Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-08-19
News Items.


mans fist, and weigh a quarter of pound.
Mr.. Van Wrinkle is to be dined by the
oil men Of West Virginia for securing the re-
moval Of the tax on petroleum.
Lawrence, Kansas, has voted to rail-
road a sum almost sufficient TO tax every vo-
ter in the city thousand dollars.
- Cotswold sheep are said to be in greater
demand IN England now than ever before--at
a late sale 6fty-6ye averaged sl50 in gold
The farmers in Montana are yoking buff
falo calves with the expectation Of training
them to do the work Of oxen.
Eighteen rooms were opened, on one
night last week, in one hotel in Saratoga, and
valuables of all descriptions stolen,
-Enterprising lyccum committees already
have their lists mainly made up for the COM
ing lecture season.
The Canadian Council has passed an or
der prohibiting horned cattle from being i'm
ported FROM the United States.
So scarce are apples ia Pennsylvania
that a barrel Of cider, this fall, promises to
be almost as costly as barrel of wine.
The season in Kansas has been a good
one for corn aud wheat, and poor one for
fruit.
The wheat crop in the region about
Canandaigua. n. Y, has all been gathered,
and in the best possible condition
-EngIand exported more than four thous-
and horses, worth nearly million dollars in
all, last year.
The weather has become 40 cool at Mon
treal that fles and similar pests have disap-
pearcd, the birds are gone, and the inhabitants
are brushing up their winter garments,
The fall Of rain in New York city and
neighborhood, on Saturday last was almost
without precedent. 1t stood Is inches deep
in the Bergen railroad cut.
Somebody has paid $500 for million
cancelled postage stamps, collected by lady
Of Yonkers, and she has given the money to a
church.
A delegate to a recent Democratic Con-
yention in Ohio said he had voted the Demo-
cratic ticket eversince he was seventeen years
old.
- Two fools in Pittsburgh, Pa, are to try
to walk one hundred successive hours without
food or rest, for a purse of thousand
dollars.
Cholera is raging fercely on the Barbary
coast In the little town of Casablanca, $50
more than one-ffth of the entire population
have died from it,
"A lady in Red Wing, Minnesota, became
disguised at the ineficicncy of the carpenter,
who were building her house, discharged them
and has nearly finished the work herself
Gov. Baker of Indiana deserves tn,
thanks of all the country for making military
preparations to resist the lynching Of the cul
pr;ts now in the custody Of the State.
The Norwegian girls in Minnesota ar,
leaving household employment to engage il
harvesting They earn nearly as much a,
men 10 the fields.
The oyerseers Of the township of Great
and Little Marsden, England, have agreed To
place in the Parliamentary list of voters all
qualified women.
Its altogether untrue to say that " mani
not perfect" Who is there who has not met
with many who were perfect strangers, ant
some who were perfect rascals, and not few
who were perfect fools7
"A woman IN Wisconsin says that whef
her husband is little drunk he kicks her
and that when he is very drunk she kick,
him; and she adds that she does most of the
kicking.
Within ten miles Of st. Joseph Mo-
will be raised grapes enough to make $4,000
gallons Of wine and this amount will be in
creased four-fold when all the vines now
planted are in bearing condition.
The fire in the Canadian Woods is really
getting to be a serious matter. 1t is spread
ing fearfnlly, and there seems to be no pros
peet of its stopping until it has burned and
destroyed the whole of the noble forests.
The Central Pacific is now built to Hum
boldt river, $50 miles east of Sacramento
The earnings for July were 100000 in gold
the road being operated from l54 to 100
miles during that period
- An elderly lady of Long Island. above
20 years of age, who lost all her hair by sick
ness, year or two ago, has recently been
grati6ed and surprised by a growth Of dark