Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-06-25
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Gently gave birth to twins-one Of each sex.
[ Here we have another edition in two volumes
of "Goldsmith's Animated Nature"
| ~ Tho watcrtown wis Democrat says
that nice potatoes are selling in that city by
the farmers at eight cents bushel, and the
sweetest butter at ten cents pound.
~ The last thing Mrs. Cunningham Bur
dell has done is to buy farm in Carroll
county, Ohio, paying $4,000 down upon it,
and the paper says she is going to take pos
session.
70 Matrimonial negotiations are in pro-
gress at New Orleans which will result in the
union of the princess Betsoy Bowlegs,
daughter of Billy Bowlegs, Of Florida, with
young and ambitious New Yorker.
HARD on ToBAcco-The last North In
diana Conference Of the Methodist Church
agreed to the following resolution -
Resolved, That no person be admitted as a
member Of this Conference who is in the
habit Of using tobacco in the common way,
without an agreement to discontinue the prac-
ticc.
Ex-PREsIDENT PHRcE--A private letter
received in Washington from Madeira, says
General Pierce and wife were to leave for
Lisbon about the lst of June for tour upon
the continent Of Europe. The health Of
Mrs. Pierce has improved, though she is still
an invalid.
THE Season WEsr.--A friend writing
from Pennsylvania under date of June /.
says "Our season is very backward and
the continued rains keep our rivers at high
water stage. Last week we had perfect
delugc raising the Ohio twenty feet in -
hours, carrying away coal and lumber TO the
amount Of over $4,000 in one night.-Caie-
doHian.
Az INuDEL The English
correspondent Of the Iou Herald writes:
Thomas Cooper. the noted skcptic, and
author Of The Purgatory Of Suicides. has
recently become convert 20 Christianity
and after having spent thirty years of his li.e
in lccturing and writing against the Bible, ho
is now striving % make reparaton for the
mischief he must have done, by leoturiug in
defense of the sacred Scriptures.
to The Cincinnati Ga-eqe says that dur
ing the last three weeks, more than twenty
runaways have passed through that city on
their way to Canada. One of this number
was a Kcntuchan. who was so white that he
travelled through Kentucky and crossed the
river unsupported, and the underground
agents Of Cincinnati regarded him as an i'm
poster until be was recognized by one Of his
former fellow bondsmcn.
- A person representing herself as the
Countess de Savatellc, has lived for the last
forty years in Versailles, drawing the pension
of the deceased countess as Lady Abbesa in
retirement, and mixing only in the aristocra-
tic circles of that city She wore the dress
Of an Abbess, and no one doubted she was
true Countess and Abbess dc Sayatollo. A
few days ago this person died, and it was
found that the pretended countess was
man lie had been educated and brought
up in a convent in intimacy with its inmates.
without suspicion!
~ The Philadelphia Press declares that
those for whom it speaks will listen to no
compromise, and propose none with the Ad-
ministration. They cannot cooperate with
it "until the ban is removed and the treach-
cry to principle is disayowod" Unless this
is done it predicts the sure and speedy down
fall of the Democratic Party. of which it re-
marks Tho controlling, deciding power
resides, where it always has resided, in the
Free States
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tn ros,ll ,hor, of con7s, at an odv,nccd
al ,horl,a,t ,,r;oo aco,r,l;,,, 70 ,ho rocos-
sity OF the purchaser to go immealateiy on
Indeed IN some instances they oher preml-
um to those VINO have purchased their tickets
from the real ohlcers' and thereby command
a monopoly for the sale OF tickets. By this
strategem rich harvest Is reaped upon the
sailing OF every steamer Tor California nor
can 1t be frustrated IN any way unless steam
or Agents refuse to sell TO any OH' actual
passen8e'S ana make the tickets mot trans
ierable' --di0a'y "'"fHat'
swur MIX Donor-A New York
s,giIl mill mannhctnrer bovin, lost nearly
al his cnstor,ors In cor.copence of tho no.
oo,, do,.,Ionn,onts ob,pt s,yill mill hit nnon
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