Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-02
Weekly News Summary.

FAMINE prevails in Egypt, and there is ter
rible desoaton In the villages along the Nile.
NEW York friend Of Wade Hampton has
sent him pair Of silver mounted rosewood
crutches
CHICAGO is the headquarters Of a specializing
ring in breadstuffs, the members Of which are a
curse to the country.
Mr.. MOODY continues active in Baltimore, hav-
ing lately varied his gospel meetings with special
warfare against intempeance.
TnE corner stone OF confederate monument
was laid in Capitol square at Columbia, S c., last
week by the Masonic fraternity.
A NATIONAL Museum is 10 be at once erected
in Washington city to cost not $3.50, 900, which
probably means that It will cost 100000.
The Princess Louise, It is announced, intends
to leave Canada for England once year to look
after her pet projects Of charitable nature.
THE New York city clergymen are preaching
| against the tenement-house system Of living, de-
claring it to be unwholesome both to body and soul
PRESIDENT MCMAHON Of France paid for the
entertainments he gave during the exposition as
president out Of his own pocket, and leaves office
| poor man.
JUDGE ELLIOT Of the Kentucky court OF APP
| peals, was shot and killed last Wednesday in
| Frankfort, by man against whom he had rem
| dered decision.
JOE JOHNSTON, they say, blushed to the roots
Of his hair while lie stood waiting as the two loyal
from Virginia took the test oath till he could
| take the modified oath
Mr. FiNNEy, a London dentist claims to have
found a filled tooth in the jaw Of an Egyptian
mummy. Dentistry was further advanced four
thousand years ago in Egyptian is supposed
THIRTy-oSE railway postal clerks and route
agents have been removed, and forty-five more
| will have to be discharged to bring the expendi-
ture within the appropriation for the current year.
THE excess Of exports over imports Of merchan-
disc for February were 500 4s9 $685. for the twelve
months ending February 2sth, $685., $50, 35i The
excess Of exports over imports Of gold and silver
| for February was S300,l45
| AN eminent bartender, known as "Delmon-
ico's George" who lately died in New York, is
honored by a nattering obituary notice AS long
and as complimentary as would have been given
10 a bishop or an ex-governor
| WHTELAw REID, OF the New York Tribune, has
just sent West a party of thirty-four New York
street boys and six destitute families, using for
that purpose fund given him by stranger for
such charitable object as he should see fit.
| MIsAcH, a town in northern Persia was much
damaged and the jacent villages Of lark and
Mannan were totally destroyed by earthquakes,
Saturday and Sunday of last week OF eleven
hundred inhabitants but few escaped death.
The Tennessee House have amended the Senate
| bill to adjust the state debt By making the COM
promise at fifty cents the dollar instead of forty,
| at which rate it is believed the legislature will
agree to settle If the bondholders will concur.
COLONEL ASTON, who was recently shot in the
Georgia state house in open day, wrote letter to
the New York Tribune not long since in which he
declared that life and property were as secure in
that state as in any part Of the United States.
A FEW years ago the Gar of Russia sent the
Emr of Afghanistan quantity of lightning rods,
| and the Afghans put up the gded points on their
houses without connecting them with the ground.
The effect was not favorable to Russian popularity
NOT many years ago the value of the silk man
ufacture of France was far in excess of that Of
worsted but the latter is now Of more value than
the former. The total value of the wsrsted in
dustry in France is 500, OOO,0 900, nearly half OF
which is exported
THE Halckeye says the reason why the people
in the prairie counties of Iowa do more work than
any other people in the West is that there is moth
ing about the top rail of barbed wire fence that
invites men to sit on it and talk politics while the
grasshoppers get in the crops.
Mrs. HAYES has decided that it is time to have
new set of China in the White House The set
which has been in use on public occasions since
Mrs Lincoln's day has brilliant Soferino covers
with centres showing shield, stars and stripes
aud spread eagle. The new set will come from
Limoges, France.
The Kentucky school fund gets SO, 900 bet on
a municipal election at Louisville two or three
years ago. b. +. Avery and Thomas Hayes put
up the money, and Avery, one of Louisvile's
millionaires won; but the court of appeals
has ordered that he disgorge the whole sum for
the benefit of the school fund
The new tobacco tax is skillfully arranged.
The government rebates the whole tax what
is exported The present tax is ty-four cents.
but after May LIST it will be sixteen cents. Manu-
facturers who have stocks on hand that they paid
twentyfour cents tax on, ship them abroad,
get the whole tax taken OFF, and then import them
again under the sixteen-cent tax, saving eight
cents pound.
|
police court the other day was Judge Tiden's
prosecution of his own for stealing coat and
then pawning ii, The venerable father has been
the honored judge of the county for twenty-four
years. After examining his and saying that
he was satisfied that the young man guilty,
Judge Tilden burst into tears aud could not con-
troll himself for some minutes.
| THE Supreme Court OF Ohio has decided that
} where drunken and unruly passenger is put off
a railroad train, and is then run over by another
train the railroad company is not liable. 1t was
the duty OF the conductor to protect other passen-
gers against him by ejecting him, and II he was
too drunk to take care of himself after th,t it
was only his fault. Similar law has been
laid down in most OF the other states 1.-THE Union,
and it seems TO be about settled that il man will
get drunk, the safest place to do it is at home.
JoHN A. SMITH, of Wichita, Kan, was unable
to leave his business to 60 to Xenia Ohio, and
marry Miss Vashti Longfeow, and the girls
father, a cautious clergyman, would not permit
The difficulty overcome by employing the
telegraph. The bride and her friends gathered
at one end of the wire Smith stood thousand
miles distant at the other end, and the proper
questions and answers flashed between
Then Mrs. Smith started to join her husband.
WILLIAMSBURG circular conference meets
with the Congregational society of this place next
Tuesday. e. Rev. J, p, Demeritt and wife enter