Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-30
Weekly News SnmmarY.

| Mt Anola, MINI, Monday night Of last week.
EVANGELIST MOODY has been presented with n
son at Baltimore. lie had boy and girl already
TnE Governor Of Kansas has asked Congress
for tents and rations for the destitute coored i'm
| migrants.
ONE hundred and seventeen lives were lost by
the fire damp explosion in the Agrappe coal pit
near Mons Belgium.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Jr., has Just bought
six hundred acres In the suburbs of Kansas City,
Mo, for $3.50 per acre.
The world averages an annual product Of 6Si,-
| 100000 pounds OF tea, China producing GO0OO0-
600, Japan 100000, India 350OOOoo and Java
| 6,0OO.OO0.
In the hollow Of tree sixty feet from the
| ground, P. w White, of Fenner, N. Y, found
in thriving condition gooseberry bush about
foot high.
The first news of the death Of Judge Robinson
OF the New York court of common pleas, reached
Governor Robinson in the shape Of thirteen APP
plications for the vacant place.
THE old elm tree at schuyervie, under which
General Burgoyne surrendered, was seriously
damaged by recent fire, but with proper care it
SIMULTANEOUSLY with Solovien's attempt on
the Cars life, three policemen we're shot in
Kazan. Among the assassins were an educated
girl, aged seventeen, and nobleman.
MIR. ABELL. OF Wabash, was successfully di-
vorced from three wives Then he married the
first again, and now, upon her death, he has re-
| united with the second. The third has reason
to hope.
| The British Admiralty have issued regulations
| that all candidates for the naval service, whether
| officers, men, boys or marines, must produce a
certificate that they are able to swim, or they will
be ineligible.
For his poem, 1.-THE Defense Of Lucknow" and
| its prelude, addressed to the memory of Princess
Alice, making altogether one hundred and twenty
seven lines, Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate, re-
ceived 81 800.
Mr.. JoHN G. WHITTIER sent the following
letter to friend in Boston: "Will thee take the
trouble to add my name to the call for the Fan
ueil Hall meeting in aid of the colored emigrants
| from the bulldozed South?"
VANDERBILT has formally broken ground for
his double-track tunnel under the Detroit river,
| the first railway tunnel to be built under water,
| The cost will be as many million dollars.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS was so poor when
he commenced the practice Of law that he had to
live So per month. This is said to be the secret
of his assistance to poor young men, over fifty of
whom he has assisted to a liberal education.
FLORIDA has had the unusual experience of ice
| in April. The cold wave of week before last
npped the tender vegetables there, rs well as
throughout that section of the South, but it is
thought that The young oranges escaped injury.
JOSEPH II. GALE Il Baltimore jeweler estimates
| that Madame Patterson BOnaparte's jewels cost
| $4,000 when they were new, though now they
would not sell for more than $4,000. They are
to be preserved relics in the Bonaparte family.
THEY are very business-like in everything ont
| In Iowa The Prohbtionists Of Eldora having
| carried the day, made up and paid into the
village treasury the 5000 which was lost to the
| corporation by the election of non-censing
| council.
| PETER the Great once said Good established
wedlocli for happiness for mutual support, and
for consolation in the vcissitudes of life and as
wretched marriages do not sustain Gods purpose
in matrmony, It's proper, in such cases, to grant
divorce"
VERY few of the shot which Modelling fired into
the head Of the Emperor of Germany have been
extracted by cutting, as physicians have feared
fever might result They, however, gradually
approach the surface OF the skin and are then
easily withdrawn with nppers. They had all
been dattened against the skull.
| OXFORD is to follow the example of Cambridge
| in furnishing English women with the means for
| securing higher education. A subscription has
already been started to build ladies' hall at OK
ford, which is 10 be established on the principles
| of the church of England, but with provision for
| the liberties of members of other denominations.
| THE late dull times have driven many men
from mercantile pursuits and the learned profess
sions ntorarming. The majority seek the West,
but the East is also feeling the good effects of this
movement in the reduced price Of provisions In
| New England the farmers are more numerous.
| than at any previous time within the last twenty
years.
| An impromptu mock auction sale of women was
amusing and profitable, at first, in Racine
| wis., church fair. The young men bid literally
| for the attractive girls and it was all very funny
indeed until an ugly but influential sister was put
up, The auctioneer was compelled to knock her
down at twenty-five cents, and she was so angry
| that she put on her things and went home.
HIRAM RoBB, OF Webster, n Y, was pitched
upon by an eagle while out walking the other
| day. Robb tried to run away at first but the
| eagle pursued him fercely, compelling him to
| fight for his very life. The angry bird tore a
| piece from his coat and another from his boot,
until Robb's anger rose. Then he turned on his
assailant and finally succeeded in taking it alive.
YOUNG woman of Tanneryile, Ca married
an elderly widower, but soon found herself in love
| with his son. The matter was fully discussed,
| and il was decided that the old man should pro-
cure divorce and let his wife marry his son
| This was accomplished with the aid of a sympa-
| thizng court Since then the aged gentleman
has remarked his ex-wifes mother, and the en-
tire family is happy
KRUpP has just turned out two monster can
non at his Essen Germany factory. The guns
| are of sixteen and eighteen inches caliber, and
the bigger one is thirty feet eight inches long
weighs Que hundred and twenty tons, and uses II
charge Of five hundred and fifty pounds OF pris-
matte powder to discharge proiecte weighing
| one ton two hundred weight The largest gun in
the British service weighs eighty tons, and fires n
| projecte Of seventeen hundred pounds, with a
charge of three hundred and fifty pounds Of
powder.
HAnpwicK.-The Iiardwick Granite Company
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