Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-20
Weekly News Summary.

has brought the young women into the grain fields
THE railroads have reduced the fare from New
York to Chicago to 81. The scalpers are selling
at 80
The recent daily mortality at st. Louis from
the heat and other causes has Appropriated ep-
idemic figures
BALD-EAGLE was recently caught at Whining
ton, Delaware while trying TO carry off large
Newfoundland dog.
THE Japanese mikado is to have a new palace
at Yeddo, which is to be entirely Of wood, and
will cost nearly s5,Goo,oOO.
GENERAL JOHN c. PEMBERroN, who surrendered
Vicksburg to General Grant, died at Penn Ign,
pennsylvania, the 18th, aged sixty-seven.
DECREE ordering the expulsion from France
OF Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, was signed
on Saturday and communicated to him on Sunday.
INSURANCE aggregating 81, 100000 is found to
have been placed on the life Of Robert Bell, an
aged negro who has just died at Westminster, Md
Miss IDA IvEsoN Of Chillcothe, Minnesota, a
public school teacher has fallen heir TO 80 800 600
in Scotland, and has left to take possession Of her
property.
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, who was supposed TO
be dying, Is recovering in marvellous manner.
She is able to take drives, and is rapidly gaining
strength.
NEW ORLEANS has realized over 81 200, 900 from
the sale Of street railway franchises in two years,
and the money is being used to extinguish the
| city debt
Tom ELLwooD, a drunken fellow at Charlotte,
| North Carolina retalated recently on a moccasin
snake which had bitten him four times, by biting
off its head
WHITE incendaries burned the negro church at
Cedar Grove, Alabama, the other night, and the
next night black incendiaries retaliated on the
white church.
New YORK undertakers do not believe in vast
ing money on grave Clothes and now furnish
false fronts of shirt, vest and coat for So saw
ing of $50 on suit.
AN army of crickets seven miles wide is march,
ing at the rate OF two miles and half day over
Lake county, Oregon, and eating every kind of
| vegetation in its track.
SOME fifteen hundred pilgrims from Vermont
| visited the church OF Notre Dame de Lourdes in
Montreal, Sunday. Quite number were arrested
| in the evening for drunkenness.
A CANADIAN clergyman has been at Washing
ton, North Carolina, arranging for the emigration
| from his parish Of one hundred families, whose
pastor he has been for thirty years.
| NEGOTIATIONS were closed at Peoria, Illinois,
last week. for the purchase of CO., 900 acres of land
| on the line of the Little Rock & Fort Smith rail-
way by the Catholic colonization society.
| THE deaths from sun-stroke at Cincinnati were
| 26i in the seven days ending Saturday, and from
exec 'sive heat 100, making Ala from these causes
| The number from both causes was Sc on the 18th
| Du
he died 1t is found that his whole estate would
| be barely sufficient to discharge the debt upon
| Iughenden. The executors return the value at
| a little 100000.
JUDGE CLIFFORD of the United States supreme
| court has undergone amputaton of foot at Port
| land, Maine, for gangrene, and is as comfortable
As could be expected, though the chances for his
| recovering are exceedingly small
BOX of ham, swarming with trchine, was
sent from Erie Pennsylvania, to Rochester
New York; optcian recently for examination, but
thief stole it on the way, unconsciously ate the
| contents, and has suffered no evil effects.
A sAND-HILL crane killed at Grdley, Colorado,
| recently, had wire around its neck to which was
| attached silver dollar bearing this inscriptions
Captured at Fort du Quesne May %, 1888. Re-
| leased at Fort Dearborn November II, 1876.
DIR. MADDOX of Cnch county, Georgia, has
| just sold a century plant in Cincinnati for S4OO
| 1t has produced several thousand flowers When
on exhibition recently it was viewed by $4,000
people in few hours at fifteen cents apiece.
| THE largest taxidermic specimen in this coun-
try is huge elephant shot in southern India and
stuffed at Rochester, New York, for the Agassiz
museum at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mounted
| nm r,latf Ia nil faat G,,a
| inches high and his tusks are four feet long. 1t
| took over three months to stuff him.
AnvIcEs from st. Petersburg report that Rus
| ssa is fast drifting into anarchy The is still
a close prisoner at Peterhof Occasionally, when
business of state requires his presence at the cap
ta he leaves the fortress to enter St. Petersburg
| almost by stealth, and returns quickly. revou-
ton such as the world has never witnessed is not
| far off
THE remains OF the late Pope Plus TX were
| lately removed from st. Peters in Rome to the
| church Of San Lorenzo at twelve o'clock at night
Some young men disturbed the procession with
cries Of Long live Italy, and the military was
called in to dispense them. The fighting lasted
all the way to the grave, and finally the process
sion became flight
THROWING rubber balls at negro, who made
| a target of his head by thrusting it through
vas was one of the Fourth of July sports at New
Orleans, Louisiana. Ebony proved an artful
| dodger, but finally succumbed to the superior
Workmanship of an apparently drunken fellow
who paid So for five throws with a stone the
fourth missile fracturng his skull.
AN industrial school is to be established at
Poughkeepsie, New York, as family reformatory
and preventive school for young girls who are ex-
| posed to temptation. The plan is to divide the
girls into groups of twenty thirty each to be in
| charge of matron, and the evils of Magdalene
asylums where young girls are brought into con-
tact with hardened characters, will be avoided.
Mrs. ELIZA GARFIELD, mother OF President
| Garfield. on Friday had a severe attack of cholera
| morbus, and is now Frustrated by fever. On ac-
count of her extreme age, she being eighty zone,
her condition is regarded as very critical and
fears are entertained for her recovery Every eff
fort will be made to keep the news from the pres
ident, as the shock might be injurious to him at
present.
THE numerous deaths from lockjaw caused by
| the reckless OF the deadly toy pistol on the
Fourth at Baltimore have made considerable ex-
cltement there. Two more victims were added to
the list yesterday, making thirteen who have died
of lockjaw from wounds received by the explosion
of toy pistols Three other cases are reported
which cannot recover. In Rochester New York,
there have been three deaths from the same cause.
IT is said that II on the longest day of the year,
June Dist, the bark of tree is entirely peeled off
new bark will Immediately grow Winslow
Smith, having on his premises an old and worth
less apple tree he had intended to cut down, de-
termined to try the experiment He had little
| faith that the tree would live. Accordingly on
the 2lst of June he stripped the bark entirely off,
and to his surprise the leaves of the tree even did
not wilt, but grew right along, and the tree is
now growing a fine new bark.-Lticd On "
Herald,
CYCLONE IN MINNEsoTA.-The town of New
ulm, Minnesota on the Minnesota river sixty-fve
miles west from St. Paul, containing about three
thousand five hundred persons, was wrecked bya
cyclone Saturday afternoon. The telegraph wires
went down in the river, and only meager details
can be given. 1t seems two currents OF air swept
the valley simultaneously, coming from different
directions The scene was appalling in the ex-
treme Stone and brick buildings were razed to
their foundations and the air was full Of debris
The town and suburbs are now mass OF ruins.
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