Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-13
Weekly News Summary.


daughter Of Dr. Porter Of oxford, Ohio.
sIaNoR GioJA, engineer, has explained the Pan
anna canal scheme to his holiness the pope, who
bestowed a pontfcial blessing on the project
TnE Cry or LONDON sailed Saturday with Eve
hundred cattle for the European market-the
largest New York shipment ever made by one
vessel
THE iron steamship Louis David, from Ant
werp to Naples, has been wrecked during fog
off the island Of Ushant, France, and twenty
seven persons drowned.
FOURTEEN out of fifteen cattle that had sought
shelter under tree in sonth Brunswick, New
Jersey, on Monday OF last week, were killed by
single stroke Of lightning
A SINGLE shipment Of Chinese merchandise
now on It's way by rail across the continent is
valued at S2,OO0O00, the tea alone filling one
hundred and fiity-eight ears
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT has Just given $780,
900 for a gymnasium and the erection Of civil
engineering and scientific hall on the grounds Of
Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee.
THE war department has issued formal order
making the ground known as the Custer battle
field on the Little Big Horn river, Montana Ter
rtory national cemetery Of the fourth class.
THE charitable contributions made in connec-
ton with Emperor williams golden wedding
amount to considerably two million FIVE hun
dred thousand marks, or nearly million dollars
BROTHER MoopY was rowing on pond ut
Mortified, Massachusetts, and singing Pull for
the Shore" when over went the boat, and the
evangelist compelled to swim for the shore
or drown.
MAJOR WILLIAM w. LELAND, formerly one of
the proprietors of the Grand Union Hotel, died at
Saratoga last week Of Inflammation Of the bowels
He was commissary on General Grants staff
| early In the war.
Mrs A. G. LEWIS, but nineteen years Of age,
has sued two Greenpoint Long Island, liquor
dealers for $4,000 damages for making drunk
ard OF her husband who was formerly SOBER
industrious man.
Music halls the special feature Of which shall
be the substitution Of non.intoxicatng for intox-
icatng drinks, are to be established in London by
a company which includes among number OF
| celebrities Dean Stanley and Carl Rosa.
LlEuTRSANr COMMANDER II. II. CoRRISoE Of
the navy will undertake TO bring the obelisk pre-
scented by the khedive OF Egypt to the city Of New
York to this country. He will charter ship OF
twenty-five hundred tons for the purpose
LEADvILLE is not remarkably heathful. The
altitude, ten thousand three hundred feet, is try
ing the nine months winter is more trying and
whiskey is most trying So says a correspondent
on the spot, and so say we all.
A LADY from Providence, Rhode Island now in
a summer boarding house at Laconia New Hamp-
shire, has been arrested for stealing the diamonds
OF another lady boarder. The jewels were found
upon her person by two physicians
Mrs. BrLvA A. LOCKWOOD of Washington was
last week admitted to the bar Of Fairfax county,
Virginia, by Judge Sangster. She was warmly
welcomed by members OF the bar as the first fe-
male lawyer admitted to practice in the state.
TAtN,cF according IN the advertisements Of
his AGENTS in Great Brita;n ia " Americas great.
eat preocber and orator whose voice ia heard nv
more people than that of any other preacher and
whose sermons are read in every civilized nation
on the globe"
Tup ;rsuranca connanv which advanced money
| IN brild parsor Newm.p,s old ch,rch in Wash.
| ;ngton has hegpn n snit against the ,rnstees in
order IN have the church mt nm Mt auction and
| sold IN nav tho Loan cener,l Grant vvb, psed IN
attend the church, is one of the trustees
Jo,or,s Mu,pp saws. ar Won were To take a
nows,aror in yo,r hand and crumnle II nm and
| mi
f,irlv renresent the streets and lanes and allevs
NJ Iondon 40 anonlar 40 awkward and irregular
ia tbi. the greatest Of all cities Of the earth -
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P,ganis n frame made NJ violate in ametb vsts for
the last pbotopraph of the late prince imperial
The garland IL surmounted by an eagle. which
| holds in its talons a three-colored streamer on
which is written in golden letters the motto,
" Not lost. but gone before
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man and bis marty went ont swordsshiny and
, | the secretary struck the first fsh II weighed
. | five hundred and fftv pounds and was twelve
. | and a half feet long The man in the boat who
| 6red the lapce after the fab had been booked
came very near hitting the secretary with it.
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q L. 80 go. ,ho, ,,,, ri ,,on,b ard has mt
: nm a tabernacle which will accommodate five
thousand people There will be speakers from all
narts Of the country. and il il expected that II
will be the biggest thing of the kind ever held in
the state.
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hos h.nnanod :, tho history NJ the state Roth
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. nan ., tho dru and MAMMA has extanded the
7 c,lt;y.tion Of both whoa, and rye and nroduced
svce,,s,, crons
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nec.ea WIN tue leha'e SEMINARY Vi h"oA oo'ese
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AT the funeral OIL a MIS- hut az mystic nnase'
: Rhode isiand' heighoor rumnag'ns III oureau
drawer iound wa'cn tha' hao long before peen
stolen from hilh- ms leu I" searon ny o'hei
pesvAo 80 :. - - ,ss. ~ r;a, 80
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Ara recent emma sale In Lohdon PINK cup
ana saucer Drought eooi plate Win nsufes IN
que so pair OF Jars WIN hgures IN paek ana
oue' siooi lantern WIZ piefceu paheis r'ohiy