Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-26
Weekly News summary.

ST.. LOUIS undertaken advertises that he has
the " most comfortable" hearse in the country.
IT was the within Of u st. Paul man TO be mar
ried in white, and he went TO church on cold
day clothed in suit Of linen
THE Wisconsin bounty law for wolves, lynxes
and wild cats has been repealed, thus destroying
very profitable branch Of industry.
DECREE has been issued at Lisbon prohibiting
the importation Of pork in any shape, from the
United States, because Of trichinosis.
AN actress famous for her eternal youth is said
to preserve her complexion by taking arsenic and
going to bed at night with pad Of chopped veal
on each cheek.
JUDGE WYLE Of the Washington %. c. pro-
bate court decides that young woman does not
come of age until she is twenty-one, under an act
Of Congress OF 1876
THE French Minister Of Finance has repaid TO
the Bank Of France sixty-fve million francs, the
last instament Of the millard borrowed from the
bank during the war
A CHICAGO policeman testified in court as ey-
idence that prisoner was drunk when arrested
that he was trying to warm his feet at a grating
in the sidewalk, surprising that he was standing
on a register.
MADAME ANDERSON has concluded her walk at
Chicago, and came within twelve miles Of walk
ing two thousand and sixty-six quarter miles in
the same number Of consecutive ten minutes She
left the track in good condition.
PHILADELPHIA boy loaded toy pistol, and
accompanied his father in search through the
house for imaginary burglars On the following
day, forgetting that bullet was in the weapon,
he shot and killed comrade while "playing
robber."
THE Supreme Lodge, Ancient Order Of United
| Workmen, convened at Nashville last week The
amount paid out last year was S640,OO0. The
| yellow fever losses were S52, 600 The growth of
the order during the past year has been unpre-
cedented
FOOLISH Miss Care went from Boston to Quincy,
| ILL.,, to meet stranger with whom she had been
| holding correspondence " with view to matri-
| mony," but found that she had been tricked, and
was compelled to accept the protection of the
poormaster
ANOTHER six days walking match is being ar
ranged to take place in Gilmore's Garden from
the 9TH to the 18th Of May. 1t is expected that
Ennis, O'Leary, Hartman Guyon, and possibly
Vaughan and Grassland will take part A cham
|
| Mrs. PETER MILLER of Helena, Ark, has
arrived in Louisville and though but four feet
six inches high il asserted to weigh four hundred
and three pounds. She measures three feet nine
inches across the back and is thus nearly broad
as she is long. Her age is sixty-eight She mar
| ried at sixteen, and then weighed but one hum
dred pounds.
| WILBUR +. STOREY, Of the Chicago Times, is
| about building for himself 500 600 residence
and is also creating magnificent park. For
month past immense trees of over sixty feet in
height have been transported from Indiana to Mr..
Storey's land. One red maple sixty feet high,
with ball of earth nine feet in diameter had to
be moved like house.
ELlHU BURRITTs will gives about IS 900 to rel
atives and charities, and concludes as follows:
Having thus disposed of the property which a
kind Providence has put in my possession in
| way which hope may testify my gratitude for
| such gift, bequeath to this, my native town,
| the undying affection of son who held its
TEEN and special token of consideration above all
the honor which he received elsewhere"
A BROOKLYN street.car driver was in hurry
on July 9th, 1874, and didn't stop his when a
little boy asked him to. Instead, he touched up
his horses The boy jumped, fell, was run over
and lost leg. Now the employers Of that car
driver, after long fight in the courts, find them
selves shut up to the disagreeabe necessity Of
paying the boy $4,000 To fill up the hole thus
made in their treasury, they will have to carry
half million passengers.
ONE of the most ruinous habits of the Russian
peasants is displayed at marriage celebrations. A
peasant to celebrate the marriage Of his son pro-
cured twenty-five gallons of whiskey, to get money
for which he sells his horse, COW or pigs, and is
ready to become pauper. He cannot resist the
practice, for custom requires that the population
of the village, men, women and children, must
get drunk A rich peasant, at the marriage fes-
tival, will procure one hundred gallons of whiskey,
and the neighboring villages are invited to take
part in the carousal.
THERE was great hue and cry over the cap
ture of one poor fox near Dayton Ohio, Nearly
five thousand men and boys from all parts of the
county formed line around an entire township
in which many foxes were known to dwell The
arrangements had been carefully made, and the
discharge of heavy cannons at three points was
the signal for a general movement towards the
centre. Every person had horn or bell, or some
thing else to make din, the idea being TO drive
the foxes to certain guch and there despatch
them. But one division did not start promptly
and gap was left in the line through which all
the foxes but one escaped. This lone victim hid
in hollow tree and was killed by dog.