Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-06-11
Weekly News Summary.

NihN'h WI oN'I teNen nunuren acres 10 De pihnIeu
with beet seed
ON from the Bradford district Is now taken
through pipe one hundred miles long TO vii. q
Transport, Penn.
GERMAN papers say that the sting Of the bee
cures govt. correspondent OF the Augsburg
Gazette was cured by three bees
IT Is asserted by Georgia paper that young
lady in Wilkes county, that state, born blind can
distinguish coors by the touch.
JuDGE THOMAS RUSSELL Of Boston has been Sc
| cured as orator, and George r. Iathrop Of Boston
as poet, for commencement at Dartmouth College
THE city Of Providence four and one-half per
cent twenty year loan for 100000 was taken
Monday Of last week by Blake Brothers of Bos-
| ton at 102 5000.
THElargest lumber mill in the world is building
at Port Ludlow, Washington Territory. It is de-
| signed for cutting lumber one hundred and forty
feet long and its capacity is 10000 feet per day.
A LAW passed by the legislature Of Michigan
| declares offices vacant In all cases where the in
cumbents are convicted Of being intoxicated, and
| provides for tho filling Of such vacancies with
| ont delay.
LoNGFELLow has been given a pen made from
the iron letters Of Bonvard the prisoner Of Chill
lion. Its socket is of gold, set with three rare
gems, and the handle is piece Of oak from the
| old frigate Constitution.
| ESTIMATES at the St Lous brewers convention
| make the total sales of beer during the past year
| ten million barrels. A large increase is shown in
| the expectation Of American beer and similar
decrease in the importation Of foreign beer
EDWARD RICHARDSON, of jackson, Miss, has
the reputation of being the wealthiest man in the
| South. lie owns nineteen plantations markets
about 40 900, 900 pounds Of cotton yearly, and Is
estimated to be worth from 100000 to So
| 100000
TIE streets in Paris are kept clean in ordinary
weather by twenty-five hundred sweepers, pub
| licly paid, and two thousand auxiliary hands at
half rates. In very bad weather seven thousand
| sweeps are ready at a moments notice To ply
| their brooms.
FIVE hundred tons of vtriol were recently set
free by fire near Boston and emptied into II
tributary of the Mystic water works Thousands
Of dead fish attest the presence Of the chemical
and the people Of Boston naturally afraid to
use the water
The Boston, Concord & Montreal railroad has
reduced its local passenger rates to three and four
cents per mile The reduction of fares is practi-
cally an equalization Of rates on the basis of four
cents per mile for local and three cents for
through traffic.
THE number OF cattle driven from Texas during
the past ten years for shipment to western mar
kets is estimated at over 100000, worth some
So 600 900 to the stockraisers The biggest drive
was in 1S70-sOO O0O-but this years will not he
more than 100000.
Tue supreme court Of Iowa has decided that
the law prohibiting the sale Of wine and beer
within two miles Of the corporate limits of any
municipality where such sale has been prohibited
by the vote of the people, or within two miles Of
any voting place at any election, is constitutional
and valid.
LtEuTENANr FITcH, who married Miss Minnie
Sherman, is now successful merchant in st
Louis. The diamond necklace presented to Mrs
Fitch by the Khedive of Egypt and the most val
liable article of iewery ever brought to this coun
try is still locked up in the United States treas
ury ut New York
TUE Profile & Francona Notch railroad is
pected to be completed June Goth; two miles OF
iron have already been laid. 1t will be operated
by the Boston, Concord Il Montreal road. 1t il
nine miles long, running from Bethlehem to the
Profile House. The fare is fixed at Si50, which
Is nearly seventeen cents per mile.
THE money annually spent in maintaining the
Protestant churches in Boston is 81, 100000, as
calculated by the Boston Hcrdld leaving works Of
charity ont Of account The Congregatonalists,
including Trinitarians and Unitarians, head the
financial list, and the Episcopalans come next
, Even the Baptists are ahead Of the Methodists
who are so strong throughout the rest of the
country.
| A in MnJp Mo in n which
was struck by lightning. Available gold watch
which she wore stopped at the time and although
jewellers have repeatedly examined it and pro-
t nounced it perfect in every particular, it cannot
be made to move, It is so charged with electricity
that watchmakers say no part of it can ever be
made to do duty II taken out and put into another
set OF works.
r YOUNG man who saw fellow fall PROSTATE
= on the sidewalk in western city drunk and in
sensible concluded to make some observations
7 lie accordingly stepped into dark corner from
which point he could see without being seen. lie
declares that inside Of fifteen minutes six differ
ent men passing along and seeing the drunken
man lying on the sidewalk, stopped over him and
went through his pockets
TIE Rev W. T. Eustis in sermon at the Yale
Theological Seminary urged the need of more
, pr"c,'cai 'e'c"ins III npp''en 'neoiosS' nv N''u
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whom were soNe'"' "'i,H ''eiAs, "H" "o ''''""S
h put 10 them 'he question: '""us were III.
. 'ru''eu 10 70" rs ""''e'' "o"'u ~" nav 's"
10 invest 'he'i III SWINGS o''nN' anu u'He '"o n
tereSt 10 your own user several fepheu '"a' "
would he perfectly legitimate.
4, GENERAL GRANTS Arabian horses, presented to
= him by the Sultan, which arrived by sea at New
. Haven, were taken to blacksmith to be shod,
q ana many persons came To see them onef'ns 10
purchase the Old shoes or even single nall as
mementoes, at almost any price WINE 'he
horses were oelhg ied 10 tne Ne" 10TH poa' one
oil them kicked spoke from tue "heel o' pass
ing carriage writ was served ana the sum oil
Sl2 was paid To settle the case
3, TIE largest block OF granite ever cut in the
: United States has recently been taken from the
= quarry Mt vinahaveu It is fiity-nine feet long,
five and oue-haf feet square at the base and three
and one-half feet square Mt the top 1t weighs
: from seveuty-fiye to one hundred tons. 1t cost