Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-09
Weekly News Summary.

FLORIDA has produced FIVE hundred thousand
barrels more oranges than last season.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE has conferred the honor
airy degree Of Ii. D., on the Marquis Of Lorne.
ONE OF the sons Of the late William Lloyd Gar
rison Is soon TO write biography Of his father.
THE temperance people Of Springfield, Mass,
supplied free lemonade to all who wished 1t on
the Fourth Of July.
A LETTER mailed from Washington made the
circuit Of the world in seventy days-the fast
est time yet reported
DISPATCH from London says fifty men were
killed by colliery explosion in High Blantyre
pit, near Glasgow on the ID instant
Mr.. ROBERT FALKSER of Warren county, n c.,
is one hundred and five years old and has voted
eighty-one times in consecutive years.
THE Chicago market has been glutted with
strawberries this season. and the ruling market
price has been but four cents per quart.
THERE is a rose-bush in New Haven, Conn,
which has upon it, according to pretty accurate
estimate, ten thousand buds and blossoms.
EVERY Russian subject is required TO take out
apassport each year. The prescribed cost Of pass
port is about 50, but in fact it costs twice that
OVER two and quarter million acres Of land
have been taken up in Kansas during the past
nine months under the homestead and pre-
emption laws.
OF "a, Si2 non-commissioned officers and men
Of the British army, 81, $50 belong to the church
Of England, 20,S72 are Roman Catholics, Z, 125
Presbyterians and 1885 are Professionals Of other
denominations.
A xfEn fstIA MI In hta ntfin L., Grttth
street, New York, recently received an answer to
his dispatch sent to Shanghai only six hours pre-
viously Shanghai is thirty-six thousand miles
distant from New York.
AMHERST, Mass, had hundred thousand dol
lar fire on the morning Of the Fourth, burning the
Amherst House, savings bank, post-offlce. the
library, the halls Of the Psi Epsilon and Alpha
Delta Phi societies. Supposed to be incendiary.
The last slave sold in the Confederacy was in
1865, near Richmond, negro man, who was
bought for nine hundred heads Of cabbage Cab
bage was worth dollar head, consequently the
negro man footed up at $500.
FARMERS at Wichita, Kan, are hauling buffalo
bones into town every day There has just opened
in Wichita a good market. The bones are gath
cred in Harper and Barbour counties, where they
fifty to one hundred miles.
IT is stated that within the last eight months
some fourteen joint stock companies have been
formed in the United States and Canada for the
manufacture OF sugar from beets. The satisfac-
tory success Of the Maine company has given an
impetus to this particular industry
THE daughter Of Mrs Julia Ward Howe re-
Gently took part in some tabeaux at Rome. re-
presenting Aspasia. The king and queen OF Italy
were present, Ristori arranged her robes, and
Casteani lent her some rare jewelry which he
had just sold to the British museum.
IT is stated that william H. Vanderbilt has So
cured control OF the Troy and Boston road by
recent purchase, at fifty cents on the dollar, Of
twenty five hundred shares owned by d. Thomas
Vail of Troy. The interests Of Vanderbilt are
thus all thrown in favor of the Tunnel line.
A MICHIGAN lady writes that to kill insects she
uses one teaspoonful of kerosene to II gallon Of
water and sprinkles it on the plants with hand
broom. 1t destroys the green flies currant
worms and other pests, and is used without injury
on fuchsias, geraniums, callas and other plants.
| THEgiant-powder magazine at Mowbray's nitro
| gycerine works in North Adams, Mass, exploded
last week and two men who were mixing blasting
powder were blown to atoms. The neighboring
buildings were badly shattered and the ground
for thirty rods was strewn with timber and debris.
| The monument to Major-General Wool, now
being cut, will be seventy-fve feet high, the shaft
being single stone, sixty feet high and weighing
one hundred tons. 1t is to be the largest stone
shaft Of the kind cut in the world in three thous-
and years. Cleopatras needle is only nine feet
longer
A MAN named II. p. Peet few months ago
made successful leap from the suspension bridge
at Niagara. Last Friday he advertised to again
perform the feat, and large numbers OF people
came from Canada and the States to witness 1t;
but when he made his appearance he was too
drunk to do it and was struggled away.
IT is estimated that under the census Of 1880 the
Eastern states will lose nine representatives in
| congress; the Central states will gain six; the
| North western thirteen the Pacific states two,
| while the Southern states lose seven. This will
be a net gain OF about twenty to the North over
the South. Vermont will be obliged to content
herself with two.
FEW weeks ago the wife Of the postmaster OF
Bristol Rhode Island, while partially insane shot
her husband In the head while he was asleep
| Last week when he went home TO dinner he found
the doors fastened, but forced entrance and
found his wife in bed wrapped in flames. She
had saturated the bed with kerosene oil and set 1t
on fire She has since died.
THE Chicago public library, which has sixty
thousand four hundred and twenty eight volumes,
distributed three hundred and sixty thousand
four hundred and twenty-eight in the last year to
| twenty thousand nine hundred and siIty-one per-
L ~ .l.. Il
cent were English fiction; twelve per cent were in
continental languages, and nine per cent history
and biography.
| LArRIMouII.LK, on trial at Albany, New York,
| for the murder OF Catherine Dunsbach Of Cohoes,
in that state has been found guilty Of murder in
the first degree. He maintained remarkable
degree OF selfpossession throughout the trial and
at Its close on the way to jail, he stepped to an
apple stand, remarking I" want to get ten cents
worth Of candy to take the taste of that verdict
out OF my mouth"
| SCARLET fever OF most malignant type is rag
ing in some parts OF Southern Indiana. In the
| city OF Evansville 1t has assumed the shape OF
| terrible scourge, and within a month more than
five hundred cases have occurred, large proper
ton of them being fatal. Many families have lost
| two and three children each, the schools have
been suspended families shut themselves indoors,
and alarm and gloom are everywhere apparent.
AN English physician relates that on the 18th
OF February his wife, after mixing some corn meal
| for feeding the fowls, missed her wedding ring
from her finger, and after fruitless search gave
1t up for lost On the Sth OF April, while engaged
eating egg at breakfast, she felt the egg-spoon
crate against something hard at the bottom Of the
egg below the yolk, and on further investigation
found the lost ring firmly fixed by membraneous
ADMISSIONS to the bottom Of the egg. The egg was
of extra large size, and was laid the day before.
THE notable feat of changing the track OF seven
hundred miles Of railroad from a broad to the
standard gauge was performed on the St. Louis,
| Iron Mountain and Southern railroad last week.
The work was commenced at daybreak and COM
pleted before night, about three thousand men
being employed for the purpose. A piece OF work
| OF similar character once performed In ten
hours on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad. In
changing the gauge OF a road la this manner the
inside spikes are all set In advance no that the
rails are rapidly showed to their place and fastened
A THRILLING scene was witnessed In Montreal
the other day. saloon keeper had bear pit
| under his shop In which he kept a male bear