Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-11-27

q London Newspaper late number Of the
London Morning Herald gives the following nc
count of its issue from n sugle day. Our readers
will bear III mind that the numOer Of columns here
n riiuned is made up by the publication of extra
ehtct.- So allowing "A columns 10 the ordinary
sh ct it would require five extra sheets To
give lil columns. All these extra sheets are
occupied il is said, by advertisements of new raul
way companies. Suppose however, that any one
half of the whole. or say 70 columns are thus oc-
cupied. The amount paid, IL 80 dollars, as Llv-
erI DOL paper iniuru us This would give the
round sIu OF 20 600 dollars week-u perqulSlte
sufficient 10 induce the London Editors to ret up
and Il, cp alive railway malta oil the year round
RoSon TrdpeRr.
awe this day present to our readers snlnetl,ln.
nlinpcihpr without precedent n newspaper Ot the
LARGEST SIZE: II Jour al III IA columns, each column
equivalent TO SIX Or eight octave pnges; journal,
in short, containing IN one days number as much
leupr press as the TOUR numbers OF the Quarterly
or Elnburg review. AS tour de force in The print
ing irdue, The feat is remarkable; aud VIII not be
thought less remarkable when it Is remembered that
for vpy manv days the Herald has published twen-
ty pages, or 1870 columns nearly every day"
o. A. Brownson, having espoused the Catholic
faith in one of his lectures upon the beauties OF
the Catholic religion, and lis necessities to the ex-
is,cnce of Rppublicansm, says:
"The real question, then, is not the compatible
~ or incnupntlblIlty OF the Catholic Chulch with
Democratic Institutions but is the Cuhoc Chcrch
the Church of God; Settle this question first
Bn, IN point of fact, Democracy IS .MScher0uS
Uudm uhertuer The Caiholic Church is not Pitdom-
innnt, to inspire the people with reverence, aud to
teach and accuslOm them to Obedience 10 .4uthOri-
IT,"
Rorages of Plaques. The Plague in l347 de-
stroyed $1,000 Of the inhabitants of London; in
1lU7, 10000 persons were SWEPT Oft in the same
city by the same scOurge; and in 1904 One-J0mih
of the whole population died from the awful pesti
lence. 1t next visited Constartnople in lGl |, when
20 00O persons died of it In 1868 it again VISITED
London taking off 6S COO persons. In Bossora, in
1713, 10000 were destroyed by it. In Smyrna,
1851, 20 100. In Tuns, 1885, $4,000. In Egypt
1892, 100000, and in 1911, 30 QUO.
There is woman living within fifteen miles of
Mobile Ala, Mrs. C.) whi weighs four hundred
and sixty pounds. being forty pounds heavier than
the Hon. Dixon Lewis. member OF Congress from
that State. She enjoys good health
.qnoiher Hero gone. Mr.. Andrew Snyder died at
Intercourse in Lancaster county, on the list inst,
in The hun ired amt thirteenth year OF his age lie
was a soldier of the Revolution, and highly re-
spectacle citizen, and was perhaps the oldest man
in Pennsylvania.
The Wheeling Times states that Captain ]. C..
Reed, OF The y. s. Army, committed suicide there,
on the 18Th Instant, by shooting himself with
pistol. He arrived at Wheeling, on Monday, from
Cincinnati.
We learn from the New York Express, that the
great gun, brought over by the John r. Sklddv
cousi ned TO r. Thompson, Esq, the friend Of
Capt. Stockton, weighed tons about $4,000
pc MS. The duty on 1t ii noun'e.l 10 100 The
freight on It cost about $3.50. The cons lgnee
X. Kermit. Esq, paid $50 tor hosting and land
ing it Oh e wharf. II took a large truck, and
seven eight horses to move 1t.
Miss 'ss'ppi U. S. Senator. Hon. Joseph
w. Chalmers, of NJ ,rsha county, Miss, has be en-
appointed by the Governor, sen ltor IN Congress-
zee Hon. jacob Thompson, who declined the ap-
ponment.
Hers Hanted "A Mr. Bradley Pease died some
months since in Lonisiana, leaving about $780,
for which there is no cldlmn lie is SAID 10 have
been from Vermont, and has a sister living near
Lake Champlain. If the heirs don't get the mon
ey the State will,
The .NormonS. James Arlington Bennett writes
from Nauvuo Oct. .3 J., that lie had met by invita-
tlon, and was intro uced to all the Apostles by
their President Mr. Young. The subject Of dis
cnsSiun was tneu xodns to California. The place
of destination fixed upon at present Is the Bay of
is sattel, and the whole ,lornnn people, or the
gre It ma jnrty OF the will take their departure
from Nau,oo about the 10Th of May next, leaving
all their properly sold unsuld behind them.
The majority against Davis, the Loco candidate
for governor Of Massachusetts,, Is nearly 10000.
Hops have risen in price to something like 40
cents per ID.
The packet ship Waterloo, about TO sail from
New York TOR Liverpool, has on board $4,000
pounds ot Cheese.
.Netc- York Canals The amount of tolls on the
New-fnrk canals the present year, to the 7th ms
tant was S=,35,95S, and exceeding the receipts of
any frmer year 10 the same period. Should the
navigation not come to Premature close from an
early wnt r. it is anticipated that the income will
reach Sl6, 00C0, or one dollar for every inlublt-
ant Ui The State.
The Greai Fire in .N,o- York The losses by
the ire Of July l9h have been so far investigated
as to show that they amount to aggregate Of o.
yer Sersn mtiiions Of dollars.
The revenue In Boston during the month of Oc-
t,ber, 1915, was S452,0C0; during The correspond
ing uonth Of the last year, S390,O00 Increase,
G2,C00
There are thirty churches in Albany which with
the real estate and improvements attached, cost
Si3l.947 The number Of clergymen resident in
The city is AZ. The total amount Of their salaries
for the last year, including pcrquislles and OF
real estate by them, was $1,000. The number OF
inhabitants Is Al ,0C0
Scanning Grnin for Cattle. Remember that
grain ot all Kinds may be steam boiled, or cooked
to great advantage tor feeding aud attening all de-
scrpnons Of domestic animals, from the OK and
sheep, down TO the tnikey, hen and duck. One
htlt the amount of corn, cooked by steam, ever
by the ordinary process Of boiling, Will be sui
Cleut uccOnDll sH the result at the whole tODf