Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-10
Weekly News Summary.

and everything is now Colour de rose.
JAY GOULD controls fourteen western railroads
embracing five thousand miles Of track
THE beet crop in France Is failure and, in
consequence, sugar ia advancing In price
The public debt statement for November shows
a decrease in the debt for the month Of $500 Co.,
THE superlatively fashionable Young lady has
the buttons on her boots match those on her dress
THE National Base Ball League Association
has awarded the pennant for 1879 to the Prov.
idence club.
Mrs. PARNELL, mother of the Irish agitator.
Is generally regarded as the leading lady operator
in Wall street.
GENERAL MCCLELLAN is in danger Of a re-
lapse, and may not he able 10 serve out his term
as governor Of New Jersey
GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN sent valuable
sword to be ratified for at a Roman Catholic fair
recently held at Syracuse, New York
| "THE best institutions that found in Amer
lea, says Dean Stanley "were the public libra
ries, and the worst were newspapers"
| An enormous conger eel, seven feet in length
and weighing forty-five pounds was caught in
the river Dee in England the other day.
| CAPTAIN THOMAS SIMPSON Of Burnet, Texas,
keeps the remains Of his wife, recently deceased,
in his parlor In an elegant metallic case.
| ON November nth numbers Of persons were
skating at Wimbledon, near London, on a lake
surrounded by trees most Of which were in leaf
| LORD DERBY is one OF the wealthiest men in
England, and as his money steadily increases II
is reckoned that his annual income will soon be
81, 10000
The cotton operatives OF Void, Switzerland
will appeal to the legislature increase the duties
on foreign cotton fabrics to save the Swiss cotton
industry from ruin
| LONDON telegram Of Saturday says: During
cyclone in the bay OF Bengal storm wave
swept over Monkish Kha island, drowning sew.
eral hundred persons
FEMALE inmate OF California insane asylum
couldn't get pen and ink to write her troubles, and
worked statement on cloth In needle-work and
threw it out OF the window
THE new Queen Christina of Spain is to re-
ceive curious present from an inhabtant Of
Madrid; this is nothing less than pair Of stock
ings made from onion peels
| JOHN DREW OF New Hampshire has inaugurated
| strong temperance movement at Atlanta, Geor-
ga, and some three thousand persons have bound
themselves to total abstinence
THE Utah courts have decided that polyg.
amous wife is not entitled to any share of her
so-called husbands estate. This is blow d.
rectly at the heart of Mormonism
INsplitting open log hauled on land from the
Susquehanna river at Marietta, Pennsylvania
three handsome bass one weighing five pounds,
were found in cavity in the center of the log.
THERE are but thirteen grist mills now running
out OF thirty costly ones that Rochester once
boosted OF. Fifteen of them are now used as
manufactures of machinery and two are burned
VALUABLE setter dog at Northampton, Mas
sachuseits, dislocated his shoulder recently, and
his owner called in two physicians to repair the
damage. They gave the dog cloroform, and in
a few minutes he was dead
GEORGIA colored men hold 341, 19g acres Of
land, or 30 300 acres more than they owned last
year. They own property worth altogether ST.
1888. Only fonr colored men in the state are
worth more than SO 900 each
ALTHOUGH the taxable value of property in the
state of Georgia has fallen off about 81 900 900
during the past year, the value of the property
taxed to negroes has actually increased, and they
MEMPHIS is taking steps to prevent a return of
the yellow fever, and among other measures it is
more than probable that system, to cost
not over s225, 900, and to be capable of perform
ing all the necessary service, will be agreed upon
WAR has broken out between rival chiefs in
New Calabar, west Africa and two hundred per-
sons have been slain and wounded, while the
prisoners were killed and eaten Europeans
there have requested the British naval officer to
interfere.
Mis- FRANKLIN CHASE died suddenly at West
port, New York. on the 10Th of November The
life-like appearance of the remains induced her
friends to postpone the funeral, and thus far
there has been no change in the appearance OF
the body
DIR. GLENN, the great California land monopo-
list, has this year sacked 1000 900 bags of wheat
making 1000 tons and valued at 81, 100000. 1t
is said that this nets him a yearly loss, and is
gradually but surely swallowing his estate Of
80, 900 acres
DON'T give breakfast or dinner party unless
You are prepared to present each OF your lady
guests with handsomely painted sash or fan.
Two thousand dollars was the modest sum lately
expended by New York host in purchasing SOU
yenirs for his guests.
IT Is estimated that 80 900 men and women are
employed in Philadelphia in the manufacture Of
clothing, and 10000, 600 suits are made there
every year. Cutting machines are gradually
finding their way into all of the large manufacture
ing establishments Of the city
CLEvELASD's tax rate has gone up from Sl9s
to 50 81 since 1871 and her business men have
combined to get relief by cutting down expenses
and extending taxation to the saloons, churches,
school buildings, hospitals, monasteres and con-
vents Her debt is s9,Ooo,Oo0.
OK Thanksgiving day fine marble monument
was set up over the grave of Nancy Lincoln,
mother OF the late President Lincoln near Lincoln
City, a station on the Rockport Jasper railroad
in Spencer county, Indiana. Near this village
Nancy Lincoln was buried in October, 1918
A ST. LOUIS boy was delighted when fine,
six-baded knife dropped down to him apparently
from the sky Wrapped around 1t was paper
on which was written, We are fastened in the
dome for heavens sake help us out" Two
girls had assembled to the top of the court house,
and closed self-locking door
lr doesn't pay to be a in the nineteenth
century What comfort can man take in his
great lncoule MS palaces, or tue adultlOn OF sell
seeking courtiers, II he lives in momentary dread
OF a violent death, aud doesn't dare step over his
door sill or take airing in his carriage unless
surrounded with soldiers and gendarmes. The
trade OF royalty is not what it was before 1889.
The hair OF the presidents from Washington to
Pierce is preserved in the Patent Office at Wash
ington. Washington's is pure white and fine in
texture Jeferson's is mixture of white and
auburn and rather coarse, also is the hair of
"Old Hickory" The custom of preserving the
presidential locks was abandoned in Buchanan's
time. How it arose. and why the Patent ofce
Was the repository selected, it would be interest
ing to know.
The population Of the globe may be roughly
assumed at l,i2i 600, 900, divided thus Europe
3O9, 900, 600; Asia s240 0,OOO Africa, l99 100000
oceanica, 1900, 900; America. s., 100000. 1t has
been calculated from the mortality tables OF
known countries that tue annual number OF
deaths throughout the world is 80 sos $50 or that
in other words ~, 100 persons die every day On
the other hand the balance of population is more
than kept up by births at the rate of l0i. 500 per
day. Seventy new lives ushered in every