Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-02-09
IN GEN RAL.

Butter and hogs are cheaper in Boston
than in Vermont.
The gold beads Of our grandmothers are
once more fashionable.
Jay Gould has given $4,000 to estab-
fish fellowship in mathematics at Princeton
College.
One of the interior counties of New York
sent 100000 worth of peppermint to mar
ket last year.
Car Alexander whales his wife, when
he is drunk, and she has got him to sign the
total abstinence pledge. Fact
George Peabody's principle of giving as
expressed by himself 81 have not attempted
to relieve pauperism--but to prevent it,"
The Montreal corn exchange wants
duty levied on -four and grain imported into
Canada. They are evidently getting their
dander up"
New Orleans is bosioging Congress for
$780, 600 down, and yearly appropriation
of 1925, 900 to keep the mouths Of the Mis-
sissippi dug out.
M. Veulliot, partisan editor, the other
day, replied to a challenge, My life belongs
TO Jesus Christ, and he has none too many de-
Tenders just now"
AT the commencement Of Bennett ccec-
tic medical college in Chicago, the other day,
two girl graduates took their sheopskins with
twenty young men.
There is only one woman in the town of
Lost Trail, Cal, and her husband can't sleep
nights because so many men stand in front Of
the house and crate their teeth.
The New York gas companies declare div
iicuds varying from 30 to 1870 per cent. as
the happy results TO themselves of their in.
Fiction Of poor gas upon the public.
The height of mean audacity has been
reached by a New York toilette reporter,
who, in a recent report, says In Mrs. LIS
pink tulle we recognize the dress of last win
ter"
The Minnesota Legislature has just pass
cd bill to exempt from attachment seed
wheat to the extent Of 80 bushels. Such a
law in New England would exempt the whole
crop in most cases.
The first woman student regularly ad-
mittcd to the university of Michigan is Miss
Maddio Stockwel Of Kalamazoo. Her ex-
animation showed her to be in many respects
in advance Of her class.
--Sharpers on the line of the New York
Central Railroad especially between Niagara
Falls and Rochester anticipate the conductor
in collecting the sleeping car tickets, making
ticket to New York or Boston, which is read.
lily converted into cash.
r. NJ. Stratton and Andrew Manning,
two rival Omaha blacksmiths, lately matched
thatpaalvaa Inn hnra. ak.a g. a.
Stratton won by making the stipulated NUM-
Der in two hours and nineteen minutes, while
manning came in eleven minutes behind.
The government is run by unusually
young men. Speaker Blaine was 40 years
old last Monday, the president was A in
April last, and the yioepresident will be AZ in
March next so that the three chief officers of
the government average less than 45 each
Edwin NJ. Stanton's will is contained on
a page of ordinary letter paper, and bequeathes
two-thirds Of his property, after the payment
Of his debte, to his wife, and the other third
to his mother, to be equally divided at her
death among his three youngest children.
OF the dozen or so appointments of ca
diets to West Point made by the president on
Monday, all save one were Of the sons of army
officers still living or who have fallen during
the war. The odd appointee was the son Of
Marshall Sharp, and the nephew of Mrs.
Grant.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that any essential change in an
insurance policy, such as transfer or renewal,
constituting in effect new policy, must be
stamped as though the policy were new one.
Minor changes with reference to occupation,
residence, etc, need only be stamped as agree
ments