Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-23
WeekIy News summary.


ACCORDING to high Jewish authority there are
six million FIVE hundred thousand Jews.
In Is said that there is in London million Of
people who have no church and want none
OVER five hundred applicants for admission TO
Harvard College have been examined this year.
THERE Is said TO be man In Allentown, Penn
sylvana who has one thousand parrots for sale.
THERE are three thousand four hundred and
fifty Roman Catholic bishops, priests and chap
lains in Ireland
AT the dissolution OF Kentucky disabling firm
the trade mark Of their whiskey was sold last
week for sol 900.
Miss OWENS Of Wilcox county, Georgia, In
thirty-nne minutes by the watch, sheared thirty
sheep the other day.
The supreme court Of Wisconsin, after once
refusing to do 20, has now admitted a woman, Miss
Goodell to practice at its bar
SOME American corsets shipped to Mexico were
supposed to be saddles Of new kind, and were
returned as not giving satisfaction.
BILL has just passed the house Of representa-
tives changing the name Of the New York ferry
boat James Fisk Jr., to Passac."
WESTON, speaking at meeting in London,
stated that during the last twelve years he had
walked and wobbled " on foot 5000 miles.
THE New Orleans newspapers are pleading with
the constitutional convention to spare the state lot
terry, which the convention is inclined to abolish.
THE greatgranddaughter OF Queen Victoria, the
young princess OF Saxe-Meiningen, has just been
named Theodore Victoria Augusta Marianne Mary
THE convent near Burgos, to which 1t Is said
Eugene will temporarily retire, is favorite resort
Of noble ladies seeking the consultations Of religion
The Fall River mills turned out twenty per cent
more goods last week than the week before, which
shows that the manufacturers are gaining on the
strikers.
THE number OF polls assessed in Boston this
year is eighty-nine thousand and ffty-six, an in
crease Of thirty-one hundred and forty-three over
last year.
THE outlook for the oil country is gloomy, for
there is no demand for the stuff, and, privately,
sales made below the prices current in the oil
exchange.
MR.. Loo, Of the Chinese legation at Washing
ton, fourishes fan upon which il some poetry
supposed to have been written FIVE thousand
years ago.
commissioner to Europe to negotiate with foreign
governments an international system for the re-
monetizing Of silver.
A CIRCULAR has been addressed to the bishops
throughout the world calling them to promote
the monster clerical pilgrimage to Rome for the
next feast Of Epiphany.
THE intense heat Of Thursday, July 18th, ex-
tended throughout the country. 1t was reported
by the signal service officers in New York to be
the hottest day since 1876.
one hundred and seventy-eight women, mostly
from South and Fast Boston, have asked to be
sessed for poll tax in Boston as a qualification
for voting next December
SENATOR GoRDoS's sheep ranch in Georgia
comprises forty thousand acres. Negro convicts
are enclosing it with a stone wall, seven miles OF
which have been completed
FROM data collected 1t is estimated that in labor
and material the world is gamer to the amount
OF 500, 900, 600 year by using the Bessemer pro-
cess in converting ore into STEEL
ITALY is to build six thousand and twenty kio-
metres of railways in the next twenty years. for
which an annual expenditure Of f2, 400, 900 is to
be provided by the government.
THE will Of Mrs. Dorsey, giving $4,000 worth
Of property to jeff Davis, will be contested by in
terested relatives, among them a brother Of the
| dead woman living in Brooklyn,
A PLEASURE yacht from Quebec upset by
| squal on the St. Lawrence river near Point Aux
Trembles, Friday afternoon, and eight Of a party
| of fifteen on board we're drowned
AN invitation has been extended to the COVER
OF all the states and territories to attend the
reunion OF the soldiers OF the Northwest at Aurora.
Illinois, August 10th, 2lst and ed
AT Salem, Massachusetts,, Thursday, four hun
dred Dodges held reunion, at which one ofthem
estimated that the people by that name in this
country numbered nearly million.
AN enthusiastic temperance woman at Fort
Collins, Colorado, has given a supper to all the
young men in the town who had not imbibed al
coholic liquor for sixty days previous.
| "GooD society " at Springfield, Massachuset
is indignant at the report that some Of the ladies
OF its circle, by the use of claret and lager beer
have fallen into the habit of getting intoxicated.
GRACE GREENWOOD says that among its other
admirable manufactures, New England produces
the best educated girls, the truest wives, the
noblest mothers and the most glorious old maids
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that the great object OF the prince Imperial OF
France IN joining ,ne hns'sh army III 1uiu'a s
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