Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-06-02
"A western town has a lady "postmasto,

who is both obliging and gentlemanly."
$500 Among the incomes returned nj Nan
York for 1868, are A. T. Stewart, 5000 oto.
Ex-senator Morgan, sl26,00s; petor d
Sweeney, slSl ,S63; Marshall o. Robor,,
s71 900; G. Dclmonico, sl0,S12; Lar,
Gordon Bennett, Jr., $4,000; William n
Dodge, 1921 1915; William Il. Dodge. +,
s122,036 Paran Stevens, s2i4 1885 Mo-
Taylor, 1914, 1888; August Belmont S9l .S7o,
Robert Bonner, slS3,S41 James II. BunLo,
s163 1887 Edwin Booth ss3,73G; Gcora,
Bliss, slG0550; John J. Cisco, sl2O .9O5
Peter Cooper, sS0,6S9; Henry Clcws. sIO9
600; William b. Dinsmore, 81 1893 Dov;I
Dudley Field, s7S,2Si; Fletcher lIarpe,
s50,5l1 James Harper, s5S,074 and JobD
Harper, s55,056
Daniel II. Ryan, an Albany my,
repeater" has been sent to the state nrison
for two years. He tried to vote in two warJ,
while he lived in only one
The village Of Mayvillo, N. Y. 10.
miles from Lake Erie, is 700 feet above ,ba
lovelo the lake, andat the head of Chautauoa,
Lake, the highest navigablo water on tbe
globe.
Agricultural prospects in ireland wo,o
never more favorable than at this season
Grass, potatoes and oats have profted create
by the recent rains and are looking romarkably
we'll.
The news oftho discovery Of the diamond
mines on the Yaal river, South Africa. b,,
been confirmed, and party is being formed
in New York for the purpose Of visiting them
-- The hop-raising mania is not eradicatel
in Wisconsin, Notwithstanding the disaster If
last year. Every one then bitten thinks ina,
every other person so bitten, except himself
will be discouraged, and so not put in aby
hops this year, and the consequence Is the
fever is again prevalent.
OPP The blows on the last spike Of the Pa.
cifc Railroad, registered by telegraph in
Springfield at 3l5 P. ~. May 10, were r..
corded by the same means in San Francisco
at ! LA minutes 30 seconds, and simuliape.
ousy the first Ere alarm bell pcalcd and the
Fort Point guns in the harbor spoke their re.
joicing.
Three woman's-rights publications in Chi
cago are to be united aud published under ibe
modest title Of the UHirerse Il will be an
cight-Pagc sheet.
-- 1t is said that a heavy dose Of mercury
will surely cure hydrophobia. Which wifi
you haye2
80 1t is now believed at the Treasury De.
partmcnt, that the public debt will be reduced
sli000,0oO during the present month
Tennessee wants 10 borrow s. ,100,000o
pay the July interest on its bonds, which are
plenty and cheap.
Franklin Coffin, Of Clarcmont, n. H..
died suddenly Of heart disease on the 22l
while riding a yelocipede. He was p year.
of age.
"A female convict named Riley has e,.
capped from Sing Sing prison. She crawlcd
through a skylight, aud thence down a light
ming rod.
"A gentleman in Worcester who poured
water into sink which had unslaeked lime
in it, Saturday, caused an explosion which
will cost him his sight
A tunnel similar to the Chicago tunuel
for supplying the city with water is to bc
commenced at Cleveland, Ohio. It will cost
about 100000.
The Anvil Chorus, with anyils and
slcdges as large as life" was rchearsed by
over 100 Boston dremen, Tuesday evening.
for the Peace Jubilee.
Two women, elegantly dressed, had
rough and tumble fight on School street 10
Boston, on the 22d Blood was drawn from
pretty noses and jcwelry strcwed the pave.
ment.
The " last rail on the Pacific railroad
is rapidly disappearing under the blows Of
the relic-hunters and new rail will soon be
necessary. The soldiers began to hammer
off the fanges before the las, spike was driven.
- A substantial citizen Of Now Orleans
paid triHe at auction for full length por.
trait Of President Pierce, represented sitting
at a table piled with public documents, and
holding the scroll of the constitution in his
hand; then sent for an omnibus painter, and
had the face altered into his own Likeness.
The New York post-ofice is not to Be
changed, after all, but will be erected on the
original site selected on the City Hall park.
Two hundred thousand dollars are already
appropriated for the work of construction.
The journey between Boston and san
Francisco has been made in seven days and
eleven hours-and there were seventeen hour.
lost by detention, making the travelling time
six days and eighteen hours.
- The Governor of Indiana vetoed one Of
the appropriation bills, and it is probable that
many cases will 90 TO the courts on petition,
to compel the State to pay its debts.
1t is thought that the production Of
grapes in the Middle States will be very
much larger than ever before, and that the
zines will hardlybe able to sustain the weight
n the crops.
= Dead Fall, Pacific Railroad town,
'laims to be the worst and most lawless town
m the entire line, and no other place is dis
'osed to dispute the honor with it.
"A Manchester, England, company has
equired from the Emperor of Morocco
arge tract Of land for the purpose of raising
otton on an extensive scale