Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-16

VINO taxes the chair OF Chemistry anu iVAi-
cology, succeeding Prof Hungerford, those
duties in the academica department have rem
dered desirable his retirement from the Med
ical Faculty Prof Seely is from Onondaga
N. Y, and has ably filled for year or two
past the professorship of Chemistry in the
Pittsfeld Mass Medical College. The med
ical department continues, we are happy to
say, to flourish notably. The number of stu
dents in attendance on the course Of lectures
Just opened is already about sixty, and will
probably be eighty or ninety before it is over.
Harrington Free Press.
DEATH FROM MoHru1NE.-On the list
instant, child of Selim ~ DOYLE, of Burke.
about thirteen months old, obtained a bottle
partly filled with morphine, and instantly re-
moved the cork and took several grains into
its mouth before it was discovered, when all
| possible means we're used to prevent its swal-
/ lowing il but to no purpose. Medical aid
was called, and every effort made to save the
child, but it soon become insensibo and re-
NAMED 80 for about eleven hours, when it
/ died.-Caledonia
A CONGRESSMAN AND HIS WfFE.-A
] Washington letter writer gives the following
incident of the long speaker contests
"As Barksdae was urging all the opposi-
ton elements to unite on McClcrnand, lady
in one Of the front seats in the gallery was
observed to become very much excited. She
coughed, made signs, and by other means at
tempted to attract the attention Of a member
below. Not succeeding, she leaned far over
the balcony, and in an audible whisper OK.
claimed, David David change your vote
you BOBBY = The honorable member looked
up, recognized his better half, coored, hest.
tatod, stammered, and then Instantly changed
/ his-seat small, delicate fist was shaken
at him from the gallery amid the suppressed
mirth of the spectators
WHERE WAS IT The New York Couri.
er IL Enquirer says that a mistake ha.
occurred at one of the United States Ar.
mories which could not have occurred
/ had they been under military control
/ When muskcts were issued to a certain regi-
ment it was found that the ramrods would
not go "home = and upon examination, it
| proved that in making certain alterations a
screw had been inserted IN the barrel of each
musket, and that it projected some distance
inside of it. The worst story that was ever
| told of our English friends, about cannon
balls too large for the cannon or axes with
out any holes for the handles, does not OK
~ Mr.. heitt member Of Congress from
south Carolina, has received information OF
the murder Of his brother, at Pilatka. Florida,
by his slaves. lie was confined to his bed
from his bodv Sncb horr;Lie CO. ,, ' oaa
doubt whether tbo sI,vos I'll, - IL.
so well AZ tho southern ,enrlo co. ~, A.
MI hehry Hammond OF Middlebury recent
soiu a DUCK lamo' eleven months old, Tor
9ooo' MI samuel Mcfarland OF Washing
ton county, "a, was the purchaser. This
tho state '' ''' - ''' 0o'' III
olNou LAR lAsrE'-l he obituary col
u'"h contains notice OF the death OF David
ayers OF vernon formerly OF TINS town. Mr..
ayers mas iiVeu entirely by himself we are
informed ior more than fifteen years, during
Wn'cn ume ne had MS conn IN his house
ready LOT use except when 1t was occasional
~ useu as receptacle Tor white oeans.-fhe-
"ir.
FrRE.-The store occupied by Henry C..
Boardman. in South Hero VI was destroved
by fire with the goods therein n few NIGHTS
ago The store was insured for Si00, and the
goods Tor $1,000. The origin of the fire can
not be accounted for When the fire was first
discovered the store was on fire in three sep
arate places-eyidently indicating tue work
OF an incendiary. The loss as we are Informed
will not be very heayy.-St 4. Messenger.
Cy What did the Creator Give the lords If
creation beard for Certainly not to spn,
mort the BARRIERS The Supreme Bo;n, l,,e,,
better how to make man than borber Ala I
June S,ri,shelm. And so Won tbink lane
that he made Ms men inst r;oht Won ,yo,Id,, >,
have MS altered for the whole world -uo,,I5
Won - Prentice
~ ne kutlana Herald says that the Town
meeting IN that place, on tuesday last was
uhusaly sP'f''su ana interesting Even the
LOT fo, the first time within r,o,o e., =. 80
three years. Jobn r pace ,yas cIsc,od ~
ceiving 2O5 votes tn Jobn Ca;n1as A.
the votes passed at the meetins was ono ,ha,
the lister. he instructed 10 assess Tho p a;lroad
property in the Town. ms other pronert, i
assessed-not to include the roadIbod ~
track-and that the Town will INDEFINITE tho
listers from all damages and costs which nav
be incurred by making such assessment.
u
"a n cNNioAN h'-Duf'nS the gale on Sat
uIudl night ldSt Week, u mouse was blown