Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-04
Weekly NoMs Summary.

Edison took out twenty-five more patents last
week and now has two hundred fifty
COMPANY has been formed in Winnipeg to
supply eastern cities with canned frogs
AMONG the nearly one thousand who were lost
at the Vienna theater fire there are no American
names.
GENERAL BUTLER is likely to come in possess
sion Of the sprague property Of Rhode island
valued at ss,OOO,OOO
| IT Is rumored at San Antonio, Texas, that the
record OF the Flipper court martial sentenced him
to dismissal from the army.
AT the state dairymen's association meeting II
was stated that the dairy products Of New York
state amounted to 800, 100000.
rioKPocKET created panic in a church at
Warsaw by crying fire." Forty persons died
from the injuries they received
FoR opening letter written by his wife to her
father, an Ohio man has been bound over In $500
to appear before the grand jury.
THE closing exercises at the Atlanta exposition
took place Saturday. The machinery was stopped
by Governor Colquitt, addresses made and poem
read
AMONG the members Of the lower house Of the
Tennessee legislature are white man and a
negro who held the relation OF master and slave
before the war.
THE other evening Professor Williams OF Yale
College received dispatch from the interior of
China which had been sent the day before. The
distance is 10. 600 miles
BoRlNGs for the new bridge at Montreal for the
Atlantic & Northwestern railway are proceeding
satisfactorily The longest stretch is 5000 feet
and the shortest 900 feet
COLONEL CoRKHlLL received the other day
from Kansas package which was found to con-
tain a very ingeniously devised gag "for Mr..
Guiteau," which was made from a corn cob.
SOME years ago Miss Libbe Minlsler of Rochelle
Illinois, lost both arms by falling in front Of
reaper To-day she is earning good living by
oil painting, holding the brush in her teeth
IT is officially announced that the great St.
Gothard tunnel was opened for the regular pas
sage OF trains on January LIST. The total cost OF
the work is &c. S0S $50 francs or about S11 600 OoO
THIS winter thus far has been good one for
the sheep and cattle on thousand hills Of Mon
tana and Dakota--in all respects contrast to the
last. The SHOWS have not been deep and feed is
abundant.
THE New York post-ofllce handled about one
hundred fifty tons of mail matter on Tuesday
week, the largest days business on record
Nearly 100000 Christmas cards passed through
the office
THE Emperor Francis Joseph has resolved to
erect at his own cost n memorial chapel on the
site Of the Ring theater in Vienna, in which a
requiem mass will be celebrated yearly for the
victims of the late fire.
GOVERNOR CHTTENDEN Of Missouri employs
male and female convcts as servants about the
executive mansion Two distinguished Missouri
ans were robbed recently while guests Of the
governor at jefferson City.
THE latest novelty is a dress album. piece Of
every new dress is carefully cut and gummed on
one side of the leaf, and the date attached Thus
the book forms a complete history Of ladys
costumes from season to season.
TwENTY-THREE elk have been caught and Gagged
by hunters in the Canadian woods and will soon
be sent to geological gardens in Germany Their
antlers have been sawed off and they have suf-
fered by long journey to New York
AFTER wedding party had assembled in a
church at Bloomington, Illinois, the father of the
girl offered her $500 if she would back out She
took the money remained at home, and sent word
to the minister to dismiss the assembly.
The society of the Army of the Cumberland
proposes to erect monument to the memory OF
Garfield aud expects it will be unequaled by any
work Of art in the country. The cost will be
largely betrayed by contributions from the army
and navy.
THE Mountain of the Lord is a solid rock one
hundred feet in height rising above the street
level at Manti, Utah The Mormons are building
on this emnence temple of fine marble, ninety
five feet by one hundred seventy in area, and
handsomely adorned.
LoNGFELLow, whom the fine winter weather
has given renewed vigor and vlvacity, condemns
the system Of little chartered school colleges in
this country which have poor equipments and OF
which Ohio alons has thirty-three lie is in favor
OF two or three well sustained universities