Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-01-18

t-V There are in Massachusetts 29S cotton
mills, estimated to be worth $50, ,964 1856. and
l76 wooden factories, valued at S7,363. $50
The increase in the spindles in the cotton mills
since 1850 is 474,l97.
~ Petitions are circulating among the
women in Ohio, that the Legislature to meet
this winter give them legal personal exist
ence, with right to time, earnings, proper
ty, and the control and guardianship Of their
children, equal to the husband.
~ A German named Troutwein, passion.
ately given to liquor, died at Detroit, one
night last week, after drinking two quarts of
cider at a draught. He had squandered a
property of 5000 in buying rum, and was
known to have poured down as much as a
gallon of whisky, day. For year or two
past he had been drunk all the time.
E19' The philanthropic Cab manufacturer Of
Springfield, Mr.. j. A. II. Ellis, has quite late
ly brought from New York nine Five Point
children and taken them into his family. He
purposes to make efficient members Of Socie-
ty of them all He is paying much attention
to their education, and at proper seasons SUI
perintends the same himself. Would that
there were more such benefactors of the race
in community.
~ Two drunken men came near being froze
to death on Sunday Dec. 23d, in Hartwell-
vile. They had hitched their horse to the
fence and laid down in the road to sleep off
their " weariness." When found they were
utterly helpless, and couldn't speak, and a
short time longer in such bed would have
ended their miserable days.
E1-The N. r. Statesman says some demo-
cratic shapers in that vicinity go about with
onion tears in their eyes, bawling panic and
total ruin and when they can frighten a
credulous farmer and make him believe the
bottom is going to drop out of the Old Gra-
mite State they buy his property at a de-
pressed rate which they have caused by their
mean falsehoods.
tVOscar F. Beckwith was convicted at
Mendoza, ILL.,, of an assault upon man and
his wife, and receiving his sentence he steod
up aud called all men to witness that he was
victim to free masonry, asserting his inno-
cence and declaring that for some ofEense a
gainst the lodge, the witnesses, all Masons,
had trumped up this charge against him.
[WWhen Jackson was asked, few weeks
/ before his death, " what he would have done
with Calhoun and other nnllfers, il they had
kept on,'' Hung them sir, as high as Haman, -
was the instantaneous reply. They should
have been terror to traitors to all time, and
I posterity would have pronounced il the best
act ofmy lifo."
SUDDEN DEATH.-Mr. Joel Pratt Of Yer
non died very suddenly on Tuesday. He had
gathered his children and their families at the
paternal mansion to spend New Years Day
in social reunion. Soon after dinner he
complained of feeling unwell, when Mr.. Ray
started to this village for physician He
was not absent more than fifteen or twenty
minutes but did not return in season to find
his father-in-law alve.-Branieboro Phenir.
IVJames w. Whitney, an eccentric old
genius, died in Pike county, H., last week,
at an unknown age, though SUI posed to be S5.
lie was born in Connecticut. raised in Pitts
field, Mass, graduated at Williams college,
studied law in New York, took milf at his
wife ami left her, in Massachusetts, in 1917,
and settled at Alton. Ill. He always went
by the name Of " Lord Coke" and legisla-
tive history of the state while Vandalia was
the capital would be incomplete without the
part he played as president, each year, Of the
lobby. lie always wore home-spun and a
long cue, avoided all public convoyances as he
would the pestilence, and never communica'
J ted with his family after he left them.