Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-26
Weekly News Summary.

scribed as the finest over known
LOWELL, Mass BARRIERS are prohibited from
keeping their shops open Sundays
NEBRASKA farmers have been plowng and SOW
ing for the past two or three weeks
WEDNESDAY night Of last week FIVE bodies we're
stolen from the cemetery Of st. Eustache, p. O.
BosToN clergymen Of various denominations
have united in asking for legislation against
church lotteries.
THE Christian people Of Louisville, KY, are wag-
ing war against Sunday amusements, theatres
and open saloons
SCHUYLER CoLrAx is lying very III at his home
In Great Bend, Of eryspelas, and his condition is
| said to be critical.
GENERAL PuTNAM's ride down the stone steps
at Greenwich, Conn, Is TO have its centennial an
niversary celebrated.
In spite Of the talk Of interested parties, the
state of Virginia decides to keep the bell punch in
her drinking saloons.
PRESIDENT HAYES intends to travel next sum
ner. lie is announced for appointments in Con-
nectcut, California and Texas
SANKEy is holding crowded meetings in Eng
land, and the movement he and Moody started in
Great Britain is still full Of life and vigor
ONE beauty OF the new capitol at Albany is that
| 1t is capable Of consuming one thousand tons Of
| coal per month in moderate winter weather
DENNIS KEARSEy has begun the publication Of
| paper called the Daily Sand lot As might be
expected from its editor and its name it is a
| dirty sheet
Mus. joins JACOB AsroR in ten years has Sc
IN md tba Of e.
about four hundred and fifty homeless children
| at a cost Of about SCI, 900
THE Boston Congregationdiist says that the loss
TO the Massachusetts, Missionary Society through
the frauds Of Treasurer Demond amounts TO be-
| tween $50, 900 and $4,000
| SEVEN Manchester, N. H., liquor dealers were
last week fined $500 and costs apiece, and given
the choice of paying up in three days or working
out the amounts in Jail at 81 a day.
| The Oneida community people have invited the
cergymen who recently met at Syracuse to visit
them, promising that all the habits and workings
| OF the order will be explained to them
LOCK Of President washngton's hair has
just been presented 10 Lodge No. 1, F and A. NJ,
| Of Rchmond-the lodge iu which the great vr-
ginian was initiated, passed and raised
ALL cattle from the United States are to be
killed ten days after reaching England. The
Mersey dock and harbor board have decided to
spend $4,000 in erecting slaughter sheds
BARNuM is already out with n circular announc-
ing that he will be around next summer with his
Own and Only Greatest Show on Earth" with
| which no previous combination can compare
The $50, $4,000 cigars made during the last
fiscal year would encirce the globe five times il
| placed end to end Two hundred and fifty thou
sand persons get a living from their manufacture
The late Pope Plus TX it is said. never allowed
a lady to kiss his foot at his audiences, always
| giving her his hand Pope Leo Kill, on the con-
trary, sees ladies 90 through the ceremony with
| calm indifference.
THE report that Governor Hampton will have to
submit to another amputaton of his leg is de-
clared to be unfounded 1t is said that he is to
marry Mrs. Pickens, the widow of Governor
| Pickens OF South Carolina
A BUSINESS man gives the following sensible
'dyice: " Never 20 where you are not wanted !
II man wants you to come to his place of bust
ness he will invite you through an advertisement
1t is wrong to intrude on privacy
A TEMPERANCE mass meeting was held at Lake
|
birds of the population of the place signed the
pledge, and among the number five rumseers,
,ne destroying all his stock in trade
Mrs. FLANDRAU, exhibited as the Norman giant
girl at the American museum, New York, died the
l7thi aged eighteen. Her weight was five hum
bred and sixteen pounds, height six feet Her death
was caused by fatty degeneration of the heart
THE managers of tho Methodist Missionary So
ciety have sent protest To President Hayes
against the Chinese bill, chaacterizing it a
crime against civilization, and stating that the
lives oftheirmissonaries will be endangered by it,
OPIUM eating is under consideration by the Chi
nese government and Chin Ian Pin, the Chinese
Minister at Washington, has been instructed to
make careful investigation Of the means used in
the various institutions in this country for its
FIFTEEN hundred men are at work in the woods
.bout Pttsburg, and forty million feet of lumber
will be put in the Connecticut river above North
stratford this season, while twenty-five million feet
more will probably come down the Androscoggn
A NUGGET of pure gold weighing thirteen
ounces, or over pound, Troy weight, has recently
been dug up in Cabarrus county, North Carolina
1t is a well-known fact that the largest lump of
gold ever found in the United States was picked
up in this county many years ago,
A SAFE containing relics Of the Centennial was
locked up at Washington the 22d to remain closed
for one hundred years, and number OF public
men gathered to witness the ceremony and hand
themselves down to posterty by depositng their
photographs with the other curiosites
CANADA has abandoned special efforts to induce
immigration, and her agents abroad, who have
a., h.Il q oil,
are to be recalled. The trouble about the bust
ness has been that, while Canada paid the heavy
expenses the United States received large share
Of the benefit.
A RAIL has been patented by II. C. Moore
roadmaster of the Long Island railroad which he
claims will obvate all noise on elevated sur
face railroads. The top is of the T pattern and
made OF steel, fitting into the base, resting on a
wooden rubber bed and securely fastened to
the surface rail by bolts.
EDWARD p. BOND, one OF the sharpest horse
thieves in the country, has been arrested in Bos-
ton. He recently played successful game a
livery stable keeper in Haverhill, Mass. He is
wanted in Baltimore for Jail breaking in Man
chester, y. H., for larceny of a team, and in other
places for similar offences.
Mountain railroad has been detected in mail rob
bling, after having opened about twenty thou
sand letters within year lie broke off the locks
from the bags in his car, took out the letters that
he judged might contain money and put on new
locks, of which he had a supply
HENRY S TUDOR has left New York on two
years horseback ride to the southermost point Of
Patago ia, James Gordon Bennett having wagered
$4,000 to his $1,000 that he could not do it,
Tudor takes an attendant with him and will reach
the gulf of Mexico at Mobile aud steer for the
city of Mexico, where he will decide upon his
further course.
THE latest reports from Dexter, Me, confirm
the general impression that there is no foundation
for the theory that Barron defaulter aud
suicide. Bank Examiner Bolster, who examined
the books OF the bank before and since Mr Bar
ron's death, makes very important statement,
in which he shows that there is not the slightest
reason for suspectins that the dead cashier was
guilty Of any crooked transactions.
A TERRIBLE toier explosion occurred In San
Francisco on the 22d inst whereby fifteen per-
sons were killed and twenty-six wounded A