Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-11-26


The activity In the navy.yards is liabl
to produce activity among the Span.yards.
Berg is going to lecture about his con
stituonts in several western and Canadian
cities
The colorcd voters Of ward six il
Boston want woman OF their complexion
on the school committee.
The order Of the Gruth" celebrated
the 566ih anniversary of Swiss indcpeud
cnce at New York on Tuesday Of last week
Delegate Mccormick, Of Arizona, will
make the daughter Of Senator Thurman his
wife at Washington, this winter.
Senator Ogesby, Of Illinois, has just
carried out bis threat Of marrying Mrs
Emma Rays, Of + kbart in that State.
The Tichborne claimant is not yet
quite decided whether he'll 60 to prison for
perjury or to Parliament for Pimlico.
Robert Waricn's biography Of Chief
Justice Chase will be published by Gin
ciunati house about the lst Of February
The Spaniards celebrated the capture
Of the "Nirginus" by q bull fight. The
affair may prove bigger bull than they
think.
An Alabama jury, ia a case involving
the ownership Of some cotton, returned a
verdict Of mauslaughtcr in the first de-
gree"
This is an ofI.year in the hog.killng
business, but st. Louis has slaughtered from
10000 to $4,000, thus far aud still they
sluoal.
The hundredth anniversary Of Oliver
Goldsmith's death will be observed at Lon.
don, next year, by the erection Of a monu-
ment to him
Col Clarence Prentice had a volume
Of the poems Of bis father, George ID.
Prentice, in preparation ut the time Of his
fatal accident
"A Newspaper scribber in Lewiston
Maine, has been sent TO Jail for ten days for
describing the muuicipial Judge as "a mud
d'o.headed manikin.'
-Sashes Of all sorts are tied as fatty a.
possible, the general aim appearing to be a
radiance Of the Old pulIness which has dis.
figured costumes long enough
There has been war in the State
Agricultural College of Iowa at Des
Moines the trustees have Topped of the
faculty aud are grating in a new set of
men
"A l6year.old Kansas boy dutilully
obeyed his grandmother, the other day
when she commanded him to put pisto
bullet in the brain Of her aged husband.
"A fascinating daughter of Rev. Mr.
Richardson, Of Corinth, Miss, played tn,
mischief with young mans heart, tn,
other day, by putting bullet through it.
There are some very wonderful inven
tons in the Patent department at Washing
ton, but the inventions Of some Of tn,
newspaper correspondents there are NOR,
wonderful
"A loose rail on the indianapolis 4 81
Louis railroad, near Nomeaki, Mo-, threw
train from the track, the other day, destroy
ing large namber Of lives belonging to
drove Of swine.
The Postmaster-G General has issued an
order reducing the registration fee on
domestic letters and packages from fifteen
cents to eight cents, commencing the first
OF January next.
Rejected contributors form so large a
class in England that they support two
magazines, whose pages contain nothing
that has not been declined by the editor,
Of other periodicals
The medal awarded by Congress tc
George F. Robinson for saving the life oil
Seward from the assassin, Payne, was pre-.
sented to him on Saturday Of last week
and is valued at 81 400
Rev. Mr.. Locke, Of Salisbury, his re,
duced his salary 1925, on account of the
hard times among his people. Most mcr
would have preferred to reduce working
time instead Of pay, in his case.
This is from the Atlanta, Ca, Chroa
ic(e Delinquent subscribers should no
permit their daughters to wear this papei
for hustle. There being so much due or
II, there is danger Of taking cold"
The governors Of Massachusetts and
Connecticut aud the fish commissioner,
Of those States ard Vermont and New
Hampshire assisted at the formal opening
Of the Holyoke fshway, Wednesday.
"A woman suffrage convention was held
10 Newburyport on the 10Th and | 9th insts
There is much activity in behalf of tn,
cause and numerous signatures to the
pledge are reported in various localities
The British government has instructed
It's Consuls at Havana aud Santiago de
Cuba, to watch the proceedings against the
captives of the Virginius," as it has been
informed that one of them is a subject Of
Great Britain
Things are getting warm in Illinois
No less than six railroads are under ban
for violating the laws Of the State ia theil
management, and the railroad and ware.
house commissioners are actively at work
prosecuting them.
The Calling gun was tested at Fortress
Monroe on Monday Of last week, six hun.
dred charges being fired in such quick time,
and with such accuracy, that an imaginary
regiment advancing at double.quick was
quite annhilated.
j. II. Glenn, Of Colusa county, Cal.
owes two hundred miles of fences, to say
nothing OF ioriy-iye thousand acres of land,
the most Of which he cultivatcs, giving en-.
ploymen', in the busy season, to six hun.
bred mules; and yet he is not happy.
"A member of the St. Paul MINI city
council, believing that towns should dis.
penso with such luxuries as parks, these
hard times, moved, the other day, that the
city sell out q 100000 plot recently pur.
chased for a park and the matter is now
pending
Tho San Francisco Art Association
will open its annual exhibition on the 10Th
OF December, prominent feature of which
will be a collection Of casts from the antique
marbles in the Louvre. which have been
presented to the association by the French
government.
The reason why Bishop Cummins, Of
Kentucky, withdraws is because Of the
criticism from his less liberal brethren for
his participation in the "union" Lords
Supper at the late Evangelical Alliance
meeting. That act, designed to promote
harmony, has proved an apple Of discord.
1t is said that all hope Of iisposing of
the balance Of the new government loan at
four and one.half and four per cent, as
contemplated by the funding act is aban.
doned, aud that the Secretary of the Urea
sury will ask Congress next session for au.
thOritv 10 nlaea tho ept;ra Loan n. e. 49,.