Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-28
Weekly News Summary.


SENATOR Bruce, Of Mississippi, tcolored) names
his first baby Roscoe Conkling.
MIR MooDy has been earnestly urged to spend
next Winter in New York, but it is probable that
he will labor in St. Louis
j. NJ FRENcH's menagere establishment, near
Detroit, Mich, was burned on the I'D, and many
valuable animals destroyed
Tnr New York legislature has passed u bill re-
ducing the legal rate of interest to six per cent
after the first Of next January.
GENERAL GRANT mentions in recent letter
from Singapore that his party will probably reach
San Francisco some time in July.
DuRNG the year 1878 forty eight railroads were
sold under foreclosure, representing S15l GIG 700
Of capital stock and s1G0 ola 800 Of bonds and debt
A DISPATCH from Calcutta, dated the 26th, says
the steamer Ava has been sunk in n collision
Sixty-six of the crew and four passengers were
drowned.
IT is said that more eminent public men and
capitalists are buying real estate in Washington
this Spring than ever before, with the intention
of erecting elegant residences
FALL RIVER, Mass is said to have received
number Of emgrants from the English cotton man
ported Of other New England cities
lNtwoofthe largest Connecticut manufactures
two of the most successful In the state by the way
the mill owners have provided books papers and
general reading matter and reading-rooms for
their help
IT is rumored that an Italian firm has ordered
one hundred thousand tons of coal from the United
| States instead of from Great Britain as hereto
| fore British coal dealers are thereupon becoming
excited
GEORGE H. STUART, of Philadelphia, after ten
| years suspension from the Reformed Presbyterian
church, for communing with other denominations
| and singing hymns has been restored to member
ship by an order Of the Pennsylvania Supreme
| Court.
LITTLE Alice Mcdonald had the heaviest, silk
lest, yelowest hair in Portland, Oregon. one
| day she was missing. searching party soon
| found her in the woods near the city, but all her
hair was gone. Two men had carried her there
and cut off her valuable locks.
ON Monday of last week the Denver, South
| Park and Pacific railroad re iched Kenosha sum
nit with its track, and the first passenger train
| reached the summit, ten thousand one hundred
and forty feet above the level of the sea, the high
est point yet attained by railroad in America.
THE Massachusetts, Press Association proposes
| To visit the Pennsylvania coal fields this Summer
The plan under consideration is to go to the new
| Hoosac Tunnel communication with the Erie road,
| If the line is completed in time. visit to Howes
Cave and the Delaware water gap will probably be
included
| THE Treasury Department finds it difficult to
| supply the demand for ten-dollar certificates
| There are now nearly six hundred designated de-
| positories, and it would seem that every cross
road postmaster is giving bonds to sell them, in
| many instances, undoubtedly, that he may supply
| some neighboring bank.
| LAST week Sunday at WATERFOWL ~ Y the
Rev g. j. Porter pastor OF the Uniyersalist church,
] with his father the Rev / f. Porter and his
mother the Rev Mrs. Porter, all occupied the
| pulpit of that church. The son opened the SER
vices, the father offered the prayer and the
mother preached what is described as Il very
| earnest and eloquent sermon.
| SoME effort is being made to clean New Orleans
in order to prevent n return of yellow fever but
| not Il great deal has thus far been accomplished.
| The city has no underground drainage, the sewers
| being used for carrying of the sewage which Is
mperfectly pumped over the levee into the river.
recurrence of the plague next Summer is pre-
dcted by many of the physicians.