Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-05-26
IN GENERAL.


is to be Jay Cooke q Co.'S financial agent IN
Europe.
Only two-thirds of last years wheat eror
in some parts Of Wisconsin has yet gone 10
market
The Office of the Douglas Ak MAMMA.
turing Company at Fast Douglas, in Massacbn.
setts. was broken into on Friday night. and
the safe robbed of 900 900 in bonds and ccr'
tifcates.
-- Secretary Boutwell, made his first nor.
chase ofbonds Friday for the sinking fund. and
IL is understood that he secured 81 00OOO
in registered fvc-twonties Of 1869, at rs.
-Berezowsky, the Pole who attempted II
assasinatc the Gar Alexander, in 1867. bo.
been secretly pardoned by Napoleon, and /.
on his way to this country
"A Newburg IN. W fisherman made
large haul, Friday evening, 10 shad and
100 pounds Of striped bass, the latter weigh.
ing from two to forty pounds each.
The Minnesota State University, which
was literally endowed by Congress a dozen
years ago, will open its collegiate course. for
the first time, in September.
Oliver Darymple of Saltwater, MINI
is probably the largest wheat-growcr in the
country. This year he has 2000 acres sowel
with wheat, besides large fields mother crop.
lie expects 10 harvest 10000 bushels or
wheat Last year he employed one hundred
men and an equal number Of horses in gath.
ering and threshing his crop.
1t is said that at the close Of 1868 there
were l00,177 miles Of railroad in the world
OF this amount Europe has $500 milo.
Asia ANA, Africa 5S3, Australia $50, South
America 1924 The United States lead.
every other country, having 42,225 miles.
and Great Britain stands next with l42l7
or ouly a little more than third as much a.
we. France is third, with 1884 miles and
Prussia has 1926 miles.
The average Canadian snowfall for 20
years have been 1850 inches in 1861
very snowy year. it was 9G.5S inches, wbie
between October and March Of this past win.
ter there fell 1888 inches.
Not long ago, gang Of catte-staaler
visited northern Texas and drove of twelg.
hundred head into the Indian territory. The
owners banded together and followed ths
thieves, overlook them on the Wachita river
killed one Of the robbers and recovered oil.
the stock.
- A white boy met coorcd lad the Other
day, and asked him what he had such short
nose for. spect's SO that it won't poke
itself into other peoples business he ans.
wered
Last year Polish gentleman having
caught stork upon his estate near Limburr
put round his neck an iron collar with ih
inscription, Haze ex Polonia," Cthis stork
comes from Poland) and set it at liberty
This year the bird returned to the same ro,.
end was again caught by the same person
He had acquired a new collar Of gold with
this inscription, " India cum douis remtt
ciconiam Polonis," India sends back Doe
stork to the Poles with gifts.l
The charge against Mr. Young Of ho
Tribune, Of sending the associated press dr.
patches to his Philadelphia paper, has been
examined by the associated press manager.
and the verdict is against him. IL could
hardly be otherwise.
The Schcrcmlicff family in Russia r..
Gently gave the imperial family an entertain.
ment which cost q round hundred thousand
roubles. Fountains of eau de Cologne were
running in all saloons through which the ina.
perial family passed.
The lately Ascending New York broker
with s2l5,000, is Richard A. Akin, Of the
firm Of Davis q Akin. No reason Is known
for his disappearance.
Cyrus II. Mccormick, Of Chicago, The
reaper man, returned 1921 ,067 income for
1865, while his poorer brother, partner in tho
business, returned only 100000.
"A writer in Putnam for June. remarks
There was a time when the word weddin.
present had charm in IT, When II meant
something fresh, spontaneous, representative
Of the giver's affection, and when the giyer
was permitted without creating a scandal. TO
proportion his gift TO his means But that
was a good while ago"
Water is not costly. The Financa
Chronicle publishes list Of twenty.epht
great railroads in this country, whose arere.
gate stock in 1867 was S2S7 ,O36, 900. which
IN two years have watered their stock to the
extent Of sll36ls,000, their present aqgrc.
gate valuation being s4006s4,000 This
beats all the milkmen Of the age.
The marble monument raised to mark
the spot whore Grant and Pcmberton arranged
terms for the surrender Of Vicksburg. was 20
hacked by relic-seekers that it has been re.
moved, and 4 ten-inch columbiad gun reared
IN its place, upon which is engraved the
words -
" The site whore ten. L. 5. Grant
Arranged the terms of surrendA with
Lieut-General Pembcrton.
The Indiana Legislature has enacted
that the German language shall be branch
Of regular instruction in the public schools Of
that state. The English isn't by any means
exhausted in that state.
New York is luxuriatingin new Bemu.
la potatoes and onions, Charleston string
beans and cucumbers, asparagus and Norwalk
strawberries. The doctors ought to be hope.
'ul.
The President has made between eighty
md ninety ppointments since the adjournment
II the Senate-about half of which are sus.
pensions under the modified tenure-oi-ofee
Ict.
The daughter Of a rich but misery peas.
mt near Paris was accused of a crime which.
proved against her, would send her to pris'
n with hard labor for several years at leat.
Ter father knew that if he failed to employ
lawyer the court would assign one to her.
his was done, and the lawyer argued 50
kilfully and eoquently that the girl was ac
ultted In the gratitude of his heart The
lther sent to the bachelor lawyer dozen
ggs.
The Sacramento Cali Reporter says
1t is currently reported that new tribe Of
indians have been discovered near lndepend-
nee, on the line of the Central Pacific, who
'ould not seem to be as well posted in regard
D railroad matters MS their red-skin brethren
the plains. The other day, locomoty'
aylng passed by 10 their bewilderment, they
esolyed to lay in wait or pursue and lariai
ie monster. Accordingly, they made arI'
t, and perceiving the mystery approaching
iretehed it across the track, either end being
cid firmly by twenty or thirty of the would
@ cantOrs The angina cou,o fhundqring