Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-03-13
Weekly News Summary.

IT is said that Sitting Bull has expressed desire
to surrender, as his forces are starving.
THE Acton Mass powder mills were blown up
again yesterday, aud two men were killed
WHITE whale sxty-fye feet long worth four
thousand dollars, has been captured in Brunswick
harbor Georgia.
OuIos two hundred and eighty battle flags are
to be grouped in five cases in the lagroom at the
Capitol at Columbus.
LoNG line Of fearful tragedies has led the
Kentucky legislature to pass an act forbidding the
carrying Of concealed weapons
THERE thousand Cherokee Indians and
halfbreeds in western North Carolina, who live
mostly by hunting and fishing.
KANSAS is selling off her corn at ten cents per
bushel even when England is hunting for words
Of six syables to hurl at the Gar
TnE English New Testament revisers. at their
last sitting, carried their work to the third chap
ter Of the Second Epstle Of Paul to Timothy.
A MOVEMENT has already been started in Lon
don for the establishment ola Chinese famine re-
lief fund, 5000 being subscribed the first day
OSE Of the largest shoe firms in Boston has just
concluded an arrangement with the Peruvian gov
eminent to furnish 5000 pairs of mems shoes
SIX averaged sized figs contain more fattenng
matter than pint of G ID liver oil, and one don't
have to be disinfected after eating Them either.
THE Atlanta Constitution thinks that the gold
yield of Georgia, which is now half million
year, may be raised totbe same amount monthly
THE Fast India government proposes to lay
aside S750OOOO every year as provision against
the amines which periodically aiiict that country.
10. -.
nounce the death of John Ruskin, the well-known
author and art critic at the age Of fity-nne years
THE only wreath entombed with Victor Eman-
uel's remains was one sent by Queen Victoria.
Others were hung around the walls OF the chamber.
STRAWBERRIES have declined two dollars per
quart in New York-from six to four dollars
aud it is expected that people will soon buy them,
THE Italian exploring expedition, which at
tempted to penetrate into the interior Of Africa has
been attacked by the King of Shoa and compelled
to return 10 the coast.
THE steamer City of Chester burned the other
day while lying Mt the elevator in Memphis, Tenn.
and two lives were lost Boat valued at forty
thousand dollars cargo all lost.
! WILLIAM maxwell closed his temperance work
in Pattsburgh, n Y, on Tuesday evening of last
.
; lures 20 his total abstinence pledge.
QUEENS county, New York, has only two thou
' sand regular tamps, while she has six thousand
barns for them to sleep in. tramp occupying
three barns ought to be well satisfied
CoSsTANrrNorLE has been beseged twenty
eight times since its foundation. The first siege
was in the year ar b. G., and the last in 1853 A.
d., wcn Mohammed II. captured the city,
Is Lancaster county Penn, an epidemic resemb-
ling the chicken cholera is killing off the crows
like flies in autumn On high barren bluff at
Rockville over 200 were found dead at one time,
1 SrANLEY's How | Found Livingstone" has
e been translated into French, and it is said that
thousands Of Parisians have bought it under the
impression that it records his later explorations.
= DURING 1877 more than 10, 500 patients were
treated by the surgeons connected with the New
York Eye and Ear Infirmarv. These figures indi-
cate IN alarming increase OF this class OF diseases.
The Mansion House Indian famine relief fund
in London is virtually closed except for the
ceipt Of outstanding balances but at last accounts
there were 1886 1870 persons dependent ON charity.
The st. John Globe says that the expenditures
of the Dominion Of Canada have increased from
Sl3 800 900 to over S23 600 600 yearly, and that
tie country II VbHtluudllN upTTpNlls anu VoHliHu-
o ally increasing its annual interest.
:, A cLoUp-BuRsr struck the town of Camanche,
in California, last month, causing reservoir to
: break and great body Of water was let loose
: upon u Chinese settlement which was swept away
and ten of the inhabitants drowned
l. THE religions observance of Sunday practically
l. ends at noon in San Francisco In the afternoon
y the permits oil public omueemonts, and raco
courses, theatres, and other resorts open Sun
day evening sermons are called lectures there.
3 A pEPUTATIoN Of Irish members of Parliament
is soon to wait upon the Home Secretary to urge
Al the release Of the remaining Fenian prisoners from
er servitude Thereare eight still in confinement of
whom two were connected with the Manchester
v outrage,
K, IT is said that the southwestern states are
M rapidly filling up with emgrlnts than other por-
tons of the country, and that Texas and Kansas
will surprise the world by their showing in the
rs census of 1880. Texas claims that she will have
d two million Mt that time.
THERE are one hundred and twenty five specie.
of of grass known to be native in Maine, and it is
a, thought a survey would discover half as many
more Fifty kinds have a high agricultural value
Il The grass crop of the state is said to be worth
~ forty-two million dollars annually
THERE have been several disturbances in Mon.
treal the past week between Catholics and Protest
10 ants, and quite fight took place on Sunday
or evening last, in which two men were seriously
stabbed and others hurt Several pistol shots
were fired Three rioters arrested
Il, THE Burlington sentinel says: 1t is reported
-, that the grave of Van Dyke who was hung re-
ID Gently at Canton, n, Y, aud buried at shelby
,a has been robbed. This will strengthen the belle
of those who took stock in the story that the doc
:, tiers in Watertown had restored him to life
Is 1862 the United States government paid Out
~, on its pension rolls SS52 l7O47 In 1871 the
-. amount reached S3i, AS, S,4 S. which was the
- largest sum In 1877 the pensioners received
S27, 1863, 1927. The total aggregate of pensions
paid since 1871 to the present time has been Si2s,
~ 2O5, 65966.
: 'rHE Senate committee ON commerce ON Friday
"a agreed to report bill providing for compliance
- with James Gordon Benefits request that the
" Pandora be allowed to sail under the Amer.
=, lean flag and that naval officers be detailed foI
service ON that vessel in the proposed Arctic
exploration.
, Irwas reported ut the Secret Service Bureau that
=, leading counterfeiters making their arrange
!, ments so that they would be able to supply fac
H. SMILES of the new silver dollar wlthn a lew days
after the Philadelphia mint began operations.
The silver dollar is especially easy subject for
counterieiting.
LITTLE boy was convicted of murder by his
playfellows in a mock trial in Madison, Ind aud
Nc sentenced To he hanged, They put moose around
'e his neck threw the rope over door, and hoisted
u him up lie was fast choking tn death when a
." woman stopped the iooleryi but he was so badly
We injured that he soon died
"a THE Springfield Republican notices the fact that
of there is Just now considerable demand for good
no farms at prices ranging from 5000 To $1,000
hi, although the bulk of sales averages about 5000
A A large number Of sales are made to men VIII,
:, have hitherto been mechanics small business
:" men, and wish to try something else.
~ INTERESTING and quite successful experiment.
exhibiting the effect Of music upon lunatics hav,
been recently made at Blackwe's Island. Wh
r. in some instances the effect was exciting and in
>, furious, in most cases it was highly beneficial
tending IN make the patients docile, and even I,
ne call from them comparatively rational expressions
MuRPHYs labors in Washington were brough
to u close on Saturday Of last week Nineteei
. thousand names have been obtained to thu
, pledge The work languished at first, but tn,
d al IN