Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16
Weekly News Summary.

Weekly News Summary.
Six hundred Mormons mostly women, from
Scotland, England and Sweden, arrived last week
en- route for Utah
DIR. PARKER n rather eccentric preacher of
London, will occupy Mr.. Beecher's church for
three months this summer.
THIRTEEN hundred sheep, shipped from Boston
and infected with the foot and mouth disease,
were slaughtered at Liverpool on Monday.
THK Washington land office IL kept busy day
and night. In four months IA much public land
has been sold a. ever before In "A whole year.
TuE Pope, 1t Is said, Is going 10 establish news
paper on grand scale. Il will be printed in all
languages, and will be edited by his cardinals.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has forbidden the en-
ployment OF substitutes to perform the duties Of
clerks and employees, except with his approval
SIXTY members Of sunday-school got lost in
the Mammoth Cave and their lights burned out.
After four hours Of suspense, they were rescued.
The report Of the New York post Office for the
quarter ending July list shows balance Of $685.
255. Over million of packages were handled
last Monday.
The Utica ministers association have decided
TO preach no more funeral sermons, but they
may be delivered afterward In the church. II the
friends desire.
THE expenditures on the Brooklyn bridge up to
the present time amount to $40 500, 574. 1t is ex-
| pected that 1t will be finished by the first Of
January, 1881.
The post office department has decided that
packages Of tobacco bearing an internal revenue
stamp hereafter go through the mails as
fourth-class matter
john Brown. JR., has finally been supplied
with funds, and has left his home at Putin Bay,
Ohio, for Kansas, where he proposes to assist the
colored refugees in finding homes.
STURGEON, having heard Talmage, is amazed,
and says "the Lord is with this mighty man Of
vaor, whose voice cheers me intensely, and
whose discourses lay hold Of my inmost soul"
PENSION COMMISSIONER BENTLEY announces
that sections All, 4,772 and 4,773, Of the Re-
vised Statutes Of the United States providing for
biennial examinations of pensioners, are repealed
SWITZERLAND has announced her intention of
holding her first international exhibition in 1885,
when the little republic will show what she can
do in the manufacture OF watches, jewery, snuff
and musical boxes.
PAUL BoYToN says lie intends 10 try going over
Niagara Falls in his suit day, but he will
first go through the whirlpool rapids below the
falls, having already been offered large sam to
attempt the passage.
McMAsrERs, an Ohio temperance lecturer, was
taken suddenly i'll in railroad car, and physi-
clan told him that glass OF brandy was the only
thing that would save his life; but he refused to
take the liquor and died
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, ordinance against the carrying Of concealed
weapons, and on the following day most of the
male residents appeared on the streets with
volvers and daggers stuck in belts outside Of their
coats
The last act In the Hicks-Lord matrimonial
drama at New York is the acceptance by the
widow of $4,000 in lieu Of the 100000 Thomas
Lord ordered to be given her shortly before his
death. This is of course a concession to the old
mans children.
The agricultural prospects in Great Britain
cause grave apprehensions. Should the rain con-
tinue the hay crop will be useless except for
manure. Nothing but the speedy advent Of sun
shine can prevent the almost general failure of
: the principal crops.
n A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in powder
4 magazine at Bode, California, Thursday SKATER
= | ing to atoms the old Standard Incline works as
: well a. the Summit works in close proximity
> Eight persons were killed, and more than forty
! wounded have been taken from the ruins.
d CABLE dispatch says the French minister Of
e the interior estimates that France will have to
If pay during the coming year $780, 600 900 for for
Is eign grain. By far the largest part of this will b.
/, paid for American wheat and will find its way int
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