Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-06-16

heavy drug in the market At Fort Edward
they are selling for 20 cents a bushel, and
at Hebron starch mills they bring only ten
cents, and are not wanted at that.
"A secret society is being organized on
the Pacific cost, after the fashion Of the old
" Know Nothings." to prevent the employ
mcnt of Chinese. The order claims 10000
members, and operates very much after the
manner Of the Southern ku-klux.
AS there is much about Spiritualism not
yet understood, IL is hardly crcditable to our
good sense to try to sneer it away, but a good
part of 10 can certainly be explained by Bar
NUNS answer to question at the Mumlcr
trial in New York " Do YOU believe in
ghost2" Yes | do, was the answer
" saw many when was boy. II is only
necessary to believe inthom to see them"
Since October fourteen vessels have set
out to cross the Atanticand never been heard
from since
Six newspapers are now published in the
Sandwich Islands, three in the English and
three in the native language
Tho graves of Confederate soldiers in
Loudo0 Park cemetery, Baltimore were dec
grated on Sunday afternoon There were
prayers, brief addresses aud band music aud
2lO graves were covered with flowers.
-Ex.Gov Bramlctte Of Kentucky recent
ly received letter from New York, stating
that he mad drawn prize of a splendid gold
watch, worth $3.50, and that II he would send
them $3.50 10 cover COSTS the watch would
be sent bin. Gov Bramlctte humored the
thing aud wrote the New York sharpcrs 20
send the prize by express, c. O. d. This
the New Workers did, and the $3.50 was
paid to the express company. As was sus-
pected, the prize was miserable brass watch,
worth about 50. Having paid the charges,
Gov Bramlotte attached the money and the
watch in the hands of the express company.
aud both must be held until judgment shall
be rendered
Vice President ColEx, in a letter to the
Chicago Tribune denies most emphatically
the statement Of Ieta, the Washington cor
respondent of that paper. that there was
difference or falling out between himself Mr.
Cohxl aud President Grant. growing out Of
public appointments. Mr. Coiax SAYS:
There never has been and is not now the
shadow of shade Of such untrondincss on
either side
The Manchester (Eng) Guardian relates
that when Rcverdy johnson arrived in Lon
don, though representing an administration
which had only few months 10 live, he con-
trlcted for a residence ia Portland place for
d period Of five years at a much higher rent
than that paid by hispredccessor The agent
Of the owner though little of a politician.
shrewdly introduced clause in the lease
providing for the payment Of a large sum as
compensation in case the minister Jeff Eng
land before the lease expired, and under this
stipulation Mr.. johnson was obliged to pay a
forfeit of more than E2000.
New York reyols in strawberries at Is
cents a box, and Chicago consumes thous.
and bushels a week Of the luscious fruit
Miss Emma Webb, Of the theatrical
Webb sisters, has left thcstage and taken the
field in opposition to woman suffrage
Somebody dropped wreath Of white
flowers on the grave Of Brown, the child
murderer, at Hudson, n Y, decoration day.
An army officer Just in from the scene
Of the recent Indian troubles in western Kan
sas says that the difficulties were caused BY
the settlers firing on a squaw
The horse which bore Gen. Gordon
Granger in the battle Of Chickamauga has
just died Senator Doolittlc was the last
owner Of theanimal
Patriotic ladies Of Havana have sent
$4,000 worth Of rich and costly jewelry to
New York, to be disposed of next month at
fair for the benefit Of Cuban independence
-Kentucky has seven counties in which
not an income tax is paid.
The Muscatine (lowa) Courier says
" The young ladies of Mount Pleasant object
to the bachelor editors of Iowa holding any
Convention at Mount Pleasant. This reminds
US Of the whoop which children give when
playing hide and seek; it means herewe are.
come anil seek u.s."
The Spanish authorities persist in say.
ing that the Cuban revolution is all over So
it is-all over Cuba.
The New York people are to vote at the
November election upon the new constitution
framed by the convention Of 1867 They
will vote upon tin four parcels
Rev. DIR. Bushnell calls the woman's sui.
nffImpt -
ont of1utes and srnaoTers nm 't" % ,;oIIP,lS"
"A .ooro, !. ,.o,,. .,...s -, 0'''9'
keep 1t UNDER secret is your master the
moment 1t escapes from you.
A ease of ,bo -. %
borso 80, 81 W 'nu o|ne''1lP Oh poor old
tri. IN J Rug 's'vs 'se dollars has been on
settlement as ever ''' '"' 70 '' ''i i'O'''
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tbis soaso n''''' 0AP'''' iof'Voo emigrants
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The ]. eStglWS2ted SxpeassS, of hen PalqiPe
ooo iranes-S4SO,OOO. The emperor hest
ta'eu long at the extravaganza but Eugene
persuaded MN INTO IT.
Az .laallillans island estate on the Adri-
at .,, sea has been sold. The well-kept forests
VIII De cut down to give place to lime-kilns,
ana n, tne castle built by Richard C@ur de Lion
VIII DC made bathing house.
The husband of the original Mrs Bloom