Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-02-05
MTscFLLANEOUs.

MISCELLANEOUS.
UNION PACIFIC BONDS ADVANCED.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company have al
ready sold ten million dollars Of their First Mort
gage Bonds, and on the 5lst Of January advanced
their price from 80 to % cents on the dollar The
Company is in high credit. awl has a handsome
surplus of capital on hand--so thatits means for
the most vigorous prosecution Of the work are am
pie The demand for the bonds was becoming so
active that FIVE millions would doubtless have been
sold during the first week OF February if the price
had been permitted to remain at 90 We have
frequently stated that the price would be raised,
and congratulate our friends who acted upon our
opinions and subscribed early The next rise will
probably be to par.
A Maine paper speaking Of the scarcity of wa
ter, says that no class of men suffer more from it
than the mlkmen.
"Nasby lectured in Chicago on Thursday eve
ming last on the subject " Cursed be Canaan and
proved that the negroes were not the race on
which the curse was pronounced
Private letters received from Chicago state that
Mrs Lincoln is insane beyond all doubt. She re-
Gently sold all the furniture in her house. and has
two old men as body guard believing she will be
robbed and murdered Her mania is for selling
and ~ dread lest she come to want
The American Thanksgiving observed at
Sitka Alaska, for the first time, Nov. %, 1867.
Every New England State but Rhode Island was
represented at the table, which was beautifully
supplied with baked venison, wild mutton stewed,
wild goose roasted, Mallard ducks fried, baked
salmon, boiled halibut, fried cod, roasted perch,
clam soup, crab chowder, potatoes roasted, mashed
and fried turnps, and hucklcberry and cranberry
sauces. No danger Of starving there.
The island of Java must be pleasant place to
live in According to the latest official statistics
published, las persons were devoured by tigers in
one year; and in another the same fate beiell lSl
persons. The crocodiles during the same period
ate about 30 people year, and between thirty and
forty year were killed by serpents.
BY the loss of fishing schooner Idaho, Of Glou-
eester on the Western Banks, eight women are
widowed and sixteen children left fatherless, all Of
them dependent upon the earnings of the lost men
for their daily support.
The eruption Of Mount Vesuyius has, we are
told, ceased to be merely beautiful spectacle,
and has become a source of panic 10 the people
/ living around its base. An immense current Of
/ lava has overlooked the central cone, and is now
/ skirting the hill on the west and northwest and
/ approaching the village Of Cercoa.
| The velocity Of the Gulf Stream is reported b,
experienced nayigators to have recently beer
greatly increased and the currents along the Flor
ida coast are said to be so strong as to draw
steam vessel upon the reefs. This phenomenon i
supposed to be the result Of the recent conyulsoni
Of the earth.
LOOK OUT.-A radical change in the tenures o
mortgage has been made by the late Congrcssiona
bankrupt law. II provides as TO mortgages givei
within four months before debtor becomes in
solvent the holder of such mortgages shall b
compelled TO come in as other debtors The efTec
of this will be to cause greater caution in accept
ing mortgages.
j. r. Flanders Of Malone N. Y, fitted and com
mended by imprisonment for reasonable utter
ances has been employed as assistant editor o
Brick Pomeroy's' Ola Crosse) Democrat.
Official notice has been received of the execu
ton of a treaty with the United States Of Mort
America by the United States of Colombia 10
the construction of ship canal across the lstl
mus of Daren. The commencement OF this grea
work, which has cost many lives and much treas
ure seems to be at hand.
In the. city Of London there are $4,000 Jews, {
whom 2000 are Christians. In the city of Berlin
Prussia, there are $4,000, OF whom 1000 are Chris
, tians. In all Europe there are reckoned to b
3,43l 700 of whom 10000 have been converte
to Christianity.
The wood veneering, for decorating the intero
of buildings, will probably supersede paper in
large degree. 1t is taking wonderfully 1
ten days a company was formed in Boston, with
capital Of sl00 900, for the manufacture and sal
of wood hangings. As relief to the consumer
of paper on the one hand, and an addition to TIA
value of forest trees on the other, this is a yer
important discovery Birds eye maple ash but
ternut and other trees of Vermont, will be in bel
ter demand.
) The immense coal interests Of Nova Scotia, 5
nourishing under the operation Of reciprocity wit
/ the United States, are now Frustrated. The az
gregate yield of all the mines this year will prof.
ably not exceed 100000 tons, against more tina
600 600 tons in 1866
"Parayic fits of abstraction is the phrase fc
robber, in New York. Yes; the fit knocks ie
low down and takes the money while he is hell
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less.
Concerning " hollering in meeting, Aunt j,
dy, an oil colored woman, said to one OF her ST
tiers "'Taint de rale grace, honey; faint d
, sure glory. You hollers too loud When yo
gifts de dove in your heart and lamb in your bosom
: you'll feel as ef you was in dat stable in Bethleu
! and de blessed Virgin had lent you de sleepin' b.
by to hold"
It is estimated that 200O persons have bee
killed in Texas within the last two years and
half by he revolver and knife and few, If any,
= the murderers have been brought to Justice.
The tax collector in Texas says that nobot
u there owns up 10 having gold watch. Very pr
dent the man who exhibits gold watch will
Is murdered for the watch
e Since October last, Milote Baker Of Sarani
d Lake, has forwarded to market in New York 8.
deer the saddles weighing 2S,6oo lbs, besid
sending to other parties so more.