Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Weekly News Summary.

Weekly News Summary.
The New York assembly has passed bill pro-
hibitiug female pedestrian exhibitions.
ABOUT 336, 800, 900 gallons OF beer were manu-
featured in the United States in 1879, and 1245,-
100000 in Great Britain.
THE acreage OF fall wheat in Kansas Is twenty
per cent greater than last year. The condition is
fully fifty per cent better.
ABOUT 1896 800 900 gallons Of beer were manu-
iactured in the United States in 1879 and 1,245-
100000 gallons in Great Britain.
A DISPATCH from Cape Town says the gener al
post-office has been robbed Of all diamonds await
ing shipment by mail, valued at s75, 900.
THE lower branch OF the Kentucky legislature
refused to give Henry Ward Beecher the use of
the legislative hall for making an address last
week.
RETURNS from nearly three hundred points in
the west in regard to the wheat crop indicate al
most uniformly favorable condition and fatter-
ing prospects
WILLIAM MARsHALLs two sons and daughter,
triplets, and twenty-seven years old, we're mar
ried at the same time at White River Wisconsin,
the other day.
A LAW worthy Of imitation has been enacted in
some Of the German states, forbidding any lad
under sixteen years of age to smoke, the penalty
being fine or imprisonment.
AN Isle Of Jersey lady was lately sent to prison
for month lin default OF $50 BAIL for persistenty
coughing and blowing her nose close to the pulpit
in order to worry the parson.
THREE million acres OF fall wheat have been
sown in California, the early and abundant rains
enabling farmers to put in full crop which is
said to be a very unusual thing.
THE dividends on mining stocks paid in Febru-
airy in London, New York, San Francisco and
Boston aggregated S32OO.OOO of which 5000 600
was paid in Boston on the copper mines
Is Texas during the past year four hundred per-
sons have been tried for murder or rape, and
only fourteen sentenced to death. Four of these
have had their sentences committed by the gov
ernor.
PRESIDENT ANGEL Of Michigan university is
to be nominated minister to China, and it is pos
sibe that two commissioners will be sent with
| him to negotiate treaty the emigration
| question.
FRENCH engineers now favsr the tunneling OF
| the Alps on what is known as the Smplon route.
| The tunnel would be twelve miles long and it is
estimated that it could be constructed in less than
seven years.
81 DOUBT" says Professor Sheldon OF the
| Royal agricultural college of England Of English
crops, "if the loss the nstion has suffered
through the last three seasons be less than ST.
| 900, 100000"
THERE are 6O,00O locomotives in the United
| States and each contains q 500 different pieces,
requiring renewal every ten or twelve years.
| This conveys notion of the industries which
| railroads foster.
THE house post-onice committee have agreed to
report favorably Mr.. singeton's bill which au-
thorizes the postmasergeneral to introduce postal
| cards with flexible flap, to conceal the message
| written upon them.
THERE is in Illinois an ordinance prohibiting,
under penalty any physician from prescribing in
| toxicating liquor to person in good health; and
the supreme court Of that state has recently held
that the ordinance is valid.
| THE records of life insurance companies as pre-
sented in the reports for last year show that the
death claims were considerably greater than in
previous years, which would seem to indicate
that last year unhealthy one.
| THE importations OF dry goods at the port Of
New York were fifty per cent larger in last JAM
| uary and February than in the corresponding
months last year, or ST., 203 0i9 for the two
months in 1880, and Sl5, 55l ,53i in 1879.
The FIVE wives of an Indiana man are buried
side by side He long desired to place tomb
| stone at the head OF EACH but the cost deferred
| him, until he hit upon an economical method Of
lettering. On every headstone is the Christian
name OF wife only with an index finger, accom-
panied by these words " For epitaph, see large
| stone"
Two singular marriages took place recently at
| Grinsvihe, Pennsylvania Mr.. Smith was Wild
| over fifty years old He has a son twenty-four
| years old Mrs. Snyder a widow forty-two
years old She has daughter twenty-one years
| old. Mr.. Smith the elder married Mrs. Snyder's
daughter. Mr.. Smiths son married old Mrs.
| Snyder
| NOT more than out of every one hundred
| head OF game brought into the markets OF st.
Petersburg and Moscow is shot The others are
trapped, Each peasant has path in the forests
which Is considered his especial property. This
path is sometimes as much as thirty miles long and
on each side traps OF all sorts and sizes are set,
and wolves, foxes, martens, sables, badgers,
hares, squirrels, rabbits, partridges, quail and
grouse caught in great numbers As it often
happens that the OF the traps does not visit
them for weeks, game perishes without benefit
to any one.