Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-01
IN GEN ERAI.

In some parts Of Iowa wheat ba. /.
sold this fall at thirty cents bushol. ''
The Biblc-in-schools agitation has
gun in Pennsylvania
-Buaalocs are disappearing from tho H..
Of the Pacific Railroad
Seventeen capitalists are said to o,,,.,
10000 Pennsylvania miners.
Hundreds Of negroes in Arkansas b,.
laid by a thousand dollars each as the prooo.1
Of their seasons work
Pope Plus smokes. Smoking a b,..
fore pious Observance. This consderoti..
gives every cigar a new light.
Chicago thinks there is no city in H.
country where iurs are cheaper, and CONT
that there is none where they are more po.i
ed
Wisconsin at the late election ado,,.l
the amendment to the constitution. aripgt ~
salary Of the governor ut $4,000, by 5,,.
majority.
The Kansas Senate is unanimousv
publican, and the House is eight to ON M
same way. The republican majority on FAN,
ballot is o..
Tho American dairymens associate.
offer 800 for the best essay on cheese nj,
wholesome, nutritious and economical ,r,iJ.
Of food"
The grape crop in central aud western
New York has been failure, this year ,r5
some Of the companies are being ,od out b,
the sheriff
--Dcamatcrs bill for building the so,,.
sh gunboats is $4,000, 900, and he can't y,
his money till they are out Of the clutches of
our government
Tho total receipts of the Wisconsin .t,,.
treasury last year were 81 ,58g,755. and n.
present balance in the treasury, after PAWN,
all expenses, sl5j,93j
A me.nber Of Congress from Wilson's,
pays 5000 a month at Washington for Ars
rooms and board for himself aud one daast.
ter, or $50 day for each person
The upper and smaller suspension brid,.
at Niagara Falls, was severely tried by h
gale, last week Some Of the guys ws.
broken, and the structure swayod like
reed
The New York sun iscxcludod from tb.
White House and Gen. Dent, the doorkeer.
er, says it is q low aud dirty sheet; which
only makes the Sun shine more brillian,r
for all.
Some things come by odd names. ~.
most uncommon thing ia nature is STYLED
common sense - a paper half mile long
bricf;' and a melancholy ditiy devoid q
sense or meaning is a " glec.n
The supreme court Of New York a.
ordered a " suspension Of the directors
the Erie railway. If this were executed Dc.
orally, doubtless substantial justice would b
done.
One distillery at Rock River, lll. l,a
Iup 900 bushels of corn daily, in maxim,
whisky on which is paid o government ui
uoarly $4,000
JEFF Davis pronouaces utterly falls, Do.
testimony given before the assassination .ri
commission regarding his remarks on Learn
ing Of the death Of President Lincoln.
Pacific railroad travel is tightening IS
winter approaches. An eastern bound train.
the other day, had only twenty through pa.
seugers.
during the present year 643 mile. q
railroad have been completed in Iowa, an al.
dition Of more than forty per cent. during
1869.
-' foor Carlotta" in her insanity occu
I pies most Of her time in telcgraphing to ih'
/ European courts. The dispatches are all re.
I ceived and answered at Brussels.
The full official vote Of New York give.
Nelson - ,62i over Sigel, and Allen 26,5s'
over Greeley. The Judiciary article Of ih
constitution has a majority Of 5000.
Both the papers in Somerset County
I Pennsylvania, are owned by two partners
different politics Each edits the paper
whose principles he believes, aud the prof
are divided.
White Pine boasts the largest WACO
ever built on the Pacific coast The whee'
are six feet 10 hight with spokes FIVE inche
10 diameter, while it Is calculated to earn
10000 pounds Of ore at a load.
-" You never saw such happy lot Of PEG
pie as we bad here yesterday" said a land
lady 10 Indiana TO a newly arrived guest
there were thirteen couples Of en- % What
thirteen couples just married ?" Oh, no
sir thirteen couples just divorced"
Bishop Ames recently said that he wa,
not born in the Methodist Episcopal church
His grandhthors were both ministers one
Episcopal, the other Congrcgational--whils
be, absorbing the essence Of both, came out
a Methodist
A gentleman being asked by a clerg.
man why he did not attend evening prayer
meeting, said he could not leave the children
Why, have you no servants ?" Yes Be
replied, 1--WE have two servants, who keep
the house and board US. We are allowed
few privileges"
A Wisconsin paper gives an account Of
the capture in northern Montana Of sl
animal Of a species wholly unknown to us'
turalists, which is claimed by some to bea
relic Of the mastodon." This marye.lou
creature is only two years old, but stands
seven feet high.
-- II was announced in Philadepha
churches that " coal collections" would Be-
made last week. A German who did not %
derstand that the collection was to be made
IN money, trundled a hand-eart full Of coal
to church, but found no one there to re-
ceive it.
"A colored lawyer in South Carolina ha'.
ing lately horsewhipped a white member q
the State government for insulting his vile
the Legislature appointed an investigating
committee The committee reported that
g the logging was thoroughly and handsome
y done"
Judge Aleck Baldwin of Nevada, The
most distinguished Of the men who lost thei
lives by the Caliiorni9 railroad accident, ID
tended to 60 home on the train of the day BE-
fore, and only missed it by having accidentally
forgotten to wind his watch the night before
On so slender a thread as this hung his liie'
The old project of dividing the State o.
New York and leaving Tammany to work ou'
It's own destruction on Manhattan and Long
Islands, is once more revived, and meets VIE
much favor in the interior and western couI'
ties. The Buffalo Express intimates that u
is more than half inclined to favor the plan
New York has State poultry society
VOunO and viOorouc and 10 vooond annual