Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-05-19
IN GENERAL.

ult. 1t will be continued as long as it Isl
romuneratye.
-Polygamy is fast dying out in the sui
tans dominons. "Young Turkey hnds tha'
the expense Of one wife is as much as he can
support.
-Stipeins, the new married man, says his
wife is perfect rose. The only drawback to
his happiness is, that she blows out perhaps a
"leetle" too often.
The season is very late in Wisconsin.
But little planting has been DONE and short
crops are feared.
Salt Lake is steadily rising, and may
yet ovorwhcIm that sinful city of the plains
Potatoes are selling in Indiana at sixteen
cents bushel.
-. Retiring Postmaster James Kelly OF
New York was on Monday presented with
800 gold watch and chain by his late en-
ployces.
The pugnacious Ignatius Donnelly' will
be an independent candidate for governor Of
Minnesota, next fall No party wants the
disgrace Of his services
Tho cashier Of one of the largest insur-
ancc companies in Paris, who had held his
place for 30 years, has just been detected in
an attempt to embczzlc 100000 Of the COM
panay's funds.
"A shrowd but unenlightenod school d.
rector out West, used to say, on examining
candidate for the post Of a teacher, We all
know that q, b., C, is yowcls, but we want to
know why they is vowels."
"A fortnight ago young couple were
married, seated in buggy, before the pas
tors residence in Upton, Iowa.
Chicago claims to hold the most yaua-
bic horse in America, Bashaw, Jrr' for
which $4,000 has lately been refused.
"A loyo.smitten swain recently sent some
verses to q Milwaukee paper and they were
headed, " kissed her sub rosa They APP
peared as, kissed her snub nosa.
Payne, the pedestrian, was defeated last
week, at Syracuse, \ Y, In Am attempt TO do
one mile in less time than Boyle, the yeloci-
pcdist, should do two. Payne was eight Sec
onds behind
Caleb Gushing has presented his little
bill Of S25OO, for hismanagement Of the Gen
Butler arrest case iu Baltimore; 1000 lol
services and $500 forexpenses. 1t willprob'
ably bepaid.
1t is said that in Epson county, Georgia
dwell an old couple Of whom the husband il
one hundred and one years old and the wife
is one year his senior.
"A bright idca-touse a gold spike weigh
ing twenty ounces and a tie finished with sill
yer among the wilds Of Promontory Point
where the law against thieving is unknown.
Tho first intimatiop which Presden
Grant received Of the death of the late Unit
ed States Marshal Ely of the Philadelphia
(Pa) district, was an application for the va
cancy. Seven candidates arrived at Wash
ington before Ely's funeral
"A prominent chief Of the Camanches
when asked how large he wanted his hous
built answered, " Large enough for my hors
in a storm 70 and this answer is a fair sampl
ofthe interest in social improvement general.
manifested BY the Indians
Six thousand seven hundred and ninety
one marriages aud l2,540 births were regi.
+ tered in New York city IN 1868 More me
/ were married between the ages Of p and 81
r than during any other five years, and NOR
women between 20 and %.
1 The locomotive America, which won
d gold medal at tho Paris exposition has bee
d purchased by the Chicago, Rock Island an
Z Pacific railroad, aud leaves New York to-day
= for Omaha. An attempt will be made
o take it through to San Francisco.
the Chicago Post says that it has bee
ole
!, can be washed and iroued in laundries at a
/, average cost of fifteen cents dozen, on
IF wants large cooperative laundry cstablishC
!, Immediately.
r "A cruel transition from romance TO r
atty was that experienced by Cincinna
T. girl the other evening, who tried to drow
d herself for love, but was rescued and locke
7 up over night on a charge Of drunkenness.
h "A bird supposed to be a pelican WI
v recently shot near Aberdeen, Miss, thi
3 weighed seventeen pounds and measured nil
feet two inches from tip to tip.
70 Mrs. Mary Pickett died at Columbi
ID Ne, on the 24th ult, at the age Of LOG year
, After being four times married she died
u widow.
-Sbanicou, the seat Of the new govern
i ment Of Cuba, is an obscure hamlet some 70
e ty or fifty miles from Puerto Principe, Z
l. the road to Tunas It's surrounded by den
woods, and the approaches to it have bee
: fortified in such a manner that the Spanis
c forces will find it both difficult and dangerol
It to advance in that direction.
4 There were 200 applications for ii
few clerkships in the Chicago post-otice.
Davidson a. ca college has secure
l. Andrew johnson as orator at its next con
4 menccment That college ought to app
for state aid
e -Doublc-breasted white vests, worn wit
d single-brcasted, high-buttoned coats are sty
ish and fashionable
n The following advertisement appears
1t a Washington paper
"a young coored man wishes to engal
IF an American lad, l6 or II years old, to ira
y ell with him North this Summer, TO do h
% writing. SO a month aud board Plea
1t address, &c"
ID "A Georgia judge lately defined in tern
when a man is legally drunk. Said he, 81
= is not necessary that man should be wa
lowing IN ditch, or humping his head again
your posts, that you may know him to |
II drunk, but whenever he begins to tell ii
lie same thing over twice. then hos drunk !"
lie The National board Of fire underwater
Al in session at New York has decided to diyij
d the whole country into six departments eac
ID ofwhich will be under the control Of Il
m members Of the executive committee residiu
N in it. The first department will be the Ne
it England States carbohydrates at Hartfor
n and the other headquarters decided on a,
/ New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Oh
+ cago Fifteen per cent. has been fixed as Il
n maximum percentage to be allowed agent
When Miss Martha j Cairnes was a
quilted at Belair, Nd, the other day of d
d murder Of her seduoer, McComas, a publ
e demonstration was gotten up in her honor.
Ct A procession, serenade by the Beair ban
he and banquet and speeches were the featur
&c Of the festive occasion.
'e Philadelphia threatens an anti-butt