Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-07-22
News Items.


for every shade tree set out. a good example
WORTHY of imitation
The owner Of an ice house in Philadel.
,hia proposes to fit up with pews to be rented
out to sittcrs at shilling an hour.
1t is estimated that rum, disease, and 20
years, will clear California of the $4,000 In
dans in her borders.
From ten to twenty thousand white fish
are now taken from Oswego Lake in a single
night
twenty-five new houses of worship, cost
inc one million of dollars, will be erected at
Chicago this year.
"A gentleman in Yonkers, n Y, is build
inc monument to the memory of his wife,
which is to cost two hundred thousand dollars.
Making ox.head cheese and ox.tail soup,
NAV properly be considered making both ends
meat.
- Chicago sends fifteen million letters a
wear more than she receives Somebody
adds. The demoralzing influence of this city
upon the country at large may be conceived.
- The tunnel on the Union Pacific Railway
Smiles east Of the North Fork crossing Of the
Platte. will be 305 feet in length, and will be
finished in another week.
- The exceeding popularity of two young
ladies' in Middletown, Con, ran up the price
of a silver napkin ring, at recent strawberry
festival there, to S2l4.eO.
The C1erelqnd Leader says If you
want to make an Ohio Democrat mad, say
Blair to him. 1t is worse than red rag to
q turkey rooster
Gen. Sherman opposes the election Of
Seymour and Blair. SO does Gen. Rosecrans
So do the Generals generally and the soldiers
all but universally.
"A Russian has invented an ingenious
piece of mechanism by which when person
places letter in the postal boxes a receipt
dated and signed is returned
Edward Franklin james, of Manchester,
n. H., a member Of the Junior Glass Of Dart
mouth College, was drowned at Hanover Mon
day night while bathing
New York has the promise Of female
barber shop, in Fifth avenue the artists 80
TO be exclusively women, and the customers
exclusively men,
- Hon. Marcus =. Norton, Of Troy, y. Y g.,
formerly Of Tinmouih, in this State, has been
awarded s250,0O0 by Congress for the past
Use Of the Norton post Office stamp.
The COMMERCIAL Bulletin states that one
dealer in Faneuil Hall Market receives and
sells six hundred frogs legs per week. They
ore much sought after by nyaids.
"A lady in Washington square New York
furnishes the best Of "characters' to disreputa-
BE servants out of employ, for the small sum
ofs2.
"A lady in Montreal has recently taken o
needle from her left arm just above the elbow
which was accidentally thrust into the thumb
other right hand % years ago Unjust have
travelled halfway round her body
Birds are held sacred in Japan Their
Slaughter is interdicted by the seycrest pen
alties. Protection Of these fayoites has been
made provision in the recent treaty between
that country and the United States.
Reciprocity between the United State.
and the Dominion of Canada, is being agitat-
ed in Congress aud among business men there
is no doub, but that it would mutually bene-
TT both countries.
Letters to and from California are now
mostly sent overland. The extension Of the
railroad at both ends Of the route has short
ened the time to sixteen days, while the steam.
ers require at least twenty-five.
-" Is there any danger Of the boa-con.
strictor biting p asked visitor Of a zoologi
cal Snowman Not the least replied the
Snowman "he never bites-he swallows hi.
whites whole"
Speaking of the failure of the olive croT
in Italy, a western paper remarks that the
news is Of little interest on this side Of the
q IL Ill. 81 II -. a.
country comes from the western hogs.
The Atlantic cable tariff is to be reduced
after Sept. LIST to a very reasonable figure
$3.50 in gold for ten words between any
point in Great Britain and New York or New
England.
A brick-cutting table, introduced into
England, claims the power Of making 200 L
300 bricks per hour more than any other ma
chine Twelve bricks are cut at stroke
and any desired angle or beyel may be obtain
ed
When the New York mail bag was open
ed at the New Bedford post-ofice on Sunday
morning, good sized kitten jumped out
There was no stamp on the animal, showing
that the New York post-ofhce clerks are no
as watchful as they should be.
- Two young ladies amused themselves thu
other night at one of the Albany hotels b,
changing all the boots which had been place,
outside the doors in the hall to be backened
When spoken to on the subject by the proprie
tor they said they did it " just for fun"
= The Archbishop of Tuam, ireland, ha
acknowledged the receipt of draft amounting
to 81 ,029 which was recently collected in thi
country for the relief Of the families of tire
lrishmen who were executed as Fenlans Il
Manchester, England.
"A young woman, in France, tumbled he
little sister down well so that the inheritanc
might not be divided Little sister grabbe
the root of tree as she rose to the surface
and held on until rescued The other ha
gone to prison for ten years
"A recent writer says that very man
people spend their lives in interfering wit
others-perpetually putting spokes into vince
with which they have really nothing to d,
and thrusting their fingers into pies about ii
baking Of which they are not in any way col
cerned." Too true
Prentice of the Louisville Journal say
we have been carrying on the Journal thi
ty'seyen years, and during all this time v
have known no man Of business in the city
fail who advertised literally. And we ha,
known no one to succeed in any considerab
II even in a respectable degree who didn't a
vertise literally"
Fourteen hundred Mormon convert
mostly from England and Wales, have be,
landed at New York this week Most of Il
men are farmers or farm laborers, of respec
able appearance and considerable intelligenc
1t is expected that it will take them tv
months to reach Utah. Eight thousand mo
are expected to arrive during the summer.