Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-07-10


The railroad. running west from Milwaukee, Wis,
have offered to carry destitute emigrants going be-
yond that point free of charge. The city has also
provided an agent to look after the welfare and see
imposition practised upon the ignorant foreign
ers.
Somebody who has seen Louis Napoleon, says
that be is greatly troubled about the disasters that
have bciallen Maxmian in Mexico, and that when
he heard that the unfortunate adventurer had been
shot, bis distress was great as to completely unfit
him for society. Napoleon knows that he deserves
what Maximilian is receiving, and hence his re-
morse.
The New York Tribune states that it is reported
that Henry Keep to retire from the Presidency OF
the New York Central Railroad. ana that he is to
be succ0 eded by Gen. H. Il. Baxter recently of
Vermont
On the 10Th of June a new Baptist Church was
recognized at Franklin, and Rev. Geo II. Parker
installed as pastor Sermon by Rev. Dr. Bigelow
Of ST. Adams.
Rev r. " Han has been engaged as acting pas
tor at Charleston.
There is but one Unyersast Society, one Board
of officers and parish in the town OF East Mont
pelicr, though they han two places Of meeting two
Churches and two Sunday Schools
There is religious persecution in Egypt The
Copue, Patriarch has undertaken to crush out the
Protestant missions and claims that he has the au
thority of the Yiceroy of Egypt for what he is do
ing.
The nineteenth annual fair Of the Bennington Co.
Agricultural Society will be held at Bennington
September 25th and goth.
The horses Brown George, Snowflake and Kitty
Clyde trotted for premiums of $3.50 and $50 at Rut-
land on Thursday, and the two first mentioned took
them, the best time being 2.37 10.
The accounts from the agricultural districts are
more encouraging in regard to the crops of the
Southern States especially in the uplands
There is very remarkable apple tree on Himan
Weston's premises in Westminster, VT which is
three feet in diameter and nine feet six inches in
circumference 1t has five branches starting from
the trunk a level, all of them measuring seven
feet in diameter, with a circumference of twenty
one feet, and nearly equal in size.
The wheat harvest IN Indiana has begun, and the
farmers generally pronounce it the best crop for
years.
Five persons were Frustrated by the lightning
suokt al huNahui uuIlhg the FESTIVITIES of the
Fourth but killed outright, as at first report
ed
radical peace convention was held at Bridgwa-
ter last week and among the speakers were Henry
c. Wright Of Massachusetts,, L. r. Josyn of Rhode
Island and Mrs NJ. S. Townsend Of Vermont. The
issue of to-day was declared to be mans inaIienable
right TO life as declared in the Declaration Of I77G,
and the theory maintained that it is as wicked to
kill men for politics as for religion and pelf and
that an war was murder,
The towns in the Massawppi valley, Canada,
have raised $4,000 in gold to secure the extern
sion Of the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers rn-
road from the state lipe to Lenoxyille distance of
rs miles. The railroad company is to furnish as
much more,
While circus was performing at Rochester, n
Y, Thursday evening Elias White, ''the lion
king entered cage of ferocious lions, when one
of them knocked him to the floor and fastened his
teeth upon his shoulder. The men came to his as
sisnnee with iron bars and succeeded in bringing
him alive from the cave.
The international congress for the regulation Of
gold and silver coinage, in session Paris, has
fixed upon the gold five franc piece and il, multi.
pies as the basis for uniform currency in Europe
and America