Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-06-02
IN GENERAL.

Army When rlOyu WIS GccIc'ui) VI '"ii :"
dead.
49, One hundred and ixty-four steamers
( have been destroyed on the western rivers
since September 1867 40 burned, lOl sunk,
and Ii exploded.
- True eloquenco does not consist, as the
rhetoricans assure us, in saying great things
in sublime STYLE but in a simple style !;
for there is, properly speaking, no such thing
as sublime STYLE the sublimity lies only IN
the things and when they are not 80, the
language may be turgid, affected, metaphor
ical, but not affecting
Fewer buildings will be erected this
summer in New York city than for several
years past,--not more than 1900 or l4OO,
against PIP last year
"A New York theater manager lately re.
fused an offer of s25 apiece from party OF
spooneys to allow them to behind the scenes
during the performance
Earthquakes and smallpox cost the San
Francisco, (Cal) authorities 100000 last
year.
An "ugly club has been organized APP
propriately, at indianapolis, Ind The iui-
] tlutluu ice " Hbi anu inc uklithl Hlah VIII NC
its president for the ensuing year.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker has applied to
Secretary Fish to appoint her secretary Of le-
CATION to Gen Sickles, minister to Madrid
The secretary says that she may 60 if Gen
Sicklcs is willin', and so say all Of u.s.
"A man who lately sued lady for breach
Of promise, was offered 5000 to settle.
" What he cried, two hundred dollars
for ruined hopes, n shattered mind, blasted
life, and a bleeding heart Two hundred
dollars for all this! Never, never Make
it three, and it's bargain
-- The Ex-John Postmaster Of Helena,
NJ. T., is nearly $4,000 short in his accounts,
but there is small prospect Of recovering any
of the plumber, as the official put all his
property out of his hands on the very day
that his successor was confirmed
judge Bowling of New York has dis
charged two men, captured with carpet bags
full Of burglars tools, on the ground that it
was no ofTcnse, legally, to carry such imple-
ments in the day time. He's lovely embodi-
ment Of iustioe--the New York style.
The farmers of Platte county, Mo-, are
praying for some one to invent grasshopper
trap to rid them Of the plague.
The Central Pacific railroad is going to
publish, in the San Francisco papers regular
lists Of its through passengers.
Lumber has fallen 40 per cent at White
Pine, Nevada, within the last few days, and
is now only 1925 per thousand feet.
An Illinois farmer set fire to the grass
on his prairie land the other day and burnt up
his two children who were out at play
More homesteads have been pre-cmptcd
in Nebraska, this spring, than the entire pre-
vious number since thesettlement Of the state
Cen Grant has only democratic papers
"A Us leayings--to read and gentle
hint is given to republican journals to furnish
his reading room at once.
The London Spectator calls Goodwin
Smiths communication TO thc Beehive ga
very lilly letter" That is just what's thought
Of it on this side of the water.
"A London clergyman adyertses that he
will "lend " his weekly sermons for half
crown apiece, or four for los, warranted
- original, earnest and evangelical"
The horse that bore Phil. Sheridan into
the Shenandoah fight " from Winchester,
twenty miles away" eats corn and hay in the
stable of Q. II. Merry, Dubuque, la.
"A Western railroad engineer, who has
lately left the business out Of regard for his
personal safety, says that the road consists of
the right of way and two streaks of rust"
The famous horses Bashaw, Jr., Ameri-
can Girl, Lucy George Wilkes Rhode Island
and Goldsmith Maid will trot at the Grave
send IL. H. course Saturday, for purse of
$4,000
An NJ. q. recently in debate shouted,
" Anxious Plato, amicus Socrates, sed major
veritas." The reporter next morning made
the speech read, may cuss Plato, | may
cuss Socrates, said Major Veritas."
Two men in the Michigan state prison,
convicted Of burglary, last winter, by the pos
tive evidence and Identification Of twenty
witnesses, have lately been released by the con.
fession Of the real criminals.
The magnolia rec, the pride of Southern
forests, has at last been put to practicable
use. An Illinois basket maker has estab-
lished himself at New Orleans, and is making
beautiful baskets from the wood of this tree.
- Wisconsin farmers are annoyed, beyond
endurance, by countless pigeons, which dig
up grain as fast as it is planted compelling.
IN many cases, the replanting of whole fields. |
The birds are captured with nets and brought
to market; shipped to Chicago and the East |
alive. AT the opening Of the pigeon season !
they sold readily at 81 per dozen, and now
they will hardly bring twenty-five cents Der
dozen dressed.
- The millennium dawns. The Washing.
ton Republicans have nominated black
man for city collector, and an Irshman for
city surveyor, and if the coalition holds. will
elect the ticket.
The story that Fisk had stopped his
suits against the Republican and the TriBnne
Is now denied, and those papers are happy
again, 'F'
- belinda l.. Cook, young woman from
Maine, Is years old, died in San Francisco.
California the other day, from the effects of
an overdose Of arsenic, to improve her COM
plexlon. She was entirely ignorant of the
use OF the poison, and the fatal dose was
nearly teaspooniul.
The Meneelys of West Troy, New York
are making a five thousand pound :, treat
rom Tor the Cornell University, to be at
tuned in harmony with the octave of bells
already mounted there Mrs. White, wife of
President White, furnishes the bell and the
poet Lowell supplies the inscription. l.
Advice by writer in the Paris journal
Amusant "lf a lady says to YOU can
never love YOU wait a little longer all hone
IS not lost But if she says mo one has
! sincere wishes for your happiness than
l. take your hat"
The New York Express has heard of one
American woman in Europe, who turned IN
her arlstocratic nose at a pocket handkerchidf
costing 1000 francs, demanding one which had
han 10000. - '''' ''''
"A. I. Stewards income is only six dol.
aIs minute. "Wait few minutes means
from his lips, when he is dunned ,
pa account OF little bill-if the unhannv
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