Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-06-04
Weekly News Summary.

THIS Spring is the hardest year ever known in
the upper Connecticut for driving lumber.
BARON LIONEL RornscnILDs, chief partner in
the banking firm Of Rothschild & Co., is dead.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToS, the swimmer, IL soon
10 navigate the Connecticut river from Hartford
10 Saybrook.
ONE night last week meeting in Baltimore
raised 81 600 to charter a boat for the rescue Of
| coored refugees.
THE Louisiana constitutional convention pro-
poses TO provide for the payment Of only $1,000
900 Of the state debt, declaring the rest invalid
THE excess Of exports over imports Of merchan-
disc for April was si2, $50 The excess Of ex-
ports OF gold and silver for April was 81 45O,63l.
MAN Of seventy and girl OF twenty-five
jumped of railway train at Richmond, l.. l.,
and were married In the depot before the train
| started
THE Ogdensburg Journal says huge snow banks
can still be seen at a number Of points in st.
Lawrence county They were not damaged by
the late frosts
AUGUSTA, Me, has Colorado potato bugs Of full
growth, found eating the sprouts upon potatoes
that have been planted, and before emerging
from the ground
THE Chicago common council has voted that
Sunday drinkers may enter the bar-rooms by the
front doors instead Of going round In the side
doors That is to say the council has resolved not
to attempt to stop the Sunday liquor traffic.
WRITER in the New Orleans Times who has
talked OF late with many negroes In the disai-
fected districts Of Louisiana says that the mania
for emigration is rapidly increasing, and threatens
ultimately to result in half Of the colored men in
the state going to Kansas.
GOVERNOR BISHOP, of Ohio. when riding up To
| the state house nj Columns last week heard n
woman cry ont that her pocket bools had been
stolen. and iumpipg ont pnrsued and overbauled
the thief and gave him into custody. distancipp
all the others that Joined in the chase.
Mn R,ss,N boiscarr,ino nm ,ha ,,o., ho,,,,
by the late Mr.. George Smith has ins, d,.coverod
ut Babylon an octaponaI cvlinder on tho s;das n,
which are engraved a history Of the campaign OF
| Sennacherib against King IIezekiah This i'm
portant find is To be sent to London for safe keep
| ing in the British Museum
| THE venerable Ralph Waldo Fmerson reneated
| his lecture ON " Memory" In Roston nm Friday
afternoon and IL ia stated that in its deliverv he
would frequently lose his place in the manuscrint
and IL was a pretty sight In ace bs daughter who
| sat near him for the pnrpose direct him hack IN
| the point at which he had dropned tho thread NJ
| his thought.
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how vanked another urchin nm, 81 tho I;no anS
| choLed h,n, mil ho o,o,oJ "a. 1T r.,
| which the hidden certificate dropped ont
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.'o p"S s,.na' '"',' 'i'.'ue poS'"'or'e'i eHaiha
n VI " imam n"s'ey' '"e pup" VIM u'eo a'
""ue" aver '"e inii'o''on vi corporal punishment
nus 'e'c"ef' ''ia'e some important STATEMENTS
| !" "'s es''inony ~ Tue inquest Inc Doc'or WAS
"sheu "he'ner OF not SIX oows from rattan on
e''her hahu "ouiu DC EXCESSIVE lie replied that
"o"'u NOT oe excessive ior II school pup'i 'under
'he eNs''s sysein'' ou'ih certain cases II might
NOT oe S''e Inc Doc'or cohs'uers lh's case ih-