The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-01-21
Items Of News and Gossip.


invention
The Treasury Department At Wash
ington has 2,5i2 employees.
The California Senate stands II
Union Republicans to 10 Democrats
The birth. place Of reed musical in
strumentsi is Concord, n III
Real estate in Saratoga is increas
ing ia value
The Sitkans are rapidly learning
10 swear in English.
Butter factories are increasing in
number in New York State
Magnolia Water 4 delightful toi
lei article superior TO Cologne, and At
half tho cost
How may man be known from q
fahgued dog? One wears a shirt, the
other pants.
Horse races at the next Illinois
state agricultural fair have been prohib-
/ tied by vote Of the executive committee.
Capital weather, Mr. Jones, capi-
tai weather My wife's got such a bad
cold she cant speak. / like such wealth
er."
MY wife, | wish YOU wouldtry and
keep your temper" "My doar husband,
/ wish you would try and get nd Of
yours
-"My lad, said lady to boy car
rying mail bag, are you mail boy 2
"You doesn't think I'm female boy,
does yer 2"
"A large seal was seen near the Mar
rows at New York on Friday the fourth
that has visited those waters since our
real estate agent purchased Alaska.
The New York Metropolitan police
force arrested 1S3,209 persons during
the past year; during the past eight
years 706,2SS.
"A lady walked from Athens to
Schenectady, 49 miles, in eleven hours
the other day. Her name was Stanton
which perhaps had something to do with
it,
Mrs. Hannah Lazier, of Jersey City
was killed Christmas night, by blowing
in at the top Of kerosene lamp chin
, ney, and as a matter of course, explod.
ed the lamp.
, What bird is that which is abso
lutely necessary that we should have al
our dinner, and yet neither to be cook
ed or served up? A Swallow.
Holmes says that easy crying wild
ows take new husbands soonest; there
is nothing like wet weather for trans
: planting
The Postmaster General has grant
: ed one hundred licences to storekeep.
| ers in New York for the sale ofpostagc
staps.
The total number of deaths in New
5 York city and county during the yoai
ending September 20, 1867, was 23,443
or 1852 less than for the previous twelv,
? months.
} Amos Lawrence said, when asket
G for advice, young man, base all you
9 actions upon principle; preserve you
integrity of character, and in long thi
t never wreck on the coast
' Josh Billings says; Give the dew
g il his due sounds well enough III
t proverb, but friends, what will becom,
e of you and ne if this arrangement il
g carried out"
d Some Of the good people Of Lexing
b ton, Greene county, Ky, have latel
+ been in the habit Of amusing themselves
!. during their leisure evening hours il
Q shaving the tails of their neighbori
: horses.
Ninety thousandspecial constable
t have been sworn i'll already in Englend
+? to protect against the Fenians. Thei
I; captains practice summoning them, t
y see how rapidly they could rise in cas-
d of an emergency
: AT a sale in Hines county, Ga, las
v week, splendid village residence wit
k ten acres Of improved LAND, brought $50
e plantation OF seven hundred acres wa
r sold for $l84, and thirty acres Of fin
d cotton land for So.
n -Costiyeness, or constipation, if a
g lowed to continue, viii entail a mutt
3 tude Of diseases Use Parsons Purgf
q tive Pills, IN small doses, until you ei
u feet complete cure.
TT As an internal and external RENE
= dy for all Lung difficulties we arc tol
r that Johnson's Anodyne Liniment ha
no equal; it will cost but little TO try
and we feel sure relief will follow.
le One Of the gift enterprise swindle
x at New York says that Postmaster Ke
TX lev's refusal to deliver his letters, hi
r lost him $4,000. The postmaster holc
Of over 5000 Of them.
es Sam" said one little urchin
y another, yesterday, does your sehoo
10 master ever give you any rewards
te merit2" Il spose he does, was Il
=, reply; he gives me a lickin' regular Q
et cry day, and says i merit two"
IN The brides veil got its origin in Il
se Anglo-Saxon custom ofperforming me
az riage ceremony under piece Of clio
lis held at each corner by tall man, og
Ne bridegroom and bride
Se Three daily papers in the wor
ne count their circulation by the hundr
et thousand All are penny sheets t
or Petit Journal Of Paris, Daily Telegral
oi Of London, ana -more's tho pity-B
~ Woods Daily News Of New York.
"A Household Word The best, {
to onfy reliable, the cheapest Try il.
Mrs. S A. ALLESs hIFRoyED (neo ayl
'es Hair Restorer or Dressing, (in one b
rs ae. Ny wife and children prefer 1t.
Every Druggist sells it. Price One ID