Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-12-25
MJSCELLdNEOUS


The saw mills Of st. Anthony. Minnesota, have
stopped, and hundreds of workmen are out Of
employment because they cut l00O0O,0O0 feet of
lumber last winter and thereby ovcrstocked the
market
A friend in Kansas writes that the weather is
delightful there.
One third Of the sugar made is from bocts A
company has been formed to make beet sugar in
California. Its capital is one million and half
of dollars
Old linen is good for chilblains.
The Boston Daily Advertiser has been enlarged
and dressed in a new suit. The best Of the Bos-
ton papers.
Portland pledged everything" to build the
Atlantic e st. Lawrence railroad to Canada line.
When the road was completed, in 1858, the taxa
bic property of Portland was five millions. It is
now thirty millions, and the increase in the valua-
ton of the county, in which Portland is, was 1l6
per cent. between 1850 and 1860.
It lis queer that Arctic weather and earthquakes
should closely follow Secretary Stewards purchase
Of Alaska and St. Thomas
There is no mitigation in the report Of the rail-
road disaster at Angola. The cause was, running
at speed over the frog at place for switching of
trains.
Fmrs.-At Augusta Me, Dec. 10, mills burnt,
loss ss3, 600, and no insurance. At Pawtucket,
r l., on the same day, Touring mills, loss $50
o00 insurance $4,000. On the same day, kero-
scne works were burned in Pendand, n. j., loss
100000.
The Cunard steamers are not to run to Boston
in 1868 Let Boston build her own steamers and
patronize them.
According to the Boston Journal, the city gov
eminent has received " an insane veto"
Charles Scribner & Co., New York, have issued
an elegantly printed descriptive list of their pub
Gcatious. Good for sellers and buyers Of books.
VIM Daniel lately died in Fayeue county, H.,
at the age of l0l years. lie leaves sister log
years old to mourn his loss.
Ia Henry county, Ky, man named Floyd, be-
came so angry because his brother-n-law would
not endorse his note, that he followed him home
and shot both barrels of his shotgun at him he
sat at dinner. lie did not hit him, yet he fell
dead; and on examination it was found that the
dead mans heart was diseased, and that the great
excitement had killed him.
j. NJ Young n Co. Of Clinton, Iowa, have
new saw-mill, moved by nine-hundred horse
power steam-engne, and giving employment to
one thousand men big business. Have they
got Lanes improvements m saw-milIs?
There was narrow escape from another terri
Bile railroad disaster on the Hartford d Erie Rail
road Three cars had the trucks knocked from
under them, and the seats Of one car were all
broken up. One ear took fire, but fortunately
there was snow enough to extinguish it. The
number Of passengers was large, but none were
killed or very seriously injured.
The number OF casualties in the two cars wreck
ed at Angola 81.
Mississippi is in a very distressed state, accord
ing to some correspondents. The ops were fail
ures, the people are bankrupt and the severity Of
the famine just beginning can only be appreciated
10y those who see it.
Joseph Brown and wife murdered the child at
Canaan, n. Y, for the insurance money. Mrs
Brown has confessed that Brown did the business.
Richard Pierce OF Boston printed the first news
paper in America, Sept. 25th 1890. The mags-
trates examined copy, decided that " it contain
ed reflections of very high nature and its pub
LEGATION was contrary to law. IL was not allowed
to appear again.-The newspapers make magis-
trates in these days.
This is an odd story Of laundering by telegraph
merchant who was absent from his home receive
ed telegram informing him Of his wils's safe de-
livery OF little girl at the same time a letter
from his partner advised him that a draft had heen
presented for $1,000, and the signature ,eemed
rather doubtful. The merchant replied to both
dispatches, but misdirectcd them. The astonish-
ment Of the wife may be imagined when she read
" / know nothing about it; its a swindlen The
partner received hearty congratulations upon his
safe dehyerance.
The grain elevator Of the Michigan Southern
and Northern Indiana railroad company in Tole-
do, Ohio, destroyed by fire Saturday night.
About 50, 900 bushels Of grain mostly wheat, we're
consumed, involving loss of s3Oo00O, on which
there is an insurance of s2Os 900, nearly all in
New England companies.
A conscience-smitten citizen of Indiana recently
sent twenty-five cents to a revenue collector say
ing that he had neglected to ailix it to a written
instrument The collector wrote to the man that
the penalty of his neglect was fifty dollars.
Horse thieves took a farmers team one night in
Wisconsin, but one Of them dropped his pocket
book containing $3.50, which was more than it was
worth, and the horses were insured besides.
An attempt made to rob the Merrmack Ma
tional Bank, Hayerhill, Mass, on Monday morn
ing. Policeman Joseph Burnham caught the bur
glar. who shot Burnham through the temple, kill
ing him instantly. The burglar got nothing but
the guilt Of murder.
A locomotive exploded at Reading, Pa, Dec.
23d, killing the engineer and fireman.
The works of the Camden (N. J.) Rolling mills
were burnt Dec. % loss S7O,O insured.
a wood drawer who sells wood upon our market.
charging from eight TO ten dollars per cord saws
that during the vibrations caused by Wednesday
mornings earthquake, he thought If he lived till
daylight he would put down the price of wood,
but when be rose in the morning and found the
world all right, his good resolution went back -
ON him and he put up the price again. 1t is
pity he was not shaken little harder. --Oqdens-
6urgh journal.
The Ogdensburg Journal gives more of the ef-
iects of the earthquake ball broke nm. and the