Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-06-17
Dtferrco articles.

THE PUBLIC School MoNEY.--A writer
in the Colcdon,an throws out the following
hints in regard to the school money, which
may not come amiss in this community
"As our District Schools are about com
meneiug for the season, it may not be amiss
to call attention to the fact that our last State
Legislature made the distribution Of the pub
lie school money to depend upon the number
Of actual scholars in each district rather than
upon the number Of resident children within
its limits. The money now drawn is to cor
respond with the average attendance in the
schools. and it is easy to see the pecuniary
importance Of regularity and punctuality in
the attendance of all scholars who should be
in our schools. When the money was dis
tributed to each district according to the
number Of resident children of certain age,
the careless parent or guardian could be so
without incurring pecuniary loss by neglect
ing to send to school. Now it is different;
every days or half days absence from school
diminishes by Just so much the public money
drawn by the district in which such absence
occurs, so that it behoovos not only all par
ents 20 see that their children have the ben
eft Of the school money, but all tax payers
and citizens in general of district TO do
what they may to promote punctual atten-
dance at school. IL may be well for such TO
bear this in mind when they see scholars
running away with some of their money--at
least carrying it from their own district into
others in town, where attendance is more pune
tual. The absenteeism in a district may be such
as will reduce the public money received to
sum below what will be received. because
merited, by district with but half the num-
Der of resident children within its limits. 1t
is just but let those who must abide the
law see that they secure the benefit Of its
healthy working"
ST. LOUIS, June 5. The following items
are by the overland mail
Eight white men, prospecting for silver
near Honey Lake. have been killed by Indians.
and the house of Col. stevenson, at Red
Bluff. was burned on the II It'll ult. Steven
sons wife, another woman, and five children
persisted in the flames
The Arizonian of the 10th is filled with &C
counts of the proceedings of band of Regu-
ulators, who had driven all Mexicans from
Sonorita Valley, and committed several muir
ders. The Americans at Tabac publicly de-
nounce these outrages, and a company of
troops has been detailed from fort Buchanan
to suppress their further proceedings.
The Utah mail brings proclamation of
Gov. Cumming commanding Immediately to
disperse various parties of Mormons assoca-
ted together in military capacity in the
mountains surrounding Salt Lake Valley
/ The Tan complains that this proclamation was
put into the hands Of the federal officers to
execute instead of the Territorial Marshal.
and asserts that trenson is as rife in the ter
ritory as it had been before the advent of the
army.
4 New York, June 6. A letter from Per-
nambuco of April 80, says a most fearful
storm swept the Southern coast of Brazil on
the 18th instant. 1t is reported to have been
terrible in the extreme. The whole coast
from Bahia Southwark, is lined with wrecks.
The damage is enormous. The loss Of life
is irightful A Brazilian frigate went down
with over four hundred souls on board only
forty were saved
The yellow fever is worse in Rio than il
has ever been known. People are dying By
the thousands. One English brig has buried
five captains and the sixth was not expected
to live
The Washington correspondent Of the Phil.
adelphia Press comedies that Secretary Thomp.
ly endeavored to enforce the laws against the
African slave trade, and that his want of sue
cess is owing to the adverse public sentimen
in many Southern States. He says " | un
derstand that letters have lately been receiv
ed from certain Southern Government off
Gals, detailing the difficulties, and even dan
gers, they have had to encounter in bravin
public sentiment, in regard to the slave tral
hc."
CAMELs on AN ALABAMA PLANTATION. -
The Selma Ala Sentinel of May 20 saws
1.-The oamels purchased by Mr.. Woolse
from Capt. Machado last week seem to an
swer many useful purposes The other day
one of the animals, with rider, brought twely
e bushels of shelled corn to town to mill S
one camel, in milling alone, will answer tn
purposes of a wagon and two mules and wi
travel over the ground four times as quick a
two mules. We understand that they hay
4 been tried in the pillow, and answer the pun
. pose admirably, being docile and easily mar
/ aged"
c G-s'- A law has been passed in France tn,
y Protestant churches shall receive no aid fro
e abroad, and Protestant ministers must II,
r only be natives, but educated in France
They are two of the most UNANIMOUSLY pr
S scriptive laws ever passed against freedom
l. religion.
i ~ John Cobb, Dutchman, travelir
through Clearfeld county, Ohio, came upC
+ a bear trap, and never having seen one beior
n entered 1t for the purpose of examination
10 The trigger shut him up, and remaining tv
n days he was nearly starved, when the own
examined his trap, and found in it a Dutc
N man instead of a bear.
he ~ A fashionably dressed pickpocket il
at New York omnibus recently relieved a La
W of her purse. In the operation diamo
of ring valued at $500 slipped from his fng
ell and remained in the lady's pocket, whore
is was found by her. She shed no tears o,
~ the transaction.
n 70 Jacob Sehieherman. employed in
\ Chicago Brewery, went into an empty b,
~ vat to clear it out, when by mistake the be
ing beer from another vat was let in up
\ him, and before he could be rescued he "
=, so terribly scaded that he lived but sh
~ time.
George d. Prentice, Esq. of the Louisvi
I'd journal, is spoken off as the opposition CT
a didate for Congress to succeed Hon. HUM
ed rey Marshall who declines. Let him cor
IT. Congress is sadly in need of both "Wit q