Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-31
Weekly News Summary.


Mrs. GENERAL SHERMAN has gathered $4,000
for the Irish
Four Of the widows Of Brigham Young have
married since their husband died
ARoUr 6o0,OO0,0oO pounds Of oeomargarine are
shipped to Europe yearly from this country.
OLEARY has tramped 10000 worth. lie has
made more with his feet than most men do with
their heads
sEvENrY-sIx towns in Connection, tabout one
hai OF the state) have voted against licensing the
sale Of liquors.
PHILADELPHIA proposes to celebrate the second
centennial Of It's foundation a. city on the 18th
Of November, 1882
SECRETARY THOMPSON says that II the Consti.
tuition will not hold ell the supplies for Ireland,
another vessel will be sent
CAPTAIN WEBn, the famous English swimmer.
| performed at London on the sth 9th and 10th his
feat OF remaining In the water for sixty hours.
THERE is no doubt but there exists regular
organization Of Russian Nihilists in Paris, holding
nightly sessions and numbering go members
MOODY and sankey have already spoken 1885,
$40 words in meetings at St Louis and addressed
l59,6m persons. Their converts number 9, 400
SIX women more than lightweight years old
have registered in the sixth ward Of Concord New
Hampshire, to vote at a coming school election.
JONI NEVIS last meal was four mince pies.
eaten in four and a half minutes, for a wager, at
Connellsville Pennsylvania lie died the next day.
CANADIAN lumbermen are in high spirits at the
good prospects for next season. Large contracts
have been made by almos: every mill owner and
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hours daily.
INDIAN INSPECTOR POLLOCK In his testimony
before committee of congress- declares after a
careful study Of the subject that of three hum
dred and sixty treaties made with different In
dian tribes, scarcely one has ever been observed.
The people Of Dublin, Ohio oppose drinking
saloons. Monday of last week a new saloon was
opened Wednesday morning keg of powder
exploded in the cellar and the building was
wrecked The affair is charged to the temper
ance society. but the members deny it,
The ex-Empress Eugenie, travelling iucognito as
the Countess OF Pierrefonds, and accompanied by
Colonel Sir Henry Evelyn and Lady Wood the
Marquis Of Bassano and a small suite, embarked
asst week at Southampton for South Africa to visit
the scene OF the prince mperial's death.
LET me look at revolver" said a man who
walked into store at Sandstone, Missouri, and
weapon was shown to him. "show me the cart
ridge" he added, as he carelessly loaded one of
the chambers. Excuse me for using this a
minute, he further remarked and shot himself
through the brain.
YOUNG Maine farmer whose new wife,
highly cultured Boston girl well up in geology and
mineralogy, disappointed him by rambling over
the farms pecking at the rocks instead of attend
ing to the milk and eggs, experienced a complete
revolution in his feelings when she discovered gold
and he was told that his farm was worth $4,000
An examination was lately made of quantity
OF butter taken from an alabaster vase found in
an Egyptian tomb. 1t had evidently been melted
and poured into the vase, which had then been
sealed. After 2, 800 years the butter had become
only slightly rancid, and had fully retained the
chemical properties, taste and general appearance
Of genuine butter.
FEUD has existed for some time between the
How're and Wesfall families in Warren county
Iowa. George Wheeler, under arrest for attempt-
ing TO shoot Reuben Westfall, confesses to a plot
of the llowries in which Wheeler was hired to
kill the whole Westfall family, nine persons. for
500 head, and 500 extra when the last one
was dead. -Four Of the Howries and two other
persons concerned have been arrested
WASHINGTON correspondent tells how ex-
Senator Christiancy found his young wife, who
now sues for divorce: Miss Lugenbeel lived in
the upper story OF a boarding house with her
father and mother, and the senator had the apart
ments on the ground floor. His son Ralph, COM
ing home from college for the Christmas holidays,
in some way made the acquaintance of the little
blonde He escorted her to theaters, took early
walks to the treasury department with her, al
ways happened round as she walked home and
casually one evening in the vestibule introduced
his father who happened to come up. The young
man went back to college and in two weeks was
81 ~ rsa.iing of HE fathers nuptials''