Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-06-25
Weekly News SUMMARY.


last year a revenue Of $751; ,i77,Oi3
THE Cornish (Engsh) mines have been worked
for over 900 years, and are entirely exhausted.
AN article entitled " From the Chanceors Beer
Bench " has cost Berlin editor four weeks Inn
prisonment
TWELVE thousand dollars IL the largest sum
ever found In single letter In the dead letter of
fee at Washington.
Ur TO May 10Th Lord Chelmsford has lost In the
Zulu war eleven hundred and eighty-six men in
action and eighty-six by disease
In the ten years ending June 1861, the chief
English railroads had to pay 81 500 600 compensa-
ton for injuries received by railroad accidents.
THE Bank Of France has an invisible photo.
graphic studio behind the cashiers desk, where
likenesses can at signal from the latter be taken
GENERAL WALKER, who is to superintend the
United States census of 1880 estimates that the
population will be between forty-six and forty
seven million.
CETEwAYo is said to gave good deal Of money
and trouble by killing prisoners instead Of main
tanning prisons, and burying paupers alive instead
OF sending them " to the island
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON left $500 TO the
Womdns' Journal, aud a similar amount TO Berea
College, which is especially open to colored stu
dents and does not exclude women.
THERE are 5ilS7 persons employed in the
postal service of the United States, greater num-
Der than in all the other departments combined
The number Of postmasters is 39,25S.
A GESrLEMAS In Copiah county Miss shipped
his strawberry crop to Chicago and sold it for
$1,000. He estimates that the money product OF
one acre in strawberries is equal to that OF sixteen
acres oil cotton
The Church of the Messiah, of New York, has
called Rev. Robert Coyer to its pastorate. lie
is now fifty-fve years old, and two weeks ago
preached sermon on the twentieth anniversary
of his pastorate in Chicago.
oNE ofthe revenue agents OF the internal bureau
reports the capture OF two Illicit whiskey stills in
Alabama, tine properly OF Rev Albert >. Esmon,
II minister oil the gospel In good standing, VINO
escaped py hyihg 10 the woods
| The average salaries Of Methodist ministers in
fourteen southern conferences is said to be S572
ana the average amount paid si2S. In northern
conferences the average is 500, and the deficiency
In payments about twelve per cent
| AN Onondaga squaw, Aunt Dinah, one hundred
ana hVe years DID, walked from the reservation
10 'yr'cuSe, rtiuay' seven miles ana RETURN
't'ii!i"s y" nei o"oh heaNy ioau' oouhu ny
'""p passing "'ounu "er io'eheau'
| SAMUEL Ii. COLLIER was elected probate judge
| OF Galloway county, Mo-, mainly through promis-
| "s :" give paie vi TUE pronts Vi 'ne oinoe 10 'ie
so"oo' iunu Inc supreme court vi that sta'e mas
uo'i'ie' ''a' HIS e'eo'ioh was i"esai'
| GOVERNOR DREW of Florida, a New Hampshire
man, owns sixty thousand acres of land. lie en-
ploys four hundred men cutting logs and saving
'nein .h'o 'uioer' All MS men liVe IN neat COT
N'ses ou'' ny n''n ior WHICH ne cnarges no rent
Miss JULIA ScRBNER, prominent school
| teacher of Boston, with her sister Mrs Dr. Brown
and party Of half dozen young ladies, sail for
Europe shortly. They will travel during the
Summer unaccompanied by any gentlemen.
| ANexchange says; " You can t advertise enough
| in week to last whole year, any more than
| you can eat enough in seven days TO last three
| hundred and sixty five, and yet some men, So
| called business men, seem to think So
A JEWISH barber at Kiel, in Russia. is about to
| he tried for mntilating a nnmher of vnnng man of
the same faith to exempt them from military
service. He had put out the right eye of six,
charging thirty roubles each for the operation
rtbe dinner given the Commercial cIub of
Cbicaoo on Saturday of last ueek nv the similar
Climb If Roston ttransnired tina. Robert r Lincoln
son of preside,t ri,col, ,yas tho only native horn
citizen of Illinois present; and lac was educated
at Harvard.
spx,rop Rprcr has word that the exodps
| from, ui,sissin,i T. ,yor Tor tho ,resa,, bav;n,
carried of from civ IN ten ,bopsand n.groes He
s,vs there arc fewer comnlain,s from the colored
neo,,e nj their treatment nv the whites and secs
beneficial results from the movement already.
T,,r Adirondack farm Of .Iobn Brown il owned
bv Nau, yorlers ,,bo bopsbt /, at tbe solicitation
of Miss Kate Field IN nrevent il nassing into the
hands of strangers Several hundred dollars OF
accumulated rents have been sent to John Brown.
Jr., in Kansas, to be used for the blacks Of the
exodus
A GLASS muff. white and curly; glass hats for
ladies' with glass feathers: glass wool not to be
distinguished from the genuine and quite as
warm-being nonconductor glass carpets, cuffs ,
collars. wells and dresses are the novelties in
troduced by Mr.. A. Prengle glass artist and spin
ner, Vienna.
ru,xv,vo ,bo, ho hoor, n brrolar n Karsas
Cit, man 90, ont of he'd armed bimsef with n
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