Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-06-30

President in 1872, in coalition with Che dou W.
{ ocrats, but that part Of those who wero l.
the movement at first have dropped out wben
E they discovered that the only object wos -
carry conservative republicans into the ronl =
4 of the democracy.
4 Dubuque, Iowa, 80 long in financial d;e
0 fcultes, voted last week on the plain ones
G ton Shall the city Of Dubuque settc Il.
@ debts ?" The result was not very satise.a
[ tory. About onc-sevonth of the voters won,
r to the polls and there was a negative maior'
ity of thirty.sevcn Dubuque owes abos, /,
t million and thrce-quarters dollars, the bode,'
of the bonds being "bloated capitalists dow.
East" which fact, in the camistry of low,
makes the reputation perfectly legal md
honorable proceeding.
Another self-accusing murderer has ia
livcrod himself up to the English police. Ia
says that two years ago he murdered a youb,
r woman at Usk, in Nomenclature, and tbros
her body into the river, for fifteen sbilin,.
which She had on her person. She was
woman Of low character, and both Of thsr,
were in liquo 1t is generally believed tba,
the man is laboring under q mental delusiop
, as no one rent ON bers Of a murder or disap.
pearanco at Usk two years ago, nor was abv
body found in the river.
The Wilmington, III, Independent edited
by Mr.. Steele, says "A printer last weeE
proposed to 90 into partnership with u.s.. Nh,
name is Doolittle. The firm name would
sound very bad, either way you put 4
Steal and DO Little, o.. DO Little and
Steal We can't jine. One Of us would Soon
be in the poor-house, and the other in ma
penitcntiary.'
The New York Star has these personal,
on the New York press gang;n Mr.. Ben.
nett is the tallcst editor, Mr. Dana the an
test Mr.. Greeley the slouchiest, Mr.. Erasiu,
Brooks the solcmnest Mr.. Tilton the shanks
Imarest, Mr. De Nyse the shortest, Mr.. Van
Buren, the reddest, Mr. Roosevelt the politics.
Mr.. Oakoy Hall the wittiest, Mr.. Winter tbo
tousoist, Mrs. Stanton the prettiest, Ma.
Anthoay the prettiest, Mrs. Shepperd the
prcttiest, Eleanor Kirke the pretticst, Nellie
Hutchinson the prettiest.
An ambitious San Franciscan Is maxim,
| 900 cigars of the finest Havana tobacco.
each one tipped with gold, and all prcscu,
for our smoking President. They are to b.
! packed in ten glass boxes, with golden edges.
, the top bearing the monogram U. S. g., in
red, white and blue, and the front carrying
the photographed portrait of the donor. Ills
name is b. c. Horn Look for It's repetition.
by and by in some first class appointment on
the Pacific coast
The singular coincidence man has
discovered that the first day of the peace ju.
, bilec fell on the anniversary Of the date Of
+ George Washington's commission as comman-
dcr-in-ehicf Of the American armies.
The faculty and students Of Elmira (N.
" female college, a party Of 100, have gone
on a vacation tour to the upper lakes. on the
propeller Pacific, which they chartered at
Buffalo for the round trip for two thousand
dollars.
-Ex-Congrcssman Mullins, the cxubcraui
orator Of Tennessee, ia his recent eulogy Of an
Arkansas carpot-bagger said ale sunk to
death in the soliloquy Of his own blood We
shall view him no more till the chaotic torch
Of Gabriel wakes to living consciousness the
universal dome, and VIC shall see ourselves
, as others see us in that bourne whence DO
] traveller returns
AT St. Paul, MINI, lately, Gen. John c.
D Breckenridge listened complacently to the
playing Of Hail Columbia, By a rcgimcnial
band, and when the old flag was unfurlcd he
{ reyorcnily raised his hat from his head, waved
{ it toward the stars and stripes and exclaimed
q That is the old flag after all thank God
for itl' This was in quiet corner, away
from the crowd, without ostentation, or at.
, tracing the notice of more than one or twt
observers, and he seemed to be unconscious Of
their presence.
There is a little girl ten years old il
A Kentucky who has never spoken to her father
a She converse freely with any ono else bu
when her father speaks she is silent. Sh
has been whipped for her obstinacy but per
sists in saying that she has tried to speal
to him and cannot;
New Albany, Ind, will soon have plate
glass works, which have heretofore existed IN
this country only at Lenox, Mass.
Hospital Steward w. p. Tonry, Of the
surgeon generals department at Washington.
who married Annie Surratt, last week. has
boen discharged from the service.
Ashley talksabouttho " siokening scram.
bic for Office under Grants administration"
Ashley scrambled as hardas the rest, and the
result IN his case is quite as sickcning. Bos.
ton Post
The foundations Of big dry goods house
at Omaha were washed out Saturday. by
smart shower, and the whole structure came
down in pile, buryiug and nearly destroying
$4,000 worth of goods.
-To-morrow's steamer from New York
will take back to Europe thirteen cases Of
French ribbons, valued at s94T5, for which
there Is no sale in our markets. A hopeful
slgn-would there were more like it.
-lillsdale college, Michigan, has just
made Vice President Colfax an LID, and
the colleges that will follow suit this season
will probably be legion.
/ St Louis editors incomes in 1868: G.
W. Fishback of the Democrat 500. 1877. and
George Knapp and John Knapp of the Re
publican s2s,l65 and s25, 244 respectively.
Chicago paid l,745, 900 income tax for
the year ending May 81, and dares its rivals
to publish their figures.
The Fifty organ and melodeon manuiac.
turers in this country turn out about 1900
instruments year.
Chinese laborers to the number of 500
are at Omaha awaiting transportation to New
Orleans, whence they will go on to the planta-
tions.
The Ohio republicans have organized
their central state committee and are deter.
mined toredeem Interstate from the stigmaof
not voting for the constitutional amendment.
Daniel G. Mason, of the well known
New York firm Of Mason Brothers, music
publishers, died on Thursday, at Schwalbacb,
Germany, whittier he had gone to recruit
shattered health, at the age Of 40.
The mixed populations of the West will
glorliy Independence three days this year,
some observing Saturday, some Monday, AMI
the German and French celebrating on Sun
day as they were brought up to DO.
The last South Carolina Legislature
elected two negroes upon the board Of trus'
tees Of the state university.
Sonora Pacheco, native Californian,