Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-03
Weekly News Summary.

weekly News Summary.
POSTAL cards now almost universal started in
The latest estimate of Mr.. Tiden's wealth puts
it at $50 900 900
THIRrY-EiGHT ladies have received degrees In
France as doctors and bachelors Of art.
Miss RosE MEEKER, one of the daughters of
the late Indian agent, is to enter the lecture field
MOODY and Sankey have commenced their
diences.
OS capital Of 500, 900 the cotton mills OF
Augusta Georgia, pay dividend OF twenty-eight
per cent
ELIZA PiNKERToN, of returning board notoriety,
mas been arrested on a charge of numbering her
husband
THREE-QuARrRRs of the silver dollars coined
under the silver bill remain in the vaults of the
treasury.
Two hundred and thirtv-six fishermen have
been lost from Gloucester, Massachusetts, during
the past year
IL Belgium SO far about one-eghth ZAP out of
90 600 Of the teachers have resigned to escape ex
communication.
The hog crop" out West this year is about
twelve per cent larger than last-3 $50 900 hogs in
1879, against 1878, 900 in 1873
QUEEN VICTORIA was sufficiently natural and
WON 'nly to inquire Of lady of honor who made
her dress and how much it cost.
THE Central Pacific railroad settled its accounts
with the government last week by sending the
auditor OF railroad accounts check for 5000 $50 80
THE president of a women's temperance society,
At Noblesville, Indiana, publicly horsewhipped a
man for tempting the husband of member to
drink.
LIKE most of the large estates Senator Chan
ders wealth SINNERS down to about one-half
the early estimates, dropping from S3,000,00O to
81, 100000.
HENRY LAVA SELwYN, a full-blooded Sioux
fpAaa "A - la,.I Il. =
ton tribe has been ordained pastor of the church
at Yankton.
A NEW kind Of sweet potato l. cultivated in
Kern county, California, picked specimens Of
which weigh from fifteen to eighteen and twenty
two pounds.
THE Russian people are gradually growing into
the conviction that great war is impending. All
officers on leave of absence have been ordered to
return to their regiments Immediately.
The new Pullman palace cars are very luxuri-
Gus, costing each $1,000 Ordinary passenger
cars cost 81 900; drawing-room cars IS, 600 mail
and baggage cars 81, 900; box cars 500.
The greatest tax payer in the United States is
MIR. Blackwell, the North Carolina tobacco man
ntacturer, who paws tax Of $4,000 year
$4,000 week or little over 81 ,42S per day.
THE vesuvius railway is finished from the sta
ton AZ the foot of the mount to the observatory at
the Hermitage, halfway up; the remainder of the
road to the entrance of the crater is in progress
r. A PACKER, superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania * New York railroad, lately conversed by
telephone for two hours with friends in Mauch
Chunk, while himself in Nebraska, . 900 miles off
INDIANA has the largest school fund of any
state It comprises Sll 600 900 in school property
and s9OO,OOO in the state treasury, total OF
SO 1000, or SO TO every child in the public
schools.
BACHELOR and Millionaire Peter Goeet Of New
York city, aged eighty years, has just died. eav-
ing property estimated anywhere from SO 900 600
to $50 900 900 to be divided between h is nephews
and neces.
THE car has a nice little income-a trifle Of
5000 day The Su ltan gets SIS. 600 n day;
the Emperor of Austria $1,000, the Emperor of
Germany IS 200; the King of Italy Sc, 400 and the
King of the Belgians 81 6I2.
IT is stated that the Northern Pacific railroad
will sell its agricultural lands, except those hav-
ing timber or coal to settlers for 81 60 per acre,
lash, but they are all west of the Missouri river
and have certain restrictions.
Tue new Washburn A Touring mill, now build
ing at Minneapolis, Minnesota will he the biggest
thing of the kind in the country, having a milling
capacity OF 25oO or 1000 barrels OF -four daily and
storage for 1000 bushels OF wheat.
FRENCH history In the past hundred years ex-
hibts three women who have perhaps experienced
more spendor and more bitter grief and mortf-
cation than any other three women in the world
Marie Antoinette, Josephine and Eugene
The new machine for the manufacture of paper
boxes, which threatens to revolutionze the I'M
portant Birmingham trade, has just be en- intro
-
machine Is capable of producing 1900 complete
boxes a day.
Is disnfecting Memphis the National Board OF
Health has used 40, l05 pounds of copperas,
LIB pounds of sulphate OF zine fifteen barrels OF
carbolic acid and twelve hundred gallons OF salts
Of zinc and iron.
In the year 5i2 one hundred million persisted
because three planets were in perihelion, accord
ing 10 Gibbon. and in ll65 a similar perihelion
produced London death m m
lions in Europe, Asia and Africa In 1884 five plan
cts will be perihelion. What will become OF us ?
TYPHOID fever is becoming alarmingly prev
alent in the west end OF Montreal The disease
has assumed new phase, which IL giving the
doctors a good deal of anxiety They are unable
to make "a satisfactory diagnosis Of the strange
symptoms appearing with many of the cases now
under treatment.
A STRANGE relic has just been presented To the
state of Arkansas. 1t is white leather belt with
the imprint across 1t of bloody hand Il was
worn by Colonel Archibald Yell, who, fighting
desperately on the field OF Buena Vista, got
fatal wound and In trying to tear away the belt
left red finger marks.
THIRTEEN hundred houses are now going up In
New York city. The progress Of building In the
West is illustrated by the fact that the supply OF
lumber ut Chicago this year is thirteen hundred
million feet, nearly a fourth more than last year,
but the demand Is unsatished, and lumber IL reck-
oned very scarce and high.
The drought that has prevailed in the West has
rendered necessary the shipping OF water by rail-
road, Water is carried from the Mississippi river
At Louisiana, Missouri, both east and west, into
Illinois and Missouri, for nearly seventy five miles,
and nearly every road running from the river into
the interior has water train.
FoRrY-FoUR and four-tenths per cent OF the
white people who took the yellow fever during
the late epidemic In Memphis are said 10 have
died; OF tue black people sixteen and six-tenths
per cent died There were all together 1857
cases of fever aud iS7 deaths, a total death per-
centage OF thirty-one and six-tenths.
THE number OF inmates Of the national soldiers
homes increases yearly at the rate OF about twelve
per cent while the death rate remains steady at
about four per cent One-haf the inmates are
now above fifty years old, many are over sixty,
and two said to be over one hundred. The
whole number Of inmates Is between eight and
nine hundred.
The Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska Is pre-
pairing To improve the first three hundred miles
by tree-planting The ground along the road will
be sown with grass and clover seed in the early
spring, and then will follow the planting Of the
rich eyergreens, which will be transplanled from
the mountains, with other rare ornamental trees
and shrubs.
TINS London Times announces that there is 70
be no more salt butter. The Az lesbury Dairy
Company have been trying new treatment Tor
batter, which, they say completely preserves IL.
Batter 80 treated was placed in hrkin on July
2ith, aud ON October oath It was found as sweet
AID fresh Ms when trst put in. II unplepared, 1t
would have been putrid II the story is correct,
another severe blow has been given to British