The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-08-24

morning last q Miss Frank Crawford.
daughter - Robert l. Crawford q No.
bile Alabsma
The births Ia News York city last
week we're 3ll. marriages 1871 deaths
5g2. ga increase ia lbe latter q eleven
over the previous week
"A Young Canailaa girl Who ran
away into Vermont and was arrested
far ngraucv, VIXEN offered her liberty
in case she would 60 baek home, show
cd her good sense BY the following re-
ply Not any Mister like tho States
in prison bettor than Canada a; hberty
In take ms chances 90 this side
One Of the Indianapolis papers ex-
poses the trick bv which some pretend
cd spiriuahsis ID that city have pre-
tended 70 send letters to tho other
world and return answers ii due form.
accompanied by tho letter originally
sent The missiyes were skilfully open.
ca by the use Of steam, or by cutting
the ends Of letters sealed with wax.
The present sensible style Of short
dresses for ladies has created demand
for fancy and style in boots, until the
best Massachusetts boot makers can sell
all they can make, at a fabulous price
Lot a pairof which could have been sold
a few years ago, under the reign Of long
dresses. Indeed, with the long skirts
the ladies' wore almost anything on
thor feet, no matter how shabby or
patched An eminent physician says
that since the introduction Of short
dresses there has been a noticeable de-
cline in diseases among women, origi-
mating in cold or damp feet,
While Thad Stevens was young
lawyer, he once had case before O
bad-tempered Judge Of an obscure
Pennsylvania court Under what he
considered very erroneous ruling, il
was decided against him; where upon
be threw down bis books and picked up
his hat in high state Of indignation,
and was about to leave the court room,
scattering imprecations all around him
The Judge Strengthened himself to his
full height, assumed an air Of offended
majesty, and asked Thad il he meant
to express his contempt for the court
Thad. turned to him very deferentially,
made respectful bow, and replied in
a feigped amazement, Express my con
tempt for this Court No Sir | am
trying TO conceal it, your Honor, add
ing, IS he turned TO leave, but | find
it id hard to do it.
The Vienna Presse details the sto-
ry Of Barbara Ubryk, the imprisoned
nun at Cracow, about whom there has
been serious riots Of late 1t seems
that the civil authorities we're lately APP
prised by an anonymous letter, in fe-
male hand, that there was q nun III the
prison Of convent who had been confn-
ed for twenty-one years. A Judge inn
mediately communicated with the bish-
op Of the diocese, and with him visited
the convent There in room-rathel
hole, seven PAGES long by six wide, was
found poor, half insane. entirely max.
ed woman, destitute of every conven.
ience-no stove, nor bed, nor table,n
chair, and even without the rays of the
sun, twenty-one years had been shut up
and tormented for the sin of unchasti-
ty, The bishop reproaehed the nuns
as "wretches," and as disgrace te
their religion, for suffering such things
within the walls of the convent. The
father confessor Of the convent ventur-
ed to declare that the ecclesiastical au-
thorities knew of this scandal, but be
was contradicted and silenced by the
bishop The confessor and the lady su.
perior Of the convent were at once sus-
pended; and tits rumored that the con
vent itself would be dissolved.
The New York Tribune publishes
several columns Of crop reports, from
the consideration Of which it infcrs that
Thanksgiving procIamations in all the
States will this fall recile the mercies
of the rain and sunshine as having
blessed the husbandman with a bund.
auce for man and beast Millions oi
bushels Of wheat will sell for a dollar On
little more a bushel. Potatoes may
not bring dollar barrel. 1t will be
possible for thousands Of families to bug
peaches for twenty-five cents peck.
The Times the Post, and now The
Star Of London favor the acquisition o.
Cuba by the United States.
The tariff for the TRANSMISSION o.
messages BY the English cable is once
more reduced The trans-oceanit
rates arc now $3.50 for message o
ten words, and as cts extra for eacl
additional word. The dispatches fol
the press pay just one-half the regular
tariff IL can not be long before thes,
rates will be lowered again; but ever
at these prices the line viii be IN rnnci
more frequent requisit.on for the user