Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-02
Weekly News Summary.

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The wheat crop in southern Illinois and Indiana
| Is failure.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher saws that he
has just declined an offer Of $500 900 to lecture
one year.
DURING General Garfeld's presidential term
Mrs. Garfeld's brothers will take charge Of the
Mentor farm.
DE LEssErs is reported to be poor man He
lives In an apartment house in an old-fashioned
street in Paris
LAST week was the week Of mild weather
with thaw " which Professor vennor promised
an outraged community.
PARIS school-boys are formed into battaIons Of
six hundred, uniformed, furnished with light
rife and drilled once week.
TELEGRAPH construction company Is being
formed in New York with ample capital for the
purpose Of laying underground wires
AN Indiana farmer deposited in bank last
week So 900 that he had had buried in the earth
for seventeen years, ever since the celebrated
Morgan raid.
ScorcH land company has bought 150,0 600
acres OF Missouri land, which is to be divided
among colony OF Scotch farmers that is to be
brought over.
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, has a whiskey boom.
There was never such a demand for old bourbon.
The distieries have doubled in number in all the
whiskey districts.
In Paris last winter, when wood was dreadfully
dear Mark Twain sent log of 1t to a friend Just
married, saying that it was the most expensive
thing he could find
SALLY HUNTER, one hundred and fifteen years
old, one Of George washington's servants, has
just died. 1t is positively stated that she s the
last of the Washington household.
THE Hudson Bay company have bought 40, 900
bushels OF a superior kind Of wheat in Manitoba,
and are shipping it to England in one hundred
pound bags to show what the province can do.
IT was near Mount Vernon Ohio, a few nights
ago, that three men attempting a grave robbery
struck torpedo that had been placed on top Of
the coffin for protection. 1t exploded instantly,
killing one and breaking the leg OF another.
A BILL before the legislature Of New York re-
quires that every passenger, mail and baggage
car on railroads, including sleeping and palace
cars, shall be provided with axes and saws Sen
ator Halbert, who introduced it. was on board the
train That smashed up at Tioga.
A PHILADELPHIA shop keeper has sued neigh
Dor for 50, 900 damages on the ground that at a
certain hour OF the day the atter's metallic sign
reflects "noxious and offensive light rays " into
his store, to his great annoyance and inconve-
nience and detriment to his trade
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER Stowe has written to
her northern friends that the hard frost on the
night and morning of December Both caused the
loss OF all the oranges in her orchard at Mandarin
Florida, on the St Johns river The fruit dropped
and lies, 100000 in number, in heaps on the
ground.
To make shoe pegs enough for American use
| there is consumed annually 100000 cords of
timber and to make lucifer matches 300, 900 cubic
feet Of the best pine timber are required every
year Lasts and boot trees take 200 cords Of
beech, birch and maple, and the handles of tools
100000 more.
THE property destroyed by fire in 1880 was
valued at SIC 5l6 OO0 against s8i S62 900, in 1879
| s70,266,000 in 1878 and s97, 526 900 in 1877.
| Although there were only three fires with ST.
100000 loss and but nine or ten where the loss
was over $500, 900, there were two hundred and
| fifty with loss of $50, 900 each
THE ruins of once magnificent bathing estab-
| lishment, covered over by more than thirty feet
of ashes and lava have been discovered near
Herculaneum. The sculptured fountains and
tanks are Of oriental granite, the floors are of
coored glass mosaic, and the walls of the build
ings are richly adorned with paintings and stucco
work.
HORRIBLE accident occurred on Tuesday night
of last week, in Altoona, New York, a few miles
east of Malone, by which four children were
burned to death. At dusk the mother left her
house to go to a neighbours to borrow some kero-
sene, On her return she found her own home in
flames. The fire had cut off access to the room
where the little ones had been left, and all four
| persisted in the flames.
SENATOR IsHAM G. HARRIS OF Tennessee paid a
| high compliment during the last fall campaign to
| Senator Edmunds OF Vermont He was asked by
some one why he WAS state credit man when so
many of his people were not. "Why % remarked
Mr.. Harris. "Well, would rather give 81 900
| ont Of my own pocket this minute than have Ed
munds make one speech on reputation. That is
| one reason that am a state credit man"
GENERAL GARFIELD is to be attended at the in
auguraton by Governor Foster who will be es-
corted by the governors guard with the United
States band from Columbus barracks. The Ohio
general assembly also purpose coming to the in
| auguration as body. Qnartermaster-Ge General
Meigs has ordered the shipment to Washington, for
use in the inaugural decorations of all the old and
unserviceable flags and colors on hand at the de-
pots in Philadelphia and Jacksonville, Indiana.
THE engine on the Boston-bound express train
on the Ogdensburg road, on Thursday, lost a
driving wheel near Brashers, New York, while
running twenty-five miles an hour The wheel
rolled off into the ditch and the parallel rod few
up ard demolished the side of the cab, which,
fortunately the engineer had Just vacated, and
also broke off the whistle valve, so that no signal
could be given to down brakes The train ran half
a mile before the engineer could climb over the
tender into the baggage car and get the brakes
applied.
A CONTRACT has just been agreed upon between
the authorities of Florida and l. Coryel Of Jack
sonville and A. B. Linderman representing capt.
talists Of Philadelphia and the Pacific coast, to
drain Lake Okeechobee in south Florida This
will reclaim 100000 acres of the best sugar
land in the world. The territory reclaimed will
include the celebrated everglades and be in ex-
tent twice AS large as the state of New Jersey
WHeh tus contrdct is cdrrleu out rIOrlua can pro-
duce more sugar than the United States now
consumes
In the recent engagement in the Drakenburg
pass the Beers fought with determined courage
and captured the colors OF the forty-eighth regi-
ment killing two officers in the charge. The
colors were recaptured at the point of the bayonet
An eyewitness says the Beers were shot or
wounded in the heads as they lay II the fifty
eighth regiment had been supported by another
thousand men, the position would have been
taken. Colonel Dean and Captain Inman are
among the killed. Forty Beers fell close to the
British lines
FRANK TRuEspELL, a young newspaper man,
has been arrested in New York, charged with
stealing an advance copy of the North american
Reuieto, containing General Grants article on the
nter-oceanic canal which appeared in the Chicago
Tribune several days before the magazine was
published The prisoner, 1t is alleged, went to
the establishment where the Rerieo Is bound,
pretending he was sent by the manager. A boy,
who was the only person present permitted him
to examine a copy OF the magazine, and while
the boys back was turned he walked away
THE New York World gives a precise abstract
OF the terms OF the telegraph consolidation, The
consideration paid the American Union is 100, 600
shares Of Western Union stock (par value 5000
in exchange for 100000 shares of American Union
stock and So 600 600 in bonds the stock to be ex-
changed share for share and the bonds at par for