Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-05-25


volume ~. It is, we believe, the oldest Of the
monthlies published specially for the benefit of
the ladies; and with an experienced and skful
editor and an enterprsing publisher, it deserves
the liberal patronage by which it has been so long
sustained. So per annum.
PrrmsoN's Ladies' National Magazine, Phila-
depha Its otherwise pretty fashion plate as
tonished us with the cap Of a heavy pillar sur
mounted by pot Of flowers. as the tip top orna-
mcnt of a scant bonnet but closer inspection
revealed the fact that this is not very ridiculous
after ALL since the lady bears the bonnet only, aud
not the flower pot Lucky This number com
pletes the 49th volume and now is the time 10
subscribe for volume 3d. Price - 90 per year.
Eccr HOMO has reached its third edition. For
sale by Ballou, Lo,eland q Co.
Tuu London Saturday Review thinks nothing
is more absurd than the habit OF taking months
vacation az the only relaxation OF year OF inces-
SAINT toll, and says. "To alternate long spell Of
excessive labor with a comparatively short spell Of
excessive repose is about as rational as to maintain
that a man who takes bottle of neat brandy one
day and quart Of water the next has been drink
ing brandy and water
Ak editor says in a recent letter to a friend
"Afpresent / am in the country, recovering from
fourteen years editorial life-bad eyes, crooked
back and broken nerves. with little to show for
it, Any one would think the three articles emu
merated were quite enough to show for it.
An exchange says q" No one can tell what q
day may bring forth but we can tell what a night
recently brought forth to young farmer in this
vicinity. Three calves two colts, eleven pigs
nine lanbs-and baby
A diabolical attempt to burn the City Of Madi-
son. Wis. was made Saturday evening. 1t
was fred in FIVE different places at about the
hour
Cor. A. p. BLUNT, 9th Vt. is Brevet Brigader
General and ID Lieutenant A. W Fuller, of the
10th Vt, is Captain, for meritorious conduct at
the battle of Cedar Creek
Az exchange SAYS that certain ofHce-holders
just now, are very earnest in their alteration Of
Moses and the profits.
The flood in the Mississippi is overwhelming
3" the garden of Louisiana" that is, the alluyial
regions west OF the river.
The Boston papers have determined to complete
the Hoosac tunnel by boring their readers.
Ma j. JoNEs, of Barre, has COW that brought
calf weighing il2 pounds when - hours old.
THE following is an impromptu by member Of
the Massachusetts Legislature.
90. would some power this gift bestow
lcasi foauiing to the skies;
And let each member drink quart,
That we may sometime rise
The two Methodist societies in Burlington have
united and are to build a new aud elegant church.
The Congregational church in Wilmington has
voted to have but one sermon on each sabbath,
and to devote the forenoon to the Sabbath School.
wmow snHgNAN. Of West Springfield. Mass,
had husband brother, twenty cousins, and
seyvutccn nepnews IN the Union army during the
war. Her husband was killed.
The London Spectator notices the formation OF
a company called the Cash Payment Associa-
ton intended to take advantage Of the difference
between cash and credit prices Every person
who pays ten shilling year to the association re-
ceiyes a list Of shops at which, for ready money,
be may obtain goods from seven to twenty five
per cent. cheaper than he otherwise would
Among the new journals advertised in Paris the
latest is called lie Photo, and purports 20 be
written by fools, to be read by the same.
The MAY Term Of the County Court will COM
mence at Hydepark on the 22d. Hon. w. G.
Wilson will preside.
p. Kirk, OF Fairfield, has taken the hotel in
johnson, and is keeping good house.
post Office has been established at South Dan
vile.
| Though the size of material particles cannot be
presumed, it is easy enough to separate some sub
stances to the last degree of fneness. A drop Of
water containing one millionth of grain Of indi-
/ go turns blue color; the bulk Of this particle,
even if it were all in one mass in the drop, which
! it is not would be only one ve-hundred-billonth
OF a cubic inch.
The Lewiston, Me-, Journal says gentleman
living in Auburn last year raised $1,000 worth of
garden plants and vegetables on about one acre of
land, and this year he will, if ordinarily successful,
get $4,000 worth from the same land,
g think have seen you before. sir are you
not Owen Smith?' "Oh, yes; I'm OWN Smith,
and OWN Jones, and OWN Brown, and OWN
everybody"
A former Speaker of the House of Represents
tiyes of Massachusetts,, whose Christian name was
Samuel H., being absent day from illness a
member sent him next morning this laconic note
" Sam-ulP" The reply was equally short Sam
Weller %
The first bushel of wheat ever raised in Mime.
sofa was raised in 1929 last year the yield wa,
100000 bushels and this year, with a good