Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-03-10
IN GENERAL.

A man in Buffalo, n. Y, is making
5000 pair Of boots for Grant to be inaugural.
ed in
The net proceeds Of the recent New
York charity ball were Sl5,4l6, which will
be paid over to the nursery and child's hospi.
tal
Brick Pomcroy is now assailng the
Erie managers If what he says of them (.
not libcllous. they are beyond or below all
lbclline. His language Is " dreadful plain"
-" Come Bill. It's ten o'clock, and think
we had better be gong-ior its time honest
folks were at home" Well, yes" was the
answer; b. must be OF, but you needn't hur.
ry on that account
Tho New Jersey farmers are poughng.
Columbus, Ohio. has bindcry IN which
are employed 1872 boys and y girls and DO,
one of thcmhas ever been known to stop work
to talk. The fact might be different were
they not deaf and dumb.
John Gut, one of the leaders Of mob
az New Ulm. MINI, in 1896, which SET upon
two men from Mankato, murdered them and
| threw their muulated bodies into the river
has just been sentenced to be hung.
The jouueymen hilors Of New York
/ city are preparing for strike for % per
cent. advance on their wages--3O cents per
hour. There are 1900 Of the trade in The
city, aud the situation promises to be inter.
esting.
Tho latest confidence game has been de.
yelopcl at Davenport, Ia, where the victim.
are skillully cheated into sending good money
with the promise Of receiving twice as much
in splendid counterieits,' aud they sec Do
more Of either
Mrs. Lydia r. Bailey Of Philadelphia
who died in that city, Sunday, at the age Of
81, took mp the printing business at her hus.
bands death aud conducted il successfully
10 her own name for more than thirty years
She was city printer, under the vhg admin.
istration, from 1910 TO 1850
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mo.
uopoly, says the Erening Star, adds three
hundred dollars per annum to the living ex-
lponscs oil Washington families whose incomes
amount to $4,000.
ladies Of New Orleans construct their
panniers Of old newspapers which was dem.
onstTated the other day by a polite youth.
who endeay1red to remove a trailing incum.
brancc from lady's skirt and brought down
the whole eliGce
AT a recent dinner given to Gen. Grant
in Philadelphia, fifty gentlemen were present
But two were noticed to refrain from the use
Of liquor, and those two were Gen Grant aud
p a well known Philadelphia merchant.
Among the Cuban refugees who have
b lately arrived at New Orleans from Havana.
, is a belle and heross, whose wardrobe is raih-
e er extensye,-two hundred dresses, with
shawls, bonnets and diamonds and jewelry to
% match.
The demand for Brick Pomcroy's Dem
Z ocrat and papers Of that class, has fallen Of
B, largely since the election \ dealer in Nash
:, vile, who sold $50 copies Of the Democra
last fall, takes none now
a An expedition win soon sail from Ne'
lie York to recover S2,0O0,00O in treasure iron
IA Spanish ship, sunk in the West Indies il
It 1850
B. Tho directors Of the Lake Shore an,
'e Cleveland and Toledo railroads meet, Marcl
, 10, to arrange terms for the consolidation o.
J. the roads.
!, Here is a concise, but hopeful love letter
d written by Colorado miner: " Layen ycre,
: is rather long to kort gal, but lie have you
d yit, Cate"
"A grand yelocipede tournament will be
held at the spring meeting on the Brooklyn
= IN. ~ Prospect park course, at which ST..
300 in prizes will beawardcd, The machines
y and riders will be handicapped, diameters Of
wheels measured, and everything done under
a new and rigid code Of rules.
An observing individual in n very hea.
, thy village, seeing the sexton at work in hole
y in the ground inquired what he was about?
4 Digging grave, sir" Digging grave
: Why, thought people didn't die often herr
i do they ?" "Oh, no. sir They never dl>
but once"
information has been received at Gen
Shermans headquarters in St. Louis to The
effect that Little Raven and his band of three
hundred Sioux have surrendered to Gen. Gus
ter.
"A writer in Good Words says; ia
family affection and feminine chastity, Ire
c land can challenge the world to equal her
-" What have you to remark, sir, about
my oratory p once asked vain public speak
er of John Randolph Nothing, sir; it =
not remarkable quietly replied the meFc'
I less wit
Gen. Grant receives daily about tO0
e pounds of letters and pamphlets Of advice Oh
r financial subjects.
REV. DR.. Il, IT, Chapin's society at New
York has raised 5000 for building new
Home for the aged and INDECENT, and appoint
ed committee to purchase the necessary '''
A Two acres will be planted in cotton 'n'
year, in Middle Tennessee, for one last yeN
By chemical process, kniie-handles aa'
e fine tooth-combs are made from potato PuP
1t is reported that there are SA,
National Bank Directors in the HOUSE W
Representatives.
e "A Mobile magistrate awarded u'sl
girl twenty-five dollars damages for beng !"
e out Of a street car.
Philadelphia, in order to approach n,'
+ York in size, proposes to annex the 81"
remnant of the State of Pennsylvania
4 The amount of money invested IN D1 's,
Superior copper mines is estimated AZ w.
hundred million dollars