Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-08-20
Weekly News Summary.

PINK pond lilies are used for table decoration
at Newport
CATTtE are dying In great numbers on the
prairies Of Texas for want Of water
THE Kentucky treasury" says the Louisville
Commercial dis empty, but the Kentucky pen
itentiary is fun"
AN ounce of peach kernels contains a grain Of
prussic acid, which Is fatal quantity. Ammonia
is the best antidote.
GENERAL Bon TooMBs Is trustee OF the Geor-
gia University at Athens, from which he was ex-
PEELED when a student.
The statistics Of the silk crops Of France, Italy,
Spain and Portugal show an immense deficit com.
pared with former years
THE gathering OF fanciful sea shells Is one Of
the industries Of Key West whence they are
shipped in large quantities.
vIcE-PREsIDEsr WHEELER has sent 800 to the
exodus relief fund OF Kansas with an expression
OF sympathy for the coored race
AT a sale Of stock at Hartwell, Georgia, re-
Gently, cows were sold for 81 apiece, and oxen
for 81 to 49, and on credit at that.
IT took two hundred citizens Of Owensboro,
Kentucky, to see fair play in fight between two
pigs, which lasted an hour and half
GRACE GREENWOOD says Mr. Beecher is never
Obliged to buy postage stamps, as he is kept sup
piled by the army Of autograph hunters
CHISAMAS in native costume, whose car
rage is faithfully followed by pet pig, Is the sea-
sons attraction at Rye Beach, New Hampshire.
MIR MOODY, the revival preacher, intends TO
put up school buildingin his native place, North
| field, Massachusetts, and present 1t TO the town
A FARMER near Wilmington, North Carolina,
set spring guns in his watermelon patch, and the
thieves came along and stole both guns and melons.
| OFFICIAL returns OF the census taken March LIST
give Kansas population Of eight hundred and for
| ty-nne thousand nine hundred and seventy -eght.
THE Wool monument, intended for Oakwood
| Cemetery, Troy, which weighs two hundred and
fifty tons and is only few feet shorter than the
famous Ceopatra's Needle, has been shipped
| from Rockland, Maine.
PHASE OF fashionable life in Newport is shown
by the following advertisement in local paper:
Miss Thompson, from New York, shapes and
polishes ladies' finger nails at their residence.
Rate per visit, ST." etc.
THE present pope has cut down the expenses OF
| his household from 81, 900 month to $780, and
has effected important economies in other drec-
tons. His thrift has made an excellent impress
sion upon the Catholic world.
UNDER date OF July ODD a Partisan writes: "Sat-
urday the first and only absolutely dry day
this season. Even that was dimmed by mena-
cling clouds and murky sunset, foretelling only
too truly the misery Of the morrow"
THE government sues B. T. Babbtt, soap man
ufacurer, for SS3 $50, with interest and penalties
for alleged deficiency in income tax paid the gov
eminent from 1862 to 1867. The interest and
penalties put the amount over $4,000.
BURGLARS awoke Farmer Plummer at Durham,
Maine, and he chased them, losing no time in ad-
ding any clothing to the shirt in which he had
slept, but taking care to throw gun across his
shoulders. Across fields and through village he
pursued them, until he got within close range,
| when they surrendered rather than be shot
THE French government is talking Of buying
up the railroads in France which it does not own,
worth in all about 81, 900, 100000 Under the
general law in France the government can buy a
railroad at any time by paying the capitalized
value of the average profits of the roads in the iv
best years OF the seven preceding the purchase
A RUSSIAN peasant girl, ten years old weighing
four hundred and eighteen pounds is now ex-
hibition. She is accompanied by her mother, and
is engaged by Jewish manager, who pays to the
mother for the girls services $40 monthly. This
gigantic girl when travelling is put in the bag
gage car, as she cannot pass through the door Of
the passenger cars.
| AN admirer Of the works OF DIR. J. G. Holland
has presented him as birthday gift with piece
| Of mosaic work, made of bits Of wood from the
| birthplaces Of Mr. Bryant and other poets, Sem
| ator Dawes and other statesmen, President Mark
| Hopkins and other divines, and General John A.
| Dix and other men Of martial fame, who have
been born in New England.
CAPTAIN STONE planted mahogany seed at
Moundsville, West Virginia, thrty-five years ago,
and remarked that he would live until 1t grew
into a tree big enough to provide material for his
coffin. Wind blew the tree down last spring. and
the captain had handsome coffin made Of 1t. He
died few days ago, and was buried in the ma
hogany OF his own planting.
WHEN Longfellow visited Queen Victoria at
Windsor castle, the servants crowded the
stairways and in the lobbies to get view of him.
On the queen asking them, next day, why this
compliment was paid to the poet she told
that they used to listen to Prince Albert reading
Evangeline to his children, and knowing the
lines nearly by heart, they longed to see the man
who wrote them. The queen is fond of telling
| this story
EDWARD KING In his Paris letter to the Boston
Journal confirms the report that a contract has
been signed between French and American par
ties for the construction OF an underground rail-
| way In New York. 1t is to be of four tracks, and
run from the Battery to the Grand Central depot.
The Banque Parisienne" is to furnish twenty
five million francs, and the American company
must spend at least half a million on construction
and in establishing its legal rights
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS owns and rents one
Of the finest buildings in the city of Boston. For
two years past large front store and basement
have been unoccupied He has had several offers
for the basement, at a high figure, to be used for
| a lager beer saloon, but has invariably refused.
He has just rented store and basement for less
than one-half Of what was offered for the base
ment alone. II all good men would do likewise
how greatly would the rum business be hindered!
THE farmers OF Frederick, Maryland are much
alarmed by the burning Of their threshng machines
and barns, and the reception Of letters threaten
ing further destruction II they do not give up the
| use Of machinery in farm operations. One OF
these letters, signed Working Men," says: We
intend to stop steam threshing. We do not get
work enough to keep us through the summer and
winter; we have to go in det. We will give you
two days to pull in" The farmers propose to
| organize for mutual protection
|