Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-07-01
News Items.

plains.
The voracious potato bug has made its
appearance in many parts of Mass eating of
the plant at the surface Of the ground,
Eugene has frowned upon the eccentric
tiles of dress and manner of the young ladies
of two American families resident in Paris.
Charleston has lost the services Of its
city physician. who has resigned because there
are coored men in the city council.
Thirty to forty shots minute can be
made with the new French gun called the RAJ
vageur.
Nj. de Lesscps, contractor for the Sucz
canal. has invited everybody to 60 and see It
formally opened on the LIST of October lS69.
"A western paper reports the capture by
pickpocket of ga pocket book containing
twenty dollars, two shirts, a vest, and an over
coat"
Even the planks stained with the blood
of Mr.. McGce have been taken mp and burned
and the ashes deposited in his grave at Mon
treal.
1t is estimated that sixty or seventy mil
lions of dollars in interest and dividends will
be payable in the large cities of the United
States next month
AS the police service Of Paris costs six
teen million francs year, witty writer
says that the balance will soon be in favor of
being robbed
A man who won't take paper because
he can borrow one, has invented machine
with which he can cook his dinner by the
smoke Of his neighbours chimney.
"A silver service weighing over forty
pounds was presented to Senator Henderson's
, bride the other day by o. n. Cutler Of Mis-
5 souri,, who has been trying to get the Internal
Revenue Commissionership.
The largest saw mill but one in the Uni
ted States is located at Clinton, Iowa. Il is
worked by an engine of nine hundred horse
power, and when in full operation would furn-
, ish employment for one thousand men.
e The Concord Statesman says it is some
b what remarkable, considering the billy and
q mountainous surface of New Hampshire, that
b. all the contemplated railway routes are regard
c ed by their advocates as perfectly " feasible.
- The fees Of William NJ. Eyarts from the
=. Government during the time Mr.. johnson
T. has been in power amount TO S4s 5000, accord
n ing to the Washington correspondent of the
q Advertiser.
n Mr.. Alfred Lee, the richest colored man
II in Washington, died on Sunday last, aged
D seycnty-threc He was an intelligent man
d and good citizen, long in the -four and feed
n business, and worth about 100000
u An intoxicated Itshman at Troy the
u other evening asked tobacconit's wooden
: image how long before the horse cars passed
= Tor Abba and because the surly fellow wouldn't
y answer, pitched into him. and gave him sound
:, thrashing
I, Figaro tells of gay young American
# belle, whose name Napoleon asked on the oc-
IS casion Other presentation at Court. Helen,
she replied. II could wish, madomoisole
,e that [ were Paris calamity returned tn,
d sovereign. Impossible, sire, since you ar,
!. France ~ said She with ready wit.
o The Taunton Republican says that Mr.
David Makepeace of Norton, now in hi
l0lst year, recolects hearing distinctly il
q, that town the roar Of cannon at the battle o.
! Bunker Hill, fought June II, l775 He yo
~ ted for Washington and Lincoln, and hopes t,
n vote for Grant next November.
id There are more Scotch Hghlanders nov
l. in Canada than in Scotland. They have beer
d. dispossessed of the lands, on which their an
~ cestors had lived from time immemorial, BY
the grasping ayidity of their titled andholders
, who have been turning their rugged heath
IT and hills into vast sheep walks and game en-
L. closures.
re Some of the retail prices in Richmond
m markets: Green Peas, ten cents per peck
fresh cabbage, five cents head summe
squashes one cent each cucumbers tw,
~ cents; lettuce, two cents per pound new
, beets and onions, five cents per bunch sprin,
y chickens, thirty cents; last falls chickens
= twenty-five cents.
y The city of Paris contains about 1000,
r 600 of inhabitants, living in 10000 houses
N London has 100000 Ct people and abou
Il 100000 houses-the proportion Of people t.
house being FIVE times larger in Paris thai
re- in the English capital. The London ayerag
m is eight and the Paris average forty to eacl
a dwelling.
sr MIR. j. W. MeGill of Glasgow, Scotland
n has published plan which ne has devise,
of for the promotion Of what is called HON
Evangelization, by making the present Sab
in bath School system the nursery for eyangelists
X He proposes to use especially the Mission
Sabbath Schools for this purpose, by training
selected scholars, male and female, for cit
rs mission work
d. Recently at Lcipsic the young musica
i phenomenon who was born without arms, play
ed on his violin an andante of Beriot's and
st Romance sans Paroles of Meyerbeer',
sy He holds the bow with the first two toes o.
nd his left foot, and operates on the strings witt
ba riuht ha inc 8 II e
n ordinary performer is placed on a little bencl
10 front Of him.
According to the recent reports Of tn,
Agricultural Bureau at Washington, the mum
T. Der of milch cows in the country is nov
r smaller by five per cent. than it was in 1860
s. the number of working cattle is less by thirt,
n. per cent. the decrease in asses and mules i
- twenty-eght per cent. in horses seventeen
per cent; in swine nearly twenty-five pc
~ cent.
u "A scientific exploring party, with PROBES
m sor j. W. Powell at its head, left Chicago
i June 26, for a two years journey and surye,
he of the Colorado river from its source to tn
:, point where previous Government survey
have terminated. The United States furnish
10 es supplies and transportation, and the com
y pany will pass the winter in New Mexico
Il three or four hundred miles southwest of Den
yer, Colorado.
ATTEMPTED RoBBERY.-On Friday nigh
last sig tons of gold were brought from New
III York to Boston, by Adams Express Compa
d ny, with which 20 pay the Government inter
is est falling due July lst 1t was contained il
A thirty kegs weighing about 400 pounds each
While on the transit an attempt was made il
rs Hartford, Conn, to throw the train from
the track by placing a sleeper across tn
he track, butbeyond a slight conclusion no troubl
in was experienced. 1t is supposed that partie
in New York must have telegraphed the fac