Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-11-10

Cure for BronchitiS-A minister of the Presby-
teran Church, resident in Greene county, who
has been laid aside from his pastoral Office by the
bronchitis, Tor three years past, has entirely re-
covered his voice by the application of Croton oil
10 the surface 1.-THE throat, against the organ af-
ected sent him three weeks ago by Dr. White of
Hudson. One drop, daily rubbed over the sur
face produced singular hut powerful eruption
of the skim which, as it progressed, restored his
voice 10 lis full tone and vigor, 81 to enable
him TO commence hnew, last Sabbath public
speaking.-N Y. Evangelist.
Marriage in the .Street.-We learn from the
Missouri Courier that on the 2Sth ult. Squire j.
+. hlahan linked Miss Eliza Little 10 Mr.. Nelson
Aubury, in one of the streets of Palmyrn.-The
cIrcumsInnc IS are lille romantic. Ii seems TWO
families were travelling westward in company,
with one of which was the fair lady, with the
other the loving swain, who had concluded to
marry. The Old folks refused consent. They
thus travelled on until the families with their
Wagons parted, each taking Il different road,
" hen the lady contrived to escape from her pa
rents Wagon and follow that OF her lover. On
reaching town jumped ont OF their wagon, called
Tor the Squire, htched traces and drove on "their
way rejoicing The opposition of her parents
had nearly driven the young lady TO state OF dis
traction, so her lover drove her 10 the State of
Illinois,
A .Mser. The Wheeling Times says that
Mrs Mitchell died in that town last week, who
had been supposed 10 he very poor, and partially
suhsised on charity for several years past. In
her house were found eleven hundred Spanish
dollars and it appears that she also owned val
liable farm in Pennsylvania.
"A Good Match. How has your daughter mar
red, Mrs Simpson? Pretty well hope.'
very well, thank YOU Mrs. Tompkins Her
husband wears rufiles on his shirt, long-taed
coo leads the singing at church, aud expects to
he made captain in the militia
More Apple Blossoms. Among the many
strange things OF 1913 we may mention that Mr..
A. X. Snow, OF Roxbury, has russell tree, laden
with full sized apples, is also nearly as well COW
cred with blossoms as il was last spring. Boston
Transcript.
An immense Bell. The bell for the new Ro-
man Catholic Cathedral at Montreal, which was
recently manufactured in England and said TO be
the largest ever cast there weighs, 2 tons III cwt
2 qrs and l2 lbs. Ii was cast in Whitechapel at
the foundry of Messrs. Mears * Son. An idea of
its immense size, will be easily formed when the
fact is mentioned that 1t required ten tons OF fused
metal to form the cast, and the casting itself
weighs upwards of seven tons and halt That
its diameter at the edge is seven feet three inches;
that lis cIapper weighs upwards OF three hundred
weight; the wood work, which is composed OF
old English oak, one ton; the iron w0lk more
than half ton, and that the bell Itself IS heavier
than the Great Tom OF Lincoln, by thirIy-two
hundred. The bell has been paid for from fund
subscribed by the merchants, artihcers agricu
turisls, aud Inhabitants OF Montreal, and has cost
with its wood work, &c. upward ofEi,2o0'