Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-06
Weekly News Summary.


young women than any other country.
THREE thousand tons Of rock were last week dis
placed at Portland, Connecticut, by one blast
THIRTEEN cases Of drowning among pleasure
seekers were reported in a single day last week
THE Naugatuck (Connecticut) Shoe Company
are now turning out ten thousand pairs OF rubber
shoes daily
SPRINGFIELD tMassachusetts) has four Irish
keeners," or women hired 10 lament for the
dead at wakes
The president very properly declines to pardon
Bennett the dsseminator through the mails Of
pernclous literature.
THE Brook6eld Massachusetts, school commit
tee struck off the prncipalship OF their high school
to the lowest bidder at sG0Oa year.
THIRTEEN barns have been burned within few
months in the western part Of Chicago, and it has
transpred that boys fred them for fun.
SECRETARY SHERMAN says the tax on whiskey
and tobacco is sufficient to pay the interest on the
national debt. A fact with a double moral
VANDERBILT has no personal property, not he,
but last week, just flyer, he purchased 81, 0OO-
600 worth Of four per cent bonds for his family.
OUR silver dollars, it is said, are at twenty per
cent discount in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward
Island while greenbacks are considered as good
as gold
AN offer is made to donate the Lincoln home
stead to an association of ladies, that 1t may be
kept as a national memorial. 1t will probably be
accepted.
DURING the last ten years twenty-one thousand
persons in the United States have died from yell
t,~ md
died in 1873.
How many Of our readers are aware that Ferd-
inand de Lesseps, Of Suez canal fame, is seventy
four years OF age7 Yet he is full Of power, en-
ergy and ability.
LoRILLARD has been wonderfully successful
with his stud Of American racing horses in Eng
land. lie has just won another victory with his
bay fy Geraldine.
THE religious papers take issue with Mr.. Beecher
for making the Sunday preaching into sort Of
show business, as in the instance of Highland
Lake Grove last Sunday
MINNESOTA says you can put her down for
forty-seven million bushels Of wheat this year.
What makes Jim Keene smile so syly and wink
so knowingly as he reads the news?
WHEN the prince imperial went to Zululand
Lord Chelmsford. in whose special care he was
put, was warned by the Duke Of Cambridge Of
the daring impulsiveness Of the poor boy.
THE English assizes show extraordinarily light
criminal calendars, at some places only one prs-
| oner, at others none, the fact being that hard
| times shut off the mother Of crime-drink.
REV. THOMAS K BEEcHER of Elmira, New
York, brother of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, is
advocating cremation, and offers to subscribe for
stock in a company to conduct the business.
HAVE all the Jersey peach growers been stricken
with dumbness that none of them lift up their
voices these days and declare that the crop is
failure and that peaches is peaches" this year,
A STEAMER arrived in Halifax from Bordeaux,
last week, fitted up with refrigerators for freezing
salmon Goldfish and HOLSTERS, which she will col
| lect along the Newfoundland coast and tranship
| to France
| NEW LONDON has two little girls of the same
| name, and when of them prayed the other
| evening she added the number and street OF her
| house, that the Lord might know who the prayer
| was from
LESS than one hundred ladies have entered
their names at the Boston registration office 30 far,
as intending to vote on school committee bust
| ness Gfetty sNlAii percentage vi popuiatou
like that of Boston
NEW ferry boat at San Francisco is four hun
dred and twenty-four feet long and one hundred
and sixteen wide, has four rudders at each end,
and eight boilers and will carry twenty-four rail-
| road cars at one time.
IT is stated that the Dominion government has
determined not to renew the order in council pro-
hibting the importation OF American cattle into
the five eastern provinces on its expiration, the
| 9th Of September next.
THE London Army and Navy Gazette learns
that the queen will be advised 10 allow Lieuten-
ant Carey to return to duty, as the authorities
merely find him guilty of indscretion, at the
time of Prince Bonapartes death.
THREE rival lovers Of Miss Hudson, at Lakey
Bend, Illinois, pooled their issues in a combira-
tion against fourth and more favored suitor.
They seized him as he was going to call on her,
threw him into pond and let him drown.
DEAN STANLEY has granted a site for memo
rial OF the late Prince Louis Napoleon in West
minister Abbey. 1t is recess in Henry VII. s
chapel, near the spot where Cromwelps remains
lay till they were disturbed at the restoration
A PRIVATE telegram states that the cholera is
raging fearfully among troops returning to India
from Afghanistan The Tenth Hussars lost forty
men in day and the Seventeenth Foot one
hundred and ninety-ive men by the epidemic.
JOIN KRANz OF East Pennington, Wisconsin,
drove into a lake, Tuesday, to water his horses.
In the wagon were six children; the horses got
frightened, into deep water, and drowned
Kranz and five of the children one of the boys
swimming ashore
| SOME idea of the extent and severity Of the
famine in India may be gathered from the Bonn
bay Gazette, which says it is stated that the city
Of Serinagur, the capital of Cashmere, ordinarily
containing three hundred thousand inhabitants,
has only thirty thousand since the famine.
ST. LOUIS has seasonably organized charity as
novel rs ii is worth copying-an ice mission. The
police are given tickets to distribute among the
deserving sick and poor which are accepted by
the retail Ice dealers, and finally redeemed by
funds placed in the hands OF the chief OF police.
In 1898 the culture OF cotton was rendered very
lucrative by the invention of the cotton gin by the
Georgia schoolmaster, Eli Whitney. Previously
1t was days work to separate by hand the seed
from four pounds of cotton. To-day the improved
machine easily separates four thousand pounds in
ten hours.
| PEOPLE in the Eastern states have NO idea OF
} these schemers engaged in mining enterprises.
They dig hole in the ground, shoot some brass
filings into the ground through gun, and as
brass is the exact color of gold in its normal con-
dtion, a green hand does not know the difference
arizona Letter 10 Chicago Times.
The Iowa liquor dealers held a state conyen.
ton at Des Moines Wednesday, with one hundred
delegates from thirty counties, and pledged them
selves to work for license men, irrespective OF
party, for members OF the Legislature state
organization was also formed and they talk OF
) forming subordinate societies in every county In
! the state.
MRs ASA B. HurcHIssoS one OF the famous
family OF singers, recently bought an undeveloped
mine In Georgetown, Colorado, set a number OF
men at work sinking shaft, and now she 70
ceives the pleasing intelligence that bed OF min
eral Of SURPRISING richness has been struck, ant
( that she is the wealthiest lady in the land She
will surely sing for joy.
= ApvIoEs from along the line OF the Northern
, Pacific railway state that the harvest is progress
| ing rapidly with the most favorable weather
Superior crops are assured. The average yield o
wheat is twenty -four, oats fifty and barley forty