Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-08-26
News Items.

- An Illinois river packet, to draw
fifteen inches, is building. Only
Kentucky has no daily papers ou,.;s
Louisville. 1t gives 10000 Democrat o.
An India rubber carriage has h.o.
structed in Connecticut which weighs o, IO''
hundred and twenty-five pounds. '"y'
LAMBS have been selling for 10. 49,,
and sheep for 20s. each in the South ~ I pa
land, the farmers having no food for them N'g
- The Hon. Revcrdy johnson Ia.
States Minister to England, has arrival
London.
-- Certain southern Representatives s,o
dcayoring to secure September Session w
Congress.
or the 1926 miles of railro.,
the world, Europe claims to have loo oa
miles. ~"
Gen Grant has farm ofover ono a..
and acres nine miles southwest Of 81 to s@
well adapted to fruit and grain.
~ is thought that the Lake Shore
crop, this year, will reach seven m1Irs'
pounds.
A woman said in a police court the on.
day that before marriage her husband ~"
tended to be much struck with her, but nv y.
she was every day struck by him.
- Long Branch has twenty hotels A..
miles Of bathing shore, twenty-five mill y
drives, five thousand guests, and ten thop.,.5
are expected
Nova Scotia boasts that not a single a..
Of sunstrokc has occurred within il I'M.
this year The same is probably true n
Greenland
Hungary is about to celebrate the thoo,
andth anniversary Of its existence as tin.
dom. A meeting is TO be held in Viebp, I.
arrange a programme.
How is the Paris surgeon who IA, b...
engaged to cleaye Chang from Eng. going 4
get around the Scripture, Whom God m,
joined together let no man put asunder2"
Mississippi freedmen are wisely dcsir,,
to emigrate. \ State 80 completely gvss
over to rebels is no place for them.
Mr. Quitman wonders when there are on.
/ is nine parts Of speech, that his wife can pu,
them into such perpetually varied forms
The amount Of iron ore received at Nis.
/ ipan City, lndiann, from Lake Superior. a,
the week ending last Saturday, amounts d
/ 10000 tons
The daughter Of Jabez Peck, Of Pitts
field, was babtized on Sunday last, by Rev
/ Dr. Todd. with water from the river Joria,
which was sent them by missionary.
An old gentleman at Saratoga, who hs,
been regular in his attendance there for siis
years, claims to have imbibed in that TIM,
five hundred barrels Of Congress water.
In a recent thunder storm in England.
soldier was struck by lightning and mad
blind, and a woman who had been blind f5r
eight years was as suddenly restored 10 sight
Philadelphia claims to manufacture nea,
~ AN the woollen knit goods in the United
States It's business in fancy hosiery amounts
TO more than six million dollars year
49, Governor Fenton Of New York has ~.
pointed a Board Of Commissioners for ii,
protection Of cattle and for the prevention Of
the spread of the disease.
Daniel Edwards, Aliegany Co. \. Y O., mad
an experiment in fattening hogs, and ascer
tanned by weighing that one pound Of mea
made III pounds Of flesh.
The Utica tN. Y Herald learns Of iei
children lying dead in single day, on Cor
Hill, in that city, whose deaths were cause
by eating unripe fruit.
"A we'll known New York diamond meI
chant estimates the value Of the prccio,
stones worn in Saratoga at the present time,
over s4,500,000
John Godfrey SAKE, who has heretoio
been a Uniyersalist, now believes that the
are two things to be eternally lost--his VI
brella and the man that stole it.
The mikmen Of Toledo recently bad
picnic, when one Of their number wore pump
which was regarded as a reflection on his ass
ciates and they gave him a dueking.
-' You call that a trunk do you - grow
a objected porter. " l, only needs a ligh
ming rod to make it look more like boardii
house than what's to be found in SaratOgy
The will Of Levi Ashbrook Sr., has be,
presented for probate at st. Louis He l.
property valued at $4,000, 900 divided amoI
his children " For when be dieth the ri,
mani he shall carry nothing away"
The bronze guns appropriated by Co
gress to the sixth army corps for a monume
at West Point, ~ Y, have been cast into
full length figure, at the bronze works in Pm
adelphia, Of Maj. Gen. Sedgwiek.
j. Money RENTED to the Chancellor Of {,
= English Exchequcr by sundry persons for CO
science sake, in the financial year lsG7-ls
{ amounted to e46ss In the preceding yC
t repentance produced a larger sum, e50s7.
] A New York correspondent Of We
: efn paper says the circulation of the Tri5h
o is now 1900 copies daily-arger than e,
d beforehand that of the Herald about 6
600.
: The Rev. Morley Punshon, the emin,
English Methodist preacher was married,
: Saturday, at the residence Of the Rev.
Ryerson, in Toronto Canada, to his late vii