Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-01-15
Weekly News Summary.

100 b''''"'"0"' "'7 "'oiuc" W gram
paruohs 10 all out four hundred Of the communists.
In is said that twenty-five hundred hogs we're
frozen 70 death on the trains recently blockaded
ny '"e sno" III northern New YORK
THE entire south side Of Chicago street in Elgin,
Illinois, was destroyed by fire Thursday, involv-
ing loss Of 500, 900; insurance $40 600
CoNVERsArIoN by telephone has been success
iuiiy ana easily carried on between Chicago and
indianapolis, two hundred and ten miles
THE well-known trotter Charley Mac" has
been sold by his owner, Eugene c. Aver. Of Bos.
Ton, TO MT Reynolds, OF New York, for $1,000.
AN explosion occurred in the Dnas collierv in
Rhonda Valley near Cardiff. Wales, last Monday
| night Sixty persons are believed to be killed.
CLARK uuppApp his ,vi,o and .,ro ,hfd.or
en- rop,e IN tho wos, from, shorn,an rovaa 49,
frozen to death the other night at Pilot Point Tex
Tgr Indiana sunrera co,rt bas doo,daa Il, ,,o
suit of church ayaipst n memhor thu, snhscr,,,-
| tons made ON Sunday cann,, no coiloc,.d hr I.,
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| ance women are besieging the saloons With daiI,
| prayer-meetinps
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SOUTHERN Judge read Betsey and are
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ofrSsoh HENRY DIRK attempted balloon
'Soens,on at 'onesuoro' u lew Gays SINCE and fell
,,ou' '"e '''peAe Instance Oh one Thousand ieet.
'hhhrhoNh oonhects 'he sation at faDyans
wiz" 'ne s'shai station ON the summit oil Mount
washington IL IL perfect success and ordinary
oon'ers'''oh can oe heard quite distinctly
rHIRrY-EIGHr ton gun burst during practice
on the British man-of-war Thunderer at Ismid,
near iurHish WATERS destroying the vessers tur-
fe'' Killing seven men and wounding forty.
| L. d. CoNyNGHAM, who victimized the Second
National Bank of Wilksbarre, Penn, out of $780,
900 in 1876, has been captured at Rio Janeiro Bra
z and will be taken back to the United States
| DrpHrHERIA has for two vears raced in some
| uiSiiVto vi hungary IN one town z 100 persons
out of 1900 have lately been attacked, and 927
have died. The malady also prevails in Vienna
| THE largest locomotive ever constructed in ,b;s
country is now in Chicago II il intended for usa
| on the heavy grades of the Southern Pacific rail-
road The engine has eight drivers. and weigbs
| $4,000 pounds.
| A PuuAprLputA dry goods mercbon, bos
| added A cbdren's room IN his store wbara
mothers NAV leave their children IN he amused
with rocking borses nictures and ,oys ,vb;a .ho,,
| do their shoppinp
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unu Canaaa .t9. ". 80 p'o'"'.". a.
,,aaa T,a .,.,,,aa u1,n' '''e |'nen
and the onepino of nnblic .cbools i. deferrod Tba
disease il confined nr;pc,narv 20 .,o,non ana
| children
|
| ,..'' w - .-o' sy ''i move "''p'eu ios-
| '""' Nv iune,"' an un-
a''i 90 an 'A"io'','" Vi now
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|
n"'nN'' oeo's''' VI" '''e o.n anu o'n 'hsa'n's
''' eo'r was 'o'"e'i'"s u"i'''a"eieu IN 'ua' SEE
''o' i"eio was sA,'"s 'or Tue hrs' ''me IN
|
"e'e CUT anu p''neu-'he hrs' u'he such 'hing
""' o''n A"o"n '"e'o
| CAPTAIN BoGARpus' the expert riieman, per-
| formed the remarkable feat OF breaking three
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| '"s' '"o. '"o"s" 'ne 'nuiho
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| VERY iatal disease has broken out at Mar
tinsoufs N l. AT first 1t was thought to be
diphtheria OF scarlet rash, but now 1t is called
| oiack tongue Seven members of one family
have died OF this disease. The people of that
section are almost panic-stricken.
| Two of the daughters of Senator Sargent of
| California nave lifted themselves for the medical
| profession by studying with the colored students
at Washington Howard University, and one of
them is now full-fedged physician, in practice
At the Freedmans hospital which most white
doctors consider beneath their dignity
| JOHN and Ann Thomson celebrated their
golden wedding at Baltimore MARYLAND. two
| years ago, both being of the same age; and last
week Ann died of paralytc stroke while at
dinner while Iohn was stric,en with naralvss nj