Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22
Weekly News Summary.

day, and the city has 20, 900 inhabitants
In is reported that 10000 hundred weight OF
rails have been recently bought in Germany for
the United States
MARX HOPKINS one OF the four magnates Of
the great Central Pacific monopoly, left property
worth 1913, 300, 600
As result OF the recent conference Of coal men
general advance Of twenty-five cents a ton is TO
be ordered in all markets
THE official returns Of the recent California
election show vote Of 1888 in favor Of Chinese
immigration and 15i ,63s against it,
Mrs. WILLIAM H. BEERS Ethel Lynne), whose
poems have just been gathered into volume, died
at Orange, New Jersey, last Friday.
The Princess Louise sailed for England last
Saturday. She will return to Canada for the
opening OF the Dominion Parliament
SILVER and gold is pretty plenty at Washing
ton, the semi-monthly salaries being paid ten per
cent in silver and ninety per cent in gold
ONE hundred and sixty-four thousand pounds
of bullion were withdrawn from the Bank Of
England on Wednesday for shipment to New York
THERE has been imported into New York by
sea from California since the beginning of this
year l156,7i2 gallons Of wine, and HAITI gal
Ions Of brandy.
RUMoR is current In Paris that the English
are going to play off a viainous trick on the
Bonapartists. They are going to imprison King
Cetewayo at st. Helena.
EURoPEs big snow storm, Friday, which COW
cred the ground six inches deep as far south as
Vienna, extended throughout Russia northern
Austria and the Alpine region.
Al. Al.
more than the whole population Of the city of
London proper-were in receipt of parochial relief
in the London Metropolitan district.
THE English land system has driven to our
shores, within few weeks past, thousand
plucky British farmers with cash in their pockets
| There's room enough and to spare for all such
| corners.
PETITION has been filed in the Bristol county,
Massachusetts. probate court by the executors OF
Olkes Ames to authorize them to sell 81, 300 $50
worth of real estate to pay the accumulated
expenses.
MADRID dispatch, dated the 18th, states that
| the floods in Murca county continue One hun
| dred and nineteen corpses have been recovered
Four villages ruined, and thousands of peas
| ants destitute.
|
washed his face and combed his hair in a bath
room, and emerged so changed in appearance
that he was able to walk past the jailer into the
street unrecognized.
| The seven sections OF railroad between New
London and Providence are patrolled every Sum
day by men on bicycles. By this method all but
one man in each section gang are released from
| duty on the Sabbath.
| THE supreme court of Indiana has decided the
state statute constitutional which gives the wife
of an insovent under $4,000 possession of
third of his property when the rest is sold for the
benefit of the husbands creditors.
THE highest inhabited house in the world is be-
lieyed to be the one erected for the miners en-
| poyed on Mount Lincoln, in the mail range OF
the Rocky Mountains, Park county, Colorado.
| 1t is ii, l57 feet above the sea level.
A Miss WRITTEN now at Dimariscotta, Maine,
has probably the longest hair of any woman in
the world. 1t eight feet long, and when dressed
in French twist it passes six times around her
head. The growth is perfectly natural
C. II. Began at Guelph Ontario, has won the
athletic championship of America, his competitor
being Z W. Johnston of Hamilton. The latter
made running jump of twenty-one feet six and
one-half inches the best record this side of the
| Atlantic.
| As evidence of the eagerness of the American
demand for IRON it is stated that one of the prn-
| epal English railways has just sold for American
account 900 tons OF old iron rails at f per ton
| or about the price that new iron rails commanded
| two months ago.
SIGNoR FIoRELLl, in charge of the excavations
| at will pty
years and 81 900 900 to complete the work The
state votes yearly subventon of 10000 francs
to carry it on, and half AS much more is realized
from the entrance fees of visitors.
THE Sunday question has been hotly discussed
during the summer at Newark, New Jersey, and
the recent election fought upon it. Those in
favor of closing the beer shops on the Sabbath
working with the churches, were beaten in their
candidate for mayor by 1900 majority
IN "a Baltimore variety theater Tuesday night OF
last week. in the play of Rowing Jack, in which
discharge of musketry takes place. young man
named John Nelson, a medical student at the
University of Maryland who seated in the
audience was fatally shot from the stage, one of
| the muskets being loaded with a ball instead of
blank cartridge
THREE well-dressed Americans were arrested in
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