The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-06-08


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20 show no t. The liqaos law, which .
Aas been tho great baue y conleahon
and i stu iBoompleto
Tisn paEadehhia Press in ousn-
uentsag upoa LIZ Va. gseeaAssl oas.li- /
denoa which The people have in Seefs-
gary Boutweu. traly says taal the whole
socre; q his administration Is 70 collect
as much revenue and pay 81 as much
debt as possible Aud the short way
70 cat down the expenses aud % en-
ploy none but honest officers
AT the Peace Jubilee aly Country
Tis Of Thee. is to be sung by the en-
tire chorus. accompanied by the Grand
Orchestra Of SIX hundred, military band
Of four hundred, great organ, full drum
corps. Ginning Of bells, infantry firing
and cannon poaling in exact time with
the music"
The New York Tribune thinks it
is sufficient answer to the grumblers
about the poor character Of some Of
President Grants appointments, TO
show that the current revenues since
they were made exhibit large increase
over the corresponding week of last
year, and this while taxes have not
been increased
The strike OF the miners ia the
coal regions Of Pennsylvania is ended
in most localities, but in one place there
has been a new aud curious suspension
Of work An anonymous notice threat
! ening death to any miner who deeend-
ca the shafts TO work was found, on
) Monday morning, posted at the Oxford
! mine, near Scranton. A wild and most
. unreasonable panic rapidly spread
{ among the miners, and in oil but four
5 Of the mines they refused TO work.
: The poem Of Barbara Frietchie Of
tends the feeling Of the authorities of
7 Frederick, Maryland, and they have
taken the meanest possible path to blot
I out her memory a thing they never
r could have imagined TO succeed in had
6 their wisdom been as keen as their
g spite They first passed an ordinance
! TO widen and strengthen Carroll creek;
i and then decided that the Frietchie
house was in the line of the proposed
Improvement; and then SO straighten-
0 Cd tue creek that it made three sharp
I angles in order to reach the spot where
the old house stood. The house has
been removed, and laborers are nov
y digging some ten feet below the original
: foundation. But the spot on which it
Il stood win be pointed out when the
!. memories of the Frederick magnates
: will be buried so deep in oblivion that
s no resurrection is possible.
George Peabody sailed from Eng
land on Saturday for New York.
The mother Of Stephen A. Doug
lass died at Clifton Springs, n. Y. on
: on the 30th, aged 81 yerrs.
: The womans suffrage question has
+ been defeated in the Massachusetts,
Senate by vote Of yeas to % nays.
The sword presented to Washing
= ton by Frederick the Great, and the
Il original draft Of tho Farewell Address,
t. are now on sale at New York The
n owners ask $4,000 for these articles,
le and they propose to send them to Eu-
n rope if they cannot be sold in this
al country.
10 An NJ G. recently in debate shout
of ed, "Amicus Plato, amicus Socrates,
D. sed major veritas." The reporter next
Of morning made the speech read, / may
! cuss Plato, l may cuss Socrates, said
s. Major Veritas."
% "A child fell out OF third story
G. window in Cincinnati, struck its head
u against the Stone pavement and escap.
j. ed uninjured. II WIS colored child
" "A solicitous parent recently sent
. his daughter to noted occulist to SEE
+" If she could be cured of winking to Ger.
7 tain acquaintance she is wont TO NEE
y on the street
- The President has TINS far remov
! ed nine Of his own appointees. Whai
he says he will do be usl do
o. "A Berkshire, Mass, farmer hai
be planted this spring one hundred anC
- thirty-six varieties Of rotatoes--all The
ic known named varieties except four
q. aud he hopes TO obtain these in time
i for planting He proposes TO thor
as oughly test them all, giving to each tb,
h same SOIL and cultivation, and carefully
. weigh the crop obtained in rod OF
,a drill The list inclndes al the new anC
Il famous seedlings aud the result viii il
ar a measure settle the potato question.
n 1T is currently reported that tbs
W. erratie James Fisk, Dr., of tue Erie Rail
st road uotoriesy. is going crazy and tha
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