Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-09
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Watson w eDD, nINlistel W Di"@ii, - "
present in n. ". on leave of ABSENCE
twenty-five State Legislatures are now II
session.--The N. Y. Legislature, IN the
recent election of u S. Senator, has held
its own for "rottenness. The highest
question we have heard of, if not the
greatest, was that "popped" by Schuyler
Colfax when 10000 feet above the sea.
1t is claimed by aeronauts that,view
ed from great elevations, the waters OF the
sea become perfectly transparent; and IN
this connection we remark that the Rev.
John A. Scott of Lexington, Va, has in
vented what he calls the "Opthalmas,"
which is an automatic camera for taking
Topographic and photographic views from
nights above the earth's surface. By its
means it is thought that the depths of the
sea may be photographed and thus made
to disclose its secret wonders, and give up
its dead to the sight at least. -Laboul-
ave is coming to America to deliver Sc
ries of lectures.--The Republicans of
N. j. want John T. Cobb to have a seat
in Gen. Grants Cabinet "A young man
named Innis, at St. Stephen, n. b., muir
dered his sister, cutting her head open
with hatchet, and then attempted to kill
his mother in the same manner, but she
Gqg sheer Gnd I h killed d hHfq Lis hnu %as
about to be married.---The Rev. John
Brash recently delivered lecture in Bos-
ton to prove that the language of the Scocth
Lowlands is distinct language and not a
dialect merely, and is said to have con-
vnced many of his hearers of the fact.
In surveying the Suez Canal, the
French engineers could distinctly trace the
old canals of the Pharaohs, but its course
was not followed in building the present
one.---The N. Y. police authorities pro-
fcss to be confident of bringing the Rog-
ers murderer to trial very soon.---A Mr..
Faint has invented and patented, of course,
a stove-pipe joint which is said to avoid
all smut, armache and temptation to pro-
fanity.-The city of Chicago is to have
a grand driveway around the entire city.
1t is to be Is miles in length and 800 feet
wide.-" Two cocoa-nuts for ten cents,
said a youngster, gracious! thatll make
me sick tomorrow, and [ won't have to
90 to school. - Ex-President Pierce
has a brother who is temperance lcctur-
er.-Cuchero, the great Spanish bull
fighter, recently died, leaving 100000
which he won with his sword. "A negro
who eloped with the daughter of his
white employer twas the daughter white?)
was taken from the custody Of the sheriff
by the Ku-Klux- Khan, and burned at the
stake.---San Francisco is TO be supplied
with ice from the summit of the Sierra
Observation-Disclosures appeal has been de-
MED, and unless reprieved or pardoncd he
will be hanged on the 1lth .--Chicago
is now called the Tunnel city.---The
Springfield Republican gives to the world
from source apparently respectable, an
account of the discovery of the Arctic
continent, which has so long been the
dream of explorers. A German, named |
Frossman, by his own account written out
during eight years. residence on the con-
tinent or island, gives full account of its
inhabitants, climate, productions, etc. 1t
reads like a fairy tale, and is probably
fction.-Alexander Heuglcr is perform
ing wonders as champion "one-leg skat-
er, at Portland. Asa Farnsworth and
and his wife Of Jonesboro, Me-, have lived
together as man and wife G5 years, and
have had II children, 10 Of whom are liv-
body of VIM. Penn lies in a
little church-yard 20 miles from London,
unmarked by a headstOne even.--Well
executed counterfeit scrips are circulating
under the nose of the Treasury in Wash
ington.--Gcn, Hawley says if nominat-
ed for Congress in his district in Conn, he
shall not feel at liberty to declinc.--
Elder Henry Plumley, for more than 40
years preacher Of the Christian denom-
nation, dropped dead at his door on We'd
ncsday Of week before last, at Haverhill,
Mass.-The Philadelphia merchants are
bled profuscy for tickets for fircmen's
balls, which they dare not refuse to pur-
chase, for fear that in case of fire, they
would suffer by their refusal.-A labor
reform convention was recently held in
Boston. One motto displayed will show
the spirit of the convention " To reduce
the hours of household drudgery and in
crease women's wages is the better-half'
Of labor reform. 1t now looks as if
the Cuban insurrectionists would succeed.
The Spanish are demoralized, and if the
revolutionists can hold out until the fever
season, we think success certain.-A
marked degeneration has been observed to
nave taken place Of late years in the ply
;ique of the inhabitants of Paris.-It S
IS claimnd that the metallic base of hydro .
zen is discovered, which will vastly widen
he field of chemical discovery.-Or-
lnges were frozen solid on the trees in
Florida on Christmas day.-A man in +.
WATERFOWL, Wis, has had live snake in q
lis stomach for more than 20 years. ,
Lowell, Mass, was treated on Wednesday !
light last with thunder ower.--N.
Y. pickpockets attend funerals profession
lily stephen Boyle, one of the worst
villains of the N. Y. roughs, has bech SEN '
enced to 40 years in the penitentiary.- !
On Thursday last, while concert and
,all were in progress in St. Patrick's Hail.
Montreal the roof fell. Two thousand &
persons were present, but had suf- t
icient notice to escape before the roof fell t
With terrible crash.--Gen. Comstock, !;