Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-07-13
Weekly News Summary.

THE Saratoga Lake railway began running trains
Monday regularly.
YALE's valedictoran this year was a Jew, her
salntatorian a Dutchman and the prize declaimer
Chinaman.
In May 1l7,000 emigrants arrived in the United
States. The number arriving the past eleven
months was $4,000.
lr Is reported that the khedive Of Egypt will
shortly decree the total abolition OF slavery
throughout his domnons.
Ex-USIrED sTArEs SENATOR lIIrcncooK died at
Omaha, Sunday, aged forty-nine. lie was a
classmate OF President Garfield.
MAUD S. trotted on the IIamptramck track at
Detroit Monday, to beat st. Juliens time over 1t,
2l6a The mare made 1t in 2139
PHILADELPHIA and New York are connected by
more telegraph wires than any other two cities in
the world the number being one hundred and ten
RUSSIAN socialist who escaped from Siberia
has reached Switzerland. There only one other
instance Of political prisoner escaping from
Siberia.
SixTY-FouR hundred cheeses we're sold at Utica
the other day at ~, and twenty-four hundred at
81. Five hundred and ninety thousand we're
consigned.
A RECENT law Of Michigan exempts from poll
tax, jury duty and fire duty any citizen who pays
$40 annually as an honorary member Of any COM
pany OF state troops,
AFTER due investigation the government Of
fically declares that no prohibition or compulsory
inspection OF American meat is justified or re-
quired In Switzerland
SOME excessively curious women in Winfield,
Kansas, held a coal oil lamp so near a newborn
babys face to discover the color Of its eyes that
the little ones sight was destroyed.
AMONG other requests Of the late Eli Bates Of
Chicago were $40 600 for monument TO Lincoln
at the entrance to Lincoln park, Chicago, and
S25, 600 TO the Chicago industrial school.
THE German post-ofiice has adopted and uses
postage stamps whose colors can be Cancelled by
water. This prevents fraud, for as soon as the
stamps are washed the color is obliterated.
THE class Of Chinese students in teegraphy at
Hartford, Connecticut, are making wonderful pro-
gress. One Of them mastered the whole code Of
signals in half day-a thing never done before.
THE tunnel under the English channel is to be
finished according to present calculations, in ten
years The English newspapers have already a
scare about possible invasion through the tunnel.
SINCE 1854 there has been an increase Of risk
from lightning in various parts Of Germany, Aus
tria and Switzerland, while there is no cores
bonding increase in the number OF thunder storms.
IT is reported in San Francisco that the running
time Of the overland train between that city and
New York is to be reduced from six days three
and one-quarter hours to five and one-half days.
A WHOLE boat-load of picnckers at Wsrrens-
burgh Missouri, six hundred in all, were lately
poisoned by drinking artificial lemonade, made
| from acid. None have yet died but many are
very sick
GEORGIA editor says "Gold is found in
thirty-six counties in this state, silver in three,
copper in thirteen iron in forty-three, diamonds in
twenty-six, whiskey in all OF them, and the last
gets away with all the rest"
PROFESSOR L. A. PARK Of the Andover Theo-
| logical Seminary, with which institution he has
been connected for forty-ve years. is reported to
| have resigned on account Of approaching old age,
and a desire to engage in certain literary work
GENERAL LoNGsrREEr assumed charge Of his
Office as marshal OF Georgia on the LIST inst. The
Atlanta Constitution says that he has gone tC
work promptly with a systematic zeal that looks
| like business, and that much is expected Of hi.
| administration.
FORTUNE OF Sc, 100000 has been left by Mr.
| John Burnside, a sugar planter OF Louisiana. Hi
| pay roll included the names Of two thousand t.
three thousand hands, to whom liberal wages
were paid. His success proves that the abolition
| OF slave labor was not necessarily an injury t.
southern industries.