Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-12-11
NeekIy News summary.

About 100000 elliott pens arc
used up yearly.
In New York city there are twenty
assassius in prison.
The Russian sable will take the lead
in fur trimmings this season.
-Potatoes are one cigar and drink Of
whiskey per bushel at Davenport.
Tho net profits at the late New Eng.
land Fair at Lowell were $4,000.
Duluth gives fashion an impetus by
issuing birch-baTk reception cards.
The oxen seem proof against the "epi-
zootic," but they are liable to "Brighrs'
disease
Virginia, which didn't have a cotton
factory before the war, has erected twelve
Of them since.
-Godeys Lady's Book has been con-
Quoted toriy-two years by the same editors
and publishers.
Southern newspapers Of Democratic
procliyties are beginning to read each other
out Of " the party"
-Wesiorn young ladies' still cling to the
obirudiug chiguon, because it is nice to fall
upon while skating.
The Aston House, New York, as soon
as It's present lease expires, will be convert
ed into stores and Offices
One Of The most unique uses to which
oxen have been put is to tow canal.boats
II anything will hurry up steam that will
An abbey in Ireland exhibits two
skulls Of Shakespeare-one Of him when
be was a little boy and one when he was a
man.
In her new lecture Anna Dickinson
asks-"What Hinders2" Really, We can't
tell, Anna, unless it is your advanced
youthiulness.
Illinois has an aeronaut who expects
to make a trip to California in the spring
through the air
Charles Dickens left box Of books
to the Kansas Blind Asylum, and the gift
has been received.
Patti receives $4,000 for two per-
formances a week in Russia, and $1,000
night for extra performances.
"A Wisconsin Congressman is taken to
task by the press Of that State for sending
out under his frank over five hundred we'd
ding cards for a relative.
"A San Francisco dispatch pronounces
all the reported diamond field discoveries
gigantic fraud, planned and successfully
carried out by adroit swindlcrs
Five hundred and fifty acres of pine
lands, in Michigan, lately sold for forty-one
thousand dollars. This is the beginning of
the end to the Michigan pineries.
The Methodist preachers of New York
have been discussing Tyndalrs proposed
prayer test" aud have come to the con-
clusion that it is impious aud atheistical.
John Strong, of Westchester, Pa, was
hanged the other day, and smoked his cigar
to the foot Of the gallows. After he had
finished the Sheriff sold tho "stub" for So.
The bill before the Massachusetts, leg
islature to lease the Old South Church to
the government for the post office, passed
the House Friday, to a third reading, l44
to AZ.
"A Lodge Of Sorrow will be held at
Washington in few weeks, by the bodies
OF the Scottish rite, IN honor OF the late
Gen. ST. John b. l.. Skinner, who was a
Jealous member Of the order.
The latest feminine fashion in New
York is to lie in bed until 3 o'clock p. m,
taking breakfast between sheets and propped
up by pillows After that the newspapers
and novels until the hour Of rising.
The guarded and curly grain of the
walnut stump renders it very valuable for
cabinet work. Many old stumps have been
dug up, the lumber from one Of which has
sold for as much as $3.50.
--Adelina Patti receives $4,000 for
two. performances a week in Russia, and
$1,000 a night for extra performances. The
engagement lasts four months, aud conse-
quently she is to appear only 32 times for
$4,000.
There are more pictures sold OF Hen
ny Ward Beecher than of all the rest oil
the clergymen in the United States put to-
gether, and of Horace Greeley than all the
rest Of the editors Of the country, even be-
fore his nomination.