Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-10
Weekly News Summary,

GENERAL GRANT is on his way home In the
steamship City of Toxic.
GERMANY celebrated the surrender OF Sedan
last week Thursday, with great rejoicing.
Kn'ooro.,, rvr,n carolina claims man and
wife who are one hundred and eighteen and one
hundred and four years old, respectively.
AN Illicit distilery situated within three squares
Of the executive mansion and treasury depart
ment, was seized last week, in Washington.
Miss NJ &. CRANE, the 6eshooter OF Sara
toga, has had bracelet made of dime and half
dime silver pieces which she has hit OF hand with
her rifle.
THERE are no less than one hundred and forty
seven towns and villages in the United States
named for George Washington, besides the led
eral capital.
FOUR boys were run over by a locomotive at st.
Louis on Monday of last week, and two of them
had both legs cut off. The limbs of the other
two were terribly mutated.
The Empress Eugene is still in the same state
Of depression. She receives nobody, and dimes
alone in her own apartments. She only leaves
her room to go to that OF her son.
ABRAHAM LAYMAN, bachelor aged seventy
years, both of Rockingham county, Virginia. were
married on the bridge OF Harper's Ferry recently.
AN aged negro struts through the streets OF
Nashville, Tennessee, with his name conspicuously
embroidered on the lapes OF his coat His pride
is caused by the fact that he has had three wives
and is the father of thirty-six children.
THE Gazette of Cologne announces that pro-
iecte has been invented that will pierce an iron
plated ship, though covered with plates OF the
combined thickness OF eight and twelve inches.
rhe ron-cald Inlexible Is no longer impenetrable.
The cholera in Japan continues virulent, but
there were signs of abatement last month. Thus
far there have been forty-fve thousand cases and
twenty-five thousand deaths. The government
displays unhaggng energy in confronting the
disease
A REUNION OF the late prisoners OF war will be
held at Toledo, Ohio, October LIST and 3D. and 1t
promises to be the largest convention OF prisoners
ever held Generals Grant, Sheridan, Hancock.
Neal Dow and other distinguished persons will
probably attend.
Mrs, SECRETARY SHERMAN is very fond OF her
farm home near Mansfield, Ohio, and spends much
time among her fruit trees and gardens, driving
about nearly every day with quantities of vege-
tables, fruits and other things, which she dis
tributes among the poor
CASHMERE shawls are decidedly ont Of fashion.
A struggle to bring back their vogue among the
elegants OF Paris has ended disastrousy and even
those resurrected heirlooms, costing in former
lays mint OF money, which have been turned
into mantles, fail to produce the faintest fiutter in
the English market.
ANOTHER kerosene horror occurred at Man
chester, New Hampshire, last week, Monday af-
ternoon, by the explosion of a can OF kerosene
which an eeven-year-od daughter Of Patrick
Moran was using in Fastening fire for dinner
She was terribly burned about the head and body,
and her recovery is doubtful.
IT is announced from Washington that three
new counterfeits have appeared since August LIST.
viz; Ones on the National Eagle Bank of Boston,
and fiyes on the Globe National Bank OF Boston
| and the Dedham National Bank of Dedham, Mass
| achusetts These oounterfeits are prepared by
Photographic process and are dangerous.
THERE is being threshei on the celebrated
Grandin farm in Dakota between seven and eight
Thousand bushels Of wheat daily. 1t is described
AS prime No, /, entirely free from cookie and
larger, plumper, and OF better color than last
year. The entire crop on this wheat farm will be
considerably over one hundred thousand bushels.
THE wife Of the Rev. DIR. Maclay OF Yokohama,
Japan, died In the Native church there on the 2sth
Of July. She had presided at the organ and sung
The last hymn, There is rest for the weary"
Then as she bowed her head in prayer, she was
seized with an apoplectic tit, aud remained I'M
conscious until the morning OF the following day.
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