Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-10-01

ing home slOuO Week from England
The California Legislature is to be PC
titionoi for q civil damage liquor law.
The Daily Herald is q new penny
evening paper at Chicago.
The Shah has returned to his capital,
and was escorted by the whole population
to his palace.
The san Francisco mint will turn out
s3,O00000 ia gold coin every month here
after, commencing with October.
Three Of 81. Louss citizensar worth
over e10.0OO,00O and seven have more
than 100000.
Miss Ellis, London dressmaker, for
making four attempts at suicide has been
bound over to keep the peace toward her
self
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has
paid SIPS goo for $4,000 feet Of ground
on which 10 erect It's new Washington De.
pot
The Aleu-McCool prize eight, some
miles out from ST. Louis, on Tuesday Of
last week, was won by the former 10 TWEEN
ty minutes.
The valuation Of Milwaukee has in
creased S2,000,OO0 during the past year,
while the increase Of business done was
Sl2,000,0C0.
A justice Of the peace at Whitehall,
\. Y, discharged a man who had been ar.
rested, because "it was a lightning rod man
he had kicked"
Since the Dist Of October, 1861,
G,992, 49i scrfs have been emancipated in
Bussia, in accordance with the ukase abol.
ishing serfiom.
Josie Mausdell's English lover, the
one who recently challenged Paris editor
on her account, has now gone of with
S2jO0 Of her money.
The Union Pacific railroad is building
snow pillow to be driven BY five locomo.
tives They expect 1t to 90 through drifts
twenty feet deep.
"A recently deceased Virginiaus will
requests that his epitaph shall state that
" he was q great turkey hunter and a toler
ably good fiddler"
The new Mississippi bridge at St
Louis, with its tunnel and approaches, will
probably cost abount S9,000,000 the
bridge itself sGOO0,OOO.
The excess Of money orders issued by
the postoiiice department for the fiscal year
ending june 30, over that Of the previous
year, was 100000, with an excess of 3d.
100000 in the money handled.
Some Lowell young ladies tie up their
fingers, and when the young gentlemen
callers in the evening inquire the cause,
bushingly reply, 81 burnt them while
broiling beolsieak this morning"
Monday Of last week was the first day
Of the Hebrew year, A. NJ. 1854 During
the coming month occur the days Of re-
pentance and atonement, the Feast of the
Tabernacle and the Feast Of Rejoicing over
the law given to Moses.
-Frcdrick Darlington, Of London, Eng
land, has supplemented his recent retire
mcut from firm Of brewers on the ground
Of the evil caused by drink, by becoming
missionary to the poor of East London. He
has bought chapel in Bethanal Green in
which to carry on his abors.
"A Detroit man went into a telegraph
Office and wrote the following message
" To the Lord in heaven-Where shall |
60 next? The world is growing worse
every day. There is not an honest Chris
tian in America" He was informed that
the lines didn't connect
The supreme court of Illinois has de-
cided that telegraph companies are bound to
transmit messages correctly in the first in.
stance and that an additional charge for
repeating to insure correctness is fraud
upon the public. A similar decision has
been given in OHIO.
The notable weddings Of the season at
Washington will be those of Secretary
Fsh's son, Hamilton, jr, to Senator Fre.
inghuysen's daughter w o. Charlton,
of the British embassy to Miss Campbell
and Senior Don Casermero Franquello, Of
the Spanish legation to Miss Lille Thomas
The spirits got supper" for party
Of Spirituaists at the house Of Mr. Guppy
London medium, recently. The party
sat in silence and darkness, and the ghosts
set The table in a very few minutes, and
when the guests had partaken of their
bounty, the remaining viands and dishes
were whsked away with marvellous celer-
ity.
The bronze bust Of John Howard
Payne, author Of Home, Sweet Home"
executed by B@rer, the German sculptor,
will be presented to the city of Brooklyn
by the Faust club on Saturday. Mr..
Thomas Kinsela will make the address,
John G.. SAKE will deliver poem, and the
school children will sing :" Home, Sweet
Home while the sculptor himself unveils
the bust.
Mr. Ross Winans, the Baltimore mil.
lionaire has just completed, in the south
eastern part of that city. one hundred and
thirteen brick dwelling houses, four stories
high, suitable for families in moderate cir.
cumsiances, all the houses being laid off
and built alike, and possessing unusual ac.
commodatons for dwellings of this class
The houses cost at least five hundred thou.
sand dollars in all, and will accommodate
about fifteen hundred people.
"A strange fatality has attended the
family Of David Dublett, Of Indiana. 10
1857 daughter was murdered by her hus.
band for which the son-in-law was hung.
Two years ago a son, George, was killed
by the cars while lying drunk on the track
Shortly afterward son-in.law was shot
and killed A year ago another sou.in.law
was shot and killed aud now, last of all,
few days ago, son was found murdered
q short distance from the family residence.
Oregon exults in a plentiful wheat
harvest. Indeed, the grain shells out at
such a surprising and unexpected rats
that frequently the farmers find that the
sacks they had calculated would hold their
crops have to be doubled in number, and
from forty to sixty bushels per acre of
wheat, and sixty to eighty of oats, are
common yields The stock-raisers howev-
or. arc depressed for cattle, and sheep are
80 numerous and the demand so light, that
starvation prices prevail
John Enright swore before New
York court, the other day, that the parrot
that Thomas Miller stole from him was the
handsomest bird 10 the world, and worth
$4,000. If the cussed parrot had kept
his mouth shut when | ran of with him."
said Miller to an officer as he was being
taken to iai for three months, 81 should
have hapn all righi He tcpt ho1ia.;,,.