Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-04
Weekly News Summary.

itentiary convicts in Mississippi, whose labor is
leased by the state at 81 10 month.
JAY GOULD has authorized the governor Of Kan
sas to draw on him for 5000 to be expended In
relieving those in distress in that state
CALcRAFT averaged man week during much
Of his time az hangman Of England His great
hobby, strangely enough, was rose garden.
Howard l. SMITH, Boston negro. finds him.
self rewarded by bequest Of 1927 900 from a Bal.
tmore man, whose sons he once saved from
drowning.
GOVERNOR BLACKBURN Of Kentucky has par
doned eighty-seven convicts from the peniten-
tiary because that institution ia unhealthy and
overcrowded.
THE spelling reformers in England propose 10
abolish the letter as wholly superluous. They
claim that ia always pronounced either like *
or 2, or is silent.
NEW steam hammer in the establishment Of
Messrs. Park Brothers e. Co.. Pittsburgh weigh
ing fifteen tons and costing SEQ 600 will 1t is said
be the largest in the couatry.
IT is estimated that &, $50, 600 hogs will be
packed in the west this against 7,4S60O0
last year. Average weight nine and one-fourth
pounds lighter than year ago.
THE supreme court OF California has decided
that indictments found by the last grand jury
against Charles DE Young and others are valid,
and that the indicted parties must stand trial.
SINCE the prince imperial's death his mother
wells herself as much possible from the public
gaze When she goes to church she goes COM
pletely alone, and remains in the sacristy during
service.
Two miles OF railroad have been built on the
ice crossing the St Lawrence river at Montreal
The ties and striugers laid fiat and then water
is pumped between them to freeze, thus makinga
solid bed.
THK oldest post-offce in the country is that at
jamestown, Virginia, where letters have been de-
| lvered in some form or other for 2S3 years.
Henry Clay has just been appointed postmaster
there at a salary of sol year
THE speaker Of the British house Of commons
has $40, 900 year, a house rent free, 5000 Of
equipment money 1000 ounces Of silver plate on
his election 50, 600 for stationery each year, and
fees amounting to s15,OO0 year
DIR, McCosH, president of Princeton college, pro-
| nounces Boston " undoubtedly the most literary
| ity in America" He adds that it is lone Of the
great literary cities OF the world and he is " not
| sure that even Edinburgh can match it"
THE lifeless figure Of the late young Louis Ma
poleon stretched on the ground partly covered by
| military cloak, and about to be crowned by an
angel is the subject OF au alto-relieyo design to
| be executed by Che English sculptor, Boehm.
AT the New Years reception, the emperor Of
| Germany's sword slipped out Of the sheath which
| he threw into corner, observing at the same
| 81, ,ha al,r N aaJ % Cas-
tlemen, trust that this is not presage of evil"
| Twin brothers at Evergreen, Alabama, were not
only alike in looks, but equal in strength that
| a wrestling match arranged a test. This
did not settle the question, however, for one
thrown on his head and killed at the beginning
! Of the contest
| THE faculty of Yale College and their guests
| we're on recent occasion nearly deprived OF their
| Inner by the sheriff, who attached the viands
| for debt Of the landlords; but the money was
paid before the Sup cooled and there was NO
| further trouble.
THE statistics bureau at Rome estimates the
population of the Eternal City at the close of the
| past year at 296, 232 The number OF deaths in
1879 averaged "a per thousand, which goes far
to show that the climate is not SO unhealthy as is
| generally claimed.
PENNIES are scarce and the Philadelphia mint
| cannot turn them out fast enough to supply the
| demand, which comes largely from the horse
| companies; but merchants make the heaviest
acquisitions, the great retail dry goods houses
taking all they can get and asking for more
IT is estimated that this years crop OF grain,
the world over, will be $50, 900 900 bushels above
| the average, or about ten per cent, and, as the
stock carried over in this country is likely to be
larger than ever before, cheap food is tolerably
| certain to be the rule next summer and winter.
Mr. S S. WARD OF Hartford died there few
lays ago. He had a brother who was almost his
exact counterpart, stranger in Hartford, who
| appeared on the day OF the funeral and caused
| great astonshment and some confusion at the
ceremony, many thinking that the dead had come
| back to life
| LEADvII.LE boasts OF aristocratc walters. At
the Grand Hotel is ex-member Of the New
Jersey legislature, whose letters bear the prefix Of
Hon" At the Clarendon the guests are served
| at table by an ex-confederate general doctor OF
medicine, a lawyer and an ex-judge from Free
born county, Minnesota.
A WHIP with lash six feet long aud an inch
thick is used to drive hogs in the Chicago slaughter
houses An experienced man can take out q
piece OF a hogs tough hide at every stroke.
Another instrument OF torture is plant strip Of
| wood with heavy knob at the end, with which
| the brute's shouts are whacked. wagon follows
every drove to pick up the disabled hogs.
THE estimated number Of religious denomina-
tons among the English speaking communities
throughout the world Epscopalians, Is, 0OO.-
| 900; Methodists, l6 900, 600 Roman Catholics,
100000; Presbytcrians, 1925 900; Baptists,
| 100000, Congregatonalists, 6,000,0OO Unita-
rans, 900, COO minor religious sects 500, 900;
no particular religion, s. 800 900 Total So 900 900
ONE OF the most portly and dignifed OF the
Mormon bishops was lately running in a
salt Lake street, closely pursued by a woman who
| whacked him with broomstick whenever she
got within reaching distance. She was the frst
and only wife OF Brother Jones, and she had heard
| the bishop advising her husband to practice the
| precepts OF the church by taking an additional
| spouse or two.
THE Howard University of Washington has
filed with Mayor Cooper of New York papers
claiming that It is entitled to 8 900 900 acres Of
| and in Texas, under the will OF John Woodward,
| who died thirty years ago. The will sought to
dispose Of the property for the advancement and
| improvement of the black race, and in a certain
went authorized the mayor of New York to select
| medium through which the desired result was
| 20 be effected.