Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-12-20
NERMONT ITEMS.

The TAXEs.-Nermont has assumed the
collection Of the United States tax. and the
amount is provided for in the usual tax bill.
There will be no separate assessments for
that tax. The whole State tax this year is
so per cent. on the Grand List This List
Cor State taxes amounts 70 500, $50 0j, so
per cent. Of which is about 4S5,45O Deduct
.ng Attachments and , - per cent. for colec-
ton. and it is believed that this tax will yield
$3.50, 900 net revenue. BY thus assuming the
collection of the tax, the State saves about
u ID per cent, net.
FoUND DRowNED. The body of Mr. Rus
sell j. Jones of this place. master of canal
boat, who has been missing since Wednesday
night last, was found yesterday in the lake
near the Central wharf 1t is supposed that
he slipped from plank in going on board his
boat. His age was p years.-Briington
Free Press.
Coon News FOR THE I'm AND 8TH.-We
have authority for saying that the War De-
partment had decided to send both the 7th
and 9Th regiments, now being raised in this
State. to the Southern coast under Butler
and Phelps. Nothing will crafty Vermont
boys more than to be under the idolized Gen
Phelps. The recruits for these regiments
are coming on briskly already, but as soon
the above fact becomes known, they will
be filed in double quick" - Woodstock
Standard
Coon FOR NERMoNT.-In a letter from
New York the present week, the writer incl
dentally says 81 met member Of Congress
from New Jersey yesterday He mentioned
conversation with President Lincoln in
which he claimed that New Jersey had re-
sponded more freely than other States, and
had furnished and armed her volunteers more
fully and better than any others. The Presi-
dent, he said, admitted the claim, with the
exception of Vermont. which he said had
done little better.-C dledonian.
MErEoRIo SToNE.-As a member of the
family of Mr., Zephaniah Eddy Of Chittenden
sitting by the window on Friday evening
last, at about twenty minutes before six, his
attention was attracted by very intense light
on a hill some thirty rods distant, as bright
as a calcium light. The attention of the
whole family was Immediately called to it,
1t gradually faded away and finally became
extinct, and the cause remained a MYSTERY,
until the next morning, when on making an
examination Of the spot where the light was
seen meteorc stone was found, having in
dented itself about three inches into the fro
zen ground. The pebbles about it bore marks
OF having been very much heated by il, and
the grass around it was considerably charred.
The stone seems to be sandstone, colored red
dish brown by sesqui-oxide of iron. Its di-
mansions are about five inches the long way
and four inches wide. At the thickest end il
measures about three inches. and tapers down
in the form OF wedge 1t is very rough and
seems to have been broken off from larger
.-Ruiiand Herald
Ellis Button & Eaton, of Springfield, VT,
propose to lease Of the Government ten thou
sand confscated acres and five thousand con-
lrabands as apprentices in the vicinity of
Port Royal, S. c., and pay the Government
fourth part of the crop and give the negroes
three months schooling in year, with other
favorable conditions.