Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-30

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Game is so scarce in the vicinity Of Louis
lille that the sportmen content themselves
With shooting at grasshoppers.
Fanny Ferns last contribution to the
New York Ledger ended with the quotation
rom Fesius 40 God, thank thee that |
iven
"A queer old gentleman being asked
that he wished for dinner, replied, an appe-
ite good company, something to cat and a
lapkin."
"A Washington dispatch says that the
'oal famine in England is creating demand
or the bituminous coal of the Maryland
districts.
"A circus has been staying for several
days at Suspension bridge, n. Y, but the
small boys arc none the happier the horses
are all sick.
Next to spirits and murderers Chicago
is troubled by the problem Of what shall be
done with her derricks when the CITY is en-
tirely rebuilt.
"A young lady in New York lately paid
$3.50 for having single dress made her
lovers hair has begun to turn gray and he
looks careworn.
The ceremony Of laying the cornerstone
OF the first insane asylum for homeopathic
treatment in America occurred at Middleton,
N. Y, Saturday.
1t is thought that the bakers strike in
London will result in the employment OF wo.
men in the business, which is now wholly con-
Quoted by men.
--Morrissey lost $4,000 by his bets on
a good man, but it cannot be denied that
Morrissey is better.
Wedding cards this winter will be small
er and palmer than Of late The days Of
pink cards, gilt lettering and sprawling mon
ograms have departed.
---" Jacobs City" the newest mining town
in Utah, a few weeks old, was dedicated the
other day. A flag was presented, speeches
made man killed, etc
"A number of North Adams Cinnamon
have cut off their cues. This act is celestial
suicide, for it prevents them from ever being
Chinese citizens again.
"A progressive individual is digging for
silver near Rock Lick, in Breckenridge coun-
ty. The spirit of departed red man tells
him he will be successful.
-Beecher says that religion that isn't
"mixcd with politics and the business Of
life, is worth about as much as yeast that is
never mixed with flour.
Edmund Winston Henry, the youngest
and last of Patrick Henry's sons, died at his
late residence in Charlotte county, Va, on
the 18th, at the age of rs.
Susan B. Anthony has at last on imme-
date prospect of reaching mans estate"
A radical reformer in the West has promised
to give her his whole property.
"A monster in human form goes about in
Cincinnati representing himself as a tester of
meters for the gas company. Once he gets
into a cellar he tests not the meter, but the
canned fruits and wines.
The cheerful buzz saw has again come
to the front-this time 10 Rochester, where
one of its devotees lost an eye by gazing too
steadily as it passed through knot in a
board
"A butcher at Orange found pair of
ladies' No. 4 rubber overshoes in the second
stomach Of beef he slaughtered a few weeks
ago. The steer was three years old, fat and
healthy.
Mrs. O'Leary OF Chicago, who owned
the cow that set the fire, is to have benefit
ball, tickets ST. in consideration Of the vast
improvements made in the city during the
past year.
William Cuck, wife murderer, wa,
sentenced at Indianapolis, on Tuesday last tC
be hanged on the Goth of December, anc
though twenty-five hours have passed, he hai
not been pordoned
The Pope, on hearing of the marriage o
Pere Hyacinthe, wittily remarked Tn,
saints be praised, the renegade has taken hi.
punishment into his own hands. The way
of Providence are inscrutable."
Sir Rounded Palmer has declined an,
pecuniary remuneration for his services to tn
British Government at Geneva. The Lor,
Ohancelorship and the title of Baron Sci
borne have satisfied him.
"A correspondent of the Ceyon Observe
calls attention to famous rose.tree growin
on the Ooragall estate, Hantanne district
He says it is eighty feet in circumference
fifteen feet high, and is bearing at present a
least two thousand roses.
-Carlotta, when she dies, will be unde
the necessity of leaving behind her the tri
fling fortune Of s5000,000, which will b
inherited by the King of Belgium and the
Count Of Flanders, who already have NOR,
than is good for them.
"A practical chemist the other day put
lighted match into tin can that had contain
ed nitro.gycerine to sec if any explosive
matter adhered to the sides Up to the pres
ent time no inquest has been held, as nothing
can be found for the coroner to sit upon.
The barbarous custom of piercing ladies
ears for earrings is rapidly being abolished
Several very ingenious arrangements for fas
tening in these articles Of jewelry without
the usual surgical operation, are now sold al
jewery shops, and are quite extensively worn
Dartmouth College has fund from
which prize of $500 will be given, once il
two years, to the author of the best essay OF
the relations Of Christians to the world. Tn,
President has been informed that a legac,
amounting to $4,000 or $4,000 is soon t
fall to the college.
DR. Grant of the American mission a
Cairo has found Hebrew manuscripts of por
tons Of the Bible in synagogue reported t,
have been built forty-6ye years before tn,
second temple was destroyed 1t was care
fully deposited in niche in the wall, tel
feet above the ground, and could be secured
only by means Of ladder.
"A strong-minded woman in Detroi
made the following gentle reply to a politi
clan who had called at her house to get he
husband to go to the polls and vote "No
sir, he can't 60 He's washing now, ant
he's got TO iron tomorrow, and if he WASH
doing anything he couldn't go. l run thi
ERE house, do, and if any one votes it shal
be this same Mary Jane"
The Standard, an influential Demo
cratic journal, published at Anderson, Ind.
which has until recently been an ardent sup
porter Of Greeley for the Presidency, on Fri
day morning last hauled down his name an,
gave its reasons for refusing TO support hin