Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-14
Weekly News Summary.


The Chicago Times says that Moody is making
no Roadway in st. Louis.
SOMEBODY has counted l04 hangings by sher-
IFS in this country during 1879 and ~ by mobs
ALL the Catholic property in Cincinnati has
been scheduled among Archbishop Purcell $ assets.
The Kentucky senate has decided by a large
majority against d bill proposing to admit women
to the bar.
GENERAL GRANT and party were welcomed to
Fernandina, Florida, the thermometer marking
SOC in the shade
The New York Tribune fills two columns with
the names of unlicensed rumselers in the city,
80 names to a line.
THERE were hundreds of school children who
ad never seen snow in Charleston, South Caro-
lina until the last week
one day recently at Deadwood, Dakota ter
ritory, the mercury rose from SO below zero TO
100 above in half AN hour
WE buy steel railway rails in England Eng
land brings her steel rails from Germany aud the
IRE is taken from England To Germany.
CANADIAN trade with Great Britain has de-
creased, while with the United States it has in
creased nearly $1,000 900 the last year.
rnE checks sent out from Washington for the
)ayment of the interest registered bonds filled
twenty mail bags. They numbered over $1,000.
The officers of Christ church. Alexandria, vir-
ginia, endeavoring to sell the Bible used by
Washington. They want to pay church debt.
Two men have been arrested in Washington
Who entered into conspiracy to steal General
Grants Arabian horses from General Beal's farm
The new catalogue Of Oberin College, Oberin
Ohio, shows that 10 the college and its prepar-
atory department there are $40 students, of whom
AS are females.
THERE is great excitement at Richmond, Viz.
.Inia, the discovery that forty bodies had re-
emily been stolen from lakewood cemetery, it is
opposed for dissection
A GYPSY camp was recently found between
Losan and Bybink, with all its inmates, number
ing eleven persons, frozen to death in sitting
posture around an expiring fire.
GENERAL GRANT has ordered his Ethan Allen
colt now on the farm of General Beale, near
Washington to be seut by the next steamer as a
resent to the mikado of Japan.
For more than four centuries the codfshery has
been carried on without interruption our coast,
and still the supply is undiminished. The fe-
cundty of this fish is something wonderful.
AN Indian at Orleans Bar, California. killed a
white man when frenzed with whiskey. Some
miners tied the murderer to a tree and used him
IS target for rifle shooting until he was dead
FINDING basket on her stoop cautious
woman in Newport, Rhode Island, took it to a
'olice station, and was surprised to learn after
ward that it contained twenty-pound turkey and
not a founding
TWENTY kegs Of gold were received in Chicago
from New York city a few days ago Each
weighei about 800 pounds and contained $751;
900, making 81, 100000 in ALL This money was
sent by jim Keene in payment for wheat,
A FASHIONABLE lady of London society went to
the Carlton, her husbands club, asked for his
etters, opened them, aud sued for divorce.
From the time Of Eve ladies have made them
selves miserable by gratifying their curiosity.
The statement is made in Dublin that the num-
Der OF paupers in Ireland is about 400, 900, or
about eight per cent Of the population while fully
double that number will need assistance to pre-
vent being forced into the workhouse and charit-
able institutions.
IT is fashionable in Massachusetts, this winter
TO ride in the Oldest sleighs that can be obtained.
wealthy Pittsfield man proudly uses one that
Is overs hundred years old AS TO body, while the
leather wings Of the dashboard are more ancient
by half century.
The case OF the lottery dealers against the post
master-general for Withholding their letters goes
to the supreme court OF the United States. The
lottery men are disappointed at not getting pre-
minary injunction since the action of the depart
ment is fast running their business.
BRIDEGROOM was belated at Rochester, and
the time appointed for the wedding was over be.
fore lie arrived in the city In order not to miss
the train on which the pair were u start on their
honeymoon tour, the bride and her friends met
him at the station, and the ceremony WAS per-
formed hurredly ON the platform
THAT venerable colored phanthropist, So
j1urner Truth, is in Kansas aboring for the good
Of her people there. She is one hundred aud five
years OF age but still retains mental and physl-
cal vigor having recently gone one hundred and
seyenty-fye miles across the prairies in an open
wagon. for the purpose Of giving aid to needy
immigrants.
THE cold weather they have been having on the
Pacific cost is without known precedent In
the bonanza mines, which are SO intolerably hot,
water froze six hundred feet below the surface.
In private houses water-pipes burst, even when
the fires were all burning by which the place
could be warmed. out OF doors, all but spirit
thermometers quit work Ms beneath their notice
Telegraph wires snapped by the contraction in the
cold, and all communication was for while
broken up on that account.