Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-08-05
News Items.

New York allows no wooden buildings /,
be erected below 18th streets.
Over thirteen hundred steamship voyages
a year are made between England and Amer
lea.
- Great damage was done by n terrif,
hurricane in northern Minnesota, on the Fourth
Of July.
Butler Cocktails is the latest fancy drink
1t is compounded to-wit: Take whiske,
straight" stir it with spoon sguiat one
eye, and PIT the spoon in your pocket
Illinois has just put more than sl9i, O0C
IN her treasury, received from the Illinoi,
Central Railway on the business Of the last
six months
There are two hundred and thirty.cight
different newspapers and periodicals published
IN California, seven Of which are in foreign
languages.
- Utica Is to have picnic in August in
which any one who can tip the scales at $50
pounds will be allowed to participate, and no
others.
The statistics Of cigar manufacture show
that Great Britain and her colonies and the
United States consume half the crop Of the
world and that Cuba produces one-third ofthe
whole supply Of the world.
The Nluseatiue Iowa) Journal state.
that many farmers in that vicinity are adopt.
ing the plan Of working nights and resting
daytime, iu order to save their men and
horses
liz Musr ~ A YANKEf-A man in the
country announces that his golden wedding
will come off just thirty years from now, and
offers liberal discount on any presents his
friends then design TO make him
The latest Yankee invention is econom.
ic cheroots which are twice the length of the
ordinary, andherein is the economy The COY
crnmcnt taxes cigars without regardto length,
and the application ola knife will make two
Of one in an instant.
- Farmers in Minnesota carry tubs and
water pals Into their fields to contain the
potato bug which they pick of as they would
so many berries In some instances the bug
crop is larger than the ordinary yield Of pota-
toes.
On Sunday evening last canal boat,
which was being towcd into Whitehall. struck
against a rock in turning the elbow, and a
man, whose name was wknown, was precipita-
ted overheard aud drowned. His body at
last accounts had not been recovered
The Ritualists separate the sexes in the
church. Pateriamalias writes to a paper
complaining Of this He has been in the
habit Of sitting by his wife for twenty-five
years, d" and Who he piteously asks, ais, un-
der the new plan, to pinch me when | snorc
out at the stupid sermon2" The clergy ought
to see to this.
The Salem Register of Monday says;
"One Of our most eminent merchants, while on
Change last Saturday morning, mentioned a
remarkable circumstance. "Fifty-thrce years
ago, said he, five young men sailed from Sa-
lem together before the mast, and there are
three Of US standing here now, one Of whom
have never seen since that voyage until
to-day"
- The lumber office of VIM. II. Kent 4
Co., Boston, was broken into on Wednesday
night and robbed Of Government bonds to the
amount of $4,000 Benjamin Gushing and
Thos Brown, aged II and lG years respective
y, have been arrested ana held to answer for
the commission Of the robbery. The first
named had recently been discharged from the
employ Of Kent a Co., but did not surrender
his key to the Office, by which means he was
enabled to commit the robbery The bonds
were recovered.