Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-08
Weekly News Summary.

THERE was decrease in the public debt during
the month OF September of 81, 563, 75i.
TALMAGE had a crowded reception by his church
at Brooklyn on Wednesday night, and several
speeches were made.
The colored people of Georgia have been ten
dered fourteen free scholarships in Atlanta uni
yersity by DIR. Sears, agent of the Peabody fund.
AMONG the colored refugees in Kansas is a
Baptist church OF three hundred persons from
Delta, louisiana, led by their pastor and deacons.
A Bosros druggist sold an ounce of laudanum to
boy who brought written order for tincture Of
rhubarb, and the widow of the man killed by the
blunder has obtained verdict OF 50, 20S damages.
JosEsBoRo, Tennessee, celebrated its centen-
NAL October Sd. Such celebrity rs 1t has is de-
rived from the fact that Andrew jackson fought
his first duel there, and there Andrew johnson
got his start in life.
MARRIED three times aud but seventeen years
OF age, is the history OF a Mrs. Rhodes now con-
fined at the New Hampshire reform-school. She
was sentenced on complaint of her husband for
disorderly conduct.
LIGHTNING has struck six times this season in
one field owned by Tecumseh, Michigan, man.
1t has completely demolished few good cows,
and also the theory that lightning never strikes
twice in the same place.
IT Is said that over fifteen miles OF the Utah 4
Northern railway will have to be built through
lava beds, and it will be necessary to blast the
rocks nearly all the distance in order to bring the
bed OF the track to proper level.
COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER Of South Carolina,
who has been regarded as the principal instigatsr
of the Hamburg riots, has brought a kennel Of
hounds, thoroughly trained in following human
trail to New York for exhibition
GOVERNOR ST. JONI OF Kansas, while not en-
couraging further immigration, says that all the
negroes who have come to the state, whose num-
bers he estimates at from seven to eight thou
sand, have found comfortable homes
In the supreme court at Buffalo last week. the
Jury gave verdict against the Brooklyn Life In
surance Company for 5000 and interes. on the
life OF George German, which the company re-
fused TO pay on the ground of suicide.
MOODY and sankey began series OF meetings
| at Cleveland, Ohio, ON Sunday last. In the even
ing Moody preached to an immense audience at
the tabernacle, and Rev. Joseph Cook addressed
| an overflow meeting in one OF the churches.
FARMER attempted TO cut into a premium
pumpkin at a fair at Council Grove, Kansas, to get
few OF the seeds, but found 1t made Of wood.
It had taken many prizes at fairs for its weight,
go pounds, and Its circumference, seven feet
LADY in Philadelphia was fortunate in being
| robbed last week. The lightfngered person who
operated upon her pocket secured her pocketbook
containing only 50, but left behind n beautiful
diamond ring valued at $500, which must have
slipped from his finger.
ENGLISH farmers are leaving by the Wholesale.
| On four contiguous estates in Yorkshire hun.
bred and eighty farms are deserted; over twenty
| estates In another shire are being will be
harmed by landlords for want OF tenants, whc
are going with vengeance.