Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-12-11

There are now twenty-five protestant missionary
societies that are laborng in India. OF these,
three are organized in Scotland, eight in England,
one in Ireland, four in the continent Of Europe.
and nine in America These societies maintain
about $50 missionaries, and expend annually in
that country not far from sl,25O,O0O.
In Chicago the newspapers report that the pork
season has opened with great deal more vigor
than in former years, and more prosperous sea-
son than has been known for some years is antci-
pated.
The solution Of al ghost mystery, which has
been causing great excitement in Albemarle coun.
ty, Virginia, for several weeks past, has been
found A negro with magic lantern had been
employed by a man who wished to buy Mr. John
S. Moons farm to brighten the family off, so that
he might get it for a low price.
The postal law of Congress forbids the opening
Of a newspaper by person not addressed or su.
thorized, under a penalty Of $40 fine stealing
the same is punishable by imprisonment
The Savannah (Ga.) Republican congratulate.
its readers on the growth and increasing import
ance Of their city. Before the war il had about
twenty-five thousand inhabitants. Now it has
more than thirty-six thousand. In the last two
years some three hundred houses and stores hav,
been built, yet the demand is still in excess Of The
supply, and rents are as high as ever.
About million Of children are said to gather
weekley in in the Methodist Sunday Schools il
| the United States under the instructions Of 160
/ 600 teachers The Society issues 260O different
| publications, the annual circulation of which il
I equivalent to COO, 600 600 of lsmo pages
A woman minus $1,000 by the failure of a New
Orleans firm, lately horsewhipped one Of the part
ncrs in the street.
Somebody is death on Dickens and other Brit
ish peders of light literature.
"Nor should Irollope or a Dickens,
Or any Of their ill-got chickens,
In breeches or in tatterd skirt
Profuselv oiled with bestal dirt,
Escape the censors scathing lash,
Dausing their deiaming trash"
cold drunken Marratt, with his wench
And bottle steaming in his stencil
With Basil Hall and Madam Trolope-
OF liars the ipecac and jaap-
And Feathcrstonhaugh, goods what a name !
Pregnant with lies aud SANDER came"
"Silk Buckingham and Glddon, George,
Were two tremendous liars at large,
Who peddled tombs aud pyramids
Mummies graye-clothes. and cothn-lids.n
'Nor last, nor least, Mister Fiddler,
With boz 50 the real Jeremy Diddler.n
This chap is smart because his skin is thin.
Streets in eight European cities are named at
ter President Lincoln
TAXATION IN NEw YoRK. About twenty-fv
years ago according to the n Y. Times, the val
uation of real and personal estate in the city an
county Of New York was a little over S229 600
COO and the taxation thereupon was nearly 81
10000. Til. year, while the estimated propert
value had, by the last valuation, risen only t
3736,0oo 900, the computation for taxes calls fc
about So 600 600. The taxation has thus grow
from $3.50 per head to over S30-nearly six fol,
The loss by the late FIRE in Keesevile n Y
amounted to $4,000, on which there was insu
ance to the amount of s-3, 800.
Ten million dollars worth Of property is ict
bound on the Eric canal, much Of it perishabl,
consisting OF apples and potatoes. Twenty tho'
sond bushels Of potatoes are at Frankfort, frozeI
and 100, 600 more are west OF Utica.
Iowa has 902. $50 inhabitants. a gain Of ll7
Oh in two years.