Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-11-12
Weekly News Summary,

October, 1880.
Weekly News Summary.
THE governor of Arizona fers $500 to any per-
son who shall kill highway robber.
NILSSON is engaged to sing twelve times in
opera in Spain during the kings wedding festivi-
ties, for the neat little of $4,000.
SEVERAL OF the leading men of Faribault, Min
nesota propose to start stock farm of 30 900 acres
on the line of the Northern Pacific railroad.
THOMAS J. JACKSON, who was an Albany, New
York, stone-cutter at the time of the Ashtabula,
Ohio accident, has just recovered $4,000 for in
juries received there.
THE experiments with the electric light at the
Capitol have been far successful that 1t Is ex-
pected that both houses OF congress will dispense
with gas this winter.
| Down to October Doth the increase in the ex-
ports from this country Of -four and grain to Great
Britain and the continent over last year amounted
| to over forty per cent.
| ARKANSAS will produce this year 100000 more
bales Of cotton than last year. and the cotton crop
will bring sl5, 900 more than last year, being
worth $40 more per bale
| A. s. ABELL of the Baltimore Sun and the wife
of George W. Childs OF the Philadelphia Ledger
have each given $500 to the fund for the educa-
ton of General Hoods orphaned children.
AN eagle surprised William L. Sherman's fam
| lily at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by crashing through
the bay-window of the sitting-room, and was so
stunned by the shock that it was captured.
| THE cattle pens belonging to j. W. Mccall &
Co., in Cincinnati, were burned the evening Of
the Sth. Nine hundred and thirty head OF cattle
| were consumed, entaiing loss Of $4,000.
| SIX hunderd Bulgarian orphans, who lost their
parents during the last Turko-Russian war; were
taken to Russia, where they were instructed gra-
tuitousy at the expense ofthe government,
THE sixty hours bicycle tournament at Boston
closed Saturday night with good attendance.
The scores are: Terrout 600 miles, Cam 628, T.
Harrison 400, Robinson 32i, G. Harrison 40
ZACH CHANDELIERS property amounted to 81
1000 in 1873, according to the Detroit Michigan,
Post and Tribune, Mr.. Chandler having made
estimate then preparation for making his will.
WILLIAM TUCKER of Pomeroy, Ohio, has recov-
cred S35 damages because the local board Of ed
ucation expelled his daughter from the public
schools for refusing to study drawing as the
board required all the pupils to do.
Miss LADD, a Connecticut girl, who graduated
| at Vassar and is at John Hopkins University, has
displayed mathematical ability so great that she
has been invited by Harvard College to take
special course under Professor Pierce.
A POSTAGE stamp of a new design is to be is
sued in Great Britain next January, bearing a
portrait of the queen she appears in mature
age and not, as now, a likeness of her majesty
when she had just entered womanhood.
on shore and then showing it across the river has
been accomplished at Dinard France. The bridge
is 3l4 feet long, weighs over 200 tons, and was
moved into its place with twelve strong wlndlasses
ONE of the unsung heroes of the Memphis
plague is John Walsh, an undertaken there, who
has remained pluckily at his post for two years
At times he has been left absolutely without as
sistance, and he has buried one hundred and fifty
bodies in one day
IT is now reported that the ex-Empress Carlotta
has not only recovered her mental equilibrium,
but is engaged in TRANSFERRING her diary of the
disastrous series of events in Mexico which Gull
minated in her royal husbands death and the de-
thronement of her own reason.
Miss YocuM a school teacher of Kittitas Valley.
Oregon. has taken nm land claim. fenced II. built
house and this year raised six hundred and
twelve bushels of grain, besides teaching her
school. She says she does not mean to marry
until she can support husband
LETTERS have been received from Henry M.
Stanley dated Banana Point Congo river San
TENDER 18th. Stanley il now going I'M the Congo
to explore the broad basin of the Congo and its
affiuents. 1t will, he says, be a long business,
probably an affair of three years
Tur ynman steamer Citv Of Rristol nassed
through the ietties at the month of the Missssppi
river on Friday drawing twentv.four feet and
seven inchss Of water This ia the argest vesse,
which has ever entered the soutb mass and de- .
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hank notes of e,OO ooo startling sacb--s5OO on
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