Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-09
Weekly News Summary.


GOLDSMITH MAID, the trotter, has a young colt,
for which the owner has refused $40, 600
If John Adams had lived until this day he
would have been quite an old gentleman--l44
The total number of hogs packed in the West
this season was 7,isO,6iS, increase of $40, 202
over last year
ASK days walking match will take place in Gill
more's Garden next October for 5000 and the
championship belt.
TWENTY National banks have been organized
since November LIST, 1873, and twenty-sx have
gone into liquidation.
AN Indianapolis baker is attempting the feat OF
drinking thousand glasses of beer in one thou
sand consecutive hours.
ALL hope of a peaceful negotiation with Yakoob
Khan has failed and the British troops will adj
vance on Cabul Immediately
The churches of Omaha are uniting in protest
against the cruel and barbarous treatment of
Indians by the United States.
PAssANANr, the would be assassin OF King Hum
bert, has been taken to Elba, where he will I'M
dergo penal servitude for life
THE Governor of Tennessee has signed the bill
for the settlement of the state debt at fifty cents
on the dollar and four per cent interest.
The colored people OF Philadelphia celebrated
the ninth anniversary of the ratification of the
Fifteenth Amendment on Monday OF last week
Mrs. EMMA d. +. n SouTHwoRrH says that
she has written constantly ever since she was fif-
teen years old She is now at work on her six
tieth novel.
Pooh CARLoTrA" gazed indifferently at the
flames that recently consumed her house, the
Chateau de Tervueren, and could not be induced
to enter Of the carriages sent for her use and
that Of her suite.
The total coinage executed in March at all the
minis 1850, 455 pieces valued at s5.577, os6.
The total coinage standard OF silver dollars to
April 1st S2s, 774,950
TERRIBLE fires are reported on the plains of
Dakota. Scores of farmers have lost all their
buildings, crops and stock, and number OF per-
sons were burned to death.
THE English House OF Commons, Monday night
OF last week, rejected bikes motion of censure
OF the government in connection wi h the Zulu
war S0d to 246 The debate was pretty sharp.
A MARRIED pair, perhaps the oldest in the
country, live at Weston, Conn. They are Mr..
Zalmon Sturges, who is ninety-eght years old,
and Ann, his wife, now in her ninety fourth year.
THE revenue receipts at the Treasury for March
were $50, 205.ii2, The revenue receipts for the
nine months ending March 3lst aggregate $751;
Az, 1885, for the period last year. $50 745 l62
MARGARET and Arthur, Duke and Duchess of
Connaught, have cost England pretty penny
1t is reported that the price of fitting up anew
the royal yacht Osborne for their bridal trip is
about 100000
THERE are very scandalous stories in circula-
ton respecting the Connecticut state prison,
charging gross and shameful immortality upon
certain officers in their relations to some OF the
female convicts.
A wEII-KNowN professor of mathematics OF
Michigan University went to school only six
weeks, and while theoxen were resting at noon
did his first mathematical work upon plough
share with piece Of chalk
SoJouRSER Truth, who is living in her own
small domicile in Battle Creek, Mich, is now one
hundred and four years old She has remarkably
good health. her sight is still excellent, and she
talks as entertainingly as ever
The United States Supreme Court has decided
that when city has the power to incur any obli-
CATION To carry out public object, it has the
power and it is its duty to levy tax to pay the
debt without express legislative authorization.
PHILADELPHIA has Society for Organizing
Charitable Relief and depressing Mendicancy, 1t
publishes manual for the use Of those who desire
to visit the poor, containing advice to the proper
modes Of help and warnings against imposition.
RErours from almost every point of the wheat
growing region Of the West and Northwest show
IA hoe IN, ha
present line condition being attributed to the
heavy SHOWS of the past season, which afforded
complete protection.
sEvERE tornado passed over Browns Summit,
n c., ON the Sd. Several houses were blown
down, scattering the furniture broadcast One
boy was killed and many persons seriously in
jured by falling timber Trees aud fences were
blown to pieces, Great damage was done in
its passage.
JEFF DAVIS has Just been having his full length
portrait painted Some admrer who has seen 1t
says 1t represents him as clad in the clothes he
wore when he was captured, viz, "a loose coat OF
confederate gray, held together by single button,
high top boots, and soft felt hat held careessly
by the right hand" This makes rather an airy
costume, but perhaps Mrs. Davis hoop-skirt is
left to the imagination
LIEUTENANT DARIES, who escaped at Isandula,
was the champion three-mile runner OF the Uni
versty OF oxford, and won the Internationally
prize AT Lille Bridge grounds by the habit OF
swift running he had thus acquired and the ex-
ceent training he had undergone he was enabled
to outstrip even the Zuns, who are considered the
swiftest runners in the world. The iieetness dis
played by Lieutenant Darien must have astonished
his pnrsurers, who after u while gave up the
chase striking their shields with their assegais In
token of defeat.