Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-07-24
Weekly News summary.

A MONTREAL dispatch states that all business
men not Catholics in Canada are withdrawing
their trade from Montreal.
SEVERE thunder and hail storm passed over
portion Of Ottawa county, Ont, on the I'D,
greatly damaging the crops
THE main school building of st. Paul's school
at Concord, n H., was struck by lightning and
burned Sunday. Loss 100000.
THREE Chinese youths have gone to n Boston
preparatory school, with the intention of event
ually entering Harvard College.
CHAcE, the Fall River defaulter, is sculery man
in the state prison kitchen, and spends his days
peeling and qnartering potatoes.
In New Hampshire the back farms " are pass
ing into the hands Of men from the cities who
propose to engage in agriculture.
TEXAS sends North half million beeves this
year. Its cows introduced from Shelswig IIolstein
stock are making fine dairy record.
THE wife Of an ex-Congressman and daughter
of a former United States Senator now makes an
honest living selling milk at Washington.
Two hundred and sixty-iive candidates APP
peared at recent competitive examination for
halfa dozen one thousand dollar clerkships in the
Interior Department
THE ladies of Chicago are attempting to found
n Home for lnebriate Women similar to the Wash
ingtonan Home for Men the need of such an in
stitution being keeuly felt.
MAcHlNERY now desiccates twenty thousand
eggs in a day in Chicago, preserving them for any
length cf time in n rich yellow graduated shape,
to be made new by adding water or milk
Two thousand American cattle is the average
weekly number arriving at Liverpool per steamer,
and in that citys cattle market the American ami
mails have for weeks greatly predominated.
CALIFORNIA; wheat crop is remarkable. She
expects to realize an increase of S26O00O00 on
the receipts of last year Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky are also harvesting larger crops than
ever before
The trial of the ONugemen arrested the 18th of
July came up the 18th, and was adjourned with
out any evidence being taken to the 3lst The
application for adjournment was made on behalf
of the prosecution
FARMER MARRs of Uniontown, Ind, was de-
capitated in a curious manner The mule he rode
to field threw him, and looping its trace chain
about his neck, jumped the fence and completely
severed his head
LETTERS from st. Petersburg state that there
are at least fifty thousand sick soldiers in the Rus
sian armies of Europe and Asia. Typhoid small
pox and dysentery are the principal malades
Surgeons are very scarce.
JOSEPH CLARK's boy Of fifteen was drowned
while bathing in the Muskingum at Coshocton,
Ohio, and, sngulary enough, on throwing his
ahirt into the water it floated directly over the
hndv uud auulr lilo stn
REV. DIR. CLARK of the Southern Methodist
church has sailed for Europe, commissioned by
the bishops to collect funds for a church in honor
of John Wesley which is to be built al Savannah,
where mach of his work in this country was done.
BARS ofpure gold. weighing twenty ounces each.
have been ploughed up at or near Lexington. n.
c., to the value of some ten thousand dollars. 1t
is supposed to be the proceeds of II stage robbery
committed some forty-fve years ago, when the
thieves hid the metal.
The miners of Amin. which contains the largest
collieries Of France, have struck work They
number five thousand, and demand higher wages
and that eight hours shall be the limit of day.
work Precautions have been taken to prevent
threatened disturbances.
THERE is n prospect that the three cent pieces
will disappear from nublic view within n short
time Postmasters have been ordered to send all
money of that description which they may receive
at their offices to Washington in order that its
circulation may he stopped,
ICED tea is cassed by some medical authorities
among the seductive and dangerous beverages
The astrinpent mower of the tea united with the
cold of the ice. soon oyercomes the powers of the
etr nd Of
peptics owe their troubles to this source.
GANG of armed roughs and tramps boarded
crowded excursion train ON the New Haven &
NORTHAMPTON road at Cheshire. Conn. Saturday
night. as n party WAS returning from the Sound.
Women were insulted and clothing stolen, and
the passengers and conductor were helpless
ELECTRIC light which is growing steadily into
public notice it il to be tested in the CONFUSING
rooms of the New York Times. where it is ex-
pected to reduce the monthly cas bills of five hnn
dred dollars one fifth. after the first cost one
thousand dollars. of fitting M the apparatus
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turning every one ont of bed and changing the
golden hair of a little Girl of four. and her scar
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