Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-11-20

South College, Amherst, few mornings since
No one put there.
The recent tornado along the Chippewa
river, Wis, killed forty yoke Of oxen aud did
much other damage.
Hereafter, the worst you can wish your
enemy will be, that somebody may put a
Mansard roof on him.
"A little girl in Cowley county, Kansas,
was bitten by vicious colt the other day,
and died in few hours.
"A French society has decided that il pro-
longs the lives and increases the happiness
Of dogs TO make them work.
Charleston, s. c., has been free from
yellow fever this season, not one death from
that disease having occurred.
"A Herald special dated Paris, Nov Q,
says: Bowles Brothers, the American bank
ers, have suspended payment.
Buffalo, antelopes and wolves, in any
quantity are reported out on the line Of the
A., T. and s. +. Il. R., Kansas
The book of travel, by the late ex-Sec-
re'ery Seward, is to have the enormous first
edition of fifty thousand copies.
i. n West, of Yates City, Illinois, re-
Gently lost $50 hogs from cholera-sixty-eig ht
fat ones were ready for market
-Lorain County, Ohio, exported last year
10000 600 pounds of cheese The price paid
averaged twelve cents per pound.
"A threshing machine took fire at Car.
Isle, ILL.,, from friction, and burned itself up,
and 25OO bushels Of grain beside.
AT the late election Minneapolis polled
1869 votes and Saint Paul 1889, and now the
question is, which city is the larger.
The savings banks of Boston are all safe
to-day. Their losses by the fire are very
small indeed compared to their means.
"A Kansas physician lately swallowed a
dose Of choral to show a patient that it was
possible TO do so, and died of the dose.
With the approach Of winter look out
for hand-sleds, skates colds, Group, sleigh
rides, matrimony, and " The Beautiful Snow"
B" Meet me at the gate, love-" has been
changed to Meet me at1the CRATE, love.
The cool weather has necessitated the change.
Mrs. O'Leary wonders ." if thin Boast
ing spalpeens will be after schwearng that it
was her poor haste of a COW that burned their
CITY,"
The Union Pacific Railroad is having a
snow plough constructed that will weigh fifty
tons and will require three locomotives to
move.
Tho authority to blow up buildings to
stay conaagration is by law, placed in the
hands of the chief engineer of the fire de.
partment.
The latest love bonnet is called the
" Clarisse Harlowc y a singuarly inappropri.
ate title when women wear their char high
as at present.
The stove trade Of the country employs
a capital of over s30,000,000 and $50. 900
men. The annual product will not fall short
of s2,500,OO0
--"Happy is the country that has no his
tory as the schoolboy said on being logged
the third time for not knowing who was Henry
the Sixth's wife.
The publishers of the late Ex.Secretary
Stewards book are evidently anticipating a
great sale, as they have ordered first edi.
ton Of $4,000 copies.
A woman tried to commit sncde by
swallowing two yards Of shoe strings, but had
got so accustomed to lacing that they didn't
have any effect upon her.
"A father and mother at Decatur, Michi
gan, left their two little boys gun to play
with. As il had but one barrel, they still
have one boy for their declining years
Switzerland has 26s head of cattle to
every 1000 acres, and 557 to every 1000 in
habitants In Spain there are only thirty
nine head of cattle to every 1000 acres,
The Chicago post-oflice employs l75
clerks and III letter carriers, and ranks next
to New York in amount of general business
transacted, and first as distributing Office
The commissioners who have been run.
ming the boundary line in the Northwest have
discovered that the Canadian custom house at
Pembina stands on the soil of the United
States.
"A machine is exhibited in New York
city which derives its power from galvanic
battery, and which, it is claimed, will "run''
sewing machine at cost of fifty cents a
month.
The law passed last winter providing for
correction Of the records Of school lands sold
in each county ia Kansas, has saved the State
some thirty thousand dollars, in addition TO
correcting many errors
A Young woman who is now nerrorm;no
in a Liyerpool (EngIandl circus snsnonds
herself by her feet from a trane1e and hnids
a man by her teeth, twisting him round ill.,
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