The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-02-18
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The FIRST marriage ia New England
took place between Esiaard Winslow
and Sussnah White No cards.
strawberry patch ~ enc hundred
aud thirty acres is reported IN Alama
IA county. California
child Was born blind in Penn
Van a few days ago Its eyelids were
cut open by a doctor and now the child
sees perfectly
Only twenty years have elapsed
SINCE the FIRST newspaper VAS issued IN
California, and there are now 2i4 pub
lished in that State,
n d. Hannah. II Pleasant Ridge,
Ill. says be can show an ear Of corn
fourteen inches long with twenty four
rows of corn and SIXTY rows around
the ear aud has IN al ,li0 grains, all
sound aud rcrfcct
When dyspeptc and melancholy
young professional man bowailed his
prospects TO Chief Justice Parsons, and
said he "did nj see how ho could get
through the world" "Did you ever
know any one 70 stop on the way y
was the grave and consoling reply.
"Shut the door !" There il not
one single duty so much neglected or
the inattention TO which is SO annoying
~as that Of shutting tbs door Of any
public or private Office when gong in
or out A professor Of door shutting
might have many pupils heroabouts.
Mr. John Henry, Of Charlotte, Va,
the last survivor, save one, OF the chill.
dren Of Patrick Henry, and the oNnor
of the old family scat and burial
place Of the great orator, died al his
residence at Red Hill on the eth inst,
in the I'D year Of his age, Of paralysis
Among the cases 10 be tried before
the United States circuit court in Chi
cago, is one against the former post.
master Of a little village in Illinois, and
his bondsman As his account with
the postmaster general was Scents short
when be resigned, lie is now sued for
that sum.
1T appears from statistics kept in
France that during The last thirty years
more than ten thousand people we're
struck by lightning, of whom two
thousand two hundred and thirty were
killed outright Eight hundred aud
eighty wsre killed during the last ten
years, and OF these only two hundred
and forty-three were females.
Thirty years ago there was but one
Homeopathic physician in New England.
In 1857 there were one hundred and
twenty in Massachusetts alone. while at
the present time there are two hundred
and twenty in Massachusetts, alone,
while at the present time there are two
hundred and forty-one, showing an in-
crease Of over one hundred per cent. in
ten years.
According to the census OF 1910.
the hop crop Of the United States was
but |, ,238, Az pounds. la 1850 il had
increased TO 4,467, ,029 pounds In 1860
the product was nearly l1,000,000
pounds, and this year it will probably
reach 20000,000 pounds; one-half Of
which are grown in New York, Wis
consln ranks next raising about 1000
600 pounda, Of which Sauck county
praduced 100000
The "King William, which il now
in course of construction on the Thames
for tho Prussian Government, is to be
tho largest and strongest iron-clad
friggate ever built in Europe. It's mod
el is said to combine improvements
which will make IT superior to the for
midable vessels Of its class in tho
American navy. II that be so, Yankee
enterprise will "see" the improvement,
and Ego one better We do not pro-
pose to be outstripped in future, in the
department of marine architecture.
Rutland has the largest population
and the largest grand lst Of any city or
town IN Vermont. In 1860, what is now
Burlington city and the town Of South
Burlington combined had n population
of 1913 That Of Rutland, the same
year, was 1871 There has been no
census taken since 1860, we cannot
come exactly at the present population
of either place The whole vote Of
Rutland in 1866 for Governor was over
l400, while that Of Burlington has
never reached 900. The population of
Rutland is so per cent. greater now
than it was years ago, when the last
census was taken, and must exceed H.
600, while that Of Burlington has not
in the same ratio.
The bottom Of the ocean will soon
be as extensive a means of human in
teligence as the top Of IT, The empcr-
or Of France il about to have bis CUB
marine cable to the Island Of st Pierre,
and New York; the Government of
Queen Isabella is also about laying
down a cable to Cuba and Porto Rico
by way Of the Cannaries; and now We
hear Of another projected line between
Brest and New York. The latterig or
ganized by Franeo-Amoricaa Com.
pany with capital Of a million sterling
the stock and direction to be divided
between England, France and this
country. The English share Of the
stock Is said to be already subscribed
This combany has received valuable
from the French Govern
ncnt, and the line viii bo laid next
summer very probably Ae,o Rork
1tmss
OF all the rning on which the eve