Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Weekly News SUMMARY.

DURING the month Of February the decrease in
the public debt amounted to S5,672 O1g TO-
THr Rhode Island assembly has passed bill
Furnishing tramps with years imprisonment
The house committee on coinage ha. ordered
Vances bill for the retirement Of the trade dollar
to be favoraby reported.
BISMARCK is entitled TO wear four hundred and
sixty-six decorations When he is dressed for cere-
mony he looks like sptcklcd hen
THOMAS BRioDy won tho seventy-fve hour
walking match at Brooklyn last week, making
TWO hundred aud fifty and one-half miles.
THIRry-EfGHr silver mining companies have
been organized in Maine and are sinking shafts in
oxford, Androscoggin and penob-cot counties
DURING 1879 FIVE hundred and sixty-fve vessels
were lost, the money value Of which was $1,000
900. Five hundred and eleven persons persisted.
SIR G. W. OAKLEY OF Trittenden, England,
takes the prize for monster cucumbeis lie has
raised one five feet In length and foot In diameter
A MONTANA paper states that the lower Yellow
atone valley is literally black with large herds Of
buffalo, which are being slaughtered by the
wholesale for their hides
The temperance people Of Maine ind the club
up, and the senate has just passed bill declaring
such place common nuisance
A BosroN man claims 10 have discovered n
method Of making paper boxes directly from the
pulp, whereby he can turn out 10000 day at
one third OF the cost Of the usual method
MAINE lumbermen Just from the logging camps
report three feet Of snow and excellent shedding
They say that this has been the best winter for
hauling logs in Maine for number OF years.
THE Hon. John A. Cuthbert of Mobile ia still
practising law in that city, although nnety-one
years old. He was officer in the war Of 1912,
and was elected to congress from Georgia In 1919
OVER $4,000, 600 worth Of postage stamps etc,
were issued on the requistion Of the postuasters,
for the seven months ending January 3lst, against
$1,000, 900 during like period the previous year
An Iowa woman examined straw cutter In
hardware store, and she has just recovered $500
damages for the loss Of two fingers on the ground
that the machine was not labeled dangerous"
SIX small steamers, constructed in England for
the king OF the Belgians, will be shipped in sec
tons next month, from Liverpool, for Henry NJ
SANKEY'S use on the Congo. who has reached the
last fall Of the Congo at Yallala.
BISMARCK, Dakota, has received no mail since
February 9th, the Northern Pacific having been
blockaded by repeated falls Of snow, It il re-
ported that the road has lost over 500 900 and
business men $500, 900 by the blockade.
QUEEN bees, which were prohibited from the
mails, are now reinstated By order Of the post
master general They must lie sent In perforated
boxes, care being taken not to have the apertures
so large as to make it lively for the clerks.
FIVE barges have inst left St. Louis for New
Orleans, carrying quarter Of million bushels OF
wheat for export The freight bill for this ship
meut would amount to $4,000 by rail to New
York; by water to New Orleans it is $1,000
The New York Tribune says that while the poor
are suffering 10 Ireland for want Of food two Irish
bishops have just sent over 81 900 to Rome as
Peters pence. This seems like a case OF feeding
the shepherd and leaving the sheep to starve.
JONI Cox, the Pennsy lvania abolitonist, whose
house before the war sometimes concealed as
many as twenty runaway slaves in one night,
and whose golden wedding was celebrated in
verse by Whittier and Bsyard Taylor, has just
died at the age of ninety four
NEW ten dollar counterfeit note has Just been
issued in Chicago. 1t il Of the series OF 1875 check
mark c, and bears the name of John Allison as
register and John C. New, treasurer The note
has dark appearance the paper is heavy and
the fibers are represented by engraved lines.
In New York the agitation among all classes OF
workmen, arising out of the general disposition to
demand higher wages, appears to be gaining
strength rather than abatng 1t is said strike
involving all classes Of mechanics employed in
building and the preparation Of building materials
will begin April LIST.
IT is stated that 100000 people have died from
starvation in the drouth stricken provinces of
Ceara, Brazil 100000 from pestilence and $50 900
are destitute. The people are now fed by the
government. The suffering is hundred fold
worse than in Ireland and the Brazilian treasury
is nearly exhausted.