Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-08-19
MONTPELIER VT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1868.

'pNcTcn hillElc sceui winch ne planted IN hts
garden, and from which corn was propagaied
There is female base ball club at Pc.
terborough, n y, Of which a granddaughter
Of Gerritt Smith is Captain. The boys enjoy
greatly acting as spectators. No match games
between the sexes are yet reported.
There are complaints of the failure Of
the salmon fishing this year in ireland. The
season on the River Boyne, now drawing to a
close, has been the most unsuccessful expert
enced for fifteen years.
"A member Of the Now York Board Of
Health has stated that the number Of deaths
in that city last week, caused by eating dis
eased meat, exceeded the number Of deaths
from sunstroke during the heated term.
After inspecting 377 milk stores in Gin
cinnati the officer reports l22 of them as SELL
ing standard milk. Cincinnati is very lucky
to have such large proportion of reasonably
honest milk dealers.
The FIRE which has been raging in the
woods in Canada for the past weeks, reached
the town Of Staynor Saturday destroying
eleven houses, badly damaging the railway
station, and destroying the culvert and large
quantity of lumber.
"A colored justice in Alabama lately sem
fenced melon stealing darkey to receive
thirty-ninc lashes. T" But" said he, don't
strike him on the clothes, for that would give
him right to sue you for damages-put II to
him on his bare back /"
"A paper at Columbia, Pa, has the hardi-
hood to make this announcement a talking
match is on the tapis between two women of
this town, though no bets have been made as
yet. The time to talk is set down for forty
eight consecutive hours. Both will win"
The people of Indiana are beginning to
think something must be done to relieve them
Of the stigma of living in divorce State"
The divorces granted in Indiana, under the
present laws, number, on the average, about
fire thousand per annum.
The Knox (Ill.) Republican gives the
following specimen Of quick work. Wheat
which was in the shock at O'Clock last Fri
day afternoon was ground that evening, and
the -four from it on sale in this city at day.
break the next morning.
- In his speech made to the Chinese En-.
bassy at Niagara Falls, on Saturday evening
Hon. l. T. Hatch said that the Erie cana
carried as much tonnage eastward in six months
as all the railroads of the country did il
twelve months, and at one-half the cost.
An exchange says: A girl in Topsham
Me, died from her blood turning to sugar
Our devil after reading the paragraph re
marked that there must be some mistake, fol
he knows girl, who if sweetness is fatal t.
mortality, " could not live minute"
Marshal Jacksonville, of Crawford Co.
Illinois, last Friday, accompanied by posse
attempted to arrest gang of fonr robbers
The robbers fired upon them killing one'of tn,
posse, whereupon the marshal and his mer
rushed upon the seoundres and killed then
all.
"A Minnesota paper says; Harvest hell
continues to come by the hundred Everl
steamer is black with passengers Wage
keep at good figures, and all the help necessar,
to husband the immense wheat crop will b,
had. The future never looked brighter il
Minnesota"
The conductors of the Washington Chron
icie had been anticipating the death of Thad
deus Stevens, and had already prepareda sup
plement, dressed in mourning, and contain
ing biography of Mr.. Stevens eight col
umns in length, which was issued with the pa
per of Wednesday morning, four hours afte
his death.
AN eight-hour-a-day man, on going HON,
the other evening for his supper, found hi
wife sitting in her best clothes on the from
stoop, reading volume of novels How i,
this" he exclaimed, "wheres my supper p
Il don't know" replied the wife; al begun
to get breakfast at six O'Clock this morning
and my eight hours ended at two p. M"
"A bridge in Minnesota pays large divi
dends to the stockholders. 1t increases it,
revenue in this way. Il is ten dollars fine
to cross the bridge at pace faster than a
walk. The company does not warn travel.
lers of this important fact, but keeps persons
employed at each end of the bridge to observe
and entrap unwary strangers.
Immigration is rapidly pouring into
Missouri. The counties along the western
line Of the State seem to be the preferred To-