Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-05-01
Weekly News Summary.
WINS lie was insured for 500. 900.

BrEcIIER drew three thousand people In Hart
ford, Tuesday night Of last week
or the 9ds Cinnamon who arrived at San Fran
cisco the oath, 400 are destined for Peru and 1870
for the Hawaiian islands
The roof Of the Centennial Memorial Hall at
Philadelphia has become eaty, and the works Of
art are in danger Of injury.
THE UNITED STATES SENATE last week passed
a bill to prevent the introduction Of contagious
diseases into the United States
lot Of ignorant farmers in Wisconsin, on
Saturday, refused to take gold in payment for
grain; they wanted greenbacks.
NATIONAL banks ut Pittston and Reading, Penn,
Charleston ILL.,, Madison, Wis, and Wilmington,
N. G., have resumed gold payments
THIRTY thousand tons Of fresh beef and NUT
ton worth sS,35O0O0, were imported into Great
Britain from this country during 1871
DURING the month Of March, hotels were burnt
at the rate Of two day in the United States and
Canada. Sixty-fve in all were destroyed
II is reported that three millions Of English peo-
pie are preparing to secede simultaneously from
the Protestant to the Roman Catholic church.
Posi- office employees in Texas are 10 be sup
piled with pistols by the United States govern
inent for their protection against mail robbers.
TnE Catholic church has already sent a band of
missionaries to the interior Of Africa to some Of
the points discovered by Livingstone and Stanley.
THE Elmira Adrertiser says that in nine poor
houses out Of ten in the state of New York the pau
pers are treated worse than hogs in good farm
ers pen,
Out Of six thousand Russians at Rustchuk forty
or fifty die daily Of ordinary and spotted typhus.
At Adrianople, Sistoya and Tirnoya hundreds
die daily.
THE Canadian government has decided to ex-
act duty Of seventeen and one-half per cent ad
valorem upon all importations Of United States
silver coin.
THE value Of the fruit crop in the United States
is estimated by the government statstician at
$4,000 900 year, or about half the value Of the
wheat crop.
Ar Marshall, Texas, masked robbers Sunday
night compelled the postmaster to open the safe,
and two thousand dollars in money and stamps
was carried off
THE London Standards correspondent at Con-
stantnople reports violent gale in the Black Sea
A Turkish corvette lost off Kilia and ninety
men were drowned
A TEXAS paper has an estimate that the num-
Der Of immigrants into Kansas this season will
reach 800 600, and it is worried about it, thinking
its own state Is to suffer.
IN Agra and Dude British India the number Of
the starving is very great, officers reporting in the
latter country that they find the water courses
strewed with dead bodies.
SAM SrEENBURGH, a negro was executed in
n Y pf "a gt fnr he
murder Of j. S Parker. lie confessed to having
committed seuen murders.
A DISPATCH from Troy, New York states that
Senator Morrissey stricken with paralysis ON
Sunday. His right arm is helpless, and he cannot
speak but still eats and drinks.
ALI the United States mints are now coming
the new silver dollar as fast as possible The
Philadelphia mint has just received one hundred
tons Of silver, worth S3,3OO,OOO
GOVERNOR EMORY, Of Utah, says that polygamy
is on the decline among the Mormons notthrough
any change of sentiment, but because the wives
have taken to extravaganza in dress.
MAST in Harper's Weekly illustrates the income
tax, which was a war measure, by gang Of bears
gathered around bee hive and about to smash it,,
and get at the honey laid up by industry
AT peterboro Ont, William iubbs Patrick
Murphy and James McElyea have been sentenced
: to the pen,entary for life for brutay outraging
Mrs. Jones and daughter aged fourteen years
The strike Of the English cotton spinners con-
tinues with but slight prospects of reaching
settlement. At Burnby and Blackburn nearly all
, the operatives are idle and extremely boisterous
THE discovery has been made that the world
does not revove with the same motion that it did
b a thousand years ago; but it still swings round
fast enough to satisfy the man with heavy note
coming due
t THERE will be a very small crop of pears this
year. Only a few of the trees show signs of BIOS
soming, and those that do have but few blossoms
on them. The cherry and apple trees give indica-
tons Of a large crop.
. AT Glendiye, Dakota Territory, on the 18th of
April, there were several shocks Of earthquake
and the ground opened for distance Of 800 yards,
revealing a coal vein five feet thick while there
was an extremely strong smell of sulphur.
A CYCLONE three thousand yards wide passed
four miles from Rome, Ga, clearing everything
Eight persons were injured and several horses and
u mules killed Trees three feet in diameter were
. twisted off, Nine dwellingswere blown down.
. BULGARIA. is in state Of anarchy. The Mus
sumans and refugees from the disbanded Turkish
armies are carrying on II guerilla warfare against
the Christians and Russian troops. Twenty thou
" sand irregulars in the district of Baoum refuse to
= lay down their arms
BosToS law says that full loaf Of bread shall
weigh two pounds and smaller loaves shall be
o. either three-quarters half quarter Of the full
loaves in weight, each size to be marked for pre-
q cisely what it is. Bakers being prosecuted for
disregardng these regulations.
STARTLING reports Of the destruction OF prop
:, erty and life by the storms still come from the
;, West and South. In north Mississippi western
Arkansas, west Tennessee and north Alabama
the creeks and bayous have overlooked, greatly
damaging the crops in the bottoms
:, A NEW agricultural pest has appeared in Mont
gomery county, Ky in the shape of little green
bug which is playing sad havoc with the blue
i grass Reports are made Of ffty-acre pastures
ravaged by this insect which seems to destroy the
l. vitality of the grass and make it appear AS il a
long drouth had been visiting it
FORT ELLIS letter says that the Bannock
Indians have received third Of the blankets be-
> longing to them but they have been stolen by the
u agent who has sold them. They have not had
any coffee or sugar for year, and have not re-
ceiyed their annutes and great numbers have
k left the agency at Lemhi to themselves from
starving force Of troops has started back
e with them
4 STANDARD FERTIIIzER-Among all the nos
, trums which have been iosted upon our farmers
under the high sounding titles of Phosphate, SUI
n perphosphatos and every other designation, it
d Is refreshing to notice how Russell Goes Super
p phosphate has held n leading position and the in
: creasing amount of its sales among those who
e have once used it is most complete guaranty of
G the merits Of the article single trial will con-