Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-08
Weekly News Summary.

ACCORDING TO the recent census the population
Of London is 3,614,57l.
A srRNoFKID, Illinois, dispatch says that Mrs
Lincoln is dying In that city.
REV. ISAAC s. KALLoca is preaching down In
Maine 10 immense audiences.
ONE thousand weavers are preparing to emf
CRATE from France to America
ALFRED B. STREET, the poet, died at Albany,
New York, last week. aged seventy.
NIAGARA COUNTY, New York, shipped 900, 900
barrels Of apples to Europe the past year.
REPORTS from all parts Of the Ottawa valley
show that the crops are in the best condition.
LAST year 49, 347, 600 barrels Of beer were brewed
in the United States, against 1906 600 in 1863
GENERAL GRANT and party arrived at New Or
leans Sunday morning and left in the evening for
st. Louis
ANDREW JoHNsoN's heirs are now In litigation
over the distribution OF his property, which Is val
ued at 100000.
THE tree on the capitol grounds at Washing
ton known AZ 1.-THE Charles Sumner Tree" Ia
said to be dying.
WASHINGTON IRvNo's desk at Sunnyside A"
hoiiaihs JUN &c nc icit iho pou hhu puppin
have not been changed
PHILIP G. KEMP, a colored boy, took tho first
prize at the Troy New York; high schools rhe-
torical contest last week
Mrs HAYES used to scatter a large basket Of
flowers over the graves Of the unknown dead at
Arlington on Decoration day.
THE New Orleans custom house is the largest in
Al. IA toaO o
10000 and is still unfinished.
NEW YORK physicians deprecate the use OF We
locipedes by young boys, the ground of Its ten
dency to produce hernia or rupture
PRISoEss DALGoRouRi Of Russia nad her mag
niHcent head Of hair cut off and buried In the
coffin Of her husband, the late car.
OF immigrants less than ten per cent betake
themselves to agriculture. The remainder settle
in factory towns and mining districts
BENNIE JOHNSON Of Woodruff county, Arkansas
seven years old, was killed by two savage dogs
dragged into thicket and partly eaten.
WHOLE counties in Sweden are being cleaned
| out Of their able-bodied young men and womer
| by their emigration to the United States.
THE stockholders Of the IEtna fire insuranc,
subscriptions from $50 900 to 50, 100000.
| FIVE young people have been badly poisoned a
picnic near Flora Illinois, by drinking lemon
ade in which acid was used instead Of lemons.
| THE first crate Of peaches left Macon, Georgia
for the north last Saturday. The crop in that sec
tion is estimated at 60 900 baskets The fruit is fine
| THE governor Of Massachusetts has decided t,
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victed OF the murder Of Mrs Crue to imprison
ment for life
THE national board OF health expresses tn
cheerful opinion, based upon reports from tn
south, that there will be no yellow fever epidemic
| this summer.
| DIR. ROSE of Staten island claims to have founC
the germ OF the pleuro-pneumonia disease in thu
shape Of something like an insect egg in the lef
lobe OF the lung.
| YOUNG man and young woman Of Chicago
between whom there was litigation for the owner
ship Of an estate have settled the matter by mar
rying each other
| MISS II. S. SAKE, the only daughter Of the poe
John G. SAKE, died Friday night in Brooklyn
aged twenty-seven. Her father still resides in
Brooklyn, ahelpless invalid.
SLIGHT shocks of earthquake which were felt
at Mount vesuvius have been followed by strong
| eruption. Broad active streams Of lava are flow.
ing down the northeast side.
BONANZA KING MAcKEy Of California, now In
Europe, has given his wife wonderful lace dres.
which was made for the x-Empress Eugene be
| fore the Germans occupied Paris.
EDWARD STABLER Of Sandy Spring. Mont
gomery county, Maryland, aged eghty-seven, ha,
been postmaster Of the place for fifty-one years
under eighteen postmaster-generals.
| THE soul sleepers, a new sect OF Adventists
have sprung up in Indiana. They believe thai
the body sleeps till the resurrection the soul be
| ing In a quescent state till that time.
IT Is stated that the troops In Irsiand will, b
the end OF this week. consist Of 30 600 men, sever
regiments Of cavalry, eleven batteries Of artillery
and twenty-five battalons OF infantry.
PEOPLE are now predicting that within the mex
| three or five years Boston and New York will ex
change mails through pneumatic tubes, and only
two hours will be required for the transit.
SIEMESs, the great European electrician, ha
cleared $50, 900, 600 from his inventions, and ex
poets to make as much more from the electric rail
road, which he has just put in operation at Berlin
ONLY one grandson Of General Lafayette in thu
direct male line is now living. This is Edmon'
de Lafayette, younger brother Of the late marquis
He is unmarried, and when he dies the name will
become extinct
| MR. EVANS, OF the scientific expedition iron
Chicago, has discovered an immense calenda
stone in the ruins Of Tezcoco with the largest rer
resentation of a human figure known among Mex
lean antiquities.
THE estate left by Colonel Thomas A. Scott
valued at 81 100000 The will contains no publ
| gifts, Colonel Scott having himself bestowe
within the past six months $3.50, 900 upon variou
public institutions.
| KETTLE, Of the Land League executive commit
tee was arrested in Dublin last week and con
veyed to Mas jail He is charged with incitin
the people to combine for the purpose of refusing
to pay their lawful debts.
| AN abstract OF the report Of the national bank
shows the amount Of specie held by them the Ct
of May to have been s22, 62S 900, much the larges
amount ever held by them. The banks also he'll
$40, 56l 600 in legal tender notes.
| LEVY, the well known cornet player, has bee
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ceedings commenced by his wife, who alleges sh
was married to him in London in 1876, and tina
he deserted her and their two children.
MARGARET CANNON Was convicted In Jerse
City last week Wednesday of abusing a ter
yearsold stepdaughter, whom it is estimated sh
| whipped over three thousand times In four years
The child's father will also be tried ON the sam
| charge.
A THOUSAND bicycles, more or less, appeared 4
i the streets of Boston one day last week, large
| number than were ever before assembled at ON
place In this country. The scene is said by thos
who were present to have been exceedingly bri
liant and attractive
PROFESSOR ROBERTSON SMITH. who was sus
pended by the assembly of the Scotch Free churc
from teaching his classes at Aberdeen Universt
for certain writings, has accepted an offer fror
the Blacks, publishers, to join the staff on tn
Encyclopedia Britannica.
A FARMER at fremont, near New York city, Of
fers this as q sure cure for potato bugs: Dssolv
one ounce Of saltpetre, two ounces Of alum an
half a pound of the commonest brown soap |
three gallons Of water, and sprinkle with watel
ing pot over the growing plants.
AN Augusta tGeorgia) hose company recent
named itself after Alexander II Stephens, an
when he WAS in the city soon after he made tn
members speech full Of good advice, lie sal
he never used spirits except for medicinal pul
poses, and advised them not to.