Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
Weekly News SnmmarY.

THE statistics show 2s sO6 working people I'M
employed in Massachusetts,.
ONLY ten more days before the national bank
rupt act will cease to be effcacous
AroRrEDo cutter exploded in Russian harbor
last week, killing thrty-four persons
PROFESSOR BANTER, Of Harvard College, was
drowned last week at Cape May, NJ.
An official estimate puts the number Of deaths
from the famine in India at $4,000
TnE English national debt il R777, rs, $50
During the last twenty years 1t has been reduced
R6i, 737, 100
OUT in the Rocky Mountains they say the
eclipse waited half an hour for New York re-
porter to get along
DISPATCH from Big Butte Oregon, states
that fire destroyed nineteen buildings all bust
ness houses except two.
MRs LIvERMoRE is winning the hearts Of thou
sands in England who come under the influence
OF her magnetic oratory
At Oxford, n, H., few days since n fash Of
lightning struck steer and knocked off liz horns
but did it no other injury.
EvERT A. DuycKrNcK, author Of the Cyclopedia
OF American Literature, died in New York on the
l2th, in his sixty-second year
A RECENT dispatch states that Gmores Band
is exceedingly popular and successful in Germany,
and has been invited to go TO Russia.
NEARLY all the hostile Snake Indians in Oregon
have surrendered and the troubles in that region
are thought to be over for the present.
THE High Court of Mexico has decided that
murderers who have escaped from the United
States to that country must be extradited
KANSAS has increased her population over 150,-
600 during the year ending June Goth and over two
million acres of government land were taken up.
The awards Of the international jury are not
published but 1t is said that American exhibitors
have more than their proportionate share OF
medals and awards
OVER three thousand sheep, one hundred and
three cattle and four hundred and sixty hogs,
valued at $1,000, were shipped last week from
Montreal for England
john TEN EycK, who murdered Mr.. and Mrs
David Stillman at Sheffield, Mass on the evening
Of November Goth last, was executed in Pittsfeld,
that state on Friday last
THE Burlington Hd,oteye says there hasn't been
tramp sunstroke in the United States for more
than six hundred years. People who work for a
living should think OF this
IN Pennsylvania the crop OF apples exceeds any
thing before known. In Washington county an
entire orchard was sold at two cents per bushel,
hand picked and delivered
CAPTAIN KENNEDY, a resident of Nuces county,
Texas owns tract of land containing $50 square
miles on which are pastured 700 cattle IL, 600
horses and mules and 1000 hogs.
SHOOTING women from cannon is the new at
traction of a Paris circus They are thrown some
thirty feet and land in a strong netting thus net
ting handsome sum for the proprietor
A LARGE amount of oleomargarine has been
sold to Chicago dealers as genuine butter The
imitation article came from large butter factory,
some of it being mixed with real butter.
CHARLES W. ANGEL, of Chicago, secretary Of
the Pullman Car Company, is defaulter to the
extent of $4,000 His social relations had, until
recently, been Of the very best character
THOUSANDS of potato bugs may be seen floating
on the waters of Lake Champlain. Usually they
are struggling in the water but nearly every float
ing weed and chip has one or more on board.
ADvIcEs from the west coast of Africa say great
mortality has prevailed there particularly at Lagos,
where nearly quarter of the European population
died of fever and dysentery during two months
A LARGE picture, representing family scene
during the siege of Paris is exhibited in Broad
way, New York. shop window. It is made entirely
of human hair and looks like a steel engraving.
THE United States consul at Bankok, Siam,
writes that he has closed over three hundred
liquor establishments formerly under American
protection through licenses sold by his predecessor
The rayages of the yellow fever at New Orleans
are likely TO surpass this those of any pre-
ceding year. Already there have been more than
one hundred new cases and forty-seven deaths in
a single day
A cLouDBuRsT the 18th, flooded the business
part of Austin, New, doing damage to the amount
Of one hundred thousand dollars One man was
drowned, and the RegeiHe office and many other
buildings were wrecked
The Worlds convention of Young Mems Chris
tian Associations is in session at Geneva Switzer-
land, and a thousand delegates are present from
America, Belgium, England, France Holland,
Spain and the Protestant cantous Of Switzerland
Two freight houses in East St. Louis each two
hundred and fifty feet long by twenty-five feet
wide, belonging to the Chicago and Alton Rail-
road Company, were burned last Friday. They
were pretty well filed with general merchandise
Loss $4,000
ANOTHER famine in Ireland is threatened by the
failure OF the potato crop. The Boston Pilot
states that the present season has been almost a
repetition of that of 1917, in which and the pre-
cedng year there were half million deaths from
famine in Ireland.
THIRTY-rwo sheep belonging to Hon John
Sanford, of Hopknton, n Y, were instantly
killed by lightning one day last week They we're
lying down along side of fence, the materials of
which, including the posts, were converted into
kindling wood by the bolt
An old Irish soldier who prided himself upon
his bravery said he had fought in the battle of
" Bull Run" When asked If he had retreated
and made good his escape as others did on that
famous occasion, he replied: BE jabers, those
that didn't run are there yit!
Mrs. MILLER, who succored and befriended
hundreds of Union prisoners in Libby Prison, has
been elected from her rooms on Mulberry street,
New York city, and her household goods put into
the street She is old and feeble, and unable
to earn her support by making shirts.
On Tuesday morning of last week the late Pres
ident Raymond Of Vassar College, then sinking
rapidly, turned to an attendant and spoke for tho
irst time in three or four days, saying, "Oh, how
PEACEFUL how PEACEFUL 1t is SO pleasant to glide
from the work here to the work." and then
he remained silent
AMONG the finest specimens OF the jewelers.
art at the Paris Exhibition are jewel casket,
lowder-box and porte-monnaie of Pacific Coast
gold and quartz rock in mosaic. They are ex-
iibited by Mrs. A, Sunderland of California, who
iad thom made by San Francisco jeweler from
Ter own designs at a cost OF $4,000
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch states that the del
gates elect ofthe workingmens party have drawn
Up and forwarded to the President and Secretary
II State memorial setting forth the evils of Chi
lese immigration and requesting the President
nd Secretary TO take immediate steps to obtain
N abrogaton OF the Burlingame treaty.
BOLD robbery was committed last week on
he Kansas City, st. Joseph and Council Bluff.
abroad near Atchison, Kansas Four men cowed
he conductor baggage master and express agent
Nth reyolyers, took 5000 from the express,
orced the conductor to stop the train, and got
way. 1t was done so quietly and quickly that
one OF the passengers were aware Of any trouble
CARRIER pigeon race from Tobyhanna, Penn,
D New York took place last week. Twenty-six
irds started from Tobyhanua at nine o'clock in
he morning, Twenty-three birds arrived in
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