Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-04-27
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A TIMELY SUGGESTION An exchange,
abiding to the marked rapidity with which
the leaves and buds upon fruit trees have
come forward during the past week, makes
the following suggestion, which is worthy the
INN ediate attention Of every man who owns
a fruit uee
Equally prompt with the leaves and buds
are the worms that infest our fruit trees
They have begun to form their nests and TO
feed the young foliage. With little at
tention now they can easily be found and de-
suoyed, and we beg Of every possessor OF a
fruit tree to declare war of determination
upon the pests without delay. The surest
way to kill them is to crush nests and worms
with the hand. protected by glove or mitten
in the morning or evening, when all are in
the nest; but when on limbs that cannot be
reached in this way. better cut eff the limb
entirely than to suffer the worms TO remain
ard increase. We repeat il, attend to the
worm nuisance at once, when good deal in
the way of destruction can be accomplished
with comparatively little effort.
How TO DIsPosR OF MuTILATRD CURREK-
oY.-A great many persons are at a loss to
know how TO dispose OF ragged and mutilated
currency that accumalates on their hands. 1t
is the easiest thing in the world, and with
out any expense. When you get three dol
lars worth in hand, put it in a small package,
pin paper band around it with your name,
post office address and amount; and then
put it in an envelope and address il 10 the
" Treasury of the United States, Washing ton,
d. c." In few days you will receive new
currency in return. 1t goes and returns free
of postage.
New in return for good currency, and the
bad sent back deiaced
DISEASED GRAIN ON THE WAY East
WARD The Rochester IN. Y. Union says !:
"1here are millions Of bushels Of rotton
wheat now lying in the storehouses of Chica-
go, to be shipped when navigation opens
This gain, in all stages OF decomposition,
will be pu, into vessels, cent to Buffalo, put
into elevators, thence taken in canal boats to
all po nts where these crafts 20, chiefly to
New York, and thence it will be sent to New
England. This wheat is wholly unfit to be
eaten, and will breed cholera wherever it is
allowed TO 60. Buffalo will be ravaged by
cholera if that Chicago wheat is stored and
transferred there. Rochester. and all the
cities on the canals will be liable to suffer if
the boats are permitted to carry this groin.
The canal will be full Of cholera from New
York to Buffalo, If the boats carry this grain. 3"
Two brothers named Parkhurst, while in
toxicated last week, met a man named Rob
erts, when on bis way home. near Castleton,
VT, knocked him down, and fractured his
skull, and kicked and pounded him after be
was down, so injuring him in the face and
other parts of his body, that his condition
was deemed critical. The parties have been
arrested and bound over.
GIVE HIM CHANoE-A wide-awske
minister, who found his congregation going
to sleep one Sunday before he had fairly com
meneed, suddenly exclaimed: Brethren. this
isn't fare; it isn't giving man half chance
Wait till get along piece, and then if
ant worth listening to, 60 TO sleep but don't
60 before get commenced; give a man
chance"
What does a telegraph operator do when
he receives the heads Of important news 2
Waits for de tabs details, OF course.
The editor Of an Eastern paper says 1--WE
have adopted the eight hour system in this
office. We commence work at eight o 'oock
in the morning aud close work at eight in the
evening"
The Lawrence Tribune estimates that 200
families per week are emigrants to Kansas,
bringing with them an average OF $1,000 to
each family, which, if il should continue at
this rate for only three months, would add
to the circulating medium Of the State the
sum Of So, 1000 900,
II is perhaps little 10 soon to mention
the matter, but as over half the silver quar-
ter dollars in circulation before the war we're
bogus, it will be well to remember this fact
when they again become fashionable as peck.
ct pieces,
A tragic affair occurred in open court at
Helena, Ark, last week. William Hanly
was before the court for horse stealing, and
his wife on the stand as witness, tesufying
to his having stolen seven horses, when be
drew revolver and shot her, the ball enter
ing her head.
The first case under the civil rights bill
has occurred in the free state o Indiana, which
haslaws making distinctions on account Of
color. A colored man brought a suit to en-
force a contract against white citizen the
white man set up plea that the negro came
into the state in violation of the constitution
OF Indiana and is thereby declared from the
right 10 enforce contracts. To this the plain
till replied that the article ia the Indiana con-
stiluton excluding negroes from the state is
void under the fret section OF the civil rights
bill. The court sustained this view Of the
case, and decided in the negro's favor. There
upon the white man took an appeal to the
circuit court. 1t will be good case to take
up 10 the supreme court. and so to bring the
con'tituIionsIily Of the civil rights bill to the
test as soon as possible.