Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-09-24

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"A sacrileaious thief stole a handsome
Bible from o. Baltimore church, The other
night
And now 7. T. Blrnum proposes to
build and equip balloon to cross the At
lantic.
-Lewisbcrr. Ark, claims an old lady Of
IS. whose tears have watcred the graves Of
10 husbands
"A San Francisco girl in trousers has
been getting herself engaged to various
young damsols.
Rev. WI. Ancient, Of Atlantic fame,
has Just received o present from some nd
mirers in Chicago.
By the iuuudation Of the Rio Grande
large quantities Of cotton arc destroyed and
the railroads damaged.
Jack Sheppard, Of San Francisco, has
accomplished the feat Of walking 1000
miles in 1000 hours.
"A firm Of London booksellers have
purchased from the Shah the copyright Of
his journal Of Travel
-Aloat five hundred bouquets are dis.
tribuiol 90 the poor and sick each week by
The Boston Flower Mission
"A tcn-ycaroll French girl burned her
fathers house because be had whipped her
for not knowing her caiechism.
Hundreds Of lives we're lost aud sew.
cuty vessels were destroyed by severe
gale on the Black Sea last week.
IL Paducah lKy.) court has decided
that marriage between white and black is
just as valid as between two whites.
Mrs H. b Stowe has kept open a
school Of 80 scholars az her Florida home,
during the summer, al her own expense.
Walt Whitman was recently inter.
viewed by a woman correspondent. He
didn't say word, and she went of mad
In pulling a tooth from Branston,
,il) man, dentist brought out a minnie
ball which had lain in bis jaw nine years
The late Horace Il. Clark was con-
s.dcred worth Sl0,000,000, at least, but
his executors couldn't dnd over $500, 600.
Anna Dickinson, having conquered
Pixies, now proposes TO attack Longs
Peak, which is much more difficult Of
ascent.
One hundred tons Of American bar
iron we're sold at Liverpool, last week, at
al los, thus underseling the English
market.
The only place in the United States
where knitting needles arc made is Law
ronceville, Pa, where about 500 varieties
are produced.
The Titusyille Dpa) maidens agree
not to purchase any dry goods after six p.
m. They want the shops to shut and set
the clerks at liberty.
The display Of corsets in tho Spanish
department Of the Vienna exposition at.
tracied the most admiring attention from
the women visitors.
"A Roman Catholic priest has been sent
to prison for fortnight in Prussia for pub
licly preaching that marriage among Pro.
testants is mere concubiuage.
1t is now definitely settled that the
telegraph wires in Germany are no longer
to be affixed to poles in the open air, but
arc to be buried in underground tubes
"A rufian shot waiter in bar room
on Madison street, Chicago, recently, be.
cause he asked him to pay for the beer he
had drank The waiter will die. The ruff
fan escaped, although pursued.
The seventh reunion of the army OF
the Cumberland opened at Pittsburg Pa,
last Wednesday. Gems Sheridan, Sherman
and Negley and Gov. TIartranrt are among
the more conspicuous people present.
"A couple Of Texas cattle-meu at Wi.
chita, Kan, tired of the everlasting card,
and dice Of the ordinary gambler, recalled
their boyhood's days, recently, by playing
a game Of marbles with 100 steers as the
stakes
Mr. Theodore Tton, of the GoldeJ
Age, has taken in publisher partner, Mr.
Charles st. John, Jr, opened a chrome
picture shop, and means TO be smarter
brighter and more charming than ever
hereafter.
"A petition numerously signed by mem
bers Of the Protestant churches in France
has been sent to the Prote tant deputies il
the Assembly, urging the use of their in
Aueuce and vote against the establishment
Of a monarchy.
1t is now just 200 years since whit
men began to prowl around in the North
west, and on the 10Th there will be cele
bration at Starved Rock, near Ottawa, III.
in honor Of a Jesuit priest La Sale, VIII,
lit there in 1878.
Two floors Of school house in a vii
lage near Milan, Italy, recently gave wa,
under the weight of 100 girls, killing sii
and severely iniuring twenty more. TIL
building was old aud rotten, and had long
threatened such calamity.
The negroes in Indian territory, mum
bering $1,000, formerly sl-ves Of the In
dians, are moving to secure territorial or
ganization for their own protection, an,
will soon hold convention 10 the Choctay
nation to consider the subject
"A French countess seized a phioso
pher at the supper table, and sinking be
voice to a whisper, said, "While they ar,
cutting up the fowls, and we have got fiv,
minutes to spare, do tell me the history o
the world, for | want TO know il so much.
The policy Of honesty fuds its lates
illustration in Belmont, Mo, where maj
took back from q mill owner, to whom h,
had sold it as sound saw log vhich PROVED
to be defective and af:erward, on cutting
it up for frewood discovered that $50 il
gold pieces had been hidden in it by al
unknown banker.
Miss Mary Campbell, Of AvoDdale, O,
during a stay Of three months at Pittsburg
Pa, last spring, visited the jail every Sun
day afternoon aud directed the musical ex
ercises. She sang finely, and so delighted
the prisoners that they have presented Il
her a silver goblet, inscribed, PRESENTED
by those unfortunates whose sufferings sh,
has alleviated by her inspiring songs ant
unsel6sh kindness"
From Athens, Georgia, comes th,
story Of man who told his wife to wax,
him up on Sunday A" before God Almight,
was awake as he wanted to catch mes
Of fish, She called him early, and h,
went to the pond, where he remained 81
long that she went to look for him and
found him sitting on a rock, Of which h,
said he had become part on account o
his blasphemy aud from which he coulC
not rise. At last accounts crowds of PEG
plehad visited him, and be still kept his seat