Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-14
Weekly News Summary.

seven rect SIX inches long,
ONE Of the Northampton bank robbers, Rcd
Leary, has escaped from Ludlow street Jail in
New York
To the London Standard it seems highly prob
able that, at last "the United States are enter
ing upon long period of prosperity"
An Iowa man who has been married four times
has his four mothers-in-law in one house. and
they live together in the greatest harmony.
ONE hundred and six gold medals, awarded to
the United States exhibitors at the Paris EXPOSE
ton, have been received at Washington and will
be distributed during the present week.
THE United States Court at Cincinnati has de-
eded that the insurance ON the Minneapolis mills
that blew up last year must be paid The defense
was that the destruction was not natural event.
WHEN Mrs. Conkng was questioned as to her
husbands opposition to his daughters marriage
the Cincinnati Enquirer reports her as saying ON
her own behalf that Zone public man in a family
is enough"
GovERNoR ROBINSON, Of New York, has signed
the bill providing that the acknowledgment by
married women Of deeds and other written in
struments may be made in the same manner rs if
they were single.
have hocked into the state this Spring Three
trains heavily loaded with immigrants are sent
out Of St Paul every morning, and most Of the
new corners settle in the state
GENTLEMAN residing in Westfield, N. j., who
was robbed of valuable gold watch and chain
ten years ago, received his property from Cath
Ollie priest in New York last week, the thief having
made confession and restitution
The country doctors in England are substitute
| ing bicycles for horse flesh, to some extent in
visiting their patients. The machines they use
are iron, with a rubber rim the wheels, and
make eight or ten miles an hour
A FouR-YEARs.oLD son Of William f. Mouslcy
of Lynne, n H.. found bottle containing whis-
key in a cupboard of his home on Friday morn
ing, and unseen by his parents drank pint Of
the fiery liquid, dying from the effects not long
after.
EVERY large fortress in Germany is provided
with trained carrier pigeons and the officers
made familiar with their Use, so that in case of
war they could be utilized in sending out mes
sages independent of the telegraph, which might
| be tempered with
| lN the first nine months of the present fiscal
| year the general land Office has sold two million
| two hundred thousand acres in Kansas or three
times many as were sold in the fiscal year end
ing in 1877, and fifty per cent more than in the
| year ending in 1873.
THE heirs of Mrs Catherine Dudley have Just
recovered land worth $500, 600 in the western part
| Of Cincinnati, the court holding that Mrs Dud-
leys sale of the property was not valid though it
belonged to her, because her husband did not
| also sign the deeds of conveyance
The widow of ex-Postmaster General Alex
ander W. Randall still thriyes as raiser Of cattle
upon her lands in Nebraska For several years.
it is said, her sales of stock have reached 50 600
year, and the herd is as large again as it was
when she assumed the management
The mayor of Birmingham-Iessie Ceilings is
| his name-has found out pleasant way of being
| good to his fellow creatures. At his personal
cost, he is giving series of free concerts ut the
town hail. the first Of which was attended by
three thousand workingmen their wives and their
children
GOVERNOR GEAR, of Iowa, was lately asked to
pardon convicted rum-seer and replied
while have great sympathy for Mr., Newton,
also have great sympathy for the wives and chill
dren who have been ma sufferers by the sale
of whiskey to the fathers and husbands by Mr..
Newton. The petition cannot be granted.
Cox, who shot and killed Alston at Atlanta
Georgia, to settle quarrel over contract for
state prison labor, WAS sentenced to hard labor
for life Aston the author of IL law allowing
murderers to be sentenced in this way recon-
snendatiop of a jury, and it is singular poetic
justice that his own murderer should be the first
man tn he sentenced under the law.
grown to formidable proportions in the United
States In 1861, when our population WAS thirty
| seven millions, the amount Of opium imported
was one hundred aud thirty-six thousand pounds;
in 1876, with an increase of but seven millions in
the population, the importation had risen to three
hundred and forty thousand pounds
Mr. AND Mrs RICHARD COLLINS, of Rochester,
| n. Y, were buried the same day being also of
just the same age, sXty-one years The wife,
| though apparently healthy, suddenly died, and
| her husband, who was lingering with consump-
ton, asked that the funeral might be deferred a
| few days. His premontion of death was soon
verified, and one funeral answered for both.
| TIE construction of a ship canal 10 connect the
| Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the isthmus Of
| Darien is to be considered in Paris this Summer by
| II conference" headed by DE LeSseps the pro-
ector Of the Suez canal. The conference is pre-
iiminaIy to n scheme for starting a great ship
canal company with capital of Sl00, OOO, 900 or so
under the patronage and presidency OF DE Lesseps
QuEEN vlcroRA has left golden opinions be-
hind her in Italy, She talked with ease and kind
ness to the poor washerwomen by the lake and
the oliyewood workers in their shops; she stopped
her carriage aud spoke pleasantly 10 the peasant
| h,, ft,., afr Liza aud
she took great delight in the lovely scenery about
her She has returned to England in vigorous
health,
GENERAL GRANT is the happy owner OF two
Arabian horses of the purest blood-a gift from
the Sultan of Turkey. One is OF a dapple gray
color and called Dieytan (the pantherl, and the
other is a magnificent black fellow with white
star on his forehead aud named Mssiri They
are on board q steamer on the way from Constan-
tinople To New Haven They are housed ON deck
aud treated like saloon passengers.
SOCIETY has been org inized In New Orleans
| for promoting an increase in the dimensions of
beer glasses. At the first meeting two hundred
and twenty-siN indignant Teutons pledged them-
| selves not 10 touch beer until more Of it could be
had FOR five cents. As one Of the leaders Of the
reform movement tersely summed the matter up,
" Shentlenens dere ought to be rs much bulge in
de beer glass ash deere is in de barrel"
AwkALTHY Dubuque la couple had liy ed hap
PLY together for forty -one years when one day the
husband surprised his wife by saying that he had
been married once before The first wife died in
child birth, but the boy born at the time, who
was reported To the father as dead too, lived and
grew up. The baby's grandfather, rich old
eodger without an heir, bribed the nurse to tell
the lie, which she confessed on her death bed
The excitement of this revelation was too much
for the wife of torty-one years, and in two days
she WAS dead
llENnY SMITH did his California gold mining in
peculiar way. lie was Waterman in the gov
eminent mint At the close of each days work,
the employees were thoroughly searched before
going ont of the building, and all of the precious
metal ON the premises carefully locked up.
Then Smith went on guard for the night In one
of the rooms under his charge was a strong iron
tank In which granules of gold were placed TO
be washed An iron cover was securely locked
on, but through small hole ran rubber tube TO