Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-19
Weekly News Summary.

Weekly News Summary.
THERE are said to be three hundred American
art students now in Paris
BLIGHT has struck the orange trees Of Florida,
and thousands Of them are dying.
GENERAL GRANT says he is not rich, and must
find something to do before long
JOHN CALHouNs former home in Pickens
county, South Carolina, will soon be sold by the
sheriff.
OVER seven hundred acres Of pop corn were raised
in the vicinity of Loda, Iroquois county, Illinois,
on contract.
THE floods in the island OF Jamaica drowned
nearly one hundred persons seriously damaged
the roads and injured the coffee crop.
FIVE o'clock tea tables, shaped like clover
leaf, covered with crash and draped with lam
brequins, are the Cincinnati style.
REV. DR. BELLOWS, Unitarian minister, is an
nounced to preach on Thanksgiving Day in the
Jewish Temple of Emanuel, New York.
AT the burial Of General Joe Hooker the old
white war horse, ridden by the dead soldier in so
many battles, followed the hearse to the grave.
The workngmen will have peculiar grew
ton day and the Fourth Of July all come on Sunday
THE general missionary committee of the Meth
odst church have appropriated $500, 900 for mis-
sionary work the ensuing year, against S5500OO
last year.
THE Turkish sultan is economizng to the ex-
tent Of ordering that instead of seven dishes
henceforth but three are to be served at his din
ner table.
THERE are now one hundred and fif,v.one In.
dian pupils at Carlisle, Pennsylvania barracks,
| representing nearly all the known tribes in the
United States.
Tug commissioner of internal revepne renorts
that the povernment has lost s11 600 600 revenue
by the reduction of the tax on tobacco and the
consumers have gained nothing
wurS Cenera, Grant vvas on hoard the Rich
mond a consul one dav asked him wbetber the
Airing of the guns disturbed him He renlied " Not
half 40 much AZ a piano does
| M,s n Il surru ,be largas, woman in tho
sontb died recsnt,v in Westmoreland comfy
VIRGINIA She measured tb;rtv.s;x incbes across
Tho shor,dars and we;ched eio nounds
Ar. the fine fetes in honor Of the roval nuntals
arc IN he abandoned in snain and the monev
,hav wop,d have cost goes IN mitigate the mis-
cries of the inhabitants ruined nv the floods
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,ation and all necessary allowance foot mn
g, 400 oOo. and "a far az can he ascertaned there
was I'm, 90, ooo insurance on the whole town
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i"h si"uu Wal Vi sp''.e i"'p Se s'l.e '"s
No, nn,ieIv ,hat tho ,,s, year Of specie navments
r,I, witness gnld imnorts 10 the amonnt of s75.
ooo ooo
Dilohh' are uus aonssiue .ne noa 'nou'n
Gnu 'ou''u -"l','D 80 -, -. =.
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80. - .,ousa.s no.,
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ihh reauing-fooni ., tue pri'isn ,nuseul, 'on'
~ ' -, - A.. $50. ~. -.
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,'e VOC. ~ 80
"o'e' '"e
MRS JAMES ADAMS, whte woman Oh Ian
caster county, south CAROLINA cut 'he throa's Vi
her I'VE ou'iuie, oe'u.u's, Aau ,es n'' e. ~ 30
own oio'nins anu was ouineu !" 'e"'" ''' -
euppos'' " nave ose" '"s"A'
IHE total product from the goio ana snVer
mines in this country since mining began In CAL
iiorhia Is estimated AT ei,oihVoV,oo"' ipe 'aiue
y, s"'p'' s as aa., ao', ,1N
lin. ,.;,, tho o.ooo,,v
hiNshn,ol'' nou,"s INNS VIZ 10, =. y,
VI new n.i.s soOn " ,ho anpsnns nraha. ~
as their yearly capacity the enormous NUMBER Oh
oo'''ooV pafrels recurring An ANNUAL supply Vi
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GOVERNOR fEsNER' absenung himself from
49, IA, v. - ~. o,...,a ~. /,
an ,,a ,,o,,,a ., ,,ao, n, ,ha,r
do, he replied. " tell the people 10 meet at ther
usual places Of worship Mine is at home
r,,v ,,,.,o r,oo,hor. 81 tho KsoL,L bar sbowed