Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15
IN GENERAL.

Michigan woods this winter.
Iowa farmers now cultivate corn and
hogs and let wheat alone.
Ladies now attach their shopping-bags
to pretty leather belts
--Graut has put all the White House SER
wants into swallow.tail coats.
Twenty thousand men roam the Chicago
streets out Of work,
Eleven murderers are doomed to swing
upon the galows throughout this country du.
ring this month.
Miss Lizzie Boynton, of Crawfordvlle,
Ind, has set up for congressional candidate
in opposition to Lew Wallace.
Judge IIokc Of Kentucky, lately decided
the act Of Congress lorbiadng the taxation
Of United States bonds to be unconstitutional.
In Montana, the Indians are robbing and
numbering the whites. Similar outrages arc
reported from Wyoming Territory.
Russia is about to try to develop cot
ton-growing interest in Asia, in order to com.
pete with the United States
-llandbills are posted about Richmond,
calling for ten thousand colored people to 90
South The inducements offered are from SIS
to $50 a month and rations.
The latest description of Mr.. Grcecys
nocktio IL looked as it it had grown upon
his shirt-colar like a mushroom, and had been
torn to pieces in a haistorm."
81" Lady" Ainsley wore, at a recent rocep.
ton, dres. made by the Paris man-mllincr,
Worth When his bill is rcceiptcd, he will
be worth $4,000 more than he is now.
"A Mississippi steamboat clerk stepped
uptown to get package when the boat
touched at some point to take ON freight, and
brought il back ia the shape Of a vito.
-PppieSed Pedestrian: d" Bub, which is
the quickest way for me to get to the East
ern dcpot2' Accommodating NeiosJoy 49,
/" Run
TIL Pontiical reserve, an unpaid yolun-
teer corps Of 500 Romish nabobs, has solic-
tied and obtained the honor Of standing guard
over the ocumonica council
Charles Van Deuseu writes an attested
communication to a New York paper, Offering
to give $4,000 toward the support of a viz.
lance committee for that city.
The French emperor is said to have ut
tered only these three words on the situation,
/" Wait and see Meantime he paradcs cav
airy in some Of the streets Of Paris every
day
Prof Perry is evidently preaching the
gospel of free trade in the West with power.
Beside inspiring a new free trade league in
Chicago, the Missouri state board Of aerioul-
has now resolved itself into a league"
"A Detroit woman tried to smupple
twenty-thfee pounds Of butter across the river
from Canada, by conceaing it under her
clothing. She had good deal Of grease
when she got home but no butter.
"A Fond-du-Lac woman put 1902 into
her stove for saie-keepng over night but as
another person built the fire, she found lack
OF groenbacks in the morning PLAY on the
word Fond-du-Lac
"A Rochester youth hung himself lately
because his parents compelled him to attend
church, and when his father came 10 cut him
down he kicked the old gentleman in the most
unhIial manner as he daugod by the neck
The existence Of an organized banditti.
with code of laws, grips and passwords
who operate throughout the whole region of
the Rocky Mountains aud the Pacific coast
has lately been revealed by the confession of
an arrested stage robbor.
This epitaph is somewhat extraordinary
combination Of resignation and politenoss
She once was mine and now,
To Thee, Lord, her resign
Ana am your obedicnt, humble servant
RouERr kEupn
Az OLD AVEcu0rE yrusirirp
Two students walking down the road
Saw donkey. coming with their load
The boy wore fall offun--" Good day,
Mother OF asses .n shouted they,
But mother wit put down their pride.
" Good day, my children" che replied.
The country relative Of New England
mayor while proudly walking the streets Of
the mayoralty, a few mornings since. was
greeted by street boy with the familiar cry.
" Black yer boots, sir ?" No was the re-.
Ply " the mayor Of the city backed my boots
this morning
One Of the features Of the Ecumepieal
VIII be a Chinese bishop. Although native
OF France, he wears the Celestial pig-tail and
goatec and combines with his priestly office
that Of umbrella maker, which secular en-.
ployment is followed in order to support an
orphan asylum
"A Virginia negro boy stole a doll, and.
while protesting his innocence Of the theft, he
unwittlngly pressed it as he cndcayored to
hide it more completely under his shirt. The
doll gave a loud squeak, and the little negro.
who had never heard Of crying dolls before,
turned almost white and thought miracle
had been wrought in his case.
"A new feature of discomfort to the Nor.
nom despot is the exodus of quite colony of
his people from Salt Lake city to Indepen.
dence Mo. The discontents repudiate polyr.
amy, and it is their intention to settle down
in that region, and build tabernacle of their
own where they may enjoy Mormonism in its
original purity.
"A recent letter from Rev. r. Hoskins. a
missionary in India, says This is the sec.
ond year Of drouth and famine; grain has
trebled in price, and everything else CORES.
pondngly, so that the missionaries, preachers
and teachers who had formerly just enough to
supply their wants, are now deprived Of their
necessary food.
Horace Greeley was in Washington last
week, and while passing through the Treasury
building he attracted the notice of two female
clerks " wonder who that -" quoth one.
=" don't know, I'm sure" replied the other
" Why" oh, nothing, Only he's the
man that sworc 50 awfully at the Inaugural.
ton ball last spring"
Mrs A. n. St. Clair arrived at Josepb
Mo- on the Both ult., on her travels through
the territories and across the continent in her
own carriage, having completed journey of
$1,000 miles, 1000 of which were made in
her own carriage, visiting all of California.
Oregon, Washington Territory and British
Columbia. Her daughter, who projected
this journey died in Salt Lake in January
last.
Father Hyacinthe writes thus from New
York to Emile Girardin Il offer up prayers
that the cause Of liberty may triumph and
bear fruit in Europe, as it. does in this noble
country. That, with the triumph and fruit.
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