Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-05-04

on uuty rs provost uaisuals anu post commanders,
or otherwise connected with military service, are
instructed to send information Of the locality and
condition of such graves, and OF any breach OF
this order, TO the Quartermaster General
Two young ladies in West Randolph, Misses
Mary and Susan Albin, were run away with on
Sunday, thrown from the wagon, and one bad ar
ankle broken and the other an arm
DANIEL Buck. ESQ.,, for many years Assistant
Clerk Of the House of Representatives, is Cap
tain's clerk on the U. s. steamer Dacotab, now OF
two years cruise to the Pacific coast.
JAY PEAK is to have its mountain road to tn,
top and hotel.
ACCIDENT. - The Express says that Georg,
Market, in the employ of Moses Wood, of New
port, was seriously injured while shoeing a horse
The horse first kicked him over, then suddenly
turned, before Market could recover himself
trampled upon his face, breaking one jaw in two
pieces, and otherwise bruisng his face and head
A concert was recently given in Chicago by fv,
hundred children, accompanied by nine cabinet
| organs and piano-iorte.
Dickens gets fee equal to about FIVE dollars
minute during each performance, for reading.
A Georgia newspaper predicts the best crop o
wheat in that State this season that has been made
in ten years.
A Chicago printer has married an heiress, who's,
bridal presents in jewelry and dresses, cost $4,000
Now if that chap can only earn the pork anC
beans His wife has dresses enough for life.
MERRILL SHERBuRNE, at Lowell, VT, lost al
the fingers of his right hand by a circular saw.
HENRY NoRTHRoP stole $500 from VIM. Jos
Ign & Son. Barton. The money was recovered
but Northrop got away.
=, NoRroN Essex County, has a village of 49,
lumbermen, and a post Office named Norton Vii
lage. The lumber company has got out twelve
million feet of logs to be worked into lumber.
The Mortified House, at Mortified, has passed
into the hands of Messrs. Hartshorn & Haywood
who intend to keep as first class house in ever,
respect.
1t will be safe for anybody to guess that goot
items in the Journal are stolen from the Boston
Post, or will be stolen by the Boston Post from
the Journal.
young Prussian officer lately died whose hear
was on his right side, with the liver on the left
and other internal organs correspondingly re.
versed He had always enjoyed good health and
died of typus fever.
Along the line of the Nashville and Decatur
Railroad, during thunder storm last week, bal
mile of the telegraph wires was melted, and di.
vided into small fragments, irregular in shape
and many of them no larger than buckshot or a
small rifle ball. The glass insulstors were fused
and the poles were shivered into fragments.
A Naples letter-writer says that several Roman
Catholic priests have declared their intentions o.
marriage under the new law which makes mar.
riage civil right, and has already been
united to lady Of Naples. The writer think.
this example will be somewhat extensively followed
As an illustration of the hftd times in Richmond
the Examiner says one can easily put five cent
loaf of the bakers in each cheek, ten cent loa
in the middle, and whistle Yankee Doodle witt
surprising clearness.
There are from 1000 to II, 900 young and mid
die aged men now pursuing business education
in the great international chain OF Business Col
eges The scholarship guarantees instruction un
til the holder is thoroughly qualihed.
Eight years steady devotion TO the wash tub ha:
enabled a woman in La Crosse TO build three good
houses, and put away neat little pile of govern
ment bonds.
The boys of New Bedford, Mass, have set
good example to boydom everywhere. They have
formed a society for the suppression of profanity
and vulgarity.
The Louisiana sugar crop for 1866 is est
mated at IA, 700 hogsheads.
A COMPREHENSIVE NOTICE. - The following
notice was found few days since posted on the
door 20 one Of the rooms in South College, New
Haven;
" No soap needed here at presents no nice ci-
gars wanted no old clothes in this room. No
tice No contributions to infrm negros, soldiers
and lone widows with eighteen small children. Nc
relief for destitute mnriners from returning block
ade runners with strong smell Of whiskey. Gen.
eral Notice-Io all whom It may concern Appli
eants for charity hereby informed that the oc-
cupants OF this room have gone fishing and won't
be home till morning. No molasses candy OF
popcorn wanted. No apples, lemons or oranges
needed for a few days to come"
In Alabama the rebs. complain that there is
great suffering for want of food; but they confess
that Gov. Patton is kind. In Tennessee, the rebs.
confess that the people have food and clothing in
plenty, but they complain of Gov Brownlow. 1t
is power the rascals long for.
ENGINE COMPANY No 8, Montpelier, consists
OF boys, who have smart little engine suited to
their strength, with hose and hose-cart to match.
They paraded on May-day in new and neat uni
forms. Their engine-house is remote from the
centre OF population, but the boys are alert, and
have sometimes won the premium for throwing
first water at a fire.
WooLsoN now occupies the old rooms of the
Vermont Bank.
The house Of Amos Sheldon. Of Manchester,
Vt, was struck by lightning on the evening of
April rs. Mrs. Sheldon was thrown out of bed
and the chimney to the house entirely demolished.