Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-08

The dobt statement. show. reduction o..
sI3l7960.0o since Jos, month.
Wendell Phillip, :. opposed to santa
Domingo lle says there Is too much white
blood in the niggors
The widow Of Nathaniel Hawthorne. III.
celebrated American writer, died on Sunday
at her residence ia keusiugton England
Six thousand women have sent petition.
to Congress against the w0mlns right.
movement
The Peninsula Of SANTANA is capable o..
producing all the coffee consumed 10 the Unit
ed STATES
Nilsson is reported to have deposit,
$4,000 with Chicago banker, to be invest
ed in real estate in that city.
F. NJ Weber Of st. Louis shot himself
on his wife's grave, the other day, with a pa.
per pinned on his breast asking to be buried
where he fell
"A Cincinnati law firm, Fox & Bird. have
sued the editor Of the LeQier Of that city for
$4,000 on a libel Foxes have holes ami
birds have nests, but what editor ever has,
ever had, or ever will have $1,000?
The committee on education have favor.
ably reported to the Missouri Legislature
bill appropriating $4,000 to build college
for women at Columbia, in connection with
the state university.
The will of the late Mai John Shcrey
OF Muscatine county, Ia, which was probatei
the other day, apporiions $4,000 worth Of
property among bis wife and six children,
and then provides that the heir that goes to
law over the will shall get nothing.
Experiments are in progress at the Al.
bany and Troy loundrios with the Codoru.
ore Of York county, Pennsylvania, with the
confident expectation that its union with com.
mon American pig iron win produce the most
perfect Of steel
Father jesse Il. Grant declares that il
we only had San Domingo, we could sell coal
and water enough every year, to vessels pass
ing that way, to pay the interest on the ma.
tlonal debt, and that there are trees enough
in the woods of the island to pay off the
principal
Its dangerous to laugh at Col. Ben +.
Weller of St. Paul, MINI. Five shots from
his revolver testified to that fact when he
slipped down on the ice there, the other day,
to the amusement Of the passers,by. He
wasn't drunk enough to make anything but
farce Of it, luckily
The New York Medical Gazette cautions
against the use Of tobacco packed in foil, as
several cases Of lead poisoning have occurred
which hint at the use Of tobacco so packed as
the cause OF the difficulty. Poisoning from
snuii inolosed in leaden canisters has been de-
'ected in England aud in India.
"A girl in Wisconsin, whose lover had
married another woman, engaged herself as a
servant to that lovers wife Three months
after the marriage the wife, on returning
from visit to her fathers house. found that
the servant had carried of tho husband aud
all the household furniture, the value of the
latter being $500.
The Good Tomplar Lodges Of this ooun.
try number $780, with membership, very
near y, of 335, 260 The British American
provinces have 467 lodges, with 2G,753 mem.
bers, and Scotland has % lodges and 3lOO
members. New York leads the list with )ll
lodges and reary $4,000 members. The
of the order are rigid total ubsti-
nence for life, and no compromise in any re-
spect with liquor selling or liquor using as
a beverage The order necessarily advocates
a prohibitory law,