Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-05-11

watches not only 90 with the trade and 90 in the
pockets of 100000 people, but they 60 right and
90 everywhere -ErchGage
FIREs.-Damon Fuller of Starksboro, had his
barn burned, May 3, together with nine cows. one
yoke of oxen, and several tons of hay Loss, $1,000
St. Adams gas-works were burned on the same
day. Loss, $1,000 to 5000; $4,000 saved by in
surance obtained on the day of the fire. The
railroad Company loaned dre-engine for the oc-
cason, and one well was discovered with a little
water in it. st. Adams is much better for fires
than for insurance companies.
On the same day the tannery of A. II. Tucker
& Co., Halifax, was burned. Loss, $4,000; in
sured $4,000.
THE gold crop of the world will probably reach
$500 900 this year. Previous to 1880 the
average annual yield was less than S34, O0O, 600.
SOMEBODY says President johnson has pri-
vate " coffee-pot, holding a gallon, which he
drinks in great swallows without sugar, and big
black cat the iayorite Of its master, which always
sits grayely on the desk" Did he, or did he not.
drink the cat2
A company Of Yankees has bought Lower Cali
fomia Of Mexico. Annexation will come next.
JEFF. DAVIS apd wife are now sheltered under
the same roof, and Southern ladies' furnish Mrs.
Jefferson Ds. pin money.
AT AuGusrA, Gee. the white women adorned
the graves Of rebel soldiers with flowers. There
upon the colored ladies procured flowers for the
graves Of Union soldiers but the Mayor, with
police force prevented the colored women from
their purpose. Chivalric
IMPORTANT testimony, duplicating JEFF. Davis
in the assassination plot, is missing from the War
Department.
MASSACHUSETTS, is suffering from fires in the
woods.
NJ S. SHELDON, Of Salisbury, has sheared six
teen pounds Of wool from an American Improved
Merino yearling eve
A BABE, which jumped from the arms of its
nurse into the Ohio River, at Louisville. few
days SINCE and was in danger of being swept over
the falls, was rescued by Newfoundland dog on
board the steamer in which the childs mother was
travelling.
MINNESOTA will export this season ten million
bushels of wheat. Two years ago she raised none
whatever.
FELLOW in Pekin, H., married a widow, and
on the bridal night decamped with sl1O, and his
predecessors wardrobe
ToTAL exports of tea from China to Great
Britain, up to Feb. Is, 1865 lO7 ,6G7 100 pounds.
They are going to have fire alarm telegraph
in Hartford, Conn. 1t will cost $4,000.
From $1,000 to &c, 600 Holsters are daily brought
to Portland
oSE may now travel by rail S75 miles west of
st. Louis.
No less than $685. letters were mailed from the
PoughkeePsie post Office in one day.
Two hundred and fifty emigrants from Canada
came over the Vt. Central, on Saturday.
RAD.-There is a student in the Academy at
johnson who is under the necessity of laborine
for his board and is thereby driven into late hours
OF study to keep pace with his class Some of
his associates took the interim of Saturday after
noon recently, and with shouldered saw horses and
saws, they marched in single file to this students
wood-pile, and the result Of their onslaught was
the laying out" of about six cords of wood en-
t'rey 'cut up" They then, with their fellow
students, walked up to the Principal, and paid the
tuition OF the young man, and enjoined upon him
the necessity OF being more careful in the future
Of bis failing health.
broken-down actor recently married girl of
The tender age OF eleven at Detroit.
A PROCESS has been discovered for making ex-
'eIlent telling from cows hair superior it is said
% telling of wool, for many purposes.