Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-09-03

S. S. BoYoE, Sec'y.
VERMoNr.-C. G. Eastman. of the Mont
pelier Patriot, was nominated for Congress by
the Democratic Convention of the first dis
trict
We like Mr.. Eastman, all except his poll
tics, and they don't hurt anything up in Yer
mont Boston alias d Bee.
His politics are like the bills of broken
bank don't hurt anything but the holder.
-Bwlmg,on Times
New PArER.-We learn shat a paper is
10 be commenced forthwith at Iras burgh.-
The press and type formerly used by the
North Union" and also its former publisher,
f. c. Harrington, is to be employed in the
new enterprise, and John H. Prentiss, ESQ,
is to be the editor We know trick worth
two of that Let the capital, enterprise. and
talent, necessary for starting new paper, be
concentrated upon the old one, and the peo-
Iplc of Orleans County will have one paper
well supported and well worthy of support
instead of two half starved ones. - Gale
DOMAIN
| SHocKGNG ACCIDENT - A SON of Mr..
Ephraim Clement of Wheelock. aged about
| years, while visiting at Mr. Oliver Magoon's
in this place, was accidently shot on Wodnes-
day last by carcssly handling pistol. The
ball passed through his left hand and entered
his abdomen, passed round over the hin and
lodged near the backbone At last accounts
the ball had not been removed, and a fatal
result is anticipated - CaledoaiaD
BURGLARY.-On Saturday evening the
FIGURING Mil of Mcssrs G. w. Prichurd &
] Co.. in Bradford, was entered through a win
dow, and robbed Of between nine and ten
dollars IN change, and it is supposed of bag
or two of flour, though it is not certain The
rogue did some further mischief in throwing
papers out of the window into the water in
the rear carrying off a slate upon which the
accounts OF sawyer in the noighboring
saw-mill were kept &c.--Aurora
A RARE CAsE.-Therc is in the town of
Cornth boy nearly two years old, who has
living a father and mother, two grandfathers
and two grandmothers, two great grandiath-
ers and two -grandmothers and a great
great grandmother. All the above reside in
that town except great grandfather and
grandmother, living in the adjoining
town OF Washington. The great-great- grand
mother is hearty old lady of only eighty
four years. What child has more ancestors
EARLY CoRN,-We acknowledge the re-
ceipt from b. II. Wallace, of Barton of a
nice lot of new corn-meal. 1t was picked in
the ear last Monday, from Mr. BIS garden,
shelled out and ground into coarse meal. or
"hominy," at his grist mill on Wednesday
morning. This, We venture to saw is the
earliest new corn-meal of the season. North
Star, Aug. %.
A CuRIoslTY. One of the most curious
things we ever heard of is the following At
Mr. Elkins' mill in North Troy. few DAYS
since, piece Of black web silk in a perfect
state of preservation, together with a few
birch chips, was discovered EMBEDDED in a
pine log which was being sawed The log
was solid save where the articles were found.
There for a few inches the log was hollow
There was no crack nor hole by which the
silk could have been thrust in, but the tree
had grown over it completely. The silk was
nearly yard long How it came there is
more than we can explain, and how it should
be preserved for the period that it would take
the tree to grow over it is very strange
Irasbmgh Standard.
a CuRIosrTY - Mr.. A. j. Walker. of
West Townsend, who has returned from a
residence at Campo Saco, Cal, writes to the
Brandon Advocate in business letter as fol-
lows -
al enclose you couple of papers, rather
as curiosity than anything else one of which
! (The Big Tree Bulletin) is printed on the
stump Of a tree, the entire press and fixtures
standing on stump ! can vouch for this,
having seen it myself The stump measures
"a feet 10 inches in diameter, of solid wood,
at seven feet from the ground
The BEARS are said to be quite trouble.
some in Newark this summer-making them.
selves very free with the farmers turnips and
potatoes, aud frequently taking sheep or a
calf by way of change.
JouN W. HAWKINS, the well-known tenn
perance lecturer, died suddenly at the resi-
dence of his son at Parkersburg, Pa, on
Ihursday, of Cholera morbus. lie was about
60 years of age.
I ASorHrR BLACK HAWK GoNE.-Mr. A.
l.. Page, of Montpelier, lost, last week, a
very valuable chestnut Black Hawk Colt
probably one Of the best Black Hawks on
this side the mountain. The horse died of
Hung fever. Freeman