Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-02-18
Weekly News Summary.

THE speculative fever pervades all classes In
Boston, even the women yielding to its influence
The widow Chisholm Of Mississippi has been
promoted to $1,000 clerkship in the treasury
department.
The Partisan authorities estimate the damage
done by the floating ice in the Paris district alone
at 100000
The state normal school Mt San Jose California,
was burned last week; loss over $3.50 900, insur-
ance $4,000
New YoRK lady, Mrs. Astor at Washing.
ton ball one evening last week wore diamonds
worth 100000.
ADIRONDACK guides say that the bears have
not yet hbernated in that region, but are still
prowling about after food,
Two men, a woman and six children were
burned to death ON South Carolina plantation
Tuesday night Of last week.
SALE by auction Of tract Of land fiity-ope
by tnirty-eight miles in area in Kansas is to be
made to satisfy mortgage of S5,000,000.
Ir is ascertained that six persons lost their
lives by the Theater Royal fire in Dublin on Mon
lay week. The loss is placed at $4,000.
The wealthy Baroness Burdett-C outts has con.
tributed $1,000 to relieve the distress in Ireland
The amount was incorrectly reported at 100000
FRENCH chemist asserts that II tea be ground
like coffee, Immediately before hot water is poured
upon it, its exherating qualities will be doubled.
The young emperor OF China has seventy ex-
pensve wives to provide for, and their silks and
'atins last year cost half the land tax of the
mpire.
raj MI in nj ~
their own, of which Colonel Tom SCOTS Is the
plainest, and Mr. vanderbilts and Mr. Pullman's
the most luxurious.
THE Chicago board of education has decided
that when any female teacher marries, her mar
rage shall be considered a resignation from ser
vice in the public schools.
AN order has been issued on the Southern Min
iesota railway, declaring that hereafter no trains
will be run over the road Sundays, no matter how
great the rush OF business.
BETWEEN G, 900 and 1000 seamens libraries are
kept on the water by the American Seamans
Friend Society the number of volumes being over
10000. most excellent charity.
A COMPANY has been organized at Boston to
construct railroad from Cairo, Egypt, through
Port Said and Damascus, to connect with the
luphrates Valley road to be built by an English
company.
AGENTS Of two hundred families Of Philadel-
phia Quakers have negotiated for 30, 900 acres Of
and in Cottonwood county, Minnesota, and the
Friends are expected to become actual settlers in
the spring
EDISON is hard at work at Meno Park getting
his lamps ready for the electric light with which
he proposes TO illuminate Paris lie saws that it
will be the most eloquent answer he can give to
Ills French critics
THE Rev. DIR. Hatfield of Chicago says he would
bring up his children in the lowest and most i'm
moral neghborhood of that city rather than in
The most refined society in which dancing, card
playing and theater going were tolerated
MIR. fRouDE the historian, to the members of
the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution: "We
nave just been killing about 20 900 peoplein South
Africa people who had done us no harm. We
only feared that perhaps they might do us harm"
TURKEY lately ravaged by war, is the prey of
famine II in any American city fifteen persons
should be found in day dead of starvation
thrill OF horror would run through the nation,
but as the city where this has occurred is Adrian
Dple, few notice it.
gold had been found at Platte Canon, and before
nightfall hundreds OF prospectors started by train
Tor the place. The valley was covered with
claims within two days. and at the end OF a week
Platte Canon had become city.
ONE morning last week two men started from
Bradford, Pennsylvania in two-horse sleigh,
carving one hundred pounds Of nitro-glyeerine.
The sleigh upset and caused AN explosion of the
which annihilated men and horses,
and destroyed two buildings that stood near,
WILLIAM McCABE of Cynthiana, Kentucky,
gave his aged and feeble mother sound whip
ping because she had unjustly punished him as a
boy thirty years before. He said that as she was
getting so DID, he might lose the opportunity to
get even with her If he deferred the settlement
A THOUSAND ears of freight passed southwark
through Concord, New Ham pshre last week. the
heaviest traffic ever known, caused by shipments
81 grain and flour from Chicago, and lumber from
the Occidental railway, Canada, taken over the
Ice bridge at Montreal. The amount of wheat is
estimated at 400 600 bushels.
TRINITY Episcopal church, a stone edifice on
the corner of Fourth avenue and One hundred
and TWEEN y-ffth street, New York, was burned
Tuesday night OF last week. 1t cost SIPS, 900 two
SO, 900 organ and piece of oval stained glass,
which cost 81 900, were also destroyed.
SOUTHERN states are trying to keep emigration
agents from enticing their colored help away by
requiring such agents to pay big license fee.
Georgia has recently enforced such a law on its
statute books, and Mississippi and Louisiana are
proposing to copy it. Louisiana will make the
fee $500 for every parish visited.
BICYCLE race, fifty miles, for the professional
OF America, a purse of $3.50 and
gold medal, took place in New York Saturday
night The entries were David Stanton OF Eng
land Daniel Belard of France and William Dar-
ing of New York. Stanton won in three hours
six minutes and one and one-half seconds.
Az Atlanta Georgia, business man has bought
81 600. 900 in confederate currency, which he will
use circulars printing his advertisement on the
back OF each bill lie is OF the opinion that many
millions of this currency are still in existence, and
that there are many parties who are boarding 1t
carefully, expecting some day to see it worth one
hundred cents on the dollar.
A RESOLUTION has been introduced in congress
General Francis A. Walker, supern-
endent Of the census, to receive from the govern
9ent of Sweden the decoration OF the order Of
vasa, and from that of Spain the decoration OF
the order of Isabella, conferred in recognition OF
his faithful aud just performance of his duties as
chief of the bureau of awards at the centennial
exposition.
BErHEL-The Bethel Pnafore company last
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings pre-
;ented in Wilson's hall the Pnafore opera to
'rowded houses each night 1t was more than