The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-01-14

7 4s t.M sNeaHf aAtA - 4tNN lteiAAA G q
years OLD
In Canton, M recently. Mrs Rosel-
IA Mills, purchased of Mrs John Math
euy, her husband, John Mathney war
rantng ham sound. for Si20.
Tho directors Of the Hudson riycr
railroad have decided 10 lay third
track between Hudson and New Yssk,
70 be used exclusively fer freiN d
purposes
a western merchant lately ehalked
! on big hogshead IN front of his store
for sail Z A passing vag added. For
freight or passage apply al the hnng-
hole
Mies Emma Hunt of Emporia will
he candidate for ono II the olorkships
Of the Kansas House of Representative
She i said 70 be every way we'll quail
fed for the place, and II SO, should have
fair chance ut IT,
Kentucky wants five thousand dol.
lars from Uncle Sam for toll on her
turnplkes which our 'boys in in blue
4 did not pay. This is the most braxcn-
faced claim yet sent in.
Probably the oldest book extant
I published in America, is now ~ the pos
session Of Gen. j W Phelps, 81 Brat
tleboro, Vt. 1t is dictionary Of tho
Aztec language, and was printed IN tho
city .oi Mexico, IN 1911 nearly fifty
Years before the landing of the Pilgrims
at Plymouth
The babies IN Henry Ward Beech.
ors church are now babtiged with wat
er from the river Jordan, some o. tho
genuine article having been brought
home in the Quaker City.
William Murphoy, Of Taunton,
Mass, died in his one hundred and
eight year, last week. leaving descend
ants to the fifth generation. lie has
sawed wood for his subsistence within
a year.
"A female kaspor Hauser has been
discovered on one Of the coal barges OF
the Seine, The girl, of a high family
has been kept hidden IN the hold Of the
vessel for six years.
Persons travelling with horsos and
stopping III strange stables, should re-
member that Shendm's Cavalry Con-
dition Powders are sure protective
from contagious diseases, such as horse
all, CHAMBERS, &C.
The Lincoln monument association
with headquarters Mt Springfield, III.
has an available fund of $3.50 900, and
has advertised for designs for monu-
ment whose cost will not exceed 5000
900 Designs will be received until
April IA, 1868
Alexander i. Stewart has lust
made State Senator Thomas j. Cramer
little present Of house and lot worth
$4,000, in return for vindication of
hls character in debate in the Legisla-
ture, last winter.
Jennie juno says the most disting-
ulshed fashion writer in Paris il an old
woman, who lives in an attic, smokes
short pipe, wears yellow bandanna
around her head, and signs herself
Countess
great RGaiihI1B's'ffss BY The use Of purgativos
Which which ao4tai9s TRsaFgac;o G eEisrs s daa
free from all such injurious matter and
are the mildest in their operation Of any
known purgatiye.
Rev. Albert s. Hunt, nm unmarried
Methodist minister, at Brooklyn, N. ",
received for a Christmas present from
his parishioners an india rubber model
OF q young lady, stuffed with $500 in
greenbaczs. Perhaps he would rather
receive more greenbacks with the gen
uine article.
During ten minutes conversation
recently with an officer who served with
distinction in the Army Of the Potomac,
he took occasion to say that 'Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment did more good than
any or all other medicines dispensed to
the soldiers
Under the instigation of President
FinneY the two Congregational churches
in Oberlin have decided that a man who
indorses the institution os free mason
ny cannot be christian, and so they
refuse to receive such into their com
We guess the masonic breth-
ren can stand their exclusion from tho
Oberlin churches.
The President wanted 70 make
Hancock second Washington, and re-
quested Congress to honor him accord
ingly Congress responded by censur-
ing Andrew Johnson for removing
Sheridan, and then passed a vote OF
thanks to Gen. Grant How arc you,
Mr. johnson?
Their Name is Legion" may be
applied to the innumerable diseases 10
which the skin IL subject. II would be
well for those who are afflicted with APP
parently incurable ulcers, old sores,
erysipelas and eruptions, to use Graces
Celebrated Salve, which cures in a very
short time, cuts, burns, scalds, flesh
wounds, &c.
Some years ago clergyman was
preaching TO a large audience in n wild
part Of Illinois, and announced for his
text "in my fathers house are many
lie had scarcely read the
words when an old coon stood up and
said, Il tell you, folks, that's lie /
know his father we'll He lives fifteen
miles from old Kentuck, in an old
log cabin, aud there amt but one room
in the house"
"A Canadian swindler who has been
doing q thriving bugiuaE4 hy rarsouat