Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-10
Weekly News Summary.

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CANADA village has three centenarians, aged
100, 10i and 1906 years
THERE are seventy-two post Offices in the United
States managed by women
NEW YORK epicures are uxuriatlng on trout,
strawberries and green peas
TnE decrease in the public debt for the month
Of March amounted TO S2,313,614
BY the recent floods, California farmer lost
10000 sheep and 5000 acres Of wheat
IT is said that there is a fair prospect Of Con-
gress adiourning by the middle Of June
GENERAL GRANT will travel in Russia Sweden
and Norway this summer, and return home
next autumn
BoAr containing two men, named Patrick and
John REILLY, was carried over Niagara Falls one
day last week
TERRIBLE hail storm prevailed throughout
northern Mississippi the ID instant, and serious
damage to corn is feared
LIdHrNING played the boot-jack for a Georgia
negro, and took OF his boots at single stroke
without hurting him particle
MAINE had five hundred divorces last year
an increase of one hundred since 1874, and about
one to every twelve marriages
ONLY four of the seventeen contests for seats
in the House of Representatives have been settled,
and those all in favor Of democrats
n is estimated that nearly seven million pounds
Of steel wire will he required to build the bridge
which is to connect New York with Brooklyn.
THE steamer A. Williams began It's trips from
Burlington to PlattsbuIgh on Monday Of last week,
making the earliest passage for eghty-fve years.
THr United States squadron in Greek waters
has been ordered to proceed to Volo near which
place massacres and plaging by the Turks still
continue.
one Of the buildings Of Steuben county, n Y,
poor house, was burned Saturday night, aud ff-
teen of the inmates persisted The fire was set
by an insane pauper.
The transit of mercury, which is to occur the
9Th of May, will he visible all over the United
States, and seven hours and half will be con-
sumed in the passage.
THE Wdtchman, an able Baptist paper printed
in Boston, says that Fast Day is but mere shadow
of what it was once, and wants the pious
sham done away with.
NICHOLAS ROACH, the public executioner in
| France, has record of seventy heads which he
has passed through his guillotine, and he has
only been in office since 1872.
The American Board of Foreign Missions il
discussing the question of going into the Central
African fields. About twenty-five thousand dol
lars would be required for a start.
THE University of Caracas possesses the first
music book printed in America 1t is dated 1901
and the music is printed ON stave of five red
lines in the ordinary Gregorian notation.
THE Stewart hotel for women, New York was
| formally opened on the % instant. The building
brilliantly Illuminated and tits estimated that
there were fully twenty thousand visitors.
The milling capacity Of Minneapolis, Mimi, is
| to be increased this season to two hundred and
sxty-three run of stone, making it the greatest
flour manufacturing city in the United States.
SILVER was first coined by Phidon, King of
Argos, about $50 b c., the epoch of the building
Of Carthage, and about one hundred and forty
years after the construction Of Solomons temple.
ALEXANDER H. SrFrHENs gives quietly large
sums in charities and is especially fond Of help
ins poor young men who trying to obtain an
education. lie worked his own way through
college
THE Minnesota legislature has made contract
| with responsible party to furnish the people of
the state with school books for fifteen years for
less than half the retail price. 1t is estimated that
| the people will be saved $4,000
THnuY thousand barrels one thousand boxes,
and four thousand cases Of oysters, of an aggre-
gate value of nearly quarter of a million of dol
lars, are among the exports from New York for
the five months ending March I'D.
TRAMIS are more of a nuisance il possible in
Germany, than with us. In the rural districts
women are in hourly anxiety because of these
pests, and keep the doors carefully locked when
their husbands are away from home.
Mucu of the late Brigham Young's personal
property was recently sold at auction, at Salt
Lake, His gold watch brought nine hundred dol
lars the guard chain three hundred dollars and
his spectacles sold for fabulous amount
| Is Texas about six hundred thousand horses
have been stolen in the past three years There
are now some seven hundred and fifty indicted
horse thieves who are fugitives from justice at
large, and half as many more in the penitentiary.
A LARGE female anaconda which was brought
from South America to the London Geological
Gardens on February 10Th, 1877, persstently re-
fused all food until March 18th 1s7S-more than
one year-when she killed and swaoweda duck.
EDWARD BAKER, who was recently rejected AS
a suitor by the daughter of George Hawkes., Of
| Lynn, Mass. set fire to Hawkes. house in which
ten persons were sleeping but the flames were ex-
tinguished, and Baker and an accomplice arrested.
HoLr Il BuGBEE of Boston, lumber dealers, have
been obliged to suspend by reason of heavy for
geries by their Western agent They are said to
be fully able to meet their liabilities and take
care Of all their forged paper which has thus far
come to light.
THERE are great crowds in New Haven, Conn
attending the revival meetings of Messrs Moody
md Sankey. The building in which the services
are held holds some five thousand people, and
sunday night it was filled three minutes after the
ioors were opened.
! The complete returns OF the Rhode Island cleo
ton give Governor Van Zandt Republican, II, :
i;6, Farmer Lawrence 1851 and Greenbaek Foster
5S3 votes. The senate has twenty-six Re
publicans eight democrats and two independents
aud the house ifty-six Republicans, sixteen dem
,crats and two independents.
TnE Bank Of jacksonville Florida, was robbed
Of 81, 800 in greonbacks ON Thursday of last week
| \ man engaged the attention of the cashier while
a confederate entered the rear door stepped into
the vault and secured the money The robbery
was not discovered for two hours after it took
place There is no clue to the thieves.
Four years ago IA California farmer obtained a
new variety of grain from the crop of wild goose
| which he shot The seeds were planted and found
to be very prolific The straw and beardless
head resemble wheat; the grain looks a little like
rye, but is twice rs large as rye. When cut as it
is passing into the milk, it makes hay even SUI
perior to wheat hay.
THERE is a terrible epidemic of small pox in
Pike and Marion counties Miss The disease has
assumed n most malignant type and the people
are panic-stricken In one town there is but one
nurse available, an old colored woman and in
one house containing family Of seven persons,
five have died within a. many days, and the other
two may not recover
An a recent meeting of Princeton College alumni
at New York, resolution offered and earn
estly debated, though not voted upon, that, in
view of the recent disorders at that institution,
every student should be required To furnish
bond of five hundred dollars upon entering col
lege to pay his fees and debts and keep the
peace during his four years course
TuE Earl or l.FlrRlM, Of Ireland his clerk and
also his driver were all shot dead opposite a
cottage from which he had recently elected a
widow, one day last week. Eighty-nine Of his
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