Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-10-25

The latest report about Home, the spirit
ualst is that he is about to marry the daugh-
ter Of high Russian dignitary.
Church weddings in the evening will be
the pronounced thing for all parties who care
about being married in style the coming sea
son.
The Union Pacific railroad sold in Sep
TENDER 81 ,079 acres Of its lands for S6s,2O2.
Its total sales to this time are 1924 acres
for sl,9G7,703.
The sophomore class Of Cornell universe.
ty lately expelled man for tale-beariug to
the faculty. lie accepted their judgment as
sufficient and left the institution.
Fate is unkind to billiardists this year.
Phelan yielded to disease and John NlcDevitt,
ex-champion player Of the United States, was
burned to death at Chicago.
The fair at Novgorod, Russia, which has
Just closed an eight weeks season, was visited
by 100000 people, who invested in commodi-
ties to the extent Of over 1925, 100000
"A man at Des Moines, Iowa, can stock
baby.fair without any assistance lie has
eleven children and not one Of them is yet
nine years old.
A great manyadics in New York have
adopted the Paris fashion of not allowing
their daughters to walk out unless accompani.
ed by maid.
In letter FROM Thomas Hughes, NJ. r.
to the Tom Hughes boat club at Cornell uni
yersity, be thanks them for the honor Of nam
ing the club after him, and promises to send
to them cup to be used as a challenge cup
in the races.
Charles Dunbar, promising young law
ger Of GAINESVILLE, O., married an invalid wife
nearly year ago, who has since been slowly
failing, and a few days since when he saw she
must die, he blew his brains out at her bed.
side, expiring before she died.
One would suppose Georgia had elected
United States senators enough in the last
three years. to last for a quarter of ccntu-
ry. But we are now told that Gen. a. X,
Wright of Augusta, a rebel officer, has be-
come a prominent candidate and is likely to
be elected, this winter
--Rev. Dewitt TaImadge preached a ser.
mon on the " Ruined city" at Brooklyn, last
Sunday, and thanked God that while almost
everything was burned up there was powder
and shot enough left TO shoot down the forty
thieves who were found robbing the homeless
and the dead,
No marriages can be celebrated in Chi
cago, as all means Of procuring the necessa'
ry legal authority are swept away Births
are in order, however, and many little waii'
are taking their first view of the world from
n prairie standpoint, just too late to see what
nice city old Chicago was
Great fires seem to give unwonted oner
gy to the citizens on whom the disasters fall
After the great London conhagration, mem
orial monument was erected which still stands
with the following inscription At tire,
years time the world saw that finished which
was supposed to be the business Of an age"
Since the officers Of the Congress report
ed upon the Polaris, later intelligence hai
been received by private letter from Uperna
wick on the Scandinavian coast Although
Capt Hall had been unsuccessful in obtaining
what dogs be wanted, agood stock Of iurs ant
provisions had been provided and all were
well aud hopeful.
AN English lady of high rank, at Ia,
close of the war, asked Victoria, the crown
princess of Prussia, to give,to the wife, mother
or botrothed Of the man IN the German army
most distinguished for personal act of brave
ny, certain cross Of gold and jewels, in toker
Of his achievement The investigation hai
been going on ever since, and at last the hon
or falls upou Lieut.. Brandenburg, Of the
First lower Silesian infantry, who by hi;
magnificent courage took the first cannon
from the enemy at Worth