Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-01-28
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intoxicated.
Hon. Asa Lowe, of Bradford, is talked Of,
for County Commissioner in Orange County.
John Morse, the present incumbent, has been
re-nominatcd in Caledonia County
In the north part Of this town the "spirits'
are said to be cutting up all sorts of antics
bed clothes, cooking utensils, knives and
forks, household furniture, &c. being made
to dance around the house to the infinite as
constituent Of the inmates. Strange Spirits
those.
We see it announced that the Hon. Hamp-
den Cults. who has been so successful in his
Shakesporean Readings in various parts of
this State the present winter is soon to read
in Boston.
The Tribune Almanac for $50 is received
As political register of the country it is in
dispensible to the politician. Single copies
l3 cents
The Albany Evening journal Almanac for
1859 is a new courtier for public favor. Ably
edited and neatly printed. it is destined to
become favorito with politicians It's poll
teal statistics arc fun and complete, without
any of the party bases which are so promi-
nent in some other publications of the kind.
Godeys Lady's Book for February is re-
ceiyed. Cooley labors necessarily for the
ladies' and the ladies in turn all praise Cooley.
David Kccfe, of Stamford, aged seventeen,
while loading sled last week, was crushed
to death by log rolling over him.
w learn that an ARRAY occurred between
two young men in Waitsfeld last week IN
which one of them was stabbed with knife,
though not aeriously. The affair is undergo
ing a legal investigation.
Two stables. with several valuable horses,
were burned in Newark, y. j., on the oath
inst
A duel almost. has been on the tapis at
Washington the past week, between Senators
Douglas aud Fitch OF course it is amicably
settled.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has received
bids amounting to over S3l 100000 for the
SlO.00O,00O remaining of the loan authorized
in June last
In North Carolina they have discovered a
new method of breaking a refractory horse,
whic outdoes Rarcy. They send the animal
t. Democratic caucus, after which he obcys
every nod and beck.
The tobacco crop Of Ohio for the past year
is estimated to De worth s3,0OO,OO0
The Cleveland P'aindeier proposes to get
Cuba by swapping New England for her
~ Last week our devil in his green
mes, married Mr. Geo. A. Haynes of Hard
wick 20 Miss Augusta S Johnson. it should
have been Miss Augusta S. Joslyn. Editors
copying said notice viii please note the cor
rcction.
ltis stated that Hon. James 3. Clay. viii
make largo investments in the Spring, in the
island of Cuba.
THr ALPHABET is NUr-SHrI1.-Thc
following sentence contains the entire alpha
bet: "John p. Brady gave me black wall
nut box Of quite a small size
gentleman at New Orleans has been fined
sl3 and costs, for enclosing letter in a
newspaper.
The expenditure Of the British Government
for the financial year ending March 3lst,
1858 is said TO have averaged one million dol
lars dag
1t is reported that the British Government
is in treaty with the authorities at Washing
ton for the acquisition OF the State Of Maine,
with a view to its annexation TO British
America.
The Pacific Railroad bill is said to be dead
for the present
Kinsman is selling goods at first cost, See
his advertisements.
l4A-l tH@tNANNh AAlh AANANhs 20 aAuAAAA0t Wy
lcgc, State geologist Of Vermont, is seriously
ill., Much anxiety is felt as TO the termina-
tion of the illness.
"pcrley,' the Washington correspondent
of the Boston JorHG'. says that Congress
has before it moro bills public and private
than could Doe carried 10 an ox-cart, and only
thirty days time remains
SruoNG.-The Citizen, speaking Of some
If..I t. .
melted the ice wherever +; touched "Scyeral
thoughtcss dogs Tapped mp portion of the
liquid fire by mistake. and the way they dis
appeared when they found out what they had
been drinking would have done the foreman
Of old Deacon Giles Distillery good to have
Witnessed
Read the exquisite little song, "The Vacant
Chair, by Walter Wildwood, on our first
page Some of our musical readers could
not do better than to furnish walter with
appropriate music set to his verses.
Bennett OF the Herald, Greeley of the Tr'-
bune, and Raymond OF the Tima-the three
lions of the New FORK pressure contribu-
tors TO the N. J. Ledger for February ..
~ David S. Church, sheriff Of Addison
county. died at his residence on TUESDAY
morning, Sth inst, aged Al years.
U Leroy Brewster, young man of 2l
years. from Randolph, arrested at Mid
dcbury last week, for passing forged note
to the cashier of the White River bank for
slO0 Most of the money was found with
him.
SroLEN.-WhileM M. Charles Beboe, Of Rut-
land, and bis family were at church last Sab
BATH two hundred and thirty dollars were
stolen from his dwclng-house. Two boys
named Ford and Fisk, one s and the other
years Of age, are now in our county Jail
charged with the theft.
THE Cosr OF rHE FRANKING PBWrLEGE
POSTMASTER General Brown estimates the
amount Of ranked matter mailed at Wash
ington at about 500 pound per mouth, which
at ordinary postage rates. would come to
Sl30,00o, or Sl5O,0OO per year The an
nual deficit in the department has been but
$S50,0O0
~ The wealth of Gen Cass is the result
of the rise of real estate in Detroit A Dor.
finn of his ORIGINAL farm is NOW in 81 -,