The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-04-20

rhs French aisson bas oost Usn
Dix $4,000 4 year more thaa BIS sala
~, - great Is The expense q living in
Paris
r Clay q I49a,s.aaa. ollorsi
man, declines lhe appointment tender
81 him ~ ne President q the Consu.
late IT Liberia, Csrtaiuly. no pure
hlooaei Caucasian Democrat ever ~.
fused a 81 800 office aud has aeliaa i
calculated 10 startle the lovers 81 the
old conservative order Of things Nv
Clay, u explanation i may be said. Is
rather wealthy gentleman q New Or.
leans enjoying a comfortable income 81
some $4,000 or $4,000. and by no
means dependent on government pa,
ronage or favor II he we're white
man be would not have dreamed o. lc.
Ginning that or any other office.
Josh Billings was asked, How fast
does sound travel and his idea Is Il
depends a good deal upon the noise ron
are taking about "The sound II
dinner horn, for instance, travels half
mile 10 y second, wh,lc-an invitation TO
get M in the morning. have known 10
be 3 quarters q an hour galng up tgo
pair a stairs. and then not bcy strength
enough to be heard
"A Nashville telegram states that
AndieW johnson has recovered, Bar.
y next month he commences swinging
around the circle Of Tennessee, a. a
candidate ior The Rnbernatorid Office
with one eye on the United States Sen.
ate
In the Supreme Court at Chicago,
on the 9lst ult, a decision was render.
ed against the Chicago Railway Compa-
ny for personal damage amounting 70
$4,000 The Court held that 4 compa
MES permit cars 10 be overloaded, the
passengers are not responsible for dam.
ages rosalting from standing on the
platform
Human enterprise apparently
knows no limit A scheme is now on
foot to unite Scotland and Ireland by
means ola tunnel, which viii commence
IN Ireland on the coast 81 Antrim, and
terminate at Glenstrone, in Scotland
1t will measure, il ever completed, over
fourteen miles in length, and the bot
tom Of the sea through which it will
have to be cut il said 10 be well adap-
ted to successful tunnehng operations.
Breckenridge says that in politics
he is an extinct volcano. The intelli-
gence that we shall have no further
eruptions from this crater vii, be un-
commonly agreeable to the general pub
lie
On the night after town meeting
in Hopkinton, Mass, one Of the newly
elected constables, having indulged
rather freely in intoxicating drink,
went to the house Of "A citizen barehead-
ed, and having awakened him command
ed him Sin the name Of the Common
wealth to come out and carry him
home"
The first number Of newspaper,
called the imperial, has made its APP
pearanco in New York. IL holds that
democracy is failure, and demands
that con the ruins OF this unfortunate
republic be raised the firm and sub
stantial structure of an empire"
Upon the argument Of case
breach OF marriage promise at Lebanon,
N. y. last week, when il was alleged
the defendant wanted TO marry bis do
ceased Wife's sister in unseemly haste,
one Of the counsel said, "Thc cold
baked potatoes Of the fiTnoral were fried
for the marriage feast" Aud the man
who thus improved upon Hamlet pot i
verdict Of s 500 for his client
"A funny friend suggests that II Ia
dies were contractors aud builders, tho
fayofila bricks with them would BE-
eam-brics 1t also might be said. II
they we're provision dealers, the kind
Of hams they would be most likely to
keep would be ging hams.