Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-08-24
Weekly News Summary.

The Adirondacks are dotted over with little
camps OF rusticating parties
NEW mammoth hotel is to be built next sea-
son at the Thousand Island park
CUTTING the horses tails short IL going out Of
style among Long Branch and Newport riders.
A LAW has been passed at wemar forbidding
practice on pianos unless the windows Of the
houses are closed.
LITTLE Mary Nella Of Harrisburgh, Pennsylya-
MIA, was frightened into convulsions recently by
some circus posters.
Two North Carolina churches have been closed
and the doors nailed up to keep the pastors from
preaching prohibition
A NEW Ice factory which will produce twenty
five thousand tons Of ice year has Just been e.
tabshed in New Orleans
THE cotton factories in the south have. since the
rebellion, paid an average Of twenty-five and
one-half per cent dividends
BosToNs Franklin fund, which was intepded
by him to be used for the announcement of
young mechanics, now amounts to S25gO6g
EIGHT New York ladies, whose husbands are
estimated to be worth $4,000 600 aggregate.
dined together the other day at Saratoga hotel,
DURING recent bull fight at Avignon, France,
one OF the bulls jumped over the pallisade and in
jured over one hundred persons before he was
secured
coLoRED man in Bullock county, Alabama,
while raising crop last year slept in one end Of
hollow log and kept his cooking utensils in the
other end
SOME gentlemen go in bathing on horseback at
Narragansett pier, their spirited steeds enjoying
the tussle with the waves as much apparently as
their masters.
The latest order Of exclusion at the Grand Union
hotel, Saratoga, is not against the Jews, but ad-
mits no man to the ballroom who doesn't wear a
swallow-tail coat
GREENWOOD (South Carolina Young woman
refuse to have anything to do with young men
who drink, and several tipplers have succumbed
to such heroic treatment
The annual meeting Of the "Snuflers and
Sneezers association" commonly called the hay
fever convention, took place in the White Noun
tains on the 22d of this month
GENERAL GRANTS new house at No. 3. East
sxty-sixth street, New York, IL a large house.
four stories high with brown stone front and
bay windows. It has never been occupied, and
cost $4,000
FRANK wALwoRTH, who shot his father in New
York some years ago, is now in Saratoga, where
he has achieved good deal Of success as a tennis
player. 1t is said that he will shortly marry
beautiful young heiress, who has spent several
summers at the springs.
ONO has had G, 300 laws since its organization
as a state, and all but 200 Of these had been
specifically repealed when the revised statutes
were codifed in 1880, and of the 200, 100 were
temporary or obsolete. The average life of a law
Is about five years in Ohio
IT is estimated that every one of the 30, 900 900
people Of the United States discard at least five
pounds Of rags yearly. This makes 2JOOOOOOO
pounds. Rags from other sources NAV be safely
set down at as much more, making 800, 900 600
pounds OF rags as the yearly yield in the United
States
A MAN at Tarport, Penn, agreed to sell his
wife to milk vender for 81 and COW. The
woman at first consented TO the bargain and pa
pers costing 81 were drawn up and signed, but
she repented and the milk vender, ont So, which
the husband refused to refund, drove his COW
back home.
New HAVEN Register: When he returned to
his seat in the theater and said he had Just
stepped out to see some one, she gravey re-
sponded, 1t must have been the evil one" and
when the young man asked "If she saw the
cloven foot" she turned up her pretty nose and
said, No, but smell the cloven BREATH
FARMER at Dayton, Wis, discovered and at
tackled seven wolves while out looking up flock
Of sheep the other day. After desperate fight
in which all his clothing was torn off, his hands
and legs were badly bitten and the lower half OF
one ear was snapped off, he killed them. He re-
ceived ST. in bounties from the state and sold the
skins for fair price