Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-22
Weekly News Summary.


Ex-sEoRErAHy DELANo is lying dangerously
III Mt Mount Vernon, Ohio.
MoREtha one hundred thousand sheep died in
Scotland during the late storm.
MoRE Southern planters raised their own bread
and meat last year than ever before
PRESIDENT MAcMAHoN has issued a decree
pardoning eighteen hundred Communists
Ir is stated that fifteen thousand cars were
blockaded during the recent storm between New
York aud Chicago
IiiE New York SIN has the story that Hilton
has paid $4,000 for Stewards body, and promised
to ask no questions
THE biennial convention Of the Young Mems
Christian Association will open in Baltimore NAV
2lst, closing on the 25th
THE postmaster in Bangor Maine. has had sew
enteen counterfeit three-cent pieces returned to
him from the subtreasury.
Tue German societies Of New York are to re-
ceye the remains of Bayard Taylor, which are to
lie In state at the City Hall
Tue distress among the poor Of Halifax is
greater than for many years. The poor asylum
contains five hundred inmates
THE Canadian government is considering the
proposal Of the agent Of Swedish colony Of TO-
900 persons for the purchase Of land
GiLMoRE's GARDEN is to have floor Of arti-
fetal ice, which can be removed or renewed ac-
cording to the demands of the public
THE severe winter south has caused an advance
in the price Of oysters. Many of the oyster bed
are frozen over and cannot be worked
Tue snow drifts on the railroads in western
New York are said to be enormous, in some places
reaching far above the tops of the cars
GOVERNOR HAMPTON, Of South Carolina, is so
much better that all medical advisers save his
regular physician have been dismissed
SENATOR Bruce is negotiating for 5000 acres
of land in New Mexico, for cattle rancho, and
has made large investment TO stock it
SINCE the organization Of the New York Chill
dren's Aid Society it has provided upward Of ten
thousand children with homes in the West
LADY eighty-nine years old was out coasting
with her granddaughter and the rest Of the girls.
in Burlington, Iowa, one evening last week
"LovE AND MARRIAGE is the title OF a lee
ture delivered in Iowa by Miss RICHTER who
never was in love and never was married"
THE sub-treasury in New York is to be fitted
with steel giatings and shutters, and turrets on
the roof with musket holes, for greater protection.
JOSEPH GAMER, of Scottsville, n. Y aged one
hundred and seven, has just lost his wife, aged
one hundred and three lie was married in 1880
THERE are in Georgia $500 persons between
the ages Of ten aud eighteen years who can
neither read nor write In 1874 there were 1856 pa
TnE Chicago distilleries supply twelve thousand
saloons with liquors. How much OF the patronage
OF these saloons takes bread from the mouths of
women and children?
IN removing "A count .r recently in FarminQton
H., m)ns's nest WAS found lined with re-
ceipts-they having slowed away S25 in postal
currency aud individual receipts
ON Thursday Of last week the Secretary Of the
Treasury issued his eghty-frst call for $40 bonds
of 1865 Tue call is for $50 900 OOO-sl2 900 900
registered and SSOOOOOO coupons
MARTIN BERGlS was hung in Pottsvie, Penn,
last week He makes the nineteenth of the Mollie
Mcguire gang hanged in that state for murder
Two Others are yet to be executed.
MACHINERY HALL on the centennial grounds
at Philadelphia will be sold at auction February
Sth. The original cost of the building exclusive
of boiler-houses, etc. was SG34, S67.
give another dukey, lie did SO in the following
words: III dies forgive dat nigga, but II
gets well dat nigga must take care"
An English company is credited with the nten-
ton Of defying Scriptures by restoring Sodom and
Gomorrah whose wicked inhabitants birthstone
made such short work with in Lots time
The Massachusetts, rihemen Danish liquor from
their annual dinner rs the foe of steady nerves
The moral of this temperance lecture is profitable
for the reproof of all kinds of professionals.
Two hundred and ninety-two cases of plague,
of which number two hundred and iorty-six we're
fatal, occurred in the village of Wettiauka in the
government OF Astrachan, up to January 9th
AT the Old South Church prayer meeting. the
other night, one of the elders prayed, Oh, Lord,
teach onr wandering pastor that his headache can
be as well cured in New Engandas in Europe"
JOSHUA NYE, of Maine says that he defes
any one to find one single open bar in the state OF
Maine, and adds that he don't believe that the
children in three-fourths of the country towns
ever saw drunkard"
DISPATCH from Philippopolis, Bulgaria, states
that railway train fell into the river Arda one
day last week, and two hundred Russian soldiers
and several officers were drowned. The accident
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went home Intoxicated and put his feet into the
oven to warm them. lie soon fell asleep, and
when he woke up in the morning he found that
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WESTON, the American pedestrian, started
rom the Royal Exchange, London, at midnight
friday night ON walking tour of two thousand
niles over country roads, having undertaken to
Walk TINS distance, aud to deliver NIFTY lectures
II 'owhs' en- route In Thousand hours
me government oil canada costs the Canadians