The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-01-14
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a work Of art 4 widow trying Il
get a husband
Another successful breeder of shor
HORNS Whisky tax.
The end Of Stewards real cslat.
purchases drop Of the crater
Alice Cary writes on an ayorag,
two poems a day
Pig hghts form a new branch O
sporting in California
NmrrF founded on fear, Il onl,
/ vice in a fit Of detection.
Henry Ward Becchers farm yield.
cd crops worth 5000, last year
More than $50 families ia Trenton
\. j., are supported by charity.
Not one out Of l43 newspapers pub.
lished in Iowa is religious
The number Of deaths IN Baltimore
last year was 5,225
Eighty white families in Lexington,
Ky, are starving.
The shortest day" in the year
the day you want to borrow $500.
There was less business done by
the Ohio canals last year than in 1866
--Ex-Gov Dennison pronounces in
favor Of Chase. Heis a denizen of Ohio.
Great military activity preymis in
Ireland
Eight cities in Europe have Lin
coin Streets.
An English philanthroplst has sent
nine tons Of tracts to Chicago.
The first Virginia newspaper was
issued in 1850, at $50 per annum.
Charles Oxford is trying to skate
sixty hours without sleep or rest.
New York lost $5,7l1,000 by fire
last year
Chicago has packed 63l, ,GIs hogs
this season.
Grants favorite champagne
Mumm's.
Popular tumults have occurred in
Lisbon, in consequence ofnew and on.
pressive taxation.
Punch calls the Grand Trunk Of
Canada the biggest portmanteau known
"A neat but suggestive bridal pros
ent was an illustrated copy of Dante
"Tnferno'
There are about twenty thousand
Baptists in Maine and some eighteen
thousand in Connecticut.
Most Of the hosiery manufacturers
in Ipswich are reducing their work or
stopping their machinery.
Gov. Haight Of California, in his
inaugural discourages Chinese immigra-
tion to that State.
The Davenport Brothers have mado
& exposed POSED them.
Tho Wis~ssnsiw pr,aas,ry 4g,rt q, !
last year 1896, 12795, paid out $S26,- |
538.S2, and has SO, 594 loft.
Steamboat disasters DESTROYED So
100000 worth of property on Western
rivers in 1867.
Judge Busteed is slowly recovering
He will probably be confined to his
rooms several weeks.
There is now an unbroken railroad /
communication from New York to the
Rocky mountains.
"A. I. Stewards city and state taxes
amount to $250,000 this year. Poor
men escape such frightful burdens.
Magnolia Water A delightful toi-
let article superior TO Cologne, and at
half the cost.
1t will come hard for Napoleon to
send minister to Juarez's court, but
he will have to do it.
"A New London baker gave away
! 900 New Years cakes to his friends
on Christmas day.
vThe portrait of Pierce was placed .
on a peg in the Presidential mansion
not long since
Yellow fever and cholera still con-
tinue their rayages in New Orleans, but
not so furiously as formerly.
The Berkshire life insurance com
pany Of Pittsfold lost $4,000 by the
Lake Shore disaster
Two tons of sponge are prepared
for bedding every day at Lebanon, New
Hampshire.
"A rich Chinaman Of San Francisco
was recently buried in a coffin which
cost 81 600 in gold
An architect proposes to build a
Bachelors Hall, " which will differ from
houses in having no Ewes.
Mr. Beecher says New York city is
owned by the devil. II is a nice piece
Of property whoever owns ii.
"A Chicago court has Just decided I
that young women Of seventeen are too
old to be chastised corporeally.
Three barrels Of complaints against /
d gift swindling establishment are stor-
ed away at the New York police head I
quarters.
The Montreal police gave all their
petty prisoners a present Of their liber-
ty New Years morning. They all came
back at night.
"A man walking in the streets Of
Boston, pocketed his pipe after smok-
ing. Result the basement Of his pant
aloons was entirely destroyed.
-Minnesota has 125, 900 children be-
tween the ages Of FIVE and twenty-one
years, and estimates from this that she
has 100000 inhabitants.
Napoleon has 81, ,500, 900 a year for
spending money; Francis Joseph half
Is much; King William So 900, 900 and
Victoria even less.
The heart is a cup which is empty
TIL il oyerfows. We have nothing to
snjoy till we have something 10 impart.
He only lives who Il NOT a reaarvf.r