Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-02-19
Weekly News Summary.


North Carolina has served out his full term.
TWENTY freight cars were burned at Cincinnati
the other day, by the bursting Of AN oil tank
In Florida the corn is a foot high and the peo-
pie are eating young cabbagos and green peas
TnE New York senate has passed a bill punish
ing grave robbers with five years imprisonment
PETER CoopER celebrated his eighty-eighth
birthday bya reception at his daughters residence
in New York the 18th.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has issued the
eghty-eighth call forthe redemption Of 500 bonds,
The call Is for $50 100000.
AT the end Of last year the number Of Free
Masons in the world was about five million, and Of
lodges about fifteen thousand.
An international convention 10 secure the stop
ping Of Sunday trains all railways Of the world
will shortly be held in New York city
THE iron beams Of the new Chicago custom
house have been ruined by rust, and will have TO
be replaced by the government at cost Of $4,000.
THE Boylston Museum in Boston, variety
theatre, was closed by the police authorities last
week, on the ground that the performances were
immoral.
The detectives who have been investigating the
Barron murder, with such remarkable lack Of
success, have brought in bill OF $1,000 again
the state Of Maine
FoRTy Pennsylvania Union Soldiers and their
families are about to remove to the far West TAX
ing up their several grants of one hundred and
sixty acres Of land
The buzz Of industry liveDs the land OF the
South. The farmers are busy preparing for their
crops, and the negroes have generally re-engaged
with their old employers
A PENNSYLVANIA girl waited whole year be-
fore bringing suit for damages against a man
who had kissed her without warning, and re-
covered one cent damages.
Two engines were demolished several cars
damaged and large number Of sheep and hogs
killed on the cattle train near Buffalo, N Y, on
Thursday last, by collision.
THE Philadelphia Union League after a vote
lasting two days has decided, two hundred and
thirty to two hundred and seventeen, not to allow
card playing at its club house.
AT Joliet, Ill the other day twenty-five hun.
| bred school children with their teachers were
taken out for sleigh ride in four hundred seighs
and cutters, headed by band OF music.
The MEMPHIS appeal says the sanitary condi-
ton of that city is disgraceful. After such ter
ribe experience with the yellow fever last year. it
would seem as If the city would be kept clean
THE Wisconsin legislature has accepted ex-Gov-
ernor Washburn's magnificent estate near Mad
| ison, known as " Edgewood Farm which its
owner gives to establish school for poor boys.
GERMAN doctor has propounded the doctrine
| that vegetarians and meat-eaters are both wrong
and that the real means to health and long life is
| 20, ont oil fnn -Iatl
| The Grafton, n. H., County Agricultural So
ciety has passed vote to the fleet that all liquor
and pool selling aud games Of chance Of any char
acter shall hereafter be strictly prohibited on their
| grounds.
IT is said that one thousand hunters are chasing
down and Strengthening Michigan deer this winter
Hundreds have been killed from pure wanton-
| ness and left where they fell nothing but the
| hides being taken
The President has approved the act to allow
women to practice before the Supreme Court. 1t
Is considered certain that he will veto the bill lin
ting Chinese immigration, although he will be
strongly urged not to do So
THE centenary of the birth Of Thomas Moore
the poet is to be concentrated on the 18th of
May at Dublin, by grand musical performance of
Irish melodies ON scale somewhat similar to
Burns centenary in Scotland.
Al recent meeting of prominent cergymen at
Syracuse it was resolved that it was the duty of
the people to suppress the immoral features of the
Oneida community, and a committee was APP
pointed to investigate the matter
The Maine beet sugar company at Portland
have decided to increase their capital for another
year. Farmers in the vicinity going into beet
raisin.' more extensively, and the industry prom
ises to become established one.
REV. REUBEN NELSON, D. D., senior publisher
and book agent in charge of the Methodist Book
Concern in New York, aud treasurer of the Meth
odst Missionary Society, stricken with paral-
ysis Sunday, and his recovery is doubtful,
WESTON the pedestrian humbug, is one hun
dred and fifty-one miles behind time in his pres
ent tramp in England. Baltimore paper hears
u rumor that he has been engaged by restau-
rant firm in Paris to pursue and lasso suas.
An Kansas City Mo- on the 18th inst, forty
men were buried in a cut which was being made
for the Chicago Alton railroad, by the caying
in of the walls which were ninety feet high Six
persons were killed outright and several wounded
| THEpubc domain of Texas originally consisted
Of two hundred and fifty million acres of land
|
now only thirty-one million acres are left and of
this amount not more than five million acres are
worth owning.
| IT is nothing uncommon for England to have
| two wars at a time on her hands She is peace
ful nation, and yet within the past forty years
mas participated in no less than twenty EIGHT big
and little wars. John Bright, few years ago.
pronounced them one and all unnecessary, and
therefore wicked.
A YOUNG John Chnaman has been rather back
ward in his studies, and the faculty considered it
their duty to make the same known to the Chi
nese government, at whose expense the young
man is educated. The reply follows:
." Send him home, and we will behead him
John will stay with the Mclean man and keep
his head,
A WELL dressed, polite man walked into the
police detectives Office in Troy, n. Y and asked
to some novel tools that had been used in try
ing to break open safe. The things brought out
he examined them with great care. Much
obliged" he said; :" have Just finished five years
in Sing Sing. and wanted to see what progress
had been made in my profession"
IT looks now as II Captain Bogardus, " champion
wing shot of the world A" fraud. lie re-
|
the wonderful feat of breaking $3.50 glass balls
without miss. But it has leaked out that the
balls were prepared at Brooklyn factory, ex-
pressly for the match, where the workmen were
instructed crack off the necks of the balls with
pincers before packing them
The only Hebrew in the North Earolina pen
itentiary has been pardoned by Governor Vance.
He was under sentence of ten years iJr man
slaughter. The governor Endorsed upon the
paper; " take pleasure in saying that sign the
pardon in part recognition of the good and law
abiding character of our Jewish citizens, this
being the first serious case ever brought TO my
notice on the part Of any OF that people
NEAR Pond Eddy the Erie railway few days
ago as a New York express train was passing
through the sullivan county mountains the pas
sengers saw large black bear and two hafgrown
cubs standing ON the highest of the rocky peaks
: that overlook the Deware river The bears were
watching the train intently. They craned their
necks until it was about out of sight when the
mother bear hurriedly climbed a tree on the edge