Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-07-30
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Saturday night trains from the city to
country resorts are called the grass wild.
over " trains.
Another batch Of colored singers is
travelling in the North. These are from
North Carolina.
Hawkins county, Tenn, pieces out its
school fund by levyiug a fifty cent tax on
marriage licenses.
Washington boasts Of four children al
a birth. The children we're colored-and
perhaps the story is.
"A. T. Stewart has gone to Europe for
two months, instead Of the other place for
an indefinite period.
"A force is at work strengthening the
Erie railway. The stockholders were
straitened some time ago.
New apples are one dollar and ten
cents a quart Ten cents for the apples
and one dollar for doctor.
Hartford Conn, boasts that she has
more that 100000 capital invested in
banking, insurance aud manufactures
The editor Of the Boston Post square
ly says he isn't Greene enough to accept
democratic nomination Cor Governor.
The new York HeraH makes $4,000
a year from its " personal column. The
lawyers and the devil make more by it,
The estate of the late Oakes Amcs is
valued at s5,754, 2j4.4l, not including his
interest in the great works at North Easton.
-" What's the date Of your hustle ?"
was what an anxious papa asked his well
dressed daughter, after searching for the
latest copy of his paper
The Boston excursions for poor chill
dren, which were once abandoned for want
Of funds, are again going on. A total Of
s2309 has been subscribed.
One Of the prime virtues Of our an
cestors was their economy. Old Mr. ---,
of Barre, used to save $50 a year by
buying his rum by the barrel
The English government is going to
enrol company Of men in India to fight
the tigers. Here we have men enrolled to
keep people from fighting the tiger.
The market is glutted just now, with
fast trotting horses, and the supply isgrcat-
ly in excess of the demand The best stock
is found in private stables, and is never cx.
hibited on the turf
The spirits have busted an Aurora
(Ill) family. They revealed to the unsus.
pecting wife the de perate sins of her hus.
band, and she has sued for divorce and be
has sued her for lunacy
Katie Bender, Of the family of Kan.
sas murderers, is believed to be in France
American and French detectives are after
her. and expect to identify her by her gen.
eral uglness and her red hair.
The best card in journalistic enter.
prise of the last decade is Gen. Swift's "Af.
ter Dinner" 1t grows better aud better.
1t ought to be a daily. Only think Of
having After Dinner but once week.
e. b. Washburue, minister to France,
says he used to save money when he was
in Congress with only $4,000 salary Tho
reau used to raise beans and live at Wal.
den Pond for less than fifteen cents a day
"A dispatch says that at the burning
of hotel in Prairie du CHEN, Wis, "sev.
eral of the servant girls leaped from the
third story window into the arms Of Capt.
Hobbs" That Hobbs must be a pretty
cordy boy.
Here in the East we are perpetualy
worried by the boy who bathes," but out
at Lafayette. Ind, the papers are complain.
ing in right down earnest because troops of
girls 60 in swimming in conspicuous places
in the river.
-O'Kcefe and Fitzgerald, two Hobokeu
butchers, had sheep killing match for
5000, the other day. Each was to kill and
dress fifty sheep. Fitzgerald won, killing
his fifty in two hours aud lG seconds.
An exchange declares that when the
millennium comes, if not before, woman
will exercise every right which Miss An
thony now demands for her" Then we
appeal to the management to postpone the
millennium indefinitely.
The boy in Chicago who forged his moth.
ersname on a shingle with piece of chalk
and bought five cents worth of candy with
the bogus order, now languishes and slum-
bers on all fours at night. His mother got
possession of the single.
When a crowd of jawhawkers started
a disturbance in Texas church, the other
day, the preacher raised up shot gun and
said, William Dello, sit down, or III
make it painful for you" William sat
down, aud was as quiet as a lamb.
Eight members Of London velocipede
club recently made a journey from that
city to John O'Groat's house the northern
extremity of Scotland, mounted on their
Bicycles. The distance is about 800 miles,
and they averaged go miles day.
When private citizen of Benny riv.
er, on the west coast of Africa, accident.
ally sets fire to chiefs house they dig out
his eyes, cut off his ears, boil them for
his supper, and then bury him alive. A re.
cent letter relates such an incident
"A man who was arrested at San Fran.
cisco in January, for the dreadful crime Of
having witnessed murder, has been shut
up in Jail ever since, while his wife and
children in Europe are in destitute circum.
stances, and in daily dread Of being sent to
the poorhouse.
"A st. Louis jury in libel suit brought
by woman against newspaper brought
IN verdict Of $500 damages, with the ex.
planation that they at first agreed TO cal
it one cent but not wishing to be rough on
the plaintiff changed it to $500, knowing
that she couldn't collect it.
Tho owners of the new glass works al
New Albany, lnd.-the only place 10 the
United States where plate glass is made
recently imported from England, at their
own expense, number of skilful workmen,
and had just got them settled at their work,
when they all struck and left town.
Two little girls, 10 and IL year.
old, hooked twenty pound salmon while
fishing for tommy-cods, at Halifax, recent.
ly. The elder OF the youthful fishers was
dragged into the water by the leviathan,
but their united strength was too much for
him, and they dragged him home 10 tri.
umph
The first case under the civil damage law.
in the case of liquor-sellers, passed by the
last New York Legislature, occurred at Os.
wego, few days ago. A liquor dealer
was notified that be would be prosecuted by
woman for the time her husband lost while
drunk, and for his fine and to avoid the
suit he paid the mans fine and thus settled
the question.
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