Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-07-31


Half the wheat crop of Western New York is now
safely housed. and has been got in in good order.
The great freshet on the upper Mississippi ex-
ceeds any other calamity Of the kind which has
CURED since 1850. The volume and force of the
water is tremendous. The wreck of the old North
Minneapolis bridge has been swept away and there
is only one span en The stone abutment Of the
Pacific Railroad bridge across the Mississippi at
Minneapolis has fallen; the damage will amount to
$4,000. The boom at Coon Greek broke at 10
o'clock on Tuesday night, and twenty-five million
feet of logs went the falls. The total loss Of
timber has been computed at 35 COO 900 feet, which
was worth at the mills at least s3jO,0)0. Most Of
the logs will be picked up below during the season,
but their recovery will be late that it is doubtful
if they can be put into market before season.
The damage done the booms and piers is estimat-
ed at $4,000.
The United States commissioner at Boston on
Saturday held A. H. Derrick of Vermont under
$500 bonds for smuggling uutmegs over the Canada
line.
Methodist clergyman calling himself Cullison,
has created an intense sensation at Mdlleaeid, c.,
where he has been stationed by the discovery Of
his real character He had stolen all his sermons
from the English divines, is a bigamst, having four
wives living, and has graduated from Sing Sing
His real name is John W Green, and years ago he
was known as A. Green the swindlcr He has made
his escape.
An old revoutonist says that of all the solemn
hours he ever saw, that occupied in going home one
dark night from the widow Ben's, after being told
by her daughter sally that he needn't come again"
was the st solemn.
it is said to be a very safe rule to wet your wrists
before drinking cold water If you at all heated
The effect is immediate and grateful, and the dan
ger of fatal results may be warded of by this simple
precaution
Ia a sermon delivered in the Plymouth cnurch,
Brooklyn last Sunday, on the Mobility Of Labor,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said that more public
men Of eminence had started from the business of
type-setting than probable any other occupation.
Maj, Rounds and Hugh II. Henry say it is not
settled that the new county scheme will not be
pressed in the next legislature.
Pickpockcts attended the circus at Rutland and
did considerable business. When people assemble
in crowds they should leave yhluabes in some safe
place
The Postmaster General has designated new
post office, 10 be called Swanion Junction, and Mr..
W. X. Norris has his commission as its first POST
master.
James C. Tremble, soldier of the 42d Invalid
Corps, stationed at Plattsburgh, who has been on
trial for the murder of Wm. f. Reed, for the past
week, acquitted on Monday.
OF The foreign emigrants who arrived in New
I York during the past half year ending with June
81 Massachusetts, had 55lli Maine lS7i Connect-
cut 225G New Hampshire 1905 Vermont l4l and
Rhode Island ll47-total 9s4s.
John Minor Bolts, in recent letter, says that
There is a purpose now half dormant in the event
of a restoration of the Democratic party to power
in the State and Federal governments, not only to
test the consututonality of the acts Of Congress
comforting suffrage upon you, but also to reduce
the former slave to bondage again. upon the ground
teat 1t was improperly and unconstutonally forced
upon the Southern States"
= The Wabash Mimi Herald says that the potato
bug seems bound to deyour the entire potato crop
in that section No obstacle opposes the progress
except weeds. As a field rank with weeds escapes,
it thought that shifess farming so far potatoes
e are concerned will prove the best thisyear,
Willard Squares was killed at Rutland while
4 shackling cars.
Last Friday night, the saw mill at Newport Cen
ter, belonging to Messrs, Bartlett & Junkins, was
burnt, with small quantity of logs and sawed lum-
:, Der.
Nine young ladies we're baptized at Derby Center
= on wednesday last, by Rev. l. Luce, the Methods
e., Presiding Elder
!, Bears are getting plenty near South Troy an'
Westfed
DR.. j. A. Bowker, of Charleston has COW five
b. years old which weighs ll6O pounds. One day
milk in June weighed 81 l-2 lbs, and butter mad'
during four days-when it was necessary to breai
into the milk to supply neighbors-weighed in Tho
proportion Of IA lbs. to the week.
Patents have been issued to Albert L. Taylor o
u Springfield, for improved pastry roller, and to Or