Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-03
Weekly News Summary.


ALMOST a famine prevails among the tenantry
In the west Of Ireland
A GERMAN postal official is in Washington
studying our post-ofHce system.
WESTON arrived in New York last week, and
was received with enthusiasm by his friends
ORmS GOTHAM Of Epping, New Hampshire, ate
twenty peaches on wager, and they killed him.
In Tennessee, South Carolina and Delaware
clergymen are not permitted to become members
Of the state legislature.
REV. HENRY WARD BEEcuER delivered his first
sermon for the summer at the Twin Mountain
House on Sunday Of last week
The Ohio sheep breeders and wool growers
association have unanimously voted TO use all
proper means to keep the protective tariff on wool
Mr.. TrLDEs has purchased Greystone, a country
seat of fifty-fve acres, mile and half north Of
Yonkers New York, for $3.50. 900 1t cost 1926, 600
MAN named Scott Of Montreal choked to
death while eating breakfast at the Magog House
in Sherbrooke, Province Of Quebec, on Wednesday.
THE Pennsylvania railroad has already begun
work on the elevated railway in Philadelphia by
which its cars will reach depot in the middle Of
the city
In is proposed to hold n reunion at Lexington,
Kentucky, Of representatives Of the Clay family,
the time suggested being from October 14th to
the nth
CAFE MAY is said to have lost FIVE thousand
guests within the last few days. Other places
have also been depopulated by the unusually cool
weather.
SPOTTED adder, six feet long, was killed in a
Quebec apple-tree the other day while 1t was
robbng robins nest, and two young birds were
found in its body.
THE Royal Canadian insurance company has
withdrawn from transactng business in the
United States and has rensured its policies in the
Commercial Union Of London.
The last Illinois legislature cost S275O 900 The
legislatures Of the four largest states in the Union
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, cost
nearly s1,7Jo,000 at each session.
THE head waiter at one Of the hotels in the
White Mountains Is a Harvard graduate of the
class Of 1876. While experimenting the dining
room, he has prepared for the ministry.
The ALBANY Journal gives this advice to the
young: I" Eat oysters only In the months that
have an in their names and drink whskey only
in the months that have l. in their Names
If any one has missed any of the " John
Smiths - they can be found in the Massachusetts,
state prison, which institution has the honor OF en-
tertaining usttwenty-six gentlemen OF that name
TROUBLE is apprehended between the tribes Of
| Sitting Bull and Great Bear The latter, a Cana
| dian chief, proposes to wipe Sitting Bull out Of
existence, and has gone on the war path The
Dominion government is hastily organizing six
| companies Of mounted infantry
| CENSUS of Kansas, which has Just been COM
| pleted, shows population Of eight hundred and
| forty-nne thousand nine hundred and seventy
eight an increase of sixty per cent over the
| population in 1875, which was returned as FIVE
hundred and twenty-eight thousand four hundred
and thirty-seven.
| CURIOUS case Of death is that of Karl Goler,
a butcher, who died in New York from malignant
pustule. He had been handling some diseased
meat, and his fingers must have become impreg-
mated with the virus. He rubbed his mouth with
his hand, and shortly after the malignant pustule
appeared, and in few days caused death.
| Mrs. MARGARET TURKEY of Flushing, New
| York. celebrated her hundred and tenth birth
| day last Friday, and received her friends with
| hearty shake OF the hand. The family record
shows that she was born in the county of Ros-
common, Ireland, on the 18th day of August,
| 1863 In reading she does not use glasses, as
she has had her second sight fora number of years
| A REMARKABLE strike " recently occurred at
| Oconto, Wisconsin. The congregation Of the
Methodist church had got nicely settled in their
pews and were waiting for morning service, when
| messenger from the pastor arrived stating that
no service would be held until the members
| bought him suit of clothes in which he could
| make decent appearance in the pulpit. The
congregation sadly dispersed.
EDWIN SMITH, Fairfield, Michigan, farmer,
| forty-seven years old, has the longest beard on
record. 1t is seven and half feet long, and Mr.
Smith usually ties it in bunch under his chin.
| He has not shaved since he went to California as
a miner eighteen years ago, and his hair also
| grows so luxurianty that it has to be cut every
fortnight. Mr.. Smiths twin brother has only an
| ordinary beard.
A REMARKABLE freak of lightning is recorded
in French newspaper. farm laborer, running
for shelter was suddenly thrown to the ground,
the fork he carried on his shoulder being wrenched
from his grasp and carried through the air to
distance of fifty sixty yards. The prongs were
bent and twisted with well nigh mathematical ac-
curacy into the shape OF corkscrews, the steel
being burnt and formed, on its exterior surface,
into small laminie, which emitted slightly sui
phurous odor The laborer escaped without injury.
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