Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-07

Chicago market has been fecelNcu Nv ''"
Francisco.
--Gcorgo Francis Train, tits said, will de-
liver the Fourth of July Grafton at Folsom
California this year. No doubt it will be
fulsome
Three tons Of solid silver bricks from
Colorado, sealed in leather sacks, reached
Chicago one day last week.
Street cars will be running in Whining
ton. N. c., next week. They will be the
first in the state, aud result Of the carpet
baggers' immigration
Wilkes Spirit Of the Times opincs that
the Allcn-McC6ole prize fight near 81, Louis,
was probably the last Of any Importance IN
this country Let us hope so.
An intelligent pioneer Of 81 took the
cars at Ogden for an eastern visit, the other
day, who had never seen railroad, but who
has, nevertheless, been through 10 states,
four territories, and Mexico, always keeping
ahead Of civilization.
Vanderbilt and a railroad party recently
rode from Cleveland to Chicago over the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railroads in
nine hours and seventeen minutes, the dis
lance being $3.50 miles. The best run was
ga miles In 90 minutes.
Portland, Oregon, on the parallel Of
Montreal and Quebec, was eating its own new
potatoes the first week in Junc.
Frank p. Blair, Jr, is a life insurance
agent in California.
There are now 22l7 assistant assessors
in the internal revenue service, or nearly 1000
less than in November Of last year.
Mayor Oakley Hall Of Now York has
made his monogram thus The letter q cn-
circling golden key, which, being laid across
two avis, forms the letter II, and thus we see
Oakley Hall
"A young Santa Claus in Quebec tried to
crawl down the chimney and surprise the fam
lily by emerging from the fireplace, but got
wedgcd in at the bend Of the fuc, and had to
be dug out with picks.
---" Great is the Diana Of the Ephesians,
and a collection of inscriptions from her old
temple has Just reached the British Museum.
having been oxhumed by Wood, the archeeol-
ogist Among the records are several natu-
ralization papers granted to persons for SER
vices rendered to Epbesus.
"A few days since potatoes were sold at
St. John, n b., by auction, for fourteen
cents busheI, and they are now worth but
seventeen cents on Prince Edwards island
Were it not for the duty Of twenty-five cents
bushel in gold, they would come to the
United States in great quantities.
"A philosophical citizen of Minneapolis
offered from his own resources premium toi
potato bugs destroyed II was too much fol
him, and he writes to the Minneapolis Trib
une that no more boys from st. Paul necC
come 70 my Office with their oyster cans full
Of bugs, and | will not behcld responsible FOL
any dry goods boxes said to be filled Will
bugs from the interior Of the state and ad
dressed to me"
The New York Evening Post frank,
confesses that, With auuccus of five thous
and trained singers in and about Boston, an,
five thousand more in the New England re
gion which owns Boston as its metropolis. /
would be impossible for the comparatiycl
+ few New York chorus singers to compete
b We may beat New England in most things
but in a knowledge Of Handel and Ilayd
may as well gracefully yield without furtbe
e parley."
+ II. NJ. Smith, one Of the editors Of tn
Chicago Republican, was knocked down an
choked on Friday by the proprietor Of con
= spicuous liquor nuisance, which had been free
t ly commented upon by that journal.
I "A great distilery at Cynthiana, Ky
e worth $4,000, and its warehouse, with neaI
+, ly 1000 barrels Of whiskey, were burned
$ few days ago and the flaming fluid, as III
o barrels burst, spread in streams of fire ov,
= the lot making spectacle of peculiar wier,
ness.
The Book Concern Of the Methods
# Of the Northern States az New York ha,
, purchased, for 100000, an iron front built
e ing, five stories high, at the corner Of b .oaC
r way and Eleventh streets, and are now r,
a moving their publishing business from its oil
stand at 200 Mulberry street.
$ They have rough and ready law in Jcl
sey county Ill. Seven horse thieves hay
T. been shot and hung within two years withor
r judge or jury.
L The woman suffrage advocates Of Ne
n York are holding ward and district meeting
n At recent one the following was told
G the case in a nutshell ] asked my it'll
e nephew, &" What are you going to be- John ?
r oh | am going to be doctor, or an eng
D neer.' Well, Susie, | said to his sistc
e "what are you going to be 2' ooh al
p going to be a lady, and make wax flowers an
get married.
5 Conversation between Troy expires,
9 man and West Troy receiver ola good-size
p hos Wh,t Il. tk.r,. .
y pointing to the G. .. ID. Them mean
Il pay" explained the emphatic expressmar
." Them don't spell pay, rejoined the othel
# 50 You go along; this ere box is paid for
= know" 81 tell you what returned the. ez
d pressman the bright thought almost knock
+ ing MIN off the wagon scat, " them ar letter
e mean Come Immediately Down" which sci
tied it.
The Pullman excursion party to Caliloi
f MIA arrived home at Chicago on Friday, an
S its New York members, at New York, 0
, Sunday. The latter were absent from Me-
p York just 23l days of which nine day
were spent in California, two days and NOR
at Salt Lake, half day at Omaha, and neal
ly one day at Chicago.
g 1.-The German universities charge BIZ
G marck with translating Virgil in order to cur
p ry political favor among the educated classe
1t is wonder some American political
! hasn't thought Of that game.
e Specimens Of gigantic plant, of whic
e the only leaf measures Ia feet in length upo
e a stem Of 10 feet, have been lately forwarde
u to London from Nicaragua. The flower is i
: the shape of head or spathe, and measure
t two feet in length The plant belongs to III
d Arum or Indian turnip family.
p "A great~b blast was lately made at III
lime quarries in Clitheroe, England A tur
r mel twenty-eight yards in length was bore,
Z and sixty hundred weight of powder vale
e into it. The mass Of stone sixty feet in HID
k was thrown upward in very nearly yertici
direction, and at least $4,000 tons of soil
4 limestone was displaced
An English chemist claims to have di
= covered method by which he can convert
human body into solid stone. This will d
aWaV with tho naonseitt oc so,,irtos, NVt.