Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-07-13
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Nearly three thousand persons have ar
rived at Long Branch within few days.
Two months miscellaneous refresh
ments for the City Council cost Boston s2,.
s5975.
--Goveruor Solomon, of Washington Terri
tory, is coming eastward to drum up for
eign population.
The census is to cost about six cents a
head for all the persons enrolled, or s2,326,-
600 for the whole.
Thirty stores under the Union Hotel
Saratoga, will net the Lelands this season
somewhere near $4,000.
Coal So per ton and Ice $50 per ton is
the problem upon which New Workers are at
work at the present time.
st. Louis contemplates extending its city
limits to embrace fifty square miles and in
clude park Of 5000 acres.
The Republican Convention for the First
District, Maine renominated Hon. John Lynch
for Congress on the first ballot.
The Russian minister of finance author
ICES the employment Of women as book-keep-
ers and clerks in custom-house offices.
"A Nevada editors idea of Olive Logan
" The most right up and snappy ebulition of
womanly git up and git that We ever had the
pleasure Of meeting"
Ten years ago New York journalist
invested S240 in as many acres in a western
township. For the same property he has just
been offered s240,000.
The St. Louis authorities have raised
$4,000 to aid the census takers in obtaining
accurate statistics of the trade, manufa ,tures
and commerce of the city.
1t cost $4,000 to bury Secretary Of
War Rollins, aud 81 200 for Secretary Stan
tons funeral, and Congress has got to pass a
special act to pay the bills.
The Republican congressional COMMITTEES
chose Congressman James II. .Patt of Vir.
ginia for new secretary on Tuesday Thomas
B. Tullock declining the service.
Helpers" Impending Crisis is now i'm
mnent in North Carolina, as he announces
hmselfas a conservative republican candi
date for Congress in the Charlotte district
A reunion of the Marysville (Ky.) school
where Gen. Grant got his first "readin's
spellins and spankin's," is talked Of Sever
al prominent Kentuckians shared the honor
DR.. Livingstone, the African explorer
is supposed to be at Nijiji, two months travel
inland from Zanzibar, and no tidings from
him are looked for under seven or eight
months.
Judge Mallory, of the Milwaukee Mu
nicpal court, has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting dancing upon the Sabbath is un
constitutional, and has dismissed the com
plants pending under it.
The " Red Stockings" reached thei
home in Cincinnati on Wednesday of las
week, and were received by large crowd o
admiring citizens During their absence the,
have met with but one defeat.
Chicago, the fastest city of the far West
is increasing her debt with much greater ra
pidity than she is her population. In th
last three years it has more than tripled, un
ill now it amounts to over SIT 100000.
-Cincinnati's manufactures for 1866
amounted to Sll9,l40,0S9 OF this, Sl5,
100000 was received from liquors, sl2,25O,
600 from groceries and provisions, $1,000,
600 from clothing and nearly SS,000,0O'
from oils, soaps and candles.
The Springfield Republican says that a
Washington General Badly Smith, Presiden
Of the company which put down the existing
Cuban telegraph cable, is having newspape
and congressional war with parties who wan
to get away some of the rights of his line
The government of India has lately OF
dered the commencement of the Damooda
Canal, which is estimated TO cost G540 00(
Its length will be 100 miles, and its object
to afford cheap transportation for coal to Ca
cutta aud to drain large tract Of land whic
for seven years has been desolated by mal'
rious fever.
Henry O'Connor, the present attorne,
general Of the State, W. b. Allison, Col. {
q. Carpenter, register Of the state and Ian
office, d. =. Stubs, of Jefferson, G.. G. BeI
nett and Gen. Hiram Schofeld of Washing
ton and John A. KassOn are candidates fC
, Congressmen at large from Iowa, if the al
pointment bill now before Congress passes.
-Advices from western Pennsylvani
where the harvest has just commenced, sa
that the hay crop will be heavier than ft
several years past Wheat has sustainC
some injury from excessive rains, and le
than an average crop will be the consequent
in several counties. Corn is growing finel
and if no adverse influences set in, the yie
will be an unusually heavy one.
"A physician in London has invented 1
, electrical machine with which be can NAL