Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-01-12
IN GENERAL.

-Wisconsin's hop crop was 10000 bales
less in 1869 than in 1868.
"A fire has been burning in Missouri
coal mine since 1852.
Nine new theaters have been opened in
Berlin within the last six months.
Brick Pomeroy made every one in the
Democrat office New Years present.
Canada sent 1852 beevcs and 54,913
sheep to the Boston market the last year.
Stewart has sold this season twenty
$4,000 shawls and one for $500.
Losses by fire foot up in the United
States for the past IA years, $3.50, 100000.
-Gunpowdcr killed accidentally ll60 per-
sons, last year, and nitro-glycerine only seven.
"A Chicago court has decided that wife
may recover loaned money from her husband.
Only $4,000 has been collected in fifty
libel suits against newspapers in the last ten
years.
The life insurance companies lose
$4,000 by the death Of Aaron WILDER Of
Savannah
"A Western paper says of an evening
dress, it bursts open at the top and ioams
over"
Mike McCool does not read the papers
and offers to eight the Cardiff giant for $1,000
a side
An Oakland, California, justice has de-
cided that it is not wicked to swear falsely, if
no injury is intended
AN Indiana maid has been arrested for
"heavin' rocks at the pedagogue for casting
sleeps eyes at her
"A Fifth.avenue swell has sailed for Eu.
rope to have some portraits painted by the
4" old masters
"A Rochester firm has manufactured and
sold, during the past four months, 27,60O
railroad lanterns.
Philadelphia claims sS,000,000 Of the
s40,00O,000 worth ofsproperty destroyed by
fire in the United States in 1869.
-Georgia's G9,7s2 spindes consume TO-
o64,35O pounds Of cotton per year and Ten.
nessees 1920 spindes ! SAT 200.
The manager Of ballet troupe at Kan
sas City has been indicted for immorally
exhibiting too much beauty unadorned."
Eugenia presented diamond rings to all the
first-olass wives Of the sultan and had to bor-
row 10000 francs to get home with
"A Nevada editor returns thanks in the
same item for his two Christmas presents,
Bible and bottle Of whiskey.
Vallejo California, has increased its pop
ula:on % per cent every year since 1860,
and calculates on 100000 by 1890
AT Oroville, California, orange trees are
loaded with fruit, and Sonoma, Natona and
other towns have thriving orange orchards.
"A Mississippi negro who tried to outwalk
locomotive, left wife and six children in
Strengthened circumstances, while the locomo.
tive left a grease spot.
"A German scientist proposes to saturate
wood for furniture aud other purposes with
solution Of rock salt, making tire and insect
proof
The young ladies Of the Rochester Free
Academy write their lessons on the " broad
hem Of their white aprons, to which they re-
/ fer during recitatous with admirable success. !"
Several milkmcn we're arrested recently
in New Orleans and their cans submitted to
scientific test The least adulteration by
water was 80 per cent. the greatest so and
the average so.
D. d. T. Moore Of the Rural New
Yorker presented on New Years eve twenty
Of his employees with paid up life insurance
policies Of $500, 81 600 aud $4,000, in all
$4,000, at a cost of about $4,000 all the
rest Of his employees received cash compli-
ments
Col. Uri Balloon, lumber prince Of
Chicago, has Just finished the most costly and
elegant residence in that city. In the con-
struction Of the interior "a kinds of wood are
used some Of the trees for which he marked
in the Wisconsin woods, especially for their
present use, nearly twenty years ago.
Gov. Bullock, OF Georgia, telegraphs that
there will certainly be quorum Of the Leg
islature present on the 10th inst, and the
passage of the fifteenth amendment will be
one Of the first acts after organizing. There
will be no trouble and no government troops
needed.
Put an Englishman into the garden Of
Eden, and he would find fault with the whole
blasted concern; put Yankee in, and he
would see where he could alter it TO adyan-
tage; put an lrishman in, and he would wan.
to boss the thing; put Dutchman in, and he
would proceed at once to plant it.
August Harms, son of j. f. Harms Of
Port Clinton, Ohio, on Monday, picked up
and ate piece of candy in the street, was
soon after seized with spasms and died in a
few hours. Strychnine was mixed with the
candy, and reward of $500 has been offered
for the detection of the person who exposed it.
Utah territory has 50, 900 square miles
population 10000, not 5000 Of whom are
gentiles has under cultivation 49,, 600 acres
Of land-S0,O00 acres are in cereals, 1000 in
sorghum, 1000 in root crops, 200 lin the
southern section) in cotton, 500 in apple or.
chards, 1000 in peas, rs in grape, 1875 in
currants, and 10000 in meadow. At cost
Of $4,000, during the year, $4,000 acres
were irrigated by means Of canals.
John C. Barnard, Judge Barnard's three
months old boy, was christened at his fathers
residence in New York city, Monday evening
The entertainment was of the choicest kind
A little marble-top parlor table, spread with
flowers in the center Of which stood little
silver font, took the place of an altar, and the
parlor was very pleasantly decorated with
flowers and evergreens, and the young gentle
man appeared to enjoy tho scene around hin
greatly. Jim Fisk, with many other divine
and politicians, was present
D X. Knight has painted a full length
portrait of Gen. Meade at Gettysburg, for the
Philadelphia league. Gen. Meade stands
alone upon prominence of Cemetery Ridge
toward the close of the third days fight, hi
horses near at hand, held by an orderly. Tn,
advance of troops is indicated through the ar
tillery smoke. The time is about p. m.
when the Virginia troopso of Picketts division
stormed Cemetery Hill. The fine head o
Gen. Meade is bathed in the light of battle
and his face is set in an expression of grav
consideration.