Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-08-09

tlllAeu- on NtW ! OH Will ue sent to-day TO IS
Gen. Uhrich, the defender Of Strasburg Il
When the Chicago city fathers 60 off on =
summer vacation, the ,I0UrHdl unGlialy re- n
marks upon the departure Of oOr scaawag t
alderman. d
Cornell university is trying to get Prof. /.
Moses Colt Tyler away from the university 7
Of Michigan, aud he il now at Ithaca looking o.
over the gound. o
Miss Anna Dickinson is at Light-hou Sc
cottage Atlantic City, seemingly intent on
rccuperating for the next winters arduous
calls on her time and voice
A Minnesota man expects to ship 250,-
600 pounds Of geuseng root to China, this
year which his agents have gathered along
the Des Moines river, Iowa.
Why is the Rock Island Railroad stock
like the prodigal son Because it went on a
bust and /. now going back to par.-N Y
Standard
"A Detroit penitent dclaulter gave his
employer a check for $4,000, $50 more than
his embezzement, and got change in cash /
Next day the check proved forgery
Worth, the man.mlliner or male mo-
, diste, as he prefers to be called, is at his old
trade again in Paris recruiting the democrat
lied wardrobcs Of the sisters of the commune.
z One Of the best young lawyers in Colum.
bus, Ga, and an excellent speaker, was not able
even to read when he was nineteen years old,
a and has lifted himself out of the slough.
The drawing.room cars on the New York
d, roads are nowadays lighted with wax can.
5 dies, which have a most charming effect on
1t the compilations Of the young lady voyageurs
s The president of the national labor
" union has issued a call for a political conven-
1t ton at Columbus, o., on the third Wednesday
II in October, to nominate candidates for pres-
dent aud vice president Of the United States.
The greatest mining firm in the world is
!" John Taylor & Sons Of England, who have
TO mines in every part Of the world, and are now
at employing $4,000 men in Great Britain
IN alone.
A man in Mount Vernon, Ill, who re-
,r- Gently got married, was so overcome by the
as change in his condition, that he spent the first
&C. night in the woods aud ran away the next
r. day
er Rev Thomas II Hanna of Pittsburg Pa,
has distinguished himself among his professions
n, al brethren by refusing to leave a $500 sal
g. airy in the city of smoke for $4,000 in San
nd Francisco.
ed The governor of Ohio has received a
on letter from Dundee, Scotland making iuqui
nd ries as to the suitableness of that state for
in Scotch colony which is about to emgrat,
Ike bodily to this country
o. Partisan tourists run some little risk il
=. their rambles round gentleman and hi,
on son were recently strolling around, when on,
1t of them trod upon shell, which exploded
=, blowing the father to atoms, and seriousl,
ns- injuring his son.
cen -Caliioria has taken a step forward. Upo
l''' an appeal from lower court Judge Stanly
Of the San Francisco county court, admitte
a Chinese defendant to testify in his own be
~. half and then decided the suit in his favor
."p thus reversing the decision of the lower court
80 Low tolls have now had six months tria
on the New York canals The result is tia
rLte 100000 bushels more Of grain have bee
ety shipped than during the corresponding month
tied Of last year, and that the revenue has large
rs ly increased.
ai Horses, hogs aud cows have had the
ing little epidemics throughout the country, an
'is now the Iowa chickens are taking their tur
'tlil They 60 to bed and sleep so hard as to tuu
gu. bic off the roost One man has lost over 10
om- within a few weeks.
and "A large amount OF the New York Cel
n a, trail railroad stock was until recently ownC
rid by an Englishman living in Sicily, name
leir Benjamin lngham. 1t is said that in lSG
ions his interest cqualed Vauderbilts by h
ny recent death it has gone into a vexed estate
ida. The body of the son Of Mrs. Wharto
itice the supposed Baltimore poisoner, who di,
rat. suddenly, April, 1870, has been disiuterre
q - and is to be subjected to thorough chemc
analysis The trial Of Mrs. Wharton is
commence the second week in September.
. Paris, as well as New York, is suffer
from horse disease which is making gre
or,a havoc among the horses Of the Paris cab col
~ pany. Out Of 300 who were recently pit
%" chased from the Prussans, over two hundr
G,m died in few days.
nm. In some of the New York iailway dep
hich they are refusing to allow ladies to enter /
$ in. cars in seeing their friends off, because, til
shes say, they never know when to get out, a
,out. have caused great many accidents by
and tempting it while the car was in motion.
and Soldiers of the war of 1912 are turn
r by up in crowds under the influence of the bouI
Din. act for their benefit passed by Congress-
so. winter. The number ofapplications is alrea
did $4,000, although before the passage of
il is act it was asserted that il would not ret
be- 5000.
!, all Charleston, S. c., is picking up ag
eady as commercial city, and will export /
read year about $4,000 tierces of rice, or &C
ever more than last year. There is still SO
lever chance for improvement, however as the
ears crop before the rebellion was over 1905
nber tierces.
now N;,,osota il M, only n healthy II
d, of g.. on,s;dars hn, hroods ala rngoed al
a. of natives, especially women. An invs
H. farmer there is blessed with six daught,
IAN s who within the past five years have clea
So 40 acres of woodland, fenced it and pu
'rLa, under cultivation without any male ass
l;,tIo ance.
4 in. 1t has become quite the fashion in
ghich York circles for men 10 educate their dau
Glen. tiers at a convent, and the taking the vel
mnst a novice is announced to rival the taking
com. the bridal veil for next winters seas
During this prevailing sensation, of cours
man without any daughters is no IN
,.. respected than Roman bachelor used to
his The New York Nation, which is gett
the into the habit of saying clever things
n his marks, in an article on the late riot, that
no to worst of it for Mr.. Hoffman is, that those v
done important thousands of democratic votes
ling New York city which are cast after the p
and are closed, will never be thrown for
thor. again.
K, he Mrs. Il. N. Stanton now resides i
/ has commodious dwelling at Germantown, in
sorts. environs of Philadelphia, and her inco
from the Stanton fund is about $1,000 u ye
Mr. Stanton did not leave his family a
peo- thing, aud, except for the generosity of
northern cointrymen his wiie's stepson wo
their have had to assume the maintenance OF
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