Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-06-08


President Of the lrasburg National Bank of Or
leans, on the 29th nlt vice Hon. l. II. Allen, de-
ceased
LrMuEL Cook one Of the three last surviving
Revolutionary heroes. who was born in Plymouth,
Vt. died on Sunday night, May 90 at Clarendon,
n Y, aged 1902. At the age of II he entered
the army Of the Revolution, first in the Dragons
aud then in the infantry, under Col. Seldom. Mr.,
Cook was three years in the army, was present at
the surrender of CORVALLIS at Yorktown, and
took an honorable discharge at the close Of the
war, signed by Gen. Washington. Mr. Cook
went to Western New York to live more than 80
years ago.
Con. S. NJ. WAITE, Of Brattleboro, recently
bought COW Of Mr.. Winslow Of Putney, for $500.
She is pure Durham breed and three years old.
A. b. PmNGLr, of Ryegate has lamb weeks
old weighing 40 pounds
PATENTS have been granted to j. +. Briggs,
of Randolph, for improved washing machine C..
Gibbs, Of Pittsfed for improvement in hay load
ers and b. c. Rogers. Of Stockbridge, for i'm
proyement in training hop vines.
A patent was issued May IS, to J. N. Armor
Of Crafisbury, for improvement in knitting ma
chimes
Ok the 9th ult there died at Crews Hole,
Worcestershire, England a veteran named John
Becher, who had reached the age Of 1903 years.
He fought against American independence, and
sailed with Nelson in the Saturn
A Catholic priest created a sensation in street
railroad car in st. Louis, a few evenings since, by
knocking down and beating fellow passenger,
whose blasphemous and obscene language shocked
his morality.
The following is the conclusion of an epitaph
on a tombstone in East Tennessee: 4" She lived
a life of virtue, and died of the cholera morbus
caused by eating green fruit, in the full hope Of
blessed mortality, at the early age of twentyfour
years. seven months and sixteen days. Reader,
60 thou and do likewise ~
TnE steamboats, on the Mississippi River pro-
vide no stateroom or cabin accommodations for
, colored passengers. The colored people propose
to find out whether the Civil Rights bill will give
them any redress in this matter One has insti-
tuted suit for several thousand dollars damage
against the owner of White River packet for be-
ing refused a state-room on her last trip from Du-
walls Bluff to Memphis.
/ THE weight Of mail matter received and sent
out from the New York post office each twenty
four hours is ninety tons
1 OSE OF the Western railroads boasts the pos
session of a car provided with cabinet organ.
The wholesale poisoning in Orange County,
New York, is fully explained. The miller filed
holes in his mill-stones by pounding lead into
them, and the stone wore away by use, the lead
was ground into the flour When mixed with
yeast and baked, the carbonate of lead was pro-
duced, which is the most deadly poison of lead
/ Many persons have died in consequence, and
/ some who have recovered are claiming damages of
the ignorant or reckless miller.
THREE Of the new five cent pieces will weigh
half ounce.
intellectual measles" is a new name for poor
poetry.
THERE is martial music from the Alps to the
| Island of Sicily.
IL Indiana 552,2A children between six and
twenty-one years need instruction.
A great religious excitement exists at Spring
field, Ill.
By the explosion of an oil can in Rochester the
other day girl was burned to death, her mother
fatally and her father seriously injured.
THE wretch who at a social party said that
young lady playing pianoforte was like an ape
because her fingers were 'mong keys, has been ar
rested.
A gentleman in hoops is the last Innovation
One appeared in Quebec the other day, He wore
it under an India rubber oyercoat
THE hotel proprietors at Saratoga are building
a number of rustic cottages. An exchange says,
Glove in a cottage will be extensively played
there
WE have heard Of young ladies eating arsenic
and slate pencils, but there is a miss in a Western
town who has formed an uncomfortable appetite
for eating paper.
saoon-keeper in New York found an internal
machine in his saloon, being a cigar-box filled
with powder, and having friction matches and
sand-paper arranged with spring that the
opening Of the box would explode the powder
Rather more quickly mortal than the saIoon-keep-
er's Internal machines-that is all.
The first hundred miles of the Union Pacific
Railroad we're completed June 4.
Mrs HUI announces that Feb. o, 1869, A.
M, is to be the Millenial morn.