Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-03-01
CHIPS AND CLIPPINGS.


L. L. butcher, has been appointed postmaster
ofSt Adams, vice S. H. Barlow resigned.
The militia force Of the United States amounts
to about one million and half of men.
The Portland Advertiser says; "Checks for So
on the Bank of ST. Adams W., drawn by the Me-
chunics' Exchange Company, New York, well
executed are in circulation in that city. They
are entirely worthless, and unless particularly no
ticed, they will be likely to pass for bills of the
Bank of ST. Adams"
The Baltimore correspondent of the N. Y
Courier says The investigation into the affairs
ofthe Franklin Bank has exposed some curious
transactions. Among other things it is found
that the Immaculate Col. X. M, Johnson, Vice
President for the next three days ottllese United
States owes the bank S50O0 which he obtained
about The time the Bank made u "pet, and
supplied with portion Of the public money The
security given 10y the Colonel are some fancy
stocks Of some wild cat institution, which are not
worth a cent. All these anti-bank men have u
deadly hutred to any bank they owe
An officer in Mississippi charges the state with
two quarts of brandy, under the head Of "qrils,
ink and Stationary" Although he may rot have
fully carried out the measures OF the govern
ment, he makes some empty pretensions mt least
In the early times in Missouri when the people
were not so enlightened as at present, the mem
bers of the legislature, and other officers at the
capital, used to charge their grog bills to the state
under the head of Sights an1 fuel"
Jealousy is said to be God, as it creates every
thing out of nothing.
We do not want precepts so much os patterns,
Phny.
Several distinguished gentlemen of AIassachu
sets are making arrangements for establishing an
those branches Of science and art necessary to
make them accomplished farmers. Theory and
practice, study and labor, IRE to be united. Our
country has long been in need of institutions at
which the interesting and important knowledge
here contemplated can be acquired but much
more has she suffered from the deplorable disn
chnation which prevails among our young men
for the noble pursuit of agriculture We hope
the saIutary example set in Massachusetts will
have extended and abiding effect in remedying
both evils
iCTsThe Washington Globe says" No sooner
had he (Gen. Iarrison) put his foot OH the Penn
sylvania Avenue, lin Washington c:y,) than the
robbing commenced, aud multitude Ind their
pockets picked in the course of i've minutes"
No doubt Of this. The gang who have been
picking the national Treasury for so many years.
there is not in il any thing to pick, would
quite naturally turn their hand to picking pockets
Men do not very willingly, at once, abandon their
expel forever these picking gentlemen from the
capital Of the nation.
Honey a cure for The Grarel. The following
which appeared originally in the Liverpool Cour-
ier may prove servicenble to of our readers
"About twenty seven years ago (saysa correspon-
dent) was much afflicted with the gravel, and
twice in serious danger, from small stones lodg-
ing in the passage. met with a gentleman who
had been in my situation, and had got rid of that
severe disorder by swee.enng his tea with half
honey and half sugar. | adopted this remedy and
found it effectual. After being fully clear of my
disease about ten years, declined taking honey,
and i'm about three months had violent fit of my
old complaint; then renewed my practice of
taking honey in my tea, and have not for the last
seventeen years had the smallest symptom of the
gravel. l have recommended my prescription to
many of my acquaintance and have never known
it to fail
BLACK SEA WHEAT.
Mr. Horace Gates, of Franklin has left speci-
men Of this wheat at our Office for the inspection
Of such of our agricultural friends as may wish TO
examine it.-This wheat is remarkable for the
quantity il yields and is said not 10 be affected by
the rust. MIR Gates informs us that from bushe
and peck of seed he received over % bushels Of
wheat, and he thinks one half OF the croI
was lost from the effects of the draugh We have
seen this wheat spoken of in our agricultural pa
pers, and we should advise our farmers to give i
trial. Mr. Gates has few bushels which he
will dispose of-St. Adams Rsptsb.
"A Blind Boy in College. The last annual Re
port of the Massachusetts Asylum for the Bind
at Boston, has the following notice of pup
Portsmouth boy, who has entered Harvard Uni
versity:
"One Of the pupils, Joseph B. Smith, blind
from his cradle, was presented last commence
ment for admission Mt Cambridge University, pas
sed satisfactory examination, and has thus Ia
maintained a respectable rank in his class. fl'
has no favor shown him, and has been excuses
from TO studies on account of his blindness, bu
is able TO grappe with and master all of them
He is likewise organsl at the chapel. His age /
II; and ms without any extraordinary natural a
blity, he has been enabled TO acquire the attain
inents necessary for entering college, and an &C
quaintance with many collateral subjects besides
his case may serve as an encouragement to an
young blind persons who may desire 10 cultivat
their intellect.
He gets his lessons by help OF his chum, VIII
reads them over to him carefully and seeks out
the lexicon the meaning Of those words which h
does not understand. Smith carries his gramn;
in his head, and applies the rules in nayzing ii
sentences and when once he has learned tn /,
incoming and structure, he does not easily torg
it. So in mathematics chum reads the den
onstrations aloud and fixes his eye upon the
CURE, in order TO understand il; but Smith III
his figure before his minds eye, and by strong e
fort fixes it there until the demonstration is pc
fecy clear
There are GO blind persons in the Asylum,
whom 81 are beneficnres Of Massachusetts"
College disturbance. The Baltimore Sun Civ
the following account of "a college 1are-up. f
such do fathers toll
We learn that most disrepu,abe ace
took place on Monday at ST. Marys College,
this city, calculated TO bring disgrace on the pc
petralors. 1t appears that one of the smier
from the Eastern Shore, during that day gave
ders to white woman employed there as Sc
want, TO take pitcher OF water 10 his room, VIII
she informed him that his room did NOT come II
der her care whereupon the student seized pic
er the servant had in her hand and broke it oS
her head. For this conduct he WINS immediate
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