Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-13
Weekly News Summary.


CHICAGO boasts Of one divorce suit to every
eight marriages.
Mrs GARFIELD, Mrs. Blaine and Mrs. Window
were school teachers in early life.
ONE Of the Rothschilds owns $500, 900 for every
pound Of his weight.
GERMANY has put twenty-five hundred miles OF
her telegraph system under ground.
QUEEN vIcroRn's gold and silver plate, which
is kept at Windsor, is said to be worth s15,-
600, 900
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD, premier Of the Can
adam cabinet is expected TO retire because Of
III health.
THE subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers
from the Nice disaster have reached the sum OF
100000 francs
BRicANDs near salonica have captured a
wealthy Englishman, a Mr. Suter, and demand
ransom Of fl5,000.
THE winter wheat crop OF southern Wisconsin
has been diminished from one-fourth to one-half
by the past winters storms.
ACCORDING to French reports, during the year
1880 that country exported 2,576,7Si bottles Of
champagne into the United States
n
ton correspondent, has abandoned letter-writing
and will devote herself to general literature.
THREE white men in Sacramento, California,
are the first persons to be fined under new CAL
fornia law making opium-smoking crime
THE property Of the Franklin beet sugar COM
pany, which cost $1,000 was sold Saturday for
100000, to liquidate the debts Of the company
THE Christian Inde1 OF Atlanta, Georgia, uses
type made from the bullets with which the surface
OF the earth for miles around that city Is strewn
THE brass molders are organizing strike in
New York for an increase Of ten per cent in wages
number Of other trades are moving in a similar
direction.
THE New York Post says: "A revival of conf
dence seems TO have occurred among the COM
mssioners OF the worlds fair Of 1888 since last
week, and now the subject is spoken Of as certain
to be carried out"
HATTIE DEUEL. at Iowa City has now lived
forty-seven days without food but it il probable
that her long fast will soon end by her death.
She can no longer make her wants known and Is
almost unconscious.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is reported to be about
to resume work on his Life OF Christ. He has
made several attempts OF that kind, to his pub
fishers infinite satisfaction, a satisfaction which
each time turned into chaqrip
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tions would receive to its bosom half million
Immigrants this vear Dur;na tho cold and
stormy month Of March mora than thirty tbop.
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A COMPANY has been formed with a capital OF
$50, Oo0O 00 and charter obtained, to build ship
canal across Florida. The work commences i'm
heuiate'y' Inc route Is VIA Oaioosanatchle river,
i"he oAeeonooee' .hence 10 tne A'iahuc ocean'
uea' 'ne l"ou'h oi Inc d. Lucie river
OCCASIONAL shocks OF earthquake are still felt
at Chic. All the open spaces Of the town are
filled with wounded, many OF whom are in hope
less condition. Numerous dead and wounded are
still under the ruins. The survivors are emigrat-
ing in all directions Only fifty houses are left
standing at Chic. On all sides cries OF distress