Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-09-29
IN GENERAL.


Humboldt used to sleep only four hours
out of the twenty-iour.
The Avondae mine disaster made so
widows and 100 orphans.
The proprietor Of the Revolution is cru
ely styled pantaloonatic.
1t is said New Jersey will can 6,O0O,-
600 baskets Of tomatoes this season
Brigham Young weighs two hundred and
forty pounds avoirlupos.
Miss Kate Field has fifty engagements
to lecture in the coming season.
A man in Rhode Island was sent to Jail
for ten days for sleeping in church
One Of the Cuban patriots brought back
to Macon, Ca was found to be girl.
In New York, Gen Grant saw a wood
en- statue Of himself as tobacco sgu.
John Kalb Of Newark deserted his wife
when he found her nose an artificial article Of
sheepskn.
Prentice says man was the chief consd-
Grafton at the creation Woman was only a
" side issue"
Chief Justice Perley Of Now Hampshire
is over seventy, and retires. The state law
requires it.
DIR. Hayes wishes to 60 North again.
No Arctic explorer is really happy until he
fails to come back.
Ten men assembled recently in a hotel in
California who counted mp among them sew
enty-three million dollars
There are at the present time in London
and its suburbs about ninety Roman Catho-
lie churches and chapels
In some parts Of Arkansas the ice crop
was so small that ice water sells at the bars
for twenty-five cents drink.
The Democrats of San Francisco are so
hostile to Chinese equality that they don't
use Chinese lanterns at their public meetings
An Arkansas editor appealed to the
" dissipel- Of siense in his town to celebrate
the Forthcoming Humboldt cemetery
A live alligator was found and killed 10
the cellar Of private residence in Savannah,
Ga. the other day How it got there is a
mystery.
The next great event in astronomical
circles will be the transit Of the planet Venus
over the suns disc, which will occur on the
9Th Of December, 1874.
brigham Young has lost his family BIZ.
bic, the only thing that had the names and
number Of his children, and now he can't tell
how much Of father he is.
A fortune teller in Milwaukee told q
poor widow, for Sl5, that she was destined to
die a horrible death, and in consequence the
woman went insane and disemboweIled her.
self with the scirrors,
or the seven Republican Senators who
voted against the impeachment of Andrew
johnson, it is somewhat strange that but two
remain unscathed by the hand Of death, or by
political or other misfortune
1t is proposed to place upon the Lincoln
monument at Springfield, H., his memorable
words, " With malice toward none with char
/ ity for all and on its base those other
words Of sublimiiy and power, " would that
all men were free :"
"A friend of Senator Wilson writes from
/ Massachusetts, that private arrangement Ia.
bean effected with Gen. Butler, whereby the
latter will not be candidate in the coming
senatorial contest in that state If this be
true, and there appears no reason to doubt IT,
Senator Wilson will have a clear field for re-
election.
A spirited Minnesota girl has dismissed
her lover on learning that he gave her father
a drink of whiskey.
The product Of a single grape vine il
Florida has been sold for one hundred auC
ninety-two dollars.
-" Waiter" said fstidious gentleman
at a Central City holel, exhibiting singular
looking object on his soup-spoon, waiter DC
you know what that Isl" That, sir, look,
like a mouse, sir. We often find them in
soup, sir"
A house lately presented to a New York
bride by her father has carpet which cost
$1,000 in gold at Paris, upon one Of its floors
The Mr. Jordan, who was the sole sur.
yivor Of the Inflated Helen Eliza of Rock.
port, seems to be the bearer Of a charmed
/ life. Once before he has been shipwrecked
and out Of thirty men alone escaped and Of
eighty persons confined with him in the Lib
| by Prison, he alone survived
1t is stated that dead trees have been set
on fire by the rays Of the sun in Georgia this
year.
Game was never more abundant in Vir-
gnia than at present. This is the case gen.
orally throughout the South.
Many Germans heretofore democrats
will vote the republican ticket in Pennsyl-
yania this fall
The Chicago Young Mems Christian
Association has just received fifteen tons Of
tracts from Dublin.
1t is claimed by the democrats that a
year hence there will not be a republican pa.
per IN Texas
The cultivation of fax in Minnesota
has brought the old-fashoned spinning. wheel
into renewed use
More than a million pounds of chewing
tobacco were shipped in bond from Richmond
during the month Of August.
1t is said that if Governor Senter had
called together the old Tennessee legislature
t. Iatiiy the fifteenth amendment, the oppor.
tuniiy would have been seized to impeach
him.
An English coroner's jury lately return
ed verdict Of " Death from fatty derenera.
tion Of the heart, accelerated by the deceased
having strangled herself"
There is an old lady in New York who
thinks she owns the city hall, and every
month for several years has made formal
demand for the rent Of the building due her.
Illinois papers state that a lady at
Presumption, in that State, lately presented to
her husband six children, at birth. The
whole flock are doing well, and the father is
represented as being perfectly delight d."
So severe have been the rains in Mime
sofa that large part of the wheat crop
must be retained on the farms all winter
The roads are in an impossible condition
and it will be impossible to move the wheat
before the ground closes.
"A vigilance committee in Tennessee finds
that it has hanged the wrong man.
Money is so scarce in Minnesota that
traders and banks are issuing shinplasters.