Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-08-12
GENERAL GLEANINGs.

GENERAL GLEANINGS.
It is stated that the fruit crop of California
this year will amount to S7o,OOO,0OO.
- The Commencement at Norwich Uni
versity takes place August 7th and 18th.
An unofficial census Of San Francisco
makes the population of that place 7s,Os3.
The State Of Maine will have larger crops
this year than has been known for some time.
The hay crop in Canada West is short
one this year. All the other crops are look
ing beautifully.
/ u Senator Seward is now visiting Man
chester, Leeds. and other manufacturing towns
of England.
70 In the present British Parliament there
are sixty-three members who arc more than
sixty years old.
/ ~ The cannonading at Solfcrino was
heard at Trieste a distance Of SO miles, as
the crow flies
The Courts sustain the Mayor Of Phila-
dclphia in stopping the Sunday passenger
cars on the railroads
-Four hundred gallons per acre, worth 5 ,25
per gallon. is the estimated wine crop Of
Hamilton County Ohio, this season.
tV The longest straight line of railroad
in New England is seven miles, in the town
Of Rumney, near the White Mountains.
Two thousand Pixies Peakers are reported
on their way to California via Salt Lake, and
from their destitute condition trouble was an
ticipatod.
A FAcr.-It is said man was never
drowned with a newspaper subscription re-
ceipt IN his pocket. Delinqucnts will please
note this fact
LoNo WrSDrD.-It took the Boston COM
mon council seventeen days to find ont whoth-
err they felt obliged 90 Mr. George Sumner
for his 4th Of July Grafton.
~ Ten thousand revolving rifles are now
manufacturing at Col. Colts armory, in Con-
necticut, for the British government. These
are sufficient to arm six regiments.
~ There is a maiden lady in Connecticut
so extremely modest, that She turned off her
washorwoman because she put her clothes in
the same sub with those Of young man.
The corner stone Of national monument
in commemoration of the landing of the Pill
grims, was laid at Plymouth, with imposing
ceremonies, on the % inst
A country editor having received two gold
+ dollars in advance for his paper, says that he
still allows his children to play with other
children, as usual
- Iowa Dodge, defeated Dodge Foreign
Mission Dodge, is up Tor the Govemorship of
Iowa. He can as well be beaten now as when
he run for the Senatorship and he will be-
r "a The Democracy of Maryland have held
their State Convention and steered very Judi
ciousy between Douglas and the Administra-
90 De-
~ Greenwood Cemetery, near New York
! city, was founded in June, 1910, and from
that month up to the 23d ult 69,040 bodies
have been placed in it. 1t will in time out
number the living city.
- A memorial requesting Mr.. Sickles to
resign his seat in Congress has received the
signature Of 400 Of his constituents, and
there is to be a public meeting in the eighth
ward, New York, to repeat the request openly
A pretty girl attended ball out West, re-
Gently, docked off in short dress and pants
The other ladies were shocked She quietly
remarked that if they would pull up their
dresses about the neck as they ought to be,
their skirts would be as short as hers.
A correspondent writing from Niagara Falls
says that where the Suspension Bridge origi-
nally sagged only two or three inches
ii says twenty inches. The general impress
sion in the neghborhood is that this great
work of art will one of these days give way
and fall into the river. Visitors now walk
over the bridge, instead OF crossing in the
trains as formerly.
AT the Douglas Convention of Lasale
| county, the first business transacted was to
{ take vote to allow one of the delegates to
, read an advertisement OF a stolen horse. The
sagacious owner knew exactly where to 90 to
find the thief
1t is remarkable incident that the 5th of
August, the day on which the armstice lust
concluded is to terminate, has always been
kept as holiday in France, it being the day
on which the Great Napoleon was born.
CREASED BALLoTs.-It is said that an in
genious Democrat of Virginia, fearing his
name might be scratched from ticket. pre-
pared creased tickets, so that the people
could not write on them or make an erasure.
! The Providence journal thinks Democracy
must be declining in Virginia, if the party
cannot swallow a candidate ithout greasing.
= 70 new Free Soil paper, called THE Re-
publican, has been commenced at Kansas City,
Mo-, n. Thomas Doane, editor. The editor
says in his selutatory
&c shall advocate boldly and untlinching-
ly the policy of making Missouri Free State,
believing fully in the principle of missouri
for white men, and white men for Missouri :"
) and also hope TO see her take the proud posi-
ton to which she is justly entitled, as the
J Empire State of the West, believing, as We
, do, that she never can assume that position
till she acquires it through the newborn
{ energy infused into the body polite by the
strong muscular arm and intelligent voice of
the free white laborer