Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-01-26
In GEN RAL.

Three young women are studying at the
Chicago law university.
The Rothschilds have recently purchased
large quantities Of United States bonds.
Wyoming offers to send Anna Dickinson
to Congress if she will come out there and
live
The dead Cinnamon along the Pacific
railroad are being dug up and shipped to
China.
--" As the days begin to lengthen, the
cold begins to strengthen" This old saw will
have to be reset.
General Lee and the trustees of his Vir-
GINA college have been invited to attend Mr..
Peabody's funeral.
The first ten performances of Mr.. Booths
Hamlet this season brought s27 900 into the
treasury Of the theatre
The Paris project of police received last
year over 2000 applications for permission to
open houses ofill-fame.
"A Kentucky man who was only half
hung by vigilance committee sues the bung-
lers for $50, 1000 damages.
--Seyouty.one towns in Michigan have two
million dollars invested in " assistance to
new railroad enterprises.
"A member of our diplomatic corps frank
ed his trunk, weighing $50 pounds, from
Washington to San Francisco.
Marshall who first discovered gold ia
California, is so poor that the miners are tax
ing up contributions for his relief.
The public schools of Minnesota will in
a few years be wholly supported by the inter-
est Of the permanent school fund.
Mrs Mary Auu Rivers of Livingston,
New York, who sued her father for SANDER,
has been awarded $4,000 damages.
The expense Of recovering the bodies Of
some English people murdered last spring in
Abbyssinia, was nearly $4,000.
The dull times are driving hosts of dry
goods clerks on to the street in New York
Stewart has discharged 60 since New Years.
-Grundy county, Iowa, bought a $1,000
safe last month at the beginning Of the year
It's treasurer had just eleven cents to put into
it.
Two sixteen year old girls Of Princeton,
Ill.,, are going to match for an eighty mile
walk, which they mean to accomplish in 20
hours.
A little girl sent out to hunt for eggs
came back unsuccessful, complaining that
lots Of hens were standing around doing
nothing
Watches 60 differently when worn by
different men, and to keep perfect time they
should be regulated to and for the persons
who wear them.
A New Orleans merchant killed himself
because his wife kissed another man by mis-
lake The fools are not all dead vet, but
there's one less
by the completion Of the temporary rail-
road bridge across the Missouri, at Omaha, on
the 9Th inst, Portland, Ne, aud San Fran
cisco were united by an unbroken line OF rail-
way.
Lindsay Musz, who ushers in visitors to
the Secretary of the Navy, was doing the
same thing two years before the present Sec
rotary was born, and has been doing it ever
since
--Sirah L. Stafford, with remarkable acu-
men as to the personal needs of the powers
that be, has presented each member Of the
New jersey State Senate with Bible, aud
the grateful body have duly rendered their
thanks
The Governor Of Ohio offered to pardon
a man convicted Of manslaughter On condi-
ton OF his taking the temperance pledge
The prisoner after some consideration ac-
cepted
The Stanton fund has already reached
s97 800, OF which New York has contribut-
ed $4,000, Washington $4,000 Boston
$4,000, and Philadelphia 10000, while
$4,000 more is pledged by the two latter
cities
The new government telegraph system
under which all the private officers were
closed went into effect in England at the be-
ginning Of the new year The Morse sys-
tom Of telegraphing will be used exclusively
hereafter.
In addition to the Inequalities of the
President to Prince Arthur during his So
journ in Washington, Mr.. Thornton, the Eng
.ish minister, will give three great parties
that are expected to be unusually brilliant
aud select
The Fenian war fund is again eaten up,
and not a sword has been drawn for Irish in
dependence. The brotherhood are conse-
quently exercised thereby, and the old head
quarters in New York is the scene of fierce
chickering's.
Two brothers have long been in the habit
of attending a Cincinnati Sunday school on
alternate Sundays. One Sunday the teacher
asked her pupil if he would be present next
week. " | can't" said he, :" it's my turn to
saw wood"
The Kansas Legislature met Wednesday
at Topeka and completed the organization Of
both branches. A young lady was elected
Enrolling Clerk, and all the officers of the
House are wounded soldiers and widows or
orphans of soldiers.
Thirty wholesale liquor establishments
and dstileries were seized at New York on
Tuesday by Collector Bailey of the thirty
second district for alleged defrauding the gov
eminent of the tax on whiskey by making
false returns.
AT church fair in Kansas City, set
of bedroom furniture was voted to young
lady, with the understanding that, if she was
not married in year, the furniture should be
returned to the church. She is now on the
war-path, armed with bedstead.
"A small house in the eastern part Of De.
troit, Mich, occupied by Henry De Cerrisin,
burned Monday night. Five of his children
persisted. His wife with two children escaped.
Another child was thrown from an upper win.
dow and saved from death, but had a leg bro.
ken.
Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, one of the pioneers
of the woman reform, and who gave her name
to a style of dress, is living at Council Bluffs,
opposite Omaha, and is only prevented by ill
health from joining in the campaign for wO-
man suffrage, which she heartily sympathizes
with.
The three children of Joseph Wyhle Of
Pasaic county, N. j., who left home on New
Years day, on a nutting excursion, were found
| Oh Tuesday afternoon dead having hennme