Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-06-17
Chips ano Clippings.

CANADIAN ITEMS The weather at Quebec
on Monday of last week continued very chan
geable.
The Gazette of that date says: Upon the
whole, appearances are yet favorable for the pro-
duce Of the soil. Vegetation is nearly for
ward as in common years. The apple trees are
beginning 10 be in blossom in favorable expos
ures The markets are high, but so are the wa
ges of the laboring classes. The agricultursts
in this part of the country complain OF the want
of hands qualified for their work.
The latest reports from the Quarantine Sta
ton at Crosse Isle are unfavorabe. There are
thirteen hundred sick, and about thirteen thoui
sand in forty vessels at the Station According
| to all accounts, death and starvation are nearly
as bad at Crosse Isle as in Ireland The num-
Der OF orphans is now about hundred.
O. There are 40 vessels at quarantine, ut
Quebec, having on board $4,000 emigrants.--
There are great number of deaths occurring -
daily.
CCTF The Hibernia brought out specie to the
amount of 100000.
THIRTY THOUSAND IMMIGRANTS IN A SINGLE
MoNTu. The number of arrivals at this port
from foreign countries, during the month of May :.
past, was 407 same month last year, $50; do.
do. year before last 236. Immigrants arrived in
May last, 30,974 same month last year, 1882;
do do. year before last, l0,2l4.-.M Y. Journal
Of Com. =.
O. The Baltimore Sun has a letter from
Charles County, confirming intelligence previous
y received, Of great scarcity of food and SUI
ferng among the poor of that region. The POST
master at Pleasant Hill states that many are beg
ging from door 10 door, and that no corn is to be
had at any price.
MELANCHOLY SHtPwRECK The following Is
copied from late Halifax paper:
The ship Miracle, Elliot, master, from LIVER
nool. hound q Oupbnc. RI daVs out. with 1C)3
passengers, was wrecked at the Magdalcn ISL
ands on the 10Th May. Sxty-four were drown
ed and thirty others died of fever.
TAKE EN- ALL. A few days ago, at the rem
devious of Capt. Chase, IN the tenth Ward,
, woman with chubby child in her arms, appear
ed and demanded sight at the officer; Lieut..
, Goodae presented himself So, sir, you've clap
ped your dirty soer trappings on ny husband,
have your"
"Who is your husband madam 7" demanded
1 the Lieutenant.
> "Biey McMurtee, and bound boy he is, so
please We. But it's dirty thing O. you, my pref
ty man, to take him from his wife and cllldren'
o "Can't be helped" said the Lieutenant; "its
e too late now"
|. "Then take the baby, too" cried the woman,
8 as she forced the child into the arms of Lieut.
G. "Take 'em all, I'll send you four more the
day."
of she ran at a rapid pace, leaving the unfor-
tunate Lieutenant with the ne,r recruit squailing
. in his arms. Doubtful of its value to the service
% of Uncle Sam, he sent it home by the father.
- Cincinnati Conn.,
h ABBOTT LAWRENCE. Hon. Abbott Lawrence,
70 of Boston, has presented to the Corporation of
ID Harvard University the sum of fifty thousand
Is dollars to be expended in establishing a school
r for the purpose of teaching the practical scen-
ID ces The donation and the object do honor to
Is Mr.. Lawrence, and entite him to rank as one Of
It. the first philanthropists of the age.
> A Coon NEIsHnoRHooD. farm was lately
90 advertised in a Western newspaper, in which all
e. The beauty OF the situation, fertility of the SOIL
r- and salubrity of the air, were detailed in the
H. richest glow of rural description, WHICH was far
III Their enhanced with this -" N. B-There is not
BIT an attorney within fifteen miles of the neighbor
A. hood"
10 DECLINE OF PoPERy IN ITALY. The Rev.
e. Mr.. Pomeroy, in an address before the Foreign
Evangelical Society, last week, stated that while
10 travelling on the Continent, he fell in with We
&C. nean gentleman of intelligence and superior
ur education, with whom he conversed freely on the
religious state Of Italy. This gentleman declar-
W. ed his utter adherence of Popery as exhibited
P- at home, and asserted that Of the 1900 students
to who were his companions at the University d
Padua, fve -eighihs of them entertained views sim
~ liar to his own on this subject Boston Irap.
of CURIOUS ANAeRAm. Admitting the letter ,
nd. 10 be decomposed into its two component parts
- c and s. the cause, the object and the conse
md quence Of the Mexican war will be found to con
ea. sist of the same letters: Texas-tbe cause. The
city of the Aztecs-the object. And Taxes
the consequence.
to DOUBLE CALF.-A COW belonging TO Mr.
Or LYMAN Twiss, in Antrim, few days ago bro
as forth calf with legs, eight feet, two heads
not two tails, and two bodies. The bodies were
e Joined together on the belly, and in one case tive
'he legs were grown together, upon which were two
l'h feet, perfectly formed.-.Nashua Ielegraph,-
ed
er. On Monday man in Saltwater, N. Y, wa
lif. grinding a knife, in the paper-mill, when hi
we hand caught in the band which tnrned the ston'
and he was drawn down over the shaft, tearing
ost his arm from his body his breast was crushed
i've and one ANGLE severely inlured yet strange L
say, he climbed up two flight of stairs to the room
so where the men were at work, opened the doc
ich and walked in before he tainted.
ms There was a curious circumstance connected
we with this accident. After he had been carried
,ch home and come to his senses, he called out t
n,s straighten his fingers, they were all drawn
me- up, and hurt him very much. They went to hi!
not arm, which was lying in another part of the
and found the fingers all cramped up; and OF
Strengthening them out he Immediately seemed
zen satisfied, and became easier. Is this ANNA
hat magnetism? He seemed all the time to feel a.
We much pain when anything was done to the arm
tn body and even after his friends had buried it
her they were obliged to dig it up again, when he
We became easier at once.
;, RAILWAY FLYING-Forty- five miles an hou
Ihe Is the contract time for carrying the mails il
20 England, per railway, and, rapid is this tran
'e, sit, it has been recently outdone. London pa
leu per gives an account Of extraordinary rapidly
DER on tho railway, which seems 20 make reallz,
iad the idea of Puck" I'll put IA girdle about thu
she earth in forty minutes" The road was the Lon
rps don and the Northwestern Railway-and spe
re- cal train consisting Of five carriages, was take
OF from London TO Birmingham in two hours ant
ew thirty minutes. "The actual time Of travelling
ed; did not exceed two hours, being average o
&C. htty-six miles per hour, the train being stoppe
on four times on the journey, to allow other train
OF to be clear of the line, besides stopping at VOL
verton to change engines The latter part c
her the journey, twenty-one miles, was performed i
as twenty one minutes The maximum speed fc
any upward Of q mile was seventy miles per hour,