Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-05
Weekly News Summary.

Weekly News Summary.
REV. DIR. EDWARD BEEcHER celebrated his
golden wedding in Brooklyn, October 27th
NEARLY 10000 emigrants have arrived at Castle
Garden, New York, during the month Of October
BRIGHAM YoUSG's estate finally SINNERS down
to $4,000, which is to be divided among seven
heirs.
SAN FRANCISCO has just paid s66 1888. 20 to one
claimant for damages caused by the riot of July,
1877.
MONTH by month the Nihilist fires continue in
Russia; the damage in August last amounted to
Sl5, 10000.
Sixty thousand acres OF fruit trees have been
planted in Iowa during the past year. What
other state can equal this?
THE Bnghamton Female College has offered to
board and educate free fifty to one hundred
young women for missionary work.
BARONESS N. DE RoTHscHiLD owns a private
railway car worth $50, 900, and the Countess Po-
tocka has ordered one to cost $4,000.
AFTER five years of litigation, practical opera
tons have been commenced tunnel intended
to connect Jersey City with New York.
JEFFERSON DAVIS is threatened with blindness,
and both he and his wife have been much broken
in health since the recent death Of their son.
GENERAL GRANT reached Omaha, Nebraska,
Saturday. and given enthusiastic recep-
ton, banquet being rendered in the evening by
the citizens
THE Louisville lottery company in its suit to
recover the letters withheld by the p,st-ofiiee de-
partment has retained the law firm of which Mr..
Evarts is chief.
The name of the thirty -ninth state to be ad
mitted into the Union will doubtless be Dlbotl
At the last it had but H. 1871 inhabi ants,
now it has nearly 10000
| PAPER read before the American Missionary
Association on Wednesday Of last week strongly
urged that Indians should be made citizens and
| given legal status and all the rights OF other
citizens.
GENERAL GRANT has a strong idea of spending
the coming winter at the South, according to a
Washington correspondent, making his head
quarters in Florida and possibly visiting Cuba and
Mexico.
LARGE box shipped a railroad at Cleve-
land was found to contain live man. a flask Of
whiskey, some sandwiches and kit of burglars
tools. 1t is supposed that he intended to rob the
express car.
THE tombs Of Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck and
Hayden in the Vienna Friedhof to be covered
with flowers throughout the year at the expense
Of the city, and kept in rep sir as long rs Vienna
J is in existence.
| A RECENT important decision OF the New York
court Of appeals bars out death claims pre-
| ferred claims on the assets OF nsolvent life in
surance companies, and places all policy-holders
ON level as creditors.
JOHN McLEMoRE a Mississippi planter near
Carrollton did not stand in the way ofthe Kansas
fever among his colored help, but drew three
wagon-loads of the negroes to .Winona, the point
where they took the cars
THERE are now nearly two hundred western
boys in the navy, most OF them enlisted within a
few months, and Secretary Dick Thompson feels
quite proud Of this plan OF his to recruit
, men from first-class stock
MIDSUMMER In October has promoted the
growth OF second crops of various kinds OF fruit.
In Maryland strawberries and raspberries have
been picked and sent to market, and cherry trees
have borne fruit a second time.
GENERAL GRANT recently attended an exhibit
ton trot arranged for his benefit at Oakland
track. ST. Julian, a trotter brought out to beat
Rarus's best time, trotted a mile without a break
in the unprecedented time Of 2.122
A RIVAL marksman of DIR. Carver has appeared
in California His name is DIR. John Ruth, and
one of his common performances is to shoot APP
Piles and cigars from the mouth OF an assistant
who stands q considerable distance away
MAyoR-ELEcr REV MIR. KALLocH Of San Fran
cisco has just held reception. The admttance
was 81, and there was an immense audience. II
Kalloch has any sense of the fitness Of things he
will divide the gate money with DeYoung
NOWHERE in the world Is there so much gold
coin as in the United States treasury, sl72, co.,,
900, but the Bank OF France has more silver.
The tIeasury's pile of silver is worth $50, 900 900
and weighs 800 tons. The gold weighs $40 tons.
Tue young queen of Spain (that is to bel intends
To dazzle all behoders when she promises To love,
honor and obey Alfonso, at the altar. At the
wedding mass she will wear dress Of cloth OF
silver with garlands of myrtle, orange flowers and
lilies
! The receipts OF internal revenue from July LIST
to September Both, compared with the like period
of 1873 show an increase of S2,059,0oo from
spirits and decrease of 81 422 600 from tobacco,
) and an increase Of S29S,000 from fermented
: liquors.
MANUFACTURERS at Sheffield England, in a
public lecture, lately, showed his worknen pair
. of tailors shears manufactured in this country,
> and offered to give any man 500 If. within
month, he could produce as good para chal-
lenge which was not accepted
l. Tue public lands are being taken up by actua
y settlers BY the returns at the land office IL ap-
pears that no less than $3.50, 600 taktn
Q up Tor settlement for the year ending June 'S0th
1879, against 100000 for that ending June 3oth
: 1878, aud s. lso, 900 for the preceding year
NOTWITHSTANDING the enormous number Of
a pictures and drawings ON wood he has produced,
Gustave bore is only forty-ive years old. lie has
, just undertaken gigantic task-the illustration
a OF Shakespeare. lie will do 1t we'll without
A doubt; his illustrations OF Rabelais warrant this
!, belief
. TnK ladies OF Pennsy lvania, having succeeded In
Q purchasing the mansion which General Washing
A ton occupied rs his headquarters ut Valley Forge
Q have now started movement to buy the two
thousand acres adjoining, in which the old breast
q works are still in good preservation, and then
" erect soldiers home there.
IS Between seventy and eighty pupils are educa-
u ted at the Sam Houston Normal School at Hunts
% ville Texas free Of charge to become teachers In
% the public schools The lsy Stature has appropri-
ated $4,000 OF the school lund for this purpose
n and the Peabody fund gives ~, ooo more, making