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


Lsirds Mills, was severely injured on Friday, the
18th inst. His right hand was caught by a chain.
and he was thrown around horizontal shaft three
times, the chain mauglng his arm at the shoulder
joint in shocking manner. The wound was
dressed by DR.. w. S. Vincent. Mr.. G's. recovery
is considered doubtful.
EvANGErrNr, who occasionally wrote good po-
etry for our columns, is requested to give her
name 70 Abby Maria Hemsnway, box ~, ,Burling-
ton, Vt.
The GALE reached West Danville and blew
down a barn St. Johnsbury, overtuuing lib
erty-poe; Barnet, overturning a bridge and
barns North Danville, WheeIock, Burke, Sutton,
Waterford Ryegate and Bath, n. II.
On the both nit, Hon. Charles L. Austin, an
American, well known in the United States, died
in the City Of Mexico. He was born in Orwell, f,
Vermont, in 1914 lie was q son Of Apollos Aus
tin, an old Revolutionary soldier. who fought un-
der Charles Lee.
A CoNysSnoN Of the conditional Union men
OF Virginia is In sessioAug. decentralization
dance small John NJ Bolts is President, and H.
Maynard, Of Tennessee, is 20 address the Conven-
ton. fthe President aud Cabinet favor condition
al Union men and rebels the unconditional Union
men of the South will be in the minority. They
deserve something better than that
The holders Of the bills Of the venango Ma
tional Bank, of Franklin, Pa, and of the AIer-
chants National Bank, OF Washington, are re-
quested to send them to the T. S. Treasurer for
redemption,
STATE BANK BrLis.-Gather up all your State
bank bills (eycrything but u. S. currency and
National bank bills), send them in for redemp-
ton, and don't take any more of them. The Bos-
ton banks have given notice that they will not be
received after june next.
A CABINET CoLLoQUY.
Says Seward to Johnson great dangers ! see,
We've factions run mad aud traitors to brave us,
From evils at hand, and the evils to be,
Do you think that this speech-making Congress
will save us?
Saws johnson, Good Sir, wonders never will cease,
Strange things will fall ou, 70 please or appall us,
Though Rome was once saved by the cacking geese,
lis a fate, [ opine, that never will beial US.
~ Esser Statesman.
NOTE, BY AN OUTSIDER.
Dear Andy and Billy don't haste to try that on
II cackling won't save then more is the pity,
For twas Bill that cackld down there at Manhattan,
And It's cackle at Wash. at both ends of the city
A WARN1SG.-Tbe soldiers in Maine have held
a State Convention, and
Resolred That traitors shall never rule over
us and the safety Of the Union and perpetuity Of
the principles of our Republican Government de-
mand that those who have been engaged in armed
rebellion be excluded from seats in Congress
TRour-We observe that the proprietor of the
Stevens House, MarshGell, advertises fishing
ponds in that neighborhood All right, but to
make the thing sure, we advise strangers to call
on Aurora Mallory, East Montpelier, and persuade
him 10 drop line to the trout, by way Of intro
duction.
GEORGE DEWEY, Of Montpelier, is second in
command OF the U. 81 steamer Kearsage, on
which so many receatly q \ ilem yellow fever,
near the coast OF Africa.
TORNADO IN RRToN.-rhe gale of last Sunday
was severe in Ripton. Every house in one dis
trict, says the Aliddlebury Register was more or
less injured and several entirely demolished
Chimneys were blown down, houses unroofed,
wagons blown away, horses thrown down, wheels
wrenched from the axletrees and two persons
were seriously injured
The IMPROVED SEwING MACHINE, advertised
in this paper by Shaw d Clark, Biddeford, Maine,
is really an elegant and excellent machine, and so
cheap that every family can afford to buy t. We
have one of the machines.
CARRIERs steam saw-mill was burned recently
at Hartwellville Loss, $4,000 to $4,000, and in
surance small. Lane, Ptkin & Brock, Montpelier,
can put mill under roof of slabs that will
quickly earn all that money back again.
The Navy Department is greatly troubled for a
resh-water basin in which to keep the iron-clads.
Finish the ship canal ta Lake Champlan and
government will find big basin ready built and
full of fresh water.
NEARLY all the rooms iu the large hotels at
Manchester, Vt, have been engaged for the
summer. and the journal calls upon the owners of
private houses to help in accommodating the vis-
itors
A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG at Newport K. l..
threw drunken soldier into the sea, and then
helped fish him out. He knew the chap wanted
more water to his liquor.
BuRLNGroN was visited by heavy frost on
Wednesday night, 10th inst.
A man named Haynes, from Dalton, N. H.,
dropped dead in Lyndon, Vt, recently.
c. S. KENDALL, OF Granville, was found dead in
the woods near his house on the 29th ult. 1t is
supposed he died in fit.
MLLoRY's TROUT seom to be unusually large
and fine this season.
OREGON has ten thousand more men than wo-
men. Think OF that ye ancient maidens
The wool crop Of Michigan will reach l2,O00,-
0OO pounds this year.
FrFrY-rwo ships were lost in April at cost Of
81, ,707 ,575.
TnE ". and Canada Railroad has declared a
dividend OF four per cent.
The Memphis Post gives the testimony of an
ex-Confederate officer that the late =" feud was
entirely between the police, Irish and few negro
soldiers-caused, undoubtedly, by the inhuman
and brutal treatment of the police upon negroes
whenever they had cause to arrest one"
! Five thousand acres have been burnt over near
Martins ferry, N. H., the fire having been set by
! the sparks FROM locomotive. Fences, trees
wood all swept of by the fire.
TnE LYNDON Union says man in Troy, w.
aged 75 years, cut three cords of'wood in ten
hours. A man at Montpelier, aged about ninety
L. In Iu.