to death at Madrid l.
CHARLES BnowER, of wappingers n.
Y, has killed James Patterson eighty -flVyears
old, while on spree.
MIR, EDISON has given up experiments ttlcbing
the elevated railroad clatter, and is confiu1s his
efforts to the electric light
A STRICT watch is now being kept oyr the
grave in the Moravian cemetery. New York, shere
Commodore Vanderbilt is buried
SEVERAL shops connected with the khtra
prison at Toronto Canada, were burned 3th
the total damage amounting to slOO,OO0
SUcH is the mania for ofiice.hodng in tlS West
that recent convention of poultry-breeden IN ILL.,
nois appointed twenty-nine vice-presidents
JOSEPH wARsrAILER, aged eighty yeas, tax
collector OF South Easton, Penn, COMMITTED sui
eide by hanging. lie was short in his accounts.
NEITHER fever-smitten Grenada, Miss Ar the
county Of the same name in which it ted
had the heart to open the polls in lasS&eek's
election.
CRoSIN, they say, died OF grief and genfal de
preston resulting from his publicity in the oregon
fiasco and the prominence acquired by hi, nose in
pictorial literature.
Mrs HAYES has had the White House cellar
fitted up with potato bins, shelves for pkpkins
and squashes, and racks to hold apples, N the
manner of her own cellar at home
MANY gifts of money or precious. 4 are
now handed to Pope Leo XIII in perso or his
own use; but contributions To Peters pa e have
dwindled down to a mere driblet since death
OF Plus TX.
This is likely to be winter OF dreadtu distress
in England. In the cotton districts til iorebod-
ings are of the goomiest The glut d goods is
unprecedented, and production is being restricted
on all sides.
Down on the flooded flats OF Salem kty, n.
j., the other day, little girl found II Apver-
taken by the rising tide in the Delaware, and was
rescued by catching hold OF a cows tail the COW
plotting the way To dry land.
Two workmen in shoe factory in Snughton.
mass Hapituaiiy VI tilt htOnt used by
them in their work, and, when poisonois LIQUID
was substituted, they did not know thed ference.
but took draughts that killed them.
JupGE CHRISTIAN of the Richmond, ~ court
had personal interview with tia. g." the
other day A faro dealer was ON trii and al the
pamphernalia of his bank were broi TO the
court ROOM and explained IN judge Kury by
one of the witnesses who knew what {as talk.
ing about
vide the city into districts and let him hold union
meetings In the biggest church in each for thirty
days. As there was objection that 10y af-
ternoon services would interfere " lday-
schools, Moody has given that time 20 40 colored
churches for the present
THE California constitutional lonYsntion has
adopted a section providing that ,hreeIourths Of
a jury may render verdict in all cats except
felony. In cases Of felony jury muslbe unan-
imons In order TO secure conviction or lcquittal
1t is not probable that this innoYatiouwill meet
with the approval of the people of C6nGnia.
GEORGIA Ia To see a sad tragedy nth in
the execution OF Raymond and FOsgood,
brother and sister, in Liberty county They AS
sisted their father and two brother, n Ieatinr nm
old man to death last month in depuu involving
one dollar and fifteen cents one 81 tlt brotbers
escaped; the father and another briher we're
sentenced to the penitentiary.