Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-06-01

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The EcIEcrrc DocroRs are called to meet in
State Convention at Montpelier june @.
Tm FREEMAN supports Hon J. S Morrill, for
the Senate on the East side.
Rxv JoHN NEWMAN, D. D. President of Rip
ley Female College, at Poultney, has been ap-
pointed by the Secretary Of Wsr one Of the
Board OF Visitors to Military Academy at West
Point.
SrEPuES PHuLrs, of Hardwick, Mass, adyer-
tses in Barustable paper, forbidding "any person
marrying Rosalinda Pratt, she having promised to
marry me-
CAROLINE T. wife Of Gen. D. W. G. Clarke.
Executive Clerk of the L. S. Serfate, died at Bur
lington, May %.
5. B. WATERS and wife, Of johnson, were bad
y injured by being thrown from wagon on Sum
day last. Hon. Abel K Warren, of Berlin, is
suffering from injury in the same way, and Mrs.
A. Carpenter, OF Eden, had both shoulders dislo-
Gated in ike manner
GEN. SrANNARp consents to be a candidate for
Congress in the Sd district, says the Free Press.
A half-drunken ruaian stopped a quiet Pitts
burgher the other night with the rough sautation:
" Here. now what have you got in your pocket 2'
" A three-barreled revolver was the instant re-
ply. The gentleman passed unmolested.
/ As Ohio man has discovered a mode of harden
ing copper, which thousands Of years ago was
made as hard steel,
TnE town Of Derby, at its last annual meeting
voted the sum Of $1,000 for the purpose Of build
ing monument to the memory Of deceased sol
diers from that town It is to be built Of granite
and the stone are now being prepared. The site
is not yet fully agreed upon.
The Newport News says that a part of the
Memphremagog House-that portion owned by
the Railroad accommodating about POO
guests will be open to the travelling public, under
the management of Mr. Wm. H. Witt.
TuE proprietors Of the Fort Pitt Cannon Foun-
dry. Pittsburg, intend sending big twenty inch
cannon from that city to the Paris Exhibition. It
will be % feet long, 81 feet diameter at the breech'
and will weigh 80 tons. When completed it will
be mounted on an iron carriage, weighing eight
tons, and will be accompanied by specimens OF
balls. shells aud cartridges. The cost will be
about $50, 900.
81 think, ," said a fellow the other day, 81 should
make a good member Of Congress for | use their
language. received two bills short time since,
with requests Tor immediate payment the one
ordered to be laid on the table, the other to be
read that day six months
The ladies' of Baltimore have Just sent over sew
en- hundred barrels of provisions to the suffering
inhabitants of Georgia.
> THEY manage things iunnily in Caliiomia-mili
tary funerals. for instance After burying the de
ceased. the band comes back and serenades th'
widow
, Two counties in California are expected to pro
7 duce five years hence wine crop double the en-
tire yield of the United States in 1860, which th
: last census put at 100000 gallons.
a Az antiquarian has proved that Adams ES
It press Company was in existence when its orgina
o tor, Adam, was alone in the Garden OF Eden, TO
wasn't Eve created for Adams express company ?
! TnF police reports of New York city contain
/, AN account Of conductor of horse car, who de
IS liberately put out the lights OF the car, and
% gang of pickpockets, profting by the darkness
= made quite a haul from the deenoeess passengers
A decision has recently been rendered in th
p. Superior Court in Buffalo, n, Y, by which tn
ir sum of $l42 So was recovered from party {
"a gamblers in favor OF a young man named steyeT
:. son, who had been entced into faro den, whei
es he lost heavily.
sy FoR DASDRuFF,- pint Of alcohol add
table spoonful Of castor oil, and flavor with ie
=. ~ drops of lavender. Half the hair washes are D
better aud cost much more.
," The Gettysburg monument will cost $4,000.