Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-07-28
Weekly News Summary.

AN eruption Of Mount vesuvius began last
Sunday.
JUDGE BRADLEY OF the United States supreme
court is stopping in Stowe
AT all the Roman Catholic churches but one in
New York city a small admittance fee is charged.
The bodies Of fully two hundred persons
drowned in Caynga lake within forty years have
never been recovered
AN insane street preacher at Denver, enraged
because his hearers were disrespectfu drew
knife and killed two of them.
In New'York Saturday five deaths from the eff
feet of heat occurred and one case of prostitution,
which it is expected will prove fatal.
B. j. CHAMBERS, Weaver's vice-president on the
Greenback ticket, was seriously injured by fall
ing from platform while speaking in Texas the
other day.
The Irish famine is over The potato crop is
ripe. The blight appears occasionally, mostly in
fields planted with old seed in southwestern
Ireland. There is no apprehension OF its spreading
NEBRASKA Sunday school was on railroad
excursion A boy leaned out car window and
fired revolver at the same instant that girl
put her head out at another window and the bull
let killed her
SATURDAY morning as Frank Sorel, an employe
OF the marble mill, was working on the Rutland
railroad dock in Burlington, he was struck upon
the head by the boom of derrick and his skull
badly fractured.
Hon. A. G. DEWEY and Justin f. Mckenzie,
Esq, of Woodstock have procured life size por-
trait of the late Governor Washburn which they
present to the state to be hung in the executive
chamber in the state house
BLoNDIS, the famous rope-waker of former
years at Niagara Falls, will revisit the scenes of
his former triumphs before the present season
ends, and he proposes to undertake some more
difficult feats than ever before.
RHODE ISLAND is the first state to send the CEN
sus bureau complete statement OF its population.
The whole number OF its population is 276, no.
gain of 59,307, or ~ 2s1OO per cent in ten years
There was gain in every town but five
IT is stated that before committee OF the grand
jury investigating the Seswsnhaka disaster an ex-
pert boiler maker says the Seawanhala's boiler
was rotten. 1t is said the cause of the disaster
has been clearly traced to an explosion OF the
boiler.
MONUMENT to the fsiry-tale writer, Hans
Christian Anderson, was unveiled in Copenhagen
on the 26th Of June 1t is bronze statue rather
larger than life size. The poet is represented in
modern dress, sitting in chair and reading one
Of his fairy-tales to an imaginary audience.
AT Chautauqua on Thursday, the National Ed
ucation association perfected an organization OF
fifty-one leading educators into permanent ma
tiona council for educational publication and
work committee was appointed to secure an
educational exhibition at the international exhb-
ton in New York in 1888.
CALIFORNIA gold hunters have invaded the
Willis of Sonora, one OF the northern states of
Mexico, where the American is known only by
tradition and the customs OF the seventeenth CEN
fury have been preserved with Chinese hatred
Of improvements. Rich treasures Of gold are said
TO have been found, and an exodus of California
miners is expected.
IT is announced that Peru and Bolivia are about
10 enter into a confederation and become one
country, under one flag and one government to
be known as the United States OF Peru and Bo-
ivia. The preliminary basis of the union has al
ready drawn up and signed in Lima by the au-
horized representatives Of the respective govern
ments and laid before the council Of state OF Peru
The fishing grounds where Senator Conkling,
General Arthur and Yce-president Wheeler are
fishing Is at the junction OF the Restigouche and
rivers. The property was purchased
! few weeks ago by about fifty New York fisher
men, They paid $4,000 William II. Wander
,ilt and General Arthur were two Of the purchas.
Ms The ground has seven miles OF river front
rom which salmon may be caught, and also
number OF small streams in which trout and other
al