Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12
Weekly News Summary.

The Spring trade in dry goods opened very sat
isiactorly in New York
In has not yet been clearly proved In Paris that
electricity Is cheaper than gas.
VICTORIA Woodruff is said to have become
Sunday-school teacher In London
TmE report that Henry Ward Beecher Is about
to write an autobiography is denied
CHILLY" MoGARRAHAN is qutea lion in WASH
ington since he thrashed Dom Patt
THIS Is the coolest winter remembered in Ire
land Birds have been discovered eating each other.
NUMEROUS mass meetings have been held
throughout California to protest against the Pres
idents veto.
In London is society the members Of which
agree to their influence to abolish the practice
of wearing mourning
EDWARD INGALLS,, town treasurer of Gambia, n.
H., was called out OF his house Monday night Of
last week and robbed Of 81, 100
SEVERAL persons were buried under falling
veranda at Mansonville Quebec Monday OF last
week, two Of them being killed.
Our ofseventeen thousand guns made by Krupp
only sixteen have burst, and nearly all of these
when being tried to test their power
BENJAMIN SHALLcRossE, receiver Of taxes for
| the 23d ward Of Philadelphia, is a defaulter for
| $4,000 Of which the city loses $4,000
ROBERT Fox owner Of the American Theatre.
| Philadelphia has been sentenced to thirty days
in Jail for selling liquor in his establishment
on Sunday.
| The oldest woman living on Long Island is Mrs.
Margaret Turpey Of Flushing, who is now in the
one hundred and tenth year of her age. She was
| born in Ireland
| THE old brass spectacles which John Brown
wore when his soul began marching on from the
Virginia scaffold at Charlestown, are now owned
| at Richmond, Va.
SAM WILKINSON has sued Henry Ward Beecher
for $4,000 advanced on Beechers Life of Christ,
and for $4,000 lost in preparing the plates, etc,
for its publication.
BILL has been passed by the Illinois Senate
to allow persons convicted Of stealing less than
Sl5 to be sentenced to work on the public streets
or roads in chain gangs
A TELEPHONE was rugged up in a Montreal
pulpit the other Sunday and sick parishioner
was enabled to hear his pastors sermon in his bed
quarter of mile away
The anti-dog campaign is this year transferred
to Pennsylvania, where committee Of the legis-
lature has reported bill making it unlawful to
keep Spitz dogs in that state.
An eminent English mechanic thinks that for
egn competition would be impossible if the trades
unions spent their money in educating their men
instead of fighting their masters
THERE have been heavy rains and disastrous
floods in Russian River Valley, California. Many
bridges were swept away, and the Northern Pa
cifc railway line considerably damaged.
THE poormaster in I.emont, H., keeps bar
! room, and it is charged that he encourages men
To spend their money for his liquor by promising
to help their families from the public treasury.
THE man who married whole family lives in
Traverse county, Michigan. His first wife died,
and he married her sister. She too died, and then
he married the mother of his two former wives
: AMERICAN anthracite coal, conveyed by sailing
vessels to Marseiles and BY rail to Geneva, is sold
in the latter place for about SO a ton. 1t is
cheaper than German or French coal, and better.
THE smallest pianist in the world Signor Luigi
Gustavo Fazio di Pinto da Campo Basso, is now
=, in Rome He is only two feet hgh-about as long
as his name. lie is reported as being skillful
. performer.
a THE Househoders' Association of Berlin, Ger
: IL
e of emnence in its laboratory TO analyze the ar
e ticles it sells so that their quality may be
,- guaranteed.
n BOLD attempt was made lately TO burn the
city of Columbus, Ohio Eight stables wert
burned on recent night and attempts were made
IS to burn other buildings by using rags saturated
1t with coal oil.
g DURING the visit OF the Marquis of Lorne anC
d the Princess Louise to New York in May they will
e reside at the Windsor hotel, where a suite o.
e twelve rooms will be specially decorated and pre-
n pared for their reception.
} BY the latest returns there are in France 50 81
e persons of unsound mind ~, 9S6 of whom are il
n asylums. This gives twenty-three in 10000 in
habtants. The men thus afflicted are somewha
more numerous than the women
If PART of the floor of Mechanic Hall North Der
n wick, Me, gave way during the recent town meet
II ing and fifty persons were precipitated to tn
}. floor below No one was killed outright, bu
y many fearfuly injured and will probably die
~ The Kansas legislature has restored hanging
for murder, by making it obligatory upon the gov
ernor to issue death warrants in cases of convc
ton for murder in the first degree. Heretofore
. has been matter of discretion the part O
the executive.
- JEFF DAVIS and General Sherman lately rod
In in the same Mississippi railroad train. You
ar have good company to travel with in the perso
, of General sherman said Il friend "well re
ID turned Davis, " suppose there is enoug
N on the for both of Us.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company has gaine
l. control OF the Kansas Pacific, line which, rur
+ ming parallel with its road and south of it for 81
20 hundred and thirty-nine miles from Kansas City
st Mo-, to Denver, Col, has been rival for loc'
~ business. This will materially strengthen tn
in trans-continental line.
of BIRTHDAY party was recently given for a pc
at Skye terrier in New York. His idiotic mstres
b. sent out fifty invitations and the ugly brute RI
III ceived his companions standing ON sky-bu
st satin cushion, with diamond locket fastened
in a ribbon about his throat. Great decorum wa
or preserved until lunch was served, and then son
s. truly sweet pets lifted up their small voices
IN bowls and yells of delight
:" A FARMER at Glenburn, Maine, purchased som
!" supplies in Bangor, among which was pint
'" whiskey To avoid breakage he placed the bolt
~ in box of rice but found on reaching home thu
y the bottle was broken and the rice saturated.
gu threw the rice behind his barn and "a big turkt
10 soon paid his respects to it. In due time Il
90 turkey became dead drunk, and was found in tn
~, condition by the farmer, who thought that disea
." or poison had killed him. The bird was st
-, warm, and the death evidently recent. The ia
'N mer would not eat him himself, but pucked hi
for market and left him in the stable The mel
morning he found the bereft gobbler shiverir
ed naked on his roost, and looking ON him with r
Y proachful eyes.