Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-12-28
Weekly News Summary.

Mrs. LINCOLN, who is at Springfield, Illinois
| has lost her eyesight and is very low.
THERE is heavy run on the treasury for new
| ten cent pieces to be used for bangles"
A DISASTROUS fire in New York city last Sunday
destroyed over three million dollars worth of
property.
THE new ive-cent Garfield postage stamp il
pronounced by the postal officers to be the hand
soonest ever issued.
THE Boston city council has ordered an appro-
priaton Of S6OO,0oO for the purchase of lands in
West Roxbury, a suburban district for public
park.
Ex-PREsIDENT AND Mrs. HAYES will be the
guests OF Mr.. Puleston, NJ. p, in London this
month. They will pass the winter in the south
OF France
ONE thousand seven hundred and seventy-one
cases Of rifles were shipped on the steamer Iowa.
last week. for Liverpool. On the manifest the
item appears as " hardware"
MR.. DUSMRE, the husband of Guiteau's d.
vorced wife, is typical westerner. He threatened
vengeance II the assassin insulted his wife, and
hence the failure Of that worthy to rip her up"
in the court room.
In dress Attorney General Brewster is very
eccentric. He wears rufiies of the style of sew
enty-fve years ago His coat is blue swallow
tall with brass buttons and his waistcoat is long
and made Of bright buff cloth.
THE Masonic fraternity OF the District Of Col
umbia intend to establish asylum and indus
trial school for orphan children OF the Master
MasoDs Of the United States. to be known as the
Garfield Masonic Memorial institution.
THE controller OF the currency has authorized
these national banks to begin business: Garfield
OF New York, capital 100000 First OF Walliug-
ford, Connecticut, capital $780, 600; Lancaster Of
Lancaster, New Hampshire, capital Sl25, 900.
W. ]. GUILD OF the land department OF the
Northern Pacific railroad has Just located sites
near Bismarck, Dakota, for colony OF forty six
families from Maine Vermont, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts. They will move west early in
January.
AT meeting of Chicago association for pre-
venting the sale OF liquor TO minors drunkenness
among women was discussed and 1t was declared
upon all hands that preventing drinking among
girls was only second in Importance To similar
work for boys.
SRo DELMoNIoo, the last of the famous broth
ers OF restaurant keepers, has just been found
dead in his bedroom. He died Of excessive smok-
ing. DIR. Wood, his physician, said he has known
him TO smoke one hundred cigars day and had
told him TO look out for sudden death.
JuDGE GRAY is the sixth justice appointed to
the supreme court OF the United States from Mas
sachusetts, his predecessors being William Cush-
ing, Levi Lincoln, John Quincy Adams Joseph
Story and b. 4. Curtis Judges Lincoln and
Adams, however, declined their appointments.
REV. Dr. J. p NEWMAN, formerly OF Washing
ton, is to become pastor OF the Congregational
church in New York founded by Rev. DIR. Hep
worth. General Grant and other Methodists will
follow him into that church, and It Is expected
that money will be raised to defray the debt of
$4,000 now resting upon 1t.
almshouse at San Francisco, having been arrested
as beggar, infested with vermin. la his early
days he was manager Of the banking and express
house OF Adams Co., with an income OF $40, 900
a year. He gave all his means 10 save the bank,
retired into poverty and took to drink
The Pullman company is in trouble with the
Canadian customs authorities for having for years
imported fixtures and furnishings and repaired
cars from the states into Canada without paying
duty, making large amount involved tits said
that Mr. Henry Peavey, one OF the conductors
discharged some time ago was the informant and
startling revelations are expected from the inves-
LEGATIONS now in progress.
ONE of the leaders OF religious thought and
discussion in New England for the last half
century, the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon OF New
Haven Conn, closed his long and useful life on
Saturday morning last Leonard Bacon, ID,
LII. was the son OF a missionary to the Indians
and WAS born at Detroit, Mich, February 49, 1902.
Graduating at Yale College and Andover Theo-
logical Seminary, he settled pastor of
the Center church, New Haven, in 1875, which
post he held as chief pastor till 1868, and as emer-
iIus till his death.
rHR youngest daughter OF William H. Wander
bit was married last week TO DIR. Webb. Her
wedding presents consisted OF brown stone
house on Fifth avenue and $3.50, 900 in United
States bonds from her father, "a diamond neck
lace pearl and diamond necklace, a diamond and
ruby ring, set of diamonds" four sets OF silver,
and innumerable other articles OF great value.
The couple are taking their wedding trip IN a
special parlor car. thus does the richest man In
America provide for his children. The Wander
bit family, however, were not always wealthy.
Had the grandfather OF the bride, Cornelius, In
his early days wanted To 60 on a wedding tIip il
would have been scarcely farther than across the
river on a ferry worked by himself