Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-06-30
CHIPS AND CLIPPINGS.

Hpnors Of Washington. \ correspondent of
'he iubgne sends as the following bits of incl
irence from The great metropolis
he Presidents health begins 20 improve
he walks about with the youug ladies, and u
~iIi do him good. Secretary Marcy has rol
bran new white hat, and Dee looks elegant DO IL
and when be speaks French be appears ike
French minister He THINKS OF adding O codicii
% has Diplomatic Instructions. requiring French
Ministers, Consn.s and Commercml Agents to
wear white hats abroad. 10 would look WE'LL
Abgah Mann, Jr. OF New-York, is here, coun-
selling the President 70 beware Of the leayen of
the Pnlnsees.'
.7noihsr Editor paid of-Wm. F. Mack, Esq.
recently editor Of the Bellows Falls STANDARD,
has been appointed Mail Agent on the Pas
snmpsc r. r.. in place Of Alonzo Whitman. re
moved. We are glad to have one Vermont a.
gent on Vermont mail route. On the Central
and Rutland roads FIVE New Hampshire men
na'e been appointed, md moi silie,e resident Of
this State -Cdiedoaian.
MACK is not verrnonter. but is native of
New Hampshre-boru aVay over there among
the "Gnnite His We know him well, and
more than that we were dfras" together in
printing office. lie Is very clever fellow
Huntington Banner.
The Washington Union announces the ap-
polntment OF Robert J. Walker to the China
mission.
Something rgy like Uirac'e The North
British Daily Mai has the following under the
title Of Remarkable Occurrence -" 4 little
girl had her leit eye SO completely covered with
q white speck that u was rendered sirhiless.
few days since, while amusing herself out Of
doors, dove descended from a neighb1rng
dwelling house, aud as If in search Of food. re-
moved the speck with Us BAL, without causing
the slightest INJURY, so that ever since the WIS.,
ION of the glrl has been perfect"
The Pence Of Epope.-Advices from Constan-
unoPe announce tha' hrmans securing complete
emancipation 10 all the clergy Of the non Ma
I honeian confessions. have been drawn up By
the Ministry, and submitted TO the SnItan's ia
specuon. New hrmans concerning the civil
nights Of Christian laymen. Of all names we're
also preparing.
Hopsfut-A late French traveller in this
country has since his return, published book,
and says the following good thing Of Harvard
3 University. The professors here are all on
good terms with each other. There has never
been bot one exceptions Of the professors
murdered one OF his colleagues, and concealed
hs body IN the laboratory il is 10 be hoped
The thing will never occur again, however
The Rensselaer, county, n. Y. grand Jury
have found a true bill against the woman Robin.
son, who Is charged with poisoning Mr.. Lanni
gan and Miss Lucy al Troy few weeks since.
SiGueS Emancipaied Maddox, of Louis
lana, en- route for the East, with his family. pass
ed through this city on Friday lasts The GIN
elnldtl Commercial, and while here gave free.
! dom to three of his slaves, who were m compa-
ny, one boy and two girls, lie also gave them
liberal supply of money to supply their wants
until his return from the East when he propos.
es to have their free papers made out
There are 1000 straw-sewers in N. York city,
working for five months in the year, and turning
off about 100000 hats and bonnets.
Down in the Little Pee Dee Swamp. South
Carolina, lives queer old man He never cul-
uyaies the soil, yet accumulates money, which
he hides in hollow trees and he will loan il If
the security suits him. He sells the honey of
nnumerabe bees, and knows where to angle for
the choicest fish, and these are the sources of
his prosperity. Snakes he kills with his heels.
which are so hard that rattesnake's fangs will
not penetrate them. Seventy years has he lived
IN the region, and never permitted doctor 10
get near hun; of course not else his life would
have been shorter. But he has comforter in
heavens last best gift who Is Just like him, only
little more so. Happy venerable couple of the
LATHE Pee Dee go to glory IN all sorts of a par
sgraph.
Matthew Hale, the great light of the English
Bench, said " II all the murders, manslaugh-
tiers, and crimes which have been committed
during the twenty years | have been on the
Bench, were divided into five parts, four of them
would be found to have resulted from nlemper-
ance"
bulwer says ever since there has been so great
demand tor type, there has been less lead to
4spare for musket balls.
1t is singular fact in the history of Low
elt Mass, that in 1873 an engineer, from Bos-
ton employed TO make a survey of that town
wllh reference to manufacturing purposes, re-
Ell!
s lie that values himself upon conscience, not
opinion, never needs reproaches. When am
W spoken of, take 1t thus if | have not desery-
go a. l am never the worse If have, | will
inend.